Xbox hardware sales recently plummeted ; However, we know that the company will continue betting on new consoles in the future. Thanks to various leaks, we partially know some of their plans for their next console.
Reports from months ago suggest that the next-generation Xbox will debut in 2028 . However, new information indicates that the system will arrive sooner than planned and that it will be accompanied by an important game for its launch.
Ghost of Tsushima just debuted on Steam and became the latest PlayStation exclusive to come to PC . We know that its debut on the Valve platform was a success, as it is already the 4th best launch on Sony for computers .
However, the title was not spared from criticism, as it suffered review bombing due to a recent controversy that angered PC players. Steam users took advantage of the reviews to attack Sony for a decision that also affected Helldivers 2 .
Sony wants players to link a PlayStation Network account with a Steam account to enjoy its releases on PC. This generated a scandal in the case of Helldivers 2 , to the extent that the company had to reverse its decision.
Enjoying Ghost of Tsushima 's campaign doesn't necessarily require account linking; However, the situation is different with Legends, the multiplayer component. This again angered players, mainly since this requirement caused the game to initially not be sold in 170 countries .
Due to this, the community did not hesitate to review bombing on Steam to send a message to Sony and express its discontent with the linking of accounts in Ghost of Tsushima and in future games of the brand.
This week is very special for Mojang and Xbox , since 15 years ago Minecraft debuted , the title that has since offered billions of hours of entertainment. We are talking about an icon of the industry and Google was up to the task by launching a trick that allows the title to "play" in today's most used search engine.
If you are a Google user , you surely know about the doodles or Easter eggs that the company launches to celebrate some franchise or event and it has just done so with Minecraft , as it allows users to mine from the results that the search engine returns as if were Steve or Alex from Minecraft .
To start the trick you only need to type the word " Minecraft " in the Google search engine , after which the icon of a block of land will appear at the bottom of the screen, which fans will surely recognize instantly.
The trick also works if you type other Minecraft -related words , such as " Creeper ", Steve Minecraf or " Alex Minecraf ".
Apple is expanding its footprint in Singapore in a big way. The iPhone maker announced that it plans to spend over US$250 million (~S$340 million) to expand its campus in Ang Mo Kio. According to Apple, the expanded campus will provide space for "new roles in AI and other key functions".
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| A rendering of Apple's upgraded Ang Mo Kio campus. (Image source: Apple) |
Apple has had a presence in Singapore for over 40 years. Its operations started here in 1981 with just 72 employees focused on the legendary Apple II. Today, Apple has over 3,600 employees in Singapore and its offices here are an important hub for operations in the region.
Singapore is one of the few places in the world where you can find a Vision Pro lab, and recently, Apple opened Southeast Asia's first Developer Centre here in the one-north district.
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, said:
Singapore is truly a one-of-a-kind place, and we are proud of the connection we’ve built with this dynamic community of creators, learners, and dreamers. With our growing campus, Apple is writing a new chapter in our history here. Our Singapore teams have played an important role in enriching the lives of our customers — and we can’t wait for many more decades of innovation to come.
Construction on the expanded campus will begin later this year. According to Apple, two buildings acquired in 2022 adjacent to the company's existing offices will undergo a major upgrade.
Blue Origin's tourist rocket is set to launch passengers into space for the first time in nearly two years, ending a pause caused by a failed unmanned test flight.
The New Shepard rocket and capsule will lift off during a window that opens at 8:30 a.m. CT (9:30 a.m. ET) from Blue Origin's facility on a private ranch in West Texas. A live stream of the mission , called NS-25, will begin at approximately 7:50 a.m. CT (8:50 a.m. ET) on the website of the company founded by Jeff Bezos.
NS-25, Blue Origin's seventh crewed flight to date, will carry six clients aboard the capsule: venture capitalist Mason Angel; Sylvain Chiron, founder of the French craft brewery Brasserie Mont-Blanc; software engineer and entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess; retired accountant Carol Schaller; aviator Gopi Thotakura; and Ed Dwight, a retired U.S. Air Force captain selected by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to be the country's first black astronaut candidate.
