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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In my research, I have spent a good deal of time speaking with people from across the world about their relationship with sound and music—how it features in their everyday lives and how it influences their attitudes and behavior. One of the most consistent findings is that, irrespective of culture or place, we are largely unaware of how what we hear affects how we think and act.…

Microsoft is reportedly planning to offer free game streaming in exchange for advertisements. As per TweakTown, Xbox Gaming CFO Tim Stuart suggested during the recent Wells Fargo TMT Summit that to expand geographically, it would be ideal to leverage the company's xCloud service, allowing players to cloud stream games at any ‘endpoint' via a simple Game Pass Ultimate subscription. He further added, “For models like Africa, or India, Southeast Asia, maybe places that aren't console-first, you can say, ‘Hey, do you want to…

Ubisoft has blamed a “technical error” for a series of in-game adverts that appeared in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. Over the weekend, Reddit user Triddell24 shared footage of a full-screen advert for a discount on Assassin’s Creed: Mirage that took over their screen while they were trying to access the game map while playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. Other users reported the same issue, with both Xbox and PlayStation versions of the action role-playing game affected. “This kind of shit should be considered unacceptable,”…

The owner of FaceBook, Meta, has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion in a massive fine after it was discovered that the company was sending its user's data from Europe to the United States.The fine, according to the BBC,  comes from Irelands Data Protection Commission (DPC), and is the "largest imposed under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation privacy law."It's all down to the EU's GDPR rules that companies have to comply with if they want to do business within the European Union, and want to transfer user data out…

The most impressive thing about Robert De Niro is how prolific he is. The man is 79 years old, and simply cannot stop. In the last 10 years alone he has made 19 films, with four more coming this year. Have they represented the best work of his career? Probably not, although someone out there must love Dirty Grandpa. On top of that, he owns or part-owns a string of highly successful hospitality ventures. And on top of that he just had his seventh child.This last one counts as news. During an interview with ET Canada to…

After confirming earlier this year that it plans to introduce more adverts to its iOS App Store on iPhone and iPad, Apple has this week confirmed to developers that its promised new placements could arrive on your phone by this holiday season. In a note sent to developers this week, Apple has invited some app makers to a session next week telling them more about Apple's upcoming expansion of Search Ads in the App Store. As reported by CNBC (opens in new tab) developers like Eric Seufurt (opens in new tab) received the…