Digital video game storefront Good Old Games, aka GOG, is hosting a massive sales event dedicated to open-world games. Or, well, mostly open-world games. It really depends on how you define what is and isn’t an open-world game. This week, GOG launched a big ol’ sales event featuring some remarkably steep discounts on a variety of games that it classifies...
Years ago when I had little ones who liked going to the pumpkin patch, we’d always come home with a few pumpkins. While I don’t always have time to make homemade pumpkin puree anymore, our family still loves pumpkin bread during the fall. It’s naturally sweetened with maple syrup and features all the warming spices you love about the season....
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The accidental discovery of a fascinating and rare ancient artifact in Georgia, North America, invites us to reflect deeply on its implications. This intriguing find not only corroborates a Native American legend about a distant catastrophic event but also suggests pre-Columbian contact with other cultures. The Children of the Sun, as this Indian tribe calls...
Spotify has been spotted developing a “SongDNA” feature that would allow users to discover music through the credits — the writers, collaborators, vocalists, engineers, lyricists, producers, composers, and others who worked on a given track or album. The feature was discovered in the app’s code by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who was able to generate screenshots of how SongDNA...
JPMorgan’s CFO says while there’s a lot of uncertainty and the economy has slowed, ‘the facts say’ consumers and the economy are just fine Source link...
Honor made the Magic8 and Magic8 Pro official today, and during the same event the brand also teased an upcoming device which it's calling the Robot Phone. This will be fully unveiled at MWC in Barcelona in early March next year. Until then, we get the teaser video below, and if you've been wondering what makes this a "robot phone",...
The first time that I encountered a version of ‘Frankenstein’ it was in the form of a stage play too advanced for my susceptible, seven-year-old imagination. Later that night, and then again over the nights that followed, I hallucinated a bald, green-tinged man climbing in through the window of the bedroom that I shared with my younger brother. “Victor… Victor… ” he muttered in a sinister whisper...
In Scott Derrickson’s 1978-set The Black Phone, ‘the Grabber’ (Ethan Hawke) was just a run-of-the-mill masked killer. His boy victims, however, were unrestful spirits, contacting latest abductee Finney (Mason Thames) through a disconnected old phone in the Grabber’s basement dungeon with tips on surviving. Ultimately, the ghost-guided Finney killed the Grabber. Box-office success made a sequel inevitable, but also posed a problem: how do you...
OpenAI is printing money right now. The company is pulling in roughly $13 billion in annual revenue, with 70% coming from everyday people paying $20 a month to chat with an AI, according to the Financial Times. That’s pretty wild when you consider ChatGPT has 800 million regular users, but only 5% are actually paying subscribers. Raking in billions though...
Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Industry Ventures, a 25-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm with $7 billion in assets under management, CNBC was first to report on Monday. The deal underscores the growing importance of secondary markets and buyouts as traditional venture exits remain sluggish. The investment bank is paying $665 million in cash and equity, with up to $300...
