GamingNews

EA and Star Wars game director Stig Asmussen part ways

September 14, 2023
Stig Asmussen, who served as game director for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its sequel Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Electronic Arts. Both titles were critical and commercial successes. Fallen Order shipped over 20 million copies while the sequel was the best selling game of April 2023. Asmussen was a key leader at EA’s subsidiary studio Respawn Entertainment and it’s not clear what prompted…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Senate begins private AI meetings, says tech to ‘impact nearly every area of life’

September 14, 2023
After months of buildup, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) finally opened the U.S. Senate’s inaugural bipartisan AI Insight Forum this morning, in which all 100 senators have the opportunity to get a crash course on a variety of issues related to AI, including copyright, workforce issues, national security, high risk AI models, existential risks, privacy, transparency and…
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CryptoNews

'What Is an NFT' the Most Searched for Crypto-Related Phrase in the US — Study – Featured Bitcoin News

September 14, 2023
The phrase “What is an NFT?” has been the most searched for crypto-related term with 39,459 average monthly queries, an analysis of nearly 300 questions has shown. With a search rate of 26,283, the queries for the phrase “What is the blockchain” were 1,681% more than the average search volume for the analyzed questions. U.S. Residents Most Curious About NFTs An analysis of frequently…
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CryptoNews

Coinbase Founder Brian Armstrong Reveals Plans to Integrate Lightning Network – Bitcoin News

September 14, 2023
According to Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, Coinbase is actively working on integrating the Lightning Network (LN), the second-layer scaling protocol. Armstrong emphasized that bitcoin “is the most important asset in crypto” and added that the integration of LN would require more time. Coinbase on Track to Adopt Lightning Network, Says CEO Brian Armstrong Brian Armstrong has…
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