The Pokemon GO monster Altered Forme Giratina has very little weakness in its bones – but it IS beatable. The best Pokemon to take to the Raid Hour on October 13, 2021 have moves in the Ghost, Ice, Dragon, Dark, or Fairy-type Pokemon realm. This might seem simple, save the significant overlap these types have with Giratina’s various resistances as … Continue reading
Ghost Recon Frontline was revealed earlier this month, and in the days since then, the game has received significant blowback from fans. Ubisoft apparently planned to hit the ground running with Frontline, announcing a closed technical test for October 14th – barely more than a week after the game was announced on October 5th. However, it seems the controversy with … Continue reading
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted its first market authorization for a small batch of electronic cigarette (vape) products, the agency has announced. The approval underscores the agency’s intentions to target ‘appealing’ vape products amid growing public criticism over non-tobacco flavors and youth vaping trends. With this announcement, a total of three electronic cigarette products have been granted … Continue reading
Next week’s Apple Event is rumored to contain new AirPods, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro with M1X chips inside. Display industry insider Ross Young suggested this week that there’s a “100% confirmed” chance we’ll see MiniLEDs in the display panels for the MacBook Pro units that’ll appear at this event, with a few nearly-as-likely updates. Per the analysis by Young, … Continue reading
Nightdive Studios’ immersive sim franchise System Shock franchise is being turned into a live-action TV show. You’ll be able to watch it on the upcoming streaming service Binge, which is also working on a show based on Ubisoft’s Driver.
More details about the System Shock TV show will be revealed in due course. It will tell “a harrowing story of Citadel Station and its rogue AI that subjects the crew to unimaginable horror,” Binge said. The service, which is set to launch next year, didn’t reveal when the series will premiere.
Meanwhile, Nightdive is working on a System Shock remake. The game was supposed to arrive this past summer, but it’s now scheduled to debut by the end of 2021.
System Shock joins a long list of shows and movies based on games that are in the pipeline. Among them are Twisted Metal, Firewatch, Disco Elysium and a ton of Netflix projects, like League of Legends series Arcane. Rumors are also floating around that Epic Games might be making a Fortnite movie.
Elsewhere, Sony is supposed to release the Uncharted film in February at long, long last. Has, uh, anyone happened to see a trailer lying around somewhere?
As promised in July, TikTok is rolling out more ways for livestreams to wrangle their unruly audiences. Now, streamers and their trusted helper will be able to temporarily mute people for minutes, hours or the length of an entire livestream. According to Eric Han, head of Tiktok’s US Safety team, muting a person will remove their entire comment history from the stream. And of course, you could also just turn off comments entirely or filter out specific keywords. Together with Tiktok’s last batch of “kindness” updates for livestreamers, the platform is aiming to create a safer environment for creators.
Han says the prompts TikTok added in July — which pop up to make you think twice about posting an “unkind or harmful” comment — have led almost 40 percent of people editing or withdrawing their comment entirely. That’s not too surprising, as Twitter found a similar feature also led to reduced bullying.
Given Tiktok’s meteoric rise as a relatively young social network, it’s apparently learned quite a bit from the struggles of older outfits like Facebook and Twitter. Based on its Q2 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, the company says it’s also getting better at weeding out improper videos. Han says 73.3 percent of harassment videos were removed before there were any user reports, whereas that figure was 66.2 percent in the previous quarter. Similarly, 72.9 percent of videos showing hateful behavior were removed in the second quarter, compared to 67.3 percent previously.
A Florida woman is under arrest after allegedly tampering with airplane records belonging to a flight training school, whose CEO warned that the incident could have resulted in planes with prior maintenance issues taking to the skies.
Aquaman: King of Atlantis takes a different path than most other recent incarnations of the legendary underwater hero—instead of turning him into a rough-and-ready badass in the vein of Jason Momoa’s Arthur, King of Atlantis’ Cooper Andrews gives us a lighter, sillier spin. And for series creators Victor Courtright…
OpenSea, the world’s largest market for NFTs, says that it recently patched security flaws that would have allowed bad actors to pilfer users’ digital crypto wallets. The flaws were brought to the market’s attention by researchers with Check Point, a cybersecurity company based in Israel, which says that fraudsters…
The union representing behind-the-scenes workers on film sets says the studios haven’t shown “any sense of urgency.”
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