Steam keeps breaking concurrent-user records as new games arrive
Just as Henry Cavill expresses his love for Space Marine 2
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Half-Life beta build from 1998 is uncovered in dusty storage unit
An archivist has shared initial discoveries from a legendary disc
Forget the games: Halo raked in a whopping $1.8 billion from merchandise alone
Making fortunes through an avalanche of toys, books, and apparel
Calling a restaurant? You might be speaking with an AI host
Restaurants are increasingly turning to AI chatbots to answer the phone
Tech job seekers face hard times as industry resets
More than 137,500 tech workers have lost their jobs this year
Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
Researchers create 'everlasting' 5D genome memory crystal that can one day help revive humans
All new cars should be required to have AM radio, says U.S. House
Auto manufacturers are pushing back for cost and technical reasons
Drones set to expedite blood sample delivery between London hospitals
It will be one of the first times this service is used in a dense urban environment
Communities is a Discord-like space for YouTube creators
A great way to boost interaction between creators and subscribers, while keeping people on YouTube
Novel phishing attack uses "no-escape" kiosk mode in Chrome to extract passwords
The quick fix is Control-Alt-Delete
EA is not developing The Sims 5 but has confirmed a Sims movie
A Project Rene playtest is weeks away, while the movie hopes to captures "Barbie" appeal
AMD's Epyc server CPU gets shoehorned into consumer motherboard, overclocked to 6.6GHz
The server chips are actually quite similar to the Ryzen 7000 series
Electric cars outnumber petrol vehicles in Norway, a global first
The country is on track to becoming the first with an EV-dominated passenger car fleet
High-end cameras make epic comeback despite smartphone ubiquity
Cameras priced as high as $6,000 are selling like hotcakes
Which company invented the hard disk drive?
The first commercial hard disk drive was introduced in 1956.
Watch Dogs movie finally wraps production more than a decade after initial announcement
Surely it can't be worse than the Borderlands movie?
Oracle's Larry Ellison advocates for AI-enhanced surveillance to promote "best behavior"
Oracle could play a pivotal role in this future
Amazon cracks down on remote work, wants butts in office seats five days a week
Bezos built an office culture, and CEO Jassy wants it back
World's smallest Apple IIe replica is 3D printed, uses $2 microcontroller
You can even connect a USB keyboard and mouse combo to this little thing
Retro gaming crime ring busted in Italy, seizing 12,000 fake consoles
Facepalm: Retro gaming has become a lucrative market, with companies repackaging old titles as new experiences. However, criminals are also taking advantage of the retro appeal, flooding the market with cheap, counterfeit replicas of "official" consoles pre-loaded with classic, emulated games.
Diablo IV surpasses $1B in revenue, with $150M coming in from microtransactions
Turns out $28 for in-game armor is pretty lucrative
This AI claims to predict crimes before they happen based on real-time CCTV analysis
Is this the future of crime prevention?
Study suggests SEC visits as tracked by following mobile location data may be tipping off insiders
Tracking mobile data to uncover insider activity
United Airlines to offer free Starlink Internet on all flights
Fast Internet at 35,000 feet
Ford's advertising patent suggests listening to in-car conversations for personalized ads
It's not the first controversial patent Ford (or many large companies) has pursued