Month: August 2023
Meta may launch a Threads web version early this week
Meta will launch the web version of Threads, its competitor to X (formerly known as Twitter) early this week, reports The Wall Street Journal. A web version has been frustratingly missing since the short-form posting service began. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is working on adding the feature…
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Russia’s Luna-25 space craft ‘ceased to exist’ after colliding with the Moon.
Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft failed to land on the Moon, Roscosmos, Russia’s state-run space corporation, announced today. In a statement, the organization reported that the lander “ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon.” It would’ve been the country’s first Moon landing since 1976.…
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Starfield’s start screen is not minimal because the team didn’t care, insists Bethesda
Bethesda’s Head of Publishing, Pete Hines, has hit back at World of Warcraft designer Mark Kern after Kern said Starfield‘s start screen suggests it “either shows hasty shipping deadlines by a passionate team overworked, or a team that didn’t care”. “The physiognomy of start screens. The start screen of a…
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Adobe co-founder Dr. John Warnock has died — he was 82
Adobe co-founder Dr. John Warnock passed away on Saturday at the age of 82, Adobe announces today. A cause of death has not been released; he is survived by his wife, graphic designer Marva Warnock, and his three children. Warnock founded the revolutionary software company Adobe with his partner, the…
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Call of Duty loses one of its longest-serving developers as David Vonderhaar leaves Treyarch
One of Call of Duty’s longest-serving and best-known developers, David Vonderhaar, is leaving Treyarch and Activision for new pastures. Whilst he stopped short of revealing what studio or game had tempted them away – Vonderhaar could only say that they were staying in the games industry, “working on an undisclosed…
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Hideo Kojima shares a picture of Keanu Reeves and Norman Reedus, sparking Death Stranding 2 rumors
Hideo Kojima has sparked an online furore by posting pictures of Death Stranding star Norman Reedus with Keanu Reeves, kicking off speculation that the Matrix star may appear in Death Stranding 2. While the candid shots may simply show a couple of biking pals out for a ride and nothing…
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