Niantic announced that its next augmented reality mobile game will be Pikmin Bloom, a collaboration with Nintendo, which will encourage players to get outside and explore their neighborhoods. The game is available now for iOS and Android in Singapore and Australia, but will roll out globally in the coming days.
Facebook is planning to launch a new metaverse strategy in order to make the company more mainstream. The company is also planning to unveil its new name during its Connect event, which will be in the midst of ongoing scandals. The event will also be held during the ongoing controversy regarding a new whistleblower.
While nothing is stopping you from playing horror games at any time during the year, there's something extra special about scaring the pants off yourself during the month of October, Horror games are an equally fun alternative to cramming into an amusement park horror maze, and for the cost of a ticket, you can buy several games that provide many more hours of scares.
Land Rover plans to add an all-electric Range Rover to its lineup in 2024, the redesigned fifth generation of its luxury SUV that is loaded with tech, features an electrical architecture to support over-the-air software updates and sits on a new flexible architecture that will be the basis of the brand’s future models, including plug-in hybrid and electric variants.
Alphabet's 2021 earnings show an all-time record revenue of $65.1 billion and record profits for the fifth quarter in a row at $18.9 billion. The growth in 2021 is unusually large, with revenue increasing 41 percent year over year and profits increasing 69 percent.
The Senate Commerce Committee wrapped up another three-hour hearing about social media's effect on children and teens, featuring representatives from TikTok, Youtube and Snap. The three apps are some of the most popular apps among teens and younger users, but all three have gotten less attention from lawmakers than Facebook and even Twitter.
YouTube will soon begin to demonetize some of the channels on its platform that market themselves as “made for kids” if the content they produce is low-quality, encourages negative behavior or attitudes, or is heavily commercial. This sort of content would no longer be eligible for inclusion in its dedicated YouTube Kids app, but starting next month YouTube will also begin to enforce new monetization policies which may impact creators’ eligibility for or possible removal from the YouTube Partner Program.
Blue Origin has more ambitious plans than simply space tourism, it is working on creating its very own space station as well, promising to be something of an industrial and commercial hub, and meant to start operating in the second half of this decade. The company hopes to use Boeing's Starliner and Sierra Space's Dream Chaser to ferry both cargo and passengers to Orbital Reef.
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) surpassed $1 trillion in market value on Monday after landing its biggest-ever order from rental car company Hertz, a deal that reinforced the electric car leader's ambitions to top the entire auto industry in sales over the next decade.