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Amazon has announced the first cast member of its God of War live-action adaptation on Prime Video. Ryan Hurst, known for his work as Opie in Sons of Anarchy and Beta in The Walking Dead, will play the titular God of War, Kratos. Though the casting might come as a bit of a disappointment to the fans hopeful that Christopher Judge, Kratos' award-winning voice actor in the games, might have



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President Donald Trump (left) walks next to a highlight-green-vested Jim Farley, Ford's CEO, at the company's truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
President Trump joined Jim Farley, Ford's CEO, for a tour of the factory where Ford builds the F-150 pickup.
  • GoFundMe campaigns have raised nearly $700,000 for a Ford employee who was suspended after heckling Trump.
  • Video shows Trump giving the middle finger after someone shouted "pedophile protector" during his visit to a Ford plant.
  • United Auto Workers, the union

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk
  • Tesla shifts its full self-driving service to a subscription-only model.
  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will end outright purchases of FSD in February.
  • The lesson: You get what you measure.

"You get what you measure" is one of my favorite concepts in modern business. It means people and organizations tend to focus their behavior on whatever metrics get tracked and


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Verizon’s network appears to be having technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing “SOS” rather than the traditional network bars on their smartphones, and even the network provider’s own status page is struggling to load during the outage.

Based on the experience of Verizon users on Engadget’s staff, the services that are impacted appear



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The App Store is a home for many kinds of apps (including, inexplicably, one that lets users undress strangers without their consent). But hey, it also has games! And soon the store's Apple Arcade service will include one more: the not-so-highly rated Civilization VII.

Apple announced on Wednesday that Sid Meier's Civilization VII will arrive almost exactly a year after launch. The game is already


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California authorities have launched an investigation into xAI following weeks of reports that the chatbot was generating sexualized images of children. "xAI appears to be facilitating the large-scale production of deepfake nonconsensual intimate images that are being used to harass women and girls across the internet, including via the social media platform X," California Attorney General Rob