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Tech

The Apple Car Project, 2014-2024

B. Simmons February 27, 2024

Legends say that playing music that wasn’t bought through Apple’s official channels would void the warranty. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the Apple Car Project is dead. Apple broke the news of the project’s...

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Video Games

E3 Expo Now Officially Dead

B. Simmons December 13, 2023

~<{\F/}>~ Yes, this time, it seems to be true. E3 is now dead. The trade show, which had been running since 1995, has finally ended its run. It’s not much of a surprise, really;...

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Video Games

Microsoft To Axe Windows Wordpad After Nearly 30 Years

B. Simmons September 4, 2023

~F~ Maybe you’re a fan of Windows WordPad, maybe you’re not. But it was a dependable, if bare bones, means of jotting down anything. Ever since Windows 95, it was always there. And now,...

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Tech Television News

YouTube Axes YouTube Originals

B. Simmons January 22, 2022

You know what I’m linking to, here. Yes, the inevitable has finally happened. Youtube has made the decision to shut down YouTube Originals, their original content development group. You might know them from such...

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Random Access

Something Awful Founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka Is Dead

B. Simmons November 12, 2021

He was 45. Pour out a box wine and some Ambien for him. Another Web 1.0 personality is no more. Richard Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, where he was known as Lowtax, died from...

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Television News

Quibi Is Shutting Down

B. Simmons October 22, 2020

Queue that Sarah McLachlan Song. Per multiple sources (1, 2, 3), Quibi is shutting down. The pet project of Jeffrey “raging against the Black Cauldron animators” Katzenberg, Quibi offered bite-sized entertainment (roughly 10-minute shows)...

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Movies Tech

MoviePass Shuts Down Today

B. Simmons September 14, 2019

Won’t have to worry about canceling your subscription, right? We have finally reached the end of the little movie ticket service that could… until it couldn’t after progressively eroding its value to end users....

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Tech

NASA’s Opportunity Rover: 2004-2019

B. Simmons February 14, 2019

We sent him to Mars, because he was better than anyone on Earth. After a final attempt to contact their Opportunity Rover on Mars, NASA has officially declared it MIA. The rover had been...

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Video Games

Prima Games To Shut Down In 2019

B. Simmons November 10, 2018

~F~ Prima Games, the makers of those guides back in the day that were practically a necessity for any complex game before the rise of the internet, is shutting down. Per Variety, DK (formerly...

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Video Games

Lawbreakers Is Dead, Here’s Art For A Map They Didn’t Make

B. Simmons September 18, 2018

F Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we consign Lawbreakers to the Earth’s crust. For the gravity-defying shooter truly is no more. Its servers are gone; its brain is cold. Former senior environment artist...

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Video Games

Boss Key Productions Shuts Down

B. Simmons May 15, 2018

Radical Heights players have until “the near future” to keep playing. In a mostly unsurprising turn, Boss Key Productions (Lawbreakers, Radical [S]Heights) is shutting it’s doors forever. The developer is “essentially no more”, according...

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Video Games

LawBreakers Publisher Writes Game Off

B. Simmons January 3, 2018

It’s all that damn, dirty PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS fault, according to them. In the land of games, sometimes you roll the dice. The ground is littered with the corpses of competitive shooters that didn’t find...