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WTF?! Valve is notoriously persistent in catching and banning DOTA 2 players who break the rules, having kicked well over 100,000 in 2023. However, the company’s latest campaign to keep the game fair is getting into the spirit of the holidays by transmitting bans through digital lumps of coal. In a clip circulating online, DOTA […]

A hot potato: Creative Assembly is now acknowledging that it has had a rough past several months, pledging to spend the next few months regaining the trust of Total War players. If you purchased Total War: Pharaoh at full price, check the company’s updated FAQ to see if you’re eligible for a partial refund due

In a nutshell: Lenovo has introduced a portable docking station designed for those that work onsite and remotely. The Lenovo USB-C Dual Display Travel Dock, as the name suggests, connects via USB-C and grants access to seven additional ports including an always-on USB port, a 100W USB-C PD (power delivery) port, a 4K DisplayPort connector,

The big picture: Intel’s launch presentation for its new Meteor Lake generation of processors primarily focused on how their Neural Processing Units (NPUs) enhance local AI workloads. However, the company also made ambitious claims about integrated graphics performance improvements. Time will tell whether they hold up to real-world benchmarks. Intel claims that the integrated graphics

Privacy Oblige: Google has begun implementing its new Tracking Protection technology, designed to improve privacy online while providing advertisers with a viable business alternative. A random selection of users will join the slow-roll test, with the software coming to every Chrome user in a few months. Google just announced the final Tracking Protection testing phase,

Editor’s take: Aside from Grand Theft Auto V in 2013 and Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018, Call of Duty has held the the rank of top-selling game in the US since 2009. As of the end of November, Hogwarts Legacy still sits at the top of year-to-date sales charts. However, scoring second with an

May I have a minute: Every year since 2013, the data analysis group Domo has published its “Data Never Sleeps” report, showing what happened on the internet every minute of every day throughout the year. The stats are a fascinating snapshot of our trending internet culture and data generation. Most of the categories make an

The big picture: Solar wind is a stream of electromagnetically charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, and it permeates every planet and cosmic object in the Solar System. When something changes in the amount of charged particles, unexpected and extreme atmospheric phenomena can be observed. The Mars Atmosphere and

A hot potato: In yet another example of a company embracing AI and people being far from happy about it, cloud storage giant Dropbox has been sharing users’ files with OpenAI to power the former’s artificial intelligence search tool. The setting is enabled by default, though Dropbox says data is only shared when the feature

What just happened? Multiple controversies have emerged regarding the self-driving features in Tesla vehicles throughout 2023, but the latest recall is the most far-reaching. Although it affects every car the company has sold in the last decade, the word “recall” might be outdated, given Tesla’s solution. Tesla and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)