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It must be 2017 because loot boxes are back in the news again. Two weeks after New York's attorney general sued Valve over its use of the gimmick, the company has responded. In short, the Steam maker essentially said, "See you in court."New York's lawsuit accuses Valve of promoting illegal gambling through its games. AG Letitia James called the loot boxes found in titles like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 "addictive, harmful and illegal." The state seeks to "permanently stop Valve from contin
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Back in early March, it emerged that WhatsApp would be launching a subscription service, and today this has been confirmed as real. WhatsApp is officially testing WhatsApp Plus. This costs €2.49 per month in Europe, PKR 229 per month in Pakistan, and MXN 29 per month in Mexico. If you subscribe, you get access to exclusive premium stickers, the ability to change your app theme by choosing among 18 colors,... Read more ›
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The chronic check-in-er isn't being nurturing. They've been running a decades-long test to see if anyone will reach for them unprompted, and they already know what the test keeps showing. Read more ›
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Ant International, IFC and GCash have partnered on a first-of-its-kind Sustainability Impact Scorecard to help Filipino MSMEs track environmental and social impact and access green financing. Read more ›
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Groww’s Profit Roll Groww reported a stellar Q4 FY26. The quarter saw the stock broker scale fast, widen margins, and… Read more ›
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Project Prometheus is raising around $10 billion in fresh funding at a post-money valuation of around $38 billion. Read more ›
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After three decades of feeling invisible to her grown children, she discovered the heartbreaking truth that would finally set her free—and it had nothing to do with how much they actually loved her. Read more ›
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The friend who plans everything isn't controlling — they're often running a childhood experiment they never stopped running. What research on attachment and rejection sensitivity tells us about the people who became the glue. Read more ›
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Amid rumors of leaving certain markets, the company introduces the Nord CE6 and Nord CE6 Lite. Read more ›
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The friendships that disappear in adulthood rarely end with a fight — they end with one person quietly concluding that the silence on the other end means they were never really wanted. Read more ›
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How long do Michelin Latitude Tour HP tires actually last? Real-world feedback and fine-print warranty details reveal more than the marketing ever will. Read more ›
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Вы слышали о Kafka, MQTT, S3, Iceberg, Trino, PostgreSQL, Redis и Flink? А насколько хорошо вы знаете эти технологии? По каждой из них написаны огромные книги («Kafka: The Definitive Guide», около 800 страниц), и каждый день выходят новые публикации про тонкости.Эта статья про другое.Вместо внутренностей движков и законов распределённых систем посмотрим на эти технологии как на кубики LEGO: какую роль каждая из них играет в архитектуре и как они стыкуются... Read more ›
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New details about the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max have surfaced online ahead of its expected debut later this year. The Xiaomi 18 series is rumored to include the standard model, the Xiaomi 18 Pro, and the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Tipster Digital Chat Station has shared new details about an upcoming flagship device, which is expected to be the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Xiaomi 17 Pro Max According to the... Read more ›
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Many creators have already switched from Adobe Premiere to DaVinci Resolve, and now the developer, Blackmagic Design, is going after Lightroom and Photoshop. The Australian company just unveiled DaVinci Resolve 21 in beta at the NAB 2026 broadcast convention with a brand new page called Photo designed to let you do things like crop and color-correct still images. At the same time, the new version introduces video AI tools that... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house may have been the target of a second attack after San Francisco Police Department arrested two suspects for a reported shooting in the Russian Hill neighborhood. The SFPD said in a press release that police officers responded to a "suspicious occurrence of possible shots fired" at around 5:56 AM ET / 2:56 AM PT on Sunday, April 12.SFPD's Special Investigation Division took over the case... Read more ›
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An R-rated animated film adaptation of Bloodborne is currently being developed by Sony, according to Variety. Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group held a presentation at CinemaCon, where the division’s president said that the adaptation will be “very true” to the violent and graphic nature of the game. Bloodborne was created by Japanese studio FromSoftware and was published by Sony back in 2015. The critically acclaimed title is an RPG... Read more ›
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If you were looking for the worst AI project announced so far this week, try Meta. According to a Financial Times report, the company is developing its own Mark Zuckerberg AI, training it on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements. AKA, the good stuff. (Will it smoke meats?) The company has reportedly been working for some time on creating photorealistic, 3D-animated AI characters that can manage interactions. However, it... Read more ›
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If you love Pokémon and electronic dance music, the Pokémon Company made the perfect event for you. As part of Pokémon’s 30th anniversary festivities, the company is holding EDM concert experiences called “Pokémon Night Out” in Los Angeles and London. American DJ Marshmello, known for wearing a marshmallow-like mask on stage, will be headlining the events, with Australian DJ Alison Wonderland as a supporting act. The experiences will feature custom... Read more ›
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GoPro has seen its action camera market share diminish due to strong competition from rivals like Insta360 and DJI of late. Now, the company is fighting back with a new line of flagship cameras called Mission 1, designed to greatly improve the video quality offered by its current Hero 13 camera. The company also introduced a new Wireless Mic system similar to DJI's Mic Mini, along with a point-and-shoot grip... Read more ›
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The price of nearly every type of gaming gadget has skyrocketed recently. RAMageddon has caused the cost of memory to double or triple in the last six months, with companies like HP saying that RAM now accounts for more than a third of a new PC’s bill of materials. Meanwhile, the Xbox Series S/X and the PS5 have gotten price hikes, and a similar bump for the Switch 2 is... Read more ›
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Amazon has today announced it is merging with satellite internet provider Globalstar Inc. to bolster Leo, its Starlink rival. Globalstar isn’t a household name but you do know its work, as it provides Apple’s emergency satellite connectivity for compatible iPhones and Watches. In a statement, Amazon says the deal will grow Leo’s space-based footprint and enable direct-to-device service for its burgeoning satellite network. An interesting wrinkle is Apple owns 20... Read more ›
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OpenAI has acquired Hiro Finance, a startup that offers AI-powered financial planning tools. As first reported by TechCrunch, fiscal terms of the deal, which was announced on Monday, were not disclosed by OpenAI. However, all signs point this to being an acquhire, with Hiro founder Ethan Bloch writing on LinkedIn that the company's product would stop working on April 20. Users have until May 13 to migrate their data off... Read more ›
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Websites that act like a super-chatty colleague who just won't shut up and let you go when a conversation should be over are among the most annoying things on the internet. Google is now doing something about that scourge.Picture the scene: you look up something on Google Search and — instead of relying on potentially hallucinating AI Overviews — you click through to an actual website for your information. But,... Read more ›
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