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Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson said in an analyst call that he is optimistic about the year ahead based on the strength of its user growth, live services, and new titles coming.
EA ended the fourth fiscal quarter with 580 million users, fueled by growth from EA Sports FIFA, Apex…
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“Why am I seeking logic or sanity here?” I asked myself. “There hasn’t been any so far.” — Endymion, by Dan Simmons, 1996.
I happen to be reading Dan…
5 ways AI can help solve the privacy dilemma
May 11, 2022
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There is no disputing the privacy trend. It is here. It is unstoppable.
Risk of Rain 2 ‘Survivors of the Void’ is now available on Google Stadia, months ahead of consoles
May 11, 2022
After debuting on PC earlier this year, Risk of Rain 2 has officially released its “Survivors of the Void” expansion on Google Stadia, months ahead of when console players will get their chance to play the long-awaited DLC.
Live now on the Stadia store for $14.99, “Survivors of the Void” is the first expansion to Risk of Rain 2, expanding on the game’s playable characters, enemies, and…
One of the ways Google Calendar supports hybrid work is by letting employees note their working locations, and an upcoming tweak will make that UI less obtrusive.
When working locations launched in Calendar last August for paid accounts, Google displayed that information…
The latest set of Android minis from Dead Zebra show the beloved mascot “@Work” in a variety of jobs, including a depiction of an IT manager holding a Pixelbook and one wearing a smartwatch.
Over the years, design brand Dead Zebra has offered numerous officially…
One of the worst things to happen is hearing a song play, thinking you’ll remember it to find later, only to completely forget. Fortunately, your Pixel has a feature called Now Playing. It lets you identify playing songs in the background so you can easily add any song you hear to your library. On top of that, you can find songs that played near your Pixel over a week ago in your Now Playing…
In a limited experiment, Google Search has begun showing like counts for articles in the Android app’s Discover feed for some.
Update: Google is continuing to test this feature, with a slightly broader rollout.
When browsing news and blog articles on social media, the…
Google exec teases what Matter will mean for the Home app: ‘proactive’ actions, lower latency, more
May 11, 2022
We’ve been hearing about the Matter smart home standard and what it could do for ages now, and things are on track to finally arrive later this year. In an interview ahead of this week’s Google I/O, the company has teased what Matter will mean for the Google Home app…
Like the main Android client, Google is now offering Play Store betas for YouTube Music and TV to presumably test new features ahead of time.
You can sign-up via the Play Store listings on mobile or directly on the web:
YouTube Music
YouTube TV
At the moment, there are no beta releases available for either application, but it’s taking an awfully long time for the Play Store to acknowledge…