The Biggest Losers in Tech in 2024
Welcome to 2025 Wave goodbye to the past with the biggest losers in tech. Picking our favorite villains in 2024 it was challenging when it just wasn’t a great time for technology. With the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-you-or-won’t-you dance of the US TikTok ban and endless edited and deeply faked content is just so loud. Is the internet scum? Is it exhaustion? Is AI talking to AI about AI? In between all that, there’s the obsolescence of past connectors, Intel’s major struggles to turn its fortunes around, and, ugh, those AI assistants.
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Tintin dances to Rhapsody in Blue.
It’s the start of a new year and a new crop of creative works have entered the public domain. Today, many materials copyrighted in 1929 and sound recordings from 1924. become fair game for free adaptation, reuse, copying and sharing. Several groundbreaking filmmakers debuted their first projects with sound, such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail and Cecil B. Demil Dynamite. 1929 was also the year Walt Disney directed the iconic short Dance of the Skeletons, animated by Ub IWorks, and when Mickey Mouse starred in his first talkie.
Two games from a decade ago and a critical failure.
Sony has just revealed the first set of PlayStation Plus games in 2025, available to all subscribers. This month includes Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Need for Speed ​​​​Hot Pursuit Remastered and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. Suicide Squad is a surprising addition: it went through numerous delays, received largely negative reviews, and reportedly cost Warner Bros. around $200 million. The developers have announced that the current season of content will be the last, although there are no plans to stop the game just yet. So play while… you can?
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