Epic is increasing the price of Fortnite's V-Bucks currency

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The real world price of impulse-buying Fortnite skins is going up, Epic has announced. Not because skins themselves are getting more expensive on paper, but because V-Bucks, Fortnite's digital currency, is. The same prices you paid for bundles of V-Bucks in February will now effectively earn you fewer bucks starting on March 19, along with several other Fortnite-related pricing changes.

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MrBeast is laying the groundwork for a new business helping others with ads and marketing

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Jimmy Donaldson — better known as Mr. Beast — is the biggest personality on the internet. His former manager says platforms like YouTube and TikTok are working to prevent another star breaking through in the same way.

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  • MrBeast is exploring offering advertising services, according to new trademark filings.
  • The top YouTuber has filed applications that list
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NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform

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Sources tell Wired that Nvidia has been pitching ‘NemoClaw’ to Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike ahead of Jensen Huang’s keynote on Monday. NVIDIA has spent the past several years becoming the indispensable hardware backbone of the AI industry. According to a new report, it may now be trying to become the software backbone too. […]



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This Pentagon announcement on an Operation Epic Fury soldier's 'believed to be' death is very unusual

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The Pentagon released an unusual statement saying that an Army soldier was "believed to be" a casualty of Operation Epic Fury.

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  • The Pentagon published an awkwardly worded press release announcing a soldier's death.
  • The press release is titled "DOW Identifies An Army Believed to Be Casualty."
  • Retired military spokespeople say casualty announcements are among the military's most
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Amazon wins a temporary injunction against Perplexity's Comet browser

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Amazon has secured a temporary win in its fight with Perplexity over the use of AI shopping bots. Bloomberg reported that a San Francisco federal court has determined that Perplexity must stop using its Comet web browser's AI agent to make purchases for users on Amazon's marketplace. The AI company will have a week to appeal the decision, otherwise it has been ordered to stop accessing any

I moved to California for my husband's job. We split 6 months later, but following him was the best choice I ever made.

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I moved across the country for my husband. We split a few months later, but moving from NYC to California helped me build the life of my dreams.

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  • When my husband and I got married, I stayed in New York while he was deployed in San Diego.
  • I liked living our separate lives and being in New York, but he wanted me to move and I did.
  • Our relationship didn't work out
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Wordle’s creator is back with a new game, and it’s a real chin scratcher

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Josh Wardle had a hell of a tough act to follow. His last game, Wordle, became incredibly popular thanks to its blend of simplicity, clarity and shareability. Over four years (and a seven-figure sale of Wordle to The New York Times) later, Wardle has released his follow-up game. 

Like Wordle and its myriad clones, Parseword offers up one puzzle per day. It taps into the mechanics of cryptic