Asteroids and Resident Evil join the World Video Game Hall of Fame

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The Strong National Museum of Play has revealed this year's inductees into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, SimCity and Ultima have made the cut. While that means the likes of Guitar Hero, Metroid and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater miss out from the slate of finalists, it would be hard to make a case against any of the five inductees.

Games are selected for the hall of

How to share your location on Google Maps

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If you're meeting up with friends, sharing your location is a hell of a handy way to save you screeching into your phone, "Wait, what can you SEEEEEE?" Switching on Find My has become a staple of Gen Z friendship and location sharing through various apps has long functioned as all-ages safety method, though Taylor Swift's continued location sharing with her ex had us perplexed — you can (and

Tesla executive says he's resigned as recent layoffs hurt morale and throw the company 'out of balance'

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Elon Musk told staff Tesla planned to cut more than 10% of its workforce in April.

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  • Rich Otto, former head of product launches at Tesla, said he resigned last week.
  • The executive said the recent Tesla layoffs have thrown the company "out of balance."
  • Otto's departure follows six other senior-level Tesla executives leaving in recent weeks.

Tesla keeps shedding executives.

Rich Otto, the former

LLMs have become a weapon of information warfare

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A propaganda network linked to Russia has sparked alarm about a new weapon of information warfare: large language models (LLMs). The operation was unearthed by Recorded Future, a threat intelligence firm founded by two Swedish computer scientists. In early March, the company spotted a network known as CopyCop using LLMs to manipulate news from mainstream media outlets. Using prompt engineering

A millennial working 2 full-time jobs sometimes only gets 3 hours of sleep — but she's over halfway to saving $100,000

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A millennial aiming to save $100,000 works two full-time jobs and sometimes only gets two hours of sleep before a shift.

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  • Mitzi Lacerna, 28, said she's been working two full-time jobs since 2021. 
  • Lacerna, who is based in San Francisco, said she regularly works over 80 hours a week. 
  • Lacerna aims to save $100,000 and advises others with similar goals to "live below" their means
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You can still buy the last-gen iPad with a headphone jack for $249

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The last-gen iPad is still worth buying even after Apple killed it and cut the price of its successor. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge

Apple may have stopped selling iPads with headphone jacks, but that doesn’t mean you can‘t buy one. Despite the fact Apple dropped the ninth-gen iPad from its official lineup this week, you can still purchase the tablet from multiple

Best Wear OS apps 2024

Android Central
Something that Wear OS can boast over other Android smartwatches is its apps. We've rounded up some of the best Wear OS apps to get you started.