Monthly Archives: November 2022

DF Direct Weekly takes on Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and The Witcher 3 remaster

There’s more than a little previewing going on in the latest DF Direct Weekly, as myself, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia share our thoughts and expectations from The Witcher 3’s upcoming ‘next gen’ patch, while initial impressions of the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet release paint a less than positive picture of the new release. We’ll…

The Download: resurrecting mammoths, and the climate bill’s big flaw

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How much would you pay to see a woolly mammoth? Sara Ord has one of the most futuristic job titles around—director of species restoration at Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first “de-extinction” company. Her…

An offshore workforce is training Amazon’s warehouse-monitoring algorithms

Adrián Astorgano / The Verge This report is published in partnership with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Inside a vast Amazon warehouse in Beaumont, California, squat blue robots carrying eight-foot yellow shelving units perform a jerky, mechanized dance around each other as they make their way to human workers. Amari* works 42 hours a week…