Despite completing his training at Aerospace Research Pilot School and receiving an Air Force recommendation, Dwight ultimately did not enter NASA's Astronaut Corps. He later became a businessman and sculptor; A new National Geographic documentary about black astronauts, "The Space Race ," highlights Dwight's pioneering story.
“I had no intention of being an astronaut. That was the last thing on my bucket list,” Dwight said in the documentary. “But once they gave me the challenge, everything changed.”
Ed Dwight attends a January screening of the documentary "The Space Race" in Houston. At 90, Dwight is headed to space more than 60 years after President John F. Kennedy selected him as the country's first black astronaut candidate. (Credit: Bob Levey/Getty Images)
Dwight will complete that challenge and reach the edge of space at the age of 90, making him the oldest person to venture to such heights, according to a Blue Origin spokesperson.
This is taking into account that it is one of the best ways to reach more people through omnichannel, having a presence in different sales channels (marketplace, own online store, social networks, etc.).
In this scenario, the Facebook Marketplace (online store) is a tool that brings this target audience closer.
According to the study “Social networks in Colombia” by Statista, in 2023, the number of inhabitants of Latin America who use social networks reached a new record and is expected to continue growing.
More specifically, Colombia, with more than 38 million users , is one of the greatest examples of the growth experienced in this sector. In this process, Facebook is a key piece by consolidating itself as the most used platform in the last year both in the Andean country and in many others in the region.
So, activating Facebook Marketplace is very useful, since due to the size of the platform you can reach a large number of potential customers. The marketplace has become one of the favorites over time for entrepreneurs looking to sell easily.
The Facebook marketplace is one of the many ways Facebook connects people, as it is relatively easy to use and anyone can use it.
An advantage is that you can find all kinds of new or used items, from electronics to clothing.
That being the case, the Facebook marketplace is a great option to complement an online store to sell your products with an online business.
To start, some of the newer accounts on Facebook won't immediately see the marketplace icon within their app or from a website.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the second largest fortune in the world, bought a new property - his third - for 90 million dollars (83 million euros) on the exclusive island of Indian Creek, known as the 'Billionaires' Bunker' and located in Miami Beach, in Biscayne Bay in southern Florida (USA), national media reported this Tuesday.
The transaction was carried out off-market and, according to Bloomberg, the tycoon plans to reside in this six-bedroom mansion while demolishing the other two houses he previously bought on this island.
Property records show the luxury home last sold in 1998 for $2.5 million.
"That's the hottest place (Indian Creek) in the country right now. If there's one thing rich elites want, it's a little exclusivity," a source familiar with the area's real estate sector told the New York Post.
Bezos, 60, acquired two other properties in October and June 2023 for $79 and $68 million, respectively, located in the "Billionaires' Bunker."
The town of Indian Creek, with only 41 residential lots, has a country club, its own police department and is home to personalities and magnates such as Jeffrey Soffer, Carl Icahn, Tom Brady, Julio Iglesias, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump .
Jeff Bezos also has other properties in Washington, Maui and Beverly Hills, which he bought, the latter, for $165 million in 2020, according to Bloomberg.
The Amazon founder, who since resigning as CEO in 2021 has been enjoying the good life with his fiancée, former journalist of Mexican origin Lauren Sánchez, was looking to acquire property in Indian Creek.
Bezos and Sánchez, born into a Mexican-American family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, first went public with their relationship in 2019. Since the two began dating, they have kept the details of their life together private, although They have been photographed at some events.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Jeff Bezos has a fortune of $203.7 billion.
Bezos has sold Amazon shares worth about $8.5 billion in recent months, after "not getting rid of company shares since 2021," Bloomberg reported.
The founder of the space company Blue Origin is also the owner of one of the most expensive superyachts in the world, the Koru, the luxurious three-masted schooner valued at $500 million that is considered the largest in the world.
Artist Rights Alliance (ARA), a non-profit organization run by artists to defend their rights, was in charge of sharing the letter with the support of well-known names in the industry to warn about the use of musical works without permission by AI companies.
"We call on all digital music platforms and music-based services to commit to not developing or deploying AI music generation technology, content or tools that undermine or substitute the human artistry of composers and artists or deny us a fair compensation for our work," the artists demand in the letter.
