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Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesFinancial services company E-Trade has restricted purchases of GameStop and AMC stock, a source tells Bloomberg. The two stocks have become popular on forums like the r/WallStreetBets subreddit and seen their prices skyrocket to unprecedented highs over the past week. (GameStop hit $483 earlier on Thursday and briefly went above that during the day. Last Thursday, the stock closed at $43.)
Weâve seen users on Twitter report that they have been unable to buy the stocks
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CrĂšme de la LLM: How language models are enhancing machine learning applications Read more âș
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The good news is that a cheaper Snapdragon PC chip might be coming. The bad news? You'll need to wait until Q4 next year. Read more âș
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"Inside Out 2" took $295 million at the global box office over the weekend, which Disney said set a new record for an animated film's debut. Read more âș
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Pieces Interactive, the developer behind the recent Alone in the Dark reboot, has been shut down by Embracer. The developer's website now reads "thanks for playing with us" and the dates 2007-2024. "Our last release was the reimagining of Alone in the Dark," it concludes (thanks IGN). Embracer acquired Pieces in 2017 after working on a number of Titan Quest projects. The Swedish conglomerate has closed a number of developers... Read more âș
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Xi Jinping told an EU leader that the US is trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, per the Financial Times, as tensions increase. Read more âș
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Dubai's police force also has Bugattis, Lamborghinis and Aston Martins in its luxury patrol fleet. Read more âș
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A Pennsylvania-based millennial who's searched across the US for homes says all the options that check her boxes exceed her budget. Read more âș
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The old adage that you should never get into a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel load doesnât resonate in the digital age as well as it used to. But thereâs no doubt news publishersâ complaints about AI startups pirating their copyrighted material has drawn plenty of coverage. There may be a solution. A growing number of startups are emerging to try and help publishers, and other... Read more âș
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For approximately a decade, it seemed like we were living in an age without young, male movie stars. While burgeoning actresses like Jennifer Lawerence, Brie Larson, and Emma Stone were dominating the 2010s, the industry seemed strikingly unprepared in choosing successors to middle-aged stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Christian Bale â which resulted [âŠ] Read more âș
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As a result of a long-running relationship between Israel and the U.S., the IAI has several American-made jets at its disposal across several fronts. Read more âș
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Todd Howard has shared more about Bethesda's future DLC plans for Starfield. Speaking with YouTuber MrMattyPlays, the Bethesda exec spoke about the studio's "annual story expansion" approach. When further asked about his comment and whether Bethesda was taking this approach with Starfield, Howard replied: "I would say we want to, more or less, yeah. How long that continues? Hopefully a very long time." He then added the studio was already... Read more âș
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Photo by James Bareham / The Verge A busy June for gaming news just got a little busier. Nintendo announced its next Direct presentation, which will take place on June 18th at 10AM ET. The event will be focused on âgames coming in the second half of 2024â and will be around 40 minutes long. The company previously said that it would be holding a June Direct covering Switch games... Read more âș
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Kioxia puts an end to its 3D NAND production cuts that were initiated in October, 2022. Read more âș
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The next Nintendo Direct is scheduled for June 18 at 10AM ET. Nintendo said during its latest earnings call that a showcase would take place sometime in June and the company has stuck by its word. The Direct is just far enough away from Summer Game Fest to let Nintendo have all of the attention to itself. The stream will run for around 40 minutes and focus on games coming... Read more âș
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Motorola quietly unveiled the Moto E14 â a cheap Android Go edition device that arrives as an upgrade to last yearâs Moto E13. Itâs a simple device with a modest price of ÂŁ70. The phone still uses the Unisoc T606 chipset, but with only 2GB of RAM, it is limited to running Android 14 Go Edition. Interestingly, Motorola upgraded the 64GB of built-in storage from eMMC on the E13 to... Read more âș
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Baldur's Gate 3 will receive official mod support in a forthcoming patch, which Larian CEO Swen Vincke said will be a handover moment to players. Speaking at BAFTA's An Evening with Baldur's Gate 3 after the game received multiple wins at this year's awards, Vincke discussed development of the game and Larian's long term support. "One of the big things for us, and the one that we're really working towards... Read more âș
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Cadence teases proprietary optical connectivity solution for PCIe 7.0 at 128 GT/s. Read more âș
