In three weeks, you’ll be able to play the remastered pixel versions of the first three Final Fantasy games. Square Enix has announced that the remasters of Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III will be available on July 28th for PC via Steam and on July 29th for Android and iOS. You … Read more
Tents line a street in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) The group driving the Compassion Seattle electoral measure, which aims to revise city policy in relation to its ongoing homelessness crisis, will turn in more than 60,000 signatures Thursday to qualify the measure for the November election. Supporters of the initiative will need … Read more
Nodes & Links is a planning platform for large infrastructure projects that defines when and in what order the bolts and nuts for the bridge (for example) should be delivered. Unsurprisingly, this is often wrong with complex infrastructure projects. The company has now raised a $ 11 million Series A financing round led by urban … Read more
Sony has revealed the next line of games available to PlayStation Plus members starting July 6th. The highlight for many will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the 2018 entry in the blockbuster series. It includes three multiplayer modes: the standard multiplayer affairs that Call of Duty fans have enjoyed for nearly two decades, … Read more
Elizabeth Warren tries to guess which billionaire face she held up during a game on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” last year. (YouTube screengrab) In a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Senator Elizabeth Warren alleged that Amazon’s multi-billion dollar offer for MGM could harm consumers and expand Amazon’s market dominance beyond … Read more
India-based tech startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that has spilled private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education technology giant and India’s most valuable startup. According to historical data from Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases, the server has been unprotected since at least June 14th. … Read more
An unfortunate mistake today led some people to believe Twitter removed the switch to toggle between an algorithmic and chronological feed while using its web client. Throughout the day, people used the service to tweet their frustration when they found that the star icon that you can use to switch between the two feeds was … Read more
Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma, went on leave earlier this month. (Athira Pharma photo) The lawsuits have started. Less than a week after the CEO of Athira Pharma was given a temporary leave of absence on allegations of altered images in the scientific papers she wrote, three class action lawsuits were filed on behalf … Read more
2U, a SaaS platform that helps nonprofits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all of Harvard’s assets and MIT-founded edX for a $ 600 million deal, according to multiple sources. 2U did not immediately respond to requests for comment and it is unclear if this is a pure cash transaction. The deal gives … Read more
Maybe we have to say goodbye to SoftBank’s adorable humanoid robot Pepper. According to Reuters, the Japanese conglomerate stopped producing the robot last year and is cutting jobs in robot-related companies in several countries. Apparently there wasn’t much demand for Pepper, and SoftBank only ever produced 27,000 units of Foxconn. Nikkei has also reported that … Read more