Welcome to the very last issue of The Exchange! With TechCrunch+ sunsetting this month, The Exchange column and its newsletter are also coming to an end. Thank you for reading, emailing, tweeting, and hanging out with us for so many years. P.S. A special thanks from myself to Anna, who was nothing short of a [...]read moreWith liquidity rare, VCs may get creative to return investor cash
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Making history as the award show’s first-ever host in 2018, the Good Place star certainly didn’t disappoint with her first outfit of the night. Bell wowed in a bright pink princess gown by J. Mendel, topping off the delicate, embroidered piece with jewels from Lorraine Schwartz and Platinum Jewelry, a box clutch and soft makeup. [...]read moreBest SAG Awards Looks of All Time
Stellantis, the automaker that owns 14 brands including Chrysler, Jeep and Ram, and autonomous vehicle technology company Waymo are not only still working together, the companies are deepening the partnership, CEO Carlos Tavares told TechCrunch in a recent interview. This “deepened” partnership will focus on commercial self-driving Ram delivery vans, a target that was first [...]read moreStellantis CEO says there’s still life in Waymo deal for self-driving delivery vans
Screenshot: Arrowhead Games / Kotaku A random player and I are surrounded by giant, alien bugs who want to rip out our guts and eat our bones. We are trying to destroy their nest, which lies in a rocky crater on some backwater alien planet. Low on ammo, out of health items, [...]read moreHow To Take Down Chargers, Striders, And More
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening has been a Nintendo classic for so long that it’s easy to forget how weird it felt when it dropped for the Game Boy in 1993. Originally conceived as a straightforward port of the Super Nintendo’s A Link to the Past — which itself had been a return to [...]read moreThe direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda
Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of Helldivers 2, including the Liberator Assault Rifle, the Punisher shotgun, and a particularly danger close use of the SEAF artillery. By Dave Jewitt and Adam Mason on February 24, 2024 at 7:00AM PST Source link
Receiving Station H is an electrical substation overseen by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Its purpose: changing the voltage of incoming currents and sending them out toward LA’s Miracle Mile and other destinations. Its admirer: the American filmmaker David Lynch, who visited its location in the ’90s, raised his camera, and clicked. [...]read moreDavid Lynch’s presence has been haunting video games for decades
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Google paused its AI chatbot Gemini’s [...]read moreThis Week in AI: Addressing racism in AI image generators
Image: Gearbox / 2K, Aspyr / Lucasfilm, Marvel Studios, Bethesda / Kotaku, Photo: Michael Tran / AFP (Getty Images), Screenshot: Disney / Kotaku, Microsoft, FromSoftware / Bandai Namco / Kotaku, Frost Giant / YouTube / Kotaku, Illustration: Atlus As yet another week passes, we get more proof that 2024 is shaping up [...]read moreBorderlands Movie Nintendo Direct & More Big News This Week
With the ability to stream to practically anything, the Victrola Sapphire is shaping up to be the last turntable you’ll need. It’s not available yet, though, and not everyone will want to spend $1,500 for the privilege of owning one. The Sonos-ready Stream Onyx, while not as ubiquitous, is the cheapest model that will let [...]read moreVictrola’s Sonos-ready turntable is down to an unbeatable price