Month: July 2022
Meet the modder making $20,000 a month bringing the biggest games to VR
Luke Ross* has a hard time telling friends what he does for a living. He can’t quite believe it himself. “I’m a kid with a fake steering wheel in the backseat who pretends to know where they’re going,” he tells The Verge. In 2020, he released a free mod for…
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The Morning After: Major League Baseball wants to deploy strike zone robo-umpires in 2024
Major League Baseball will “likely” introduce an Automated Strike Zone System starting in 2024, commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN. These robot umpires may call all balls and strikes then relay the information to a plate umpire, or be part of a replay review system that allows managers to challenge calls.…
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Canceled: Hulu calls time on another show despite 91% Rotten Tomatoes’ rating
Audio player loading… Duncanville, the animated family-comedy led by Amy Poehler, has been canceled after three seasons. The show, which was created by Mike Scully, one time showrunner on The Simpsons, his wife and producing partner Julie Thacker Scully and Poelher, launched in February 2020 and was shown on Fox…
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Technoblade, a popular Minecraft YouTuber, dies from cancer age 23 — shares final video
Technoblade, a popular Minecraft YouTuber, has died from cancer age 23. In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel titled “so long nerds” and narrated by his father, Technoblade thanked his fans and fellow streamers for their support over the years, and revealed that his real name was Alex. (He’d…
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Google offers small app developers $90 million to settle antitrust allegations
Google has offered to pay out $90 million to small app developers to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s Play store policies violated federal antitrust laws. The suit claimed that Google maintained polices that effectively forced developers to use its Google Play billing system — which for many…
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Your Samsung Smart TV just got smarter – about cloud gaming
Audio player loading… Having come a long way since 2013, the revamped Samsung Gaming Hub is bringing the hottest games to the company’s 2022 line of Smart TVs and monitors. People see the Samsung Gaming Hub (opens in new tab) as the start of a new era in cloud gaming…
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