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Star Wars Outlaws is the solution to Ubisoft’s open-world woes
Image: Ubisoft There was a moment in Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws when I was scouring the depths of a creepy cave, just after finishing a dogfight in space and winning a card game in a boozy cantina, that the game clicked for me. The usual Ubisoft drudgery, where icons on maps become…
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With AI food recognition Samsung Food could be the ultimate meal-planning app
Samsung Food Plus can create tailored meal plans based on your nutritional needs and the food in your fridge and pantry. | Image: Samsung New features on Samsung’s AI-powered food and recipe app could make your meal planning and food management chores much easier. With Samsung Food, you can now add items to a Food…
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It’s been a great summer for indie games — here are some of the best
Thank Goodness You’re Here! | Image: Panic Outside of some notable exceptions, there haven’t been many blockbuster games this summer — but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been much to play. In fact, at times, it has felt like a never-ending flood of fascinating indie releases, thanks to games like Arranger, Animal Well, Crow Country,…
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The EV evolution is going to take longer than we thought
Image: Getty Let’s get one thing out of the way: contrary to what you may have heard, electric vehicle sales are up. I know, recent headlines suggest otherwise. Tesla sales are down. Ford is scaling back its EV rollout. General Motors is delaying an electric truck and holding back on investments in EV battery mining.…
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Brazil’s X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
Image: Bluesky X is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves. “Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!” the official Bluesky account says in a post. “There will almost certainly be some outages…
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Judge orders X ban in Brazil
Image: The Verge A judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of X after owner Elon Musk failed to designate a new legal representative for the country, according to reports from Bloomberg and local news outlet Poder360. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes told the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to limit access to X…
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The Borderlands movie hides its best ideas under painful jokes
Image: Lionsgate And now you can watch it at home. Continue reading…
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NASA shuffles Crew-9 team that will bring Starliner crew home
Image: NASA SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission will launch to the International Space Station with only NASA’s Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, according to an update on Friday. Crew-9 will launch “no earlier” than September 24th, with plans to bring delayed Starliner astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams back to Earth next February. Wilmore and…
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Judge who owns Tesla stock greenlights X lawsuit against critics
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Grzegorz Wajda, Getty Images A lawsuit aimed at punishing critics of Elon Musk’s X will go forward, thanks to a ruling from a judge with a financial interest in Musk’s success. On Thursday, Judge Reed O’Connor denied a motion to dismiss X’s lawsuit against Media…
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CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s global IT meltdown
Image: The Verge A senior CrowdStrike executive will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee next month about the IT outage that grounded planes and workplaces to a halt globally on July 19th. Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of counter adversary operations, has agreed to appear before the panel on September 24th at 2PM…