Newzoo: Catering to families with Xbox Game Pass could be key to closing gap on Sony
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Game subscription services are markedly more popular among families, but most packages don’t provide family plans
Slow online checkouts drive over a quarter of gamers to abandon their orders
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Developers may be willing to sacrifice sales revenue for the reliability of subscription services, says SuperData
Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers : Nature News & Comment
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he publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.
Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013. Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), based in New York. Both publishers, which were privately informed by Labbé, say that they are now removing the papers.
