Game Awards 2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 wins game of the year

“Over the course of the trial we saw evidence that Google was willing to pay billions of dollars to stifle alternative app stores by paying developers to abandon their own store efforts and direct distribution plans, and offering highly lucrative agreements with device manufacturers in exchange for excluding competing app stores,” Epic games said in…

Adam Bowen and James Monsees — the focus of the Netflix docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” — originally set out to make the world a better place. I had to remind myself of that, given the role their company played in getting young people hooked on nicotine. They were just a…

The clips are hilarious, though the implications of the tech “are pretty scary,” one creator said. View Entire Post ›

Want to know how much your friends are worth? Meet Flip, the shopping app that will put a price tag on every single person in your phone’s contact list. Cajole one of them into signing up for the app, and you get cash — up to $130 per person — to spend on Flip. “The…

Microsoft, Google integrate AI into products Microsoft, Google integrating more AI into products 03:20 Microsoft briefly dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company, as its foray into generative AI continues to push up its stock price. The software giant’s stock on Thursday jumped as much as 2%, putting the firm’s market valuations at $2.903…

This first post got some great feedback from friends, who seemed somewhat interested. “Would try!” said someone. “Love a frank review,” said another.  But some people seemed to notice the tone was a little… strange. “Great content thanks for sharing,” commented another friend dryly. “Is this an #ad?” asked a former coworker. Most excitingly, the…