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Last week, an e-mail went out to Best Buy Creators promising that Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders would open today, May 18th. While the legitimacy of the Best Buy email leak has been repeatedly confirmed by various insiders, the big day has arrived without the promised pre-order availability, and now
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PlayStation Plus, Sony's subscription gaming service for its consoles, is increasing its price for new subscribers. The company blamed "ongoing market conditions" for the price increase. It's the go-to explanation for gaming hardware companies, including Microsoft and Nintendo's increases in pricing for
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HBO Max is home to fan favorites, including Succession and Game of Thrones, but you may not be as familiar with newer options on the service that deliver to the streaming masses. The medical series The Pitt returned for Season 2 in January, following its 2025 launch and best drama
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Dive Brief Phil Wiser helped guide AI adoption at the media firm. His departure comes less than a month after Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. Published May 18, 2026 Dive Brief: * Paramount CTO Phil Wiser is stepping down after more than seven years with the media company, according to
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AWS News Blog Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizations to modernize and transform code at scale using AWS-managed
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Most PCs from the past 15 years can run Windows 11. * PCs sold with Windows 10 can usually upgrade after a registry edit. * On older or unusually configured PCs, a third-party utility might be required.
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Many gadgets marketed as being “smart” make me wonder if they would be better off dumb. Some examples are smart TVs that insist on sending your activities to businesses to track you, smart fridges that use the Internet to cycle through ads, smart gym equipment that won’t work offline,
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Lanterns, the new DC Universe series coming to HBO Max, dropped a surprising teaser in March that swapped the usual superhero hijinks for gritty realism more in the vein of True Detectives and Slow Horses. Personally, I liked the change; it pushed a series that was barely on my radar
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Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely having been a Roman doctor, according to an announcement by the Pompeii Archaeological Park. As previously reported,
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Musk’s legal team looked “sunken in their chairs” after the jury’s decision was announced, the NYT reported. One of the billionaire’s lawyers, Marc Toberoff, who hosted daily calls with press during the trial, quickly confirmed that Musk will appeal. Altman and Brockman were not present when the
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Can I pet that dog? For some ancient Aboriginal Australian communities, dingoes were part of the family. Archaeologists and Barkindji custodians worked together to excavate the dingo burial. Credit: Barb Quayle A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the
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The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn’t direct the future of AI. Altman’s lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk’s own credibility. A jury