In this sense, the writing highlights two trends in which songs are used illicitly: to train and produce AI "imitators" and to dilute royalty obligations using the sound of these algorithms.
Music creators also talk about threats such as voice cloning, since the arrival of AI allows a vocal sample to be used to transform songs into others that sound like a human artist without being one.
"The unethical use of generative AI to replace human artists will devalue the entire music ecosystem, for both artists and fans," ARA CEO Jen Jacobsen said in a statement.
Sam Smith, HYBE, Jon Bon Jovi, Norah Jones, Pearl Jam, REM, Chuck D and Kate Hudson are other signatories of the letter.
Already in October 2023, three major music publishers - Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO - sued the AI company Anthropic, alleging that it infringed the copyright of the song lyrics, as detailed by The Hollywood Reporter. .
Also in the cultural sector, Hollywood actors began a strike in July 2023 - which lasted for more than 100 days - to, among other reasons, achieve regulation in the use of AI, considering it an "existential threat."
King Kong is one of the mythical figures of adventure cinema and one of the icons of popular culture. The success of the original 1933 film and its legacy has allowed this giant ape to continue being one of Hollywood's main bets, as well reflected in Peter Jackson 's remake or the cinematographic universe that makes up titles such as Kong: Skull Island or Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire . However, the prestige of this creature has not always stood tall, since a controversial decision in the 1930s ruined its future in cinema for many years.
It all has to do with the way RKO , the classic Hollywood studio behind King Kong, handled the success of the first film. The company, to which we also owe classics like Citizen Kane or It's a Wonderful Life! , was not going through a good economic time and was facing a reputation crisis due to a lack of quality in its titles. Acclaimed releases such as Glory of a Day or The Four Little Sisters , both starring Katherine Hepburn , helped calm the waters, although it was the success of King Kong that gave them the key to salvation.
Upon its release on March 2, 1933, it grossed more than $10 million at the box office against a production cost of only $670,000 (via Heritage Auctions ). This led to stratospheric profits as the idea arose of turning King Kong into an adventure franchise, like other successes of those years such as Johnny Weissmuller 's Tarzan . However, they jumped into the pool too soon.
They did not wait even a year to develop these plans, since RKO set the release date of the King Kong sequel for Christmas 1933, that is, only nine months after the debut of the original. Obviously, getting a big production off the ground in such a short time is an impossible mission, so the project, which was titled Son of Kong , had to deal with a lower budget, a tight shooting schedule, recycled special effects and a script without Polish .
In the film we were presented with another adventure in which Carl Denham, the explorer played by Robert Armstrong in the previous film, organizes another expedition to Skull Island in search of new discoveries. There he will discover Kong's son, a white gorilla who will soon sympathize with them and help them overcome the new dangers of the place.
On March 25, a penumbral lunar eclipse will take place that will be visible throughout America, eastern Oceania, western Africa and Europe.
This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon (full), the Earth and the Sun are aligned and the Earth's satellite enters the twilight zone projected by the Earth.
When this happens, the Moon stops receiving light from the Sun because the Earth blocks the sun's rays, so its luminosity drops and it looks a little dark.
According to data from the National Astronomical Observatory (OAN), the eclipse will last 4 hours and 37 minutes and will leave 96% of the lunar diameter in darkness.
The eclipse will begin at 4 hours and 53 minutes GMT time, and will be visible especially in America, and with less intensity in Africa and Europe.
The event will end at 9 hours and 32 minutes GMT, after having been visible in the last phases in America and Oceania.
The next eclipse, which will take place on April 8, will be a total solar eclipse in Mexico, the central United States and eastern Canada, and a partial eclipse in North America and Central America.
As for the Moon, the next eclipse will be partial and can be seen after the summer, on September 8, according to the OAN.
TikTok, the hub of spontaneous creativity and amusing content, has birthed numerous viral videos over the years. Let's delve into the top 10 most-liked TikTok videos that have captured the hearts of millions worldwide:
https://www.tiktok.com/@britishpromise.cats/video/6839416095586159878
Watch as a playful ginger cat attempts to explore a cylindrical cardboard tube in this candid moment by British Promise Cats. Despite its failed attempts, the cat's antics are undeniably adorable.
