Month: December 2024

Fortnite’s latest game mode, Ballistic, plays a lot like Valorant or Counter-Strike. The mode, currently labeled as being in “Early Access,” is rough around the edges and feels more like a demo than a full game. However, Ballistic is also proof that Epic can build first-person shooters that work in Fortnite, and that’s exciting. Suggested
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Show more (6 items) Overheating while trying to sleep can impact your ability to get the beauty rest you need. Whether you or your partner sleeps hot, you’ll be glad to know there’s a wide range of products designed to keep you cool at night, including sheets, blankets, mattresses and cooling mattress toppers. These not
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Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s
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/ The tech giant announced a new research prototype called Project Mariner along with updates for Project Astra. By Kylie Robison, a senior AI reporter working with The Verge’s policy and tech teams. She previously worked at Fortune Magazine and Business Insider. Share this story Project Astra is supposed to be more useful than ever
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2024 has been a solid, if somewhat strange year for movies. This year saw the release of some great films across both streaming platforms and in theaters. Advertisement However, most of the highest-rated movies on reviewer aggregator Metacritic weren’t big movies with giant productions and massive budgets. Instead, 2024 was a year where smaller movies
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Key Takeaways The best high-yield savings accounts still offer well over 4% APY, but some banks are already cutting rates.  If the Fed lowers rates next week, savings rates may dip further as we head into the new year.  Despite rate drops, experts recommend storing money for short-term goals in a high-yield savings account for
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Apple released new Apple Intelligence features, including image playground, Genmoji, writing tool enhancements, and ChatGPT integration with iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2. The company also expanded language support for Apple Intelligence to localized English in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K. Previously, the company supported only U.S. English
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Everything isn’t always holly jolly during the holidays, especially when it comes to sleep. A recent CNET survey found that roughly 42% of US adults face sleep-related issues during the holiday season. Gen Z and Millennials struggle the most to get quality sleep during the holiday season, with over 50% of each generation reporting sleep issues.
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/ Google has a new strategy for building AI data centers. Illustration: The Verge In what it’s calling a “first-of-its-kind partnership,” Google will collaborate with developers to build data centers powered by renewable energy generated on-site. It’s partnering with energy company Intersect Power and investment firm TPG Rise Climate on a $20 billion initiative to
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Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s shameless Overwatch-like featuring the heroes and villains that have captivated comic book readers and moviegoers for decades, is already at a crossroads. It’s less than a week old, but it’s clear even now that the decisions NetEase makes in the coming months will determine if it stays a chaotic, unbalanced blast or
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Back in 2022, Epic Games agreed to pay $245 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over “dark patterns” that may have tricked players into spending in-game currency on cosmetics, dance emotes, and other items they didn’t actually want. Two years later, the first payments are finally going out and
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