Month: July 2024
Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs
Valve is a famously secretive company with an enormous influence on the gaming industry, particularly because it runs the massive PC gaming storefront Steam. But despite that influence, Valve isn’t a large organization on par with EA or Riot Games’ thousands of employees: according to leaked data we’ve seen, as…
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The making of Eno, the first generative feature film
Brian Eno has taken many musical forms: producer, technologist, glam-rock star. Eno, the new documentary about the musician, also takes many forms, though more literally. Each showing of the movie, which opens today in New York at Film Forum, will be a different version. It is, according to its makers,…
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The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is rumored to be changing shape to be more comfortable to hold
With the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 now official, we can turn our attention to the next set of Galaxy flagship phones, and it seems the most expensive Samsung Galaxy S25 model might come with a change in shape. Well-known tipster @UniverseIce (via…
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The Sensations of Slime Are Serious Business
Slime and ASMR have a symbiotic relationship, and the twin phenomena are fueling a cottage industry of slime, slime content, slime products, and slime experiences. Source
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ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from Samsung Unpacked to YouTube Music’s AI radio to free Prime Day games
This week, we had two major phone reveals at opposite ends of the price spectrum, with Galaxy Unpacked revealing premium foldables and CMF by Nothing’s showcase giving us a new cheap and cheerful (yet surprisingly well specced) smartphone. We also saw other Samsung gadgets, got a Google and Samsung XR…
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Engwe P20 folding e-bike review: how forgiving are you?
It’s easy to make a folding e-bike like the Engwe P20 look great on paper. First, you price it near $1,000 and promise a 10-second folding time. Then, you replace the traditional oily chain, derailleur, cassette, and shifter with a belt-driven motor and torque sensor that should intuitively ramp up…
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