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Steam’s Summer Sale drops games like Baldur’s Gate 3 to their best price

Sheena VasaniJun 28, 2024

Supreme Court ruling kneecaps federal regulators

Justine CalmaJun 28, 2024

The music industry’s AI fight

David PierceJun 28, 2024

EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software

Andrew J. HawkinsJun 28, 2024

Jess WeatherbedJun 28, 2024

EU competition chief isn’t happy with Apple’s AI snub.

Apple cited “regulatory uncertainties” and “interoperability requirements” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) as reasons for delaying its AI features on EU iPhones, but Margrethe Vestager suggested something more sinister is at play at a Forum Europa event on Thursday:

“I find that very interesting, that they say ‘we will now deploy AI where we’re not obliged to enable competition.’ I think that is the most stunning, open declaration that they know 100 percent that this is another way of disabling competition where they have a stronghold already.”

Jess WeatherbedJun 28, 2024

Time is also partnering with OpenAI.

It joins other media companies like News Corp, Axel Springer, The Financial Times, Vox Media, The Atlantic, and The Associated Press in licensing content for training AI models like ChatGPT.

Financial details for the deal have not been disclosed. Time COO Mark Howard says:

“This partnership with OpenAI advances our mission to expand access to trusted information globally as we continue to embrace innovative new ways of bringing Time’s journalism to audiences globally.”

Strategic Content Partnership with TIME

[OpenAI]

Here’s our best look yet at Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z foldables

Jess WeatherbedJun 28, 2024

Framework Laptop 16, six months later

Sean HollisterJun 28, 2024

Jess WeatherbedJun 28, 2024

Apple Vision Pro launches in first countries outside the US.

The headset is now available to buy in China, Japan, and Singapore, with Apple documenting the international launch via a recent blog post.

The Apple Vision Pro will also roll out to Germany, France, Australia, the UK, and Canada on July 12th, with preorders for those regions available starting today at 5AM PT.

Apple’s Senior Vice President of Retail, Deirdre O’Brien, attending the launch of Apple Vision Pro in China.

Image: Apple

Sarah JeongJun 28, 2024

Biden is gassing up what his administration has done for the semiconductor industry, likely a reference to the CHIPS Act.

“I convinced Samsung to invest billions of dollars in the United States,” Biden adds.

Where the CHIPS Act money has gone

Emilia David

Jun 7

Sean HollisterJun 27, 2024

AMD’s FSR 3.1 is here — and Sony’s PlayStation PC games are the first to embrace it.

Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, and both Spider-Man PC games now support the upgrade to AMD’s upscaling and framerate boosting tech. It reduces shimmering, ghosting, and flickering of earlier versions and lets you use frame generation independently of upscaling.

God of War Ragnarök will also get FSR 3.1 “soon.”

Jay PetersJun 27, 2024

YouTube didn’t give Dr Disrespect a contract because of rumblings about his Twitch ban.

Per a Rolling Stone report with more details about the ban:

YouTube’s former global head of gaming partnerships at Google, Ryan Wyatt, confirmed to Rolling Stone that Beahm was not offered a contract due to chatter about the circumstances of his Twitch ban. He says that a Twitch employee and journalists investigating the incident told YouTube employees that it involved inappropriate messages to a minor.

Dr Disrespect Knowingly Sent Explicit Messages to a Minor, Former Twitch Employee Says

[Rolling Stone]