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Barriss Offee is a rare character for Star Wars. Not just because she was a Jedi so horrified by the part the Order had to play in the Clone War that she took extreme action to try and stop it, but simply because the next step of her story was left untold for over a decade. Now, at long last, it’s time to tell it, and…Read more...
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Robert Hale Jr., the CEO of Granite Telecommunications, surprised graduating students on Thursday. Each student received two $500 payments. Read more ›
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The future might see AI becoming an integral part of emotional support networks, providing companionship that feels empathetic and informed. Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows pre-orders are "looking very strong".That's according to notable – and often accurate – leaker Tom Henderson, who claims that "no one in the know [at Ubisoft] is disappointed" with the number of pre-orders the highly-anticipated action-RPG has secured so far."Assassin's Creed Shadows pre-orders are looking very strong," Henderson said in his full, if brief, statement on Twitter/X. "I don't have the exact numbers yet, but no one... Read more ›
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Take a task off your to-do list by bringing the grocery store to you with our favorite grocery delivery services this year. Read more ›
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A YouTuber installs a Windows XP VM without using any basic security measures to see how many viruses the OS will get. Within minutes, the OS has several viruses infecting the VM. Read more ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Is this a Game Boy Advance SP or Nintendo DS Lite? Who can say? | Image: Retrohai hai Softbank Have you ever looked at a Nintendo DS and thought it would be cooler if the top screen was swapped for the Game Boy Advance SP’s? Or looked at a Super Nintendo controller and wished it had a GBA SP screen bolted onto the back? Whether you have or not, Hardware... Read more ›
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The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both rappers in the game to pit them…Read more... Read more ›
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The first person in line for Trump's Manhattan trial on Wednesday morning paid $1,800 for someone to keep their spot, NBC News reported. Read more ›
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Geoffrey Hinton, an early pioneer of AI technology, says people will lose jobs and advised the British government to adopt a universal basic income. Read more ›
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Arnov Sharma is using a Raspberry Pi 5 to power this extra-large Game Boy, which features a custom 3D-printed shell and working buttons. Read more ›
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The 13-inch OLED iPad Pro with the screen removed. | Screenshot: iFixit Apple’s newest iPad Pro is remarkably rigid for how thin it is, and apparently also a step forward when it comes to repairability. iFixit shows during its teardown of the tablet that the iPad Pro’s 38.99Wh battery, which will inevitably wear down and need replacement, is actually easy to get to. It’s a change iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari says... Read more ›
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's war machine looks different today than it did at the start of the conflict. Read more ›
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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 ›
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Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default. Making matters worse, you’ll have to ask your organization’s Slack admin (human resources, IT, etc.) to email the company to ask it to stop. (You can’t do it yourself.) Welcome to the dark side of the new AI training data gold rush. Corey... Read more ›
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A retro computing enthusiast has managed to get Windows XP running on an Intel 486 PC system. As Vaseline clouds the lens of history, you might be forgiven for thinking there was some crossover between these eras, but no, they launched over a decade apart. Read more ›
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OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more... Read more ›
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Sales of raw milk in the U.S. have risen 21% since bird flu was first confirmed in dairy cattle in late March, according to a report from PBS Newshour, citing new data from research firm NielsenIQ. Why on Earth would people drink raw milk at a time when pasteurization has been shown to kill the virus? Because some…Read more... Read more ›
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Maguire. Garfield. Holland. And now, Cage. Read more... Read more ›
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Roger Corman, producer and writer of indie and B-movies like Death Race 2000and Sharktopus, passed away on May 9, per Variety. He was 98 years old, and said to have passed surrounded by his family.Read more... Read more ›
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Conspiracy theorists on social media have been busy at work peddling their latest conclusion: The magnificent auroras seen over swaths of four different continents over the weekend were caused by a University of Alaska program that studies the ionosphere. Which, of course, is pure nonsense. Read more... Read more ›
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An unknown number of orcas sunk a sailing yacht in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sunday, according to Spain’s maritime rescue service. While orcas are typically peaceful, this is the latest in a string of attacks that have hit the region in the past four years.Read more... Read more ›
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Apple and other streaming companies are interested in shaking up the entertainment industry’s compensation model. According to Bloomberg, under the newly proposed system (which is really only an idea, at this point), talent—like actors and other production staff—would be paid based, partially, on how well the movie…Read more... Read more ›
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A 24/7 livestream “Portal” that connects New York City and the Irish capital of Dublin was temporarily deactivated on Tuesday as technicians sought to solve a critical flaw in the project’s fun premise: How to stop so many people from sharing inappropriate material—like dick pics, videos of 9/11, or boobs.Read more... Read more ›
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Ahmed Best—the man who brought Jar Jar Binks to life and then faced decades of horrifying harassment for it—shouldn’t have needed a Star Wars redemption arc, but he arguably has had one of a sort in the last few years, beyond a renaissance of prequels re-examination, in the form of Kelleran Beq: the Jedi gameshow host…Read more... Read more ›
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Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch’s Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times reports that the arcade-pizzeria franchise will soon power down the bands at all but two of the chain’s more than 400…Read more... Read more ›
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