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The Metropolitan Museum of Art launches Art Links blockchain game
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a short-session Web3 game, Art Links, that invites players to identify common threads among works of art. This is the first Web3-based experience at The Met. Designed in partnership with the art and tech platform TRLab, this mobile-first, browser-based, blockchain-powered game presents... Read more
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Parents, students, teachers, and administrators throughout North America are smarting from what could be the biggest data breach of 2025: an intrusion into the network of a cloud-based service storing detailed data of millions of pupils and school personnel. The hack, which came to light earlier this month, hit... Read more
Samsung’s New Galaxy Phones Lay Groundwork for Headsets and Glasses to Come
Samsung and Google are working on an Apple Vision Pro-like mixed reality VR headset running Android XR and Google Gemini. We knew that already and even got a demo of it last year. But Samsung also revealed a little more at its phone-focused Samsung Unpacked winter event, specifically, a... Read more
The Who’s Who of MAGA Influencers You Should Know About by Now
Over the weekend, I went to DC to meet with all of the right-wing influencers and content creators who made President Donald Trump’s 2024 win possible. They were everywhere. The 2024 election was the influencer election and inauguration was no different: There were dozens of pre- and post-inaugural parties... Read more
Surgent Studios partners with Pocketpair for 2025 horror game
Surgent Studios, the maker of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is partnering with Pocketpair Publishing, the newly founded publishing wing of Pocketpair (Palworld, Craftopia) to create a horror game for release in 2025. Surgent continues conversations with potential partners around Project Uso (revealed in October 2024) and other projects set in the... Read more
Best Internet Providers in Illinois
What is the best internet provider in Illinois? AT&T Fiber is CNET’s choice for the best internet service provider in Illinois. It has the best fiber internet coverage in Illinois, one of the best selections of high-speed plans that include unlimited data and free equipment and the highest customer... Read more
Therabody Promo Codes and Deals: 10% Off
I don’t know if you’re like me, but one of my favorite ways to treat myself is with products that I know will help me better my body and ease any pain. Therabody has a slew of truly great products to help with everything from sore muscles, to aches... Read more
ByteDance’s UI-TARS can take over your computer, outperforms GPT-4o and Claude
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new AI agent has emerged from the parent company of TikTok to take control of your computer and perform complex workflows. Much like Anthropic’s Computer Use, ByteDance’s new UI-TARS... Read more
I Won’t Use AI Health Features, for My Own Well-Being. Here’s Why
A few years ago, I thought I was about to die. And while (spoiler alert) I didn’t, my severe health anxiety and ability to always assume the worst has persisted. But the increasing proliferation of health tracking smart devices and new ways that AI tries to make sense of... Read more
Fortnite by the numbers: $342M paid to creators in 2024, with creators tripling to 70,000
Epic Games released its first Fortnite ecosystem year in review for 2024, and it has a lot to celebrate. Epic said Fortnite UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite) paid out $324 million to creators in 2024. The number of creators in the ecosystem nearly tripled to 70,000, and they published... Read more