The United Nations has issued another stark warning that, under current policies, the planet is falling far short of the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the rise in global temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius. That’s the threshold scientists say we h…
Autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI is shutting down
Autonomous vehicle company Argo AI is shutting down. In an earnings report, Ford (a major investor in Argo AI) noted that the company is being wound down and that it will hire engineers from the startup to expand and speed up development of Level 2+ an…
Duolingo’s free Math app arrives on iOS
Duolingo isn’t just about helping people learn languages anymore. The company has released Duolingo Math on iOS, over a year after it first teased the app. Naturally, Duolingo Math shares a lot of DNA with the language apps, including colorful animatio…
‘The Witcher’ is getting an Unreal Engine 5 remake
CD Projekt Red recently announced a whole bunch of projects it has in the pipeline, including multiple entries in The Witcher series. One of those had the codename “Canis Majoris” and it was then confirmed to be a “full-fledged” Witcher game developed …
Google Workspace individual plans jump from 15GB to 1TB of storage
Google has some good news for folks who are on the Workspace individual plan. Those who use the service, such as self-employed people and entrepreneurs, will soon get a significant storage upgrade from 15GB to 1TB at no extra cost. Most Workspace indiv…
Google will end Chrome support on Windows 7 and 8.1 in early 2023
Google has announced it will end Chrome support on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 early next year. Chrome 110, which is scheduled for release on February 7th, will not work on either of the operating systems. You’ll still be able to use older versions of Ch…
The Age of Empires series is finally coming to Xbox consoles and cloud gaming
World’s Edge, the Xbox studio that’s overseeing Age of Empires these days, held an event to mark the franchise’s 25th anniversary. With it came some major news about the future of the series, including its debut on consoles. Age of Empires II: Definiti…
‘Dark Souls 2’ PC multiplayer servers are back online after a nine-month outage
Dark Souls 2 players can once again team up and square off against each other on PC after FromSoftware reactivated the servers. The studio and publisher Bandai Namco switched off the online components for all Dark Souls games on PC back in January…
India fines Google $113 million for abusing the Play Store’s dominance
Google is on the hook for another nine-figure fine after India’s antitrust agency said the company abused the dominant position of the Play Store. The regulator told Google to pay 9.36 billion rupees ($113.5 million) and to allow Play Store developers …
YouTube Music contractors vote to unionize
A group of workers at YouTube Music Content Operations, an Alphabet subcontractor, have filed with the National Labor Relations Board for union recognition and bargaining power after a supermajority of the 58-strong group signed union cards. “As a part…