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Mobile game publisher Zynga has agreed to acquire mobile ad and monetization firm Chartboost for $250 million in cash.
It’s an interesting deal because Zynga is reaching outside of its usual food chain to another part of the industry — mobile game marketing, advertising, and monetization — and bringing it all inside a game…
SpaceX launched a high-altitude Starship prototype rocket and successfully landed it for the first time on Wednesday, overcoming a key challenge in Elon Musk’s whirlwind quest to build a fully reusable Mars rocket. Musk has said the SN15 rocket contained “hundreds of…
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Electronic Arts announced today that it has acquired Metalhead Software, the studio behind the Super Mega Baseball series.
“EA Sports and Metalhead are teaming up to grow the Super Mega Baseball franchise as…
After one year of testing, Twitter is finally launching its offensive tweet warning feature for all users to encourage people to pause and reconsider a potentially harmful or offensive reply before they hit send.
This feature is enabled for all accounts that have English in their language settings and is rolling for iOS and Android users starting now.
“We began testing prompts last year that…
Apple banned Shadow app after Microsoft used it as an example to get xCloud for iOS approved
May 6, 2021
Microsoft tried to launch its xCloud game streaming service on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users, but Apple rejected the app due to its strict guidelines. Now emails revealed in the Epic vs. Apple trial on Wednesday show that Apple even removed a similar app from the…
British researchers scouring shorelines for places to locate wave-generated energy installations are turning to drones as a faster and cheaper means of finding ideal spots.
UAVs capturing currents…
The scientists in Scotland and Wales have identified drones as a…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in huge growth for PCs and tablets as a whole, but it was Google’s Chromebook initiative that really proved to be a hit during the pandemic. According to a new report from Canalys, though, things were even better than we thought, with Chromebooks seeing 275% growth entering 2021.
Looking at Q1 2020 versus Q1 2021, the numbers are clear — Chromebook growth is…
EGEB: GE makes the world’s most powerful wind turbine but doesn’t have a full net zero plan
May 6, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
98% of GE’s shareholders yesterday demanded it take climate action, and its board said it would comply.
Great Britain’s wind farms set a new clean energy record by generating 48.5% of the electricity…
Samsung has had some pretty crazy product names over the years. Who can forget the mouthful that was the Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch, or the Galaxy SII Skyrocket HD, or more recently, the Galaxy S20 FE 5G UW. Soon, it seems another slightly confusing name will be added to the…
Google prefers that employees work in an office as part of a long-held belief that physical interactions spur new ideas and solutions. As such, it planned on a “flexible workweek” after COVID-19 passed, but some were upset, and Google has reversed course to provide an option for permanent work from home (WFH).
CEO Sundar Pichai announced the change this morning in a mass email (via…
