Following a delay from 2021, Daedalic’s “cinematic stealth adventure” game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will officially arrive on September 1st, the company announced today. The game will explore the untold story of Gollum during the first few chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring. We don’t have any new footage of the game […]
Google has shown off an artificial intelligence system that can create images based on text input. The idea is that users can enter any descriptive text and the AI will turn that into an image. The company says the Imagen diffusion model, created by the Brain Team at Google Research, offers “an unprecedented degree of […]
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Google details three campaigns that used Predator spyware, developed by North Macedonian company Cytrox and exploited five Android vulnerabilities found in 2021 — New research from Google’s Threat Analysis Group outlines the risks Android users face from the surveillance-for-hire industry.
Rebecca Fannin / CNBC: A look at the autonomous vehicle industry, as CB Insights says equity funding for startups developing autonomous vehicles passed $12B in 2021, up 50%+ YoY — – Despite its promise, a future full of autonomous vehicles still seems like a distant fantasy. — But tech giants, automakers …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian: YouTube takes down 70K+ videos and 9K+ channels about the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines, including videos referring to a “liberation mission” — Exclusive: Platform takes ‘unprecedented action’ to address content guideline violations since invasion
Reuters: Paytm, whose share price has dropped 57% so far this year, reports Q4 revenue of ~$200M, up 89% YoY, and a net loss of ~$98M, up 72% YoY due to higher expenses — India’s One 97 Communications Ltd (PAYT.NS), the parent of fintech firm Paytm, on Friday reported a wider fourth-quarter loss due …
Greg Roumeliotis / Reuters: Sources: Broadcom is in ongoing talks to acquire VMware, but a deal is not imminent — Chipmaker Broadcom Inc (AVGO.O) is in talks to acquire cloud service provider VMware Inc (VMW.N), people familiar with the matter told Reuters. — Negotiations between Broadcom and VMware are ongoing and a deal is not […]
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is piloting a program that has its contracted Flex drivers picking up and delivering packages from malls, as first reported by Bloomberg. The program, which Bloomberg says Amazon has been running since last year, could help Amazon fulfill orders for same-day or two-day deliveries. “This is just […]
Ellison contributed $1 billion in support of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people and co-founder of the Oracle software company, was involved in a November 2020 call to develop plans to contest the results of the US presidential election, according to a […]
Valve has confirmed that The International will take place in Singapore this October. | Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images Dota 2’s annual tournament, The International, will take place in Singapore this October. While Valve has held The International in the US, Canada, China, Germany, and Romania in the past, this is the […]