Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life We woke up this morning to the excellent news that Nintendo has added Mario Paint to the Nintendo Switch Online SNES library, along with mouse control support for Nobunaga’s Ambition and Mario Super Picross. However, you may have missed another new feature of the Super NES app on Switch 1 and 2: remappable buttons, …
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Key Questions Answered Q: What did this study find about hate speech and psychiatric disorders?A: Posts in online hate speech communities show speech-pattern similarities to posts in communities for personality disorders like borderline, narcissistic, and antisocial personality disorder. Q: Does this mean people with psychiatric disorders are more hateful?A: No. The researchers emphasize that they cannot know if users had …
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Mario Paint is the latest Nintendo game to be added to the Nintendo Switch Online library. A SNES classic, Mario Paint encourages all forms of creativity, including art, music, and animation, and — up until now, anyway — was entirely unplayable for anyone who didn’t have the game and the console system from the first time around. Interestingly, the 1992 …
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From Death Stranding 2: On The Beach The UK recently introduced the Online Safety Act, which contains new requirements for social media platforms to protect users, particularly minors, from illegal or harmful content. As part of the regulation, users must now verify their age to access platforms that may contain adult content, including services like Discord and Reddit. To comply, …
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Payment companies such as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe are facing public backlash, including from billionaire Elon Musk, for pressuring online gaming platforms to remove hundreds of games in response to a campaign from an Australian anti-porn lobby group. Itch.io, an independent gaming platform, last week removed all adult or not-safe-for-work (NSFW) games from appearing in its library in a hasty …
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Searches and sign-ups for VPN providers have surged in the wake of online age checks that were introduced on July 25 as part of the UK’s Online Safety Act. ProtonVPN reported a more than 1,400 percent increase in sign-ups in the UK after age verification requirements took effect. “Unlike previous surges, this one is sustained, and is significantly higher than …
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The Exynos 2600’s GPU has posted impressive benchmark scores online (image source: Google Gemini) Benchmarks of the Exynos 2600’s Xclipse 960 GPU have shown up online. It comes with 8 CUs and outperforms current-gen offerings by a wide margin. While yesterday’s Exynos 2600 Geekbench results were less than ideal, the SoC has reappeared on the platform, this time with remarkably …
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The Chinese GPU industry has been making massive strides in recent days, and now, the Moore Threads S90 gaming GPU has been tested, revealing performance competitive with NVIDIA’s mainstream offerings. Moore Threads MTT S90 Beats Out NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 Across Multiple Tests, Credits to Optimized Drivers When you look at some of the consumer graphics offerings from China, they have …
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A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. The BBC reports that around 6,000 porn sites have said they will start verifying users’ ages to comply with the Online Safety Act, although at least one major site was not requiring age checks as of Friday morning. The law also requires that online …
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A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. The BBC reports that around 6,000 porn sites have said they will start verifying users’ ages to comply with the Online Safety Act, although at least one major site was not requiring age checks as of Friday morning. The law also requires that online …
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