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The Pokémon Company has released a statement promising to “investigate” any and all titles that infringe on their intellectual property rights following the release of Palworld earlier this month. Developed by Pocketpair, Palworld tasks players with using a variety of creatures known as Pals to build, fight or collect. Since it was announced, the survival game has been compared to Pokémon with creators telling NME: “We were surprised by the comparisons to be honest, especially those labeling it as ‘Pokémon with guns’.…

The Pokemon Company said Thursday it has not granted any permission to “another company,” referring to Palworld-developer Pocketpair, to use Pokemon intellectual property or assets and “intends to investigate and take appropriate measures” against the fast-growing survival game operator. The statement is Pokemon Company’s first acknowledgement of Palworld’s fast-growing survival title, which has sold over 8 million copies in less than six days, exceeding the performance of even the most popular…

Even before it released in early access, Palworld has been extensively compared to Pokémon, with the key additions of guns and a much darker mythos. Amid claims that the survival game may have plagarized parts of its monster designs from Pokémon, The Pokémon Company has finally released a statement on the game, saying it has "received many inquiries regarding" Palworld.The statement, as picked up by Wario64, was shared on The Pokémon Company's Japanese corporate site, and included an English translation.…

The US Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are in discussions over which agency can probe OpenAI on antitrust grounds, including the AI firm's partnership with Microsoft, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.Microsoft's tie-up with the ChatGPT maker has raised antitrust scrutiny after the US software giant committed to invest over $10 billion into OpenAI last year. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Would you be happy to pour your friends a glass of wine from a cask or sip your favorite red from an aluminum can? Traditional glass bottles have long been the preferred choice of packaging among wine lovers due to the belief that wine looks and tastes better in glass. While glass bottles have been the wine…

This year, outer space is going to be a busy place.We've got the launch of the Europa Clipper, which will orbit one of Jupiter's enigmatic moons and investigate whether it could harbour conditions suitable for life; we could cheer on the first Canadian to orbit the moon; and we're getting a total solar eclipse that will be visible across eastern Canada.Here are just some exciting events to look forward to in 2024.Meteor showersAs always, the year starts off with the annual Quadrantid meteor shower, which is pretty…

Small wooden tree-mounted boxes for bats are an increasingly common sight in B.C.'s urban parks, often resembling birdhouses except with entrances underneath.After a string of tragedies near bat boxes, B.C. scientists teamed up to investigate.What they learned over four years, they say, has changed how we should be building summertime homes for mother bats and their pups, with the species' survival at stake."For them to to raise that young they need just-right temperatures to do so," explained study co-author Cori Lausen.…

Doug Olson heard a loud thud on his roof while folding laundry in October last year. When he went out to investigate the cause of the sound, he didn't find anything out of the ordinary. But earlier this spring, while cleaning out his rain gutters on the roof of his Mill Woods home, Olson discovered a small grey and black rock. Turns out, the rock is a meteorite from space. "I was thinking, 'jeez how come I couldn't find it back when I was looking the first time?'" Olson said on Friday. Named the Menisa, the discovery…

(a) Topographic relief map of the seismically derived extent of the Socorro Magma Body (SMB), New Mexico (Balch et al., 1997; Rinehart & Sanford, 1981), within southwestern North America (inset). Quaternary faults (magenta lines), three continuous GPS stations (red diamonds), and locations of the La Ristra seismic stations (black dots) (West et al., 2004) indicated for reference. The orange polygon outlines the NW-SE extent of low mid-crustal…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The ocean is a critical life-support system for our planet through its role in global climate regulation. It absorbs most of the carbon emissions and heat trapped in the atmosphere, which result from human activities. Over the years, this has led to ocean warming (OW), ocean acidification (OA), and ocean deoxygenation (OD). Moreover, increased anthropogenic nitrogen deposition (AND) has…