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Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook starts the WWDC 2020 keynote. Today, Apple made one of its biggest announcements in years: that Macs will begin to transition away from Intel processors. The company also outlined plans for new versions of iOS, macOS, and watchOS. But while those were the headlining …

Gato Salvaje announced on Twitter today that it has cut ties with Chris Allevone, who was working on the studio’s upcoming role-playing game The Waylanders as a design contractor. Avellone has been accused of sexual harassment and assault. Members of the industry have been speaking out this week against abusers, and …

The world is in between huge technological transition. Every day there is more use of technology-intensive tools in place of traditional ones. Old tricks used to be tedious, costly, mostly false, and often harmful.  As a result, business intelligence is not what it use to mean a decade ago. Today, …

Enlarge / The 10km-wide caldera on Alaska’s Unmak Island formed during the 43 BCE Okmok II eruption. Kerry Key (Columbia University, New York, NY) Roman writers described unusual weather and famines in the years following Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE, adding to the turbulence of the civil war that …

Apple’s plan to move its Mac family of computers from Intel’s Core-series CPUs to self-developed ARM processors has been an open secret for years, with each new macOS release — and subsequent small hints to developers — helping to ease the eventual transition. Today, Apple made the impending switch official, …

Enlarge / iPhones are seen at an Apple Store in Tianjin, China. Apple has told iPhone app developers that it “will start removing thousands of mobile games lacking government approval from its App Store in China next month,” Bloomberg reported today, citing anonymous sources. “The decision ends the unofficial practice …

Activision Publishing announced that the all-new Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is coming on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2. Toys for Bob, the Activision-owned studio that previously worked on the Skylanders titles and the Spyro Reignited trilogy remake, is working on the game, which is …

Microsoft today announced its intention to acquire CyberX, a startup developing a platform designed to protect industrial control systems. The terms weren’t disclosed, but TechCrunch reports that it’s in the range of $165 million. The deal shores up Microsoft’s strategic positioning in the autonomous systems market, which it entered in …

Although the coronavirus pandemic scuttled Apple’s traditional in-person Worldwide Developers Conference this year, a fully online version called WWDC20 is kicking off today, including keynotes and sessions that will stream over multiple video services. Two important streams will originate from the company’s Apple Park headquarters today: a keynote speech that …

Josef Fares, the founder of indie game studio Hazelight, revealed the story and gameplay of It Takes Two, the next game coming from a man who loves to tell stories — and curse during game presentations. EA made the announcement at its EA Play 2020 event today. Fares never misses …