The first Activision Blizzard game to join Xbox Game Pass will be Diablo IV, and it's due to land on March 28. The move means Diablo IV will be playable on Xbox and PC at no extra charge to Game Pass members — of which there are 34 million, Xbox announced today.
This is just the first step in Xbox's broader plan to offer Activision Blizzard titles in its monthly subscription service, now that
A New Zealand Army soldier tries a US military MRE — or Meal, Ready-to-Eat — and compares it to New Zealand MREs. An MRE is designed to sustain soldiers during training or an operation while food-service facilities are inaccessible.
Sam, a bombardier serving in the New Zealand Army's 16th Field Regiment, asked us not to use his full name for operational-security reasons.
While much of the American

This week, the scientific journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators.
Apple is officially axing support for progressive web apps for iPhone users located in the European Union. While web apps have been broken for EU users in every iOS 17.4 beta so far, Apple has now confirmed that this is a feature, not a bug.
In an update to its developer website spotted by 9to5Mac, Apple says it’s removing homescreen apps
Andy "Rebirth" Pellerano is a former soldier for the Almighty Latin King Nation, or Latin Kings, one of the largest and most dangerous prison and street gangs in the United States.
Business Insider talks to Pellerano about how members are initiated, what the gang's codes are, and how he got the green light to leave the organization. He covers the rivalry with the Crips and the Folk Nation and the
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- Special prosecutor Nathan Wade testified he's no longer dating Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
- Willis appointed Wade to lead the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump in 2021.
- A judge will determine whether

No one reads io9 or Gizmodo for any type of educated insight into the world of high fashion. We’re nerds, which is why you come here to learn about the latest and greatest in the world of science fiction. But once in a while, those worlds collide in such a fun way that we just have to expand our boundaries and go full…
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- Anyone who's used Slack knows it can be a real pain to try to search for something in the app.
- Slack announced a new generative AI feature Wednesday to help with that.
- Other features can help summarize long conversations or give you a quick rundown on what you missed.
Finding an old message or document on Slack can be tough. Now, the messaging app is hoping its new generative AI fea

Well, that was weird.
Xbox's big, much-awaited "business update" came to pass on Thursday afternoon in podcast form. After a couple weeks of rumor-mongering alleging that certain Xbox-exclusive titles would start appearing on consoles like PS5 and Switch, Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed as much in the podcast. However, he didn't confirm exactly what we expected him to confirm.
OpenAI
- OpenAI has launched a new tool, Sora, that generates AI videos based on user text.
- It's currently in beta with safety experts and a limited group of creators.
- But the first — admittedly hand-picked — results look eerily realistic.
AI-created images are about to get a lot more real-looking.
On Thursday, OpenAI showed off a new