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Remember the other day we reported that thanks to an in-game screenshot, it was revealed that level boosting your World of Warcraft characters to level 90 would cost gamers $60? At that time it was speculated that maybe the $60 price tag was a placeholder and that the actual boost could be cheaper, but it turns out that it is true after all and that gamers who wish to boost their World of Warcraft characters to level 90 will have to pay that much.

Blizzard has since come forward and spoken to Eurogamer, explaining the reason why they have priced it that way. “Levelling is something that takes dozens if not over 100 hours in many cases and people have put serious time and effort into that, and we don’t want to diminish that.”  (more…)

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A freighter passes near the Golden Gate Bridge. Rolls-Royce is said to be working on autonomous freighters, according to Bloomberg.

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Who needs maritime crews to run cargo ships?

That seems to be the question Rolls-Royce is trying to ask, as it works to develop what amounts to drone freighters, ships that could one day radically disrupt the massive global shipping industry.

According to Bloomberg, Rolls-Royce’s Blue Ocean development team has been working on the drone freighters in a bid to make shipping cheaper, cleaner, and safer. The organization is running a virtual-reality prototype at an office in Norway that mimics a 360-degree view from the ship’s bridge. Bloomberg reported that the ships could be deployed in regions like the Baltic Sea within a decade, though regulatory and labor concerns could delay adoption elsewhere. Bloomberg said crew costs on freighters run about $3,300 per day, amounting to 44 percent of total operating expenses.

In the meantime, Bloomberg reported that the European Union has put $4.8 million into a project known as Maritime Unmanned Navigation through Intelligence in Networks. That effort is aimed at developing and verifying “a concept for an auton… [Read more]

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