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Fallout has seen a renewed spike in popularity following the release of Amazon's TV adaptation. However, despite this, Bethesda doesn't feel under pressure to rush a new game out to placate fans.Speaking with YouTuber MrMattyPlays, Todd Howard acknowledged that the Fallout series is probably at its most popular, with the franchise boasting some record player numbers over recent months. Howard went on to state the studio gives "a lot of... Read more âș
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Dr. Vivek Murthy hopes that introducing warning labels to social media platforms will help address mental health concerns among adolescents. | Photo by Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for Project Healthy Minds US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is urging Congress to introduce warning labels for social media platforms that regularly warn parents and adolescent users about the potential mental health harms associated with using them. The proposed warning labels,... Read more âș
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Nikon has introduced the $2,500 Z6 III with the world's first "partially-stacked" 24.5-megapixel (MP) sensor. That allows for high speed shooting in both photo and video modes, while unlocking features like RAW video and faster autofocus â making it far more capable than its predecessor, the Z6 II. Stacked sensors are rare so far, having only appeared on expensive models like the Sony A1 and Nikon's own Z8 and Z9.... Read more âș
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Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Irelandâs privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday. In a blog post, Meta said the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) asked the company to delay training its large language models on content that had been publicly posted to Facebook and Instagram profiles. Meta said it is âdisappointedâ by... Read more âș
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Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk had a sexual relationship with a former SpaceX intern, who he later hired onto his executive team, according to The Wall Street Journal. He also had a sexual relationship with a second employee. And a third woman alleged that Musk asked her several times to have his children; she refused. He then denied her a raise and complained about her performance. One... Read more âș
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge New York has become the next state to introduce a mobile ID program, giving residents the option to digitize their driverâs license or non-driver ID. Beginning today, the New York Mobile ID app is available from Appleâs App Store and Google Play. The app can be used for identity verification at airports. A physical license, permit, or non-driver ID is required to activate... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Apple at WWDC 2024 announced âApple Intelligence,â its name for a new suite of AI features for the iPhone, Mac, and more. The company once refused to use the term âartificial intelligenceâ when talking about its machine learning features, now has AI enhancements across its platforms. The company has been behind companies like Google and Microsoft, which started racing ahead with their own generative AI features as... Read more âș
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Itâs about damn time. | Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU. Unfortunately, we donât know anything other than the... Read more âș
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Photo: NSA OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, the company announced on Thursday. Nakasone, who was nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump, directed the agency from 2018 until February of this year. Before Nakasone left the NSA, he wrote an op-ed supporting the renewal... Read more âș
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Image: NASA Voyager 1, the farthest human-made craft from the Earth, is finally sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments, NASA said this week. That means the agency is once more receiving its readings on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and space-bound particles. Voyager 1 stopped sending back good data in November, and fixing it was fraught as engineers had to wait 45 hours to hear anything back.... Read more âș
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, accusing the company of a breach of contract and allegedly abandoning its mission of creating AI technology to benefit humanity. Muskâs decision to withdraw the lawsuit, filed in a California state court in February, comes just one day before a scheduled hearing, where the judge would review OpenAIâs request... Read more âș
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Unlike the FreeStyle Libre systems (pictured above), Abbottâs new continuous glucose monitors wonât require a prescription. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Abbott announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration has cleared two new over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors (CGM). The Lingo is designed for health-conscious consumers who want to get greater insight into their metabolism. Meanwhile, the Libre Rio is designed for Type 2 diabetics... Read more âș
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Simple devices can simulate the movements of a computer mouse, but employers are starting to catch on. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge According to a report from Bloomberg based on âdisclosures filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority,â last month, Wells Fargo fired âmore than a dozen employeesâ after an investigation revealed they were using devices or apps to simulate productivity on their computers. Whatâs not... Read more âș
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