How to watch Evo 2024, the biggest fighting game tournament of the year

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Photo from EVO 2023 featuring to competitors shaking hands on the main stage.
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Evo 2024 starts Friday, July 19th, kicking off a weekend full of one of the most intense fighting game competitions in the world. This year, over 10,000 players will participate in a host of games, making this the largest Evo ever while also setting the record for the largest esports tournament.

Evo has been getting bigger and bigger, with

Global IT outage shows why you should be wary of turning on auto-updates

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IT professionals say there's one way the CrowdStrike outage could have been avoided.

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  • A massive IT outage linked to a CrowdStrike update has disrupted the global economy.
  • Major airlines, fast-food chains, and Microsoft Windows systems have faced significant issues.
  • Experts warn against auto-updating and encourage multiple

A nifty hack made Mario a playable character in 1994's Donkey Kong Country

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Mario and Donkey Kong have been rivals, frenemies, go-kart competitors and tennis partners. The Italian plumber once kidnapped Donkey Kong’s son. DK once, uh, took over Mario’s toy company (?) and stole a bunch of little figurines for some reason. They have history. What they haven’t done, however, is appear as playable characters in one another’s platforming adventures. Thanks to a nifty bit of

Trump shooter was a straight-A student with a clean disciplinary history except for chewing gum, school records show

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A screen grab captured from a video shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump clasping his right ear after gunshots were reported during a rally.

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  • The motives of the man who attempted to kill Donald Trump remain mysterious.
  • 20-year-old nursing home aide Thomas Crooks has been described as normal, if nerdy
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Latest HIV Cure Case Is the Most Encouraging One Yet

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A T cell infected with HIV

The anonymous success story, dubbed the next Berlin Patient, is the first person to be cured without donated stem cells from someone completely immune to HIV.

Why Apple doesn't suffer outages like this

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Mac users are safe from the global IT outage.

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  • Windows devices suffered a global outage, but Mac and Linux remain unaffected, CrowdStrike said.
  • The issue, caused by a defective update, halted airlines, hospitals, and public transport.
  • But Apple's ecosystem control and limited third-party exposure shielded its devices from the defect.

While Windows users

This time-lapse map shows US air traffic slowing to a near-standstill after the massive IT outage

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IT issues forced major flight cancellations and delays across the US and the world.

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  • Air travel in the US is snarled after a global IT outage.
  • A map shows air traffic grinding nearly to a halt during a normally busy early morning period.
  • Major US airlines were resuming flights Friday after grounding planes because of the IT issue.

Friday's IT outage caused

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Banks scramble to repair the damage caused by Crowdstrike IT outage

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British bank Santander said its ATM services were impacted by the global IT outage

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  • Banks worldwide are fixing issues from a global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike update.
  • British banks like Santander and Metro Bank faced ATM service disruptions on Friday.
  • CrowdStrike said the issue was not caused by a cyberattack or security incident. 

Major banks worldwide are scrambling to

I'm a New Zealander. Here are 8 foods everyone should try when they visit.

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I love having New Zealand delicacies like custard squares when I visit my homeland.

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  • I was born in New Zealand and love eating the country's classic foods each time I visit my family.
  • I grew up eating custard squares and marmite on toast, which can be difficult to find in the US.
  • Feijoas and hokey-pokey ice cream are very popular in New Zealand.

I was born in New Zealand but have lived in the