One of many largest, most iconic gaming collection is sort of again. Grand Theft Auto 6 is seemingly on monitor for a fall launch subsequent yr — a little bit extra particular than the earlier launch window of “2025.”
There’s no new trailer, and GTA writer, Take-Two, just isn’t fairly prepared to supply a selected launch date. CEO Strauss Zelnick informed Selection: “I feel we’re going to depart it there for now.”
The sixth mainline installment might be set in Leonida (Rockstar’s Florida equal) and targeted totally on Vice Metropolis (Miami). In comparison with GTA Vice Metropolis, nonetheless, it’ll be modern. So, I’m banking on OnlyFans pastiches, vapes, self-driving vehicles and the whole lot else 2020s. Plus explosions and crime.
— Mat Smith
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A brand new deal will join your telephone with 5 industrial satellites.
AT&T subscribers will quickly have cell service even in typical lifeless zones, like deep inside nationwide parks or far-flung rural places. The cellular provider has been working with AST SpaceMobile since 2018, testing two-way audio calls, texts and video calls by way of satellites in house utilizing atypical smartphones. Now, the businesses have entered a industrial settlement, simply in time for a rocket launch of 5 industrial AST satellites this summer time. These satellites will allow AT&T to roll out its service, however there’s no begin date, but.
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The deal is just like the one Reddit struck with Google simply months in the past.
OpenAI and Reddit introduced, on Thursday, a partnership for OpenAI to floor Reddit discussions in ChatGPT, and for Reddit to carry AI-powered options to its customers. The partnership will “allow OpenAI’s instruments to higher perceive and showcase Reddit content material, particularly on current matters,” the businesses stated in a joint assertion. As a part of the settlement, OpenAI may even turn into an promoting accomplice on Reddit. Ugh.
I’ve resurrected my Reddit behavior resulting from an unbelievable/accursed sport known as . So hopefully, quickly, I can simply ask ChatGPT what sure playing cards and phrases imply.
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But it surely doesn’t deal with exorbitant charges or bots.
On Wednesday, the US Home of Representatives handed a invoice that would present a minimum of some accountability for Ticketmaster and different live-event distributors. NBC Information reviews the TICKET Act (to not be confused with the Senate’s separate invoice with the identical try-hard acronym) would mandate that ticket sellers record upfront the entire value of admission — together with all charges — to consumers.
Reforming the ticketing trade grew to become a political point-scoring merchandise in late 2022 after Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift fiasco. The Reside Nation-owned service, which has a stronghold on the trade, melted down as hundreds of thousands of followers battled “a staggering quantity” of bots. Ticketmaster stated presale codes reached 1.5 million followers, however 14 million (together with these pesky bots) tried to purchase tickets.
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