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PlayStation Plus' monthly free games for August 2023 have been announced. The three titles will be available to members of PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Deluxe/ Premium plans, starting August 1. Members can compete to become the next FedExCup Champion in PGA Tour 2K23, slay armies of fantastical beasts and demigods in Death's Door, and dive into the ever-changing universe of Dreams, which is laden with community-created games and tools to unleash your creativity. These games can be added to your PS4 and PS5 games library…

Sony has revealed the for August. There’s no clear headliner here, but a trio of nifty titles are about to drop, including the incredible and a little-known golf sim called PGA Tour 2K23. Also in the lineup is Media Molecule’s Dreams. Dreams is a community-focused app that builds upon the level-creation tools first debuted in the LittleBigPlanet series. Players have used the system to make just about anything you can imagine, from to Sony even allowed some of the more popular creators to Unfortunately, Sony is…

As covid vaccines started to roll out in February 2021, misinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding the shot were on the rise—as were the deaths of Republican voters. David Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo InterviewA new study from Yale University looked at 538,159 people in Ohio and Florida starting on May 1, 2021,and focused on counties that reported lower vaccination rates. In the first year of the pandemic, the number of covid-related deaths was evenly dispersed among both Democrats and Republicans, but that…

Ever since the AI cameras were installed on Kerala roads, they have managed to stay in the news. While several incidents point out the problems in the system, all agree that this system has had a positive impact overall. Recently, Kerala State Transport Minister Antony Raju made a statement claiming that after the installation of AI cameras in Kerala, the number of accidents on the roads has come down. The minister said that the number of deaths due to road accidents has decreased by 50 percent. This is actually a great…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTitanic director James Cameron has responded to the news of the confirmed deaths onboard the tourist submersible named Titan on Thursday (22 June).Officials have determined that the submarine, which went missing on an expedition to view the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday (18 June), experienced a “catastrophic implosion” killing all five passengers aboard.68-year-old Cameron is known for…

Director James Cameron has spoken out about the Titan submersible tragedy.The Titanic film-maker appeared on ABC News after today’s announcement that the crew are believed to have died in a “catastrophic implosion”. The five men were in a remotely operated vehicle to tour the wreckage of the Titanic two miles beneath the ocean’s surface.“Many people in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said in an on-air interview. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Voting rights have come under scrutiny across the United States in recent years, with multiple cases before the Supreme Court this session. A new study by Syracuse University researchers suggests the issue has implications beyond politics. The study, led by sociology professor Jennifer Karas Montez, investigates the link between democratic erosion and rising deaths. The full study is published online…

CLIMATEWIRE | Cutting pollution from cars and trucks would save more than 89,000 lives and billions of dollars in health care costs, according to a report from the American Lung Association. That makes it crucial for EPA to adopt strict limits on tailpipe pollution and allow California and other states to implement their own rules to cut transportation emissions, the group said in the report, released earlier this month. ALA staff projected the health impacts of two scenarios: one in which most passenger cars in the…

Despite a state crackdown to seize fentanyl and arrest its traffickers and dealers in San Francisco, May was the city’s deadliest month for fentanyl overdoses on record, according to city and county data.The California Highway Patrol has seized more than eight pounds of fentanyl in the city’s Tenderloin district and surrounding areas since May, following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of a task force with state and local authorities targeting traffickers and dealers.But despite the haul — which the governor’s office…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data for 2021 reveals another record year for firearm fatalities. The 48,830 lives lost to firearms in 2021, the first full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the highest…