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Samus Aran in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

It's just good to have my wonderful friend Samus Aran back.

Arguably Nintendo's coolest character, Samus and her Metroid series has largely been in the wilderness since 2007, when Metroid Prime 3 came out. I enjoyed Metroid Dread a great deal a few years ago, but that's really the only game starring Samus in nearly 20 years that I've cared about. On Dec. 4, that streak will hopefully end with the


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Earlier this year, I played Metroid Prime for the first time in at least a decade. Back in 2023, Nintendo released a remastered version of the 2002 classic for the Switch, and I felt like dusting it off once we finally knew Metroid Prime 4: Beyond would arrive this year after about a decade in development. The original Metroid Prime holds up surprisingly well for a 23-year-old game, but there were


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Meta has announced that BirdyChat and Haiket are the first third-party messaging services that will have interoperability with WhatsApp in the European Union. The company has been working on enabling third-party chats since 2023 after the rules of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into effect. It apparently held small scale tests over the past few months to make sure WhatsApp does work



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University of Southern California students graduating.
The University of Southern California has the most expensive tuition costs in the US.
  • The price tag of a college education can often turn prospective students away.
  • The yearly cost of attending some private colleges and universities is nearly six-figures.
  • The University of Southern California's tuition and fees

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Edgar Wright teamed with Glen Powell for the action remake, in theaters now.

Edgar Wright didn't think his 2017 Twitter history would be dredged up years later. But for once, sourcing someone's old tweets actually led to something good.

The writer-director, who's best known for inventive original films like "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the


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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
  • OpenAI updated ChatGPT to let users avoid em dashes in generated text — a hallmark of the chatbot.
  • Sam Altman announced the change after users complained about ChatGPT's writing style.
  • The update is part of ongoing efforts to make ChatGPT more customizable for users.

It's about to become harder to spot when someone has used ChatGPT.

Sam Altman, the CEO of


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Basketball as it goes through the hoop

TL;DR: Live stream San Antonio Spurs vs. Golden State Warriors in the NBA Cup for free with a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.


The 2025 NBA Cup has only just started, but we're already getting huge games with serious ramifications. The Warriors lost their opening game, so losing to the Spurs would put them in real trouble. Can