Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta will lay off another 10,000 employees as it struggles to cope with the "new economic reality", which includes higher interest rates, geopolitical instability and increased regulation. The cuts are part of the "Year of Efficiency" as Zuckerberg has called it. Over the next few months, Meta will be undergoing "a restructuring focused on bringing organisations together, cancelling lower-priority projects and reducing hiring levels". Technical teams will be cut in April, and business teams in May.
Yesterday, 14 March, insider OnLeaks shared renders of the flagship Pixel 8 Pro, and today published images of the base model.
Riot Games has released the patch notes for Valorant update 6.05. These are mainly bug and error fixes for the new Geeko agent.
Xiaomi earlier this year began updating the Xiaomi Pad 5 tablet in China to MIUI 14. The firmware has now been released for global market devices.
The next major Growing Together update for The Sims 4 is coming this Thursday, 16 March at 19:00 EEC, as EA announced last month. The expansion will be available on both PC and consoles.
Nothing continues to improve Phone (1) with a new system update for the device.
Everything that the world was not supposed to see before the game's release.
We've written more than once that Google is working on two new devices: the Pixel Fold and the Pixel 7a. Now an insider has revealed the release dates and prices of the new devices in Europe.
Realme unveiled the realme GT Neo 5 smartphone in early February and is now preparing a simplified version.
We wrote that the US Air Force has requested $911m to develop a nuclear cruise missile. The service also wants $384 million next year to develop an airborne hypersonic missile.
Three US companies continue to work on a new missile for the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter. It is called Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW).
Professor Layton returns to Nintendo consoles in the new Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, and judging by the trailer released by Level 5, his faithful assistant Luke Triton is also back:
And that's not a record!
The darkest dark fantasy of all time, Raid: Shadow Legends, is returning to the gaming space in an unexpected format - in the form of an animated show.
A fundraising campaign for Rogue Lite, a board game based on Dead Cells, will soon be launched on Kickstarter.
