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The clear implication: a willingness to sail into uncharted legal waters. “This is obviously the first great case of the information age,” says Randal C. Picker, director of the law and economics program at the University of Chicago Law School and a former Posner clerk. “We’re in virgin territory… this case is going to make new law.” New law is an unnerving prospect for both sides. Without a settlement, the government’s problem is that anything less than a “structural remedy”–legalese for a breakup of Microsoft–may be seen as a defeat....

Carlow (Ireland), Oct 7 (IANS) The Indian team of Vidya Pillai and Arantxa Sanchis won the gold medal by defeating Hong Kong 3-2 in the final of the World 6-Red snooker championship here. Pillai and Sanchis overcame the Hong Kong duo of Ng On Yee and So Man You 23-74, 68-41, 51-46, 4-64, 55-36 Sunday while the second Indian team of Chitra Magimairaj and 16-year old Varshaa Sanjeev received a bronze medal as the losing semi-finalists....

Girls Make Games is an organization that generally holds camps or workshops to teach young women how to make video games. The games that these participants create are then made available online, giving female programmers pivotal experience for joining the male-dominated games industry. RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Sisterhood Raising Money for Girls Make Games The organization’s partnership with Google Play has opened another outlet for teenage girls to learn about this industry, with the Change the Game design challenge....

The Washington, D.C.–based trade group estimated that the total amount of global debt reached $281 trillion by the end of 2020, marking a new record for global debt and exceeding the institute’s earlier estimation for debt accumulated in 2020 by about $4 trillion. The trade group credited the surge in debt directly to governments around the world that increased spending in order to respond to the virus. “Pandemic response helped add $24 trillion to the global debt mountain in 2020, bringing it to a new high of $281 trillion,” the IIF said in its report....

Google said it’s adding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within and outside their domain. End-to-end encryption is vital for any communications service because it allows only the sender and receiver(s) of messages to see the content, Jeff Wilbur, the senior director of online trust at the nonprofit Internet Society, told Lifeire in an email interview. “This means that the message content can be seen by bad actors or rogue employees and is subject to access by law enforcement under warrant,” Wilbur added....

In what was yet another dismal showing for QPR, who are amongst the bottom feeders in the English Premier League, Matt Phillips saved them from losing 3-0 to Crystal Palace with a miraculous goal in the weaning moments of the game. MORE: Balotelli in photos | Legend Ronaldo plans comeback | Work vs. soccer In the 83rd minute, the 24-year-old launched a rocket from over 40-yards out that flew past Julian Speroni’s head into the top right corner....

The teaser for a new God of War has already sparked theories of time travel and it seems that many are getting to grips with Norse mythology to become more informed. Some players have even taken the time to learn Norse runes to uncover the meaning of the message that is shown in the trailer. The result has caused a great deal of debate about accuracy in the game as well as interpretation....

The most recent God of War installment marked the very first appearance of the Leviathan Axe, a weapon formerly wielded by Kratos’ wife, Faye. Considering the Norse setting, a war axe does fit the world of the game from a tonal standpoint much better than the Blades of Chaos, even though the Blades still make an appearance in the game. In any case, the Leviathan Axe has since become the subject of many cosplays and weapon replicas....

God of War’s Norse saga truly never had an obligation to be a trilogy, but it is in fans’ nature now to assume that these narrative beats will last for a trilogy, as that essentially creates a three-act structure. The reason given for why the Norse saga was supposed to end with God of War Ragnarok is because of the presumed time-span it would take to make three games, which could easily take more than a decade....

As seen below in the God of War video named “A Call From the Wilds at PSX,” Sony and Santa Monica Studio offer a guided tour of promotional art from PlayStation Experience 2017 that tells a bit of Atreus’ backstory, and provides some interesting insight into his unique skills (archery and language), abilities (telepathic communication with animals), and first encounter with real danger. As it so happens, Atreus’ capacity to psychically commune with wildlife leads him out into the forest after he hears a creature crying out for help, causing him to confront a true enemy....

The Godfall Twitter account recently responded to a fan’s question about the release plans for the game. It told the fan that the title will be available on PS5 and on the Epic Games Store for PC, and while the lack of any mention of Steam is not definitive confirmation that Godfall won’t be available on that platform, some have taken this statement to mean that the title will be an Epic Games Store exclusive....

In the Monsterverse, Monarch is the secret organization that always seems to end up in the middle of the battle. It’s the group that brings soldiers and scientists to Skull Island and is the group Emma Russell works for when she finds a way to mimic the alpha commands of the different kaiju in King Of The Monsters. Beyond Monarch being an ever-present force of research, the organization doesn’t get fleshed out much in the movies....

With many gamers self-isolating because of the Coronavirus, it’s a great time to try out new video games. There are a wide variety of games in the collection, spanning from RPGs to shooters to card games. One notable game is GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. It’s an expanded version of the mini-game playable in The Witcher, and includes some characters from The Witcher that fans will be familiar with....

It is one of the great seats of all Christendom. Augustine the Benedictine founded it. Thomas a’ Becket died in its defense. Geoffrey Chaucer turned its pilgrims into a literary tradition. Henry VIII wrested it from Rome. Set amid the beautiful Kent countryside, Canterbury spawned a fractious global church and then watched its power ebb as surely as its pews ate empty on Sunday. Now it faces a thoroughly modern identity crisis: is it to serve as a living relic, a religious museum to be visited twice each year, or will it risk change and an ugly civil war?...

Elise Bryant, from Long beach, was double checking her six-year-old daughter, Coretta’s, bag, as they packed up for a five-day trip up the central coast of California. She told Newsweek: “I started laughing when I pulled out the items, but I wasn’t surprised. A lot of the items are from her “monster-hunting kit” that she made and usually carries around in a cardboard box. “She’s explained to us that the aluminum foil (or “silver”) is for werewolves, the sage is for evil spirits, and the garlic salt has two purposes—garlic to fight vampires and salt to keep away witches....

The call for Kotick’s departure is not a new one, but the intensity of those calls have redoubled after a recent Wall Street Journal article on the Activision Blizzard CEO. The article claims that Kotick knew about the mistreatment of female employees within the company at large and did nothing to resolve the issues, even adding to it himself. RELATED: Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out to Demand CEO Bobby Kotick Be Replaced...

Girona started the better of the two sides and looked accomplished on the ball in the early stages. However, they were stung by the first bit of quality Barcelona produced in the 9th minute. After a clever switch of play, the ball fell kindly for Semedo in the box. The Portuguese made no mistake with a perfect swiveled left-footed shot into the bottom corner. Barcelona though, couldn’t get into the ascendancy as Girona kept them honest throughout the first period....

Michael Cohen made the claim on MSNBC where he spoke about the White House reportedly being warned by U.S. intelligence that the former New York City mayor was susceptible to Russian disinformation about the Democratic presidential contender, Joe Biden. The Associated Press reported that the FBI is investigating whether foreign actors were behind emails published by The New York Post, purportedly showing communication between the vice president’s son, Hunter Biden pursuing business deals in China and the Ukraine....

Bookmakers Betfair, which operates the world’s largest online betting exchange, told Newsweek that Youngkin’s odds of winning the hotly contested election stood at 4/6 on Tuesday, compared to odds of 11/10 for Democratic candidate and former governor Terry McAuliffe. The Virginia race has been a close-run affair despite the fact President Joe Biden won the state by 10 points in the 2020 presidential election. The election is being seen as a test for the Democratic Party following its victory in November 2020....