Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023: all the news and trailers

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Opening Night Live 2023 will have over two hours of trailers and announcements. Just don’t expect too many world premieres.

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LAist Studios relaunches Imperfect Paradise as weekly podcast and radio program

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I’m writing to you today from Podcast Movement in Colorado — where I hope to meet many of you over the next few days.

This morning kicked off with a discussion on the state of the podcasting industry hosted by Amplifi Media’s Steven Goldstein. Panelists included industry veterans such as Magnificent Noise’s Eric Nuzum, Lemonada Media’s Jessica Cordova Kramer, Workhouse Media CEO Paul Anderson, and Barometer CEO Tamara Zubatiy.

Some interesting insights from the panel:

• Brand safety is a huge factor right now in the marketplace. “There’s never been more sensitivity than there is right now,” noted Anderson. It’s easier for...

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Netflix DVD Is Letting Subscribers Keep Their Final Shipment of DVDs

Netflix’s DVD subscription platform will allow subscribers to keep their final delivery of DVDs as the company prepares to close its 25-year-old service, the company announced on Monday. In April, Netflix confirmed it will be shutting down its DVD mail order option, telling existing customers in a Twitter post last…

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AT&T is bringing its $55 per month 5G home internet plan to more places

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AT&T is expanding the availability of its $55 per month Internet Air plan (or $60 per month without autopay), which uses 5G to beam Wi-Fi into your home. The plan comes with no overage fees, equipment costs, or annual contracts, but AT&T will charge up to $10 per month extra for up to five Wi-Fi extenders.

The plan offers download speeds of 40 to 140Mbps, but AT&T may “temporarily slow data speeds” if the network is busy. Once you sign up for the service, AT&T will send you its All-Fi Hub, a 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) receiver that you’ll wirelessly connect your devices to.

Say hello to @ATT Internet Air. In home Wi-Fi delivered over our reliable wireless network that you can set up in less than 15 minutes. For info & locations:...

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"We thought it was grass clippings on his face but as we got closer, we realized those were actually bees" [Scary]

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ElevenLabs' AI Voice Generator Can Now Fake Your Voice in 30 Languages

What’s become one of the internet’s go-to companies for creating realistic enough visual deepfakes now has the ability to clone your voice and force it to speak in a growing variety of tongues. ElevenLabs announced Tuesday its new voice cloning now supports 22 more languages than it did previously, including…

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War crimes being committed in Darfur, says UK minister Andrew Mitchell

Africa minister says civilian death toll horrific and UK is to send evidence to UN

War crimes and atrocities against civilians are being committed in Darfur, western Sudan, UK Africa minister Andrew Mitchell said on Tuesday, becoming one of the first western officials to identify that the fighting in Sudan has developed into more than a power struggle between two rival factions.

Mitchell said there was growing evidence of serious atrocities being committed, describing the civilian death toll as horrific in a statement released by the Foreign Office. “Reports of deliberate targeting and mass displacement of the Masalit community in Darfur are particularly shocking and abhorrent. Intentional directing of attacks at the civilian population is a war crime.”

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How to Be a Better Planner: Avoid the Planning Fallacy

Ever caught yourself thinking, “I thought I had enough time for this!” or, “Why am I always running late on my plans?” It’s like a never-ending loop of setting goals, missing the mark, then scratching your head in wonder. Evidence shows that this so-called planning fallacy is a widespread hiccup. You can see its traces ... Read more

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Nvidia shares hit all-time high as chipmaker dominates AI market

Rising bets that chip designer’s revenue target will surpass Wall Street estimates lift the stock about 19% from two-month low

Nvidia shares hit an all-time high on Tuesday in a buildup in expectations over the quarterly results of the chip designer that has been the biggest beneficiary of a boom in artificial intelligence.

Rising bets that Nvidia’s revenue target will once again surpass Wall Street estimates have lifted the stock about 19% from a two-month low hit last week.

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Disney's ESPN Bet Is a Play for Younger Gamblers

With ESPN Bet, Disney brokers a marriage between sports betting and the entertainment industry.

How to Use a Planner Effectively

For many of us, the chaos of modern life feels like a treadmill set at an impossible pace…. You’re racing through your day, juggling a dozen tasks at once. Deadlines are breathing down your neck, and you’re constantly reacting to the urgent rather than focusing on what’s truly important. Sounds familiar? But what if there ... Read more

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How to Be a Better Planner: Avoid the Planning Fallacy

Ever caught yourself thinking, “I thought I had enough time for this!” or, “Why am I always running late on my plans?” It’s like a never-ending loop of setting goals, missing the mark, then scratching your head in wonder. Evidence shows that this so-called planning fallacy is a widespread hiccup. You can see its traces ... Read more

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How to Use a Planner Effectively

For many of us, the chaos of modern life feels like a treadmill set at an impossible pace…. You’re racing through your day, juggling a dozen tasks at once. Deadlines are breathing down your neck, and you’re constantly reacting to the urgent rather than focusing on what’s truly important. Sounds familiar? But what if there ... Read more

