Share this article Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden has asked the industry to examine the trend toward bigger and more expensive games, describing the established AAA model as “simply not sustainable.” Layden, who ran PlayStation Worldwide Studios in the latter part of a 25-year stint at Sony, spoke to Gamesbeat’s …
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New York City Announces Crackdown on Illegal Fireworks
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that New York was launching an offensive against the illegal use and distribution of fireworks, after complaints about a nighttime cacophony flooded the city’s help and emergency phone lines. The effort will focus on using law enforcement agencies to disrupt the supply of fireworks …
Read More »Top Pentagon tech officials resign
The Pentagon high-tech official and his deputy will resign next month, a Defense Department official confirmed Tuesday. Mike Griffin, the Pentagon’s first undersecretary for research and engineering, and his deputy, Lisa Porter, will leave on July 10, the official said. The resignations were first reported by Inner defense Griffin, who …
Read More »The coronavirus has brought the United States “to its knees,” says CDC director | World News
A US public health chief told Congress Tuesday that the coronavirus “has brought this nation to its knees” as the United States struggles with more than 2.3 million confirmed cases and more than 121,000 deaths so far. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Read More »We can finally understand how Pluto can have liquid oceans so far from the sun
Only in recent years, since the historic New Horizons probe flyby in 2015, have we been able to understand Pluto in great depth or detail. We have learned a lot about the small outlier of our Solar System, but one of the biggest surprises was a series of indications that …
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