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Uber considers sidelining its CEO

Posted: 11 Jun 2017 09:29 AM PDT

Uber has been taking steps to clean up its toxic corporate culture, such as firing employees and hiring experts, but the most dramatic changes might be right around the corner. Both Reuters and Recode have learned that Uber's board is holding a meeti...

After Math: Missed connections

Posted: 11 Jun 2017 08:00 AM PDT

It was sort of an eventful week for things that almost happened. A 40-year-old astronomy anomaly turned out to really just be a passing comet, a pair of people spent two full days in their second life, and even Republicans are getting tired of Trump'...

Ben Heck’s Logic Gate board game: Adventures in LCD screens

Posted: 11 Jun 2017 06:30 AM PDT

After deciding to use an LCD screen for the Logic Gate board game, Ben gets to work on programming the Pic32mz series microcontroller in MPLab X IDE. Using the programming software and Direct Memory Access (DMA) transfers, Ben learns how to displ...

Watch EA's E3 2017 event in under 13 minutes

Posted: 11 Jun 2017 06:03 AM PDT

The action at E3 2017 has officially started. EA tipped its hand today with an event full of big announcements. If you weren't able to catch the news on Madden 18, FIFA 18, Battlefront II, A Way Out, Anthem and more earlier today, don't worry. We've...

SpaceX could send its biggest rocket to space in three months

Posted: 11 Jun 2017 03:21 AM PDT

SpaceX is preparing a used booster for relaunch on June 17th, but it's apparently getting its heavy lift rocket ready for lift off sometime this year, as well. According to company chief Elon Musk's response to one of his Twitter followers, all three...

'Kingdom Hearts 3' trailer shows combat, but no release date

Posted: 11 Jun 2017 12:37 AM PDT

Our long wait for Kingdom Hearts 3... is probably not close to ending. Still, fans can enjoy a new trailer that Square Enix premiered tonight at the LA performance of the Kingdom Hearts World Tour. There's plenty of gameplay and combat, as Sora, Dona...

Chevy Bolt EV goes on sale nationally a month early

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 10:33 PM PDT

Chevrolet has been slowly rolling out the Bolt EV to more states ever since the car's introduction last December. Originally, the Bolt was supposed to go on sale in all 50 states as of September 2017, but General Motors has moved up its plans. GM rep...

States vow to block any vehicle emissions standards rollback

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 07:57 PM PDT

California isn't the only state that will openly defy the White House if it rolls back any of the vehicle emission standards set by the Obama administration. The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington District of Columbia, I...

The Switch version of 'FIFA 18' doesn't have a story mode

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 06:23 PM PDT

If you were wondering how Switch versions of conventional sports games would compare to their PS4 and Xbox One counterparts, you just got your answer. EA has detailed the Switch edition of FIFA 18, and it's evident that you're getting a full-fledged...

Amazon star Richard Hammond involved in electric car crash

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 04:56 PM PDT

It's a scary day for both The Grand Tour viewers and the motoring world at large. Amazon has revealed that show co-host Richard Hammond was involved in a crash while filming Grand Tour's second season in Switzerland. Hammond thankfully escaped with o...

Xbox One S bundles will be $50 cheaper starting tomorrow (updated)

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 04:21 PM PDT

Microsoft's Xbox One S is getting a $50 price cut in the US tomorrow. That brings the regular, non-bundle price down to $199, which is $50 cheaper than the 1TB, gold PS4 "slim" which Sony announced last week. It's not clear, however, if this is a per...

Apple podcast updates will help you catch up on 'Serial'

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 03:24 PM PDT

Podcasts have come a long way from the days when they represented a novel way to fill up your iPod. There are now shows with seasons (like Serial), teasers and other trappings that you'd normally expect from TV. Simply speaking, podcast apps need to...

What EA learned from 'Mass Effect' will shape its future

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 02:00 PM PDT

When I spoke to Electronic Arts Executive Vice President Patrick Soderlund last week, Kotaku's report about why Mass Effect: Andromeda turned out so poorly hadn't been published yet. Nonetheless, when I asked him about the flawed game's development c...

'Star Wars Battlefront II' campaign looks like a spin-off movie

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 01:11 PM PDT

Star Wars Battlefront II is definitely much bigger than its predecessor -- but we know that. EA's E3 presentation did its best to balance new multiplayer tid-bits (Chewbacca, the planet Naboo, Yoda, Darth Maul, Rey and more) with the highly-anticipat...

Google reveals when it'll stop supporting Pixel and Nexus phones

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:57 PM PDT

Wondering when you should upgrade your Nexus or Pixel? Google has updated its support page to reflect when it will no longer offer telephone and online support for the devices, and you can use that info to make a decision. In the past, the big G prom...

'Anthem' is BioWare's brand-new open world

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:54 PM PDT

The team behind Mass Effect has something new up its sleeves. BioWare today revealed Anthem, a new open-world franchise seemingly set in a futuristic, jungle-ridden universe. The teaser shows a mech of some kind and a big beastie screeching into the...

‘A Way Out’ is a splitscreen-only prison break game

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:45 PM PDT

It's been a while since we heard anything about Hazelight, the Stockholm-based studio led by Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons' director Josef Fares. The team broke cover at The Game Awards in 2014, a brief teaser trailer in tow that showed two men travel...

'FIFA 18' will continue 'The Journey' of Alex Hunter

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:34 PM PDT

One of the best additions to FIFA 17 was 'The Journey', a mode that put players in the shoes of a fictional young star called Alex Hunter. Today at EA's E3 press conference, it was confirmed that FIFA 18 will pick up his story after the events of the...

'Madden 18' story mode looks a lot like 'Friday Night Lights'

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:31 PM PDT

The rumors were true: EA is bringing FIFA 17's story mode to the realm of American football. EA has revealed that Madden 18 will include a Longshot campaign that sees you fill the cleats of Devin Wade, a "forgotten prospect" hoping to make the cut i...

Watch EA's E3 2017 event live right here at 3PM ET

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 11:35 AM PDT

The big names aren't waiting until next week to reveal what they have for us at E3 2017. EA is kicking things off today with its event at 3PM ET/12PM PT. We're expecting details on games like Star Wars: Battlefront II, FIFA 18, Madden 18, NBA Live 18...

Inside The Mill’s mind-bending alternate reality art showcase

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 11:10 AM PDT

I stepped inside a small, dark room in a large, airy loft space in New York's Soho district early Wednesday morning. Our host fitted me with an HTC Vive and told to explore the world around me. Within moments, I was trapped in a glass box, surrounded...

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