Senegalese-born Khabane Lame showcases his wit and humor by demonstrating the simplest way to peel a banana. In a world of life hacks, Lame's approach to everyday tasks is refreshingly straightforward.
Adrian Chateau Wiles engages in a hilarious exchange with her dog, attempting to communicate through barks. The bewildered expression on the dog's face turns this ordinary moment into pure entertainment.
Having the internet has become almost a necessity for human beings. Through this medium we can communicate, inform ourselves and also entertain ourselves. And, of course, when leaving home it is necessary and vital that it can work as quickly as possible. In this context, we will tell you in this note which is the South American country that surpasses China in terms of internet speed and other equally relevant details.
One of the famous couples we saw walking through the Italian city was Lauren Sánchez and her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, who took their seats in the front row of the Dolce & Gabbana.
"Like any company, we hope that employees who are being considered for a promotion comply with the company's alignments and policies," one of Amazon's spokespersons, Barbara Agrait, explained in an e-mail to EFE, asked about the teleworking issue.
Office employees who do not work in person three or more days a week will be promoted only if additionally approved by a manager.
Since before the pandemic, administrative workers can request to work remotely, and each case is evaluated by the company itself.
Tensions between the corporation and its workers began last February, when Amazon ordered its 350,000 employees to return to in-person work starting in May.
Thousands of workers signed a petition against the mandate and called a strike to ask the company for more flexibility with remote work.
In July, the media Insider accessed some leaked messages in which Amazon proposed making employees sign a "voluntary resignation" if they did not travel to the in-person centers where its teams work.
The technology company opted for personnel cuts after the pandemic boom, and since autumn 2022 it has laid off 27,000 workers in its cloud computing, advertising and retail divisions, among others.
In addition, it has opposed the unionization of its employees for many years, stating that it prefers to maintain a personal and non-mediated relationship with them.
The board of directors today released a statement about a "leadership transition" in which it indicated that it has concluded that Altman "was not consistently honest in his communications" with the body, which "impaired his ability to exercise his responsibilities."
Instagram hides several tricks within its configuration, which improve the user experience within the Meta social network. A specific example is the option to hide “viewing” of private messages, which can be done in simple steps.
In today's digital era, the seamless incorporation of clients and new users into the digital platforms of banks and retailers stands as a crucial factor for competitive differentiation and revenue growth. This digital transformation allows broader accessibility to products and services, eliminating the need for physical visits to brick-and-mortar branches. However, a significant challenge arises in the form of complexities associated with digital onboarding, leading to high rejection rates and user abandonment during the process.
According to data from the financial sector, a mere 15% to 35% of individuals who initiate the onboarding process successfully complete it. This issue extends beyond banking, affecting 90% of companies globally across various sectors, resulting in the loss of potential customers. Whether in finance, retail, or service industries, the incorporation of digital tools demands a user-centric approach to overcome the hurdles of lengthy procedures, lack of visibility, and security concerns.
To address these challenges, companies must prioritize the user experience, comprehending how individuals interact with digital channels. Speed, efficiency, security, and trust are paramount to ensure successful onboarding. Veritran, recognizing the significance of the user's initial impression, emphasizes creating friendly and intuitive applications.
Although the Knowledge Economy Law offers various incentives to the sector, there is a sub-field in which Argentina has world-class talent that is fighting to survive.
This is the video game industry , one of the most affected by the stocks . Almost 90% are made up of micro and small companies that, not having the resources to overcome the crisis, must sell double or triple to maintain their operation and their place in the global market.
It is the entertainment industry with the highest turnover globally: US$160 billion annually (vs. US$19 billion for cinema). Workmotion assures that Argentina can be a key player:
It is the main country globally to hire junior talent
It is the third most important to look for senior developers
He also highlights the problem of the dollar: " Local salaries are 75% lower on average among the 25 countries with the highest GDP."
According to data from the Observatory of the Argentine Video Game Development Industry, in Argentina :
There are 19 million players (40% of the population)
There are 126 developer studios, which employ 1,646 professionals
43 small and 10 large games released in 2022
Sells 35% to the US and Canada, 12% to Europe, 42% to Argentina
