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Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop Killing Games movement and its ongoing efforts to ensure that games remain playable even after the original publisher shuts down the online servers undergirding them. Scott…
Comic Book Publisher Marketshare Chart For July 2026
Bleeding Cool continues to run the Top 400 Bestseller List, based on data provided by Prana Direct Market Solutions, Manage Comics, and Comic Shop Assistant. But as you can see, as well as other Top Ten lists. The Prana DM data set gives us access…
Monkey Island Creator's Next Game Is Funded By A Rich Guy Because He Was Tired Of Bad Publisher Deals
2017's Thimbleweed Park is the kind of game that rarely gets made today. Heck, it was the kind of game that rarely got made a decade ago. But the point-and-click adventure game from Monkey Island creator and legendary game developer Ron Gilbert was…
CFPB will no longer publish consumer complaint narratives
Key insight: Industry groups have long argued that consumer complaint narratives paint a one-sided picture, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made the same argument Friday when it said it will stop publishing them. What's at stake: The…
WRU needs to publish evidence for decision to cut a region
No one disputes that Welsh rugby faces some extraordinarily difficult choices over the next few years, and maintaining the status quo simply because change is difficult is not a credible strategy. But accepting that change is necessary is very…
Google backs publisher model as Apple considers price tag for news
Google said it backs the established system for paying news publishers, even as Apple considers a radically different model that would tie payments to how often its AI assistant uses journalism. The search giant considers itself the only major tech…
European publishers are getting hit harder by AI bot scraping, report finds
Here are the main findings from that report, based on TollBit's analysis identified AI bots from 40 scraping vendors across 3,906 publishers: Median AI scrapes per site were four-times higher on European sites compared to North American sites.
Publisher's Platform: Frank Yiannas Wants an Independent Board to Investigate Foodborne Outbreaks. Set the Airplanes Aside.
Frank Yiannas has been making an argument for the better part of a year that deserves more attention than it has received. In a STAT First Opinion piece last November, written after a Listeria outbreak in prepackaged pasta meals killed six people…
Members-Only Event: How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the workplace—but not always in the ways people think. What does that mean for your career? Join Forbes expert journalists and leading workplace experts Thursday, August 27th at 12pm ET for a live…
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Waver - Live Updates
The S&P 500 is on track to end the week close to a record high after a boost from slowing inflation and some AI-related stocks. Futures for the benchmark U.S. index are flat early Friday. On Thursday, the S&P 500 closed at an all-time high for the…
Sleep Data As Healthcare's Next Trust Battleground: Considerations For Industry Leaders
Colin Lawlor, CEO, SleepScore Labs. For most of my career, sleep sat in an odd place in health. Doctors ignored it or told patients to “sleep off” their ailments. Many wellness brands talked about it, but sleep was still treated as an…
NASA's COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions
As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA's…
Why French Sound Inventories Differ - and How We Published a Bounded 35-Sound Learning Dataset
When a language-learning product says it teaches “the sounds of French,” one deceptively simple question appears immediately: how many sounds are there? There is no useful answer without first defining the job the inventory is meant…
Padel court plan for Washington industrial unit dismissed
Plans to convert an industrial unit into an indoor padel sports centre have been dismissed at appeal. The Planning Inspectorate threw out an appeal against Sunderland City Council's refusal of a seven-court facility within the Stephenson Industrial…
Padel court plan for Washington industrial unit dismissed
Chris Binding Local Democracy Reporting Service Plans to convert an industrial unit into an indoor padel sports centre have been dismissed at appeal. The Planning Inspectorate threw out an appeal against Sunderland City Council's refusal of a…
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