Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s first ever video game. Announced on Wednesday, the British theatre company has teamed up with New York indie game studio iNK Stories (Revolution: Black Friday) to create Lili, a thriller noir game focused on the damned spot-laden Lady Macbeth. … Read more
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Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive video game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed in part by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The game, titled Lili, is a “screen life thriller video game” where you’ll have access to a modern-day Lady Macbeth’s personal devices, according to a press … Read more
A software engineer has bought the website “OGOpenAI.com” and redirected it to DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab that’s been making waves in the open source AI world lately. Software engineer Ananay Arora tells TechCrunch that he bought the domain name for “less than a Chipotle meal,” and that he plans to sell it for more. … Read more
Samsung held its annual Galaxy Unpacked event today, and we got the first look at the Galaxy S25, GAlaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. Aside from these new phones, Samsung announced a whole host of AI features, a new chipset at the heart of the S25 series, and a surprise fourth variant of the … Read more
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Last fall, Russia slapped Google with a dizzyingly high fine in response to blocking sanctioned Russian YouTube channels. While Google already shut down its Russian operations, the company sought legal protections by filing lawsuits in international courts. This week a UK court has ruled in Google’s favor, blocking enforcement … Read more
Consumer spending on apps is projected to reach $150 billion globally in 2024, up 13% from the prior year. According to Sensor Tower’s annual “State of Mobile” report, it’s being fueled by a 200% surge in spending on generative AI apps like ChatGPT and Gemini, which collectively drew $1.1 billion. TechCrunch reports: If this rate … Read more
Welcome to our annual report on the usage of the O’Reilly learning platform. It’s been an exciting year, dominated by a constant stream of breakthroughs and announcements in AI, and complicated by industry-wide layoffs. Generative AI gets better and better—but that trend may be at an end. Now the ball is in the application developers’ court: Where, … Read more
We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of home and office routers, web cameras, and other Internet-connected devices. Here is a sampling of research released since the first of the year. Lax security, … Read more
Apple launched the original Mac mini 20 years ago today, kickstarting a trend of small but powerful computers. The Mac mini was originally designed as a gateway for users to enter the Apple ecosystem without the expense associated with the company’s higher-end offerings of the time, such as the Power Mac G5 and iMac G5, … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents Best S25 deals from Samsung Best S25 deals from Verizon Best S25 deals from T-Mobile Best S25 deals from Xfinity If you’re a fan of the Samsung S24 lineup of phones, then you’ll be happy to know that Samsung has just announced its latest lineup of S25 phones, and … Read more