Lately, video game adaptations have been, as the kids say, slapping. I dont know how thats happened, but it has. I dont know the answer, Purnell said, regarding her status in gaming culture. © Prime Video Im going to be the video game girl. There are worse things to be than that, I suppose. Purnells sentiment is entirely understandable, considering her acting career didnt start whenArcaneandFalloutpremiered in 2021 and 2024, respectively....

The interview has been edited for brevity. What was your guiding principle for writingArcanes second and final season? Amanda Overton:The guiding principle was always to make the best TV show possible. © Netflix/Fortiche You do you when it comes to making the best TV show you’re able to. Alex actually helped create a lot of the champions that everybody loved. And they really loved the game, really loved the fans....

Parkersclosest approachof the Sun is set to occur on Christmas Eve. After that, its to infinityerm, the asteroid beltand beyond. News from the future, delivered to your present. A visualization of the Lucy spacecraft, with Earth in background at right.Illustration: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio - Walt Feimer, Jenny McElligott, Jonathan North, Krystofer Kim, Kel Elkins, Dan Gallagher, Ernie Wright, Katherine Kretke, Aaron E. Lepsch A graphic showing Lucy’s second Earth gravity assist....

In 2020, the FTC didnt receive any reports about these so-called task scams. But this year, the task scam industry took off. During the first half of 2024, the FTC received more than 20,000 complaints. FTC says text-based task scams skyrocketed in 2024.© Ken Stocker/Shutterstock By comparison, consumers reported losing just $90 million to job scams of any kind in 2020. Usually, scammers request these payments in cryptocurrency, the FTC said....

If youve done business with Byte Federal its time to do more than change your passwords. it’s crucial that you freeze your credit. The attack happened on September 30. A Bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) at a gas station in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.© Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images The attack affected 58,000 customers. That meant it reset every customers account, forcing them to update their passwords....

The Microsoft Excel World Championships title belt is headed to Canada. Sorry, lets pause to answer a couple of questions this raises. Yes, there is a Microsft Excel World Championship for competitive Excel experts. Michael Jarman, pictured between two people, on stage at the Microsoft Excel World Championships with his Championship belt.© Financial Modeling World Cup/YouTube It was an amazing feeling, Jarmantold the CBCof his breakthrough. He took home $5,000 as his prize, along with the aforementioned title belt....

Youre not a proper provider for your family unless you care for its online security. pCloud lets you redeem yourself with a staggering Family Lifetime plan. Its not your run-of-the-mill cloud storage. © Gizmodo.com This is aChristmas-exclusive 3-in-1 lifetime bundlewith a LOT more! pCloud is 60% off andcosts only $799. But what exactly are you getting? Read on for more information this Christmas will be exciting. pCloud Christmas Sale Has Begun pClouds impressive sale ends just before New Years Eve....

The Poohniverse is expanding in our first look atNeverland Nightmare.Wheel of Timehas found its Elaida for season 3. Plus, Matt Murdock mopes in a new image fromDaredevil: Born Again. Filming is expected to begin sometime next year. © Warner Bros Animation As he confronts his own mortality, the story navigates themes of fear, survival, and the unknown. The TV-MA series is expected to premiere this March 4 on Disney+. Want more io9 news?...

One employee at xAI, a principal machine learning engineer, was paid almost double the government-defined prevailing wage. OpenAI has thousands of employees with salaries ranging from $145,000 to $530,000. The salary range is wider there in part because OpenAI has many more administrative employees. Michael Swensen/Getty Images None of this new data should be terribly surprising. The data also doesnt include stock-based compensation. Add on top of that the history between Musk and Altman....

Data is the new oil, as they say, and perhaps that makes Harvard University the new Exxon. As a general rule, copyright protections last for the lifetime of the author plus an additional 70 years. Publishers including theWall Street Journaland theNew York Timeshave sued OpenAI and competitor Perplexity for ingesting their data without permission. Harvard University has released a dataset of public domain books for use in training AI models.Maddie Meyer/Getty Images...

YouTube channel SwitchUp posted avideoclaiming they received a 3D-printed Switch 2 dummy made to help designers create cases. The supposed Switch 2 is a bigger equipment than the first Switch. The size bump may make it easier for adult-sized hands to handle. © Sam Rutherford However, theres an additional button on the Switch 2 controller that wasnt there on the original JoyCons. SwitchUp speculated it could be an in-game screen capture button....

Great Circleis a brand new flagship $70 AAA video game and I thought it was weird. I followed the link on Reddit but Humble had already pulled the listing. Indy is missing from the popular store and its unclear when, or if, itll ever come back. Nazis telling Indiana Jones to stop in ‘Indiana Jones and the Great Circle'© Bethesda Softworks screengrab. Humble Bundle is a popular charity-driven digital storefront where players bundle various goods together....

But that world is also quite funny, especially as seen through an anthropomorphic lens. The overall winner of this years competition was Milko Marchettis shot of a red squirrel stuck in a tree. If some of the shots are familiar to you, thats because wepreviously showcasedthe finalists of this years awards. Cape fur seals looking like they are laughing.Photo: © Marti Phillips / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards The bubble-encased frog won the reptile categorybut I should emphasize, that is the competitions choice....