Steam Finally Makes It Clear You Don’t Own Your Games
Valve updated Steam’s shopping carts to notify users that they’re only buying a “license” for the game, not the game itself.
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Imgur is going to be less strict about memes with adult humor
Memes on the image-hosting service Imgur “containing references to adult humor” will no longer be considered mature, the company announced in a post addressing changes to its content moderation policies. Imgur has been an important part of meme history, with its creator making the service in 2009 as a “gift to Reddit.” At that time, most platforms didn’t host their own images, so you had to upload them instead on third-party platforms. I remember seeing Imgur a lot on the Something Awful forums back in the day, too, though following other policy changes last year that led to the removal of inactive content and pornography, users scrambled to save old images. The changes announced this week could mean that you see spicier memes on the...
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Best-Selling Google Nest Thermostat at Lowest Price Ever, Even After Prime Day
Take control of your home's power bills with this app-powered smart home device for 35% while this deal lasts.
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Adam Mosseri acknowledges ‘mistakes’ in Threads’ broken moderation
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri is acknowledging recent mistakes in Meta’s moderation processes on Threads and Instagram. For example, Meta unexpectedly deleted my account this week because it thought I was underage, the company locked my colleague’s account because she joked about dying in a heatwave, and others have seen their posts disappear with no clear reason why. “Threads Moderation Failures” has been trending this week — putting more pressure on Meta’s moderation processes. Now Mosseri admits that Meta is having problems with those processes and has publicly posted that acknowledgment on Threads. He explains there’s a “tool” that broke, which apparently did not show human reviewers “sufficient context” before they made posts and...
Business Read on The Verge TechWe love all the feedback that Ars readers have submitted since we rolled out the Ars Technica 9.0 design last week—even the, err, deeply passionate remarks. It's humbling that, after 26 years, so many people still care so much about making Ars into the best possible version of itself. Based on your feedback, we've just pushed a new update to the site that we hope fixes many readers' top concerns. (You might need to hard-refresh to see it.) Much of the feedback (forum posts, email, DMs, the Ars comment form) has told us that the chief goals of the redesign—more layout options, larger text, better readability—were successful. But readers have also offered up interesting edge cases and different use patterns for which design changes would be useful. Though we can't please everyone, we will continue to make iterative design tweaks so that the site can work well for as many people as possible. Read full article
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Deadpool & Wolverine Is Somehow Still Setting Records, Months After Release
Maximum effort, indeed.
Entertainment Read on Gizmodo"Car back!" If you've ever been on a group bike ride, you've no doubt heard these two words shouted by a nearby rider. It's also the name of Trek's new $199 bike radar. For safety-conscious cyclists, bike radars have been a game-changer. Usually mounted on the seat post, the radar units alert cyclists to cars approaching from behind. While they will work on any bike on any road, bike radar is most useful in suburban and rural settings. After all, if you're doing some urban bike commuting, you'll just assume cars are behind you because that's how it is. But on more open roads with higher speed limits or free-flowing traffic, bike radars are fantastic. Read full article
Lifestyle Read on Ars TechnicaHouseholds that continue to use the same amount of gas in the coming years could see their bills increase by up to 400 euros from 2030.
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Thrustmaster brings direct drive steering wheels to console racing sims
Thrustmaster has announced a new steering wheel base that makes the company’s direct drive technology available on consoles for the first time. It also introduces a new electric motor design — already in use on high-end hybrid sports cars like the Ferrari SF90 — to the world of sim racing, improving realism while also shrinking the hardware. The Thrustmaster T598 can be preordered today for $499.99 (including a set of racing pedals) and will be available starting on October 19th. Although it is compatible with both PCs and consoles, it’s limited for use with only the PlayStation 4 and 5. Direct drive sim racing wheel bases are often preferred by enthusiasts because the steering wheel is connected directly to an electric motor, instead of...
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Marques Brownlee says ‘we failed on the price’ with Panels
Marques Brownlee published a video on Friday addressing the criticisms around Panels, his new wallpaper app, saying that he and the team “failed on the price front” at launch. The app received an outpour of criticism from fans, both on the MKBHD YouTube channel and across social platforms. Discussing the app, Brownlee admitted it needed work. “If I was reviewing this app, I would not have been very nice,” he said. One of the primary criticisms of the app was that the premium “Panels Plus” subscription cost $11.99 per month or $49.99 per year to remove ads and have full access to the available collections of wallpapers. To make things better, Brownlee and the team have been improving the free experience by getting rid of in-feed ads,...
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Is Palantir (PLTR) Still a Buy at Premium Valuation After Significant Gains?
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Billionaire Ray Dalio Is Skeptical Of The Recent Rate Cuts – These Are The Stocks He's Holding
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China’s Reusable Satellite Returns to Earth After Experimenting With Crop Mutations in Space
The Shijian-19 satellite carried seeds to orbit, exposing them to the microgravity environment to test plant mutation in space.
Environment Read on GizmodoIn June 1924, a British mountaineer named George Leigh Mallory and a young engineering student named Andrew "Sandy" Irvine set off for the summit of Mount Everest and disappeared—two more casualties of a peak that has claimed over 300 lives to date. Mallory's body was found in 1999, but Irvine's was never found—until now. An expedition led by National Geographic Explorer and professional climber Jimmy Chin—who won an Oscar for the 2019 documentary Free Solo, which he co-directed—has located a boot and a sock marked with Irvine's initials at a lower altitude than where Mallory's body had been found. The team took a DNA sample from the remains, and members of the Irvine family have volunteered to compare DNA test results to confirm the identification. “It’s an object that belonged to him and has a bit of him in it,” Irvine’s great-niece Julie Summers told National Geographic. "It tells the whole story about what probably happened. I'm regarding it as something close to closure.” As previously reported, Mallory is the man credited with uttering the famous line "because it's there" in response to a question about why he would risk his life repeatedly to summit Everest. Mallory had already been to the mountain twice before the 1924 expedition: once in 1921 as part of a reconnaissance expedition to produce the first accurate maps of the region and again in 1922. He was forced to turn back on all three attempts. Read full article
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Stellantis CEO Made More Than $100 Million. He’s Leaving as the Stock Slumps.
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X drops Unilever from its ‘advertiser boycott’ lawsuit
X is dropping claims against Unilever in its lawsuit that accuses advertisers and brands of participating in an “illegal boycott” of the company. The claims against Unilever, which owns household names like Dove and Hellmann’s, were dismissed today. Last fall, X also sued the nonprofit Media Matters for America in an effort to silence the group after it reported that ads for major brands like Apple and IBM were appearing alongside Nazi content. IBM paused advertising on X following the report. This is just one of the lawsuits Musk has filed against critics and former business partners, as he’s also suing OpenAI and founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman for the second time. (Musk previously filed and then dropped a similar suit earlier...
Business Read on The Verge TechAfter over seven years of construction, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Belgian King Filip will open De Nieuwe Sluis in Terneuzen on Friday.
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Severance Is Already Plotting Out Its Third Season
With season two on the way, the team behind the sci-fi workplace mystery is hoping Apple TV+ will be game for even more.
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