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Baldur’s Gate and Modern Warfare fans prepare for a 00s game revival

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by on May 31, 2019 at 1:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Game developers across the industry apparently have spontaneously decided to have a late 90s/new millennium revival all on the same day. Three games revealed today hearken to the childhoods and teen years of millennial gamers everywhere: a new Baldur’s Gate, a reboot of Modern Warfare, and a remastering of the Ghostbusters game. Yeah, it’s been a big day. The most unexpected news was what appears to be a new Baldur’s Gate from Larian Studios, the makers of the Divinity: Original Sin games. Visiting the studio’s website, you’ll see a stylized Roman numeral III, which several eagle-eyed gamers initially took to be a tease for Original Sin III. However, some…

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Amazon adds vocal command to delete saved Alexa recordings

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by on May 31, 2019 at 12:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Amazon recently announced an easy solution for privacy-conscious individuals to delete the devices’ saved recordings. Now, with a simple voice command, anyone with an Alexa-powered device can wipe it clean of previously recorded data. To be fair, the solution existed already, although it wasn’t nearly as straightforward for the end user. Users had to use the Alexa app, or the Amazon website to delete these recordings. As privacy concerns heat up surrounding the use of always-on speakers, Amazon seems to be responding in kind to some of its biggest concerns. To date, those concerns have mostly centered on storing voice…

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Facebook board votes yay on Zuck, nay on Conservatives

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by on May 31, 2019 at 12:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


A mutiny attempt today by a coalition of anti-Zuckerberg Facebook shareholder groups resulted in a resounding defeat as the social network voted to retain its founder as CEO. In a separate smack-down, a right-wing advocacy group found its demand for Conservative voices on Facebook‘s board rejected wholesale. Investors came at CEO Mark Zuckerberg with eight separate proposals aimed at limiting his power or his outright resignation. However, as Bloomberg reported, all it took was Zuckerberg’s majority votes to dismiss each one. Not to be outdone, right-wing activists from the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) managed to get a…

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Dear Samsung, don’t kill the Note 10’s headphone jack and physical buttons

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by on May 30, 2019 at 11:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


There’s a rumor making the rounds today that’s making me quite sad: Samsung might be killing the headphone jack on the Galaxy Note 10. Equally puzzling, the company might be killing physical buttons too. The report comes courtesy of Android Police, which has a solid track record with these things. Samsung would reportedly replace the buttons with capacitive or pressure sensors, denoted by a bump or texture. Android Police doesn’t know that these changes will carry over to next year’s S11, but it seems likely. It’s a darn shame. I can already see Samsung’s potential reasoning, something or the other…

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