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Imagine if Nintendo woke up one day and decided to buy Sega — that’s essentially what’s happened today as Atari has announced it has acquired Intellivision, ending one of the longest company rivalries in the video game industry. According to the announcement, Atari will take over the Intellivision brand and over 200 games from its library.
“Atari will seek to expand digital and physical distribution of legacy Intellivision games, potentially create new games, and...
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More details have emerged about the MacBook-like foldable Apple has supposedly been working on. A new report from Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo estimates that Apple could ship more than 1 million devices with a 20-inch folding display in 2026, a shift from his previous projection that it would start shipping in 2027.
Even though past rumors suggest that Apple will go with a 20-inch display, Kuo says that Apple is also considering an 18.8-inch panel. When...
LG’s C3 OLED TV may not be as bright as its successor, but it’s still a top-notch gaming TV. | Image: LG
TVs have nothing to do with Memorial Day, but clearly, retailers never got the memo. Every year, almost like clockwork, they drop some excellent TV deals around the holiday, and 2024 is no exception. Right now, you can buy various LG C4 OLED TVs at all-time low prices starting at $1,299.99 ($100 off) for the 42-inch model (Best Buy, LG). If you want to save even more, its...
In this NOAA image taken by the GOES satellite, Hurricane Lee crosses the Atlantic Ocean as it moves west on September 8th, 2023. | Image: Getty Images
The Atlantic Hurricane season starts on June 1st, and it’s forecast to be rough. A record number of strong storms could form with a shift from El Niño to La Niña this summer and unusually warm waters churning in the Atlantic Ocean.
There’s an 85 percent chance of an “above normal” season, according to the National Oceanic...
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From Taylor Swift fans crashing Ticketmaster to the federal lawsuit that threatens to break up Live Nation’s alleged monopoly.
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Those $40 service charges are coming under fire from the federal government.
In a move that primarily has consequences for music, but could also bleed into the world of sports, the Department of Justice announced Thursday that it was moving forward with a lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment.
The source of the suit is what the government asserts is a significant breach of antitrust law, with the companies working in concert to dominate the live...
Scan & Sand is designed to take on tasks more hazardous to humans and assist with growing labor shortages.
Accused of violating antitrust laws, Live Nation Entertainment faces a fight that could reshape the multibillion-dollar live music industry.
The case concerned a constitutional puzzle: how to distinguish the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps when Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats.
The US government has filed an antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for allegedly abusing their dominance in the ticketing market to extinguish healthy competition.
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At $499 with all the essential features, Google’s Pixel phone starts making sense.
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The DOJ alleges that Live Nation holds a monopoly over the ticketing industry. | Image: The Verge / Kenishirotie (via Getty)
The US Justice Department and 30 state and district attorneys general have filed an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, alleging that it has a monopoly in the live ticketing industry that enables it to illegally suppress competition.
“It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster,” US Attorney General...
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In yet another major shift, X, the social platform previously known as Twitter, is taking away the ability to see what posts other users have liked. It’s a change the company’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, says is meant to protect users’ public image — because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content. MacRumors first reported that the change is coming after a flag was discovered in the iOS app that removes the Likes tab on...
A Samsung phone, opened up to suggest repair. | Image: Samsung
iFixit and Samsung are parting ways. Two years after they teamed up on one of the first direct-to-consumer phone repair programs, iFixit CEO and co-founder Kyle Wiens tells The Verge the two companies have failed to renegotiate a contract — and says Samsung is to blame.
“Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale,” Wiens tells me, even though similar deals are going well with Google, Motorola, and...
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A Saudi-owned NFL team could be closer than you think.
The only thing the NFL fears is being left behind. Desperate to claim a place on the world stage and expand its influence, it was only a matter of time before the league would attract the attention of Saudi Arabia. Now we’re hurtling towards that becoming a reality.
Two key news stories this week underscore how the league is inching closer and closer towards courting funds from the seemingly bottomless...
The Cavaliers dismissed coach J.B. Bickerstaff on Thursday, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Ethereum, the nerdy cryptocurrency that was lately overshadowed by Bitcoin, is in the news again, and the price is pumping. What gives?
Well, only one of the most important developments in Ethereum's history, anon. An Ethereum spot ETF (Exchange Traded-Fund) might get approved in the U.S. today — that's Thursday, May 23.
Before we get into all that, here's a very short primer on Ethereum or ETH. Launched in 2015 by programmer Vitalik Buterin and others, Ethereum is the second largest...
TikTok is dipping its toes further into the AI space, introducing a new creative suite to help brands put together AI-generated ads.
It's called TikTok Symphony, described by the company in a blog post as a means for "supercharging productivity to help brands create at scale." The most notable tool is an AI video-generator that can generate TikTok videos with just a few inputs, the company says, adding that the product will help make the ad-creating process "simple and efficient."
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