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Image: Sony Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the studio behind its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline last month after a disastrous launch. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation studio business group, says Firewalk Studios will close alongside Neon Koi, a mobile game studio. “We have spent considerable time these past few months exploring all our options,” says Hulst. “After much thought, we have determined the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio. I want to thank all of Firewalk for their craftsmanship, creative spirit and dedication.” Hulst says Concord didn’t hit Sony’s targets and that the PlayStation maker will “take the lessons learned from Concord and continue... Continue reading…

Apple just unveiled its new M4 Mac mini. The 2024 model brings a top-to-bottom redesign with several new features and tweaks. Here, we'll cover nine new M4 Mac mini features you need to know about before this computer is released next week. All-new design: In a five-by-five-inch box, the Mac mini is less than half the size of the previous generation. It also weighs around 1.5 pounds. Apple says it has an innovative thermal architecture to avoid overheating. New power button: Apple placed the power button of the Mac mini on the bottom of this device. M4 chip: With M4, Mac mini delivers up to 1.8x faster CPU performance and 2.2x faster GPU performance over the M1 model. M4 Pro: This brand-new chip can be configured with up to 14 cores, including 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores; M4 Pro also provides multithreaded performance. With up to 20 cores, the M4 Pro GPU is up to twice as powerful as the GPU in M4, and both chips bring hardware-accelerated ray tracing to the Mac mini. Image source: Apple Inc. Memory: The M4 Mac mini starts with 16GB of RAM. Previously, Apple offered an 8 GB version. There are also options with 24GB, 32GB, and 64GB. Multiple monitors support: With the M4 Pro chip, it supports up to three displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz, up to two displays with one at 6K resolution at 60Hz and one with up to 8K resolution at 60Hz or 4K resolution at 230Hz. Thunderbolt 5 ports: For the M4 Pro Mac mini, Apple updated the back ports with Thunderbolt 5 support over Thunderbolt 4 of the previous generation. More ports than ever: Apple offers two USB-C ports on the front of the Mac mini. On the back, it has a Gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI, DisplayPort, and three Thunderbolt 4 or 5 depending on the chip. Carbon neutral: Apple says this is the first carbon-neutral Mac, as the company aims to eliminate all its pollutants by 2030. Don't Miss: macOS Sequoia 15: Features, Apple Intelligence, download, beta, Mac compatibility The post 9 new M4 Mac mini features: Everything you need to know appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $18 portable power bank, $120 electric standing desk, $220 TP-Link WiFi 7 router, more Today’s deals: Govee AI Sync Box 2, $55 Vizio soundbar, $499 M2 Mac mini, Acer Aspire Go 15 Slim laptop, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $350+ free Today’s deals: Free LED smart bulbs, $64 off Black Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2, $60 Keurig coffee maker, more

A 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet known as the Imago Mundi, or the “Babylonian Map of the World,” recently led British Museum researchers to an astonishing find: a reference to a Great Flood story that parallels the Biblical account of Noah’s Ark. Originally unearthed in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city near present-day Baghdad, Iraq, this unique clay tablet has challenged archaeologists and scholars for over a century. However, a recent breakthrough in the deciphering of the cuneiform script on the tablet's back has uncovered new details that connect ancient Babylonian beliefs with flood narratives familiar to many around the world. History of Maps: From Ancient Artifacts to Modern Marvels Charles Hapgood and the Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings A Map of Babylonian Cosmology This remarkable tablet, barely larger than a hand, features the oldest known map of the world. “If you look carefully,” explains Dr. Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum in a British Museum video, “you will see that the flat surface of the clay has a double circle drawn...with cuneiform writing in it which says it's the 'Bitter River’.” Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient WritingsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyMyths & LegendsAsiaRead Later 

With national polls indicating he is surging in the presidential race, former President Donald Trump announced plans to seize assets of criminal gangs and cartels to create a fund to help victims of migrant crimes if he returns to the White House.

A U.S. appeals court said three Muslim men cannot sue FBI agents after being placed on the "No Fly List" for refusing to become government informants.

Election officials across key battleground states are optimistic that results will be faster than 2020, but still urged patience to determine the outcome of this year's presidential election, Politico reported Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country's nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the country's nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.

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