“Are bikes or e-bikes ever allowed to be ridden on the sidewalk?” Spoiler alert: no. I know I should like a grumpy old boomer, but a grown man shouldn’t be riding his bike on the sidewalk, and scaring my dog into live traffic. apple.news/AKnsRcabhQiSkN…

No drone shot, this year - but here’s one from a couple years ago! 🤩

Stop watching conspiracy theories form in real time and start making a healthy dinner for yourself or your family. Anything that you're gonna find out tonight will be more accurate and well-sourced tomorrow anyway.

X added a setting for "we'll take your data to train grok" without any notice and just defaulted to "yes" for everyone. This is BAD.

Am I misremembering or are the CBC Olympics commentators talking *way more* over the opening ceremonies than usual? Curious decision.

This is unacceptable, and surely it violates the EU’s data laws…

Loving the Assassin’s Creed vibes at the Paris opening ceremonies - I wasn’t quite sure, but it looks like it was definitely an intentional reference.

Timthetatman's hasn't gone live since this happened to end his last stream WoW

The Astros are reportedly acquiring LHP Yusei Kikuchi from the Blue Jays, per multiple reports, including MLB.com's Mark Feinsand.

Six new fidget designs, now based on the SNES, N64 and GameCube, have been added to the Controller Button Collection, available from Gacha machines at Nintendo stores in Japan.

NEW: Bloomberg says it has taken disciplinary action against a number of people involved in breaking the prisoner swap embargo last week, email here from EIC John Micklethwait

The Alan Wake 2 dev streams return next week with Principal Writer, Clay Murphy, and Lead Narrative Designer, Simon Wasselin, focusing on the writing and narrative of Alan Wake 2! The stream will air on August 15th at 4PM EET/2PM GMT on our Twitch and Youtube channels.

Some CEOs like to say remote/hybrid work is a disaster. The world’s largest study says that’s bollocks. My new column for Reuters reuters.com/business/four-…

New report on CDPR via Eurogamer: ▫️ Next game (Witcher 4) will be bigger and better than TW3 and Cyberpunk 2077 ▫️ Witcher 4 will likely release 1-2 years after full reveal ▫️ Lessons learned from Cyberpunk - "There's no magic. There's only hard work and making sure you stay on

The “video games are too woke now” crowd or anything remotely related to that discourse has to be the biggest losers on the planet

Vladdy Jr. just did "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!" 🤣