Wednesday 30 September 2020

Twitter removed 130 Iran-linked accounts during last night's debate

Twitter has removed 130 accounts that appeared to originate from Iran and were attempting to disrupt public conversation around the 2020 US Presidential debate. The social network’s Support account has revealed the deletion on the platform. It also p...

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Google's 'Hold for Me' Assistant feature appears first on new Pixel phones

When the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G arrive, they’ll include an early preview of Google’s new feature for the Phone app, the Duplex-powered “Hold for Me.” Mentioned during the Launch Night presentation and explained in a blog post, it lets Google Assista...

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We All Took The Banner Saga's Art For Granted

Danny Moll is an artist who has worked on stuff like The Banner Saga 3 and the Castlevania animated series.

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Artist Animates Anime-Style Among Us Kills

Okay, hear me out. What if Among Us, but anime?

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Facebook has removed more than 6,500 militia groups and pages

Facebook has removed more than 6,500 pages and groups associated with “militarized social movements,” since the company announced it would crack down on QAnon and militia movements on its platform last month. Under the new rules, Facebook said it wou...

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Report: Warner Bros. Games President Says Transphobe J. K. Rowling Has "The Right To Hold Her Opinions"

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is a transphobe. That is not an opinion, it is a fact. Maybe someone could share that distinction with Warner Bros. Games president David Haddad.

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Snag a Purea Infrared Forehead Thermometer for Just $24

Purea Forehead Thermometer | $24 | Amazon | Clip coupon + code KINJAK4H

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Spelunky 2 World Record Speedrun Is Only Three Minutes Long

The current world record Spelunky 2 speedrun is a sight to behold and won’t take up hours of your time.

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New From Kotaku's Reader-Run Community: Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul Review, And More

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul Movie Review  TAY Retro: Nintendo Game Boy: Hoshi no Kabi (Kirby’s Dream Land) [TV Commercia (JP)] TAY Retro: Nintendo Entertainment System - Felix The Cat [TV Commercial (NA)]

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Save $10 on the Luxurious Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller in Rare Discount

Microsoft Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller | $170 | Amazon

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Ar Tonelico's Music Chants Discordantly, Whispers Seductively

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to attempt to look past how blatantly horny the Ar Tonelico series is so we can focus on how good its music is. I wish us all luck.

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Amazon Explore offers livestreamed classes, tours and shopping

We’re in the middle of a pandemic, which means most people are limiting the time they spend outdoors. That means fewer shopping trips and vacations — especially those that involve boarding a plane or train — with friends or family. Amazon’s solution...

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The Morning After: We reviewed iOS 14

COVID-19 and its effects aren’t going anywhere, and the world of work continues to change around them. If I asked you what you missed most about how you used to work, would the answer be your commute?Microsoft is convinced there are benefits to the t...

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Seattle law will force Uber and Lyft to pay drivers a minimum hourly wage

Seattle’s city council has unanimously approved a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers, joining New York as the second major US city to do so (via the New York Times). The law will require ride-hailing companies to pay drivers at least $0.56 per mi...

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Anime Studio Bones Did A Pokémon Music Video And It's Glorious

Famed anime studio Bones did a special Pokémon music video for the Japanese rock group Bump of Chicken. And the result is wonderful.

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Kirby Is Now Selling Hamburgers In Japan

Since Kirby sucks up anything imaginable, it was only a matter of time before the character began selling hamburgers. That time has come.

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Twitter will add voice tweet transcriptions following criticism over accessibility

When Twitter introduced voice tweets earlier this summer as a way to send more personalized messages, it caught a lot of flack for not including accessibility features. Now, the company said it will add transcriptions for voice tweets as part of an i...

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Ford makes the 2021 Mustang Mach-E a little cheaper

Ford is hoping to take the edge off some of the sticker shock when you buy a new Mustang Mach-E. Autoblog is reporting on a leaked memo, published on the Mach-E Forum, that purports to have been sent to Ford dealerships in the US. The instructions fr...

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Charge Your Switch Every Six Months, Says Nintendo

In what’s not only good advice for the Switch by electronics in general, Nintendo Support has reminded customers in Japan to recharge their game consoles.

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Mistress of the lewd, Plumeria, is Fire Emblem Heroes' newest Mythic Hero

As if Fire Emblem Heroes didn't already get its fans hot under the collar with its expansive array of male and female stunners, the newest update to Nintendo's mobile battler teases more saucy antics with the arrival of its newest mythic hero: "Lewd Dream" Plumeria.

