August's PlayStation Plus monthly games include Death's Door and Dreams

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Sony has revealed the PlayStation Plus monthly games lineup for August.

The weird and disastrous rise of generational warfare

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A collage of different generations, from left to right, millennials, boomers, gen-z.
Gen Z hates boomers, everyone hates millennials, and no one thinks about Gen X. Why are we so obsessed with talking about generations?

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Brandon Charnas, the husband of Something Navy's Arielle Charnas, isn't cooperating with an investigation into 'possible insider trading': SEC

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Arielle Charnas and Brandon Charnas attend the Hot Pink Party hosted by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at Park Avenue Armory on May 15, 2019 in New York City.
Arielle Charnas and Brandon Charnas attend the Hot Pink Party hosted by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at Park Avenue Armory on May 15, 2019, in New York City.

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NBCUniversal is slapped with a $250 fine for trimming trees along an LA sidewalk that had shaded actors and writers on strike

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A composite image showing, on the left, striking actor Tim Jo holding a sign on a sunny day outside Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, on July 18, 2023, and right, trimmed ficus trees under bright sunshine outside NBC Universal site in Los Angeles, July 18 2023.
NBCUniversal says it trims the trees in annually and it was "not our intention" to take shade away from WGA and SAG-AFTRA members picketing in Los Angeles.

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Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike

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Will this pair of Hollywood strikes ever end? It looks like the big corporations are digging in for a long battle, illustrated by Netflix’s recent job posting for a machine learning platform product manager.

AI is coming for Hollywood. 'It's amazing to see the sophistication of the images,' one of Christopher Nolan's VFX guy says.

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From left: The visual-effects artists Paul Franklin, Sebastien Francoeur, Jennifer Twiner McCarron, and Mark Chavez share their thoughts on generative AI.

Courtesy of Paul Franklin, Sebastian Francoeur, Jennifer Twiner McCarron, and Mark Chavez.

Every city in America looks exactly the same now

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A couple from the big city looks at a selection of small cities with notifications on them, vying for attention while all looking the same.
Remote work caused a flood of new arrivals to small and midsize cities. And now those cities all look the same.

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How every American city became exactly the same

Your monthly Spotify bill is going up for the first time in over a decade

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Person over a green backdrop holding a phone with the spotify logo on it.
Spotify users can express prices to increase in 2023.

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Twitter CEO teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrand

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Twitter’s rebrand to X is officially underway, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has offered some new clues about what it may mean for the company.

‘My Netflix’ puts your downloads and in-progress shows first

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Netflix's interface can sometimes make you wade through screens and tabs just to find the show you wanted to watch, but it's hopefully getting easier as of today. The streaming service is rolling out a My Netflix tab on iOS (Android in early August) that puts everything you're watching (or want to watch) in one place. That includes in-progress videos and downloads, of course, but you'll also see My List items, notifications, shows with viewed trailers and other earmarked content. In theory, you can quickly start a series without remembering how you learned about it.

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