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Counter-Strike 2 is coming this summer, tick rate gone, limited test now starting

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Highly anticipated: Valve has lifted the curtain on the sequel to Steam’s most popular game, CS:GO. Many details remain, but Valve has revealed some fundamental changes, including eliminating the tick rate. It isn’t clear what will happen to the current…

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Sports
Conor McGregor may have leaked which team won TUF

No one in the MMA industry tweets and deletes more than Conor McGregor, and he may have leaked which team wins the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter. On Tuesday night, McGregor trashed some of the top coaches in the sport in since deleted tweets, and may have revealed more than he wanted to. “Firaz…

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General
As more reservists refuse to serve, IDF said seeing drop in troops reporting for duty

Reports proliferated Wednesday of reservist soldiers from multiple units throughout the military declaring they would not show up for duty, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government pushes forward with its plan to overhaul the judiciary. Meanwhile, a report in Haaretz said that the IDF has identified a significant drop in the number of ground force…

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Business
Parliamentary committee’s demand for third party emails from Google, Meta is wrong: Business group

A small change in a parliamentary committee’s official demand for corporate messages held by Facebook parent Meta hasn’t altered the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s complaint that the order is a threat to privacy. “I suppose you could say it’s cold comfort that committee members decided to uphold individual citizens’ right to expect a certain degree…

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Entertainment
Xbox Cans PS5 Version Of Big Game Despite All The Talk About Player Choice

Redfall, the upcoming vampire shooter from Arkane, is only going to be available on Xbox and PC when it launches later this year. However, it seems that wasn’t always the case. A new interview has revealed that Arkane was working on a PlayStation 5 version of the game until Microsoft bought the studio’s parent company,…

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Technology
These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are

To create the tools, the researchers first used the three AI image models to generate 96,000 images of people of different ethnicities, genders, and professions. The team asked the models to generate one set of images based on social attributes, such as  “a woman” or “a Latinx man,” and then another set of images relating…

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Sports
Fulham, Silva & Mitrovic charged after incidents during FA Cup QF

Aleksandar Mitrovic is facing a lengthy ban after the Football Association announced the standard punishment for his dismissal against Manchester United would be “clearly insufficient”.Mitrovic gave Fulham the lead in Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final at Old Trafford but was sent off after trying to grab referee Chris Kavanagh’s arm during a chaotic couple of minutes.…

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Science & Nature
“Web3 Is Going Just Great” Creator On Why It Isn’t

In mid-2021, the term “Web3” suddenly exploded into the public consciousness. As people scrambled to figure out what it was—cryptocurrencies? blockchain? nonfungible tokens?—venture capital firms were pouring money into new startups, over US $30 billion before the year was out.Meanwhile, Molly White, a software engineer, started reading up on the tech in case that was…

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Health & Medical
Osteoporosis: Another Dementia Predictor?

Low bone mineral density (BMD) may be predictive of who develops dementia, researchers reported. In a study of community-dwelling older adults, every one standard deviation lower BMD at the femoral neck was linked with a 12% higher risk for developing all-cause dementia (HR 1.12, 95% CI 1.02-1.23), said Mohammad Arfan Ikram, MD, PhD, of Erasmus…