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2 months, 1 week ago

Nerf darts, porn and vomit: The company Microsoft bought for $69bn

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2 months, 1 week ago

Josh Blizzard was recently diagnosed with haemochromatosis, and he's donating his extra blood to a good cause

ABC

WARNING: This story contains images of blood transfusions and medical procedures. Tens of thousands of bags discarded New Australian Red Cross Lifeblood research estimates about 73,000 bags of blood taken from Australian haemochromatosis patients at pathologists or doctors' surgeries are thrown away each year. Australian Red Cross senior medical officer Peter Bentley said if those patients could instead turn to …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Diablo IV Nobody Ever Saw

Wired

This week, Blizzard released Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, an expansion to the wildly popular fantasy action-role-playing game that tasks players with slaughtering masses of screeching demons and collecting the randomized gear that they leave behind. But to at least one Blizzard executive who was around in its early days, it wasn’t even a “real game.” My new book, Play …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Activision Blizzard to lay off hundreds in Irvine and Santa Monica starting next month

LA Times

Activision Blizzard will lay off hundreds of people at its Irvine and Playa Vista locations. Video game giant Activision Blizzard will start laying off employees at its Irvine and Santa Monica locations next month as parent company Microsoft Corp. looks to cut costs in its gaming division. By the end of the year, 140 employees will be cut from the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Microsoft layoffs- Microsoft to cut 650 support jobs in Xbox Games unit: Report

The Hindu

Microsoft said it is cutting 650 jobs in its Xbox unit, the third such layoff this year as the company tries to rein in costs and integrate its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The job cuts will affect mostly corporate and supporting functions, the report said, citing a memo sent to staff by Xbox …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Dairy Queen launches 2024 Fall Blizzard menu, check out new flavour, special BOGO offer

Hindustan Times

With September right around the corner, lovers of all things pumpkin spice eagerly await the launch of fall menus across their favourite fast food joints. Dairy Queen has launched its 2024 Fall Blizzard menu that features a brand-new coffee-flavoured soft serve Dairy Queen launches 2024 Fall Blizzard menu The multi-national fast-food chain describes its new menu in a statement that …

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4 months ago

Dhruv channels emotional turbulence into 'Private Blizzard,' his debut album

NPR

Dhruv channels emotional turbulence into 'Private Blizzard,' his debut album AILSA CHANG, HOST: The singer Dhruv Sharma is a night owl. DHRUV SHARMA: It's bizarre when you're, like, in between hotels and performing in front of people and to just like be back in the bedroom, where it all started, where, like, things were very ordinary. CHANG: Dhruv's transformation into …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Microsoft’s World of Warcraft development workers are unionizing

Associated Press

NEW YORK — More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee “World of Warcraft” are unionizing. It also builds on an expansion of organized labor seen among Microsoft video game workers since the tech giant’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard last year. With Wednesday’s World of Warcraft news, alongside other recent organizing efforts, CWA says more than …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Activision Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft’ game developers vote to unionize

LA Times

Video game workers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on the popular game “World of Warcraft” have voted to unionize. The more than 500 game developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on the blockbuster video game “World of Warcraft” have elected to form a union, marking the latest entrant in a wave of unionizing efforts in the video game industry. “We …

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5 months, 1 week ago

First DQ Blizzard & Burgers Restaurant in China hits Shanghai

China Daily

International Dairy Queen and CFB Group announce the opening of the first DQ restaurant in China offering hot food and treats. With the distinct Worcestershire Flavored Shanghai Burger specially added to the menu, the very first DQ Blizzard & Burgers Restaurant in China, a joint venture between International Dairy Queen, Inc and CFB Group, announced its opening in Shanghai on …

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5 months, 1 week ago

First DQ Blizzard & Burgers Restaurant in China hits Shanghai

China Daily

International Dairy Queen and CFB Group announce the opening of the first DQ restaurant in China offering hot food and treats. With the distinct Worcestershire Flavored Shanghai Burger specially added to the menu, the very first DQ Blizzard & Burgers Restaurant in China, a joint venture between International Dairy Queen, Inc and CFB Group, announced its opening in Shanghai on …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Reciprocity on trade highlighted at forum

China Daily

California and China have maintained a strong partnership, marked by a dynamic economic relationship and deep people-to-people ties. Jeff Leader, the founder of the Hermes Deployment Corp, who has been to China more than 140 times over the past 15 years, said there is a "very, very strong" partnership between California and China. "We've run into difficulties from time to …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Microsoft says Russian hackers again trying to breach its systems

Hindustan Times

Microsoft has said that Russian foreign intelligence-linked hackers again tried to break into its systems, using data stolen from corporate emails in January to access the tech giant whose products are widely used across the national security establishment in the US. The analysts are worried about national security risks about the alleged role of Nobelium or Midnight Blizzard, a purported …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

California Blizzard: Donner Pass buried under several feet of ‘Snowpocalypse’ | Watch

Hindustan Times

A California snow blizzard - “not a string of words have ever expected to read," but it's the present reality the US state is buried under. TRUCKEE, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 03: An Interstate 80 entrance is covered in snow during a powerful multiple day winter storm in the Sierra Nevada mountains on March 03, 2024 in Truckee, California. As the …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Key Northern California highway closed as snow continues to fall in the blizzard-hit Sierra Nevada

