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Following a beta test earlier this year, Steam Families is now live with a new way for relatives to be connected on the gaming portal. Up to five family members can be invited into a group, which will grant access to a shared family library. Each person can create their own save files and collect their own achievements for games in the family library.
The marquee development with the new family feature is that multiple people within the group will be able to play games from the shared library at the same ti
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Equal raises $10M Series A to combat rising cyber fraud in India. The Hyderabad-based fintech integrates 50+ identity databases and serves 350+ customers. Hyderabad-based identity verification startup Equal has raised $10 million in Series A funding, positioning itself at the forefront of the fight against digital fraud in India. The investment, led by Prosus Ventures... Read more » Read more ›
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No Man's Sky didn't get off to the smoothest of starts, but eight years after its controversial launch, Hello Games' exploratory space sim has reached a significant milestone, finally gaining enough favourable player reviews on Steam to shift its overall rating to "Very Positive". Read more Read more ›
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Some women are playing poker to help build their risk-taking and negotiating skills, which in turns helps them in their careers. Read more ›
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The model uses more cycles during inference to generate more tokens and review responses, improving its performance on reasoning tasks. Read more ›
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While the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are not expected to launch for 10 more months, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices. Below, we recap key changes rumored for the iPhone 17 Pro models so far: Aluminum frame: iPhone 17 Pro models are rumored to have an aluminum frame, whereas the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro models have a titanium frame, and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immediately before the operating system loads, these UEFI bootkits continue to run even when the hard drive is replaced or reformatted. Now the same type of chip-dwelling malware has been found in the wild for backdooring Linux machines. Researchers at security firm... Read more ›
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A surprise double XP event will help boost player levels as gamers return to Stakeout 24/7 and Prop Hunt playlists. Read more ›
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Pickings may be slim in the City of 100 Lakes, but with Spectrum, Frontier and T-Mobile on the map, most households can find a reliable connection. Read more ›
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The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China's ability to build large and powerful AI models. Read more ›
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As the BBC prepares to bring Patrick Troughton's final story to color, we take a look back at the show's approach to a grim aspect of Time Lord society. Read more ›
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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Valve has dropped the price of the 512GB Steam Deck LCD to $336.75 (about $112 off) as part of its Steam Autumn Sale. The sale runs until December 4th at 1PM ET and includes plenty of game discounts too, but Valve discontinued the 512GB Steam Deck LCD, so it might not make it to the end. (It’s already sold through the 64GB model,... Read more ›
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Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), making it easier to protect consumers who are tricked into paying scam tech support companies. The FTC could already go after these fraudster companies if they initiated calls to people — now, they can do the same thing if people call the scammers too. Fake tech support fraud... Read more ›
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Republicans and the banking industry have accused the CFPB of regulatory overreach because it doesn't follow the usual congressional budget process. Read more ›
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Scientists studied trace fossils called bromalites to reconstruct critical food webs in late Triassic, early Jurassic. Read more ›
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Wizards of the Coast is rolling out new 'D&D' content, and its digital tools are engineered with the goal of getting a new generation hooked. Read more ›
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The BioLite Alpenglow Mini lanterns are perfect for camping, emergency bags or during power outages, and they're 25% off for Black Friday. Read more ›
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The Miss Universe first runner-up, Chidimma Adetshina, earned Nigeria's highest-ever placement. She shared her tumultuous pageant journey with BI. Read more ›
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This little battery pack is my tried-and-true charger, and you can get great deals on it in multiple colors for Black Friday, some for as low as $30. Read more ›
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With the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program in May, millions of households are grappling with higher internet costs. These plans and subsidies can help. Read more ›
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When it comes to tips for traveling overnight on Amtrak, I recommend packing items like a water bottle, essential oils, a padlock, and lots of snacks. Read more ›
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DJI hasn't finished yet with its busy 2024, as it just announced the Mic Mini wireless microphone system. The company took most of the characteristics of the popular Mic 2 and shrunk it down considerably, while also making it much more affordable. The Mic Mini consists of a receiver and one or two transmitters with built-in microphones. To use it, you just affix the mics to your subject, either via... Read more ›
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Several retailers have already rolled out their annual Black Friday sales, so many of the better discounts on laptops we expect to see later this week are available today. To help you avoid wasting cash, we’ve researched reviews, checked price histories and rounded up the Black Friday laptop deals that are genuine deals below. As of this writing, the discounts bring several notebooks we’ve tested and recommended down to their... Read more ›
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As people leave or deactivate their X accounts, there's been meaningful growth for alternative platforms like Meta's Threads and underdog Bluesky. Despite the huge gap in both user numbers and funding between the two, Threads seems to be borrowing from Bluesky's feature set to prevent it from becoming competitive. The Verge reported that Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced that Threads’ algorithm is getting a “rebalancing” to “prioritize content... Read more ›
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Hackers breached an online course founded by far-right influencer, and accused human trafficker, Andrew Tate, according to reporting by Daily Dot. The hackers captured data on more than 800,000 users and revealed the email addresses of around 325,000 of them. Tate’s self-proclaimed “online university” hosts courses on fitness, finance and content creation, all for the low price of $50 per month. The site currently claims it has over 113,000 active... Read more ›
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday present great opportunities to get a bunch of tech for less, and some of the best deals you can typically find are on charging gear and mobile accessories. Anker makes some of our favorites in both departments, and this year a ton of Anker gear has been discounted as part of the Black Friday deals. Whether you’re looking for a new power bank to take... Read more ›
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Season passes are one of the most common ways to generate revenue for games such as Fortnite or Call of Duty that want players to keep returning day after day, month after month. This week, PC game platform Steam has rolled out support for this monetization approach. The Valve-owned platform clarified its policy about what it considers a season pass, as well as implementing rules for how developers should communicate... Read more ›
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Google is running a short test in Germany, Belgium and Estonia that removes more detailed results from Google Search when users look for hotels and lodgings in these countries. Results will instead appear in a simple “blue link” that older users may recall from years past. The primary reason behind this test is pressure from the European Union, which is calling for more Google compliance with the Digital Markets Act... Read more ›
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Noble Audio just announced pending availability of its most advanced earbuds yet. The FoKus Rex5 earbuds manage to cram a whole lot of tech into a small package, with a $450 price tag to prove it. First of all, Noble has installed five drivers into each earbud. This is likely the first time that’s ever been done, as the idea of cramming multiple drivers into a tiny earbud is a... Read more ›
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It's hard to beat the promise of a big box for one-stop shopping. Target is one of my favorites if I just want to browse with no agenda, because I'll inevitably stumble on something fun or on sale. Or in the case of this Black Friday deal, both. Target is currently selling a Meta Quest 3S for $300, as is Amazon. That's the usual price tag for this virtual reality... Read more ›
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Researchers from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they've made the world's thinnest spaghetti. This culinary-sounding accomplishment, published in Nanoscale Advances, has yielded strands of starch nanofibers that are just 372 nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and is even smaller than some wavelengths of light. "The world's thinnest spaghetti" sounds silly, but starch can actually have... Read more ›
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