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How Dispatch survived COVID-19 and evolved into a familiar Telltale-like game

Like any superhero worth their salt, Dispatch has an interesting origin story. AdHoc Studio was founded in 2018 by Telltale vets Michael Choung, Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, and Pierre Shorette. Originally, AdHoc was going to work in multimedia spaces, and not strictly games, with chief creative officer Shorette telling Variety in 2019, “As a group […]

Ted Cruz Assures Texans He Working Tirelessly To Get Vacation Refunded

KERRVILLE, TX—Promising grieving Texans he would do everything in his power to make things right in the wake of last week’s deadly floods, Sen. Ted Cruz assured his constituents Wednesday that he was working tirelessly to get the rest of his Greek vacation refunded. “I have spent countless hours on the phone persuading Capital One […]

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Sources: OpenAI plans an AI-powered web browser with some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans an AI-powered web browser with some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites  —  OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) market-dominating Google Chrome …

What Trump and Netanyahu want from each other

President Donald Trump sounded confident on Sunday when he told a reporter that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas could be reached by the end of the week. Israel has reportedly proposed a 60-day ceasefire and the return of 10 living and 18 deceased hostages, out of approximately 50 remaining Israeli hostages, of whom […]

MaintainX, which makes maintenance and operations software, raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $254M (Ateev Bhandari/Reuters)

Ateev Bhandari / Reuters:
MaintainX, which makes maintenance and operations software, raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $254M  —  MaintainX more than doubled its valuation to $2.5 billion in its latest fundraising round, the equipment maintenance startup said on Wednesday …