John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded Id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names. Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies, has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
With Intel Raptor Lake set to release in the coming months, it looks like the entire launch lineup for the next-gen processor series from Team Blue have leaked ahead of their announcement. A user going by the name Extreme Player on the Chinese social media site Bili Bili posted the specs for 14 SKUs in…
Former President Donald Trump speaks at CPAC on August 6, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Trump continues to publicly attack the DOJ and FBI following last week’s Mar-a-Lago raid. But people close to his inner circle warn that he could soon face criminal charges anyway. “I think he’s a target of all of…
NPD Group’s latest report shows that free-to-play MultiVersus has managed to dethrone Elden Ring from the spending ranks.Read MoreRead More
GamesBeat’s Rachel Kaser contemplates the hunger of Embracer Group and plans to return to Game Pass, where Death Stranding soon launches.Read MoreRead More
Radiation biologist Thomas Berger inside the Orion capsule with representative mockups of the MARE mannequins. DLR When NASA’s Artemis I mission launches to the moon later this month, on board the Orion space capsule will be two special passengers: Helga and Zohar. The pair are actually mannequin torsos, called phantoms, that are inspired by hospital…
Stripe has laid off some of the employees that support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources and firsthand documentation. The layoffs – conducted over the last month – are related to Stripe’s decision to wind down TaxJar-focused go-to-market efforts in late July. Sources estimate the…
To mark the expansion of Meta’s bland virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, into France and Spain, Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a selfie. The graphic, featuring the boyish CEO in front of a low-res model of the Eiffel tower, quickly struck a nerve, sparking sneers, jeers and sighs from quippy social media users. And honestly, can…
After a week of being pelted with tomatoes in the internet town square over the low-quality graphics of Meta‘s Horizon Worlds, Mark Zuckerberg has emerged from the slush to clear the air. Despite the unimpressive WiiU-like avatars and low-res virtual landmarks we’ve seen so far, Zuck claims Meta is capable of creating pseudo-realistic worlds in…
The combined effect of a drop-off in PC demand and the pace of SSD adoption led to a significant fall in hard drive shipments last quarter, a new report suggests. Data from analyst firm Trendfocus shows HDD shipments plummeted 15.4% in Q2 on a quarter-to-quarter basis, with unit sales among vendors like Toshiba dropping by…