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Turning the date on your console back or forwards in time has long been a way to exploit games with time-based content, though it's become less popular as more games become online-only. Fans have discovered that the age-old trick still works for Mortal Kombat 1, however, after the game made some unpopular decisions around its monetization.As reported by IGN, Mortal Kombat 1 saw backlash from fans after adding skins to its premium in-game shop that were previously able to be earned through Season 1's…

Image: Koshiro K (Shutterstock)ChatGPT can be used for a wonderfully broad variety of applications—with mixed results, of course. Less than a week after introducing its integration with Bing, ChatGPT pulled the plug on the collaboration as users discovered they could use it to bypass paywalled websites.Generating Video Via Text? | Future TechLast week, OpenAI officially unveiled Browse with Bing for ChatGPT Plus, which would allow users to more effectively get answers to their questions via the search engine on the…

Twitter will soon allow publishers and media outlets to charge users per click on an article they post on the platform, CEO Elon Musk announced Saturday.  Musk said in a tweet that the platform will roll out the policy next month, which he said would allow users who do not sign up for a monthly subscription to a publication to pay more per article if they want to occasionally read one.  “Should be a major win-win for both media orgs & the public,” he said.  The announcement comes amid increased…

There was big news in Canada last week—but if you were in Canada itself you may have missed it. On February…

Most academic papers are behind paywalls. Credit: Shutterstock As we prepare to invest money to prevent the next global pandemic and find solutions to many other problems, science funders have a large opportunity to move towards open science and more research collaboration by offering open-source endowed chairs. In these research…