Ken Miyamoto. Courtesy of Kevin Sparrow Ken Miyamoto was a security guard at Sony, and worked his way up to story analyst for the studio. A self-taught screenwriter, Miyamoto was later offered a development deal at Lionsgate. He was able to continue paid work as screenwriter after a recession, despite living in Wisconsin. This as-told-to…
Pedestrians walk past a Now Hiring sign in Arlington, Virginia, on March 16, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images A new Indeed and Glassdoor report looks at long-term trends for the labor market. The report finds that labor shortages are going to stick around, especially with an aging population. Policy solutions like more immigration and family-friendly policies…
Evergreen Counseling Annie Wright runs Evergreen Counseling, a boutique trauma therapy center in Berkeley, California. Since the Twitter and Meta layoffs, she and her team are speaking to hundreds of patients a week. Here’s what she’s observed, as told to Insider reporter Lakshmi Varanasi. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley operated under the spell that…
Middle-class Americans are losing access to real estate as their most reliable source for wealth building. The Good Brigade/Getty Images In recent years, wealthy Americans got wealthier and low-wage workers bargained for higher pay. But middle-class Americans have seen their wages stall, economists found. And the real estate market has been a double whammy for…
On December 16th, a hyper-realistic avatar of the late East Coast rap legend Notorious B.I.G. will be holding a concert and performing tracks from his catalogue in Meta’s Horizon Worlds. The show, which will use a virtual recreation of 90’s era Brooklyn as a backdrop, will also feature performances by guest artists like Bad Boy…
Seasoned smartphone industry analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, claims that Apple will complete its switch to USB-C from Lightning for all devices as soon as next year – long before the EU directive demands it. And, his latest report reveals that the entire iPhone 15 line-up will ditch the Lightning port. However, the standard iPhone 15 and…
As a young fan, my dream Pokémon game contained three important features – returning to an old region like in Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal, destroying buildings with Mewtwo and escaping the chains of the route system, so I could explore a region to its very core. While I’m begrudgingly coming to terms with the…
Brooklyn-based audio specialist Grado has announced the GW100x, a new set of wireless open-back headphones. This is the third edition of Grado’s award-winning wireless series, and as ever, the key difference from your average set of wireless cans is that the GW100x are open-back. This means a far more spacious sound profile than the vast…
Apple today officially launched the new Emergency SOS via satellite feature that’s available for the iPhone 14 models, so we thought we’d test it out to see just how it works. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Emergency SOS via satellite is designed to allow users to connect to emergency services when…
Is the download speed for Warzone 2 slow on Battle.net? Warzone 2.0 is a large, free-to-play combat arena with a brand-new map called AL Mazrah. Team up with your friends and fight in a battleground in the city and rural outskirts. Loot supply boxes for rewards and finish contracts to develop your arsenal and get…