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The Indie Game Awards, an awards-only ceremony dedicated to celebrating excellence in indie gaming, will make its debut on December 19. The inaugural ceremony will honor outstanding achievements in categories such as innovation, storytelling, artistry, and more throughout the indie scene. The countdown to The IGAs begins today with the reveal of the judges, presenters, … Read more

The UK’s competition regulator has cleared Google’s $2 billion investment in Anthropic, and others. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially concluded that the company hasn’t acquired “material influence” over the AI startup Anthropic as a result of the investment. The continuing investigation into the partnership has also been squashed, with the UK antitrust … Read more

Microsoft is going small with its newest hardware product, a cloud PC that will connect businesses to the company’s Windows 365 services.  Windows 365 Link, which the company is touting as the “First Cloud PC devices for Windows 365” will cost $349 (why not $365?) and will be officially available in April. The PC measures … Read more

Black Friday is an ideal time to make some upgrades to your home be it a larger TV, new refrigerator, or maybe finally installing that home security system you always talked about. Well, you don’t even have to wait for Black Friday this year as Amazon has started slashing its prices across the board. Right … Read more

It feels like a distant memory by now, but right before the Nintendo Switch launched in 2017, it seemed like portable gaming was on its last life. Mobile games had gobbled up huge portions of the market, and most modern games required a lot of power to run on devices like the Nintendo 3DS. Fast-forward … Read more

Smart ring maker Oura announced on Tuesday that it has received a $75 million investment from glucose device maker Dexcom. The investment marks Oura’s Series D funding round and brings the company’s valuation to more than $5 billion. The partnership paves the way for the two companies’ devices and apps to be used together, which … Read more

Tiny MEMS ultrasonic drivers have already made a huge difference in sound quality for true wireless earbuds. Now, the company behind those “sound from ultrasound” speakers, xMEMS Labs, is taking aim at open-fit earbuds, smart glasses and smart watches with its new Sycamore micro driver. xMEMS says that this is the first full-range, all-silicon, near-field … Read more

The Department of Justice will recommend to a federal judge that Google sell its Chrome browser business as part of its ongoing search monopoly case, Bloomberg reports. This comes months after a judge ruled that Google, owned by Alphabet, violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in search. By ensuring its own search engine … Read more

Street Trash—the 1987 cult movie about the oozing havoc wreaked when bottles of toxic booze are unleashed into a crumbling New York neighborhood—is back with a sequel (also titled Street Trash) that continues its story in dystopian Cape Town, South Africa. Though only the original has a guy melting into a toilet (as well as, … Read more

At an upscale sushi bar in New York last week, a smattering of media and policy types chowed down on a menu of sushi rolls, peking duck tapas, and mushroom salad. But what made this menu unusual was the one ingredient that ran through the dishes—foie gras made from quail cells brewed in a bioreactor. … Read more