GamingNews

Are you ready and registered for this year’s GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit?

We’re so close to The 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit, the event so nice we’re throwing it twice. On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 8:20 am sharp PT, the hold music will end and Emcee Kahlief Adams, captain of the Spawn On Me Podcast and famously bad cook, will launch us into three days of events spanning the business of games. Despite massive peer pressure from the GamesBeat…
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MobileNews

Google Labs working on blockchain, ‘next-gen distributed computing’ with new group

Back in November, Google created a new division focused on “high-potential, long-term projects,” like augmented reality. Google Labs now has a team working on blockchain and other related technologies. According to Bloomberg, this new group within Google Labs is focused on “blockchain and other next-gen distributed computing and data storage technologies.” Shivakumar Venkataraman, an…
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MobileNews

Old Google Slides Wear OS app removed from the Play Store

Google Slides picked up an Android Wear — as it was called at the time — companion app in 2016 that allowed users to control presentations from their wrist. In recent weeks, Google quietly got rid of Slides for Wear OS. Acting as a remote, this application gave you…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

A second US offshore wind farm just got approved for construction

The US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today gave final permitting approval to South Fork – New York’s first offshore wind farm. It’s now the second US offshore wind project authorized by the US government to begin construction. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: January 19, 2022

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
GamingNews

What does Xbox’s Activision acquisition mean? | Last of the Nintendogs

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  On this week’s Last of the Nintendogs, editors Mike Minotti and Jeff Grubb react to the breaking news that Xbox is acquiring Activision Blizzard. Does this mean no more Call…
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