PUBG: Battlegrounds Free-To-Play Update: Start Time And Rewards Here’s when you can start playing PUBG: Battlegrounds for free, and what you get for owning the game already. PUBG: Battlegrounds, formerly known as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, will be going free-to-play on Wednesday, January 12.This applies across all platforms, including both PC and […]
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Pfizer plans to manufacture up to 100 million doses of omicron-specific vaccine by spring
Pfizer is racing ahead with plans to manufacture 50 million to 100 million doses of a new omicron-specific version of its coronavirus vaccine, a reflection of rising concerns that current vaccine formulations may need to be tweaked for the new threat.Get the full experience.Choose your plan ArrowRight Pfizer also is […]
£150,000 starting salaries as firms fight for staff – BBC News
A professional recruitment firm says it is placing graduate lawyers on starting salaries as high as £150,000 amid a shortage of workers. Alan Bannatyne, chief financial officer at Robert Walters, told the BBC people in many UK industries were quitting for better paid jobs amid soaring demand. “15% is the […]
Moderna vaccines the best — and Sinovac least effective — at stopping covid deaths, Singapore data suggests
In a real-world indicator of how coronavirus vaccines are performing, Singapore has released new figures suggesting shots produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are much more effective at preventing deaths than the Chinese-developed Sinopharm and Sinovac doses. Eight hundred and two people died of covid-19 in the city-state in 2021, of […]
54 members of Congress have violated a law designed to stop insider trading and prevent conflicts-of-interest
Marianne Ayala/Insider Insider and other media have identified numerous US lawmakers not complying with the federal STOCK Act.Their excuses range from oversights, to clerical errors, to inattentive accountants.Ethics watchdogs — and even some in Congress — want to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks.See more stories on Insider’s business page […]
Biden regulators could rain on Trump’s SPAC parade
Former President Donald Trump is plotting a return to Wall Street with a new media company taking aim at Big Tech.But Trump Media & Technology Group’s path to the stock market faces a formidable obstacle: President Joe Biden’s regulators.Biden’s top cop on Wall Street, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler , is […]
In VR, there are no rules, so parents are making up their own
(CNN) Last summer, Allen Roach saw something that really disturbed him: His then-11-year-old son, Peyton, used a sword to slice off the arms and legs of characters in a virtual reality medieval fantasy game, Blade & Sorcery , then threw the dismembered digital bodies off a bridge. Sure, it all […]
Take-Two, the publisher behind some of the biggest names in
Take-Two, the publisher behind some of the biggest names in gaming like Grand Theft Auto and NBA 2K , today announced a deal to buy mobile game company Zynga for $12.7 billion.If the acquisition of the FarmVille creator goes through, it will mark the biggest sale in video game history.Advertisement […]
All cross-platform games (PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC)
Cross-platform support is becoming more important in the world of video games.Multiplayer hits like Call of Duty: Warzone and Fortnite have pushed crossplay into the limelight, and now most AAA multiplayer games release with at least partial cross-platform support.Finding every cross-platform game is no easy feat, though, so we did […]
Microsoft appears to be testing Age of Empires 4 for Xbox
An Xbox version of real-time strategy Age of Empires 4 looks like it’s currently in testing within Microsoft. The console port was apparently sniffed out by Twitter user ALumia_Italia (thanks, VGC ), after seeing a new file uploaded for internal testing via the Xbox Insider Hub. The file in question […]