A former developer at Rockstar North, the studio behind the immensely popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, has revealed the reasons why sometimes planes in GTA: San Andreas would just randomly crash near the player. He also provided some insight into why a particular NPC in the game would take a photo and then walk off … Read more
Geoff Keighley briefly, and barely, addressed the recent, historic number of layoffs that have hit the video game industry already this year, after failing to do so for months. But before I could even give the guy some credit for doing the bare minimum, he turned around and started advertising his next big video game … Read more
Billionaires: They’re just like us. That’s what Elon Musk reminded us of when he started using X, the social media network that he bought for $44 billion, to resolve his personal tech support problems. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet The saga began over the weekend when Musk posted about the problems he was facing … Read more
X has disabled Taylor Swift-related searches on its platform in an attempt to curb the spread of fake pornographic images in the likeness of the singer that began circulating on social media last week. Since last Sunday, searches for “Taylor Swift” on X have returned the error message, “Oops, something went wrong.” X blocked the … Read more
smartphone you can see the icon of the Gmail app. Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa (Photo by Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Gmail: Google is reportedly adding an AI … Read more
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation. The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them are Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept, writer and podcaster Rob Rousseau, Texas Observer correspondent Steven Monacelli, the account … Read more
Here’s something unironically wonderful. Via a post by Larian Studios writer Rachel Quirke, we’ve just learned of a deeply moving tribute to a player’s father that appears in the studios’ award-winning RPG Baldur’s Gate 3. In October 2020, a member of the Larian forums posted to thank the developer for releasing the first act of … Read more
A Seattle fertility doctor has surrendered his medical license after facing accusations that he used his own sperm to impregnate a California woman while he was treating her as a fellow at UCSF 15 years ago. IVAN COURONNE/AFP via Getty Images A Seattle fertility doctor has surrendered his medical license after facing an accusation that … Read more
A lot went down in the world of tech in the last week from the passing of Telecommunications Bill 2023 in the Indian parliament to the global outage that affected X (formerly Twitter) and the launch of some key smartphones. Here’s a look at all that went down in the world of technology in the … Read more
I’ll be honest and admit I have no idea what’s going to happen with the remaining two teams from the old Pac-12 — Oregon State and Washington State. I say that because I’ve asked people — both on and off the record — who would have more insight than me on the topic and even … Read more