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Naturally — between a Halo project involving Steven Spielberg, a documentary on the terrible E.T. video game for Atari 2600, and a series on street soccer — the next project from Xbox Entertainment Studios is a show based on hip-hop artist Nas’… - With an Android search update, you can tell your phone to 'call Mom'
One of Siri’s cleverer tricks is its support for terms of endearment — you can tell an iPhone to “call Mom” rather than saying your mother’s name every time. Today, that handy shortcut is reaching Android through a Google search update. You can now… - Abandoning Olympus: Mega Man's creator on going indie
Keiji Inafune’s been making games for nearly 30 years. He’s the man behind one of gaming’s most iconic characters (Mega Man) and several huge franchises (Dead Rising, Onimusha). After 23 years working at Capcom, one of Japan’s largest game… - Sophisticated malware finally discovered after 7 years, likely created by a nation-state
Security firm Kaspersky Labs recently released a research paper that uncovers the existence of a piece of highly complex malware that’s been in circulation for almost seven years. It’s called “The Mask,” which is a rough English translation of…
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