May 5, 2020 The Obamas will headline YouTube’s graduation ceremony It turns out students who are graduating this year will have some options when it comes to their choice of a virtual ceremony. Following…
May 5, 2020 Airbnb will lay off 25 percent of its workforce due to COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has effectively gutted Airbnb’s core business, and the company is taking drastic action to stay afloat while people aren’t travelling. The…
May 5, 2020 California sues Uber and Lyft for allegedly misclassifying drivers California’s Assembly Bill 5 was designed to confront the ridesharing industry over its treatment of drivers, and now that confrontation is officially underway. State…
May 5, 2020 Candy Crush sees more play than ever since Activision-Blizzard’s 2016 acquisition Activision Blizzard announced today that King’s mobile games had 273 million monthly active users in Q1 2020.Read More via VentureBeat Check out the Finding…
May 5, 2020 Call of Duty: Warzone hits 60 million downloads in less than 2 months More than 60 million players have parachuted into Call of Duty: Warzone in the past 52 days since its launch, according to Activision Blizzard.Read…
May 5, 2020 Blizzard games see huge boosts of players during pandemic Activision Blizzard released it financials today, revealing that Blizzard’s games have seen gains in player activity while people stay home.Read More via VentureBeat Check…
May 5, 2020 Activision Blizzard posts $1.79 billion Q1 revenues as pandemic creates gaming surge Activision Blizzard reported earnings that beat expectations as the company saw a surge for its games because people are staying inside.Read More via VentureBeat…
May 5, 2020 Just how close are we to achieving the Metaverse? Pioneers in virtual worlds met up at GamesBeat 2020 to talk about the promise of the Metaverse and what it will take to get…
May 5, 2020 Ford shares a year’s worth of self-driving car data Self-driving vehicles require massive amounts of data, which can be difficult to obtain without vehicles equipped with cameras and LiDAR and miles and miles…
May 5, 2020 Stream Dischord Records’ entire discography for free on Bandcamp You probably can’t go to the record store at the moment, but you can listen to 40 years’ worth of punk and hardcore music…