Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan Some Meta staff refer to certain metaverse projects as “make Mark happy,” the NYT reported. “Make Mark happy” was shortened into the acronym “MMH,” two Meta employees told the NYT. Mark Zuckerberg has changed his priorities one year on since rebranding Facebook to Meta, per NYT. Some employees…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
The US introduced new curbs on Chinese tech exports Friday. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Shares in Chinese chipmakers fell in Hong Kong Monday after the US introduced new export controls. The stepped-up measures will cut China off from semiconductors made with American technology. “This development is likely to put a further brake on…
Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke won the Nobel Prize for economics Monday. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, won a Nobel Prize Monday for work on financial crises. Bernanke and American economists and academics Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig will share the prize. Bernanke led the Fed through…
Two years ago, EA announced its plans to replace the Origin PC client, and now the new app is finally beginning to roll out. Supposedly, it’s a much lighter and faster experience with a more streamlined design. EA says the new app, simply called the EA app, will be easier to navigate and has improved…
Honda’s first all-electric SUV will go into production for release in 2024. The Honda Prologue was first teased in May this year but the final design has now been revealed by the Japanese car firm, along with the confirmation that it’ll hit US roads in little under two years’ time. Honda will first release a…
Comments by an oft-accurate display analyst suggest that Apple’s next iPhone SE will get a notch and lose the Home button for the first time. A report claims that we should expect the next model to feature a notch, making the device look more like the recent iPhone 14. That would also mean the removal…
Hey, did I ever mention that I got to play on the PSVR 2 recently? Because I did and I actually had a wonderful time playing demos of four upcoming PSVR2 games on Sony’s new VR headset. Inspired by that preview session, on this week’s episode of VR Corner (above), I decided to dig into…
A streamer broke her back in two places at a reportedly unsafe stand at TwitchCon San Diego. The stand, a collaboration between Lenovo and Intel, consisted of a Gladiators-style battle over a foam pit. However, several streamers were seriously injured at the stand, including Adriana Chechik who confirmed on Twitter she’ll be having surgery to…
The air fryer has been something of a revolution, cooking food faster and cheaper than in an oven. Yet, for everyone that loves it, there are a bunch of people who hate the results and say that an air fryer can’t compete with a deep-fat fryer. Truth is, the two cooking methods are completely different,…
He Saw Them Together His heart was racing and his blood was boiling when he first noticed them together. They had been married for 65 years, how on earth could she do this to him? What made him even angrier was the story she had tried to spin him. But to make things even worse,…