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It only seems like yesterday that F1 24 launched under not insignificant criticism. The vast majority of the major flaws at launch were quickly ironed out and we have been playing and enjoying the annual race sim for a while now, so much so that Season 2 of its live service content is almost upon us. So what will this latest update bring to the track, when can we get our driving gloves on it, and, most importantly, will it be worth the wait?
F1 24 Season 2 release date
At the time of writing this page, it is less than a week to go until Season 2 launches. The exact date for your diaries is the 24th July, so you don’t have long to finish up anything you need to complete before all the new stuff arrives in-game.

What’s new in Season 2?
It’s looking pretty good to be fair. The new Season will hanker back to the first half of the current F1 Championship as well as bringing some historic Formula One moments to the virtual track for the first time.
We will be getting two new Pro Challenges to compete in starring Verstappen and Zhou Guanyu – For the latter, you will need to beat Zhou’s Shanghai lap time to unlock a helmet, whereas Verstappen’s challenge will unlock a secret item.
Two new Event Series also land including Verstappen’s challenge to win the World Title and the second features Valtteri Bottas and the Kick Sauber events.
If you want to know the dates all these run, the released roadmap will see you through. Overall though F1 24 is in a pretty good place right now..
Season 2 Podium Pass
It wouldn’t be a new season without a new Podium Pass would it and Season 2 is no exception, bringing with a host of new cosmetics for your car and driver.
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It’s always an exciting time when a new EA FC game is announced and if you’re a fan of the franchise, you’ll want to get your hands on it as soon as possible.
Thankfully, there is a way to play EA FC 25 ahead of the official release date so you can experience all of the new features ahead of most.
Here, we’ll discuss how to play EA FC 25 early so you can sink your teeth into what the devs have cooked up this time around.
How to play EA FC 25 early
To play EA FC 25 before the official release date for the game you must either pre-order the Ultimate edition or be an EA Play subscriber before Early Access begins.
Looking initially at that Ultimate Edition, this will set you back $99.99 (£89.99) and comes with a bunch of pretty great benefits across multiple modes of the game. It is $69.99 (£59.99) more than the Standard Edition though, so do keep that in mind.
As for Early Access, you’ll be granted up to 7 days, allowing you to hopefully play EA FC 25 on September 20. This will certainly be helpful for those of you who like to play around with various tactics before settling for what you’ll go with to win your matches.

Moving to using EA Play to access EA FC 25 early, you’ll be able to secure a 10-hour trial that can be redeemed up to 7 days ahead of the proper launch. If you’re an EA Play Pro member though, you will instead receive the same benefit as the Ultimate Edition, allowing you to play unlimited up to 7 days before.
So, to put it simply, the best way to secure EA FC 25 Early Access is to pre-purchase the Ultimate Edition or be an EA Play Pro subscriber since you will have no time limit to worry about.
On the flip side though, if budget is an issue, securing that 10-hour trial via the basic EA Play membership could be just the ticket to get a feel for the game.
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Indie developers Unbound Creations have announced a release date for their upcoming game Just Crow Things, where players take control of a little crow and fly around causing mischief.
In the game, players will play as a lonely crow who had her shiny family heirloom stolen, traveling the world through 10 sandbox levels making friends, causing mayhem, and recovering what is yours.

According to the game’s website, the highlights we can expect are:

Explore 10 unique and sandbox-y levels
Customize your crow with cute hats, scarves, and more
Eat delicious foods and discover new “poop modes”
Use a variety of tools and objects you pick up
Make new animal friends along the way

The game consists of exploring the large “sandbox-y” levels to find the game’s animals and critters who need your help. Build up your Crowputation by completing tests of skill, intellect, and silliness to impress your new friends.
You’ll be undertaking tasks from reuniting a panicked mom squirrel with her missing children to competing in challenging races against the speedy ferret to tagging city walls with graffiti spray cans.
In addition, players will be able to customize their crow and dress her up with a range of hats and accessories.
To say that fans are excited the game has a release date is an understatement. “YYYEEEEESSSSSS ITS CROW TIME” exclaimed one user on X. “I can’t WAIT to play the full game!!!” said another.
When is Just Crow Things being released?
Currently, the release date for Just Crow Things is August 15, 2024. The game will be released initially on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. The game will be released on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, but the release date for that platform is currently unannounced.
Just Crow Things looks poised to be a silly, fun experience filled with joy. Ideal for taking a break from rounds in the Black Ops 6 beta.
Featured image credit: Unbound Creations
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Apple has denied using an unethically collected dataset from EleutherAI to train its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) product, Apple Intelligence. However, they state they have used the dataset for another AI model.
After it was revealed this week that a company called EleutherAI used a dataset containing hundreds of thousands of YouTube video captions to create a dataset to aid in AI training, Apple spoke to Apple Insider, denying that EleutherAI’s ‘Pile’ was used to train Apple Intelligence.
However, they confirmed that ‘the Pile’ was used when developing the open-source OpenELM models released earlier this year.
What is EleutherAI’s ‘the Pile’?
EleutherAI is a non-profit organization that wants to make AI research and development more accessible to companies outside of the huge tech firms we see primarily working on huge AI models like OpenAI.
One of the ways they do this is by providing training datasets for large language models and other AI applications. However, instead of paying licensing fees to access data, or entering into partnerships to use data from sources, EleutherAI scrapes the web to obtain its data. This includes the captions from over 170,000 YouTube videos.
‘The Pile’ is the result of this – a huge corpus of unethically sourced training data is intended to lower the barrier to entry for smaller firms to enter the AI market. However, larger companies have also made use of the dataset.
What is Apple’s OpenELM?
Although they did not use ‘the Pile’ to train Apple Intelligence (and claim Apple Intelligence models were trained “on licensed data, including data selected to enhance specific features, as well as publicly available data collected by our web crawler,”) Apple has admitted to using it to develop their OpenELM models.
Apple released OpenELM in April. It was created for research purposes and is not used to power any of Apple Intelligence’s functions or features. Apple has told 9to5Mac that they have no plans to expand on OpenELM or release any further versions of the tool.
Featured image credit: Apple
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