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This article is written in partnership with Dragon’s Dogma 2. Get the game here. Dragon’s Dogma 2 is an epic fantasy action-RPG, a follow-up to Capcom’s original cult classic. It casts you as the fabled ‘Arisen’, destined to defeat the dragon that tore the heart right out of your chest. On your journey to reclaim your heart from the dragon, you’ll roam its massive, monster-filled open world. Its top-tier combat lends itself to improvisation and, packed with striking locations, challenging foes, and challenging quests,…

SAN FRANCISCO — In April, a New York startup called Runway AI unveiled technology that let people generate videos, like a cow at a birthday party or a dog chatting on a smartphone, simply by typing a sentence into a box on a computer screen. The four-second videos were blurry, choppy, distorted and disturbing. But they were a clear sign that artificial intelligence technologies would generate increasingly convincing videos in the months and years to come. Just 10 months later, the San Francisco startup OpenAI has unveiled…

When Taylor Swift first played in Melbourne 15 years ago, it was to an audience of 900. This week in the city, the US megastar performs for a quarter of a million.Love her or hate her, there’s no denying it: Australia is in the thick of Swiftmania. Leading up to the hotly anticipated Australian leg of Swift’s Eras Tour, Melbourne was lit up with it all, from a Swift-themed academic symposium to a pop-up merchandise stand at Crown, to a projection on Flinders Street Station welcoming Swifties to town – with the clock…

Victrola has made a somewhat surprising move into high-end, streaming-capable turntables over the last few years, and it's showing off the latest in the lineup at CES 2024. The Victrola Stream Sapphire is a $1,499 turntable with "premium" components and materials that can connect to Sonos and Roon streaming systems and also supports the Universal Plug and Play protocol (UPnP). It can also output up to 24-bit/48kHz lossless FLAC audio.Getting beyond the jargon, this means that the Stream Sapphire can output your vinyl to a…

June Wan/ZDNETAs we approach the January 17 release date for Samsung's new flagship phone (that date is still unofficial, but it has been leaked several times), the Galaxy S24, a series of leaks over the past few days offer a little more clarity into what we can expect from this year's device.Also: New Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra leaks reveal 3 big upgrades and 1 major drawbackStarting on the video side of things, reliable leaker Ice Universe shared an image showing a 4K 120fps video recording mode on the Ultra version…

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., taking aim at a burgeoning market dominated by Nvidia Corp., unveiled new so-called accelerator chips that it said will be able to run artificial intelligence software faster than rival products. The company introduced a long-anticipated lineup called the MI300 at an event Wednesday held in San Jose, California. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su also gave an eye-popping forecast for the size of the AI chip industry, saying it could climb to more than $400 billion in the next four years. That's…

It was shortly after Boris Johnson won his landside majority that his aides first began plotting to oust him. That isn’t some mad conspiracy theory, but recorded fact. Dominic Cummings told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in 2021 that he started discussing options for replacing his boss within “days not months” of the election. Now the Covid inquiry has unearthed his contemptuous WhatsApps, Nadine Dorries’s contention that Cummings seemed to consider himself in charge, and surreptitiously texted colleagues “what the fuck is…

Eye-popping cinematic blowouts come easily to Karan Johar, director of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham …, but the air of excess in his latest comedy-drama jars a little whenever the movie tries to send up the stinking-rich, dim-bulb Punjabi hero Rocky (Ranveer Singh), heir to a Delhi sweet empire, and a man not visibly lacking in self-esteem. “I look like Prada and Gucci got together to give birth to me,” he wails, flanked by hundreds of adoring female dancers who seem in no mood to contradict him. Hard…

On April 28, NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi did work outside the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of more new solar arrays to augment the station’s power system.Moving ahead with space station power upgrades.Some VIPs hear about some very important missions.And new eye-popping views of Earth from space …A few of the stories to tell you about, This Week at <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt"…

Image via Universal Pictures Settle in for another Thrilling Thursday, everyone! As ghouls, goblins, and ghosts as far as the eye can see continue to reel from the post-Scream VI hangover, an array of other eye-popping goodies are quickly taking over the eerie genre in a huge way. All of this hype has pointed in the direction of two horror-comedy extravaganzas that are set to add an intriguing touch — and that would be both Universal’s Renfield, and A24’s Y2K. As always, these exciting topics will be examined…