Hindustan Times

TRUCKEE, Calif. — A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy snow was on the way for Northern California. HT Image Sections of Interstate 80 to the west and north of Lake Tahoe were made …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Monster blizzard shatters California ‘snow drought’ with up to 10 feet of new snow

LA Times

Snow piles up in a neighborhood during a storm on Sunday in Truckee, Calif. A monster blizzard that blasted California’s Sierra Nevada with gusts of up to 190 mph and dumped more than 10 feet of snow over the weekend shattered the state’s “snow drought” and significantly boosted vital snowpack levels. “We’re exactly where we want to be, realistically.” But …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Bring a shovel’: Yosemite partly reopens after blizzard brings as much as 45 inches of snow

LA Times

Yosemite National Park partly reopened on Sunday after a blizzard that brought as much as 45 inches of snow in some areas and high winds that toppled trees. The park reopened around noon, with officials urging visitors to certain campsites: “Be prepared for winter camping.” Weather officials say the likelihood of another closure in the next week is low. Although …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Blizzard hits California mountains with heavy snow and high winds, shutting down ski areas

LA Times

Jake Coleman digs out his car along North Lake Boulevard as snow continues to fall in Tahoe City, Calif., on Saturday. A rare blizzard sent its final flurries of snow and high winds through California’s Sierra Nevada on Sunday, keeping some major roads closed and shutting down ski resorts from Lake Tahoe to Mammoth. “Winds can get up to 45 …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Photos: Blizzard hammers Sierra, closing resorts and creating travel nightmares

LA Times

California authorities shut down 100 miles of Interstate 80 on Friday as the biggest snowstorm of the season bore down on the Sierra Nevada, where residents were urged to take shelter and stay off roads as they prepared for up to 10 feet of snow in some areas and damaging winds. !” the California Highway Patrol posted on X, previously …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

California monster blizzard batters Tahoe, Mammoth, Sierra amid avalanche warnings

LA Times

A camper truck heads north on Interstate 80 at the Donner Pass exit Friday in Truckee, Calif. Two hours later, the resort said it was closing down for the day because of “extremely strong winds and blizzard conditions.” Heavy snow removal equipment rolls as a blizzard hits Mammoth Lakes in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California on Saturday. “The show …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Stretch of I-80 shut down as monster blizzard dumps snow on mountains in California and Nevada

Associated Press

RENO, Nev. — California authorities shut down 100 miles of Interstate 80 on Friday as the biggest snow storm of the season bore down on the Sierra Nevada, where residents were urged to take shelter and stay off roads as they prepared for up to 10 feet of snow in some areas and damaging winds. The most powerful Pacific storm …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

With blizzard pounding Tahoe area, even some ski resorts are urging people to stay away

LA Times

An employee at Alpine, part of the Palisades Tahoe ski resort complex, clears snow. With a dangerous, life-threatening blizzard bringing strong winds, frigid temperatures and an avalanche warning, even some Northern California ski resorts are urging people to stay away for now. Snowfall could be so heavy at some point, the weather service said road conditions would be at “near …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Blizzard warning, avalanche watch as storm packing up to 10 feet of snow moves into Sierra Nevada

Associated Press

RENO, Nev. — The most powerful Pacific storm of the season started barreling into the Sierra Nevada on Thursday, packing multiple feet of snow and dangerous winds that forecasters say will create blizzard conditions likely to close major highways and trigger power outages into the weekend. The weather service in Reno said in its updated forecast as evening approached on …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Blizzard warning of up to 10 feet of snow in the Sierra could make travel 'dangerous to impossible'

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Widespread blowing snow will create …

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Nerf darts, porn and vomit: The company Microsoft bought for $69bn

Josh Blizzard was recently diagnosed with haemochromatosis, and he's donating his extra blood to a good cause

The Diablo IV Nobody Ever Saw

Activision Blizzard to lay off hundreds in Irvine and Santa Monica starting next month

Microsoft layoffs- Microsoft to cut 650 support jobs in Xbox Games unit: Report

Dairy Queen launches 2024 Fall Blizzard menu, check out new flavour, special BOGO offer

Dhruv channels emotional turbulence into 'Private Blizzard,' his debut album

Microsoft’s World of Warcraft development workers are unionizing

Activision Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft’ game developers vote to unionize

First DQ Blizzard & Burgers Restaurant in China hits Shanghai

First DQ Blizzard & Burgers Restaurant in China hits Shanghai

Reciprocity on trade highlighted at forum

Microsoft says Russian hackers again trying to breach its systems

California Blizzard: Donner Pass buried under several feet of ‘Snowpocalypse’ | Watch

Key Northern California highway closed as snow continues to fall in the blizzard-hit Sierra Nevada

Monster blizzard shatters California ‘snow drought’ with up to 10 feet of new snow

‘Bring a shovel’: Yosemite partly reopens after blizzard brings as much as 45 inches of snow

Blizzard hits California mountains with heavy snow and high winds, shutting down ski areas

Photos: Blizzard hammers Sierra, closing resorts and creating travel nightmares

California monster blizzard batters Tahoe, Mammoth, Sierra amid avalanche warnings

Stretch of I-80 shut down as monster blizzard dumps snow on mountains in California and Nevada

With blizzard pounding Tahoe area, even some ski resorts are urging people to stay away

Blizzard warning, avalanche watch as storm packing up to 10 feet of snow moves into Sierra Nevada

Blizzard warning of up to 10 feet of snow in the Sierra could make travel 'dangerous to impossible'