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Players aren’t the only ones facing higher price tags from Xbox. According to a report by The Verge, Microsoft has upped the cost of the Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000. That’s a 33 percent jump in cost for these custom hardware kits, which are essential for devs to make and test games for release on the console.”The adjustment reflects macroeconomic developments,” Microsoft said in an email sent to Xbox devs and seen by The Verge. “We remain committed to providing high-quality tools and support for your development efforts.” Although the macroeconomics in question are almost certainly the tariffs…
Pakistan were already staring at defeat before the relentless rains, stop-start in manner, in Colombo sealed their fate. Fatima Sana’s side crashed out of the ICC Women’s World Cup on Tuesday after a crushing 150-run defeat (DLS method) to South Africa in their penultimate match of the league stage at the R. Premadasa Stadium. Pakistan needed a victory to have any chance of staying alive in the last-four race and already-qualified South Africa, but chasing a target that was revised with every downpour, they stood little chance after the Proteas amassed 312-9 in 40 overs. Speaking after the match, skipper…
A report citing internal research from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has found that vulnerable teens who reported feeling bad about their bodies were exposed to significantly more “eating disorder adjacent” content on Instagram compared to their peers. A new report from Reuters based on internal research from Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has shed light on the platform’s troubling tendency to show more eating disorder-linked content to vulnerable teens. The research found that teenagers who expressed dissatisfaction with their bodies were exposed to a significantly higher proportion of potentially harmful posts compared to their peers who did not report such feelings.…
A recent post by XRP commentator Remi Relief on the social media platform X has looked into the possibility of XRP’s price reaching the $1,000 price level. XRP is currently trading well below even the double-digit mark. However, according to this crypto commentator, XRP can get to $1,000, and the world doesn’t need to wait until 2030 for this to happen. Vision Of XRP’s Global Purpose In his post, Remi Relief questioned the widespread belief that a $1,000 price target could only be achieved by XRP by 2030. The timeline for XRP to reach $1,000 is going to be far…
When AI tools first began proliferating around the web, worries about deepfakes quickly rose alongside them. And now that tech such as OpenAI’s recently released Sora 2 is getting more capable and more widely available (and being used exactly as irresponsibly as you might have guessed), both famous and ordinary people may want more control over protecting their likenesses. After teasing the feature last year, YouTube is starting to launch a likeness detection tool to combat unwanted deepfakes and have them removed from the video platform.Likeness detection is currently being rolled out to members of the YouTube Partner Program. It’s…
Oklahoma State University refuses to comment on whether action will be taken in response to an administrator who reprimanded a student leader who gave a Charlie Kirk tribute. The administrator can be heard in an audio recording telling the student this year “is going to be difficult for you” after he gave a speech honoring the assassinated Turning Point USA founder. Oklahoma State student leader Josh Wilson was reprimanded by the school’s coordinator of student-government programs, Melisa Echols, who claimed that students could be “triggered” over his speech honoring assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, according to a report by the Oklahoma Council of Public…
A California man has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government in Southern California while working as a campaign advisor for a local politician.Yaoning “Mike” Sun is expected to appear in court in Los Angeles on Monday to enter his plea under a deal with federal prosecutors, according to a copy of the agreement available in online court records. It was signed by Sun, his attorney and a prosecutor earlier this month. If the plea is accepted by a judge, Sun could face a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison,…
Google just announced several updates for its digital telecom provider, Google Fi. It’s introducing AI-enhanced audio for better sound quality during calls. The company says this will ensure “optimized audio quality for every call, so you can confidently take calls from a windy park or busy cafe.” This feature rolls out sometime in November.Google Fi is getting HD/HD+ calling, which should also improve the overall audio quality. The service will soon automatically connect to Wi-Fi when available, with the company touting “seamless, secure switching.” As for security, each call and text goes through a VPN. There’s no extra cost for…
NEW YORK – The designers of a cryptocurrency launched by US First Lady Melania Trump in January were accused in court filings on Oct 21 of organising the operation knowing that the digital currency’s value would plummet.The $Melania coins were released for just a few cents each on Jan 19, the day before her husband Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States. Within hours, the $Melania coin’s price had soared to US$13.73 (S$17.80).However, it then collapsed almost as quickly, and is now only worth around 10 cents – less than one per cent of its peak price.…
A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday caused widespread disruptions to numerous popular websites, apps, and online services used by millions of people around the world. Although service was fully restored by the end of the day, details about exactly why AWS failed, knocking everything from school service provider Canvas to popular video game Fortnite offline, remain sparse. On Monday, a major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud platform that supports a substantial portion of the internet, resulted in the temporary shutdown of many apps, websites, and online tools relied upon by millions of users globally.…