Ex-Star Wars actor Gina Carano wants courts to force Lucasfilm to give her job back using Elon Musk’s money, praises Twitter as ‘one of the last glimmers of hope for free speech in the world’

Gina Carano, who used to play Cara Dune in Disney’s The Mandalorian before being dropped by the show following “abhorrent and unacceptable” posts on social media, is taking Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm to court to get her job back, and (via Kotaku) Elon Musk is funding the suit. Carano was dropped from The Mandalorian in 2021,…

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Nvidia Blackwell: What we expect and what we want to see from Nvidia’s next-gen GeForce GPUs

Expected release date: Q4 2024 – Q1 2025Codename: BlackwellNaming scheme: Expected to be the RTX 50-seriesProcess: Rumoured to be TSMC 3nm Nothing stirs up the internet rumour mill quite like the speculation around a new generation of graphics cards, and Nvidia’s next generation GPU architecture, believed to be codenamed Blackwell, is currently the source of…

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An old AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas etched onto the chip. They don’t make em like that anymore, eh?

When AMD’s Athlon K7 CPU was launched way back in 1999, it turned out to be something of an Intel-killer, smashing the heavyweight’s Pentium III CPU. Now it turns out those K7 chips were actual gun slingers, at least insofar as they had bullet-blasting guns etched right into their silicon dies. That’s the discovery made…

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Despite Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth not having a concrete PC release date, it’s just shot right to the top of my 2024 wish list for one hella big reason

Like I’m sure many other PC gamers have done, I read our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review with a sense of inescapable inevitability and frustrated, profound disappointment. Here we are again, another previously celebrated game developer seeing its reputation tarnished by a flawed, middling game-as-a-service release that places grind and ongoing play/monetization right…

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