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HP turned up at The Game Awards with announcements about new software on its Omen gaming machines as well as a trailer for a new game. First up, HP debuted ‘Omen Presents,’ a new initiative that will see HP partner with game developers to create innovative experiences. To kick off…

Joby Aviation will acquire Uber Elevate in another sell-off from the ride-hailing giant during the pandemic.  Uber will invest $75 million in Joby Aviation which, combined with a previously undisclosed $50 million investment in January from Uber, brings the latter's total fundraising haul to $820 million. Joby expects to begin…

Sony has launched a new automation software development kit (SDK), application library and support solution. These have been created for e-commerce and business-to-business organisations to help them simplify, speed up, and standardise product photography.The new offering enables both large e-commerce firms and the host of dedicated service providers, used by…

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by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2020 / 1,145 ViewsFromSoftware announced back at E3 2019 the dark fantasy RPG, Elden Ring, which is being developed with help from Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin. The developer via Twitter thanked fans for the support shown for the upcoming game. "We…

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted we’d be having 15-hour workweeks by the end of the century. But by the time it was 2013, it was clear the great economist had gotten something wrong. Welcome to the era of bullshit jobs, as anthropologist David Graeber coined it. Since the 1930s, whole new industries…

Apple’s presentation software does all the heavy lifting for you when converting a PowerPoint presentation to Keynote. Doing the opposite, though, requires a few extra steps—we’ll walk you through them! First, double-click the Keynote presentation you want to convert in Keynote, and then click “File” at the top left. In…

Google said in a new blog post that hackers linked to the Chinese government have been impersonating antivirus software McAfee to try to infect victims’ machines with malware. And, Google says, the hackers appear to be the same group that unsuccessfully targeted the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe…

3d illustration of computer chips over digital background with china flag X-EPIC, a Nanjing city-based startup aimed at building up China’s own EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industrial software technology, received a RMB100 million Pre-A round of financing, led by China V Fund (Yuhui Capital), with Dashu Evergreen and Zhen Fund…

Shola Akinlade In 2014, Shola Akinlade realized an opportunity to solve a payments problem.  He was helping some Nigerian banks with financial software at that time. Akinlade put out a waitlist for people to try out the software he was building and within one month, there were 300 people on…