The Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), best known for running the Oscars, is diving into the technology world in a surprisingly new way. Together with the Linux Foundation, it's launching the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a n…

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This week, the French secret service (Groupe de sécurité de la présidence de la République, or GSPR) took down a drone that was flying in the airspace above Fort de Brégançon. This spot on the French Riviera…

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Before video games with swastikas and other Nazi symbols can be released in Germany, they have to go through some major edits to censor those images. Every Nazi eagle and swastika — and even Adolf Hitler's moustache — in the Wolfenstein series had…

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Early trailers for Shadow of the Tomb Raider have portrayed Lara Croft as a ruthless killer. Someone who can hide in the jungle and silently dispatch armored soldiers with sophisticated traps and fast, calculated strikes. The underlying message is cl…

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In addition to penning 37 plays, William Shakespeare was a prolific composer of sonnets — crafting 154 of them during his life. Now, more than 400 years after his death, the Bard's words are influencing a new generation of poets. It's just that thes…

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Apple has signed on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia duo Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day for a straight-to-series comedy, according to a Variety report.

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a clever application of VR, as only one headset is required (for the bomb defuser) while everyone else explains how to deactivate the device. Now, you won't even need a VR system, just a console, as the game is com…

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Intel has unsheathed its first "ruler" SSD, a bizarre device with a 12-inch long form form factor and colossal amount of storage. Intel created the new form factor last year to cram as much storage as possible into a "1U" server form factor, with opt…

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After Samsung's big event, we've got all the Galaxy Note 9 (and Watch, and Home) news you need, right here. Prefer to catch the highlights yourself? We'll run down the best parts of the event in this quick video…

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Qualcomm and Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission have made peace and agreed to settle the chipmaker's antitrust dispute in the country. Taiwan's FTC accused Qualcomm of abusing its dominance in providing cellular chipsets for phones, ultimately slapping i…

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