The Royal Shakespeare Company is launching its first ever video game

The Royal Shakespeare Company is launching its first ever video game

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

The Royal Shakespeare Company is turning Macbeth into a neo-noir game

The Royal Shakespeare Company is turning Macbeth into a neo-noir game

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

UK court rules Google won’t pay absurdly high Russian fine

UK court rules Google won’t pay absurdly high Russian fine

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

AI Apps Saw Over $1 Billion In Consumer Spending In 2024

AI Apps Saw Over  Billion In Consumer Spending In 2024

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

Technology Trends for 2025 – O’Reilly

Technology Trends for 2025 – O’Reilly

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

Apple’s Mac Mini Turns 20 Today

Apple’s Mac Mini Turns 20 Today

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