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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Walmart customers will soon have the option to pay directly from their bank accounts with instant transfers for online purchases. The enhanced feature is a flash point in the escalating tensions between merchants and the card networks setting the fees for payment processing. The world's largest retailer has offered pay-by-bank through Walmart Pay since earlier this year. Until now, the transactions were akin to digital checks and took roughly three days to
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Concord game director Ryan Ellis has reportedly stepped down after the beleaguered hero shooter was yanked offline amid disastrous player numbers, with staff at developer Firewalk Studios said to be in limbo while they wait for Sony's decision on the future of the game. Read more Read more ›
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HBO's "The Penguin" is set in the world of 2021 movie "The Batman," as Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) tries to fill a void in Gotham's criminal underworld. Read more ›
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With Nike's new incoming CEO Elliott Hill, Nike needs to re-focus on innovation and selling great stories around its shoes, an analyst told BI. Read more ›
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As season two of Netflix's live-action spin on the beloved animated show enters production, the streamer's ready for you to meet your new favorite Earthbender. Read more ›
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It's Friday, September 20 in Australia and New Zealand, so customers in those countries who pre-ordered an iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, Apple Watch Series 10, or AirPods 4 are starting to receive their device deliveries. Apple fans who ordered a new product are sharing photos and first impressions of the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, Apple Watch Series 10, and AirPods 4 on Instagram, Reddit, the MacRumors forums, and... Read more ›
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There's a BioWare game I keep coming back to when I think about the several hours I spent playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it's probably not the game you're expecting me to say. It's not Dragon Age: Inquisition and it's not Dragon Age: Origins, or Dragon Age 2, as if I'd have the stones to say that. It's a game from another series the studio is probably better known... Read more ›
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At its in-person fan event for Geeked Week this year, Netflix has shown teasers and sneak peeks of its upcoming shows, including the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. In addition to revealing that the new season is already in production, Netflix has also announced that Miya Cech (Are You Afraid of the Dark?) is playing earthbending master Toph. Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 is officially in production!... Read more ›
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Netflix has shared a tantalizingly brief look at what to expect when the smash hit series returns in December. Read more ›
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Sony is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its PlayStation brand this year and is commemorating the occasion with a limited edition consoles and accessories. Part of this limited edition are the digital version of the PlayStation 5, the new PlayStation 5 Pro, the DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers, and the PlayStation Portal. PlayStation 5 Pro Limited Edition Bundle All of these devices feature a gray colorway reminiscent of the original... Read more ›
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New research shows generative AI consumes a lot of water — up to 1,408ml to generate 100 words of text — in addition to electricity. Read more ›
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Here are some hints, and the answers, for the Sept. 20 Strands puzzle, No. 201. Read more ›
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Ukraine has been testing a wide range of ground-based drones, which it's dubbed "iron soldiers," some of which are fitted with turrets or explosives. Read more ›
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A Facebook group for the Burned Haystack Dating Method was started by Jennie Young and now has over 100,000 members. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg's watch, the De Bethune DB25 Starry Varius Aérolite, costs an estimated $260,000, and only five are produced a year. Read more ›
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Sony has reportedly settled on a $40 price tag for Bungie's Marathon reboot, despite the similarly priced Concord's recent flop - with development "too far along" to pivot to free-to-play. Read more Read more ›
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Unsurprisingly, the Bay Area has a lot to choose from when it comes to ISPs. We've helped you narrow down which ones may fit your use case the best. Read more ›
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A comment on a Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 video appearing to be from Saber CEO Matthew Karch has raised eyebrows for stating that games should be about "glory kills" instead of "imposing morals on gamers". Read more Read more ›
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iPhone users are getting suggestions from Siri to use the "Check In" feature with their moms, friends, and ... exes. What's going on? Read more ›
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ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols reports: After 20 years, Real-Time Linux (PREEMPT_RT) is finally -- finally -- in the mainline kernel. Linus Torvalds blessed the code while he was at Open Source Summit Europe. [...] The real-time Linux code is now baked into all Linux distros as of the forthcoming Linux 6.12 kernel. This means Linux will soon start appearing in more mission-critical devices and industrial hardware. But it took its sweet... Read more ›
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IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, The Register reported Wednesday, citing its sources. From the report: One IBM employee told The Register that IBM Cloud experienced "a massive layoff" in the past few days that affected thousands of people. "Unlike traditional layoffs, this one was done in secret," the insider said. "My manager told me that they... Read more ›
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For 30 days, 17,000 AT&T workers in nine different states from the CWA union went on strike. As it began one North Carolina newspaper noted some AT&T customers "report prolonged internet outages." Last week an Emory University economist told NPR that "If it wasn't disruptive or it didn't have any kind of negative element towards customers, then AT&T, I suspect, wouldn't feel any kind of pressure to negotiate." The 30-day... Read more ›
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Annapurna Interactive's entire gaming staff has resigned from the company following a leadership dispute, according to a Bloomberg report. From a report: The report, which IGN can confirm based on conversations with our own sources, states that Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary had recently been in negotiations with Annapurna founder and billionaire Megan Ellison to spin the gaming segment off as its own company. However, Ellison eventually pulled out of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from InsideEVs: General Motors is joining forces with EVgo, one of the biggest electric vehicle charging operators in the United States, to build 400 ultra-fast DC chargers nationwide to support the growing number of battery-powered cars hitting U.S. roads. To be clear, these are individual stalls, not charging stations. However, the two companies describe the new locations as "flagship destinations" which will feature 350-kilowatt... Read more ›
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Amazon is instructing corporate staffers to spend five days a week in the office, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo on Monday. From a report: The decision marks a significant shift from Amazon's earlier return-to-work stance, which required corporate workers to be in the office at least three days a week. Now, the company is giving employees until Jan. 2 to start adhering to the new policy. Corporate employees... Read more ›
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Mozilla is exiting the fediverse by shutting down its Mozilla.social Mastodon server on December 17. Moving forward, the company will focus on Firefox and AI, aligning with its strategy under interim CEO Laura Chambers to scale back investments in non-core products. TechCrunch reports: Mozilla.social was a small instance, having only 270 active users at the time of Tuesday's announcement. By comparison, the most popular Mastodon instance, Mastodon.social, has over 247,500... Read more ›
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It was one year ago that "an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe," reports the Washington Post. "A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling..." Some initially thought the seismic instruments recording the signal were broken, but that was quickly nixed. Maybe it was a new volcano emerging before their eyes, others said. One... Read more ›
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Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison envisions AI as the backbone of a new era of mass surveillance, positioning Oracle as a key player in AI infrastructure through its unique networking architecture and partnerships with AWS and Microsoft. The Register reports: Ellison made the comments near the end of an hour-long chat at the Oracle financial analyst meeting last week during a question and answer session in which he painted Oracle as... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Eric and Donald Trump Jr., the sons of former president Donald Trump, have pledged to "make finance great again" with a new family-run crypto endeavor called World Liberty Financial. Introduced in a meandering livestream on X Monday, the Trump family and their associates described World Liberty Financial as a crypto platform that would let users conduct transactions without a bank sitting in... Read more ›
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