An original Fire Emblem Heroes character, Plumeria is a Dökkálfar who resides in Dökkálfheimr, where she reigns as the overseer of "lewd dreams". Despite her charming and gracious appearance, Plumeria seems to have developed a deep dislike of humans, going as far as to consider them vulgar and disgusting. Given her vocation, these views seem completely fair and understandable.

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The FCC's new anti-robocall rules prevent surprise charges for consumers

Back in March, the FCC ordered all carriers and phone companies to adopt the STIR/SHAKEN protocol by June 30th, 2021 as an effort to combat robocalls. Now, the commission has announced new rules to clarify carriers’ obligations regarding the technolo...

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Tuesday 29 September 2020

Google Meet's 60-minute limit on free calls won't kick in until 2021

Google expanded Meet’s availability earlier this year to give more people access to the video chat service in the midst of coronavirus-related lockdowns. The tech giant didn’t just make it available to everyone with a Gmail account, though, it also m...

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What's on TV: 'Super Mario,' 'Star Wars: Squadrons' and 'Walking Dead'

After the debates, there are some entertaining things to put on your TV this week. In case you missed it, we’re adding another new service to the mix with AMC+, which launches Thursday and will feature new episodes of The Walking Dead and its newest...

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Nice Place You Got Here

Jasmin Habezai-Fekri is a 3D artist based in Germany who has done work for companies like Square Enix.

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The fall update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available for download

Nintendo is keeping Animal Crossing: New Horizons fresh in our minds with its seasonal updates that are slowly introducing new and returning features to the hit title. After two fantastic summer updates, it's time to get ready for autumn with ver. 1.5. Available for download right now, the update will introduce pumpkins you can grow to craft new, seasonal items. There are also new skin tones available and candy for purchase at Nook's Cranny that you can give out when Jack arrives on Halloween night.

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Apple outage is causing iCloud, App Store, Music and TV+ problems

If you’re getting error messages instead of media across your Apple devices and services then you’re not alone. The company’s status page notes an outage that’s affecting many of its connected services that bring music, video and pictures to you. App...

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Galarian Slowking Is One Messed Up Pokémon

Nature is scary, especially when its flora and fauna are capable of supernatural feats. The Pokémon Company wants to make sure we don’t forget this harsh reality in the next Pokémon Sword and Shield expansion, which introduces a terrifying new addition to the Slowpoke family.

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Keep Your Mind and Hands Busy With the Best LEGO Deals

Featured Deal: LEGO Star Wars: Major Vonreg’s TIE Fighter | $56

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Contest: Win Cyber Hook for Steam and get your synthwave Spider-Man on

In today's contest, you can win trippy swinging game Cyber Hook for Steam!

If you don't know me by now, you will never never never know me. I'll be simply red with anger if you don't understand how much I love '80s neon and synthwave. Angry! Upset!

But you do know me. And you know stuff like Cyber Hook is my exact jam. Come win a Steam copy from us, or I swear I'll start crying again.

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'Pokémon Go' will roll back some of its COVID-19-related changes

As the coronavirus pandemic spread in the spring and summer, Pokémon Go rolled out a series of changes that made it easier for players to keep participating. Now Niantic Labs has announced that while some of the temporary bonuses it added will remain...

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Ginga Force Review

A top-notch shmup returns - You may not have heard of Qute Corporation but they have made some phenomenal shmups and Ginga Force is one of them. Read more: Ginga Force Review

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Amazon's personal shopping subscription now includes men's fashion

Amazon’s personal shopping subscription service, launched in July for women’s fashion, is now available for men (via TechCrunch). “Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe” will now offer thousands of menswear items from brands like Adidas, Lacoste, Scotch...

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Many Android phones will offer Bing alongside Google search in Europe

As part of an antitrust settlement in Europe, Google has to offer new Android users a choice of downloading a rival search product. These choice slots are auctioned off, and Google has just published the options that will be presented to users betwee...

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Amazon One uses your palm to approve store purchases

Amazon is putting contactless payments in the palm of your hand. No, seriously. Today, the company has revealed Amazon One, a service that uses your unique palm signature to authenticate purchases and let you into gated locations, such as offices, gy...

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Take-Two and WWE face lawsuit over WWE 2K's replication of tattoos

WWE and Take-Two Interactive could be headed to court after a tattoo artist filed suit over the replication of her artwork being featured in numerous titles in the WWE 2K series.

