Dune: Part 2 tries to balance the book’s canon with creative license (spoilers)
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. When I watched the start of the Denis Villaneuve’s first Dune movie (2021) with my youngest kid, it was a special moment that took me back decades. I’ve been a superfan of […]
The NSA list of memory-safe programming languages has been updated
The US government says it would be better for them if you ceased using C or C++ when programming tools. In a recent report, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has urged developers to utilize “memory-safe programming languages,” a classification that does not include widely used languages. The recommendation is a […]
2024 Porsche 911 S/T review: Threading the needle
Enlarge / I wouldn’t blame you if you lost track of all the different variations on the Porsche 911. This is the latest, and currently, the most desirable. Bradley Iger Although Porsche is in the midst of taking its BEV technology mainstream, the company hasn’t lost sight of the fact that its high-performance reputation was […]
Taiko raises $37M to build web3 infrastructure for a censorship-free internet
Amid the speculation and volatility in the casino-like crypto land, there remains a subset of individuals who espouse blockchain’s potential to decentralize various aspects of human activities for the greater good. Taiko‘s founder Daniel Wang is one of these idealistic founders. A serial entrepreneur, Wang initially wanted to bring decentralization to social platforms. Decentralized networks […]
Amid tensions with Russia, SpaceX to launch Crew-8 to space station
SpaceX is gearing up to send its next crew of astronauts to the International Space Station, perhaps as early as Saturday night, in a flight that comes as the station continues to leak air and has been doing so recently at an increased rate. In a briefing earlier this week, Joel Montalbano, NASA’s International Space […]
One of Our Favorite Wi-Fi 6 Routers Is Going for Just $70
If it’s been a while since you updated your Wi-Fi router, and you’re finding that it slows down a lot, it may be because older routers aren’t good for connecting to several devices. Now’s the perfect time to upgrade to the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard, which is made to connect to dozens of devices. And […]
The Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit
It would be easy to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as a case of sour grapes. Mr. Musk sued OpenAI this week, accusing the company of breaching the terms of its founding agreement and violating its founding principles. In his telling, OpenAI was established as a nonprofit that would build powerful A.I. systems for […]