Like KOTOR before it, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection launched in a less-than-stellar state. For PC at least, Aspyr’s patch this week addresses a long list of issues with the game.
You’ll have to wait on the certification process to get the fix on the PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch though, according to Eurogamer.
In an amended SEC filing ahead of its IPO, Reddit warned potential investors that “...on March 18, 2024, Nokia Technologies sent us a letter indicating they believed that Reddit infringes certain of their patents. We will evaluate their claims.”
Nokia, of course, leaned into, ahem, patent licensing and networking equipment as its business many years ago, and reminded people of it with last year’s logo redesign. Companies paying Nokia licensing fees include HTC, Apple, and more recently, Oppo.
Live-action Star Wars show The Acolyte will bring the High Republic era of the franchise to TV for the first time on June 4th.
StarWars.com announced the show’s premiere date with this less-than-subtle bloody lightsaber poster, reading “In an age of light a darkness rises.” Spoooooooky. Also, the site says to expect the series’ official teaser trailer tomorrow.
The NCAA’s March Madness Live app is also getting a new, swipeable vertical video highlights feed.
The “Vision Pro compatibility” means the iPad app, so you won’t get any “spatial” features, but at least it’s there (unlike, say, YouTube). What, did the Samsung Gear VR app not do well or something?
The NCAA also says it’s offering “expanded live game radio” for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has open-sourced the “base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1,” the model that underpins the Grok chatbot on X. xAI’s blog says Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter pre-training model that’s “not fine-tuned for any particular task.”
VentureBeat notes that while the model’s Apache license 2.0 means it can be freely used (with some minor conditions), it won’t have live access to X content by default.
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The satellite company announced today that subscribers choosing its new “No Locals” package will save $12 a month.
The company helpfully suggests viewers drop local channels in the summer months to try it out and add them back in the fall. As Variety notes, that just so happens to be when the NFL, which is increasingly streaming in more places, picks up again.
The terms of the settlement are confidential, reports CNBC. Owen Diaz had previously told the court that supervisors failed to intervene when his coworkers used “daily racist epithets” against him and other Black employees at the Fremont, California plant where he worked.
He was awarded $137 million in 2021 but asked for a retrial after a judge reduced the amount to $15 million in 2022.
