John Romero’s ‘Doom’ Memoir Drops You Into Id’s Early Days Richmond GreggAugust 17, 20230128 views John Romero, cocreator of the popular first-person shooters Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D is one of the video game industry’s best known designers. In his new book, Doom Guy: Life in First… Read more
Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Are Still Going Strong Richmond GreggAugust 17, 20230133 views Ian Livingstone is the cofounder of Games Workshop, the legendary UK game company behind Warhammer 40,000. In his new book Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop, Livingstone recounts… Read more
San Francisco presses CPUC to halt Waymo, Cruise robotaxi expansions Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230128 views California regulators gave Waymo and Cruise the OK last week to scale up their robotaxi services in San Francisco, but now it seems the city itself won’t have it. On… Read more
Ford aims to secure battery material supply with new Canada facility Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230346 views Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The CAD $1.2 billion (USD $890 million) joint… Read more
Back to school: The best apps for students Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230628 views Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also means that they’re probably on the… Read more
6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down rounds and what’s ahead Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230151 views At the height of the funding boom in 2021, no single sector enjoyed as much VC money as fintech startups did. But in 2023, it appears that fintech companies have… Read more
Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230151 views As evidenced by the slow death of Cortana, it’s clear that the AI assistants of yesteryear aren’t meeting expectations. And so they’re being remade. Amazon is building a new large… Read more
Bitcoin spot ETFs heat up, SBF’s bail revoked and web3 gaming adoption grows in Asia Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230149 views Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. The… Read more
@Jack (Dorsey) quits Instagram, putting the first-name handle up for grabs Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230140 views The @jack handle on Instagram is back up for grabs. Today, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, now Block CEO, announced he has deleted his Instagram account — the… Read more
Cruise and Waymo see a surge in robotaxi app downloads Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230133 views Consumer interest in Cruise and Waymo’s competing robotaxi services surged following a vote last week by the California Public Utilities Commission that allowed the two companies to expand and charge… Read more