Month: December 2024
Most US teens still use TikTok daily as ban looms
With a TikTok ban in the United States looking more and more likely, a new report from Pew Research on teen social media use underscores just how influential the app is among its youngest users. Not only is it one of the most-used social media services by teens, 57 percent…
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How to watch the 2024 Game Awards
This year, we know at least a few of the major reveals, which will include the first gameplay trailer for Borderlands 4 and the next release from Hazelight Studios, the team behind surprise hit It Takes Two. Games like Palworld, Dying Light, and Mafia: The Old Country, are all confirmed…
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Thousands of Bitcoin ATM users may have personal data leaked after breach
Byte Federal filed a new notice with the Maine Attorney General’s office, confirming a cyberattack Attackers tried to access sensitive data on 58,000 people, but it is unclear if they succeeded Targeted data included names, postal addresses, email addresses, Social Security numbers, transaction activity, and more Byte Federal, a US…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks sets up its finale elbowing its own ribs
Spoilers for Lower Decks, “Fissure Quest.” It turns out you can have your cake and eat it. The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is an exercise in box ticking for the show’s creative team. It does the grunt work of laying the table and raising the stakes for…
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Epic and Lego have a long-term plan to make Fortnite more than battle royale
A year ago, Epic kicked off a bold plan to turn Fortnite into a broader ecosystem for all kinds of games. And that plan was led by the launch of Lego Fortnite, a Minecraft-style survival game that sits alongside the likes of battle royale and the music-themed Fortnite Festival inside…
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Toyota takes on Volvo’s EX30 with the Urban Cruiser compact electric SUV
Toyota just introduced a new compact electric SUV and dug into the past for inspiration. The new Urban Cruiser EV borrows its name for a car that first came along in the early 2000s and is based on the company's Urban SUV Concept unveiled last year. It looks like it's…
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