Bluesky

Bluesky Announces A New Look – The Social Butterfly

Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t have to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform, according to a blog post from Bluesky CEO Jay Grabber, The Verge reported. You can…

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An 18-Year-Old Hacker Sentenced To An Indefinite Hospital Order

An 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order, BBC reported. Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who is autistic, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$. The…

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Podcast

AI’s 78% Accuracy in Foreseeing Mortality within Four Years #1713

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and Northeastern University have developed an AI model called ‘life2vec’ that can predict a person’s death with 78% accuracy within four years. This groundbreaking model, featured in ‘Nature Computational Science’, analyzes extensive sociodemographic…

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Gaming

Microsoft Announces More Xbox Leadership Changes As Bobby Kotick departs

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down officially December 29th, The Verge reported. Microsoft has not appointed a direct replacement and instead has rolled the suite of Activision Blizzard executives – including Blizzard president Mike Ybarra, Activision Publishing Rob…

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google

Google To Pay $700 Million In Play Store Settlement

Google parent Alphabet agreed to pay $700 million and make certain changes to its app store, settling one of several antitrust challenges to the search-engine company, The Wall Street Journal reported. The settlement resolves claims by a group of states…

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OnePlus 12 Series Drops 23 January for RoW

After the OnePlus 12’s initial reveal in China, the launch date for the rest of the world has been confirmed as 23 January 2024, which is something to look forward to in the darkness of winter after the post-Christmas buzz…

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Adobe

Adobe And Figma Mutually Agree To Terminate Merger Agreement

Today, Adobe and Figma announced that they have entered into a mutual agreement to terminate their previously announced merger agreement, originally announced on September 15, 2022, under which Adobe would have acquired Figma for a mix of cash and stock…

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