From the archive

2021

Ubisoft Players Made it Clear they Don’t Want NFTs in Games

Ubisoft recently launched Ubisoft Quartz, which would enable Ubisoft to add NFTs into (at least some of) their games. The Ubisoft Quartz website specifically mentions Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, which the company chose to start putting NFTs into. It appears that the majority of people who play Ubisoft’s games were not happy about that decision. According to VideoGamesChronicle, “Ubisoft

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Bill Gates has had a rough year!

Bill Gates seems to think anyone cares he has had a bad year. Like the rest of the world hasn't little sympathy from me. Seems that money cannot buy happiness. It's a little ironic that he had to get a vaccine reference as well in the accompanying article. When you are rich no one cares if you are not happy.

Appeals Court Granted a Stay on Part of Epic v. Apple Ruling

An appeals court has paused one of the most consequential parts of the Epic v. Apple ruling, placing a stay on the enforcement of the injunction issued by the lower court, The Verge reported. According to The Verge, the stay allows Apple to maintain its IAP system as the sole source of in-app payments on iOS, despite the district court’s

People Working at Meta are Leaving the Company

There has been an exodus of people leaving Meta. What does it mean when a large corporation loses so many of its higher-ups in such a short span of time? Personally, it is unclear to me whether these people are leaving because they have been asked to, or if Meta is simply not the type of company they wish to

Twitter has Acquired Quill

Twitter has acquired Quill, a company that TechCrunch described as “a business-focused messaging service meant to compete against the likes of Slack and keep people, well, more focused”. Quill put a blog post on their website titled: “Twitter + Quill”. We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication. We believe the tools we use to

Amazon Music and Ring still out of reach due AWS outage

[2:04 PM PST] We have executed a mitigation which is showing significant recovery in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are continuing to closely monitor the health of the network devices and we expect to continue to make progress towards full recovery. We still do not have an ETA for full recovery at this time

Amazon Music goes down for the holidays, or at least for now

Haul out the holly. Oh, wait. Are you also one of those people that decorates the house to music? Or just like to keep the holiday spirits up during the season? Well, if you use Amazon Music for that, then your home or office is a very quiet place this morning.  A short time ago the software and retail giant