Baldur’s Gate 3, Lego Fortnite, and 7 other games that defined 2023

The Discord app is seen on an iPhone in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on April 3, 2021. Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images Discord will lay off 17% of the company’s workforce, which equates to 170 employees, a spokesperson confirmed on Thursday. The company, which provides a popular messaging service used by…

Riesman didn’t panic — but she didn’t want to impose her “spicy” pics on people. “It was, ‘Oh god, am I shoving my naked body in front of a load of people?’” she said. “I’ve curated my Circles to people I thought wouldn’t mind, but the general public does not need to see me in…

“Battle royale, by its very nature, you’re going to be in combat, you’re going to be shooting people. And there are people who either just don’t want to engage with that, or there are people who, like with Lego, are probably a bit too young for that.”

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Instagram and Facebook unveiled further limits on what teens can see on the apps, a move their parent company Meta says will reduce the amount of potentially harmful content young people encounter. Already, teens could opt to have Instagram’s algorithm recommend less “sensitive content” —…

In a bid to tailor its products more, the Met Office has introduced dedicated beach and mountain forecasts. “With the beach forecast, it tells you how windy it is, what the waves are going to be like… and we have partnered with RNLI [the Royal National Lifeboat Institution] on it,” says Ms Yeomans-Smith.

Updated Jan. 8, 2024 6:46 pm ET Unity Software plans to lay off about 25% of its workforce as the company works to recover from a major dust-up with customers last fall. The company will let go about 1,800 employees, according to a securities filing on Monday. The cuts come after Unity laid off more…