Business
Tyson to lay off 1,600 workers and close two factories.
Mint Mobile being sold for $1.55 Billion to T Mobile. Deadpool will get $400 Million from this.
Politics
MIT is now the top university students want to attend.
House Republicans end 6 years search for hole in Trump's armor, and begin searching Biden's investments.
Native Tribes demand more Land Acknowledgement. This means stuff like free fishing and hunting.
Russians take down US drones in Ukraine.
Politics: Florida
Maximum Ride author complains that his books are blocked at schools in Florida.
Florida is changing their defamation laws. This scares people who have been doing a lot of defaming. It could be used against everyone so it's sort of scary.
A liberal school said it will match the price of Florida schools to fight the evil Floridians.
Politics: SVB
Sweden had $1 Billion in savings on SVB.
Turns out Gavin Newsom's businesses ran using SVB.
Money analyst says banking at a negative for investment.
More analysts saying banking is in trouble.
Politics: Social Networks
Is Pinterest being used to groom minors? Could also be in Propaganda, Social Networks, or tech.
Is Facebook the next AOL? Stupid question, AOL still has a lot of power. Warner Bros is owned by them. True Story, AOL was originally part of Atari.
Meta firing 10,000 more workers.
Mark Zuckerberg wants new employees to work at Facebook campus until they can prove their worth and then they can work remotely. This is part of the papers announcing firing 10,000 more employees.
Propaganda
EPA to fight against 'Forever Chemical's.
Millennials are burning out more than previous generations.
Joe Biden says that Jimmy Carter asked him to give the former presidents eulogy.
US would destroy Taiwan's tech industry if China invaded.
School to pay $1 Million for bad snack that killed a child
Film and TV
Films meant to alienate the audience.
Taskmaster has another 6 seasons and a Kids Version planned.
Red Dwarf has begun filming another season!
Enjoy this episode of Phineas and Ferb.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mj3w2TAvfIs
Comics
More comics for the Mignolaverse.
AI
A study on the effectiveness and problems of ChatGPT in various professional and educational areas. You can tell this was academic. The article is about a paper written for academics.
This is the paper itself.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10916
Pietro Schirano got ChatGPT to program a videogame. It's Pong, and then another, but it's completely written.
How Apple and Google were unprepared for the AI Revolution.
AI wrote a South Park episode.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-fyShIAGo
ChatGPT's newest edition just passed all human exams.
MidJourney v. 5 is being released and it looks nice.
Atlantic worries about what will be real and what will be computer made.
Videogames
Warside is an Advance Wars like game. It has a Kickstarter now, and looks like fun.
Barotrauma is a dwarf fortress explores the water planet Europa style game.
Sun Haven is a Stardew Valley meets D&D style game.
Doom 3 gets an old school mod.
System Shock remake to be released May 30th and looks fun.
Mario Bros FPS gets an update.
Early footage of Sonic '06 Alpha.
3D Gunstar Heroes
Fallout as a classic shooter.
Roller Coaster Tycoon coaster that will last beyond the time of this universe.
Streets of Rage 4 gets an update with 300 tweaks.
Prey, the original with native American protagonist, gets an HD mod
Ukrainian game company attacked by Russian hackers refuses to bow to demands. Could also be in Propaganda. I'm a Stalker fan, so I put it in videogames.
Gaming Computers
Nvidia cards melt gaming PCs.
Intel may have found out why Nvidia cards are melting PCs.
AMD releases Radeon PreRender 3.1
Arcade
Enter the Gungeon has an arcade cabinet coming out.
A Castlevania arcade game or prize game may be released soon.
Japanese arcade companies are releasing some really cool stuff. I'll try to post videos of the ones I liked.
The new Gundam Vs arcade game. It's a 3D action shooter style game with Gundams.
Dead Heat Unleashed is a racing game similar to Wangan Midnight Club.
Eldora Crown is a top down dungeon clearing game with playable cards.
Here's a previous version of Eldora Crown. It takes a solid five minutes to even begin.
Taito has an XR Immersion Room with all sorts of games to play in it. I've posted a video of a shooter in a previous post.
https://www.taito.co.jp/xstation/
Sengoku Taisen card battle game. There is a new version called Great Battle of England coming out. You can control your troops and use physical cards to strengthen troops. You can also move them based on your movement of those cards. Think YuGiOh, RTS, and Total War in one.
Street Fighter 6 is getting an arcade edition. Check it out with the creators of the game.
Theme Parks
London Resort is no longer.
Disney has an actual lightsaber. Seriously, here's a video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOmivtvgM5A&feature=youtu.be
Disney has made Flynn's Arcade in it's Tron display.
Kanye West rented out an entire Theme Park.
Museum
Museums are changing Russian displays to Ukrainian. Could also be Propaganda.
Augmented Reality in museums sounds pretty cool. My thesis project is based on something like this.
Lucas Museums let's you see Star Wars props and other stuff.
AR VR
Meta VR now supports Unreal Engine 5. They have discontinued supporting Unreal Engine 4.
VR playgrounds being planned. Not as cool as it sounds. It's more of an arcade thing.
Child Care
Check out the comments on this one. Ugh. The kid has entered the messed up zone where they go a bit ballistic and mental problems become terrifying. Some kids become murderers, others become Shazam. You never know who will knock on the door. Also, it's a foster farm, the parents live on the perimeter, but every room is filled with kids. It's usually treated like a military barracks.
Bezos School opens in Central Florida. It's a free tuition Montessori school for lower income students.
Tech
A mod for simple modeling in Blender.
Wireless charging has started to work. Set up the charger so it makes the phone display as you use it, and you're golden.
Just Cool
Couple buy and renovate 14th century Italian home
I'll have to look I to that.