Fortnite's "highly addictive" nature being challenged in court

A class-action lawsuit against Epic Games’ Fortnite is going ahead in Quebec, more than three years after it was originally filed.

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Google is shutting down Duplex on the Web

Another Google service will soon join the company’s graveyard of apps. The search giant quietly announced this week it is shutting down Duplex on the Web. In a support page spotted by TechCrunch, the company notes the service won’t work after the end of 2022.

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2023 GMC Sierra prices up, start at $38,995 for Sierra Pro Regular Cab

It was only GM Authority, typically a reliable source in these matters, reported on pricing for the 2023 GMC Sierra lineup before official numbers were released. Those early figures were apparently just placeholders.

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Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger (or Older)

Further demonstrating the power of artificial intelligence when it comes to photorealistically altering footage, researchers from Disney have revealed a new aging/de-aging tool that can make an actor look convincingly older or younger, without the need for weeks of complex and expensive visual effec

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What If 2 Gift Guide

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Ticketmaster Will Now Have to Explain Itself to Lawmakers Following Taylor Swift Ticket Disaster

The fallout continues from last week’s Ticketmaster fiasco as Taylor Swift fans scrambled to buy tickets to the popstar’s upcoming The Eras Tour. The surge promptly crashed Ticketmaster’s website.

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Musk's California Hyperloop Prototype Will Become a Parking Lot

Elon Musk’s hyperloop—the sci-fi-esque subway of the future that definitely will not flood—is apparently hitting a speed bump. The Hyperloop’s inaugural tunnel, a prototype built in Hawthorne, California, has been torn down and will be replaced with parking spots for SpaceX employees.

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Air Force's Mysterious Spaceplane Finally Lands After Spending Nearly 3 Years in Orbit

The U.S. Space Force’s spaceplane touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after spending nearly three years orbiting around Earth on a secretive mission. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) landed on November 12 at 5:22 a.m. ET, setting a new record of 908 days in orbit.

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Shen Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton

For the first time, Christie's Hong Kong is putting a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton on its auction block. Unearthed in Montana, the apex predator known as Shen or "gold-like" dates back to the cretaceous period and measures 43 feet long and 16 feet tall.

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Twitter users will have more control over mentions soon

Mentions are a great way to get the attention of other Twitter users. When you mention someone, they'll receive a notification letting them know that you've mentioned them. This is a great way to connect with people and build relationships.

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Who will be Intel's first foundry customer?

The big picture: Intel has ambitions to create a foundry business by manufacturing chips for other companies. This is an important strategic initiative that the company will need to recoup the massive investment it is now making in fabs around the world.

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NVIDIA CEO Declares Moore's Law Dead And Details GeForce RTX 40 Series Cost Challenges

Moore’s Law has been at the beating heart of technology advancement ever since it was first posited in 1965. Gordon Moore coined the golden rule which observes and predicts that the number of transistors in a microchip double roughly every two years.

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Pivot introduces the Shuttle LT, a long-travel eMTB to take on the EWS-E

Pivot unveiled its first electric mountain bike in 2017 with the launch of the Shuttle (now labelled the Shuttle AM), before bolstering its ranks with the lightweight Shuttle SL in August this year. Now the brand has unleashed the long-travel Shuttle LT as part of its eMTB line-up.

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Different ways of building corporate systems based on the zero trust architecture

The corporate infrastructure of US government agencies will soon be transferred to a new network security model called Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Last year, U.S. President Joe Biden released an Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity.

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Meta settles Facebook/Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit, preventing Zuckerberg from testifying

What just happened? Four years have passed since Facebook was rocked by the biggest scandal in the company's history, Cambridge Analytica, but it's still dealing with the fallout.

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T-Mobile, SpaceX Announce Smartphone Satellite Connectivity Coming Next Year

Several companies are aiming to deploy direct-to-mobile satellite communication, but SpaceX and T-Mobile might have just leapfrogged them all. In a surprise announcement, the pair have revealed plans for smartphone support on SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites.

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Google Fiber Begins First Expansion Since 2015

Google Fiber has awakened from its slumber, and that could be good news for all of us.

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2023 GMC Canyon AT4X Truck

The GMC Canyon is all-new for 2023 along with its stablemate Chevy Colorado. Along with vastly improved styling, the Canyon is getting the AT4X package that turns the mid-size pickup into a serious off-road machine. A factory lift gives the Canyon AT4X 10.

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2023 Subaru Outback Review: One of the best SUVs is actually a wagon

Autoblog accepts vehicle loans from auto manufacturers with a tank of gas and sometimes insurance for the purpose of evaluation and editorial content. Like most of the auto news industry, we also sometimes accept travel, lodging and event access for vehicle drive and news coverage opportunities.

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Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour

In the US government's ongoing campaign to protect data in the age of quantum computers, a new and powerful attack that used a single traditional computer to completely break a fourth-round candidate highlights the risks involved in standardizing the next generation of encryption algorithms.

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The Pivot Shuttle SL is a Sleek, Lightweight Trail eMTB

Photos courtesy of Pivot Cycles.Pivot Cycles has an all-new e-bike on the market today, and the Shuttle SL is hard to distinguish from a regular mountain bike.

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Bungie shuts Destiny 2 text chat to stop malicious exploit

Over the weekend, players in the Destiny 2 community started to notice a game-breaking bug that could be activated just by sending in-game chat messages to other players. Bungie responded on Saturday by temporarily disabling all in-game chat while it investigates the issue.

