Seven of AI’s top companies attended a White House summit Friday, reaching a deal with the Biden administration to roll out new guardrails to enhance the safety and security of their systems and users, like watermarking AI-generated content. “These commitments are real, and they are concrete,” President Joe Biden said in remarks at the White House Friday following the […]
Sony has agreed to a 10-year deal for Call of Duty with Microsoft to keep the franchise on PlayStation after the proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says Sony and Microsoft have agreed to a “binding agreement” to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation. This ends a bitter battle between the companies that has been waged […]
Reddit is sunsetting its current coins and awards systems, meaning you soon won’t be able to thank a kind stranger for giving you Reddit Gold for one of your posts. As The Verge reports, Awards are little icons on posts you might have come across while scrolling around Reddit, and they’re given by other users to show appreciation […]
Microsoft is ending its Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan. The plan had already spread to eight countries as of February, allowing Xbox Game Pass members to share benefits with up to four other friends or family members. There’s no sign if it will ever return. A Microsoft spokesperson has now confirmed to Eurogamer that the Xbox Game Pass […]
The Fairphone 4 — a user-repairable smartphone built using ethically sourced materials — is finally coming to the US, almost two years after it first debuted back in September 2021. In order to accomplish this, Fairphone is partnering with Murena, a company best known for de-Googling Android phones, to launch the US pilot of the Murena Fairphone 4 […]
A California judge is allowing Microsoft to close its acquisition of Activision Blizzard after five days of grueling testimony. As The Verge reports, Microsoft still faces an ongoing antitrust case by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley has listened to arguments from both the FTC and Microsoft and decided to deny […]
In less than 48 hours, Meta’s Twitter rival Threads surpassed 70 million sign-ups, upended the social media landscape and rattled Twitter enough that Elon Musk is now threatening legal action against Meta. But as CNN reports, even as users signed up for Threads in droves, with some clearly eager to flee the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter, the […]
If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you […]
Apple’s market cap has reached the $3 trillion bar on Friday, when the individual AAPLE shares showed a price above $192 soon after trading began. Its share price maintained that level and eventually closed the day at $193.97, making it the first company to end a day with a market cap of over $3 trillion. […]
Microsoft is increasing its Xbox Series X prices in most countries in August with the exception of the US, Japan, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia. As The Verge reports, the Xbox maker is also increasing the monthly prices of its Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions for the first time next month, which […]