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Call of Duty's chart-topping run comes to an end

Bottom line: Amid Microsoft's ambition to turn Game Pass into gaming's dominant business model, one of its most valuable assets is showing signs of strain. Call of Duty, a $35 billion global franchise known for annual billion-dollar releases, appears to be in decline less than two years after Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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This humanoid robot learned realistic lip movements by watching YouTube

The technology could redefine how machines express emotion and interact with people
Something to look forward to: Inside a Columbia University engineering lab, a humanoid robot has learned to move its lips with previously unseen realism. The project, led by the Creative Machines Lab, represents the first time an autonomous system has acquired natural lip movement for speaking and singing through visual learning alone.