Rec Room — the virtual reality social club where you play games, hang out in the locker room, customize your appearance, and party with friends — is shutting down on its 10th anniversary.
Despite reaching over 150 million players and offering VR games like Paintball, Dodgeball, 3D Charades, and Disc Golf — a cumulative 68,000 years have been spent in-game — developer Against Gravity…
Disney Reportedly Keen on Buying Fortnite Developer Epic Games, But Waiting for Right Moment
April 1, 2026
Disney executives are reportedly keen on fully buying Fortnite developer Epic Games at some point.
The claim comes from veteran tech reporter Alex Heath, via The Town podcast, who said that senior executives were waiting for the right moment to make a bid for the metaverse…
Moody’s Assigns Ba2 Rating to $100M Bitcoin-Backed Revenue Bonds From New Hampshire Authority
April 1, 2026
Moody’s Ratings has assigned provisional Ba2 ratings to up to $100 million in bitcoin-backed taxable revenue bonds set to be issued by the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire.
Moody’s Rates $100M Bitcoin-Collateralized Revenue Bonds
According to the…
FBI Sting Operation Exposes Crypto Price Rigging Network as 10 Foreign Nationals Charged, Over $1M Seized
April 1, 2026
Federal crackdown exposes alleged crypto price manipulation network, signaling intensifying enforcement risk for digital asset firms as authorities target coordinated trading schemes that inflated valuations and misled investors across global markets.
Crypto Market Manipulation Charges Target Firms, Executives
Federal prosecutors detailed a sweeping enforcement action targeting crypto market…
Flexa ends a seven-year crypto payments experiment, shutting down its SPEDN app while pivoting toward scalable infrastructure for merchants and partners, signaling a shift from consumer-facing pilots to broader digital asset integration across existing payment systems.
Flexa…
Vivo X300 Ultra, Vivo X300s Launched in China with Triple Rear Cameras, Photography Kit Support
April 1, 2026
Vivo X300 Ultra and Vivo X300s are the two new flagships from the Chinese brand to debut in its home country. The new X300 Ultra packs the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Processor while the X300s has a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 processor. Here are all of their detailed…
To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model.
Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous construction equipment collect thousands, if not millions, of hours of video data for evaluation and training.
Organizing and cataloging that video is now a job for humans, who have to watch all of it. Even…
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
April 1, 2026
Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them.
The AI video-generation startup has launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation, the company’s…
With now more than 100 million cameras in the field, Amazon-owned Ring is ready to take advantage of its sizable footprint with the launch of a new app store that will expand its cameras’ capabilities. Focused initially on areas like elder care, workforce analytics…
Mark Lupkey, the manufacturing operations leader who oversaw Cybercab assembly and end-of-line ramp at Giga Texas, has announced his departure from Tesla. He is the third senior leader directly involved in bringing the Cybercab to production to leave the company in just over a month.
Lupkey spent nearly eight years at Tesla across two separate stints, working his way through some of the…
