As part of its latest earnings report – for the first half of its fiscal year 2023-24 – Ubisoft has announced yet another delay for Skull and Bones, with the beleaguered pirate adventure now expected to arrive sometime in the first few months of 2024. Skull and Bones has been in development since 2013, but the game has seen repeated delays following its official unveiling in 2017. Most recently, Ubisoft shifted the game’s release from this March to an unspecified “early” point in its fiscal year 2023-24 in order to create a “much more polished and balanced experience…
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Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab researchers (from left to right) Georgia Van de Zande, Carolyn Sheline, and Fiona Grant pilot a low-cost precision irrigation controller that optimizes system energy and water use at a full-scale test farm in the Jordan Valley. Credit: John Freidah In agriculture today, robots and drones can monitor fields, temperature and moisture sensors can be automated to meet crop needs, and a host of other systems and devices make farms more efficient, resource-conscious, and profitable. The use of precision agriculture, as these technologies are collectively known, offers significant advantages. However, because the technology can be…
125 Jessica Hubley knew she had a massive problem to solve when startup founders from all different backgrounds were coming to her with the same set of questions. Whether she was talking to a founder with all the academic chops or one who was just entering the tech world, everyone had questions about what type of lawyer they needed and what exactly that lawyer needed to do. So after working as an associate at a big law firm and as general counsel and legal strategy consultant for growing startups, Hubley founded Story LLP to help answer those questions from one…
Sam Bankman-Fried will take the stand at his own trial, his legal counsel has confirmed. The founder of stricken crypto exchange FTX has endured three weeks of bruising testimony in federal court from ex-colleagues, peers, and other witnesses. But Bankman-Fried will now take the opportunity to relay his own version of events to the jury.The US government has accused Bankman-Fried of masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud, whereby funds belonging to FTX customers were swept into a sibling company, Alameda Research, and either used to back up risky crypto bets or spent on debt repayments, personal loans, political donations, and luxuries of…
Amazon’s eero acquisition continues to bear fruit, and the latest off the vine is the eero Max 7, by far the company’s most advanced router yet, and the most capable when it comes to input and output options, too. The Max 7 supports Wifi 7, the cutting edge in wifi standards that’s still relatively hard to find in consumer devices, and it also boasts 6 GHz frequency networking for better mesh and local network performance. Will 7 turn out to be a lucky number for Eero fans? Read on to find out. The basics The eero Max 7 is the…
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)For Nintendo fans, the Metal Gear franchise has long been just out of reach, with Konami dangling the metaphorical carrot with one-off releases such as Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes on GameCube, Ghost Babel on Game Boy Color, and Snake Eater 3D on the 3DS. After decades of neglect, however, Switch owners can now rejoice, as we’re not only getting one, but five games from Hideo Kojima’s Magnum Opus (plus a couple of fun non-canon extras thrown in for good measure). The question, however, is whether this compilation – dubbed Master Collection Vol. 1 -…
The iPhone 15 has been available for a month now, and a new study by PerfectRec shows that the Pro model is Apple’s worst-reviewed premium phone ever. 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. A meta-analysis of over 690,000 user-generated reviews finds that early consumer reviews of the iPhone 15 Pro are worse than last year’s iPhone 14 lineup. Although it might sound alarming, it’s worth noting that 73% of consumers still rated the…
Higher voltage reduces the cable cross section. Credit: Fraunhofer ISE The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has developed and successfully commissioned the world’s first medium-voltage string inverter for large-scale power plants. By feeding power into the medium-voltage grid, the “MS-LeiKra” project team has demonstrated that PV inverters are technically capable of handling higher voltage levels. The benefits for photovoltaics include enormous cost and resource savings for passive components and cables. The device lays the foundation for a new system concept for the next generation of large-scale PV power plants, which can also be applied to wind turbines, electric…
Earnings season is officially here, folks! Microsoft and Alphabet will report their third-quarter financial results after the bell today, and Meta and Amazon will report later this week. And we can’t wait to find out if these companies will report a material improvement from their investments in AI-related computing tasks and products. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. We asked a similar question before Q2 2023 results came out and found that while the costs related to AI work were piling up, the resulting revenue was more…
In context: Google’s search ads are already deceptive enough. Sure, they are marked with a “sponsored” indicator, but they still appear as a legit search result that could trick the inattentive into clicking an ad when they only wanted information. What makes matters worse is that bad actors have figured out multiple ways to abuse these faux search results to scam people. A common tactic for getting people to download and install malware is to trick them into clicking a search ad disguised as the legit company that makes the desired software. Malwarebytes reports that attackers now use Punycode in…