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The metaverse didn’t die. It moved inside Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Jorg Neumann interview
The scale of the ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is pretty astounding. Made with 800 game developers over four years, the title has a seriously impressive set of numbers. I got a big download of the ambition at a preview event at the Grand Canyon, where the game makers flew us over the canyon and compared it to the simulation. The fligh…Read More
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China startup's kerosene-powered rocket fails test flight
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JetBlue flight makes emergency landing after smoke alert in cargo hold
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Move fast and break things? Not again, and not with AI.
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Full interview: Israeli President Isaac Herzog on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan"
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Inside the poll numbers: Which key groups have moved — and which ones haven't — since Biden's exit
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Hospitals in northern Israel to move patients to underground bunker
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Janet Jackson says she's heard Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing election disinformation
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Jorge Garcia looks back at 'Lost' 20 years later and the role of a lifetime
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Flight makes emergency landing after mouse climbs out of boxed meal
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Microsoft's Three Mile Island deal
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Why Kelly Clarkson chooses a 'safe' interviewing approach. Her talk show kicks off its sixth season
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Russian prisoner freed in swap urges UK not to let hundreds more ‘die off’
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Harris weighs in on Taylor Swift, ‘enjoyable’ debate with Trump in Wired interview
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