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Attention, Democracy Defenders: Helldivers 2 will soon require players on Steam to link their account to a PlayStation Network account. According to the announcement, all new players on Steam will be required to link to a PSN account starting May 6th, while current players will have a little bit longer, with mandatory enforcement delayed until June 4th.
According to Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, linking to a PSN account was always going to be a require
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Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone says he's "not too concerned with the pressure" of releasing Haunted Chocolatier, saying, "it's better to have a delayed game that's actually good than a bad game that's on time".In an interview about his plans for Stardew Valley's following its recent 1.6 update, Barone said that he doesn't feel pressured to create a follow-up game, stating: "It's a game that I'm deciding to make.... Read more âș
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The following article discusses spoilers for the first season of X-Men â97. I was excited about the return of the â90s Saturday morning cartoon version of the X-Men. Still, I wasnât sure Marvel, under the auspices of Disney, could deliver on the flavor of the original while also making a modern show that older fans, now adults in their 30s and 40s, could enjoy. And X-Men '97 is a total... Read more âș
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NASA's Juno mission has imaged Jupiter's intriguing moon Europa, a top target of habitability research due to its liquid water ocean beneath a thick icy crust. Read more âș
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Two tanks reportedly fired at a building in the Jabalia refugee camp after spotting a gun barrel they believed belonged to enemy forces. Read more âș
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Warren Buffett warned humanity has let the genie out of the bottle again with AI. Nuclear power may be a better analogy given its risks and benefits. Read more âș
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"There will be changes" to Xbox Game Pass once Microsoft adds its newly acquired flagship Call of Duty franchise to its subscription services.That's according to industry insider shinobi602, who recently suggested that changes were coming in a thread on Resetera. Read more Read more âș
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The preponderance of "professional hosts" in spots from Hawaii to Florida could make stays cheaper for travelers but amp up competition for new hosts. Read more âș
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OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4o, an iteration of its GPT-4 model that powers its hallmark product, ChatGPT. The latest update âis much fasterâ and improves âcapabilities across text, vision, and audio,â OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said in a livestream announcement on Monday. Itâll be free for all users, and paid users will continue to âhave up to five times the capacity limitsâ of free users, Murati added. OpenAI CEO... Read more âș
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Photo: Wes Davis / The Verge Apple appears to have a bug thatâs dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone. Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5, their deleted photos â some quite old â are popping up again, according to a Reddit thread that MacRumors spotted. iOS beta testers had the same complaints about the bug last week. People reporting the... Read more âș
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Image: Netflix 3 Body Problem is getting a second season. Netflix announced the news that its adaptation of Cixin Liuâs award-winning sci-fi trilogy is getting more episodes, with David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo returning as executive producers and writers. 3 Body Problem follows a group of scientists as they struggle with the realization that humanity isnât the only species in the universe and that its nearest neighbors are... Read more âș
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Photo: Getty Images Gannett, the media company that owns hundreds of newspapers in the US, is launching a new program that adds AI-generated bullet points at the top of journalistsâ stories, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. The AI feature, labeled âkey pointsâ on stories, uses automated technology to create summaries that appear below a headline. The bottom of articles includes a disclaimer, reading, âThe Key Points... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is throwing in the towel on Workplace, its Facebook-based alternative to office communication platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams alternative, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Meta spokesperson Ashley Zandy confirmed to The Verge that it will be available to customers for use through August 31st, 2025. Formerly known as Facebook @ Work, it was used internally for two years before its public... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Every Met Gala has some sort of controversy, whether itâs about the dress code and theme, the guest list, or a now-infamous brawl in an elevator at an afterparty. Because this is 2024, itâs only fitting that the outrage began this year because of a TikTok audio track. In a now-deleted video, an influencer named Haley Kalil shows off her elaborate floral... Read more âș
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The Verge The social network formerly known as Twitter has officially adopted X.com for all its core systems. That means typing twitter.com in your browser will now redirect to Elon Muskâs favored domain, or should. At the time of publication, weâre seeing a mix of results depending upon browser choice and whether youâre logged in or not. A message also now appears at the bottom of the X login page... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Another emulator with tons of history and development, RetroArch, is now freely available on the iOS App Store today. This is great news for retro gaming fans with iPhones because it can emulate a truly eye-crossing number of retro consoles once installed. In fact, there are too many to list here. But some notable emulation cores â the actual separately developed emulation software â... Read more âș
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Photo by Noam Galai / Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative Melinda French Gates has stepped down from her position as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. French Gates, who will officially leave on June 7th, will continue her philanthropy elsewhere, to the tune of $12.5 billion. The money stems from an agreement with her ex-husband, Bill Gates, and does not come from the foundationâs endowment. In her... Read more âș
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