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VMware edges towards its multi-cloud vision, with a side quest to virtualize AI

More of the same is the name of the game, across clouds and app-taming

Explore VMware has kicked off its annual Explore conference with a series of announcements that advance its core strategy of using virtualized compute, storage, and networks to allow workloads to run with consistent security wherever their owners choose to have them execute.…

Meta Releases AI to Translate Dozens of Languages Using Speech and Text

Meta took a step towards a universal language translator on Tuesday with the release of its new Seamless M4T AI model, which the company says can quickly and efficiently understand language from speech or text in up to 100 languages and generate translation in either mode of communication. Multiple tech companies have…

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Paranormal society keeps night’s watch on Crooked House pub site

Group guards bricks until morning as local people tell of ‘major lack of trust’ over what could happen next

As large building machinery started arriving on the site of the Crooked House pub on Monday night, fears for the remains of the much-loved building grew – with locals wondering what might happen to it under the cover of darkness.

But one group of people used to staying up all night – the Black Country Paranormal Society – stepped in to guard the site perimeter and make sure all remaining bricks made it to the morning.

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Trump Supporters Explain Why They Doxxed Grand Jurors

After former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Georgia grand jury, his supporters found and published the names and addresses of the jury’s members. The Onion asked Trump supporters why they posted the jurors’ personal information online, and this is why they said.

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Silicon Valley Investors Tout Man Who Shows Up To Steal One Of Your Bones As New Tech Innovation

SAN FRANCISCO—Saying the breakthrough had tremendous disruptive potential, a group of Silicon Valley investors on Tuesday touted a man who shows up to steal one of your bones as a bold new tech innovation. “We’re backing this tech because we believe it will completely change the way people think about their bones,…

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Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the internet — can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy?

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Today, I’m talking with Perkins Miller. He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney and Taylor Swift to The Matrix and Grand Theft Auto as well as several publications like TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot. It’s a big, complicated media company in a big, complicated time for media companies.

Fandom started as Wikia — the commercialized sister company to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is the noble community-supported encyclopedia, and Fandom is the explicitly profit-driven entertainment platform, and that means a lot of things that often collide with how people think about wikis. For example, Perkins talks about Fandom like you would any other large ad-supported media company with tons of user-generated...

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Ads are coming to TikTok search results

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TikTok users searching the app for specific videos will begin to see sponsored content in search results.

The company announced today that advertisers will be able to place ads alongside organic content that appears when searching in the app. When a user clicks on an ad, they can continue scrolling to view search results in a feed-like format. Ads are pulled from other videos that the brand is running on the platform.

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Ads will appear next to organic posts.

Ads will appear next to organic content that’s served when a user searches on TikTok, with a semitransparent “sponsored” label on the video thumbnail. Ads already appear as videos between organic content in users’ For You feeds with the same...

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Here in the 21st century, more Wisconsinites are discovering a nifty new dialect known as "English" [Interesting]

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Activists hit with restraining orders lawyer claims will stop them speaking out about Woodside

Fossil fuel company denies orders granted after incident at CEO’s home are intended to prevent campaigners from speaking out

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Four activists have been hit with violence restraining orders that their lawyer says prevents them from making any public reference to Woodside’s CEO and effectively stops them from speaking out about the company.

The interim court orders were issued to activists charged in relation to an incident at the home of Meg O’Neill and “were sought to protect Ms O’Neill’s family’s safety”, a Woodside spokesperson confirmed.

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‘Donald’s an idiot’: Michael Cohen says Trump’s rebuffing of Giuliani could backfire

Attorney behind payments to porn star questions Trump’s refusal to pay legal expenses for the former New York mayor

Donald Trump is an “idiot” for not paying legal expenses incurred by his attorney the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani in the Georgia election subversion case, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said.

“Donald’s an idiot,” Cohen told CNN of the former president. “Let me just be very clear when it comes to paying money, he is truly an idiot.

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Ahsoka brings mystery back to Star Wars

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At this point, live-action Star Wars shows are no longer novel. In fact, it’s getting pretty crowded out there, with everything from the ongoing adventures of The Mandalorian to series like Andor, Obi-Wan, and The Book of Boba Fett. So, a new story like Ahsoka needs to do something a little different to stand out from the ever-growing pack. And in its first two episodes, the series manages to do just that by focusing on a very specific and important part of the Star Wars mythos: mystery.

The show starts out like classic Star Wars, complete with a title crawl (this time in red text) followed by a massive spaceship slowly making its way through the inky expanse of space. The story — which takes place roughly during the same period as The...

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Ahsoka's Premiere Shows Lots of Star Wars Promise

Our feelings on the two-episode premiere of Ahsoka are clearly on display in the show’s opening moments. Creator/writer and episode one director Dave Filoni starts his story in a way _Star War_s fans will find both familiar and delightful. “Finally,” you may think. “Someone who gets it.” But then you realize the crux of…

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