Month: January 2025

How player-funded development launched a multiplayer game of galactic proportions – and costs – in Star Citizen How much does it cost to make a video game? The development expenses of blockbuster games are closely guarded business secrets, but they have been climbing ever higher over the years towards big Hollywood-style spending. Industry leaks have …

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Outgoing president signs executive order to tackle US vulnerabilities after attacks that have cost country billions The Biden administration is making a final push to fortify America’s cyber defenses against mounting threats from China and Russia, issuing a sweeping cybersecurity executive order just days before leaving office that aims to tackle vulnerabilities from outer space …

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President-elect ‘has warm spot’ for platform and wants political solution to ‘preserve app but protect data’ Donald Trump is considering suspending a TikTok ban in the US with an executive order when he enters the White House on 20 January, according to a report. The president-elect is exploring an executive order that would postpone enforcement …

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Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket has blasted off from Florida on its first mission to space. Its first attempt to launch, on 14 January, was cancelled because ice had accumulated on a propellant line. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, cited no issues before launch and the rocket successfully reached orbit Bezos’s Blue Origin …

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Biden signed a law banning the app in January – if parent firm ByteDance fails to block it, here’s what could happen US supreme court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban-or-sale law The US supreme court will hear arguments on Friday from TikTok and its China-based owner ByteDance, which is seeking to block a law …

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Launch of Amazon founder’s New Glenn craft on second attempt ramps up rivalry between tech billionaires Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket has blasted off from Florida on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’s space company as it aims to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the satellite …

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Whether you’re chasing folding treadmills or gym quality on a budget, our top-rated running machines will accelerate your training • The best running shoes to take you from trail to road to marathon, tried and tested by runners Although the treadmill has been around since the early 1800s, when it was once used to punish …

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Long-running leaks mean the usually secretive Nintendo have failed to keep a lid on its new console. With its official announcement due any minute now, here’s what we know so far Nintendo is likely to announce its next console this week, the follow-up to the 150m-selling Nintendo Switch, which came out in March 2017. There’s …

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Troubling new HBO docuseries An Update on Our Family looks at YouTube families and Myka Stauffer, the mom who ‘rehomed’ her adopted son In May 2020, the vlogger parents Myka and James Stauffer tearfully revealed to their nearly 1 million followers that the son they adopted from China just three years before had been “rehomed”. …

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Company reveals plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce days after saying it would get rid of factcheckers Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, is to cut about 5% of its global workforce, with its poorest-performing employees most likely to leave. In a memo to staff, the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, …

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