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Xbox Hands Halo to Activision and Proposes Closing Ninja Theory in Latest Reset

REDMOND, Sept. 23 -- Ninja Theory has made two of the most artistically ambitious games in Microsoft's catalog. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice won awards, earned a sequel, and produced exactly the kind ... Read More


Hayden Panettiere Died of Five Drugs, Coroner Rules Accidental

GREENVILLE, Sept. 23 -- Five weeks after Hayden Panettiere's death left a twelve-year-old daughter in Ukraine without a mother and a decade of network television without one of its most commanding pre... Read More


Taylor Swift Gets a VMA Award Nobody Has Ever Won Before

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 -- Taylor Swift directed her first solo music video in 2020 while also serving as its writer and lead performer, a production arrangement that most of her peers would have avoide... Read More


Streamer Clavicular Charged With Rape and Drugging in Massachusetts

BOSTON, Sept. 23 -- Braden Peters, the 20-year-old TikTok personality known as Clavicular, has been charged in Massachusetts with rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse, and providing alcohol ... Read More


Fewer Teens Are Sad. Among Girls, Nearly Half Still Are.

ATLANTA, Sept. 23 -- For three years running, the question hung over pediatric clinics, school counselors, and emergency departments: whether what happened to American teenagers during the pandemic ha... Read More


Apple Is Quietly Building an iPhone Feature That Locks When Snatched

CUPERTINO, Sept. 23 -- The window between a phone leaving your hand and a thief gaining unrestricted access to its contents is measured in seconds. An unlocked iPhone grabbed mid-use is a phone with b... Read More


Pennsylvania Has Four Measles Dead. The Federal Count Still Reads Zero.

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Pennsylvania's measles outbreak has exposed a sharp conflict between state and federal public-health authorities. Four county coroners have attributed deaths to measles or measl... Read More


Meta Glasses Are Now at Spectrum: The Carrier Play That Could Make AI Eyewear Mainstream

MENLO PARK, Sept. 23 -- The harder sell at a Spectrum store was never broadband. It was persuading a customer that the next device they carry everywhere might sit on their face instead. That pitch ar... Read More


Googlebook Pre-Orders Open at $899: Google's Gemini Laptop Bet Starts Now

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Sept. 23 -- Four months of renders and roadmap slides gave way to something more consequential on Monday morning: you can actually buy a Googlebook now. Pre-orders opened at 9 a.m. ET ... Read More


Waller Rules Out 2026 Rate Cut. S&P 500 Surrenders Its Morning Rally.

Between 9, Sept. 23 -- The market spent Monday morning doing what it rarely does during wartime: pricing in peace. By noon, the Federal Reserve had taken most of that away. 30 a.m. and 10:17 a.m. ET,... Read More