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Aloy is one of my favorite characters in all media. She’s a certified badass in the Horizon series, with crossover appearances in various other games. One of these crossovers is Genshin Impact, where Aloy is considered one of the worst playable characters in the roster.  So, what happens when you decide to main an objectively bad character in a character-based RPG like Genshin? I’ve definitely gone through some Aloy-induced stages of grief thanks to my decision. Lots of negotiating that choice, too, but as they say,…

Palworld developer Pocketpair has issued a warning to fans of the hugely popular open-world game. After selling more than 8 million copies in just a couple of weeks, the game has seemingly attracted the attention of scammers. In a recent post on social media, the Palworld studio tells fans to beware of iPhone and Android apps claiming to be affiliated with the game. Currently available for PC and Xbox, there are no official Palworld games or companion apps available for smartphones and tablets. According to Pocketpair,…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain People who speak two languages may be better at shifting their attention from one thing to another compared to those who speak one, according to a study published this month in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. The study examined differences between bilingual and monolingual individuals…

Images via Sony Pictures Releasing Now that Venom 3 is officially in production, some may wonder if the threequel will acknowledge the events that transpired in Spider-Man: No Way Home. We now have an answer to that question thanks to some behind-the-scenes photos from the production happening in Cartagena, Spain. First of all, Tom Hardy himself updated a behind-the-scenes photo on Instagram wearing an iconic NBA Golden State Warriors T-shirt and Hawaiin button-up. Image via Tom Hardy/Instagram. In case you…

Apartments under construction on the site of demolished houses in Ramapir No Tekro. Credit: Kali Marnane (2023), Author provided I'm in Ahmedabad, India, standing where families once built their homes under the shade of large trees. Today, those houses are a flattened dust bowl at the edge of a construction site. Apartment buildings are replacing the low-rise, high-density settlement called Ramapir No Tekro, the city's biggest…

Image via Universal Based entirely on the words to come directly out of his own mouth, the prospect of Dwayne Johnson returning to the Fast & Furious franchise was borderline unthinkable. After all, The Rock had made it abundantly clear more than once that his issues lay directly with figurehead and producer Vin Diesel, who’d even gone so far as to bring up the legacy of the late Paul Walker in an attempt to end the self-imposed exile of The Fast Saga‘s Luke Hobbs. via Universal Johnson wasn’t buying it,…

Officials in Alabama “engaged in a consistent pattern of inaction and/or neglect” when handling a rural Black community’s issues with their sewage, a Biden administration investigation into a long-standing environmental injustice found.James Gunn on Feeling Pressure to Add Adam Warlock to Guardians of the Galaxy | io9 InterviewIn an agreement with state and county agencies announced on Thursday, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services found that Lowndes County and Alabama health officials acted in a…

Last updated: March 29th, 2023 at 19:09 UTC+02:00 A massive Mali GPU security flaw that virtually affects millions of Samsung phones running on Exynos chipsets was confirmed last year in November. Since then, this Mali vulnerability became a part of a chain that hackers successfully exploited to lead unsuspecting Samsung Internet users to malicious websites. And although that particular exploit chain was broken, the Mali security flaw uncovered last year continues to affect almost every Samsung device powered by…

There’s been a deluge of iPhone 15 design leaks in the past few weeks, as CAD files for the upcoming handset variants made their way online, prompting a wave of exciting renders. Most reports focused on the Dynamic Island notch, the imperceptibly thinner bezels, and the infamous iPhone camera bump. But there’s great news about the iPhone 15 battery life in those renders that most people are ignoring. It all has to do with the overall size of the handset. If leaks are accurate, the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s camera…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The government must wake up to the "huge waste in human potential" as new research highlights that 40% or two in five adults aged 16+ are economically inactive. Research looking back over 30 years by Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) and the International Longevity Center (ILC) shows that the…