Month: September 2022

Today, within minutes of each other, both the official Ted Lasso and FIFA Twitter accounts revealed a one-minute trailer that sets up Lasso’s playable appearance in the game. Characterized as an unlikely soccer genius whose knowledge of the game might be sparse, but who is quite a successful coach regardless, a CGI Jason Sudeikis walks
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Crypto token prices have been trending downward for the past year, with BTC and ETH both down over 50% since last September. Yet despite the downturn in cryptocurrency prices, early-stage web3 startups have shown remarkable resilience in their valuations, Seth Ginns, managing partner and head of liquid tokens at digital asset investment firm CoinFund told
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Call of Duty professional Damon “Karma” Barlow wrote on Twitter that removing red dots “turns COD into hide and go seek and not a fun arena shooter.” An observation made, I think, even more accurate by the fact that Modern Warfare 2 features distinct and loud player footsteps. Advertisement More contentiously, Call of Duty news
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/ The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition has swappable ports and bezels A Chromebook for the DIY-minded.Image: Google Framework and Google have announced the new Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. As the name implies, this is an upgradable, customizable Chromebook from the same company that put out the Framework laptop last year. User-upgradable laptops are rare enough
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Ivorian payments-led fintech startup Julaya has extended its pre-Series A round by $5 million. The company, which facilitates B2B payments for businesses in Francophone West Africa, mainly via mobile money channels, has raised a total of $7 million in the financing round.  In 2019, West Africa reported the most live mobile money services in any
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Trombone Champ Announcement TrailerWhat’s important to note here is that, while the game is funny—and from its lootbox parodies to the animation to the over-use of the word “toot” it’s funny for all ages, a rarity—it’s also…pretty good? G/O Media may get a commission $10 or more Humble Bundle – Starlight Bundle Benefit the Starlight
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The crypto industry seemed to age several decades over the past bull run, maturing in some places while barreling ahead in ambitious new pursuits, including DeFi, NFTs and web3. And while scams continued to proliferate and hacker heists became a weekly occurrence, the space onboarded an onslaught of retail investors and fostered feverish excitement among
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Twitch said Tuesday it will remove high-profile gambling sites from the Amazon-owned streaming platform after a number of high-profile streamers like Pokimane, Mizkif and Devin Nash threatened a boycott of Twitch during peak traffic periods. In a statement, Twitch said it would no longer allow the “streaming of gambling sites that include slots, roulette, or
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Its 2015 acquisition of Aldebaran didn’t go as smoothly as SoftBank hoped. At the time, the French robotics startup was best known for its Nao, which had become a fairly ubiquitous presence in research facilities across the globe. The small humanoid robot formed the foundation for the rebranded SoftBank Robotics’ best-known creation, Pepper. Nao mostly
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What’s happening Nvidia has announced its flagship, next-generation gaming graphics cards, the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080. Why it matters Nvidia-based graphics cards are still the most popular ones on the market, and any new technologies that speed them up significantly are notable. Nvidia Goodbye, Ampere; hello, Ada Lovelace: Nvidia revealed its new generation of GeForce
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Amid the festivities at its fall 2022 GTC conference, Nvidia took the wraps off new robotics-related hardware and services aimed at companies developing and testing machines across industries like manufacturing. Isaac Sim, Nvidia’s robotics simulation platform, will soon be available in the cloud, the company said. And Nvidia’s lineup of system-on-modules is expanding with Jetson
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Apple plans to increase the price to purchase apps, in-app items and subscriptions for iPhone and iPad owners in response to international currency fluctuations and inflation. The move will impact Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam and all places that use the euro — in other words, most of Europe — according
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