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A new update arrived to both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone on March 19. The patch notes include changes to the Warhamer 40,000 LTM, removal of Warzone's night vision variant of the gulag, submachine gun balancing, and more.For Modern Warfare 3, the update makes changes to Season 2 Reloaded's limited-time Juggermosh mode that's themed around Warhammer 40,000. Juggernauts are no longer immune to stun grenades, flash grenades, or the shock stick, and the update also addressed an exploit allowing…

A group representing Indian startups has asked the country's antitrust watchdog to order Alphabet's Google to reinstate apps it removed for policy violations, a letter seen by Reuters shows, escalating a showdown with the US giant in a key market.Google on Friday removed more than 100 Indian apps, including popular ones by Matrimony.com, for not complying with its policy of paying a service fee when in-app payment options other than Google's are used.The startups have now taken the issue to Competition Commission of India…

Google's decision to remove some apps in India from its app store "cannot be permitted", Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday, amid an ongoing dispute over service fee payments to the US firm.Google on Friday removed from its Play Store many Indian apps, including Matrimony.com's popular Bharat Matrimony and job search app Naukri, saying the companies were not abiding by its in-app payment guidelines.Vaishnaw said he has held talks with Google and will meet the startups, which needed…

In background conversations, several industry insiders I’ve spoken with acknowledge that the number of carbon removal companies is simply unsustainable, and that a sizable share will flame out at some point. The sector has taken off, in part, because a growing body of studies has found that a huge amount of carbon removal will be needed to keep rising temperatures in check. By some estimates, nations may have to remove 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year by midcentury to keep the planet from blowing past 2 °C of…

Although the singer was never diagnosed with AIDS or HIV, his image appeared in a montage during "Live to Tell" alongside Freddie Mercury, Herb Ritts, and Keith Haring Madonna‘s Celebration tour takes a moment each night to pay tribute to artists who suffered or died from AIDS. During “Live to Tell,” her 1986 single about persevering through trying times, a montage of images flash across the screen. Among them are photos of Keith Haring, Herb Ritts, and Freddie Mercury, who all battled the disease.…

The Nigerian government said Tuesday the decision to remove petroleum subsidy is a challenging one but necessary move needed to promote long-term energy security and economic prosperity in the country. President Bola Tinubu disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the ongoing 7th edition of the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES 2024) held at the presidential banquet hall in Abuja on Tuesday. “Our great nation has long been dependent on the revenue generated from oil exports, and as we stand at the…

Microsoft has announced that it has started rolling out a new feature called Generative erase to the Microsoft Photos app on all the Windows Insider channels for Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows on ARM64. The latest feature uses generative AI to allow you to remove unwanted objects from an image to make the picture look better. Microsoft demonstrates the feature by removing a dog’s leash and unwanted people in an image. It works similarly to GenAI-powered object erasers from Google and Samsung. According to…

OVO Arena Wembley came under fire in December when Hiba Ahmad, a Hozier fan, reported having her Free Palestine scarf confiscated by security while attending the singer’s Unreal Unearth tour. At the time, the venue informed the attendee that they were acting on the instruction of Hozier’s camp. They have since issued an apology via social media and clarified that “the decision to stop the guest was not following artist wishes.” In response to the arena’s acknowledgment of the issue, Hozier wrote: “Thank you to OVO…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research, led by scientists at the University of Sheffield and published in the journal Science, provides a new insight into the broader impacts of forestation on the Earth's climate, indicating that its positive impact is potentially smaller than previously thought. Carbon removal strategies, such as forestation,…

A protein transition can free up land to tap vast energy and negative emission potentials. Credit: One Earth/Rueda et al. Researchers report that replacing 50% of animal products with alternative proteins by 2050 could free up enough agricultural land to generate renewable energy equivalent in volume to today's coal-generated power while simultaneously removing substantial CO2 from the atmosphere. …