Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake will be out on February 28th, 2024, and it’s coming to PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC (via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG.com). The original was fantastic, so I’m glad this game is getting a remake for modern systems.
Fortunately, the show is streaming on other platforms, so it’s not the end of the world. Hopefully the website gets fixed before the event starts at 7:30PM ET.
The industry legends will be on a livestream to talk about the 30th anniversary of Doom, and I’m guessing it will be a fascinating conversation.
The livestream, which will be on Romero’s Twitch channel, kicks off on December 10th at 3PM ET. If you want to learn some of the history between the two, check out Romero’s autobiography — which we have an excerpt of that you can read right now.
If somebody has turned an emoji into a tag, you’ll be able to click on that emoji to see other people talking about it.
In other news, please join my waffle club.
Amazon is going to stop letting you pay for things on its marketplace using Venmo as of January 10th, CNBC reports. You also can’t add Venmo as an Amazon payment option anymore, according to a Venmo support page.
The Venmo integration on Amazon was barely a year old; it started rolling out in October 2022.
Ganesh Venkataramanan left Tesla in November, Bloomberg reports. The project is now being overseen by Peter Bannon, who has designed chips for Intel and Apple.
Tesla said earlier this year that it has started production of the supercomputer, which will be used to help train its self-driving technology.
Update, December 8th, 11:14AM ET: Bloomberg now reports another key member of the team, Bill Chang, left the company in October.
Google mentioned the date in a support document about transferring your subscriptions away from Google Podcasts. You’ll have until July 2024 to migrate your subscriptions to YouTube Music or another service.
[support.google.com]
According to Google’s incident report about the two outages:
Google runs a core message processing system that is responsible for delivering, monitoring, queuing, and receiving email messages. The root cause of both incidents was an atypical pattern of email traffic, resulting in high resource utilization in this system and delays in email delivery.
The company says it plans to “implement rate limit mechanisms in our systems” to improve things moving forward.
[www.google.com]
Unsurprisingly, the theme of the event is focused around AI, according to an announcement on Samsung’s Newsroom: “AI for All: Connectivity in the Age of AI.”
The show kicks off at 5PM ET on January 8th and will be streamed live. Perhaps we’ll see the announcement of the Galaxy S24 lineup?