Lucid Group Looks On in Apprehension as Saudi Arabia Actively Courts Tesla [Update: Elon Musk Lashes Out]

Billionaire Elon Musk in typical fashion took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to announce his intention to attend Teknofest in Turkey next year.

In Saudi Arabia, more than 70% of the population is under the age of 35. And these days they are growing up reading manga (comics), watching anime films and TV shows, and playing video games. It’s the perfect workforce for Manga Productions, a Riyadh company that is in all of those businesses.

Google has unveiled a new feature, Google-Extended, offering website publishers the ability to exclude their data from contributing to the development of Google's AI models. While websites will still remain accessible through Google Search, this tool provides publishers with greater control over the use of their content for AI training purposes. In effect, Google will stop using the data of those publishers who opt out.

Thousands of people are cheating at Wordle by looking up the answer and popping it in as their first guess, according to a new study of players’ daily guesses.

Anime series are known for their intense battles. Good versus evil is constantly in conflict within them. That makes them perfect subjects for fighting games, and these are among the best on PC.

Three months after its July 2022 debut on the Nasdaq, FaZe Holdings Inc. threw an exclusive party at a San Diego nightclub, hiring the rapper Travis Scott to promote its stable of video-game stars and YouTube personalities.

Microsoft's Sept. 21 event in New York was all about the AI, but it also included news about an updated Redmond hardware favorite, the Surface Laptop Go 3. The most affordable clamshell laptop in the Surface lineup, this is also the smallest, lightest, and most portable "true" laptop from Microsoft. (Technically, the Surface Go 3 and Surface Go 4 for Business are smaller and cheaper, but they are detachable 2-in-1s, which is to say, tablets first.)

Sega’s next game in the Like A Dragon franchise, formerly known in the West as Yakuza, is coming in January. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth sends the franchise to Hawaii, where protagonist Ichiban Kasuga travels in search of his mother, only to wind up penniless and at rock bottom. Former Yakuza hero Kazuma Kiryu is also playable in Infinite Wealth, and based on Sega’s first gameplay trailer for the next Like A Dragon game, everything the duo will do is beyond ridiculous.

Hold on to your breath folks. Microsoft seriously had a talk about acquiring Nintendo, and we don’t mean 20 years ago. This was a discussion they had as recently as August of 2020.

New York Comic-Con is right around the corner and for Funko Pop! fans that means one thing. New figures are coming. Starting on October 12, Funko has offered up a first look at a few of the special edition Pops that will be on sale during NYCC weekend. A Monkey D. Luffy wanted poster Pop!, and a Dark Magician Girl Yu-Gi-Oh figure. Don't despair if you won't be attending NYCC either as both Pops should be available to buy online.

After the strong opening of Season 1, the is hotly anticipated by many fans. The series follows Dwight Manfredi, who belonged to the Italian mob and was released from prison after 25 years. As he returns, he gets sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma, a place that lacks opportunities to make it big. But, as soon as Manfredi arrives, he makes the town his own with his wits, courage, and experience. But when will the King of Tulsa return in another season?

While I love Spider-Man just as much as the next guy, I felt underwhelmed by Marvel’s Spider-Man 1. However, after watching the latest PlayStation State of Play, I’m impressed and excited to experience Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 looks to add a lot of Batman Arkham City features into the game and utilize the power of the PlayStation 5 which I think will improve it greatly. Here are the six things I think will make Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 even better than Marvel’s Spider-Man 1.