Josh Mandel and Morgan Harper, running for Senate from opposite ends of the political spectrum, debated in Columbus. A moment for consensus it was not.
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Grinding Gear Games
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It’s all too easy for some folks to sign up for a service, pay a subscription fee every month and forget all about it. With that in mind, Microsoft is tackling the issue of inactive Game Pass memberships. As part of broader changes to Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass in the UK, the company says it will cancel subscriptions that have long lain dormant.
The company will get in touch with people who are paying for an Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass subscription but haven’t used it for at least a year. It’ll tell them how to stop their payments if they want to opt out. If those people keep forking over cash every month without using their memberships for another 12 consecutive months, Microsoft will eventually stop taking payments.
The change will apply to UK consumers at first. Microsoft told The Verge it will roll them out globally in the near future.
The company took up the measure — which it committed to for at least three years in the UK — as part of a voluntary agreement with the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The regulator has been investigating auto-renewing subscriptions on Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch since 2019. Sony and Nintendo haven’t committed to similar undertakings as yet.
Along with changes to inactive subscriptions, Microsoft has agreed to offer better upfront information about memberships, including clear details about auto-renewals, when subscriptions will be reupped, how much people will pay and a way to get a refund if they accidentally renew their plan.
It will contact users who have recurring annual subscriptions and offer them a chance to cancel and receive a prorated refund. Microsoft will also provide clearer notifications about Game Pass and Live Gold price rises and tell users how to turn off auto-renewals.
“Gamers need to be given clear and timely information to make informed choices when signing up for auto-renewing memberships and subscriptions,” said Michael Grenfell, the CMA’s executive director of enforcement. We are therefore pleased that Microsoft has given the CMA these formal undertakings to improve the fairness of their practices and protect consumers, and will be offering refunds to certain customers.”
From time to time, it’s worth taking a look at whether you’re getting your money’s worth out of your various subscriptions. If not, there’s little harm in pausing or canceling them. You can always sign back up later.
A Colorado children’s museum is the latest casualty of harassment by people angry over mask mandates designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Aiming to put an end to unexpected costs and fees for broadband, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a proposal requiring providers, such as AT&T and Comcast, to create “nutrition labels” to help consumers navigate the industry’s maze of prices and offers.
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Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator
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Two and a half years after Death Stranding, the genre-bending action adventure (and spiritual successor to Paperboy) from acclaimed director Hideo Kojima, hit Playstations and PCs the world over, the most definitive version of the game so far has a firm release date for PC. Death Stranding Director’s Cut will arrive via Steam March 30th, 2022.
We are pleased to announce that DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT will be coming to PC!
This will launch simultaneously on Steam and the Epic Games store in Spring 2022.#DeathStrandingDC#KojimaProductions#505Gamespic.twitter.com/HNyS7aLheH— KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) (@KojiPro2015_EN) January 4, 2022
Kojima Studios had previously announced that the new version would arrive at some point this spring but with Thursday’s news, gamers can start getting their delivery muscles limbered in earnest. Being a Director’s Cut doesn’t just mean that players will be treated to even longer cutscenes. Existing PS5 players already have access to new weapons, missions, boss battles, and a racing mode while newly-minted PC gamers will get those bonuses as well as be able to leverage Intel’s Xe Super Sampling for improved graphics and performance.
The convoy of truckers set to descend on Canada’s capital has prompted police to prepare for the possibility of violence.
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” data-medium-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/iphone-13-1280×720.jpg” data-large-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/iphone-13-1280×720.jpg” />Is your Apple ID giving you a headache? Many users experience a verification error when trying to sign in to iCloud or other services. If you’re getting a message that reads, “There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server,” there are a few things you can try in order to get your device back up and running. The … Continue reading
Uber’s rise to prominence might have been difficult to believe even as fiction, had it not been documented at every turn by ever-more concerning reports of overreach. The quasi-legal taxi business (that likely still misclassifies an enormous number of drivers) belied a toxic boys club workplace culture where just about any avenue to get ahead— including actively deceiving cops — was the norm. We’re led to believe some of those things have since changed.
Of all that can be said of the company under its original CEO Travis Kalanick, it wasn’t short on depravity. Incidentally, that’s the sort of thing that tends to make for good TV.
Based on the book of the same title by New York Times reporter Mike Isaac, Super Pumped puts Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the shoes of Kalanick, chronicling the taxi-hailing app on its relentless trajectory, towards (and I don’t think I’m spoiling anything here) it’s widespread success, a vehement public backlash and Kalanick’s eventual departure. Kyle Chandler seems poised to play the foil as venture capitalist Bill Gurley, while the trailer also teases an unusual appearance for Uma Thurman as Arianna Huffington.
The anthology series, which is set to cover a different business leader each season, is slated to premier this February 27th. So far there’s no indication of which companies will be featured after this dramatization of Uber, but there’s certainly no shortage of cruel, cutthroat CEOs in the world.
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