Published on: 2025-06-06 09:38:34
is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. The over 300 quality assurance workers of the ZeniMax Workers United-CWA union have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft. It is the first contract agreement at Microsoft since the concerted effort to unionize the video game industry began roughly four years ago. “This is a monumental victory for all current
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A familiar problem is facing new entrants in the AI industry: how do you break through when the incumbents are so entrenched? That’s just one of the questions we’re tackling at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, happening June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. We’re not just offering answers — we’re bringing insights from top experts like Linear COO Cristina Cordova. Your curiosity will be piqued by our extensive speaker lineup, your network will expand through curated connections, and you’ll walk away
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Editor's take: The UK Parliament is debating the Data (Use and Access) Bill, a law set to regulate access to user and customer data. The bill could have a dramatic impact on the IT sector, particularly AI companies that aggressively collect vast amounts of human-generated data online to train their often unpredictable chatbots. Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says artificial intelligence companies shouldn't need to seek permission every time they use copyright-protected data. Speakin
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Editor's take: The UK Parliament is debating the Data (Use and Access) Bill, a law set to regulate access to user and customer data. The bill could have a dramatic impact on the IT sector, particularly AI companies that aggressively collect vast amounts of human-generated data online to train their often unpredictable chatbots. Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says artificial intelligence companies shouldn't need to seek permission every time they use copyright-protected data. Speakin
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The POWER Play Industry Proven By open sourcing and developing on the POWER ISA - one of the most sophisticated processor architectures available - the OpenPOWER Foundation is democratizing access and extending the reach of the RISC-based architecture.' Open for All With more than 350 members collaborating regularly, the entire semiconductor industry - from global organizations with deep expertise to individual creators with a new lens - can innovate with choice and build and develop across
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In the fiercely competitive Android smartphone market, British startup Nothing is trying to do things a little differently—from its product design to its pricing strategy. “Remember a time where every new product made you excited?" the company asks on its website. "We're bringing that back.” There's more to Nothing than just smartphones these days, though. It's got a range of earbuds for a variety of budgets and uses, and recently teased that it's developing its first pair of over-ears—not long
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 03:27:18
A handbook for African success in the international software industry Africans typically speak English and other European languages to a high standard. They are served by many good universities. Reliable and reasonably fast Internet connections are available in most African cities. African time zones are ideal for remote workers in European organisations. At the same time, Africans also face some challenges. Relatively, their numbers in the industry are very low. That means it’s harder for th
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Everything is bigger in Texas, except the THC industry, which may disappear entirely. Just six years after the state opened up hemp sales, the Texas House voted this week to outright ban the sale of products containing any amount of THC, according to the Texas Tribune—a prohibition that will upend a major industry within the state and implement stricter punishments for consumers. The statehouse took up the proposed total ban on THC products Wednesday night and approved the measure by a vote of
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Video game consultants like Laura Kate Dale came into 2023 with a lot of hope. Since 2020, accessibility in games had become a mainstream discussion, bolstered by high-profile releases like The Last of Us Part II, and it appeared things could only get better. Yet, as the year drew on, she says, “there started to be signs that, behind the scenes, accessibility advancement was slowing down.” Now, that momentum has come to a relative standstill. Consultants speaking to The Verge paint a picture of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 05:06:49
GamesBeat unveiled the winners of its eight annual Visionary Awards during the 2025 GamesBeat Summit event in Los Angeles. The Visionary Award winner is Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) president Patricia Vance, and the Up-and-Comer winner is Strange Scaffold studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr. GamesBeat editorial director Dean Takahashi started the Visionary Awards in 2018 to recognize industry leaders who took a daring, visionary approach to shaping the future of gaming, forging new pa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 21:30:00
Well, I’m back. It feels like I just finished a 17-year journey, and now there’s a new one starting over again. As an English major, I loved to think about the last lines of the books I’ve read. Like The Great Gatsby’s ending: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. I puzzled over this line as a student. But I knew when I read the words that they were part of a great piece of literature. If you’re here. No, if you’re one of 3.5 billion gamers on the plan
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Chips are a critical component of the AI industry. But new chips don’t hit the market with the same speed as new AI models and products do. Cognichip has a lofty goal of creating a foundational AI model that can help bring new chips to market faster. San Francisco-based Cognichip is working to build a physics-informed foundational AI model that can be used by semiconductor companies to speed up the development process of new chips. The company is calling this approach “artificial chip intellig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 01:08:18
As serial entrepreneur Joel Milne founded, scaled, and then successfully sold mobile auto repair service startup RepairSmith to AutoNation, he was plagued by a persistent problem. The automotive retail industry has a communication problem. And it’s an expensive one. Thousands of dealerships and mechanic shops — each one with an array of software systems — lack a common language to make communication with manufacturers and other businesses easier. “We had this problem of, ‘how do you work with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 10:34:32
The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in roughly $739 million in halted research funding. The directive, issued with little explanation, has created chaos across the academic research ecosystem, part of a broader trend Nature described as an unprecedented assault. Before we go any furthe
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Earlier this week, the American movie industry was thrown out of whack when president Donald Trump revealed his tariffs for international film productions. Reactions to this news was met with negativity and concern from Hollywood and movie fans, even as the president himself argued this would greatly benefit the local industry. But without any real idea of how he intends to enforce or even enact this, Hollywood is taking matters into its own hands. According to a recent Variety story, leaders o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 21:17:09
