One of gaming’s most successful grassroots charity events, Awesome Games Done Quick, will not be held in Florida next year, due to the state’s policies about COVID-19 and LGBTQ+ rights, organizers say.
Driving the news: The weeklong showcase event, which features expert players blitzing through games as fast as possible, will be held virtually from Jan. 8-15.
Former President Trump again didn't get enough votes, this time for the blank check company seeking to take his social media company public.
Driving the news: Digital World Acquisition Corp. on Thursday said it would adjourn its shareholder meeting until October 10, after failing to secure at least 65% shareholder approval for a one year extension to complete its merger with the parent company of Truth Social.
Coinbase employees and long-term Ethereum supporters are suing the U.S. Treasury over its decision last month to sanction the crypto service Tornado Cash, Fortune reports.
Why it matters: The case could have an impact across the cryptocurrency industry for the foreseeable future as it will likely determine if the U.S. government can impose sanctions on crypto services.
Senior Biden administration officials will hear from experts on a range of Big Tech topics such as competition, privacy and youth mental health during a White House roundtable on Thursday, a source familiar with the plans told Axios.
Why it matters: The event marks the administration's sharpest focus on the tech industry to date.
Apple's past and current CEOs, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, couldn't agree on the best way to sell their most important product, the iPhone, Cook said at a Code Conference panel Wednesday.
Jobs wanted to break with the then-norm in the cellphone industry by having the service providers — carriers like AT&T and Verizon — charge customers full price for the iPhone.
Police in Memphis, Tennessee, have arrested a suspect after four people were killed and three others wounded in a series of shootings on Wednesday.
The latest: Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis said at a briefing early Thursday at least one of the shootings was broadcast on Facebook live. In another broadcast, the suspect was "threatening to cause harm to citizens," Davis said.
A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository of Republican voter data to hone their midterm ads, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: There's no indication Snap was aware of or facilitated that data sharing, and the company said it's taking steps to rectify the oversight. But the blunder underscores the sensitivities surrounding reams of voter data that have become a highly valuable political commodity.
The Login team took a week of our daily tech newsletter's editions and took a deep look at the nature of competition in tech in 2022. Are the industry's giants keeping one another on their toes and in check, as they maintain? Or are critics right to call a monopoly foul?
Apple on Wednesday introduced the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro smartphone families alongside its latest wearables — the Apple Watch Series 8, a new higher-end Apple Watch Ultra and updated AirPods Pro headphones.
Why it matters: The success of the iPhone is not only key to Apple's business, but vital for a variety of firms that supply components and for U.S. wireless providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.
A Delaware court on Wednesday ruled that Elon Musk will be allowed to introduce claims from Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko into his countersuit against the social media company. It also denied Musk's request to delay the October trial.
Why it matters: The whistleblower's claims, which include that Twitter violated a 2011 consent decree with the U.S. government, introduce a new legal wrinkle into Musk's attempt to back out of his $44 billion takeover offer for the social media company.
A lot of CEOs are itching to get workers back to the office, but tech CEOs who want that face an extra uphill battle: After all, theirs is the industry that made remote work possible.
Why it matters: The tech industry was built on "dogfooding" — the idea that companies should use the products they push on the public — and every effort by a tech leader to hound reluctant employees back to the office park seems to betray that ideal.
Frances Haugen says much hasn't changed in Meta and in society in the year since she blew the whistle on her former employer.
The big picture: Haugen said that while much of the discussion and decisions about big tech's problems are made in the U.S., some of the most severe consequences are felt in non-English speaking countries where lives are being lost because misinformation and authoritarianism are flourishing on Facebook.
The gaming industry, once a showcase for the competitive ferment of an innovation-driven tech marketplace, has matured to the point where its biggest players have mostly learned to stay out of each others’ way.
The big picture: A rapidly broadening player base and antitrust regulators’ uniquely laissez-faire attitude toward gaming acquisitions have let the biggest companies establish their own lanes and keep interlopers at bay.
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