Obsidian tinkered with its upcoming murder mystery game Pentiment for several months before showing publisher and parent company Microsoft what it was working on. Speaking to TechRadar Gaming at Gamescom 2022, Pentiment director Josh Sawyer said the team didn’t pitch the game to Microsoft, but rather got straight to work. Obsidian only told its publisher…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
London Gatwick Airport. Stephen Jones Gatwick Airport canceled 26 flights on Tuesday due to “late-notice” staff absences. The air traffic control staffing issues caused 13 departing and 13 arriving flights to be canceled. This disruption came as the London airport announced it was lifting its passenger cap. Gatwick Airport canceled flights in and out of…
The attorney Evan Corcoran, who currently represents former President Donald Trump. Nathan Howard/Getty Images Attorney Evan Corcoran has been working for Trump since April, The Washington Post reported. Trump hired Corcoran during a conference call without having ever met him, a source told The Post. Trump is said to be struggling to get good lawyers to…
Central bankers including Christine Lagarde and Jerome Powell will meet in Jackson Hole this week. Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo Goldman Sachs expects the Federal Reserve to stay dovish at its Jackson Hole gathering this week. The Fed is unlikely to lift rates by 0.75% in September, and may go for many smaller hikes instead, it…
Hi. I’m Aaron Weinman. Julian Robertson has died at the age of 90. The hedge-fund titan founded Tiger Management in 1980. He turned about $8 million in start-up capital in the 1980s into more than $20 billion in assets under management throughout the 1990s. Robertson’s fund accurately predicted the dot-com bubble and underweighted the sector…
FOLX Health Folx Health is expanding its telehealth offerings to provide monkeypox information for patients. The monkeypox appointments are part of the company’s recently launched virtual primary care. Monkeypox continues to be a public health emergency in the United States. LGBTQ+ telehealth startup Folx Health will now be providing counseling, referral, and education services for…
Users say their Facebook feeds were spammed with posts from celebrity pages. Chesnot/Getty Images Facebook users said they experienced a strange glitch on Wednesday morning. Multiple users complained that their feeds were being spammed with posts from celebrity accounts. A representative for Meta told Insider the glitch was caused by a “configuration change.” Facebook users…
The pandemic drove a dramatic increase in time US consumers spend per day with media. Most of those increases will stick in 2021; but traditional TV will lose all its 2020 gains. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors…
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) meets with Seventh U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. Photo by Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images GOP Sen. Rick Scott criticized President Joe Biden for going on vacation within the US. But Axios…
Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Ex-Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko is behind an explosive whistleblower complaint against the company. Zatko is a celebrity in the hacker community, where he’s know as “Mudge.” He’s advised Bill Clinton on cybersecurity and testified to the Senate. Twitter suffered a huge…