The 7 biggest surprises of Summer Game Fest 2022

With E3 once again taking the year off, Summer Game Fest—hosted by Geoff Keighley, creator of the Game Awards—has emerged as the epicenter of video game announcements for 2022. And this year’s show certainly packed a lot in.

Over the course of two hours, Keighley unveiled and gave updates on more than 35 titles, priming the pump for gamers for the coming months. The games spanned all platforms a

Genetic engineers could learn a thing or two from the Jurassic Park movies

Jurassic World: Dominion is hyperbolic Hollywood entertainment at its best, with an action-packed storyline that refuses to let reality get in the way of a good story. Yet just like its predecessors, it offers an underlying cautionary tale of technological hubris that’s very real.

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With Google dominating search, the internet needs crawl neutrality

Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their gateway to knowledge, to products, and their exploration of the web is in the hands of one company. Most agree, this lack of competition in search is bad

Netflix buying Roku would make a lot of sense

Business Insider published quite the rumor on Wednesday, reporting on scuttlebutt that video-streaming hardware kingpin Roku could potentially be acquired by Netflix.

The story doesn’t offer much evidence that Netflix might actually buy Roku. No sources are claiming that the two companies are even in negotiations, let alone c

Cisco’s new Video Phone 8875 may finally normalize office video phones

On Thursday, Cisco announced a new video desk phone designed with a hybrid workforce in mind. The new Cisco Video Phone 8875, which looks like a corporate desk phone with a large 7-inch touch screen, will let workers show up at a “hot desk” and quickly initiate high-quality video calls.

Hot desking, in which workplace desks are used by different people at different times, is becoming a go-to strategy for companies trying to accommodate a workforce that expects to spend a

This game designer predicted COVID 10 years ago. Here’s what’s coming next

In January 2020, when the coronavirus started making headlines around the world, Jane McGonigal’s inbox was flooded with emails from Silicon Valley execs, government officials, and nonprofit leaders. They all had the same question: “Jane, didn’t you run a simulation of a respiratory pandemic?”

Yes, she had. All the way back in 2010.

McGonigal is a game designer. She builds simulations that help players imagine the unimaginable. And in 2010, she invite

4 great Amazon Prime freebies you might not know you can get

If you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you’re probably doing it for the two-day shipping, the free video content, and . . . well, maybe that’s about it.

But Amazon is a big company with a bevy of offerings, many of which are hard to find—including a bunch of other free stuff you get with your Prime membership.

Here’s a look at some of the best freebies you’re entitled to beyond fast shipping, movies, and TV shows.

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Elon Musk’s fixation on bots could lead to a lower price point for Twitter

Elon Musk’s standoff with Twitter over data regarding bot accounts has taken a new twist.

The social media site agreed on Wednesday to meet Musk’s demands for access to its full data stream,

LinkedIn launches audio events and new creator tools

Over the past year, more than 10 million people have activated LinkedIn’s Creator Mode. The setting, launched last fall, gives users access to content creation and live streaming tools including LinkedIn Live and newsletters. Today, LinkedIn expands its creator tool offerings by debuting audio events and profile enhancements, pivoting the professional networking platform further into the creator economy. Emerging from six months of beta-testing, LinkedIn’s audio events gives users

A Google Cloud employee set a new record calculating the 100 trillionth digit of pi

A Google employee has given us greater insights into the mathematical mystery that is pi (also known to many of us as 3.14). Using the company’s cloud computing services, Google Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao was able to calculate the first 100 trillion digits of the mathematical constant, making her the first person ever to know the 100 trillionth digit (it’s a zero). Google is now working with Guinness World Records to officially verify her accomplishment. It’s


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