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The Roblox-like VR title Rec Room is shutting down after operating for a decade. The free-to-play social game is closing its doors because the developers "never quite figured out" how to make it profitable, despite attracting 150 million players.
"We spent a long time trying to find a way to make the numbers work," the team wrote in a blog post. "But with the recent shift in the VR market, along with broader headwinds in gaming, the path to profitability has gotten tough enough that we’ve made the difficult
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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For anyone who has tried to transition to the digital-first style of banking, also known as neobanking, it’s been a rough road. There was Simple, based here in Portland, OR, which shut down. Many Simple customers transferred to the London-based service called Monzo. It’s been a fine service, with lots of good features introduced over... Read the original post: Monzo Shutting Down US Accounts Read more ›
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Progressives are dreaming about a new political order that rights the wrongs of the Trump administration and the shortcomings of “Woke 1.” Does it have a shot? Read more ›
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I lost a college friendship years ago. Not to a fight or a falling out, but to the slow, quiet kind of drift that happens when the only thing holding two people together was a shared schedule and a dining hall. We’d been close for four years, the kind of close where you assume it’ll ... Read more Read more ›
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What happens when researchers think outside the box? Data gets exfiltrated through DNS. Read more ›
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Oracle is laying off thousands of employees, CNBC reported. The move comes as the company’s substantial spending on AI data centers has eaten into its cash reserves, prompting it to issue tens of billions of dollars in debt. The company began the cuts on Tuesday in emails to employees citing “a ... Read more ›
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Last year, Google slowly began rolling out the ability for users to change their account usernames. The company announced today that now everyone in the US can get in on this action, so long as your type of account supports it. The process is relatively straightforward, though, be aware that there’s a laundry list of... Read the original post: Now Everyone Can Change Their Google Account Username Read more ›
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Я все чаще ловлю себя на мысли, что рынок IT-аутстаффинга в России заметно деградировал. Причем это не абстрактное ощущение из серии «раньше было лучше», а вполне конкретные наблюдения из проектов. Компании продолжают платить за senior-разработчиков, но чаще получают команды уровня middle или даже junior. Иногда это становится понятно почти сразу, а иногда только спустя пару месяцев. Но результат в итоге один - ожидания не совпадают с реальностью. Читать далее Read more ›
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Google is now finally letting you change your Gmail address, the part before @gmail.com. This is currently rolling out in the US only, but hopefully will make it to other countries as well in the near future. The company has published the quick video embedded below that tells you exactly what you need to do. Basically, go to your Google Account settings, and tap Personal info, then Email, then Google... Read more ›
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Anthropic mistakenly leaked some of the source code underlying its Claude Code application, the company said on Tuesday. The leak revealed new details about how the popular AI coding tool works and potential unreleased models and features. Developers noticed early Tuesday morning that Anthropic ... Read more ›
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My dad worked at the same company for most of his career. He started in sales, moved into management, and spent thirty years climbing a ladder that, while imperfect, actually existed. The rungs were visible. The deal was straightforward: show up, work hard, stay loyal, and the system would reward you over time. My brother, ... Read more Read more ›
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Remote Identity Validation Rally (RIVR) has completed evaluations across selfie-to-document matching and liveness detection, with all testing conducted on […] Read more ›
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Adults of a certain age will no doubt remember The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a cartoon from 1989 that starred our favorite sibling plumbers decades before they would take over multiplexes with an animated film franchise. The broadcast channel MeTV Toons has begun airing old episodes of the show, likely to trade on the buzz emanating from the pending theatrical release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. There's just... Read more ›
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Nvidia announced today that it has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology and entered a partnership connecting Marvell to Nvidia's AI factory and AI-RAN ecosystem through NVLink Fusion. Read more ›
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Backrooms is getting the big screen treatment and I'm on the edge of my seat after seeing the trailer. Read more ›
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На этапе тестирования я отобрал 6 городов (Москва, Санкт-Петербург, Новосибирск, Екатеринбург, Казань, Красноярск) и двух крупнейших провайдеров России - Ростелеком и Дом.ру. В планах масштабирование на большее количество городов и операторов.Для парсинга тарифов у провайдеров применял связку Python + Selenium + BeautifulSoup, через хранимую процедуру складывал полученные данные в базу PostgreSQL. Читать далее Read more ›
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Oklahoma’s House of Representatives has passed HB 3015, a bill that would authorize a mobile driver’s license as a Real ID-compliant companion credential to the […] Read more ›
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I volunteered constantly at my kids' school, thinking it made me a better parent. Looking back, it didn't matter as much as I thought. Read more ›
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At the close of a video announcing the second season of Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, the company's co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx revealed that "a small section of the team" has started work on a new game. He said that the next project will be a movement shooter in the style of Titanfall and Black Ops 3.Those two tidbits are really all that 1047 Games had to share. People can sign... Read more ›
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Who among us hasn't tormented over the burden of having to exit an AI app to check the weather? Well, I haven't, and I'm guessing you haven't either. But AccuWeather has a solution regardless. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a ChatGPT app to spare… someone that pain.Snark aside, there may be a few niche situations where this provides a slight advantage. AccuWeather suggests asking ChatGPT, "When is the best... Read more ›
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Zoox has announced plans to bring its robotaxi to Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida for the first time, along with offering expanded service in San Francisco and Las Vegas. The company formally launched its robotaxi service in September 2025, and shared earlier in March that it would begin testing in Dallas and Phoenix.A "Zoox retrofitted testing fleet" has been operating in Austin and Miami since 2024, but offering rides with... Read more ›
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has been sharing every incremental update about what Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul will and won't include. His latest article claims that the AI assistant will have a standalone app and will introduce an "Ask Siri" feature that could mark a decidedly different direction in how users will interact with the platform. Gurman reports that Siri is being designed to leverage personal data from messages, emails and notes... Read more ›
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OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date. "We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. As we focus and compute demand grows,... Read more ›
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Grok has already taken extensive heat after the AI chatbot's image generation tool was used to create an estimated 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, including 23,000 of minors, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Regulators around the world have limited access or launched investigations into the platform's potentially illegal and nonconsensual image generation. The US government hasn't made any moves against xAI or its platform at... Read more ›
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Sony is shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party game studio led by former Call of Duty producer Jason Blundell, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports. Before leading Dark Outlaw Games, Blundell was the head of Deviation Games, which was an independent studio, but also happened to be developing a PlayStation game before it shut down, Schreier says.Dark Outlaw Games had yet to announce what it was working on, but considering Blundell's... Read more ›
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A jury in New Mexico has found Meta liable for violating the state's consumer protection laws in a high-profile civil trial over child exploitation and other safety issues. One day after closing arguments in the weeks-long trial concluded, the jury ruled against Meta on every count and ordered the company to pay $375 million. The case was brought by New Mexico's attorney general in 2023 and centered around allegations that... Read more ›
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It's about to get a lot easier for creators on Facebook and Instagram to push products to their followers. Meta will now allow creators to include clickable shopping links for products directly in their Reels.Brand partnerships and affiliate links, in which creators earn a portion of sales generated by their recommendations, are central to how creators earn money from Facebook and Instagram. But Meta has limited the ways in which... Read more ›
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X is updating its revenue-sharing incentives to give more weight to engagement from a user’s home region, Nikita Bier, the company’s Head of Product has announced. Bier said the change in policy was to “encourage content that resonates with people in [the user’s] country, in neighboring countries and people who speak [their] language.” Bier continued that while X appreciates everyone’s opinion on US politics, the company is hoping the new... Read more ›
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