Sony has faced a challenging start to the year with the Japanese giant cutting its sales forecasts for its flagship PlayStation 5 console and facing a bigger challenge from rival Microsoft .Shares of the company are down about 13% since the beginning of the year with about $25.71 billion of […]
Year: 2022
Nintendo Switch tops lifetime sales of Wii console
Tokyo Nintendo Co Ltd ( NTDOY ) sold 18.95 million Switch video game consoles in the nine months to the end of December, the Japanese company said on Thursday, taking total sales past 100 million and beating the lifetime sales of its Wii console. Although the figure undershot the 24.1 […]
The Halo Warthog Is The Most Important Vehicle In Video Games
The Halo series has been popping up in automotive news circles recently, after an early-aughts Chevy Tahoe showed up in a trailer for the games’ upcoming TV series.That little bit of car casting inspired a mod for the Master Chief Collection’s version of Halo 3 , replacing the Warthog in […]
Need Serotonin? Try These 24 Cheerful WFH Desk Accessories
Need Serotonin? Try These 24 Cheerful WFH Desk Accessories To all Anthropologie stationery section stans; to those who breeze past Kate Spade bags to buy Kate Spade pens ; to adults who ran rampant through book fairs and reveled in their back-to-school checklists in elementary school; we say: Welcome to […]
Jeff Zucker leaves CNN with legacy overseeing sharply partisan turn, dismal ratings
Jeff Zucker stunned the media world with his abrupt resignation as CNN Worldwide President on Wednesday, ending a nine-year reign at the liberal news network.”As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked […]
From slavery to socialism, proposed laws would restrict what teachers can say : NPR
Enlarge this image A third-grade teacher conducts class in Rye, N.Y.Researcher Jeffrey Sachs says that since January 2021, 35 states have introduced legislation limiting topics that schools can teach.Mary Altaffer/AP Mary Altaffer/AP A third-grade teacher conducts class in Rye, N.Y.Researcher Jeffrey Sachs says that since January 2021, 35 states have […]
The best Netflix original series right now (February 2022)
Netflix revolutionized prestige TV with House of Cards , its original series that showed binge watching wasn’t just for established shows.The streaming giant has since become a leader in original content.With a massive lineup of award-winning comedies, dramas, docuseries, and more, there’s an original series for absolutely everyone on Netflix.But […]
Stocks tumble amid Facebook’s record $220 billion rout
The stock market tumbled on Thursday after Facebook-parent Meta reported disappointing quarterly results and said it lost users for the first time in its history.The social media giant’s value plunged by about $237 billion — the biggest one-day loss for a publicly traded company in stock market history. The Dow […]
Facebook loses users for the first time in its history
Facebook parent Meta’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday revealed a startling statistic: For the first time ever, the company’s growth is stagnating around the world.Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its 18-year history — falling by about half a million users in the last three months of […]
A road in Detroit will charge an electric car while driving
An Israeli startup plans to build about one mile of pavement in Michigan that will wirelessly charge electric vehicles as drivers roll past, marking a first-of-its-kind infrastructure project in the U.S. Electreon, based in Beit Yanai, won a contract with the state to build the charging road system near downtown […]