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I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately... like, should I go back and replay the Kingdom Hearts series or not? Fortunately, Square Enix has made this decision trivial with the announcement that it’s releasing the series on Steam on June 13th. To celebrate, and perhaps destabilize an entire generation of adults for whom the first Kingdom Hearts traile

• Tensions are high between North Korea and South Korea, and it could soon erupt into a crisis.
• North Korea is expected to provoke conflict before the US election in November.
• An expert says that could drag the US into a clash on the peninsula.

Tensions are flaring

Despite the fact that they’re created by humans, large language models are still quite mysterious. The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing things that aren’t outwardly explicable to the people observing them. This is why AI has largely been dubbed a “black…

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• Comcast is selling Netflix, Peacock, and Apple TV+ for $15 a month. It'd cost $23 to get them separately.
• Where does that $8-a-month discount come from?
• Good question. The possible answers tell you a lot about streaming economics these days.

If you subscribe to Netflix's cheapest plan, and also get Peacock's cheapest plan, and also get Apple TV+, it will cost you $23

Microsoft’s new Windows on Arm push is a milestone moment. It’s taken nearly five years to get to the point where the software maker is confident it has the upper hand over the MacBook Air on performance, battery life, and app compatibility.

But behind the scenes, Microsoft

Bluey’s World is opening later this year in the Heeler family’s neighborhood of Brisbane, Australia. Inspired by Ludo Studio’s hit animated series Bluey, this mini theme park experience is an upgrade from a traveling pop-up; it’s more of a permanent residence with attractions throughout, offering a real recreation of…

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Microsoft had a lot to say about Windows and AI — and a little to say about custom emoji — during the Build 2024 keynote. The company, like just about everyone else in the industry, is charging hard at cramming AI into every nook and cranny it can find. That means Copilot watching your screen to help you play

Microsoft is adding a new Advanced Paste feature to PowerToys for Windows 11 that can convert your clipboard content on the fly with the power of AI. The new feature can help people speed up their workflows by doing things like copying code in one language and pasting it in another, although its best tricks require OpenAI API credits.

Advanced Paste

Twitch has updated its filtering tools to allow the exclusion of livestreams that feature mature themes, like sexual, violent and profane content. In other words, you won’t have to sift through hundreds of gross streams just to find someone innocently drinking soda pop and playing through Hades 2.

These new filter settings let people opt out of specific content labels, per the platform’s recently

• A long list of prominent GOP politicians have flocked to Trump's ongoing trial in Manhattan.
• They include the speaker of the House, one governor, and several senators and House members.
• It's an effort to show loyalty — and for some, boost their VP

• Forbes compiled a list of the richest person in every state in 2024.
• The billionaires include members of the Walton family, Mars family, and Chick-fil-A's Cathy family.
• Alaska, Delaware, and West Virginia are the only states without billionaires.

The US is home to more billionaires than any other country. While it's tempting