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Farewell physical media — some Nintendo Switch 2 games aren’t on the carts

It’s a good thing that the Nintendo Switch 2 comes with a base 256 GB of internal storage — eight times more than the original Switch’s paltry 32 GB — because some Nintendo Switch 2 games won’t come on the cartridge at all; instead, so-called “game-key cards” will simply contain a “key” which you will […]

Seattle Seahawks’ Richard Sherman Shares Horrifying Home Video of Shocking Robbery Attempt

Police say the latest high-profile individual to be targeted by a group of robbery suspects was Seattle Seahawks player Richard Sherman. What’s even more horrifying was the video footage he retrieved from the incident.

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Shenmue is the most influential game of all time, according to new poll

A public poll to determine the most influential video game of all time, held by the U.K. screen arts academy BAFTA, has returned an extremely surprising (if not totally unworthy) result: Shenmue, Yu Suzuki’s wildly ambitious 1999 Sega Dreamcast game about one young man’s search for justice (and capsule toys). Shenmue beat more routinely canonized […]

Apple shares drop 7%+ after hours after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Apple shares drop 7%+ after hours after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production  —  The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs.  But now that may not matter.

Tech stocks fall in late trading after President Trump announced new tariffs: Amazon drops as much as ~6%, Meta ~5%, Nvidia ~6%, Alphabet ~3%, and Microsoft ~3% (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Tech stocks fall in late trading after President Trump announced new tariffs: Amazon drops as much as ~6%, Meta ~5%, Nvidia ~6%, Alphabet ~3%, and Microsoft ~3%  —  Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …