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In three weeks’ time, you’ll be able to start playing the pixel remaster versions of the first three Final Fantasy games. Square Enix has revealed that the Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III remasters are coming out on July 28th for PC via Steam and on July 29th for Android and iOS….
A funny thing happened on the way to California’s collapse. It didn’t happen. We keep hearing that the Golden State is going down, down, down. Last year, it suffered the first drop in population since records have been kept. And there’s that parade of natural plagues — the droughts, catastrophic wildfires and infernal heat. A…
Twenty Republican governors on Tuesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to oppose any expansion of the number of justices on the Supreme Court. “Historically, cases before the Supreme Court have served as the last legal defense of state sovereignty, protecting states and our citizens from federal overreach,” the 20 governors, led…
Predictions are in, and the 2021 hurricane season is looming large. Property owners must seek out an insurance partner that can help manage the storm, but also be there long after the winds die down. Hurricane risk continues to grow in both the number of named storms and in the volatility of an individual event….
All three major US carriers have met the deadline to implement the FCC’s new anti-spoofing protocol designed to protect users from scam caller impersonation. Both Verizon and T-Mobile announced yesterday that all calls originating on their networks are 100 percent compliant with the FCC’s “STIR/SHAKEN” technology designed to show a caller’s true phone number. AT&T,…
Luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus Group will close its fur salons and become fur-free by early 2023, it said on Wednesday. The changes are a part of its environmental, social, governance goals to identity and disclose topics like animal welfare, the company said. “It is clear the future is fur-free and that includes the…
Google has updated its Pay app’s “Passes API” to enable a simple way to store and display a digital card on Android showing users’ COVID-19 test and vaccination details. The tech giant has given healthcare organizations, government agencies, as well as organizations authorized by public health authorities to distribute COVID vaccines access to the API….
After the Manatee County Sheriff’s office concluded no criminal offenses were found, Manatee County Commission Chair Vanessa Baugh focuses on the future.
Smithfield Foods Inc said on Wednesday it will pay $83 million to settle litigation that accused several companies of conspiring to limit supply in the $20 billion-a-year U.S. pork market to inflate prices and their own profits. The settlement with Smithfield resolves antitrust claims by “direct” purchasers such as Maplevale Farms that accused the nation’s largest pork companies of having fixed prices beginning in 2009. Smithfield’s settlement requires approval by Chief Judge John Tunheim of…
