He had worked on Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, and Battlefield. Vince Zampella, a video game developer who has co-created or helmed some of the most popular franchises in the world, died in a car crash on a Los Angeles highway at 12:45 pm Pacific time on…
Apple can’t force app makers to get consent twice to track user data, Italian regulator says. Apple was hit with a $115 million fine Monday after Italy’s competition authority alleged the tech giant was abusing its dominant position to harm third-party developers in its App Store. In a press…
A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos. San Francisco was affected by a massive power outage over the weekend. It started with a fire at a substation in the city on Saturday afternoon, causing a blackout that at times affected as much as…
Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored. The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have discovered that this dilemma most…
Inin suggests new low-cost options allowed it to “recalculate production” for full cartridge. The Switch 2’s data-free, download-enabling Game Key Cards have proved controversial with players who worry about long-term ownership and access issues to their purchases. But they’ve remained popular with publishers that want to save production costs…
LG says it’ll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren’t going away. Online fury erupted this week after an LG TV owner claimed that a firmware update installed unremovable generative AI software on their smart TV. The controversy began on Saturday, when a Reddit user posted…
BIOS checks will only affect a limited subset of Valorant players for now. At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges than most other apps…
You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox’s sub-$35,000 starting price. There’s a lot of goodwill out there for the Chevrolet Bolt. As maybe the first properly affordable longer-range electric car on the market, the Bolt wasn’t perfect. It didn’t charge very fast, and people found the…
Chris Wright declared an energy “emergency” in the Pacific Northwest. SEATTLE—The last coal-fired power plant in Washington state was set to go cold at the end of the year. It would then switch to natural gas, cutting carbon emissions in half. The shutdown had been in the works for…
How do four modern LLMs do at re-creating a simple Windows gaming classic? The idea of using AI to help with computer programming has become a contentious issue. On the one hand, coding agents can make horrific mistakes that require a lot of inefficient human oversight to fix, leading many…
