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The Morning After: Virgin Galactic’s first private passenger spaceflight will launch next month | Engadget

[ad_1] Virgin Galactic, having flown its first commercial spaceflight in late June, is ready to take civilians to the edge of space, briefly. The company plans to launch its first private passenger flight, Galactic 02, as soon as August 10th. Virgin isn’t yet revealing the names of everyone involved, but there will be three passengers …

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Hyundai Ioniq 5 N High-Performance EV Debuts With 641 HP, N Drift Mode

[ad_1] Korean automaker Hyundai has pulled back the curtains and stripped the camouflage, revealing its all-new Ioniq 5 N high-performance EV at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The electric hot hatch-slash-crossover is the first EV to wear the automaker’s race-ready N designation and badge but based on the specs, it’s earned it. Diving right into …

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UK competition regulator extends Microsoft-Activision investigation by six weeks | Engadget

[ad_1] The saga over whether regulators will allow Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion will last at least a little longer. Citing insufficient time, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given itself an additional six weeks to consider Microsoft’s “detailed and complex submission” arguing for the merger. The CMA will …

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Cloud gaming platform Antstream Arcade brings over 1,000 retro games to Xbox | Engadget

[ad_1] Antstream Arcade is offering over 1,300 retro game titles on Xbox One and Series X/S, with notable titles such as Space Invaders, Metal Slug and Bubble Bobble. The company says these titles will be playable instantly without additional downloads or installation via its cloud gaming platform, with more titles being added every week. This …

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Twitter sues four unknown entities for ‘unlawful data scraping’ | Engadget

[ad_1] Twitter — or more precisely, its parent company X Corp. — has sued four John Does who have allegedly “engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data” from the website. They were described as “unknown persons or entities” in the lawsuit, which only mentioned their IP addresses. The lawsuit accused them of flooding Twitter with …

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Announcing the winners of VentureBeat’s 5th Annual AI Innovation Awards

[ad_1] Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Capping two days of hearing from enterprise AI and data executives and leaders during the VB Transform 2023 conference in San Francisco was the announcement of the winners of the 5th annual AI Innovation Awards. This year’s conference and …

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Sony’s PS5 Accessibility Controller Is Coming in December for $90

[ad_1] Sony teased its “Project Leonardo” accessibility controller at CES 2023, and on Thursday it formally introduced a new way to play on the PlayStation 5 with the Access Controller, a highly customizable gamepad built for gamers with disabilities that will be released in December. Sony has lagged for years behind Microsoft in offering an …

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Striking actors say studios ‘AI proposal’ would have them sell their digital likeness for only one day’s pay | Engadget

[ad_1] On Thursday, leaders at the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced that the group was going on strike after negotiations with Hollywood studios fell apart. According to the Alliance of Motion Picture of Television Producers, the rejected deal included a “groundbreaking AI proposal” that would “protect performers’ digital likenesses.” The …

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Rakuten Viber’s ad-free premium chat service launches in the US

[ad_1] The Rakuten Viber chat app is bringing its $2-per-month premium subscription service to the US Thursday, which provides exclusive features and ad-free access to the chat app. Viber Plus, which launched internationally in May, includes enhancements to the app like transcription of voice messages, access to paid stickers, the ability to change the Viber …

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Google’s Bard AI Chatbot Now Supports Over 40 Languages

[ad_1] Google made its Bard AI chatbot available to the public in May, during Google I/O 2023, but only in English, Japanese and Korean to start, with more promised. Two months later, the tech giant’s ChatGPT competitor now supports more than 40 total languages. Bard’s supported languages include Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish, according to …

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