Gates says AI risks manageable
It is not as grim as all that
Software King of the World Sir William Gates III said that life under our AI overlords will not be as bad as all that.
Sony agrees to ten year Call of Duty deal with Microsoft
Game over for the legal teams
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.
AMD quietly sneaks out budget Zen 3 quad-core processor
Previously unannounced and still unseen in the wild
AMD has released a budget-focused quad-core processor based on Zen 3.
Li-Fi becomes a standard
Light to give connectivity
Li-Fi was just made into a standard, IEEE 802.11bb — and it harnesses the power of light to give connectivity.
Microsoft kills off Calibri
Replaced with Aptos
Microsoft is replacing its Calibri default font with Aptos, a new sans-serif typeface that's inspired by mid-20th-century Swiss typography known as Bierstadt.
Mac users fear their desktops are looking like their phones
You can’t take this seriously
The Mac community is starting to mutter about the fact that Apple appears to have run out of design ideas for their expensive desktops and is just turning them into giant expensive iPhones.
After turning to the light side, anime site makes a bomb
Crunchyroll now owned by Sony
Crunchyroll, which started out life as a pirated-video site in the mid-2000s is now making a fortune as a legit site for its new owner Sony.
Bungie wins $500,000 in damages from a Destiny 2 player
Taunted community manager and his wife
Bungie has won almost $500,000 in damages from a Destiny 2 player who harassed one of its community managers and his wife with abusive, racist, and distressing calls and messages, and sent an unsolicited pizza order to their home in a manner designed to intimidate and frighten the couple.
Hollywood actors told the studios own their images
You will continue working after you are dead
During today's press conference in which Hollywood actors confirmed that they were going on strike, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA's chief negotiator, revealed a proposal from Hollywood studios that sounds ripped right out of a Black Mirror episode.
Gelsinger asks Chinese to allow Tower takeover
Amid frosty politics
Intel boss Pat [kicking] Gelsinger has gone to China to kowtow to the regulator to approve his company’s takeover of foundry Tower Semiconductor.