Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. VitalXP has raised an additional $3 million in pre-seed financing for its action-packed gameverse platform and its first game, Lowlife Forms. The round was led by Streamlined Ventures and Marbruck Investments. And... Read more

Amid growing concerns (and lawsuits) about social media’s impact on the mental health of children, TikTok announced on Wednesday that it’s setting a 60-minute time limit on screen time for users under 18 and adding some new parental controls. Those “limits,” however, are really more like suggestions. There are... Read more

While you may shop most heavily during the holidays, you don’t really need a reason to buy someone a gift these days. From a “thinking of you” token to something a bit more meaningful, there are a lot of great times to buy someone a gift. Figuring out the... Read more

Zwift is not my natural habitat. Neither are any of the similar virtual training platforms that provide stationary runners and cyclists with on-screen routes through fantastic landscapes. As a Gen Xer whose formative years included the uninspiring video gaming of Intellivision’s Astrosmash, I spent most of my play time... Read more

Are you ready for the next-tech workplace revolution of tomorrow? Maybe? Yes? Heck no? You aren’t alone. Many people are still reeling from previous COVID-19 workplace transformations. Regardless of how you feel about it, the fact is, the next workplace revolution is coming faster than you might think and... Read more

The iPhone 15 lineup likely won’t arrive until the fall of 2023, but there are plenty of questions about what to expect from Apple’s next-generation phone. Will the iPhone 15 have a USB-C port? Will Apple increase iPhone prices in 2023? Will it even be called the “iPhone 15”?... Read more

What if your inbox were jam-packed with AI-generated emails? You may already be on the receiving end of emails written by artificial intelligence, with the help of a human prompter. Austin Distel, a senior director of marketing at Jasper, is one of those humans.  Austin smiles as he demonstrates Japer’s knack... Read more

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball. Ars Technica On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and understand natural language instructions. The researchers... Read more

The Mandalorian is back, and you know what that means. Episode 1 of season 3 is a concentrated burst of entertainment showcasing all the best bits of Star Wars: laser gun shootouts, soaring space battles and tentacle-faced pirate captains. Hang on, is this still Star Wars we’re talking about? It... Read more