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Conor McGregor wont let Dustin Poirier forget about wifes alleged DMs

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Explore More Conor McGregor’s feud with Dustin Poirier and wife Jolie Poirier is alive and well. After his loss to Poirier at UFC 264, McGregor reignited the rift when he commented on a video of Poirier discussing his involvement in a street fight. “I was at my brother’s house and there was a street party… and my wife was leaning over a fence talking to somebody. Guys from next door came over and bent over her back, while she was bending over and put his hand on her stomach, started talking in her ear,” Poirier explained, adding that he “ripped him off” and “people were fighting everywhere” after that. Read More...

The military is now using video games to train millennials in Cold War technology

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When the Patriot missile system was introduced to the world in 1981, most video games were played in arcades or on Atari 2600 consoles. More than three decades later, the Patriot system — a Cold War relic — is still in operation and now has its own version of a video game, one that allows U.S. service members to train with the weapon in a virtual environment. According to defense giant Raytheon, which builds the surface-to-air missile system, the idea is to train a new generation of soldiers who grew up with video-game controllers in their hands. Read More...