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If you pay the premium to play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle early on PC, the game won’t initially include full ray tracing. The game’s early access period for Premium Edition and Collector’s Edition buyers launches at 7PM ET today, but full ray tracing won’t be added until December 9th, when the game launches for everyone else.

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Over the last year or so, electric vehicle makers have been a little friendlier to each other, at least when it comes to their charging networks. Many automakers are now supporting Tesla’s North American Charging System (NACS), which is fast becoming the industry standard. Now Rivian's opening its doors to drivers of other brands' EVs.

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JonBenét Ramsey in a photo provided by her family.
  • Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey's unsolved 1996 murder is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries.
  • Director Joe Berlinger explained why he thinks the public and the media got the case all wrong.
  • Berlinger told BI that he wants the project to push the Boulder police department to reinvestigate.

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OpenAI is planning to launch new features, products, and demos for 12 days straight — starting with the full release of its o1 reasoning model.

OpenAI’s 12 days of “ship-mas” have officially begun, with the company set to reveal some new features, products, and demos during all 12 days starting December 5th, just a few days shy



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The interior of an airship. Sitting in the ship from left to right are: a skeleton lit up in fluorescent green flames, the Bride of Frankenstein, an amphibious woman wearing a diving suit, a robot in army fatigues, and a humanoid weasel. Standing in the middle of the group is a human man wearing a yellow shirt and gray pants.
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Between its reanimated corpses and humanoid animals, HBO’s new Creature Commandos series doesn’t really look or sound anything like Warner Bros.’ other upcoming projects featuring characters from DC’s comics. But DC Studios co-head James Gunn says that’s by design and part of his plan to make the studio a place where any kind of story can be greenlit if



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EA has just made 23 accessibility patents open-source, as reported by Game Developer. This means that other developers throughout the industry can use the technology at no cost. The news comes after EA made a pledge back in 2021 not to sue rival companies for co-opting these types of tools.

As of today, third parties can openly use a whole lot of patented tech to improve accessibility for users


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Police inspect the scene where insurance executive Brian Thompson was killed in Manhattan in November 2024.
  • UnitedHealthcare's CEO appeared not to have a bodyguard when he was shot Wednesday in Manhattan.
  • Two security consultants told Business Insider that was unusual.
  • Even if he'd had a bodyguard, it may not have saved his life, one said.

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Side-by-side images show the Shahid Bagheri at its berth on November 12 but absent on November 28.
  • Iran has spent the past few years turning a container ship into a militarized drone carrier.
  • New satellite images show the Shahid Bagheri has left its home port for the first time.
  • The vessel's development highlights Tehran's efforts to project power farther out.

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OpenAI is creating a new, more expensive tier for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT, and is bringing its “reasoning” model series out of preview with an update.

The company is releasing the full version of its o1 model (replacing o1-preview), which was initially released as a limited preview in September (code-named ‘Strawberry’). The new model will be available


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