There’s white smoke from ESPN’s HQ in Bristol, CT, today, as Shams Charania broke the news of his own free agent signing, saying:
I am honored to join ESPN as the company’s Senior NBA Insider.
He will take over the spot from his one-time mentor and longtime rival, Wojnarowski, who announced his retirement last month.
...and leaves with two Porsches. The car customizer has continued operations long after its four-season association with MTV’s Pimp My Ride, and now Meta’s chain-wearing CEO is a customer.
Along with a GT3 Touring, the Zuckerbergs obtained a Porsche Cayenne SUV that’s stretched out and now features sliding doors.
This morning, the European Space Agency launched its Hera mission, which will revisit Didymos, the asteroid system that NASA’s Dart operation punched in 2022.
Last year’s “Tatanka” rumor of a technology switch is confirmed, with these clips from a new “research project” dubbed Project Foundry and a new studio name.
According to Halo Studios head Pierre Hintze, the UE5 move “allows us to put all the focus on making multiple new experiences at the highest quality possible,” while this preview shows what to expect in future projects.
For another 8 hours or so, it’s still time for the monthly event where Bandcamp foregoes its revenue split with artists. It’s also now a sponsored event if that matters to you, but the music probably still sounds the same.
So what’s next after Super Cruise? GM exec Dave Richardson tells TechCrunch the company could follow Mercedes-Benz’s Drive Pilot by also offering a hands-off, eyes-off system:
We’re looking aggressively to make that an L3 solution, where you don’t even have to look at the road anymore.
That’s according to Google’s head of Android security, David Kleidermacher, who is publicly pushing back on the claims made by Epic Games in its new lawsuit against Google and Samsung.
Earlier, Samsung said it plans to “vigorously contest Epic Game’s baseless claims.”
