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Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp affected by global Meta outage
- Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, has experienced a global outage.
- Users have reported issues with accessing the social media apps and the WhatsApp messaging service.
- Downdetector, a website monitoring service, recorded a significant increase in complaints regarding Facebook and Meta app outages.
- This outage is not as severe as the 2021 Facebook outage but is not the first time Meta services have experienced worldwide outages this year.
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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024
- World of Warcraft finally getting housing is the most substance-free announcement you can get apart from those “announcement for an announcement” announcements.
- City of Heroes has an official server again. That’s a real win after twelve years of waiting.
- Cryptic gets sold off for scrap, which is a real loss to the industry.
- 2024 saw rampant, horrid, unrelenting layoffs across the MMO industry, which seems to have shocked insiders.
- Stars Reach, the long-in-the-works game from Raph Koster, was finally unveiled as a giant potential ‘hey, we’re entering new territory’ signpost.
- Concord, the Sony hero shooter, folded almost instantly, a baffling product misfire.
- Seeing Gigantic come back after its original short run was a pretty big shocker.
- Palia, which came out to a small splash, was saved by Daybreak, which few would have predicted.
- ArcheAge sunsetted despite being a reliable mid-tier performer, and its sequel is going in weird directions.
- Microsoft finally got Final Fantasy XIV only to make it arbitrarily way more expensive on the console, blowing it.
- Jagex was sold for the fourth time in eight years, creating questions about what’s going on.
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Will the world's fastest supercomputer please stand up?
- Companies like Oracle and xAI are claiming to have the world's largest and fastest supercomputers, making it difficult to determine the true leader.
- Supercomputing power is not solely determined by cluster size, but also factors like networking, programming, and power efficiency.
- Nvidia's largest customers, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI, likely have the most powerful clusters.
- The race to build more advanced models requires a combination of compute power and efficiency.
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Open Source AI Is Leading to Breakthroughs in Healthcare, Education and Entrepreneurship
- Open source AI is leading to breakthroughs in healthcare, education and entrepreneurship.
- Llama is one of the open-source models that developers around the world are using to shape the future and solve pressing global issues.
- At the City of Hope National Medical Center, researchers are using LLMs to build tools for cancer doctors, including a tool that matches cancer patients with relevant clinical trials.
- OtonoCo uses open source LLMs to power Gene Outlook, a platform designed to accelerate discovery and extraction of insights from data, particularly in the field of genomics.
- DLYog Lab was co-founded by Tarun Chawdhury and Mousumi Chawdhury, who were inspired by their experience with their son, who has special needs.
- Pratham Education Foundation (PEF), located in India, used Llama to build a solution for young mothers to learn about childcare and early childhood education.
- HiiiWAV is an incubator based in Oakland, California, teaching artists, particularly Black musicians, how to build startups using AI.
- Entrepreneurs in the HiiiWAV incubator have used open source AI to build a variety of tools, including GooRoo, a mobile voice-assisted record producer and Choice Scores, an AI-powered platform.
- AIIRA, the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture, builds AI tools to help agriculturists with their daily operations.
- These innovative projects exhibit the unique advantages of open source AI and demonstrate how transparent and accessible source code allows for collaboration, ingenuity, and flexibility.
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World of Warcraft Needs a Tinker Class
- World of Warcraft players are discussing the possibility of a new class called the Tinker.
- The Tinker class would be a technology-focused fighter concept utilizing gadgets and intelligence.
- The class could have various playstyles such as tanking, healing, or support.
- The Tinker class fits well with Warcraft's longstanding theme of wacky technology and could be a symbol of independence in the game's future story.
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Best VR games on PC 2024
- The release of the Meta Quest 3 has kickstarted a golden era for VR games.
- The majority of these games can be played on any major VR gaming headset.
- Handpicked selection of the top VR games to play using the best VR headsets.
- For those preferring traditional gaming, check out the best PC games.
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Introducing NipsApp Studios Metaverse Schooling: Revolutionizing Education
- NipsApp Studios is revolutionizing the conventional framework of education by pouring the fundamentals of education into advanced metaverse game development and virtual reality application development with their newly launched Metaverse School and University initiative.
- NipsApp can be described as an absolutely new educational universe providing an interactive and immersive virtual learning environment for both students and teachers to come together, collaborate, and grow in ways never known before.
- The system offers safe key access with a feature of personalization and safe learning environment both for learners and teachers with the use of VR application development.
- Inclusivity is a core principle of NipsApp’s Metaverse School, with dedicated sections for students who are disabled and those belonging to autism spectrums on the platform.
- NipsApp democratizes education through technology to ensure that the future built is borderless where knowledge has no bounds.
