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Basketball player Stephen Curry has long collaborated with Google, and last year took on the role of “Performance Advisor” at the company as part of a multi-year partnership. It appears the first product of this union is “coming soon,” based on a video posted to Curry’s Instagram account. The 15-second clip shows shots of Curry playing with a basketball, and …

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is once more turning its lens on Microsoft. The tech company will be the focus of an investigation by the regulator to see if it can be assigned strategic market status (SMS). The CMA already has “a major concern” with Microsoft’s alleged limiting of competition in the cloud space via productivity software like Word …

Rec Room, once hailed as a promising giant in the social gaming world, announced Monday it would be shutting down its platform on June 1.  If you’re a fan of the platform or have ever spent time creating or exploring in its virtual worlds, this news probably hits hard. Over the years, Rec Room attracted more than 150 million players, …

Meta has agreed to “substantially reduce” its use of the PG-13 ratings system in relation to its Teen Accounts on Instagram starting April 15. Last year, the Motion Picture Association objected to Meta directly referencing its movie content rating, which cautions parents against letting their pre-teens engage with certain media. In a cease-and-desist letter seen by  at the time, the …

Meta’s Dexter Station office in Seattle. (Meta Photo) Another round of layoffs at Meta will affect 168 employees in Washington state, according to a filing from the state Employment Security Department. The cuts are part of a broader reduction impacting hundreds of Meta workers around the U.S. “Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they’re in the …

Amazon’s latest upgrade to Alexa+, its next-generation AI assistant, allows you to order food from popular delivery services Uber Eats and Grubhub in a conversational manner, just as if you were chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru, according to Amazon. The aim of this new Alexa+ feature is to create a more …

Adults of a certain age will no doubt remember The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a cartoon from 1989 that starred our favorite sibling plumbers decades before they would take over multiplexes with an animated film franchise. The broadcast channel MeTV Toons has begun airing old episodes of the show, likely to trade on the buzz emanating from the pending …

(Rec Room Image) The despair among Rec Room players is real. Users of the popular social gaming platform expressed their disbelief and sadness over the demise of the Seattle-based company, which announced Monday that it is shutting down on June 1, and that some of its assets are being acquired by Snap. Rec Room — ranked No. 49 on the …

Whoop, the fitness and health tracking wearable company, has closed a $575 million Series G funding round at a $10.1 billion valuation — nearly triple its last reported valuation of $3.6 billion — in a deal that brings together sovereign wealth funds, major health institutions, and some of the world’s most recognizable athletes. The round was led by Collaborative Fund …

DoorDash’s autonomous delivery plans will get an assist from the Rivian spinoff Also. On Tuesday, the companies announced a strategic partnership in which the delivery company will invest in Also. They intend to “develop and accelerate deployment of autonomous delivery at scale.” The companies didn’t specify which micromobility vehicles will be used. Also, which Rivian spun off as a separate …