Lip-Bu Tan says ‘Intel and Nvidia are collaborating to develop exciting new products’ and I’m wondering what they could possibly be

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in science and technology from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, was the one to give Huang his doctoral hood. At the same time, Tan took the opportunity to affirm that Intel and Nvidia are working on new…

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The Sinking City 2 shifts the series to survival horror, and manages to be genuinely unsettling

If you played a Cthulhu lore drinking game during The Sinking City then I pity your liver. It had tentacles, a New England setting, a sanity mechanic, a troubled private detective, an asylum level, analogies for racism incongruously placed next to depictions of actual racism—all these genre clichés shuffled onto its damp stage, shuffled around…

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eBay shoots down ‘neither credible nor attractive’ $56 billion GameStop offer from CEO who says ‘I’m not going away. I’m a pain in the ass’

The bizarre saga of GameStop’s $56 billion bid to acquire eBay has come to, if not an ending, then at least a sudden break: the internet auction empire today rejected GameStop’s offer, declaring “We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive” in a letter from eBay board chairman Paul Pressler. “The Board,…

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