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It’s good to have friends. They come to your birthday party, offer a shoulder to cry on when things are hard and spend precious corporate resources developing apps for your nascent virtual reality platform despite little direct return. It can be tempting to believe that a pile of cash worth $30bn, and a single product … Read more

The new year has barely begun but it seems we already have 2024’s biggest game – and it’s not a multi-million dollar sci-fi extravaganza set in a vast universe created by a gigantic publisher. It’s a survival adventure released by a small company in Japan, which had only previously released one game. It’s called Palworld, … Read more

A 61-year-old man is suing Macy’s and the parent company of Sunglass Hut over the stores’ alleged use of a facial recognition system that misidentified him as the culprit behind an armed robbery and led to his wrongful arrest. While in jail, he was beaten and raped, according to his suit. Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr … Read more

A friend recently got duped by a scam text purporting to be from his middle daughter, and transferred £100 to an account to cover some baffling yet, according to the text, extremely time-sensitive untoward event. You can imagine how the scammer pulled that off. Think of everyday, low-level parental anxiety, expecting bad news when kids … Read more

BANGKOK (AP) — Riot Games, the developer of the popular “League of Legends” multiplayer battle game is joining other tech companies that have been trimming their payrolls with a layoff of 11% of its staff. In a lengthy statement to staff issued late Monday, CEO Dylan Jadeja said the move was meant to “create focus … Read more

(NewsNation) —  MrBeast, the most-subscribed-to YouTube personality, may be working with Amazon Prime in the near future. Variety confirmed that MrBeast, whose actual name is Jimmy Donaldson, is considering doing a reality/competition show for Amazon. Negotiations were first reported by Puck News, which cited a source claiming the deal would be around $100 million. Amazon and representatives … Read more

(NewsNation) — The U.S. Postal Service on Monday unveiled its first electric vehicle charging stations and battery-electric delivery vehicles during an event at its South Atlanta Sorting and Delivery Center. USPS says similar charging stations will be installed at hundreds of sites nationwide throughout the year, as part of a $40 billion investment in modernizing … Read more

General Motors is getting rid of the “Ultra Cruise” brand and merging the team that was working on it with the team responsible for Super Cruise, as the automaker reconsiders its goals for advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS). Last week, CNBC reported that GM was “ending the Ultra Cruise program,” focusing instead on the current Super … Read more

It seems like everyone on Earth is either talking about or playing Palworld. Indeed, in the three days since its early access launch on Steam on January 19th (and simultaneous release on Game Pass), the game has sold over 5 million copies. While that’s not quite Tears of the Kingdom numbers, to have a game … Read more