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Quantum computing and its impact on cybersecurity [Q&A]

Quantum computing with its vastly improved processing capability offers the chance of many positive developments in research and science. But it also represents a potential threat to our current encryption models.

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Two Companies You've Never Heard of Could Be the First to Reach Mars

Private space companies Impulse Space and Relativity Space have announced an ambitious joint venture poised to be the first commercial mission to Mars, which will feature the launch of a payload as soon as 2024.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Lovelace Obliterates RTX 3090 Ti In Alleged Benchmark Leak

We have reported on rumored specs, power consumption figures, and release dates for the upcoming NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs previously.

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Judge grants Twitter expedited trial against Elon Musk

Twitter has scored a victory in its lawsuit against Elon Musk over his attempted exit from a $44 billion takeover deal. In an initial hearing, Delaware Court of Chancery chancellor Kathaleen McCormick has granted Twitter's request for an expedited, five-day trial beginning in October.

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What I like and don't like about Windows on ARM after living with a ThinkPad X13s for a month

A few years ago, I reviewed the Surface Pro X. As you might remember, I was very critical of Microsoft at the time, saying that it was the Surface I tried to love but ended up hating.

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Coinbase Cites 'Technical Issues' for Users' Difficulty Accessing Funds

Is it a bad sign for an industry when technical issues and ending a little-known promotional campaign lead to immediate concerns that one of the biggest players in the crypto game is in financial danger? Let me just answer that question: yes, of course it is.

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Elon Musk says he's terminating Twitter deal, board to fight

Elon Musk announced he will walk away from his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter, leaving the deal on the verge of collapse. The Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition. But Twitter isn't accepting Musk's declaration.

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Social Engineering Kill–Chain: Predicting, Minimizing & Disrupting Attack Verticals

It was a Friday afternoon when Bill was on his way back home from work when he received a call that made him take the next U-turn back to his office. It was one of these calls that he was dedicating all of his working hours to avoid.

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NFT sales drop to 12-month low amid cryptocurrency slump

The appeal of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) appears to have dropped off. After enjoying a period of near-meteoric popularity, the value of NFT sales has been decimated over the past 6 months. NFT sales for June 2022 were a little over $1 billion, compared to a peak of $12.

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Recalled 'Egg Chair' Broke Ribs, Collapsed a Lung

A hanging egg chair sold at Marshalls, T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and HomeSense has been recalled by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission after 19 reports of injuries from people falling. Attention Marshalls, T.J.

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Cloudflare mitigated the most powerful HTTPS DDoS attack ever recorded

What just happened? Cloudflare recently detected and mitigated what it is calling the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record.

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Yellowstone Wrecked by 'Thousand-Year' Floods

Yellowstone National Park is currently closed to all visitors and Montana has declared a statewide disaster because of historic, widespread flooding.

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US Army Deploys First Floating Solar Array

The system sits atop the surface of North Carolina’s Big Muddy Lake, where it will generate clean energy for Fort Bragg. At 1.1 megawatts, it’s the biggest floating solar array in the Southeast United States.

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The Facebook Papers: How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial

This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here. The summer of 2020 proved to be a boiling point for Facebook on climate change.

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The Facebook Papers: How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial

This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here. Read more...

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Low-cost Astra rocket suffers upper stage failure, two NASA satellites lost

California-based Astra on Sunday launched two shoebox-size NASA satellites from Cape Canaveral in a modest mission to improve hurricane forecasts, but the second stage of the company's low-cost booster malfunctioned before reaching orbit and the payloads were lost.

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How Hackers Stole Personal Data Of 2 Million Americans From Shields Health Care

Personal information is also valuable information, as personal data in the wrong hands can empower cybercriminals to commit identity theft and fraud.

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Zero Trust for Data Helps Enterprises Detect, Respond and Recover from Breaches

Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems, explores Zero Trust, data objects and the NIST framework for cloud and on-prem environments.

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9 Republicans Who Voted Against Giving Families Easier Access to Baby Formula

Congress passed a pair of bills last week to help alleviate the baby formula shortage in the U.S., while President Joe Biden initiated Operation Fly Formula, which tasked the military with flying hundreds of boxes of formula from Europe.

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AMD Ryzen 7000 Smokes Alder Lake At Computex Keynote As Zen 4 Excitement Builds

While it's early morning (or late night) here in the US, it's mid-afternoon in Taipei, and AMD just finished up its Computex 2022 keynote.

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Qualcomm Cuts the Cord with the New Wireless AR Smart Viewer Reference Design Powered by the Snapdragon XR2

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced another milestone in making extended reality (XR) the next computing platform with the Wireless AR Smart Viewer Reference Design, powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Platform.

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Solar Orbiter Captures Dazzling Images of the Sun's Chaotic Activity

We’re drooling over the latest image dump from the Solar Orbiter mission. These incredible pictures and videos, captured during its close approach in March, highlight the awesome power of this probe to show us our host star in a whole new light.

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WanderBOX Outpost 35 4×4 RV

The WanderBOX Outpost 35 RV isn't just for occasional outdoor excursions — it's outfitted to enable off-grid living and working.

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Florida man asks schools to ban Bible following the state's efforts to remove books

A Florida activist known for his tongue-in-cheek petitions to local government agencies has asked school districts in Florida to ban the Bible.

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One survey says Windows 11 adoption hasn't even surpassed Windows XP yet

The big picture: Before Windows 11 launched, it was met with controversy over its confusing system requirements. A few months later, data is beginning to show that this may have stalled the operating system's adoption. How severely depends on who you ask.

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