From The Verge: Games Done Quick has raised more than $2.6 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation at its first video game speedrunning event of 2023. While falling short of matching the $3.4 million raised during AGDQ 2022 last year, the cash raised at AGDC 2023 brings the total amount raised for...
I was in Edmonton a few weeks ago with a few friends to pick up some stuff. We left Calgary in the morning arrived around lunchtime, and I was craving some Texas-style barbecue, so we went to a highly-rated restaurant -- 4.6 stars on Google -- in a trendy part of town for food and drinks. We sat down, and the waitress asked whether we have been to that restaurant before. None of us have, so I told her no. She then proceeded to passionately tell...
From The Verge: Meta has filed a legal complaint against a company for allegedly creating tens of thousands of fake Facebook accounts to scrape user data and provide surveillance services for clients.
The firm, Voyager Labs, bills itself as “a world leader in advanced AI-based investigation...
From PC Mag: It's not just Sony who doesn't like the idea of Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard. Google and Nvidia have told the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) they are concerned, too.
As Bloomberg reports, Nvidia has told the FTC that equal and open access to games is very important, but didn...
From CNET: The Nothing Phone 1 is now available in the US for $299. This might sound like a steal since the global version launched last summer at £399 in the UK (roughly $480, AU$700). My colleague Andrew Lanxon found the Nothing Phone 1 to be a great value at that price, thanks to its striking...
From PC Mag: Microsoft employees in the US no longer need to worry about accruing enough vacation time in order to take a break.
As The Verge reports, Microsoft is set to offer all salaried US employees unlimited time off starting on Jan. 16, even those workers who only just started at the company...
From CNET: PC shipments fell below analysts' expectations in the fourth quarter of 2022, with PC makers shipping 67.2 million computers, a drop of 28.1% compared with the same quarter a year earlier, according to preliminary results that market researcher IDC released Tuesday.
The decline in the...
From PC World: Intel’s long awaited Core i9-13900KS was unwrapped Thursday morning and will officially be the first x86 consumer to hit the 6GHz barrier. You pay a premium for the barrier-breaking privilege; the chip will cost $699 when it goes on sale today.
The 24-core Core i9-113900KS is...
From Tom's Hardware: AMD formally introduced its Ryzen 7000 X3D-series processors with 3D V-Cache at CES 2023, but it didn't say when these CPUs would be available. Thanks to the sharp eyes at Overclock3D.net, we now know that these new products will be available starting from February 14, 2023...
From The Verge: Microsoft is moving some Microsoft Teams features over to its more costly Premium edition. Microsoft Teams Premium has been available as a 30-day trial since last month and will soon have exclusive access to features like live translated captions, custom Together Mode scenes, and...
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