GamesBeat Summit is back once again, and once again we’re holding the Women in Gaming Breakfast — our 10th, to be exact. At GB Summit 2025, we’ll continue our tradition of honoring the women in the industry and hearing their thoughts on the state of the industry. Since the theme of this particular show is “Back to growth,” this WIG Breakfast addresses one big questions: Now what? I have the pleasure of once again moderating the WIG Breakfast talk, and I’ll be joined on the stage by Carla Bedros
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 13:05:00
Let's get back to fun: The video game industry has always been unpredictable, but the current trend in triple-A development raises serious concerns about its long-term viability. As costs rise and development processes grow increasingly bloated, many question whether the industry is on the verge of another crash. Recent statements by former Ubisoft creative director Guillaume Broche suggest the situation may be more dire than previously thought. Broche, who founded Sandfall Interactive after hi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 13:27:18
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. If you’ve been harboring complaints about Ticketmaster, now’s the time to let it all out. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are inviting the public to submit comments about harmful practices in live ticketing as part of efforts to “identify unfair and anticompetitive” behavior in the industry. In March, President Donald Tru
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 08:20:00
The video game community is huge — and thus inescapably, splendidly diverse. That diversity should be a call to action for the game industry, to deliver characters and stories that reflect the global player community, which includes the players counted among 61 million Americans living with a mobility, cognition, hearing or vision disability. It means tapping into a huge audience that is ready, willing and able to hand out their money, time and enthusiasm to studios that offer them accessibilit
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Developers of these coding agents aren’t necessarily doing anything as straightforward cheating, but they’re crafting approaches that are too neatly tailored to the specifics of the benchmark. The initial SWE-Bench test set was limited to programs written in Python, which meant developers could gain an advantage by training their models exclusively on Python code. Soon, Yang noticed that high-scoring models would fail completely when tested on different programming languages—revealing an approac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 07:00:54
Driven by a desire to forge his own path, Arun George Zachariah is building a professional life based on carefully considered experiences in both research and industry. From academia, Zachariah has honed his deep analysis skills and intellectual curiosity, and he has flourished in the freedom it offers to explore solutions without inhibiting constraints. Industry has taught him more grounded yet equally essential skills, including how to scale ideas, collaborate across teams, and couple researc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 21:51:00
Editor's take: Game prices are climbing to $70 and beyond, with publishers blaming inflation and rising development costs. However, players are pushing back against the price hikes because current big-budget games consistently fail to deliver comparable value. Current prices are a symptom of a much bigger problem. Many players have opted out of day-one releases as big-name publishers rapidly raise game prices. Nintendo's upcoming Switch 2 titles will cost as much as $80, Microsoft is following
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 21:07:14
After delivering his solution to bring more jobs back to the film industry stateside by implementing tariffs on international film production, President Trump attempted to clarify his intentions at a White House briefing. CNBC reports that Trump will talk to the studios about his idea to impose 100% tariffs on films made outside the United States with the aim to make sure “they’re happy” with the haphazardly conceived and confused notions about how the film industry could align with his presiden
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 20:47:04
Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers. In his post, he claimed to have authorised the commerce department and the US trade representative to immediately begin instituting such a tariff. “This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat
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I’m testing out putting the entire article in the email vs making you click through to my blog. I think it will be easier for you to read (let’s just hope I don’t have any post-send edits). Let me know what you think by forwarding to a friend to subscribe 🙏 After 15 consecutive years of angel investing, I hit pause in 2024. It's now been a full 12 months without writing a check, marking the longest hiatus in my angel "career." There isn't enough transparency in angel investing, and my past pos
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People walk past an advertisement feature Donald Trump with Bitcoin in Hong Kong. May James | Lightrocket | Getty Images As President Donald Trump hit the 100-day mark this week for his second term in office, his approval numbers were lower than for any administration at this point in over seven decades. Don't tell that to the crypto community. Trump ran for office on a promise to make America "the crypto capital of the world." Those who got behind that message say he's already delivered, or at
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 13:00:33
Workers cross a junction near the Bank of England (BOE) in the City of London, UK, on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Britain is at risk of losing budding fintech and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs to rival hubs if it doesn't address pressing regulation and funding challenges, according to industry leaders. Several crypto bosses told CNBC this week that the U.K. has created an unfavorable environment for fintech and crypto. They argued that the local regulato
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 21:00:00
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. AI agents are the AI industry’s hypiest new product—intelligent assistants capable of completing tasks without human supervision. But while they can be theoretically useful—Simular AI’s S2 agent, for example, intelligently switches between models depending on what it’s been told to do—they could al
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Why it matters: As powerful as AI may be, many industries are still struggling to find clear-cut applications that make a measurable, demonstrable difference. Thankfully, that is not the case when it comes to chip design software. In fact, since their introduction just a few years ago, AI-powered features have become a mainstay of EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools from companies such as Cadence and Synopsys. Silicon designers quickly discovered that many of the complex yet often tedious
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Amir Satvat, the game job champion, estimated recently that about 230,000 people work in the game industry. That sounded low to Kenn White, one of the leaders of the Game Industry Coffee Chat. So White’s crew dug into the numbers on their own and came up with their own defensible estimate of 740,000 to 900,000. White, a longtime game developer, said in a LinkedIn post that the median number of their estimates (ranging from low end to high end) is 833,000 game industry employees across more than
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