As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, artist Catherine Alexander is asking for remuneration after several tattoos she designed and inked for pro-wrestler Randy Orton between the years of 2003 and 2009 have featured on Orton's in-game character model. The six tattoos in question include a dove, a skull, a bible verse and several tribal patterns.

On Saturday, Illinois judge Staci Yandle offered partial summary judgement on the case. Yandle ruled that while WWE and Take-Two did copy Alexander's work in-game by recreating her art on Orton's character model, it would be up to a jury as to whether this move qualifies as copyright infringement. The outcome of this lawsuit could set an industry-changing precedent for tattoos and their representation going forward.

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Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Fold is available for pre-order starting at $2,499

After five years of development, Lenovo is almost ready to start shipping the Thinkpad X1 Fold, which it claims is the first PC with a foldable display. It has opened up pre-orders for the device, which starts at $2,499.The Thinkpad X1 Fold has a 13....

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Lenovo's 2-pound Thinkpad X1 Nano features Intel's latest processors

Lenovo has announced its latest addition to the ThinkPad X1 collection: the X1 Nano. The company says its features should make it a sleek but powerful laptop ideal for business professionals. For one thing, the newest ThinkPad is powered by 11th Gen...

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Lenovo’s latest ThinkBook 15 has built-in wireless earbuds

Lenovo’s new hardware includes the ThinkBook 15 Gen 2 i with built-in wireless earbuds. When you need the earbuds, a small storage tray pops out of the laptop, and they connect instantly. When you’re done, tuck the earbuds back inside the ThinkBook 1...

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Scientists find evidence of multiple underground lakes on Mars

Scientists believe they’ve found more evidence confirming the presence of a large reservoir of liquid water under the surface of Mars first discovered back in 2018. In fact, they believe they’ve found three more subsurface saltwater lakes surrounding...

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Noise cancellation comes to Google Meet on Android and iOS

Google Meet has introduced noise cancellation for mobile devices on Android and iOS, matching what it can already do on the desktop. The feature will be useful for folks working from home in a noisy environment who prefer to use Meet on a smartphone....

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Nissan's Re-Leaf prototype is a mobile power supply for disaster response

When a natural disaster strikes, one of the biggest challenges is getting power to the disaster site. Nissan may have a way to change that. The company has developed an all-electric emergency response vehicle concept. Dubbed the Re-Leaf, the prototyp...

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NASA schedules the first Crew Dragon operational flight for Halloween

NASA and SpaceX have set a new launch date for Crew Dragon’s first crewed operational flight: October 31st. The SpaceX Crew-1 mission follows the company’s successful Demo—2 test flight, which flew astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS. I...

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Monday 28 September 2020

Hyundai's new studio hopes to develop a 'transformer-class' vehicle

At CES 2019 Hyundai showed off something straight out of a sci-fi movie: the Elevate Ultimate Mobility Vehicle. With each wheel attached to an extendable “leg” attached to each wheel, the concept could crawl over obstacles or pick up disabled passeng...

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Top 5 CPU for Video Editing

Top 5 CPU for Video EditingAt the point when you’re assembling a video editing PC, there are a couple of key segments that you should be sure of before making a concrete decision. The most significant of those segments is the processor, or also known as CPU. Most, if not the entirety, of the present video edit programming, depends intensely […]

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Alwa's Legacy Review

Zoe returns in a lovely new adventure - It's great when underrated indie games get sequels and with that in mind, here's the wonderful Alwa's Legacy from Elden Pixels. Read more: Alwa's Legacy Review

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TCL rolls out new Roku Ready Alto sound bars with Dolby Atmos

If you’re looking for budget audio options beyond the Roku Streambar or Vizio’s soundbar lineup, TCL has unveiled several models for this fall that should pair well with its Roku-powered smart TVs. The Alto brand is expanding on last year’s lineup wi...

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A Boy And His Bike

Ed Laag is an artist at VFX company Luna Pictures, who have worked on everything from Marvel movies to Final Fantasy XV.

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Crusader Kings III Patches Are Already Works Of Art

Crusader Kings II had the best patches, so its sequel Crusader Kings III has a lot to live up to. It’s off to a good start though, with its first update today full of welcome changes both big and small.

