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Blizzard is diving into the StarCraft shooter well once again, after two previous titles were canceled. This information comes from a forthcoming book about the developer by games journalist Jason Schreier and was discussed during a recent IGN podcast.
This time around, veteran developer Dan Hay is leading the effort to translate the world of StarCraft into a shooter. Hay certainly has the right pedigree for the job. He’s been involved with the Far Cry franchise since Far Cry 3, eventually becoming creative
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Dame Maggie Smith, the Oscar-winning actor who starred in 'Harry Potter' and 'Downton Abbey,' has died at 89, her family confirmed to the BBC. Read more ›
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Democrats and even some Republicans have criticized Trump's plan as a tax on consumers. But Rep. Jared Golden of Maine is embracing it. Read more ›
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Ubisoft will no longer be hosting a playable demo of Assassin's Creed Shadows at EGX this October. Read more Read more ›
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Numbers reported by Disney+ and other streamers continue to be a confusing jumble of "sounds impressive, but what does it really mean?" Read more ›
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California will soon require storefronts to make clear that purchasing digital content, including games, movies and music, does not mean you actually own it. Read more Read more ›
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Sima Sistani helped push the company into the GLP-1 drug space with the $106 million acquisition of Sequence. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's X has suspended more accounts, on average, than Twitter ever did. Read more ›
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When Bitcoin is dominated by major institutions (and Bitcoiners are asking for approval from presidential candidates) we are in danger of creating centralized decentralized finance, something Bitcoin’s founders never intended, says Jason Dehni, CEO of Credbull. Read more ›
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Hurricane Helene caused less damage than Floridians were bracing for, but it highlights residents' ongoing struggles with the cost of home insurance. Read more ›
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Costco has installed ID scanners at a little over half of its US warehouses, and CEO Ron Vachris says it's helping things run more smoothly. Read more ›
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The rate of employees at Tesla's Berlin factory who called in sick hit 17% in August, over three times the industry average, Handelsblatt reported. Read more ›
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Health Canada this week published approval of watchOS 11's sleep apnea detection feature on the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2. The feature launched in the U.S. and over 150 other countries and regions earlier this month, and Apple is now permitted to make the feature available in Canada. It is unclear when Apple will expand the feature to Canada. Sleep apnea is... Read more ›
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CNN Chairman Mark Thompson announced plans to introduce a digital subscription business in July. | Image: CNN CNN will put some of its digital content behind a subscription paywall starting next month, The New York Times reports. The experiment will test similar subscription models to those used by publications like The New Yorker, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, with CNN reportedly hoping to bring in additional revenue amid a... Read more ›
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Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov stated that the messaging app will now start handing over the IP addresses and phone numbers of users if prompted by legal requests. Bloomberg, which first reported the policy change, notes that Telegram has historically been "notoriously non-responsive to takedown requests" and "often ignored requests for information about suspected criminals." Accompanying this development is the implementation of some moderation. Telegram has started using AI, as well... Read more ›
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At some point, we’ve all encountered someone who just doesn’t get boundaries. They get too deep into our personal space, oblivious — or all too aware — of our discomfort. This problem is magnified online where there’s instant access to someone’s broader digital footprint, which can be a vector for abuse. It’s why most platforms have some sort of block feature, enabling people to limit some user’s access to their... Read more ›
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It seems that Qualcomm sees Intel’s struggling business as a potential opportunity. The San Diego-based chipmaker has reportedly expressed an interest in taking over Intel “in recent days,” according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. Though the report cautions that such a deal is “far from certain,” it would be a major upheaval in the US chip industry. It would also, as The WSJ notes, likely raise... Read more ›
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Rumors emerged last year of a collaboration between former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, but the two have until now kept quiet about it. In a profile by The New York Times that was published this weekend, though, Ive confirms his company LoveFrom is leading the design on an AI product being built with Altman. Also on board are Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, both of... Read more ›
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Jan-Bart van Beek, Guerilla Games' art and animation director, has officially announced that a remastered version of Horizon Zero Dawn is arriving on October 31. The game will feature over 10 hours of re-recorded audio, mocap, as well as improved character models, animation, lighting and textures that he said will bring it "to the same visual fidelity" as Horizon Forbidden West. That means it has been upgraded for the PlayStation... Read more ›
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The 2020 PlayStation hit Ghost of Tsushima is getting a sequel featuring a new protagonist, era and landscape. Ghost of Yōtei is heading to PlayStation 5 in 2025. Ghost of Yōtei stars a new Ghost, Atsu, who's journeying through the lands at the base of Mount Yōtei in Ezo — modern-day Hokkaido — in 1603. This means the sequel is set 300 years after the events of Tsushima, which focused... Read more ›
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It’s certainly taken a while, but Pokémon Sleep now offers smartwatch support for sleep tracking. This is fantastic news because, look, smartphones are good at many things, but tracking sleep from underneath a pillow isn’t really one of them. Using a smartwatch should make for more accurate tracking which, in turn, will make Snorlax and his friends happy. The app works with all of the major smartwatch models, including the... Read more ›
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Employees at an Apple Store in Oklahoma City's Penn Square Mall have voted to ratify their first collectively-bargained contract. The store's workers are part of the Communications Workers of America, operating as Apple Retail Union-CWA Local 6016. The employees' three-year agreement with Apple includes the following, according to a press release from CWA: "Wage increases of up to 11.5% over the next three years." "Worker involvement in scheduling and guaranteed... Read more ›
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Mira Murati has departed OpenAI, where she had been the chief technology officer since 2018. In a note shared with the company and then posted publicly on X, Murati said that she is exiting "because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration." Murati gained additional visibility as a face for the AI company when she briefly assumed CEO duties in November 2023 when the... Read more ›
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Disney announced a new rule intended to curb password sharing among its streaming subscribers, following through on plans initially shared last month in an earnings call. Today's blog post from the company explained that Disney+ is getting a Paid Sharing feature. For an additional $7 a month on Disney+ Basic or $10 a month on Disney+ Premium, an account holder can provide access to their plan to one person outside... Read more ›
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