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The biggest acquisition in video game history appears to be coming to a close. After Microsoft offered to buy Activision Blizzard nearly two years ago - and faced a barrage of government hurdles along the way - the tech company is reportedly readying to close the sale, Gizmodo reported. Sources told The Verge that the 68.7 billion sale finally appears
Elon Musk’s X platform (formerly Twitter) has been undergoing a lot of profound changes since it was acquired by the billionaire last year, as he wants to turn the social network into a mega app for calls and even payments. In the meantime, It seems Musk wants to expand the X Premium paid service by breaking it up into different
A week after laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games announced that it’s increasing the price to use Unreal Engine - not just for the game development community, Game Developer reported. The news came from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney himself in a presentation at Unreal Fest 2023. In a video captured by Fortnite Creative developer Immature (and spotted by
Finally, the feature everyone has been asking for: Gmail emoji reactions, ArsTechnica wrote. You can now reply to an email just like it’s an instant messaging chat, tacking on a “crying laughing” emoji to an email instead of replying. Google has a whole support article detailing the new feature, which allows you to “express yourself and quickly respond to emails
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday asked a San Francisco federal court to order Elon Musk to comply with the agency’s ongoing investigation of his 2022 takeover of Twitter, the social-media platform he has since renamed X, The Wall Street Journal reported. Musk was scheduled to provide testimony to the SEC on Sept. 15 but failed to appear at
As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there’s also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in content creation, TechCrunch reported. To address this concern, TikTok announced today it will launch a new tool that will allow creators to label their AI-generated content and will begin testing other ways to label AI-generated content automatically.
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX on Monday sued the parents of founder Sam Bankman-Fried, saying that Stanford professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried used the company to enrich themselves at the expense of FTX’s customers, Reuters reported. FTX, now being led by turnaround specialist John Ray, said that company founder Sam Bankman-Fried ran FTX as a “family business” and misappropriated billions