Month: February 2024
Homeworld 3 delayed again until May
Homeworld 3, the much-anticipated sequel to 20-year-old real-time strategy game Homeworld 2, has been delayed once again, Gearbox Publishing and Blackbird Interactive announced. It's now set to come out on May 13, 2024, a couple of months after the previously announced March 8 debut. The decision to delay was made…
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FTC claims that Microsoft layoffs contradict ‘representations it made’ during the fight to acquire Activision
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against Microsoft to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit following the news of the company planning to lay off around 1,900 members of staff from across its Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax teams. Highlighted by The Verge, the…
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Meta’s not happy with its bill for enforcing the EU’s tough new DSA
Meta is challenging a fee it must pay EU regulators tasked with enforcing tough new content moderation rules required by the Digital Services Act (DSA), Reuters reports. Although the fee is capped at 0.05 percent of a company’s profits, Meta isn’t happy that loss-making companies won’t have to pay while…
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It looks like the Apple Watch’s next big innovation has been delayed big time, according to leaks
The Apple Watch Ultra 2 was a fairly modest upgrade on what was already the best Apple Watch in the lineup, but as ever, we’re looking to what’s next. Reports have consistently suggested that Apple is planning to roll out microLED displays to multiple product lines, including the iPad and…
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ESR Qi2 wireless car charger review: goodbye Mag$afe
It’s not often that a truly useful new technology is released that both increases performance and undercuts the cost of the tech it replaces. But that’s exactly what the new Qi2 magnetic wireless charging standard has done for iPhone owners — and soon, Android — now that the first products…
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Apple releases an AI model that can edit images based on text-based commands
Apple isn't one of the top players in the AI game today, but the company's new open source AI model for image editing shows what it's capable of contributing to the space. The model called MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE), which uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interpret text-based commands…
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