Electronic Arts (EA) announced the closure of BioWare on October 21, 2026, ending the 31-year history of the studio responsible for the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises. The move comes as part of a significant corporate restructuring following EA’s transition to a private company earlier this year. As a direct consequence of the closure,…
The shift towards remote and hybrid working has made a dedicated garden office an increasingly attractive option. Many professionals want to avoid daily commuting and establish a clearer separation between their home and work lives. This raises an important question: is a garden office worth the investment? A garden office can represent a considerable expense,…
WAN-IFRA has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Anna University, Chennai, India, to transfer its IGT Printability Tester to the university’s Department of Printing and Packaging Technology at the College of Engineering Guindy (CEG). The agreement covers the transfer of the equipment and the technical knowledge required to operate it. The agreement also leaves…
Chris and Alex are talking this week about CodePen’s biggest release since the 2.0 drop. It’s live! We’ll be working on CodePen AI forever, since it’s a fast-changing technology that regularly adds new abilities. That sounds like a trite thing to say, but we lived it as we were building this. We started out playing…
As the US-Iran war drags on, the damage is being felt regionally: Saudi Arabia experienced the worst attack in over a decade earlier this month, when Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia struck an airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The strike killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 300 others. Saudi Arabia responded with…
As Uber slashes corporate headcount, the cuts hint at how companies could finance an automated future. When a highly profitable, fast-growing company decides to cut a tenth of its workforce, you must look beyond its formal statements. Uber Technologies’ recent move to run through three rounds of layoffs—cutting 10% of its global corporate team, or…
The economic landscape of professional wrestling has undergone a fundamental shift under the TKO Group Holdings era, according to top star Cody Rhodes. Speaking on the Flagrant podcast with Andrew Schulz, Rhodes detailed a new compensation structure where elite WWE talent now commands salaries comparable to those found in major professional sports leagues like the…
Treasury estimates that Australia’s capital gains tax and negative-gearing reforms will add an average A$88.4 million a year in regulatory costs. For investors, one practical challenge will be establishing what their assets were worth when the new capital gains rules began. The change itself has been settled since the May budget. Starting in July 2027,…
Design systems thrive on consistency, so where does randomness fit in? Through playful demos of organic typography, bouncing letters, and splayed cards, Brecht De Ruyte shows how the new CSS random() function brings a little imperfection to the web without JavaScript libraries or preprocessor loops that generate hundreds of lines of static CSS. In design,…
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