Month: March 2022
Twitter might soon make you pay to use TweetDeck
Audio player loading… Newly discovered code on Twitter’s TweetDeck site points to the company possibly making TweetDeck an exclusive feature to Twitter Blue subscribers. TweetDeck is a (currently) free platform that lets desktop users scroll through multiple timelines of different accounts, topics, or hashtags at once. Big proponents of the…
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Go read this Kotaku story about difficult workplace conditions at an Xbox studio
Kotaku has published an extensive article about difficult workplace conditions at Undead Labs, a Microsoft-owned game studio known for the State of Decay series, that you should go read. The article details allegations of sexism at the company and a lack of direction that hurt morale, and it arrives amidst…
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Apple could be working on a whole host of financial and banking tools
Audio player loading… Apple is reportedly working on a multi-year plan to develop its own payment processing technology and infrastructure in an effort to further build out its portfolio of financial products. As reported by Bloomberg, the move would allow the iPhone maker to reduce its reliance on outside partners…
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NASA says Russia is still ‘moving toward’ extending the space station through 2030
Despite the United States and Russia’s deteriorating relationship here on Earth, Russia is still considering extending its participation on the International Space Station through 2030, according to NASA. However, it could be a few months before there is a solid update on Russia’s official stance. NASA and Russia’s state space…
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Microsoft has some serious reservations about working in the metaverse
Audio player loading… For Microsoft, the merging of the metaverse and the business world is inevitable, and therefore, something to be prepared for – especially from a security perspective. In a blog post written by Charlie Bell, the company’s Executive Vice President for Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management, the company…
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Many Americans distrust emerging technology, new study finds
For more than a century, popular science fiction has promised us a future filled with robotics and AI technologies. In 2022, many of those dreams are being realized — computers recognize us on sight and cars can drive themselves, we’re building intelligent exoskeletons that multiply our strength and implanting computers…
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