U.S. distributor Valve Corp, owner of the world's largest video game distribution platform Steam, and 5 video game publishers received a 7.8-million-euro ($9.45 million) EU antitrust fine on Wednesday for blocking cross-border sales in Europe.

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Connecting the controllers works as you’d expect: Turn on the Shield’s Bluetooth discovery mode, and then either press the pairing button on your Xbox controller, or the PlayStation and Share/Clip buttons on the DualSense.  It’s surprising it took so long for NVIDIA to add support for these new gamepads, considering that they already support PC pairing.  In addition to the usual bug fixes, NVIDIA says that the Shield update also adds the Decembe…

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Webtoon and Wattpad may soon be inextricably linked.  Naver, the South Korean internet giant behind the Webtoon digital comics platform, will acquire Wattpad for a deal worth US$600 million in cash and stocks.  Neither side has revealed what that means exactly, but The Hollywood Reporter says they’ll share a platform for their combined audience of 160 million users.

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The EQA has great standard tech and a handsome face, but we don't yet know if it'll come to the US.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had given a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before he briefly headed Uber Technologies Inc's rival unit. Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced in August to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in March. He was not in custody but a judge had said

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You can catch the entire event through the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s social media channels on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Twitch starting at 3:15 PM ET.

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How to watch Biden’s inaugural 'Parade Across America'

YouTube has extended the ban on new uploads to President Trump’s account for another week, one day before he officially leaves office and President-elect Joe Biden assumes power.



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Facing stiff competition and heavy losses, LG may be looking for a smartphone exit strategy.

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Parler, a social-media website popular with U.S. right-wing groups, has partially returned online with the apparent help of a Russian-based technology company, according to reports on January 18.

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