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Friday July 19th, 2024 evening edition

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Developer Tiny Wonder Studio has announced koROBO, a spiritual successor of sorts to the cult classic Chibi-Robo!

series with ex-developers from Skip Ltd. working on the project.

The game follows koRobo, a small robot alongside his 10-year-old owner, Tom, set within the 'urban jungle' of New York City.

When Tom receives koROBO as a birthday gift, he's completely unaware of what the little robot is capable of.

Tiny Wonder Studio is also set to launch a crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter for the project on 22nd July 2024.

We'll update you on whether Tiny Wonder Studio is successful with its Kickstarter campaign along with any development updates in the coming weeks and months.

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CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions

Authored by abcnews.go.com

Thousands of flights were canceled in the U.S. after American Airlines, United and Delta asked the FAA for global ground stop on all flights, according to an alert from the FAA.

The airlines with the highest rate of cancellations and delays so far are Delta and American.

Meanwhile, flights that were in the air already were allowed to continue on, but no American, United or Delta flights had been taking off during the outage. »

Excruciating! Trump's Endlessly Long, Wildly Dishonest RNC Speech

Authored by huffpost.com

“The Democrat party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy,” he said.

Four minutes later, he insulted the news media, referring to the CBS News program “Face the Nation” as “Deface the Nation.”.

This week, Trump’s top campaign adviser, Chris LaCivita, used nearly identical language in an interview with The New York Times. »

Japan’s Olympic gymnastics captain sent home for smoking

Authored by telegraph.co.uk
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The star of Japan’s women’s artistic gymnastics team has been sent home from the final training camp ahead of the Paris Olympic Games for smoking.

Shoko Miyata, the 19-year-old captain of the team, was missing from training on Wednesday, although Japanese Olympic officials would only confirm to reporters that she was absent “for certain reasons”.

The last time Japan’s women won a team medal for gymnastics was when Tokyo hosted the Olympics in 1964. »

Hospitals, banks, media, airlines hit by major IT outage

Authored by bbc.com

A raft of global institutions - including hospitals, major banks, media outlets and airlines - have reported a mass IT outage, affecting their ability to offer services.

International airports including in India, Hong Kong, the UK, and the US have reported issues, and several airlines have grounded flights and reported delays.

Cyber security firm Crowdstrike has confirmed the cause of the worldwide outage was a result of their defective software update for its Microsoft Windows hosts. »