Ash Parrish / The Verge: Epic Games confirms it is laying off 16% of its workforce, or about 830 people, and intends to divest from Bandcamp and spin off “kid-tech” company SuperAwesome — Bloomberg reports that Fortnite developer Epic Games is expected to lay off 16 percent of its workforce.
Read MoreImage: The Verge SpaceX has won its first contract with the US Space Force to provide satellite communications via Starshield, Bloomberg reports. Announced last December, SpaceX describes Starshield as a “secured satellite network for government entities,” offered alongside its civilian-focused Starlink satellite internet service. Bloomberg notes that the Starshield services will be provided over SpaceX’s
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: Google patches a zero-day in Chrome that was exploited by a commercial spyware vendor, just two days after it was reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group — Google has rushed to patch a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome that was exploited by a commercial spyware vendor.
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Bloomberg reports that Fortnite developer Epic Games is expected to lay off 16 percent of its workforce. In a statement from Tim Sweeney, Epic has confirmed the layoffs will impact around 830 employees. He wrote that the company intends to divest from Bandcamp — an independent music storefront company
Read MoreCollege basketball player Lyric Swann poses in the official Nerfball gear. | Photo: Hasbro Here’s Nerfball, the first official ‘sport’ from the company behind the blasters. Continue reading…
Read MoreTwenty years ago, in a world dominated by dial-up connections and a fledgling World Wide Web, a group of New Zealand friends embarked on a journey. Their mission? To bring to life a Matrix fan film shot on a shoestring budget. The result was The Fanimatrix, a 16-minute amateur film just popular enough to have its
Read MoreApple You might think that it would take a lot of effort to make Henry Cavill look like a huge dork, but the first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ new meta spy comedy Argylle from director Matthew Vaughn proves that all it takes is a velveteen sweater and an unforgiving trip to SuperCuts. Rather than
Read MoreTwo of these case makers guessed right, two did not. Between Apple no longer making leather products and the utter disappointment of the new FineWoven case, there’s more opportunity this year for third-party iPhone case makers than perhaps ever before. But for a lot of manufacturers, the new Action Button in the iPhone 15 Pro
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge After years of back-and-forth battling between Fortnite publisher Epic Games and Apple, the gaming company filed a writ of certiorari asking the US Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling in their antitrust case. Epic has argued that Apple unfairly monopolizes the mobile app space with iOS and
Read MoreFor $1,199, the Aura comes nearly ready to use out of the box, complete with a library of readymade designs you can use for an added cost. Continue reading…
Read MoreA worker smooths a sample of concrete mix in a canister that contains materials to lower the overall embodied carbon in concrete. | Image: Dan DeLong for Microsoft To clean up some of the pollution stemming from its supply chain and data centers, Microsoft is experimenting with new kinds of concrete. Cement, a key ingredient
Read MoreThe Fitbit Charge 6 sticks to what Fitbit does well. | Image: Google / Fitbit Fitbit is back with the Charge 6 — and on paper, this one feels like the most Fitbit-y Fitbit since Google actively began folding the company into its ecosystem. Not only has the price been lowered from $179.95 to $159.95
Read MoreThe latest in the company’s most popular series now requires a Google account to track your health data and to use Google Maps and Google Wallet.
Read MoreFitbit Charge 6 Lifestyle Photography Credit: Fitbit The Fitbit Charge series is among the best fitness trackers you can spend cash on. Since 2021, we’ve relied on the Fitbit Charge 5 for the best-of-the-best in the Fitbit tracker world. Now, though, the Charge 5 has been usurped by the Fitbit Charge 6! It takes the
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: New York City-based Transfr, which provides businesses with VR training tools, raised a $40M Series C led by ABS Capital, bringing its total funding to $90M — Transfr, a startup creating VR tools for training and career development, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series C round led
Read MoreCredit: Fitbit Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Last year, when Google announced the Versa 4 and Sense 2, we were left scratching our heads left and right. These were the first Fitbit trackers to be developed under Google’s guidance and, instead of pushing them forward, the company had taken several side steps, if not backward
Read MoreJason Schreier / Bloomberg: Source: Epic Games announced in a staff memo that it is laying off about 900 employees or 16% of its workforce — The job cuts were announced in a memo to staff, said the person, who asked not to be named disclosing information that’s not yet public. — Based in Cary,
Read MoreIf you recently purchased a smart TV or TV-adjacent audio device like a soundbar or home theatre system, you may have spotted the litany of HDMI ports on the back. Curiously, one of these HDMI ports may be demarcated and have an ARC or eARC label on it. But what is HDMI ARC/eARC, and what
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A new Samsung device has passed by the FCC. The details in the listing suggest Samsung could be working on a new fitness tracker. It’s unknown what improvements Samsung will bring to the new device. Samsung has been making a few surprising moves this year. First, we learned about
Read MoreAmazon has taken some steps to stem the tide of books written with artificial intelligence, but another solution may already exist.
Read MorePolice are hosting events to collect DNA samples that can help solve missing persons cases. But when people put their DNA in a commercial database, it can used for other purposes.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what’s actually going on inside the hotend of your 3D printer? It doesn’t seem like much of a mystery — the filament gets melty, it gets squeezed out by the pressure of the incoming unmelty filament, and lather, rinse, repeat. Or is there perhaps more to the story? To find out,
Read MoreCamomile Shumba / CoinDesk: Report: Bank for International Settlements and French, Swiss, and Singaporean central banks successfully tested cross-border wholesale CBDC trading using DeFi — The Bank for International Settlements alongside the central banks of France, Singapore and Switzerland tested out using wholesale CBDC to conduct cross border trading.
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit removes the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity but says users will still have opt-out controls in “select countries” — Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority AI chatbots like ChatGPT know a lot about the world and can generate text on just about any subject under the sun. But if you use modern chatbots for long enough, you will sooner or later run into limitations that prevent them from talking about certain topics. The reasons
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