Month: October 2020
Facebook Moderators Terrified Of COVID-19 Are Being Forced To Return To The Office Next Week
Facebook is ordering some of its third-party content moderators back to its offices on Monday — and that’s caused them to panic. The workers, contract employees at Accenture, a $145 billion professional services company, say the back-to-work order is indicative of a culture of silence and a two-tiered employment structure…
Read More
Amazon pulls the plug on its first AAA game, ‘Crucible’
Earlier this year Amazon tried to make a splash with its first AAA title, a free-to-play shooter called Crucible that was originally announced in 2016. The multiplayer game launched in May but quickly returned to beta status as developers cut down th… Source
Read More
Amazon has canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter that had already been returned to closed beta
Amazon has officially canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter. It’s the end of a rocky journey for the game, which was first launched in May after years in development before being put back into closed beta in July. “We very much appreciate the way that our fans have rallied around…
Read More
Judge won’t let Apple block Unreal Engine, but won’t make it unblock ‘Fortnite’
The trial over Epic Games’ legal battle against Apple over its App Store policies won’t take place until next year, but there’s an update in the case. Bloomberg reports that US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled against Epic’s request for a… Source
Read More
No, The Man Pictured With Charlie Kirk Isn’t A Whitmer Kidnapping Suspect
On Oct. 8, hours after the authorities announced the arrest of 13 men in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a photo purporting to be one of the suspects went viral. The image showed a short-haired white man with a 5 o’clock shadow giving a thumbs-up next…
Read More
NordVPN Teams quietly relocated to the US null
NordVPN has decided to move its business VPN solution, NordVPN Teams, to the US in an effort to better fulfill the requirements of enterprise users. The company and many other VPN providers such as ExpressVPN, are incorporated outside of the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other Western countries in…
Read More