PlayStation's Franchise Rewards program gates merch behind in-game trophies

Sony is introducing a new rewards program for PlayStation owners that lets you purchase exclusive physical merchandise if you've unlocked certain in-game trophies. The company is starting with re [...]

Pseudoscientific emotion AI is invading the workplace, an Atlantic report shows

Software that claims to read human emotions using AI is quietly becoming a fixture of everyday work life, Ellen Cushing reports in a feature for The Atlantic.<br /> The article Pseudoscientific [...]

The Indie Game Awards snatches back two trophies from Clair Obscur over its use of generative AI

The Indie Game Awards has stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of two major awards, including Game of the Year and Debut Game. This is due to developer Sandfall Interactive's use of generative AI [...]

AI synthetic audiences are already here and poised to upend the consulting industry

There is a war brewing between AI and consulting. Akin to an armies slow march towards the castle, a new technology is coming to dethrone the expert guessers of Mckinsey, Nielsen, Gartner, Publicis an [...]

Larian Studios is returning to the Divinity series with... Divinity

Larian Studios didn’t rest on its laurels for long. Two years after taking home the Game of the Year prize for Baldur’s Gate III at The Game Awards, the developer popped up again at the 2025 editi [...]

EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines

A new rule aims to speed up and streamline the permitting process. [...]

Cherokee Nation joins list of tribes banning data centers on tribal lands due to water, energy, noise, and cultural resource protection concerns — and all new projects require ‘early consultation’

Citizens of the Cherokee Nation are concerned about the impact of data centers on water, energy, noise, and cultural resource protection. [...]

Make Your Teen's Phone a Family Affair (Without Invading Their Privacy)

Even concerned parent Drew Barrymore is on board with HMD's vision for safe, but still cool Android phones for kids. [...]

Are your Android apps secretly sharing your location with advertisers? Some developers are accidentally leaving on this critical data-invading setting when using third-party SDKs

Some apps are gathering highly-localized location data and feeding it back to advertisers, data brokers, and even the military. [...]