Ang Cui has spent 10 years hacking into internet-connected office phones and other “embedded devices”—that is, devices that don’t look like computers or servers but have all the trappings: a processor, memory, and, often, the ability to connect to other devices or the internet. As the founder of Red... Read more

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, editors Mike Minotti and Jeff Grubb live the beef-‘n’-cheddar life. They also discuss what Nintendo is thinking with the Switch OLED... Read more

President Biden will issue a sweeping executive order on Friday, making the case to Americans that companies from multiple industries have become too big and too powerful, and federal intervention is needed to bring competition back to the marketplace in order to drive prices down. This represents a slight... Read more

Getty Images President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to spur more competition as the economy begins ramping up following the COVID-19 pandemic. The action will affect a wide range of industries — in particular, the tech industry.  Biden’s “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” executive order consists... Read more

Fantasy author Django Wexler is a lifelong Star Wars fan and has always wanted to write a story set in that universe. He got his wish last year when his short story “Amara Kel’s Rules for TIE Fighter Pilot Survival (Probably)” appeared in the anthology The Empire Strikes Back:... Read more

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. In what was supposed to be the quietest of weeks, we got some real news. Amazon announced that would open-source its Lumberyard game engine as the Open 3D Engine, overseen... Read more

Sarah Tew/CNET Disney Plus has been a breakout success among the wave of new streaming services, thanks to a deep library of shows and movies, buzzy originals and big-screen movies to watch the same time they hit theaters. Early Friday, Disney is leveling up its pandemic practice of releasing... Read more

Giving influencers free rein is also what gives Zeus its viral magnetism. Moments from the network’s shows quickly find their way onto social media and into group texts, pulling us in and becoming recyclable meme fodder. Before I heard of Joseline’s Cabaret or The Real Blac Chyna, another one... Read more

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. Consent and preferences management platform Didomi has raised $40 million in a series B round of funding. Founded out of Paris in 2017, Didomi works with major enterprises including Rakuten,... Read more

Angela Lang/CNET Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus this year for the “unique and challenging fiscal year that Microsoft just completed,” according to a report published Friday by the Verge. The report, which cites an internal memo, says the bonuses will be disbursed to all employees below... Read more