Month: October 2023
Elon Musk’s ‘everything app’ plan for X, in his own words
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter a year ago, he has blown it up to create something else entirely. What is now called X is in the process of becoming “a single application that encompasses everything,” he recently told employees. Being the “digital town square,” as he has described Twitter in…
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These might be the first photos of the slimmer new PS5 and original side-by-side
The launch of the slimmer PlayStation 5 is just weeks away, and one user seems to have already gotten their hands on the updated console. In a series of images posted to X (formerly Twitter), user @phantompainss shows how the updated console stacks against its chunkier counterpart. The new PS5…
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Match drops out of Google Play antitrust showdown
Match Group and Google announced a settlement on Tuesday in Match’s lawsuit against the company. The last-minute decision leaves Google scheduled to go up against Fortnite publisher Epic Games alone in an antitrust trial that starts next week, with Epic alleging that Google Play’s payment policies are anticompetitive. Match sued…
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M2 versus M3: how the new MacBook Pros compare
In addition to a new iMac, Apple announced new M3-powered versions of the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro during its “Scary Fast” event on Monday. The new laptops can be configured with either the M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max chip, all of which should offer larger performance gains than the…
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Bungie delaying Destiny 2 expansion and Marathon release amid layoffs
“Today is a sad day at Bungie as we say goodbye to colleagues who have all made a significant impact on our studio,” Bungie CEO Pete Parsons wrote on X, formerly Twitter. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the layoffs come several weeks after a meeting in which execs said that…
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Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t ask where the $8 billion went
Let’s say I am the owner of a hedge fund, and one fine June day, my employees come to me and say, “Hey, Liz, we have an accounting problem. We are missing several billion dollars.” How would I react? I have been wondering this since Danielle Sassoon walked Sam Bankman-Fried…
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