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PlayStation Plus monthly free games for July have been revealed. Starting July 4, PS Plus Essential, Extra, Premium, and Deluxe subscribers can add Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Alan Wake Remastered, and Endling – Extinction is Forever to their game library. Access ends on July 31, after which players will need to hold onto their subscriptions to keep playing.

The Last of Us Part II and Horizon Forbidden West each cost over $200 million (about Rs. 1,640 crore) to develop, poorly redacted court documents from Sony revealed. The document showed that The Last of Us Part II had roughly 200 full-time employees working on it and was budgeted at $220 million (about Rs. 1,805 crore). Meanwhile, Horizon Forbidden West cost $212 mill...

BlackBerry posted a surprise profit for the first quarter on Wednesday. The cybersecurity business of the Canadian technology company benefited from higher client spending, while its enterprise software continued to gain traction in the automotive sector. The US-listed shares of the company rose 5.79 percent in extended trading.

Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the "godfathers of AI", urged governments on Wednesday to step in and make sure that machines do not take control of society. "Before AI is smarter than us, I think the people developing it should be encouraged to put a lot of work into understanding how it might try and take control away," Hinton said.

A group of anonymous individuals sued OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits. OpenAI has allegedly violated privacy laws by secretly scraping 300 billion words from the internet, tapping “books, articles, websites and posts — including personal i...

Oracle is spending "billions" of dollars on chips from Nvidia as it expands a cloud computing service targeting a new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) companies, Oracle founder and Chairman Larry Ellison said on Wednesday. It is also spending on central processor units (CPUs) from Ampere Computing. Oracle's cloud division is working to gain ground against Amazon W...

Shares of US chipmakers fell on Wednesday following a report that the Biden administration was planning new curbs on export of computing chips for artificial intelligence to China as early as July. Companies such as Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, which rely on the world's second largest economy for at least a fifth of their revenue, fell between 0.8 percent...

Twitter's many advertisers have earlier pulled back on their marketing commitment on Twitter. Now, the company's new chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, is working on a slew of measures to bring back advertisers who left the platform under Elon Musk's ownership. She is in talks about a broader partnership with Google. Twitter also hopes to renegotiate multiple contracts...

Proxmox has unveiled the latest version of their open-source backup solution with Proxmox Backup Server 3.0. The latest version is built on Debian 12 "Bookworm"; however, it incorporates the newer Linux kernel 6.2 along with ZFS 2.1.12. Existing users of Proxmox Backup Server 2.x can smoothly upgrade to version 3 via a “tested and well-documented” upgrade path. (more…)

Activision Blizzard said its studio that developed Call of Duty would set up shop in Barcelona, putting into action its pledge to invest in Europe after Brussels approved Microsoft's $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,66,000 crore) acquisition of the company in May. The US company said on Wednesday its game developer Infinity Ward, which created the blockbuster first-person s...