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It’s been nearly five years since Valve announced a truly new game — and counting. Valve has still not announced Deadlock, its new hero shooter that takes cues from Overwatch, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, and more. But that hasn’t stopped nearly 20,000 people from trying the



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X’s live streaming infrastructure appears to have failed, once again, at a high-profile moment for the company. X owner Elon Musk was supposed to be interviewing Donald Trump live on Spaces, beginning at 8pm ET Monday. But the stream repeatedly crashed and was completely inaccessible to many users.

Musk claimed that the failure was due to a “massive DDOS [distributed denial of service] attack on X



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Elon Musk’s “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start. The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later.

Those who did manage to get into the Space, including several Verge staf



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Elon Musk and Donald Trump's conversation on Monday had technical issues.
  • X's Spaces malfunctioned on Monday ahead of Elon Musk's live interview with Donald Trump.
  • Musk later acknowledged the technical difficulties and claimed there was a DDOS attack.
  • Trump and Musk's conversation started about 40 minutes late.

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While incest was generally considered taboo in the community that inhabited Paquimé, it may have been overlooked—and leveraged—by the power-grasping upper classes.



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After years of legwork, Harvard researchers canceled plans to test a controversial theory for cooling the planet by sending sunlight-reflecting particles up into the atmosphere. Now, members of an independent advisory committee tasked with addressing ethics and safety



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  • Mars just scored another point in favor of alien life.
  • Scientists discovered signs of an ocean's worth of liquid water miles below Mars' surface.
  • The findings, based on Marsquake measurements by NASA's InSight lander, could help solve a mystery.

Mars is looking more and more like a place for NASA to find the first signs of alien



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I love storing a digital pass in my phone’s wallet enough that I’m a little miffed when I have to use a different app or, heaven forbid, a saved PDF instead. On Android, at least, there’s a better way, thanks to a new Google Wallet option rolling out now that uses AI to generate a digital version with all the relevant details that you can use just



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TikTok is adding group chats with support for up to 32 people, the company announced today. The feature is available to users aged 16 and up, allowing them to share TikToks with friends and family members without having to open a separate messaging app.

You can start a group chat by selecting the Inbox button, tapping Chat, selecting



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  • MemGPT helps users "build LLM agents with long term memory and custom tools."
  • It is an agentic framework focused on increasing the memory of large language models.
  • The MemGPT project has over 11,000 stars on GitHub.

MemGPT, a toolkit for developing AI agents, has raised a $10 million round at a $70 million valuation, Business Insider has learned