Too many games, not enough players: the industry's growing challenge
The video game industry is in the middle of a turbulent transition. Massive layoffs and corporate restructuring have dominated headlines, but underneath those issues is a more fundamental shift: there are simply too many games, as it was recently highlighted by Jason Schreier.
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Tim Berners-Lee urges decentralized web to counter AI exploitation and ad-driven abuse
More than 30 years after its creation, the web is a very different place. In a recent op-ed for The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee warned of the ongoing abuse of a technology he designed to bring people together. He argues that the web now stands at another turning point, and that...
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EA strikes $55 billion buyout deal with Saudi-led consortium
Per the agreement, existing stockholders will receive $210 in cash per EA share – a 25 percent premium over the stock's closing price of $168.32 on September 25 and even higher than the company's all-time trading high of $179.01 on August 14, 2025. Rumors of a potential buyout surfaced late...
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China now home to half the world's industrial robots as the US falls further behind
The speed at which industrial robots are being deployed isn't slowing down. In 2024, 542,000 were deployed globally – the second-highest annual total on record - marking the fourth year in a row that the figure exceeded half a million, writes the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). The report also...
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says work-from-home culture means US struggles to compete with China
Schmidt, who served as Google's CEO during its early years between 2001 and 2011 and was Alphabet chairman until 2017, made his feelings on American work culture pretty clear during a conference interview published by the All-In podcast.
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US-made Leonidas microwave weapon takes down 49 drones with a single blast
Epirus recently demonstrated a live-fire trial of Leonidas in Indiana, attended by representatives from the US Department of Defense and other US government agencies, alongside nine allied countries.
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Streaming YouTube over dial-up: how one creator hit 668 kbps with 12 modems
The YouTube channel The Serial Port has pulled off something few imagined possible in the broadband era: streaming YouTube over a dial-up connection. In their latest experiment, the team bonded 12 modems together using Multilink PPP, reaching a combined download speed of 668 kbps on a Windows XP desktop –...
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$300 GeForce vs. $300 Radeon GPU: Four Generations, Head to Head
We compare four generations of $300 GeForce and Radeon GPUs to see how budget gaming has evolved, from crypto-fueled chaos to today's AI-driven market, and which card delivers the best value now.
Birmingham faces IT catastrophe as Oracle project costs balloon from £20m to £170m
The council confirmed that the CivicaPay-based system, designed to replace the malfunctioning banking reconciliation platform introduced with Oracle Fusion in 2022, will not go live until November at the earliest.
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Xiaomi 17 Pro and Pro Max revealed with rear screens and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chips
Information about the Xiaomi 17 and Xiaomi 17 Pro is now available on the company's Chinese website. While the technical specifications closely mirror those of the iPhone 17, the company is also revisiting dual-screen technology.
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