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It’s hard to design the perfect, infinitely bingeable game. This is one of them.

The $249 speaker streams in stereo, and it comes with some of the best room-tuning software I’ve ever heard.

If you're a fan of The Sims 4 and your ears pricked up during this month's reveal of Paradox Interactive's upcoming life sim Life By You, you might want to check your PC's specifications before it enters early access later this year. During a chat with Paradox Tectonic's general manager Rod Humble at this year's GDC, I spoke to him about whether there was any plan to accommodate lower-end PC specifications when Life By You enters early access this September, and he answered by urging players to take its minimum PC specifications "seriously".

I keep alternating between wanting to play more and feeling weary at the prospect. While that might sound bad, it arguably means that it's balanced an appealing strategic challenge with the grinding theme of trench warfare.

Rod Humble has his son to thank for his upcoming life sim Life By You. After finishing up work on two successful mobile games around four years ago, Humble was itching for something new. But he wasn't quite sure what. "I was in the kitchen talking to my son about, 'Oh, what should I do? I don't know what opportunities there are,' and he was like, 'Why don't you just pick the company you want to work at and ask them?'" And as a life-long Crusader Kings player, the answer was clear. "Okay!?" Humble says incredulously. Читать дальше...

As society stares down the barrel of what is almost certainly just the beginning of these advances in generative AI, there are reasonable and technologically feasible interventions that can be used to help mitigate these abuses.

The CEO of TikTok just testified on Capitol Hill. It was a shitshow.

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Baked oats are the breakfast cake you didn’t know you needed. Barring a smidge of baking powder, you don’t use anything other than what you’d normally add to an average bowl of hot oatmeal. Finally, oatmeal that doesn’t totally suck. But there’s also a baked oat for those with a higher standard than “doesn’t totally…

Central banks usually don't admit their guilt in the destruction of money, but the Bank of England unwittingly comes clean.

By Tim Grierson Published: March 27th, 2023

Bo may be done with Megan, but that doesn't mean he's the man we all know and love.

Media owners’ U.S. ad revenues are expected to grow 3.4% to $326 billion next year, according to a new forecast from Magna.

The Sonos Era 100 offers excellent sonics, refined design and one of the best streaming platforms for any speaker.

Multiple key refinance rates were down this last week. The Fed's interest rate hikes have affected the refinance market.

This last week, a couple of notable mortgage rates slid lower, though rates remain high compared to a year ago. The Fed's interest rate hikes are increasing costs for prospective homebuyers.

The ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice 330i details recent maintenance — the cost totaling more than a quarter of the car’s current asking price. Let’s see if that adds up to the car being a sports saloon steal.

Movies today are long. Sometimes stupid long. It feels as if everything nowadays is two and a half hours or more. Cases in point: Avatar: The Way Of Water, Babylon, and Avengers: Endgame are all over three hours, while The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Elvis, Dune, the aptly named Eternals, and The Fablemans…

TEHRAN, Mar. 27 (MNA) – The top Iranian security official Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani says that Iran sees no restrictions on the development of relations with neighboring states.

The more affordable Era speaker improves upon the Sonos One by nearly every measure and will likely find the same success and popularity among Sonos customers.

When you find a good spatial audio song, Sonos’ new speaker can blow your mind and sounds like nothing else. But it trails the Sonos Five at stereo playback and suffers from the wildly inconsistent state of Atmos mixes.

Paradox Interactive last week revealed details about Life by You, an open life simulator coming from Paradox Tectonic and longtime game developer Rod Humble. Humble leads Berkeley, California-based Paradox Tectonic, and he was a pioneer in the life simulation genre with titles such as The Sims and Second Life. But it’s been a while since we’ve had […]

ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence revolution may — or may not — change everything everywhere all at once about the film and TV industry

The numerous bomb threats reportedly came from Russian email addresses on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in an apparent attempt to stop the probe into Trump.

1. All New Sonos Era 300 Packs an Impressive Punch  9to5Mac
2. Sonos Era 100 review: the new default smart speaker  The Verge
3. Sonos Era 100 review: Affordable multi-room audio that actually sounds good  Engadget
4. Sonos Era 100 Review: The Best Smart Speaker Gets Even Better  CNET
5. Sonos Era 300 review: too ahead of its time  The Verge
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