Larian publishing director Michael Douse has explained the studio’s thinking in the wake of the gruesome reveal trailer for Divinity, the Baldur’s Gate 3 studio’s next big role-playing game.
Divinity was announced at The Game Awards with a CG trailer that features extreme gore and sex. It begins with medieval fantasy villagers preparing for a ritual sacrifice, which involves burning a man…
NYSE Accelerates Crypto’s Path to Mainstream Capital With Expanding Public Listings
December 16, 2025
NYSE tightened its grip on blockbuster IPOs while opening a clear, regulated route for crypto companies and digital asset products to tap U.S. public markets, signaling digital assets are moving from the fringe into mainstream capital formation.
NYSE Signals Structural Shift…
South Africa’s crypto market is accelerating into a higher-confidence phase as the FSCA confirms 420 CASP license applications, approvals stacking up, compliance pathways clarifying, and institutional-grade oversight reinforcing momentum around which firms are positioned…
India Raids Alleged Crypto MLM Empire as $275M Money Laundering Probe Expands Across States
December 16, 2025
India’s financial crime agency has intensified a sweeping crackdown on an alleged cryptocurrency Ponzi empire, targeting a sprawling fake crypto MLM network accused of draining billions of rupees from investors across multiple northern states.
India’s Enforcement Directorate Targets Alleged Crypto Ponzi Network
India’s federal money laundering watchdog launched coordinated searches tied to…
Surprise! 2 private spacecraft rendezvous in orbit on newly revealed 'Remora' mission
December 16, 2025
Two commercial spacecraft pulled off a surprise rendezvous in Earth orbit recently, showcasing skills that could pave the way for satellite servicing missions down the road.
The milestone came on a mission called Remora, a newly revealed collaboration between the companies…
Atoms and molecules from Earth’s atmosphere have been traveling across space to settle on the moon for billions of years, new research has found, explaining a lunar mystery that goes back to the Apollo missions.
Not only do the findings point to a way in which a…
Why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS' close Earth approach is an early Christmas gift for astronomers
December 16, 2025
Darryl Z. Seligman is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.
Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered —- an asteroid or comet that originated outside of our solar system and was discovered passing through. Astronomers can glean information about celestial bodies by observing the light reflected off them with…
After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology – a system to automate compensation of website content when accessed by machines, like AI web…
In a world that’s rapidly filling up with AI-generated content, a startup called First Voyage wants to help people avoid all the AI slop blasted their way and instead build the habits they want. And it’s doing that by way of an AI companion app: Called Momo Self…
AI lets anyone create videos, but many AI video creation tools lack support for audio. Mirelo is building AI that adds soundtracks to match the video’s action.
Earlier this year, the Berlin-based startup released Mirelo SFX v1.5, an AI model that interprets videos to add synced sound effects (SFX).
This attracted attention from VCs gearing up for a generative AI revolution in games. The…
