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Source: The Verge Cuba lost power across the nation on Friday after a major power plant failed, according to the country’s energy ministry. Blackouts have been a recurring problem for Cuba’s aging power grid, the New York Times reported, noting the country has lacked fuel to run the gird fully for weeks. Its national electricity…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25687479/Screen_Shot_2024_10_18_at_4.58.08_PM.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "In Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus, parkour is the only way to go")
Source: The Verge Along with giving New York Comic Con attendees a chance to see Lazarus’ first episode, Adult Swim revealed today that Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara — the Japanese actors who voiced Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine — are part of the show’s cast. Yamadera and Hayashibara are joined by Mamoru…
Source: Venture Beat Keywords Studios’ latest acquisition is co-development studio Certain Affinity, which will join its Create division. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat OpenAI now lets some ChatGPT users check changes to text or code on the Canvas feature, something developers have been asking for. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have all announced plans to partner with or build new nuclear power plants and reactors for AI. Here’s why. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat The developers behind Tales of Kenzera: ZAU risk furloughing their entire staff if they do not find a publishing partner soon. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25066883/Switch_TLOZ_TOTK_Screen_23.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is just for first-time Woot buyers")
Source: The Verge If you’ve been waiting to pick up one of the all-time great games for the Nintendo Switch, you can do so now for as cheap as it gets. Woot is offering first-time customers the chance to buy a physical version The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for $39.99 ($30 off)…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25686991/world_orb_tech.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project has a new Orb and a new name")
Source: The Verge Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. Along with the name change, World introduced an updated version of its eyeball-scanning Orb device which is designed to solve a problem that does not currently exist: authenticating that someone is…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25047547/236883_Epic_Vs_Google_B_CVirginia.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now")
Source: The Verge Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle. Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause on his November 1st deadline to drastically alter its Android app store rules. Today he did just that, Epic and Google confirm to The Verge, granting Google a…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25686932/Screenshot_2024_10_18_at_9.34.31_AM.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "OnePlus might be ditching curved edges too")
Source: The Verge The next OnePlus flagship looks a little flat — and that’s a good thing. The alleged image of the unreleased OnePlus 13 was posted to Weibo and has been since removed, but not before it was spotted by 9to5Google. It shows the phone with flat sides rather than the curved edges featured…
