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Soon, Instagram users will have a choice about using read receipts in direct message conversations.

Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri both announced on their Instagram Broadcast channels that the change is currently in testing, and Mosseri included this picture showing the toggle as well as what it looks like in action.

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The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group makes its way through the Strait of Gibraltar.
  • The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is in the Middle East.
  • It was recently operating alongside the Gerald R. Ford CSG.
  • The two strike groups are being used in a deterrence role to keep the Israel-Hamas war from getting worse.

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Nintendo’s foray into movies isn’t stopping anytime soon: the company has confirmed that it’s working on a live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. The movie will be directed by Wes Ball, best known for the Maze Runner trilogy and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto will serve as a producer, much as he did on



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Theo Von: Return of the Rat Tour - Louisville, KY
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Twenty years ago today, the sight of a diminutive cartoon Yoda—shrouded in a hooded cloak, his green lightsaber ignited and held high—riding atop a goatlike mount transformed Star Wars as we knew it. A year before at the climax of Attack of the Clones, he’d told us that begun, the Clone Wars had: now they truly had,…

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Ubisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team.

Hybride — the name of Ubisoft’s Montreal-based visual effects studio — has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Beau Is Afraid, and more