Roblox CEO horrifies every parent alive with his ambition that the platform become a dating hub, even if he promises age verification: ‘A virtual date to start, and then if they connect, move to the physical world’

The tech industry specialises in a tone-deaf executives. The people who run these billion dollar companies are often so removed from the real world, the daily reality of all us peons, that they can seem like a different species. To take one recent example, imagine you got laid off by Microsoft, and then one executive…

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‘Costume designer, take notes’: The Fantastic Four: First Steps cast plays their first Marvel Rivals game and gets stunlocked by the Malice skin

As part of the promotion for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the cast sat down and met their Marvel Rivals counterparts, since new movie-themed costumes have been added to the game. It went as well as you’d expect, considering the cast only had a limited amount of time to learn the game, but some parts…

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Samsung’s US chip fab gets a much-needed lifeline in the form of a $16.5 billion deal to supply Tesla’s next generation of car processors

Advanced chip manufacturing is a very costly but also very lucrative business, and for TSMC, business has been extremely good. However, that’s not been the case for Samsung, the world’s second-largest chip maker after TSMC, as it has been struggling to bring in new customers. There is some good news on that front, though, as…

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Valve CEO Gabe Newell says success isn’t about following your passion: ‘Sounds like a great idea, but lots of people follow their passions right into a crater, you know?’

Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). . It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“) and at one point Newell, by any metric one of the most phenomenally…

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Get ready for Evo 2025: What to expect at the show

Get ready for Evo 2025: What to expect at the show

The Evolution Championship Series (Evo) returns to Las Vegas from August 1-3, hosting players from more than 60 countries around the globe for a weekend of high-stakes competition. Tens of thousands of the most passionate members of the fighting game community will reunite at the Las Vegas Convention Center for the second year in a…

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