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McDonalds & Fandom Replaced A Wiki Page With An Advertisement
20.6.2023
Grimace, an ancient McDonalds character who—recent marketing blitz aside—may be so unknown among younger readers they will actually need to consult a website to find out who the hell he is, has for a very long time had an extensive page up over at the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week,...
Another Game Pass Day One Title Slips Into 2024
19.6.2023
Soulslike fans, looking forward to getting their hands on Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn via Xbox Game Pass, will have to stare far further into the future. The next game from the developers of 2018's Ashen has now been delayed a full year from its previous “early 2023” release date, to an even...
JPMorgan Expects Dollar Dominance to Persist Even if China Overtakes US as World’s Largest Economy
19.6.2023
JPMorgan’s strategists have explained that even if China overtakes the U.S. as the world’s largest economy around 2030, the U.S. dollar may remain the world’s dominant currency for the rest of the 21st century. The global investment bank cited the historical experience of when...
New Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Infinite Glitch Turns You Into A Frozen Meat Tycoon
19.6.2023
The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is a big game set on a huge open world, and its codebase must be straining at all times to keep track of everything that’s going on. Which probably explains why it doesn’t matter how many times Nintendo patches the game to remove a resource glitch, people...
Binance Pulls Out of Netherlands, Seeks to Deregister Cyprus Unit
17.6.2023
The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, said it’s exiting the Dutch market as it has been unable to obtain registration as a crypto service provider. The news comes after Binance’s entity in Cyprus applied to be removed from the country’s register of digital asset service providers. Binance...
Cameron Winklevoss Criticizes SEC Regulatory Approach: ‘Securities Laws Written in 1933 Don’t Meet the Realities of the World Today’
17.6.2023
Cameron Winklevoss, a co-founder of Gemini, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, criticized the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) posture regarding cryptocurrency regulation. Winklevoss stated that the SEC laws written in 1933 are obsolete today, and their application would...
Blackrock Files for Bitcoin Trust — Analyst Calls It a ‘Real Deal’ Spot Bitcoin ETF Filing
17.6.2023
Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, has filed to register a bitcoin trust that some believe is actually a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in disguise. Blackrock is seeking to launch a bitcoin product despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) efforts...
Why Is Starfield 30FPS? Space Sandwiches, Probably
16.6.2023
After years of speculation, Starfield director Todd Howard recently confirmed that the open-world RPG will only run at 30fps on Xbox Series X/S, where it’s a console exclusive. While some fans were immediately dismayed, others have pointed out that there’s likely a good reason for capping...
The Real-Life Dog Behind Red Dead Redemption 2’s Cain Has Died
16.6.2023
Einstein, the dog who provided the motion capture performance for Red Dead Redemption 2’s pooch Cain, has passed away according to the pup’s owner. I’m sorry to bring you this sad news.Read more
Nintendo Switch Piracy Subreddit Banned After Giant Tears Of The Kingdom Leak
16.6.2023
The Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit r/newyuzupiracy managed to fly under the radar for years. However, on June 13, three years after it was originally created, Reddit banned the forum after it blew up in the wake of the massive pre-release leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.Read more
World Blockchain Summit returns to Singapore: Bringing together global crypto leaders & innovators
16.6.2023
Scheduled for 2,3 August 2023, The World Blockchain Summit Singapore aims to bring together investors, enterprises, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs to explore collaboration and investment opportunities and stay abreast of the latest developments and advancements in blockchain technology....
Reddit's CEO Is Just Making Everything Worse
16.6.2023
As you may have seen over the past week, Reddit—the “last page of the internet”—has not been having a good time, after the company’s CEO decided to oversee some changes that affected some very popular apps that people were using to access the site. That CEO, Steve Huffman, is now doing some...
China to Showcase Digital Yuan at Summer World University Games
15.6.2023
Student athletes from around the world will get the chance to use China’s digital yuan in July, with the CBDC put to use at the Summer World University Games in Chengdu.
Per the Chinese media outlet The Cover, the games will become the first “major international sports event” to “officially...
Mysterious New GTA Online Shirt Has Fans Convinced Rockstar Is Teasing GTA 6
15.6.2023
Do you hear that? The faint sound of thousands of Grand Theft Auto fans going wild online over the latest (possible) GTA 6 conspiracy. This time it involves an odd shirt with a coded message that briefly appeared in GTA Online after the latest update. And while the shirt seems to be gone now,...
GTA Online Just Got Its Best New Feature In Years
14.6.2023
Grand Theft Auto Online’s latest update, San Andreas Mercenaries, adds new missions and quality-of-life changes to the aging online game. However, while that content is cool and all, the best thing added in this update is probably (and surprisingly) a new menu. I know, doesn’t sound very exciting....
Twitch Streamer’s Car Gets Torched By Obsessed Viewer Who Drove 700 Miles
14.6.2023
A Twitch streamer has come forward with a traumatizing experience of how an obsessive fan—if you can even call him that—drove 700 miles to torch her car.Read more
New Rubik's Cube World Record Gets Set At An Absurd Three Seconds
13.6.2023
Rubik’s Cubes are perplexing puzzles, especially if you don’t know the rotations required to solve them. Doing so has become a speedrun of sorts, as folks the world over compete to finish one as fast as possible. Well, someone recently set a brand-new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube...
History of computing: From Abacus to quantum computers
13.6.2023
Journey through time and witness the remarkable advancements that have shaped the computing world we know today
The Open-World Star Wars Game Looks Cool, But This Droid Is Hotter, Fans Say
13.6.2023
Star Wars Outlaws revealed gameplay at Ubisoft Forward on June 12, and it also unsheathed an important fact about society: people want to fuck robots. Fucking robots does not, of course, have any evolutionary or social benefit—and then there’s the question of logistics—but enthusiastic Star Wars...
Star Wars Outlaws: All The Details We Spotted In Ubisoft's Ambitious Open-World Game
12.6.2023
On June 11, during Xbox’s big not-E3 showcase, we got our first real look at Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s big open-world Star Wars game that’s being developed by Massive, the same folks behind the popular Tom Clancy’s The Division games.Read more