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Sega Boss Says Company Pivoting Away From That Dumb NFT Game

With crypto becoming a hell of a lot less appetizing over the last few months thanks to numerous crimes and scandals, game companies that were once so hungry for ballooning crypto profits have been creeping their chairs away from the dinner table, inch by squeaking inch.The Biggest Crypto Heists of 2022…So FarSega co-Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi told Bloomberg in an interview that the company is no longer interested in making blockchain-based projects for its Sonic The Hedgehog and Yakuza franchises. Putting a

Bluesky Sees “Record” Web Traffic After Elon’s Latest Dumb Twitter Decision

Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout of inspired stupidity, Musk tweeted out a new edict Saturday: from now on, anybody who doesn’t pay for Twitter will only be able to read a certain number of tweets per day. The subsequent uproar from platform users apparently encouraged some of them to seek refuge elsewhere, namely, on Twitter’s competitor site, Bluesky. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl…

Nick Cannon Admits Just Being A “Dumb Man As He F**ks Up All The Time” When It Comes To Juggling Needs Of Multiple Babies &…

Nick Cannon Says He Always Messes Up When It Comes To Juggling Needs Of His Multiple Babies And Mamas(Photo Credit –Instagram) Nick Cannon “f**** up” all the time when it comes to juggling the needs of his children and their mothers. The ‘Masked Singer‘ host – who fathered twins Moroccan and Monroe, 11, with ex-wife Mariah Carey; Golden, six, Powerful Queen, two, and eight-month-old Rise with Brittany Bell; two-year-old twins Zion and Zillion, and seven-month-old Beautiful with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary, 11 months,…

Dumb Money Trailer: Paul Dano Takes on Wall Street in Cinematic Retelling of GameStop Stock Frenzy

Dumb Money, the film chronicling GameStop's 2021 stock market frenzy, just got a trailer. The film marks director Craig Gillespie's foray into adapting real-life stories — since 2017's I, Tonya — and is slated to release September 22 in theatres. With Paul Dano in the lead, it essentially serves as a David v Goliath dramedy about the real-life YouTuber Keith Gill, who took on billionaire hedge fund managers, who were betting that the stock price of brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop would fall. The shocking events were…

Tesla brings native land loophole to New York to avoid dumb direct sale ban

Tesla is going to repeat a loophole it has previously used to open stores and service centers where direct sale laws prevent it by operating on native land. This time, the automaker is doing it in New York. There are a few states in the US that have laws prohibiting direct sales of electric vehicles to the public without going through third-party dealerships. These bans come from old laws that were meant to protect car dealers from their own automakers supplying the vehicles. The idea is…

James Gunn criticised for ‘dumb’ answer to major Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 plot hole

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJames Gunn has responded to fan confusion surrounding a major Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 plot hole involving Peter Quill’s missing helmet.Warning: Spoilers ahead for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3’Throughout the entirety of the trilogy’s final film, Quill (Chris Pratt) is without his iconic helmet. Although this might not seem like an important detail, he risks his life if he goes…

Grimes Tells Julia Fox She’s Easy to Cancel: “I Say a Lot of Dumb Stuff”

After Grimes gave artists her blessing to use AI to recreate her voice on their tracks, the Canadian artist appeared on Julia Fox’s podcast to talk more about it as well as being constantly “cancelled” online.On Fox’s Forbidden Fruits podcast, Grimes told the actress that she’s been an easy target for those wanting to cancel celebrities.“I’m very easy to cancel and cancelled very often,” Grimes explained. “I’ve always been exceptionally cancelled. People call me a ‘techno-fascist’  I agree a lot of things have been…

The US House just voted to restore solar tariffs – here’s why that’s dumb [update]

The House of Representatives voted to restore tariffs on solar panels made in four Southeast Asian countries – and so did the Senate. That move would seriously hurt the US solar industry. May 3: The US Senate today voted to restore tariffs on solar panels. The vote was 56-41, with nine Democrats voting in favor. President Joe Biden has vowed to veto the legislation. Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), said: Any legislation that…

The US House just voted to restore solar tariffs – here’s why that’s dumb

The House of Representatives voted to restore tariffs on solar panels made in four Southeast Asian countries – but that move would seriously hurt the US solar industry. The 221-202 bipartisan vote sends the measure to the Democratic-controlled Senate – 12 Democrats voted for it, and 8 Republicans voted against it. President Joe Biden has said he will veto the legislation. In 2022, President Joe Biden waived tariffs on solar products made in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam while…

Nvidia Open Sources Universal ‘Guardrails’ to Keep Those Dumb AIs in Line

The growing list of companies incorporating AI into their apps and platforms have had to create and continuously tweak their own workarounds for dealing with AI’s propensity to lie, cheat, style, borrow, or barter. Now, Nvidia is looking to give more developers an easier way to tell the AI to shut its trap.Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextOn Tuesday, Nvidia shared its so-called “NeMo Guardrails” that the company described as a kind of one-size-fits-all censorship bot for apps powered by large…