A crowd gathered at the site of Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub massacre Thursday evening to protest the state’s removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk meant to honor the 49 people gunned down at the LGBTQ+ venue nine years ago. Joe Byrnes / Central Florida Public Media The crosswalk had been painted over during the night. But on Thursday, people colored it again …
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Screenshot via The Pokémon Company This mechanic will be a bigger issue elsewhere. | Published: Aug 18, 2025 01:30 pm Lucky Pokémon fans who attended the Pokémon World Championships 2025 last weekend got their hands on a Pokémon Legends Z-A demo. Among many discoveries, fans learned that poisoned Pokémon will take poison damage outside of battle. This mechanic will return …
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Prince William ‘forever home’ demands instant removal of residents Prince William and Kate Middleton’s home in Windsor might mean other families would have to vacate. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who are set to move at the eight bedroom Forest Lodge towards the end of the year, would need current residents to make space. “They were told to move …
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Researchers at St. Petersburg State Technical University “leti” have developed a compact, fully domestic thermal imaging system that can monitor blood flow during the surgical removal of tumors. The technology, currently undergoing trials at the a.l. polenov russian scientific research neurosurgical institute, shows promise for helping surgeons assess tissue microcirculation before, during, and after operations — a critical factor in …
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The removal of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner Billy Long after just two months in the post came after the federal tax collection agency said it could not release some information on taxpayers suspected of being in the US illegally, it was reported on Saturday. The IRS and the White House had clashed over using tax data to help locate …
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Smithsonian Institution says it will update exhibit to reflect all impeachments of US presidents following backlash. The parent organisation of a top-visited history museum in the United States has denied that political pressure played a role in the removal of a display about the impeachments of US President Donald Trump. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs the National Museum of American History …
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For Immediate Release: July 28, 2025 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending the removal of the voluntary hold for ambulatory patients who may now receive Elevidys, a Sarepta Therapeutics gene therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). The FDA’s investigation has concluded that the death of the 8-year-old boy is unrelated to the gene therapy product itself . …
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Steam logo and games with banned stamp (Image source: Steam with edits) Many Steam games are no longer available at the request of payment providers. Ana Valens, formerly of Vice, believes that activist groups have too much influence over payment processors and Valve’s marketplace. The writer who labels the censorship as unjustified now finds herself out of work. Recently, Valve …
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106 PS4 and PS Vita games are being removed from the PlayStation Store in a massive delisting on the Japanese PlayStation Store. None of the games included are PS5 games, but they are all playable on PS5 and PS5 Pro, so the mass removal does impact PS5 and PS5 Pro users. The good news is that none of the games …
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Last week, Steam quietly announced a new rule banning “certain kinds of adult-only content” that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks.” Following this, reporter Ana Valens wrote a series of stories on Vice’s video games vertical Waypoint about an organization called Collective Shout that took credit for the …
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