Why FIFA Ultimate Team is often hated and very successful

Posted on 17/11/2020 by Engadget

‘See you in October’An annual, anticipated ritual took place last month: The release of the world's most popular videogame of the world's most popular sport. FIFA 21 will no doubt make over $1 billion, as each entry in the series has in recent years....

WildLeaks: The whistleblowing site for planet Earth

Posted on 08/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

“Really, fuck fuck fuck fuck, fuck” Andrea Crosta tells the driver of the car he just got in. Crosta is the founder of WildLeaks, a whistleblowing site for environmental crime, and he’s just aborted an undercover operation with a prominent ivory trad...

What’s the tech industry’s place in a racial justice movement?

Posted on 19/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

What connects Amazon's facial recognition software, the log flume ride at Disney World and a common ice cream truck jingle?This summer, they've all been drawn into what experts are calling the largest protest movement in American history. The ripple...

DeepMind and Oxford University researchers on how to ‘decolonize’ AI

Posted on 28/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Sometimes it’s tempting to think of every technological advancement as the brave first step on new shores, a fresh chance to shape the future rationally. In reality, every new tool enters the same old world with its same unresolved issues.In a moment...

The influencers of pandemic gardening

Posted on 10/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

To the untrained eye, Kevin Espiritu’s garden is an overflowing hodgepodge of containers: stackable planters growing beans, herbs in traditionally narrow windowsill planters and a variety of trellises inside canvas grow bags. The front yard is packed...

K.K. Slider’s fans span rock stars and remixers

Posted on 18/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Every Saturday night, pop-punk icon Mark Hoppus does exactly what you’d expect him to do: He goes to a concert.The Blink-182 frontman changes his clothes, tracks down a few friends and goes to watch another prolific artist. Over the past months, this...

Petit Depotto, ‘Gnosia’ and the new, obsolete game

Posted on 22/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Epic has been basking in the limelight for its Unreal Engine 5 demo, and the console on everyone’s minds right now is Sony’s PlayStation 5. Like most of tech culture, the mainstream gaming industry is constantly hungry for next-gen hardware, and for...

Is going to space truly essential during a pandemic?

Posted on 20/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Much about the world after the coronavirus pandemic remains uncertain, but one priority of the Trump administration remains steadfast: Damn it, we’re going to the moon. There’s the recent signing of an executive order encouraging future moon mining,...

Every musician is basically a YouTuber now

Posted on 15/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Huddled inside a cluttered garage in Los Angeles, Grouplove tries to be itself. Keyboardist Hannah Hooper grins wide as she sings toward the smartphone, attempting to maintain some of the buoyant alt-rock band’s typical electricity, even as she’s squ...

Subscription services sell artisanal food, too

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Some of the best chocolate in the country is made just outside Boston, in Somerville, Massachusetts, by a one-man shop that uses only the highest-quality cocoa beans and sugar, spinning the nibs into smooth deliciousness on tiny machines. Every three...

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