- NipsApp Studios plans to expand by recruiting game developers and specialists in virtual reality to improve functionalities and incorporate higher features into its platform.
- Through the integration of metaverse game development, virtual reality application creation, and sophisticated educational resources, the platform ensures that the learning experience is no longer limited to the four walls of a traditional classroom.
- NipsApp Studios is not only revolutionizing education but also recasting the way we conceive and interact with knowledge.
- As the movement continues, it promises to make a significant impact upon students, educators, and the greater technological landscape.
- NipsApp has more than 14 years in the game development world, making it a trusted partner for numerous businesses and institutions around the world.
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Heroes of the Storm closes out 2024 with its fourth balancing and bugfixing patch of the year
- Heroes of the Storm closes out 2024 with its fourth balancing and bugfixing patch of the year
- This latest patch brings balance adjustments to heroes, brings back the Snow Brawl map, and applies bug fixes.
- Blizzard's maintenance mode MOBA Heroes of the Storm continues to receive patches.
- The patch offers something different for players who still enjoy the game.
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Meta Sounds Pre-Holiday Alarm As Scam Incidents Jump 56%
- Meta has launched a pre-holiday anti-scam awareness campaign to keep users safe.
- Scammers are using various tactics like fake coupons, gift cards, and non-existent Christmas decorations.
- Meta advises users to be cautious of phishing emails and texts and to avoid sharing personal information.
- Scam-related fraud has increased by 56%, making it the leading form of fraud.
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 497: Walking down the Path of Exile 2
- Path of Exile 2 enters early access
- Elder Scrolls Online cancels NA anniversary event
- EverQuest releases The Outer Brood expansion
- ArcheAge shut down in Korea by XLGAMES
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Some Classic Call Of Duty Games Might Be Coming To Game Pass
- Xbox Game Pass may be adding some classic Call of Duty games to its lineup.
- Activision has quietly added the PC versions of Call of Duty, Call of Duty United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to the Microsoft Store.
- These games were likely added to the PC store in preparation for their potential inclusion in the PC Game Pass subscription service.
- It is unclear if these classic Call of Duty games will also be added to Xbox Game Pass.
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World of Warcraft has added a whopping 38,000 quests in 20 years
- Originally, Blizzard intended to create around 100 quests for World of Warcraft, but ended up adding thousands due to their popularity.
- Former Blizzard VP Rob Pardo mentioned that testers of WoW wanted more quests, so the team added 'ten times the amount' of planned quests.
- World of Warcraft currently has over 38,000 quests across all its expansions, with more to come in future content patches.
- Upcoming additions like Siren Isle and Undermine in 2025 are expected to introduce more quests to the game.
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Phhhoto’s antitrust claim against Meta is heading back to the courts
- A U.S. appeals court has overturned a decision in an antitrust lawsuit against Meta, allowing Phhhoto to argue that Meta behaved in an anti-competitive manner.
- Phhhoto alleges that Meta copied its core features, suppressed competition, and manipulated its algorithmic feed on Instagram to suppress Phhhoto's content.
- Phhhoto claims that it discovered the algorithmic manipulation when a video posted on a different account received more likes and views than the same video posted on its own account.
- The case will be sent back to the district court to be tried.
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AI-fuelled cloud storage boom threatens Irish climate targets, report warns
- Ireland is facing a threat to its climate targets due to the rapid growth of AI-fuelled cloud storage.
- Datacentres in Ireland, driven by big technology companies like Amazon and Meta, are monopolising clean energy generation, jeopardizing decarbonisation commitments.
- Between 2017 and 2023, datacentres consumed the same amount of energy as wind power generation over the same period.
- By 2030, energy demand from datacentres is expected to exceed that of Ireland's entire industrial sector, posing a challenge to energy resources and emissions reduction goals.
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How to Avoid Scams Online This Holiday Season
- Facebook has launched an anti-scam awareness campaign for the holiday season, sharing safety tools it has introduced in Facebook Marketplace, Whatsapp and Instagram, as well as disruptive activities against common scams.
- Facebook has partnered with an internet safety expert, Rachel Tobac, in raising awareness about scamming activities this holiday season.
- The post identified three common scams consumers might expect: promise of Christmas gift boxes; discount holiday decorations; and fake holiday coupons.
- Facebook offers tools to prevent scams, such as alerts on Marketplace, context cards on Whatsapp and reminder to be aware of suspicious interactions on Instagram.
- Facebook highlights how it works with financial services institutions and peers in counteracting scams, which are becoming an increasingly sophisticated activity.
- The report also identified the work Facebook does in taking down sites linked to scams, including phishing domains and fake accounts.
- Facebook is also collaborating with public figures and NGOs to raise awareness about scams, including in regions such as Latin America and Europe.
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