A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s net neutrality law can remain in place, upholding a lower court decision. California’s 2018 law is the toughest in the country, and was signed into law a year after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed the federal Open Internet Order. That 2015 order put into place … Read more
Life360, a safety and tracking service that helps its users to keep tabs on the whereabouts of family and friends who also use the app, is scaling back its user data sales business to just two partners: Allstate Arity and Placer.ai (via The Markup). This news comes after the company announced a deal to acquire … Read more
From 12 minutes to Deathloop to Outer Wilds, time loop games are having a real moment right now. And that’s not even mentioning all the TV shows and movies dipping their toe into the time stream. Part of why they’re popular is because the world is a mess, and we either don’t know how to … Read more
Days after he was permanently , Dan Bongino has also lost his ability to earn revenue from Google ads. On Friday, the Bongino Report sent out a tweet suggesting Google had revoked the pundit’s AdSense account. Later that same day, confirmed the suspension with Google. The company told the outlet Bongino’s website had violated its … Read more
A good gaming headset is practically a necessity these days. Clean and precise audio is essential for competitive gaming, allowing you not just to pinpoint your enemies, but communicate effectively with your teammates. Moreover, recent developments in spatial audio and virtual surround sound have allowed headsets to meet — and occasionally surpass — more expensive … Read more
Elden Ring will have a poison swamp. That’s because toxic marsh enthusiast and player-poisoning sadist Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of developer FromSoftware and director of Elden Ring, simply “can’t help” himself. The guy just gets off on making people carry a special flower or medicinal herb in their inventory, and having fans of his games watch … Read more
The new GameStop documentary Rise of the Players is a coda movie. You know the type — the kind of story that’s largely an oral history, with a feel-good climax that comes in a few lines of text, over a montage of smiles and laughter, right at the end of the film. It becomes clear … Read more
Spotify employees are vocally upset inside the company over the streaming platform’s deal with Joe Rogan due to his views on COVID vaccines, but their executive leadership has mostly stayed quiet both inside and outside the firm. Today, however, Dustee Jenkins, Spotify’s head of global communications and public relations, posted a message to the company … Read more
Design illusions have always been a cornerstone of inventive Animal Crossing: New Horizons island designs. They’re a fun way to make your island look beautiful, but they can be a little tricky to pull off without examples. And while there have been broader trends in design illusions, fans are still always coming up with their … Read more
This weekend The Matrix Resurrections makes its debut on VOD just over a month following its premiere in theaters and on HBO Max. If you didn’t happen to catch Lana Wachowski’s cerebral return the Matrix series when it first came out, now’s the time to finally dust off your favorite pair of mirror-shades and jack … Read more