Grand Theft Auto maker buys FarmVille company in $12.7B deal
FILE – A pedestrian walks in front of a sign at Zynga in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Take-Two Interactive, maker of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, is buying Zynga, maker of FarmVille and Words With Friends, in a…
Laptop component shortage easing; MBP shipping 3-4 weeks
The laptop component shortage is beginning to ease, according to a new report today, but high demand sees 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro shipping times currently sitting at around three to four weeks. M1 Macs – both MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro –…
Five-alarm NYC fire kills at least 19 people, including nine children
1/6 At least 19 people, including nine children, were killed in an apartment fire in the Bronx neighborhood of New York on Sunday. Photo by Louis Lanzano/UPI | License Photo Jan. 9 (UPI) — A five-alarm fire broke out in an apartment building in the…
Steam Just Won’t Stop Breaking Its Concurrent Players Record
Valve’s digital distribution service Steam has continued a pattern of breaking its own records, passing 28 million concurrent users on January 9. As reported by analyst Daniel Ahmad (tweet below), the Steam community recently helped set another…
Razer Updates its Blade 14, 15, and 17 Laptops for Greater Performance
Razer has announced that it has refreshed its Blade 14, 15, and 17 laptops with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs (up to an RTX 3080 Ti), Windows 11, DDR5 memory, and in the larger models Intel’s latest 12th-generation Core H-Series processors. Razer’s…
USD 3.57 bn growth in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Market | Driven by Growth of Smartphone Industry | Technavio | News
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The global computer aided engineering (CAE) market will witness substantial growth in the coming years. The increasing use of CAE software in the R&D activities in the aerospace and defense industry is…
138,326 Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 amid Omicron surge
1/5 More than 138,000 COVID-19 patients have been hospitalized as of Sunday, nearing a pandemic high of 142,000, as infections rise due to the highly infectious Omicron variant. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Jan. 9 (UPI) — COVID-19…
Coldest air of the season thus far to usher in Midwest, Northeast
1/2 A pedestrian crosses the street during a snowstorm in New York City on Friday. A fast moving snowstorm blanketed parts of the tri-state area with as much as 9 inches of snow in some areas. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Frigid conditions…
Court hearing to decide world number one’s Australian Open fate
Novak Djokovic’s fate will be decided at an appeal hearing on Monday morning in Australia after a bid by the Australian government to have the case delayed to Wednesday was rejected. The government tried to push the hearing back by 48 hours but a court…
The iPhone turns 15 today, but what else was new in 2007’s world of tech?
Robert Triggs / Android Authority The original iPhone was announced on January 9, 2007, 15 years ago today. Although many still fawn over Apple’s first smartphone as the dawn of a new technological era, plenty of other exciting things were happening in…