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Amazon cuts 180 jobs from its gaming division

Amazon has cut around 180 jobs from its gaming division. Sources from Reuters, Aftermath and Bloomberg reported on the cuts, which affected the entire Game Growth team and all staff working on Crown, ..
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PlayStation Portal review: A baffling handheld for no one but Sony diehards

Sony has apparently learned nothing from the success of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck. Or from its own portable systems like the Vita and PSP, for that matter. The PlayStation Portal (yes, techni..
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Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 lead the 2023 Game Awards nominees

The Game Awards 2023 are almost upon us and this year's nominations have been revealed. Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 lead the pack with eight nods each. They're both up for the top prize of Game o…..
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Popular AI platform introduces rewards system to encourage deepfakes of real people

Civitai, an online marketplace for sharing AI models, just introduced a new feature called “bounties” to encourage its community to develop passable deepfakes of real people, as originally reported by..
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Data breach of Michigan healthcare giant exposes millions of records

Michigan-based healthcare nonprofit McLaren Health Care notified more than 2 million people about a data breach exposing personal information on Thursday, according to a data breach notification repo…..
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Nintendo's next Indie World showcase takes place on November 14

It's widely believed that Nintendo will unveil the Switch's successor in 2024, but you can still expect a steady stream of games to hit the current console for the foreseeable future. To that end, the..
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How the MTA's MetroCard vending machine became a New York design icon

In its 119-year history, the NYC subway system's straphangers went from tickets, to tokens, to mastering the swipe. In 1997 the MetroCard debuted, and 1999 saw the introduction of the MetroCard vendin..
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NVIDIA announces its next generation of AI supercomputer chips

NVIDIA has launched its next-generation of AI supercomputer chips that will likely play a large role in future breakthroughs in deep learning and large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4, the ..
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Netflix confirms Arcane season two won't arrive until November 2024

Arcane finally has a streaming date for its second season, two years after Netflix renewed the League of Legends-based series. The bad news? It'll arrive on the streaming platform in November... 2024...
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Netflix's live-action 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' series gets its first trailer

Five years in the making, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action remake is one step closer to gracing our screens. Netflix has released a new minute-and-a-half teaser that gives us a first …..
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Turn 10's Alan Hartman is the new head of Xbox Game Studios

Microsoft's Xbox leadership is starting to take shape following the company's blockbuster Activision Blizzard acquisition. The new head of Xbox Game Studios is Alan Hartman, former boss of Forza Motor..
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Meta may return to China with the release of a new, budget VR headset

Meta hasn't been in China since Facebook was blocked way back in 2009, but that may be about to change. The company is reportedly planning to release an all-new, lower-priced version of its virtual re..
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US Senate begins collecting evidence on how AI could thwart robocalls

Robocalls are rampant, using AI and other tools to disrupt day-to-day life and scam Americans out of their money through impersonations of family members, phone providers and more. On October 24, the ..
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Qualcomm's new audio chip uses Wi-Fi to massively extend headphone range

In addition to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the Snapdragon X Elite, Qualcomm has also introduced the S7 and S7 Pro Gen 1 at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. The company said its new chips deliver six ti..
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Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide

"Right to repair" advocates probably couldn't have imagined that Apple would be one of the biggest names on their side a mere five years ago. But that's precisely what's happening here: The tech giant..
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Adult film star Riley Reid launches Clona.AI, a sexting chatbot platform

Adult film icon and media investor Riley Reid aims to bring the transformational capabilities of generative AI to adult entertainment with an online platform where users can chat with digital versions..
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Google ordered to pay $1 million to female exec who sued over pay discrimination

Google will have to pay over $1 million to an executive who alleged the company discriminated against her based on her gender and later retaliated when she spoke up about it. Ulku Rowe, a Google Cloud..
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iRobot's Roomba s9+ robot vacuum is down to its best price yet

The high-end Roomba s9+ may normally be too expensive for most people to justify spending on a robot vacuum, but a one-day-only deal has shaved the price nearly in half, bringing it down to an all t..
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SpaceX will ramp up its launches in 2024 for Starlink's satellite-to-cell service

SpaceX is planning to launch as many rockets as it can over the next two-and-a-half months in an attempt to fly 100 flights by the end of the year, company exec Bill Gerstenmaier recently told the US ..
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Netflix jacks up the price of its premium plan to $23 a month

Netflix announced price hikes on two of its plans today. As the company relayed its quarterly earnings, it said its increasing rates for its Basic and Premium plans. The Basic plan, which Netflix kil…..

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Public health alert issued for raw beef sold at ALDI, may contain plastic

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued an alert regarding raw beef sold at ALDI stores, which could contain plastic. In the health alert, the FSIS said…..
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How Can a Historic Garden Adapt to Climate Change?

Gardens are one of England’s essential iconographies: living, lasting testaments to the intimate relationship between people and nature, not to mention a kind of aesthetic mainstay. But climate change..
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Everton condemn ‘vile’ racist abuse aimed at midfielder Amadou Onana

Sign up to Miguel Delaneys Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguels Delaneys free weekly newsletter Everton have condemned vile racist abuse aimed at mid…..