Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
Masayuki Uemura was the lead architect for the Famicom (aka the Nintendo Entertainment System) and the Super Famicon (aka the SNES). The mark he left on the gaming industry and popular culture is indelible. According to Oricon News, Uemura passed awa.....»»
Creator economy’s slow burn
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s rigamarole of news. Alex took some we.....»»
Leo Levine, former Mercedes public relations chief in N.A., dies at 90
Levine was a journalist and a book author, an automotive historian with an encyclopedic memory......»»
Pinterest announces $500K Creator Fund, ‘Creator Code’ content policy, moderation tools and more
Pinterest today hosted an event focused on its creator community, where the company announced a series of updates including the launch of a $500,000 Creator Fund, a new content policy called the Creator Code, as well as new moderation tools, among ot.....»»
Patreon triples valuation to $4 billion in new raise
Patreon has tripled its valuation to $4 billion in a $155 million funding round led by Tiger Global, the company confirmed to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The creator economy platform, which allows artists to be directly funded by their fans.....»»
Pretty Little Thing ad by TikTok creator house banned
The post on TikTok failed to make clear it was a marketing communication, a watchdog said......»»
Mississippi dealer George Carr, 65, dies of COVID-19
He owned George Carr Buick-Cadillac-GMC in Vicksburg for more than 30 years......»»
Node.js Rival Deno Gets Seed Capital For Full-time Deno Engineers
"The creators of Deno have formed the Deno Company, a business venture around the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and rival to Node.js," reports InfoWorld: In a bulletin on March 29, Deno creator Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, both of whom also led the dev.....»»
April, the giraffe that became an online star, dies
April, the giraffe that became a sensation when a rural New York zoo livestreamed her 2017 pregnancy and delivery, was euthanized Friday because of advancing arthritis, the zoo said......»»
Almost Third of UK Covid Hospital Patients Readmitted Within Four Months
Nearly a third of people who have been in hospital suffering from Covid-19 are readmitted for further treatment within four months of being discharged, and one in eight of patients dies in the same period, doctors have found. From a report: The strik.....»»
Isamu Akasaki, Inventor of First Efficient Blue LED, Dies At 92
Physicist Isamu Akasaki, a co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the world's first efficient blue light-emitting diodes, has died, Meijo University said Friday. He was 92. The Japan Times reports: Akasaki, born in Kagoshima Prefe.....»»
Manticore Games raises $100 million to build a ‘creator multiverse’
The gaming sector has never been hotter or had higher expectations from investors who are dumping billions into upstarts that can adjust to shifting tides faster that the existing giants will. Bay Area-based Manticore Games is one of the second-layer.....»»
LinkedIn adds Creator mode, video profiles, and in partnership with Microsoft, new career training tools
LinkedIn, the social network now with 740 million users around the world, has carved out an identity for itself as the place online where professionals go to list their places of work, get headhunted for other work, and look for work. But for years i.....»»
Richard Stallman"s Return Denounced by the EFF, Tor Project, Mozilla, and the Creator of Rust
Sunday IT Wire counted up the number of signatories on two open letters, one opposing Richard Stallman's return to the FSF and one supporting it. - The pro-Stallman letter had 3,632 individual signers - The anti-Stallman letter had 2,812 individual.....»»
Mario ‘dies’ next week: Here are the games leaving the Switch on March 31
Nintendo's 35th anniversary Mario party ends on March 31 and several games are leaving stores as a result......»»
Early investors in Dispo to donate any potential profits from the photo-sharing app
After Spark Capital announced it would ‘sever all ties’ with Dispo following allegations around co-creator and famous YouTuber David Dobrik, two of the app’s earliest investors have similarly backed away from the company. Seven Seve.....»»
HP’s creator-focused Envy x360 15 and Envy 17 have OLED screens, AMD processors
HP has updated two of its creator-focused laptop series, the Envy x360 15 and Envy 17, with the latest Intel and AMD chips......»»
"Design titan" Zeev Aram dies aged 89
Furniture and interior designer Zeev Aram, who promoted numerous modernist and emerging designers at London's Aram Store, has passed away at the age of 89. Read more Furniture and interior designer Zeev Aram, who promoted numerous modernist.....»»
The best console emulators (NES, SNES, Genesis, and more)
Short of buying every console ever released, the only way to play games from the past is with emulators......»»
Science behind Pfizer vaccine can be used to give people cancer jabs "within a couple of years"
The co-creator of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine has said the technology behind it could soon be used to fight cancer too......»»
The best SNES emulators for 2021
These programs make it easy to relive the best moments in gaming from a bygone era. Better yet, most are free!.....»»