Month: April 2022
‘Glorious PC Gaming Race’ is rebranding to ‘Glorious’ out of belated shame
In 2008, the fast-talking expletive-spewing video game reviewer Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation coined the phrase “The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race,” joking about how snobbish PC gamers allegedly looked down upon their “dirty console playing peasant” counterparts. (I remember it being quite funny at the time.) Then, something unfortunate happened:…
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Oklahoma governor pushes for $700 million rebate package to lure a company he can’t name
Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma called on lawmakers to approve an enormous financial incentives package that’s supposed to coax an unnamed company with ties to the electric vehicle (EV) industry to the state, according to a report from Fortune and local media outlet News 9. A non-disclosure agreement barred Governor…
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Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’
Brave announced a new feature for its browser on Tuesday: De-AMP, which automatically jumps past any page rendered with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages framework and instead takes users straight to the original website. “Where possible, De-AMP will rewrite links and URLs to prevent users from visiting AMP pages altogether,” Brave…
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Chris Novak, Xbox’s head of research and design, is leaving after nearly 20 years
Chris Novak, Xbox’s head of research and design who has been at Microsoft for nearly 20 years, is leaving the company, he announced Tuesday on LinkedIn. In his current role, which he’s had for more than five years, he led the user experience for things like Xbox Game Pass, Xbox…
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FDA warns that some prenatal blood tests could have false results
Blood tests that screen pregnant people for signs of genetic abnormalities run the risk of giving people false or misleading information, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday. The agency put out a safety communication stressing that the widely used tests, often called noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs), aren’t cleared or…
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Your Netflix password sharing days may be soon be over
Audio player loading… If you’re using someone else’s Netflix account, this news is for you: Netflix wants to monetize sharing, and it wants to do it soon. In a letter to shareholders as part of Q1 revenue results, Netflix for the first time put a figure on the total number…
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