36. "Street Fighter IV" (2009) — PlayStation 3 Capcom Metacritic score: 94 "This is an excellent return to form for a series (and genre) many had written off as dead." — Wired 35. "Madden NFL 2004" (2003) — PlayStation 2 EA Sports Metacritic score: 94 "Adding a mind-boggling level of depth is the Owner Mode, which lets you negotiate salaries, build a stadium, and — for the detail obsessed — even set prices at the concession stands." — Entertainment ...read more

Mycel, a South Korean startup making fungal-based biomaterials that can replace leather and meat, said it has raised $10 million (13 billion WON) in a pre-Series A round of funding. Co-founder and CEO of Mycel Sungjin Sah told TechCrunch that the company uses mycelium, a root-like structure of mushroom, to make leather substitutes that can be used in car seats and luxury cosmetic products, and fashion products like shoes, clothes and bags. Mycel is in talks with global cosmetic brands to ...read more

The big picture: Mercedes-Benz in 1996 created a concept vehicle to highlight innovations in passenger car design, control and comfort. Looking back on it more than 25 years later, the stylish coupe implemented a number of forward-thinking ideas that are only recently starting to find their way into production vehicles. The 2-door coupe featured a unique control system that replaced the steering wheel and gas / brake pedals with joysticks. There's a dual stick in the center as well as individ ...read more

Elon Musk's SpaceX said it encourages researchers to hack Starlink in a non-disruptive way. If researchers submit findings through SpaceX's bug bounty program, they could be paid up to $25,000. SpaceX says responsible researchers are welcome to hack into its satellite internet network, Starlink. It added that it could pay them up to $25,000 for discovering certain bugs in the service. The announcement came after security researcher Lennert Wouters said last week he was able to hack into St ...read more

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It's not just about Disney beating Netflix The Walt Disney Company announced better-than-expected results last week when it unveiled its earnings for the second quarter of 2022 (the company’s third fiscal quarter.) The data point that caught the most attention? That total Disney DTC subscriptions — including Disney+, but also Hulu and ESPN+ — reached 221.1 million. Many headlines subsequently focused on Disney’s overall streaming subscription tally now being higher than Netflix ...read more

What just happened? Elon Musk says that Tesla has now produced over 3 million vehicles, one million of which came from the company's Shanghai factory. The tweet comes just over two months after Tesla recorded its first sequential decline in vehicle deliveries for more than two years due to the Covid shutdowns in China. "Congrats Giga Shanghai on making millionth car! Total Teslas made now over 3M" Musk tweeted yesterday, alongside a photo of plant workers celebrating hitting the milestone. It ...read more

Goodbye Peloton, hello working out in the metaverse: I ran on the moon on a VR treadmill and now I'm convinced it's the future of the fitness industry. Brittany Chang/Insider Let me explain. Brittany Chang/Insider Roam149 is one of the latest gyms to open in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. Brittany Chang/Insider Inside, there's a wall lined with gear like weights, Bosus, and a squat rack. Brittany Chang/Insider O ...read more

Microsoft admitted for the first time that Sony's PS4 outsold its Xbox One by twice as much. Sony seems to be winning the sales race against Microsoft with the new generation of consoles, too. Microsoft finally acknowledged for the first time what many have already known for years: that Sony's PlayStation 4 drastically outsold its Xbox One. In court documents in Brazil, Microsoft admitted that the PS4 sold "twice as many" units as the Xbox One. "Sony has surpassed Microsoft in terms of con ...read more

from the the-check-is-coming-due-for-apathy dept Mon, Aug 15th 2022 06:29am - Karl Bode For decades now, privacy advocates warned we were creating a dystopia through our rampant over-collection and monetization of consumer data. And just as often, those concerns were greeted with calls of “consumers don’t actually care about privacy” from overly confident white guys in tech. just thinking today about how the people who have spent the past decade-plus insisting "no one really care ...read more