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare Warzone Season Six Roadmap Includes a Spooky Halloween Zombies Event ‘Haunting of Verdansk’

The Call of Duty Modern Warfare Warzone Season Six roadmap is now live ahead of the new Season going live. Season Six is a huge turning point for the game as what is most likely the last Season before Warzone transitions to its Black Ops Cold War ties. It also takes place over Halloween, and the latest trailer hints that there’s a spooky event in store to celebrate the occasion both through gameplay and purchasable packs. First take a look at the new Season Six trailer below:

And here’s the full Call of Duty Modern Warfare Warzone Season Six roadmap (click to enlarge):

Call of duty modern warfare warzone season six roadmap

As teased last week, the subway system will be opening up fast travel around Verdansk, as well as the new Battle Pass adding Farah and Nikolai as operators. Of course, that’s not all that’s on the menu for what could be Modern Warfare’s iteration of Warzone’s final Season.

Along with a whole new slew of ground loot weapons to shake up the Warzone meta a bit, the free-to-play battle royale is getting a new limited-time mode called Armored Royale. Squads spawn in with an Armored Cargo Truck, sporting a turret on top. As long as the truck is in play, the squad can respawn, but should the truck be destroyed, it will also take away your team’s ability to come back into the battle. It’s still last squad standing, and you don’t have to have an active truck to win it, but keeping it running as long as possible is beneficial.

Four new maps are headed to Modern Warfare multiplayer: Station (Gunfight), Broadcast (6v6), Mialstor Tank Factory (6v6, 10v10), and Verdansk Riverside (Ground War). Some of these locations are all new, while others will be familiar to anyone who has toured Verdansk enough. MW MP is also getting a few new modes to shake things up like Gun Game TDM and a new variation on HQ that counts kills as well as HQ captures.

For this Season’s Battle Pass, Activision is calling it an “unprecedented” content offering, both on the free and paid tracks. It’s full of new vehicle skins (including a pretty crazy looking “blood spatter” skin for the buggy), licensed hip-hop and EDM music to be used as War Tracks, and two new weapons (a marksman rifle and assault rifle), a a number of new alternate Operator skins. Some of the content here is Halloween inspired to get people in the mood for what’s to come.

For two weeks, from October 20th to November 3rd, the “Haunting of Verdansk” event will be active. The roadmap only says “new modes, rewards, and more,” though certain datamines are starting to paint a picture of night modes and zombies headed to the war torn city. This period will also come with a bunch of spooky October-inspired packs in the store, including Operators and weapons.

And leaving the season open, the Season Six roadmap simply states “and more…” on the end. Given the proximity of this Season to the Black Ops Cold War release on November 13th—and Cold War’s initial reveal within Warzone—I expect that isn’t the last of the Black Ops Cold War tie-ins we’ve seen.

In more undead-related news, Treyarch is hosting a full Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Zombies reveal on September 30th after Easter egg hunters unlocked a short teaser today.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare Warzone Season Six kicks off tonight at 11 pm PT/2 am ET. Preload for the update is available now.

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Hear Me Out: Pandorum Is The Dark Souls Of Movies

It was while rewatching 2009 space horror flick Pandorum over the weekend that I realized it’s essentially a Souls movie in disguise, released just a month before Demon’s Souls arrived in the United States.

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37 Counter-Strike Coaches Banned For Cheating

As part of its attempts to crack down on cheating in Counter-Strike, and in particular one exploit that teams have been taking advantage of all year, the Esports Integrity Commission has just handed out bans for 37 coaches, some for just a few months, others for up to three years.

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Amazon Prime Day 2020: When's It Happening and the Best Deals Right Now

Featured Deal: Amazon Echo Dot (2-Pack) | Promo Code DOTPRIME2PK

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Contest: Win a World of Tanks Blitz prize pack to celebrate its release on Nintendo Switch

In today's contest you can win a key to unlock premium in-game contest for World of Tanks Blitz!

Whenever a game hits a new platform, I usually get PR reps shouting out to me to help promote it by giving away free stuff. Since I like free stuff, and you like free stuff, I pretty much always say yes. Free stuff!

In today's free stuff bonanza, we're giving away in-game goodies for any platform of World of Tanks Blitz to celebrate its recent release on Switch. That's right -- this hit Switch, so now everyone who plays can win!

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Boston Dynamics' robot dog takes an 'evening stroll' in Canada

Last week a lot of people got their first taste of an in-the-wild encounter between organic human life and one of Boston Dynamics’ advanced robots. In Northern Ontario, Canada @bloodtear noticed the Spot robot walking down the street and had an encou...

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What we're listening to: 'Mockery Manor'

In this installment of our audio confessions, senior editor Daniel Cooper explains his love for a British thriller podcast that had him hooked almost immediately.I could be wrong, but I feel like everyone has a childhood experience of visiting a shit...

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