Sisi Jiang
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Chinese Steam Users Get Around National Porn Ban With Wallpaper App
A wallpaper app is the tenth most-played game on Steam right now for one very good reason: Chinese players have been using it to distribute porn. Porn has been illegal in China since 1997, but the grey regulatory status of Steam has allowed Wallpaper Engine users to share uncensored content.
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The Pokémon Company Buys Its Trading Card Manufacturer While Demand Soars
The Pokémon Company has announced that it will be acquiring The Millenium Print Group, the manufacturer that has been printing the Pokémon trading card game since 2015. According to a press release put out by TPC, Millenium will remain autonomous, while benefiting from TPC’s investments and expertise to expand its current production capabilities.
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Oculus Founder’s Vision for Military AI, Which He’s Helping Build, Is Kinda Yikes
One of the founders of Oculus, now called Meta Quest, has been busy since being pushed out of the company in 2018. In a frustratingly coy interview with Wired, Palmer Luckey skirted around the question of whether or not technology from Anduril Industries, a military technology company Luckey founded in 2017, is being used in Ukraine. “There’s…
