E3: Once world’s biggest gaming show permanently axed

A British judge has sentenced the 18-year-old hacker who leaked footage of the unreleased video game Grand Theft Auto VI to indefinite detention in a secure hospital, according to a BBC report.  The hacker, Arion Kurtaj, leaked 90 clips from Rockstar Games’ forthcoming Grand Theft Auto VI and also launched cyberattacks on Uber, Nvidia and other corporations….

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A commercial spacecraft bound for the lunar surface lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Monday in the first launch of a U.S. space mission designed to land softly on the moon since the last of the Apollo flights in 1972. But after it separated…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save SAN FRANCISCO — The wave of layoffs that has broken over Silicon Valley in the past two years isn’t over. On Wednesday, Google confirmed it had cut hundreds of engineering and hardware workers as it sought to cut costs and refocus on artificial intelligence. The…

Mattel, the company behind Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price and Barbie, pledged in 2017 to donate $49 million to UCLA to support its children’s hospital. But now the hospital says Mattel never came through with the money. According to a new lawsuit, the El Segundo toy company made “the inexplicable decision a few short years later to…

@dudewithsign is a popular Instagram account that features a tall man in sunglasses holding up a cardboard sign in various public places. Except instead of a serious protest message, the sign has a funny aphorism about modern life, like “Who TF is writing Yelp reviews” or “You can cold plunge without telling everyone.” The eponymous…

Portable X-ray equipment that can take high quality images is transforming healthcare in remote areas.