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Emma Roth

Emma Roth

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    Ever wonder why Smash Bros. stopped including those neat character cutscenes?

    Well, it’s apparently because the clips kept getting leaked, Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai says in a video posted to his YouTube channel. The cutscenes, which Sakurai stopped including after SSB Brawl for the Wii, appear when you complete adventure mode.

    “We put a lot of money and effort into making them, but before the game even came out, people were posting them online,” Sakurai said. “This meant they really weren’t much of a reward, so I decided to stop making movies that cut in during gameplay.”

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    Emma Roth
    Disney’s linear TV plans could involve folding some networks into A&E.

    The entertainment giant is considering bundling some channels — including the History Channel and Lifetime — with A&E, sources tell the WSJ. Disney owns A&E as part of a joint venture with Hearst.

    While it seemed like Disney CEO Bob Iger was looking to sell some of the company’s linear assets, Iger hinted that the company might just try to cut costs instead in a recent interview with CNBC:

    We have been considering various strategic options for each of our networks, not necessarily all together, but each of them... While we’ve been actually taking a look at the linear networks, we’ve uncovered a number of really interesting opportunities to reduce costs and improve the business.

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    Emma Roth
    Windows has come a long way.

    40 years ago today — on November 10th, 1983 — Bill Gates took the wraps off Windows 1.0, with the key features being tiled applications, dropdown menus, and a user-friendly interface. Microsoft didn’t officially start shipping Windows until 1985.

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    Emma Roth
    OpenAI wants to feed AI models with data that reflects “human society.”

    The company is looking to collaborate with organizations to help AI models understand “all subject matters, industries, cultures, and languages.” Through the partnerships, it wants to create both open-source datasets to train large language models, as well as private datasets for proprietary ones.