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Saturday June 23rd, 2018 morning edition

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Bethesda Softworks is suing Warner Bros. and Fallout Shelter co-developer Behaviour Interactive over the recently released Westworld, alleging that the mobile game based on HBO’s TV series is a “blatant rip-off” of Fallout Shelter.

In a suit filed in a Maryland U.S. District Court, Bethesda alleges that Westworld — developed by Behaviour and released this week for Android and iOS — “has the same or highly similar game design, art style, animations, features and other gameplay elements” as Fallout Shelter.

Fallout Shelter was originally released in 2015 for mobile devices.

Bethesda said in its suit that Behaviour uses “the same copyrighted computer code created for Fallout Shelter in Westworld,” alleging that a bug evident in an early version of Fallout Shelter (which was later fixed) also appears in Westworld.

Bethesda alleges the companies “copied Fallout Shelter’s features and then made cosmetic modifications for Westworld’s ‘western’ theme.”.

The suit points out similar gameplay features, including “cartoonish 2D characters in a 3D environment” and the underground multi-room facilities that players explore and build, in both Fallout Shelter and Westworld.

Polygon has reached out to Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Behaviour Interactive for comment on Bethesda Softworks’ lawsuit, which you can read in full below. »

Supreme Court restricts police on cellphone location data

Authored by reuters.com

Roberts stressed that the ruling did not resolve other hot-button digital privacy fights, including whether police need warrants to access real-time cellphone location information to track criminal suspects.

The ruling has no bearing on “traditional surveillance techniques” such as security cameras or on data collection for national security purposes, he added.

A person walks with an umbrella prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to impose limits on the ability of police to obtain cellphone data pinpointing the past location of criminal suspects, outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2018. »

UK should cancel Donald Trump visit, says Jeremy Corbyn

Authored by theguardian.com
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Theresa May has “ample reasons” to cancel Donald Trump’s visit to the UK next month, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeremy Corbyn on his visit to the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan on Friday.

We need to say very clearly to Donald Trump ‘We live in a multicultural society, we’re proud of it. »

Study: Majority Of Chronic Pain Patients Replace Opioids With Cannabis

Authored by blog.norml.org

More than two-thirds of chronic pain patients registered to legally access medical cannabis products substitute marijuana for prescription opioids, according to data published in The Journal of Headache and Pain.

Investigators from the United States and Canada assessed the use of medical cannabis and prescription drugs in a cohort of over 2,000 Canadian patients licensed to access marijuana products.

Among those patients with a primary diagnosis of chronic pain, 73 percent reported substituting cannabis in place of opioids. »

New Jersey bans child marriages. New law raises minimum age to 18

Authored by nj.com
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New Jersey is the second state behind Delaware to enact a law requiring youth to wait until they are 18 to get married.

The new law would require people to wait until age 18 to get a marriage license.

Fraidy Reiss, founder of Unchained At Last, called the new law "a huge victory for girls and women across New Jersey.". »