GamingNews

Gears of War: E-Day Review

Editor’s Note: This review currently only covers Gears of War: E-Day’s story campaign, as that’s all reviewers were given access to ahead of release. It will be updated with a finalized score and multiplayer impressions once we spend some time with the Versus and Horde Siege modes. To the casual observer, Gears of War has always been a heavy-metal third-person cover shooter about a…
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CryptoNews

SEC Proposes Letting Advisers and Funds Self-Custody Crypto Assets

Investors could gain access to a wider range of crypto strategies under an SEC proposal. The plan would update longstanding safekeeping requirements for investment advisers and regulated funds under federal securities laws. Key Takeaways Self-custody would require an unavailable permitted custodian. State trust companies could hold customer crypto subject to safeguards. A 60-day comment period…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.

The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter – yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything. Photon, which helps developers build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp, now has $4.5 million in seed funding to develop its products. The raise comes after the company signed up over 40,000…
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NewsPhotography

A student photographer wandered the streets of Detroit with a camera in 1972, then left the negatives in storage for four decades. Now they're an award-winning exhibition, and that teaches us something profound about viewing our old work

Most of us have a ton of photos that we never look at. They may be stored digitally, tucked away on an ageing hard drive. Or they may simply exist as negatives, gathering dust in a shoebox. Either way, you haven’t looked at them for years, and you don’t really want to. Because, to be honest, you remember them not being very good. We all have that very human response to stuff we did a…
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