Month: December 2023
A Tekken 8 demo is hitting PS5 tomorrow, but Xbox and PC players will have to wait
It’s been announced that Tekken 8 is getting a demo, which will become available on PS5 on December 14, but Xbox Series X and PC players will have to wait until December 21 before they get stuck in. The demo offers the first chapter of the game’s story mode, The…
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The world came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels
What would have been a historic deal to tackle a planetary crisis slipped out of reach at the eleventh hour. Even so, climate-vulnerable countries and environmental advocates scored some key wins with clean energy after heated climate negotiations wrapped up in the United Arab Emirates, a top oil- and gas-producing…
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Beeper Mini is back after Apple shutdown, but had to sacrifice its main appeal
The saga of Beeper Mini continues as the developer behind it relaunched the app, although it comes at the cost of one of its main features. To give you a crash course of recent events, Beeper Mini is an Android app that gives users the ability to send and receive…
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Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
The FCC announced today that it won’t award Elon Musk’s Starlink an $886 million subsidy from the Universal Service Fund for expanding broadband service in rural areas. The money would have come from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program (RDOF), but the FCC writes that Starlink wasn’t able to “demonstrate…
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Snapchat now lets subscribers share AI-generated snaps
Those who subscribe to Snapchat’s $3.99 plan can use the feature by tapping the “AI” button from the toolbar on the right side of the camera interface. This opens up a window where users can type a text prompt or choose from one of the premade options, like “a futuristic…
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Marvel’s Black Panther Disney Plus series will dig into Wakandan history
Details about Marvel’s forthcoming Black Panther spinoff series have been sparse since the studio first announced it a couple years back. But ahead of What If …?’s season 2 premiere on Disney Plus, the streamer’s just shared a few promising details about what to expect from The Eyes of Wakanda.…
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