Just last year, QA contractors working on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf voted unanimously to become Canada’s first-ever video game industry union. Now, sadly, the Keyword Studios employees working on the RPG have all been laid off after developer BioWare decided not to renew their contract.
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iFixit has already torn down every iPhone 15 model along with all of the new Apple Watch models. Now, the repair company is doing the same thing it did with the FineWoven cases by offering a microscopic look at Apple’s base iPhone 15 model. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. By using the DSX1000 microscope from Evident Scientific, iFixit highlights a few interesting changes on the new iPhone. Starting with image stabilization, the company…
The image shows how liquefied stabilized soil can find use as a backfill material at different locations on a construction site. Credit: Shinya Inazumi from Shibaura Institute of Technology, JapanImage source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214509523005879?via%3Dihub#coi0005 In many regions across the globe, rapid economic growth has increased the industrial waste generated from construction sites. The environmentally responsible disposal of this waste is a challenge. However, governments are now enacting stricter laws to prevent waste generation and ensure proper disposal of such waste. Popularized in the 1990s, liquefied soil stabilization is one approach to reuse excavated soil and harmful sludge at construction sites. The construction-generated…
As founder and CEO of healthy grocery delivery service Hungryroot, Ben McKean has been investigating the power of AI technologies to improve his business. But with the launch of his new side project — an app called Every — McKean wants to explore the use of AI to help people establish deeper relationships with themselves and others and to find common ground. Currently structured as a nonprofit, Every’s iOS app leverages AI technologies to create “thought-provoking games” aimed at self-discovery. For example, all users begin with a game called “Inner Odyssey” that challenges you to pick a photo that best…
Elon Musk is once again in the crosshairs of the Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC). The regulator, which has been investigating Musk’s Twitter takeover, is now suing the owner of X after he failed to appear for previously-scheduled testimony, The Wall Street Journal reports.The SEC’s investigation dates back to 2022, when it opened a probe into Musk’s delayed disclosure of his stake in Twitter, which was at the time a publicly-traded company. Musk was 10 days late in filing paperwork, required under US securities law, disclosing his investment in Twitter. The delay may have earned him as much as $156…
Instagram might let you share Stories only with specific groups of friends in the future. During a broadcast on his page, Instagram head Adam Mosseri has revealed that the social media app has started testing the ability to share Stories to multiple audience lists. The app already has a “Close Friends” feature, which gives you the ability to add certain friends to a list and to share Stories to that group of people only. It gives you a bit of privacy on the social network, especially if you have a public profile.But sometimes, you may have things to share with…
Telltale Games, the resurrected studio behind the likes of The Expanse: A Telltale Series and the upcoming The Wolf Among Us 2, has confirmed layoffs at the studio, after a former employee shared a message on social media claiming “most of” his team had been let go last month. News of layoffs at Telltale began circulating after cinematic artist Jonah Huang – who’s worked at the studio in both its current and original incarnation, which closed down in 2018 – claimed the studio “laid most of us off early September”. Huang also appeared to imply further troubles…
Apple is currently working on a bunch of new tablets, all of which will become official in the next few months. In fact, all of them are slated to launch with a version of iPadOS 17, which means they will be released before next September, when Apple will send out iPadOS 18 to supported devices. That’s not a very clear timeline at all, but what is clearer are the models that we should expect. First off, a new iPad mini, with the same design as the last one, but newer internals. Current iPad mini Second, not one but two new…
ElectraMeccanica, former maker of three-wheeled electric vehicles, said on Wednesday that it has “terminated” its plan to merge with Tevva, which makes hydrogen-electric trucks (not sandals). ElectraMeccanica said its board decided unanimously to bin the deal over “multiple incurable breaches of the agreement by Tevva.” The alleged breaches include “failures by Tevva” to share “material information” with ElectraMeccanica, the latter firm said. What material information? A spokesperson for ElectraMeccanica declined to elaborate in an email to TechCrunch. Tevva’s spokesperson told TechCrunch that it’s “deeply disappointed by ElectraMeccanica’s abrupt decision.” They also declined to elaborate further. Cryptically, ElectraMeccanica’s press release said…
Police in France have taken five former Ubisoft employees, including vice president of editorial and creative services Tommy Francois and chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, into custody following a long investigation into moral and sexual harassment at the Assassin’s Creed creator. By Wednesday, the five had been taken into custody and questioned; only Francois and Hascoët’s names have been made public.The French newspaper Libération first reported the news. Maude Beckers, an attorney representing some of the Ubisoft employees who made the harassment allegations, told WIRED that the detainment and questioning of Francois, Hascoët, and others shows prosecutors are “taking this…