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Hideaki Itsuno, who directed the Dragon’s Dogma series and other major games for Capcom, announced on Saturday that he’s leaving the company. “From September, I will start developing a new game in a new environment,” he wrote in a post on X. Itsuno has been with Capcom since the '90s, and worked on a slew of popular series, including Devil May Cry, starting with the second game. He created Dragon



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OSOM’s first phone, eventually renamed the Solana Saga. | Image: Osom

A lawsuit filed against Osom Products, Inc. by its former chief privacy officer, Mary Stone Ross, claims that the company’s CEO, Jason Keats, used business funds for extravagant purchases that include two Lamborghinis, reports Android Authority.

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The rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power most of our laptops may be the most practical battery tech we have right now, but they naturally degrade over time as their ions flow back and forth — it’s an inevitable consequence of the way they’re built and the way they work. Eventually, the batteries can’t hold as much of a



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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.

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There’s something about the idea of coming home and reawakening dormant familial trauma that just makes for great horror stories, and Sacrificial Animals is no exception. In the novel, brothers Nick and Joshua Morrow return to their family’s farm in Nebraska after many years estranged



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  • "The Apprentice," a film about Donald Trump's early career, is set to be released ahead of the US election.
  • The film stars Sebastian Stan as a young Trump making his name in New York in the 1970s and '80s.
  • Trump's campaign said releasing the film before voters head to the polls is "election interference."

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Brazil is serious about this ban of Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter).

After banning the social network within its borders, one nugget in the New York Times' report about the story stands out: Anyone who tries to access X in Brazil using technical workarounds like VPNs will be fined substantially. To be more specific, those people could be fined as much as nearly $9,000 per day for using X in Brazil



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Starbucks' mobile ordering system has become a challenge for store employees to manage, one told BI.
  • Starbucks customers often face long lines to get their drinks at the chain's cafés.
  • One Starbucks employee in North Carolina said the problem goes back to understaffing.
  • A constant deluge of mobile orders also complicates employees' workflow, the employee said.

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Brooke Shields and her daughter Grier Henchy.
  • Brooke Shields' daughter said she found out about her mother's alleged sexual assault while watching her documentary.
  • "I was learning about things the same time that the world was," Grier Henchy told People.
  • Shields said she was sexually assaulted by an unnamed Hollywood executive when she was in her early 20s.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket for flight on Friday after temporarily grounding it following a failed landing earlier this week. The company has already pulled off two launches since the FAA’s decision, putting 42 more Starlink satellites into orbit, it announced in a post on X today.

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