Apple Fellow Phil Schiller regularly rotates through five different Macs, he said in a post on Threads. I can’t say I’m that surprised, given who it is and the company he works for, but that’s still a lot of computers!
He also uses his iPad Pro “a ton” for things like reviewing photos and playing games. He’s also a Right Dock fan, which, as a Left Dock user, I can respect.
Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, who worked on games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077, is now the creative director at Rebel Wolves. Its first game, a dark fantasy RPG, is in “the alpha stage of development,” according to a press release, and Rebel Wolves “plans to share more about the game later this year.”
The studio appeared on the scene in February 2022, and at the time, it said it was aiming to release its first game in 2025.
It has more than 23 million global active monthly users, Netflix advertising head Amy Reinhard said at a Variety conference; that’s up from the 15 million figure the company revealed in November.
Given the Netflix standard tier costs $15.49 per month (and that the Basic tier, for those who still have it, recently got a price bump), I can see why people are opting for the more affordable $6.99 ads plan.
The trailer for the remake of the Game Boy Advance puzzler shows off new levels, new obstacles, a less-punishing casual mode, and local co-op.
The game launches on February 16th.
It’s apparently an origin story that “takes place decades before the original 2009 Star Trek film,” Deadline reports. It will have some notable star power attached: Toby Haynes, who directed multiple episodes of Andor, is set to direct the movie.
IDC reports they fell 13.9 percent from 2022 to 2023, with all five of the top PC makers seeing their shipments drop. The slide continued the trend of lowered shipments the industry also saw in 2022. “This downturn, unparalleled in the industry’s recorded history, reflects the aftermath of the significant surge in PC purchases driven by the COVID-19 pandemic,” IDC says.
But things weren’t as bad year-over-year in just the fourth quarter of 2023, where total shipments only fell 2.7 percent. (IDC says that “marginally surpassed expectations.”)
[IDC: The premier global market intelligence company]
The FTC extended the deadline to February 29th; previously, the deadline was January 17th. Epic will pay $245 million.
Matthew “MatPat” Patrick will be retiring on March 9th, he announced yesterday. While he jokes that the move was inspired by Tom Scott, who recently ended his 10-year run of posting a new video every week, Patrick says that he and his wife have been working towards the change for years.
For more on MatPat, check out our interview with him from 2021.
I’ve included a few of DJI’s photos of the drone, called the FlyCart 30, below. It can carry as much 30kg as far as 16km when utilizing its dual-battery configuration, according to a press release.
The drone has already been released in China, but it’s now going to be coming out globally, DJI says. The company anticipates that it will be available by the end of Q1, spokesperson Regina Lin tells The Verge.
