Naughty Dog is releasing a documentary for The Last of Us Part II, but hasn’t shared a specific release date. You’ll be able to watch the full thing (officially titled Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II) on YouTube and in The Last of Us Part II Remastered via a post-launch update.
While you wait, you can watch the documentary for the first game right now.
A metaverse high school is opening in Japan, as reported by Automaton. Students will get the same qualifications they would at a real-world high school, but they’ll attend in VR and show up as an avatar. You can learn more about in a press release and on the official website.
In the wake of news that it’d be laying off 500 employees, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy held a livestream in which he discussed what the layoffs mean for the streaming service long term. In the hour-long stream, Clancy answered questions ranging from if he reduced his own salary to offset costs (no), and if Twitch plans on adjusting its cut of subscriptions to earn more (also no).
But one of the biggest (if obvious) reveals in the livestream is that Twitch simply is not profitable.
Earlier this month The Guardian reported that the CEO of a crypto firm called HyperVerse didn’t seem to be a real person: “Steven Reece Lewis” had an impressive resume, but there was no evidence he existed.
Now The Guardian has tracked down Steven Harrison, “an Englishman living in Thailand,” who was paid to appear in HyperVerse’s investor materials. He says he didn’t realize he was being used in a scam:
“I went away and I actually looked at the company because I was concerned that it could be a scam,” Harrison said. “So I looked online a bit and everything seemed OK, so I rolled with it.”
If you’re spending $3,499 to be one of the first 70,000 or so people with Apple’s Vision Pro, we can probably assume you own a recent iPhone. But just in case, 9to5Mac points out details from an Apple email explaining the online ordering process.
Despite rumors of required in-store appointments for face scanning, it looks like Apple will let you use FaceID on another device to judge the fit requirements and provide a current prescription if you need the $149 vision-correcting lenses.
The company blames the two-week pause at its German Gigafactory on a component shortage caused by shipping disruptions in the Red Sea — a major trade route between Asia and Europe.
Iranian-backed Houthi militants have increasingly targeted cargo ships in the region following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7th. Delays caused by shipping companies re-routing around the conflict are also impacting production at Volvo.
Verizon customers who were charged an “administrative charge” in recent years might be entitled to a piece of a $100 million class action settlement. A lawsuit alleged that the company added a bogus fee to customers’ bills to squeeze money out of them.
The charge must have occurred between 2016 and last year. The deadline to submit a claim is April 15. Here’s the claim form.
That’s what Tim Cook’s body language says to me when meeting Europe’s top competition watchdog Margrethe Vestager who pressed the Apple CEO to open the App Store amid other concerns like Apple Music. It’s all part of her whirlwind tour with US tech CEOs ahead of the strict new Digital Markets Act taking effect on March 6th.
Other possible captions:
“Oh, so this is what a functioning government regulator looks like.”
“The only danish I want to touch comes in pastry form.”
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