Image: Bungie Bungie is teaming up with Epic Games for a Destiny 2 crossover with Fortnite and Fall Guys. The collaboration will see Bungie and Epic Games create skins for Destiny 2 and Fortnite, along with gliders, pickaxes, back blings, and even a Destiny-inspired creative map for Fortnite. Destiny skins will also be available in…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Image: NASA An early look at the view of Jupiter captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, hinted at how precise and detailed our new view of the planet would be. But this week, NASA released another set of photos showing the cloud cover, rings, and moons of Jupiter in remarkable detail —…
The Home Bridge Hub has been discontinued. It was designed to connect Liftmaster and Chamberlain smart garage door openers with myQ technology — such as this Liftmaster Secure View opener — to Apple’s HomeKit platform. | Image: Liftmaster Chamberlain Group, makers of myQ connected garage door openers, is discontinuing its myQ Home Bridge Hub, a…
Heads Up! is arriving on Netflix, with exclusive decks based on shows like Stranger Things. | Image: Netflix Ellen’s popular mobile charades app Heads Up! is coming to Netflix today as an exclusive version of the game, set to feature 28 new card decks from popular series like Stranger Things, Bridgerton and Squid Game. More…
Image: Yelp Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Yelp announced Tuesday that it would add a new consumer notice to crisis pregnancy centers to better distinguish them from clinics that provide abortion services. Starting today, Yelp’s new notices will appear at the top of faith-based and non-faith-based crisis pregnancy center listings…
Image: Disney Avatar: The Way of Water is set to release this December, but it has a pretty major problem: it’s a sequel to a film that came out 13 years ago. Meanwhile, most of us can barely remember what happened on last week’s episode of She-Hulk — when Avatar 2 hits theaters, there could…
Enlarge (credit: Financial Times) After dealing with booming demand and global shortages since the start of the pandemic, the semiconductor industry is facing a sudden downturn. But even for an industry accustomed to frequent cyclical slumps, this one has defied easy analysis and left researchers struggling to predict how the setback will play out. The…
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Airbnb really wants to shut down parties in its rentals. On Tuesday, the company announced the deployment of “anti-party tools” that it claims will help identify users who are likely to throw a party and prevent them from renting a property. Airbnb is launching the tools in the US and Canada, it…
Things just got a lot more hectic over at Twitter HQ. Deposit Photos Pieter “Mudge” Zatko—one of the most respected names within hacking circles and the cybersecurity industry—just made life much harder for Twitter. In detailed, damning whistleblower complaints first published by The Washington Post and CNN earlier today, the social media platform’s former security…
Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line). Technically an extension…