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Tech Life
This episode of the BBC World Service programme Tech Life, titled “Too young to scroll?”, examines the question of what age is appropriate for a child to be given a smartphone. It focuses on the town of Greystones in Ireland, where the community has adopted a voluntary agreement to hold off giving children smartphones until…
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
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New Girl Creator To Write Britney Spears Biopic
Universal’s planned biopic based on Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman In Me, has recruited Liz Meriwether — the creator of the sitcom New Girl — as its screenwriter. The appointment marks the first significant update since 2024, when it emerged that Spears had sold the rights to her memoir and that Marc Platt would produce…
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Comcast Split, Paramount-WBD Deal, AI Among Hot Topics As Media & Tech Moguls Hit Sun Valley Confab
The pine trees, hiking trails and white water in Sun Valley, ID look about the same as they did last summer. The media landscape does not. Boutique investment bank Allen & Co. has hosted the conference long referred to as summer camp for billionaires every year since 1983, but few editions have unfolded at a…
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How to go on dates in Moonlight Peaks and start your road to romance
Here’s how to get started with wooing all the eligible locals.
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Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs
Following Microsoft’s announcement of 3,200 job cuts across its Xbox division, reports have emerged that its owned game studios — including id Software and Bethesda — have been hit especially hard. While CEO Asha Sharma’s announcement emphasised cuts to the Xbox platform team and redundant middle management, subsequent accounts point to deep losses among the…
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Some Of The Most Impressive Gaming Tech Ever Wasn’t Enough To Save Devs From Xbox Cuts
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
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‘Enola Holmes 3’ Debuts With 20.7 Million Views in Five Days
Millie Bobby Brown’s Netflix film franchise “Enola Holmes” returned with its third instalment on 1 July, drawing 20.7 million views in its first five days. The total was enough to make it the most-watched title on Netflix during the week of 29 June to 5 July, underlining the series’ continued pull for the streamer. Despite…
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The Highest-Rated Minions Movie Officially Opens With the Lowest Box Office
“Minions & Monsters”, the seventh “Despicable Me” film and third prequel in the franchise, has opened to the lowest box-office start in the series’ history, despite being its best-reviewed entry. The mismatch matters because it suggests audience appetite for the once-dominant Minions brand may be waning, even as critical acclaim reaches a franchise high. The…