Author: Zach_Wilson

ESA CEO on E3 shutdown: ‘video game companies have new and exciting ways to reach people’

Earlier this week, it was announced that the Electronic Entertainment Expo – better known as E3 – has been permanently shut down, following its cancellation in 2020, 2022, and 2023 (and shift online in 2021). Now, Stanley Pierre-Louis, the president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which organized…

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Google Maps update to let you wipe out past searches and photos in one swoop

Google Maps is getting a privacy update that gives users new ways to control their information on the platform.  First, the app will begin collecting your recent activity into one central location where you can view places you’ve been to in the past, the date you went there, and the…

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Beeper says some people aren’t getting iMessages again

Here we go again: Just two days after getting Beeper Mini working again after Apple’s block, Beeper says that it’s looking into reports that some users aren’t getting iMessages on Beeper Mini and Beeper Cloud. The issues appear to have started as early as about 6PM ET; at that time,…

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The Tesla Cybertruck’s infamous wiper will reportedly cost $165 to replace

The Cybertruck’s entire windshield will also be replaceable, of course, and will cost you a cool $1,900, assuming these prices are accurate and assuming they’re consumer prices rather than internal prices. (I am not sure if that’s a safe assumption, but if so, they seem reasonable for a $60K-and-up vehicle.)…

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Twitch loosens its policy on sexual content

Twitch is updating the way it responds to sexual content. As part of the change, the streaming platform will now allow some previously prohibited content — as long as it has a label to warn viewers. The platform will now allow “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region” if the…

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Threads will let you push fact-checked posts further down your feed

Meta announced in a blog post update yesterday that it will apply an obscure Instagram setting to Threads that lets users control how much fact-checked content they see in their feed. Meta says its fact-checking is intended to address misinformation, so effectively, users will be able to decide how much…

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