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Blizzard will be taking Overwatch 2 offline again
The downtime will begin at about 9PM ET. | Image: Blizzard Blizzard will be taking the Overwatch 2 servers offline once again to fix more of the issues that have cropped up during the game’s rocky launch. The company plans to shut the game down at about 9PM ET (6PM PT), and expects the downtime … Read more
Overwatch 2’s new animated short is a new introduction to Kiriko
Blizzard Though Kiriko launched along with Overwatch 2 earlier this week, today, at the Twitch Con opening ceremonies, Blizzard debuted a nine-minute cinematic to introduce her properly. Overwatch animated shorts are experiences unto themselves. The game’s cinematics team is uniquely skilled, knowing exactly what levers to pull and buttons to hit for maximum emotional devastation. … Read more
JEP draft: 64 bit object headers
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Daily Crunch: Binance admits hackers used cross-chain bridge to steal at least $100M
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Friday! How’s that for brevity in newsletter introductions? Let’s get to it so we can crack open a Liquid Death and let the week sag off into the murky distance of memory … Read more
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The Higgs Boson at 5 Sigmas (2012)
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I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet (2020)
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Meta’s making it easier to report bugs in its Horizon VR app
Reporting an issue is as easy as A, B, X, and Y. | Image: Meta Meta has updated Horizon Worlds, its main virtual reality / “metaverse” app, to make it easier to report bugs. If you see something going wrong while using the app, you can now press and hold the A, B, X, and … Read more
Living with Apple’s iPhone 14 Plus
What constitutes a big phone in 2022? It’s been a moving target for a number of years now — albeit a target that has been steadily moving in a single direction. It’s tough to determine the exact average display size, but most flagship smartphone screens generally fall somewhere between six and seven inches. In 2010, … Read more
Jewish Calendar Demystified (2007)
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Rocket Lab’s 8th launch of 2022 breaks record for worst pun in space
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron rocket this afternoon with a new satellite for the Argos program, which provides connectivity to a number of scientific endeavors. It’s a milestone for the company, but more importantly marks — easily — the worst pun ever launched into space. The mission was called “It Argos Up From Here.” … Read more
Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M at $80M valuation
Fintor, a fintech startup making it easier for non-accredited investors to invest in real estate properties, has just launched its mobile app for both iOS and Android. It also just raised a $6.2 million extension funding round from its existing investors, including Public.com, Hustle Fund, 500 Global, VU Ventures, Graphene Ventures and angel investors such … Read more
Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
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