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Antonio Garcia Martinez is no longer working for Apple, hours after employees circulated a petition calling for an investigation into his hiring. Martinez, a former Facebook product manager on the ad targeting team, is the author of a controversial book on Silicon Valley that expresses misogynistic views on women. “We are deeply concerned about the recent hiring of Antonio Garcia …

In the ongoing lawsuit between Apple and Epic Games, the two companies this week called on their experts to argue their points before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers, who will rule on the case after a three-week trial. The expert testimony is not as exciting as some leaked App Store documents that were highlighted last week, especially after much of what …

The security researcher who discovered the Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability found many other flaws in the wireless protocol that most of us use to power our online lives (through Gizmodo). The vulnerabilities are related to the way Wi-Fi handles large pieces of data, some related to the Wi-Fi standard itself, and others related to the way this is implemented by device …

The next batch of Motorola devices may include a new capability for remote wireless charging. Photo: Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo Not everyone was a host, but Motorola is known for taking risks. The company has repeatedly shown that it is not afraid to rely on new technologies, since the recent phasing out Moto Mods back to the first thin wafer …

A startup star who wrote in her memoirs that “Most women in the Gulf region are soft and thin” is Apple’s new advertising director, and women in the Bay Area who work at Apple would like a word. On Monday, the press of the technical industry usually had brilliant remarks when Apple awarded a scholarship to Facebook Antonio Garcia Martinez …

Fans of Destiny 2 were looking forward to cross-game support and it arrived months before the schedule … something like. The Video Games Chronicle reports that the arrival of cross-game support is actually a technical coincidence. Bungie Cozmo, the community’s general manager, tweeted on Wednesday, telling players to participate until they deactivate the feature later this week. “We are seeing …

One of the most impressive aspects of Grand Theft Auto V is How close the game’s San Andreas is to the real life of Los Angeles and Southern California, but a new Intel Labs machine learning project called “Improving Photorealism Enhancement” could take that realism in an alarming photorealistic direction (through Gizmodo). Running the game through the processes created by …

Are Steam games coming on consoles? – IGN Daily Fix IGN Valve’s Gabe Newell hints at vague plans for upcoming consoles “this year” Ars Technica Valve head Gabe Newell hints at upcoming console news Tom’s hardware Gabe Newell hints at Steam Games Coming to Consoles – IGN IGN Is Steam coming on Xbox and PS5? TheGamer See full coverage in …

Target decided that was enough: the company officially confirmed Bleeding cool that it will suspend sales of Pokémon cards in the United States starting Friday, May 14. Cities retailers “plenty of attention” to the safety of both guests and store employees, and notes that they will still sell the cards on their site. At the moment, Pokémon cards (and other …

Credit: David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images. In the photo: Purpose May 12, 2021, 7:16 PM EDT When COVID-19 closed hobby stores, large retailers became a major distributor of trading cards. But as the stakes rose and the fins and breakers made big profits, the buying lines lengthened and the rules tightened. On Wednesday, days after a Target …