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Why Some Wendy Williams Fans are Shading Sherri Shepherd Over Her Show Cancelation

Fans of talk show host Wendy Williams are not being shy about how they feel about the news that Sherri Shepherd's show has been cancelled.

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Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)

Jon Hicks / GamesIndustry.biz:
Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B  —  Total player spend up by 6% to $1.16 billion, total player hours down 14%, free games deliver “uplift of 40% in Steam CCUs”

Xbox Game Pass February 2026 games include Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Madden NFL 26

Xbox Game Pass February 2026 lineup features a standout Avatar game, Madden NFL 26, High on Life 2, and more.

Millions of books died so Claude could live

When ChatGPT launched, in November of 2022, it started a race that almost immediately consumed the tech industry. OpenAI didn't invent the concept of AI, but most of the state-of-the-art technology was confined to research labs at companies and institutions around the world. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. And better than anyone expected. So many […]

Orion, which has developed an AI platform meant to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Orion, which has developed an AI platform meant to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M  —  The Israeli company says its autonomous platform replaces legacy DLP tools with AI agents that track data in real time …