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23 Jan

Philips Hue’s new outdoor Dymera wall lights beam up and down

John RoutledgeLatest News

Philips Hue is expanding its outdoor smart lighting lineup with a new model called Dymera that beams both up and down, allowing dramatic effects for your home's exterior (or interior). The lights feature a black design and two individually controllable beams, letting you set illumination and individual colors for each using the Philips Hue app. You can also use the…

23 Jan

Alphabet is cutting dozens of jobs at its X moonshot lab

John RoutledgeLatest News

Just days after Alphabet and Google CEO Sudar Pichai warned workers of more downsizing this year, the former is laying off dozens of employees, mainly support staff, at its moonshot lab. Alphabet is also restructuring X (not to be confused with the platform formerly known as Twitter) to make it easier to spin out projects as independent startups with backing…

23 Jan

All-time dumpster fire The Day Before shuts down 46 days after launch

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The Day Before is no more. The spectacular trainwreck of a game, which saw developer Fntastic announcing its closure only four days after launch, closed its servers for good on Monday, reports IGN. Publisher Mytona has wiped all references to the much-hyped Steam Early Access title from its website. To recap the timeline, the $40 game launched on December 7,…

23 Jan

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 raises $2.5 million for cancer research

John RoutledgeLatest News

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2024 has wrapped after a nonstop weeklong speedrunning marathon. This year’s charity raised over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Other highlights included four broken world records and a dog named Peanut Butter beating the oddball NES classic Gyromite. This year’s AGDQ, which took place in Pittsburgh, passed the million-dollar threshold early on day…

23 Jan

NVIDIA’s RTX Remix tool is finally available as a free open beta

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If you love old PC games, but wish they had access to modern graphical flourishes, NVIDIA has you covered. The company just released a beta version of its long-awaited RTX Remix tool. This software is designed especially for modders and can be used to add ray-tracing and AI-upscaled textures to older games. Remix was built on NVIDIA’s Omniverse 3D graphics…

23 Jan

Apple just dropped a mysterious trailer for its latest sci-fi series Constellation

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Apple just dropped a trailer for its forthcoming sci-fi mystery series Constellation. The series follows an astronaut, played by Noomi Rapace, after an emergency return to Earth. However, the homecoming is fraught with mysterious occurrences and plain-old sci-fi weirdness, leaving audiences wondering what happened to her up there. We don’t exactly know what type of sci-fi this is. There are…

23 Jan

WhatsApp may soon offer its own AirDrop-like file sharing feature

John RoutledgeLatest News

Anyone who likes to take and share a lot of photos will likely agree that AirDrop is a great feature, but its Apple-only status is limiting. Now, WhatsApp could give it a run for its money across all devices. The company is seemingly working on a new update that would allow users to share files with nearby devices, WABetaInfo reports.…

23 Jan

Doomed crypto firm Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy in the US

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Terraform Labs, the company that wiped out $40 billion from the crypto market with the collapse of its TerraUSD and Luna stablecoins, has finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday. Bloomberg reports that the crypto firm's estimated assets and liabilities are both in the range of $100 million to $500 million, with the estimated number of creditors being…

23 Jan

OpenAI suspends developer over ChatGPT bot that impersonated a presidential candidate

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OpenAI has suspended the developer behind Dean.Bot, a ChatGPT-powered bot designed to impersonate Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips to help bolster his campaign, according to The Washington Post. The chatbot was created by AI startup Delphi for the super PAC We Deserve Better, which supports Phillips. Dean.Bot didn’t all-out pretend to be Phillips himself; before engaging with Dean.Bot, website visitors…

31 Jan

All the big tech layoffs of 2023 and 2024

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The tech industry has been reeling from the combination of a rough economy, the COVID-19 pandemic and some obvious business missteps. And while that led to job cuts in 2022, the headcount reductions unfortunately ramped up in 2023 and so far, seem to be accelerating in 2024. It can be tough to keep track of these moves, so we’ve compiled…