Tue. 02/27 – Gaming Continues To Be A Bloodbath

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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If you can believe it, MOAR layoffs in gaming. Big layoffs at Sony. We might see Meta’s first AR glasses later this year. The big hack affecting US pharmacies. Hopin enters the Deadpool. And yet another startup takes at swing at the delayed gratification gimmick for social media. Sponsors: Hims.com/ride Links: Sony is laying off 900 PlayStation employees (The Verge) Microsoft’s Mistral AI Investment to Be Examined by EU Watchdog (Bloomberg) Meta aims to reveal and demo Orion, its first true AR glasses, during its fall developer conference (Business Insider) US pharmacy outage triggered by 'Blackcat' ransomware at UnitedHealth unit, sources say (Reuters) Netflix confirms it’s cutting off Apple billing for legacy subscribers (The Verge) Hopin's UK business enters liquidation as it transfers HQ to the US (Sifted) The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of online speech (The Verge) Supreme Court Fears ‘Land Mines’ in Social Media Debate Over Free Speech (Bloomberg) Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, February 27th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	If you can believe it, more layoffs in gaming, big layoffs at Sony. We might see Meta's first AR glasses later
0:15.8	this year, the big hack affecting US pharmacies, Hopin enters the Deadpool, and yet another
0:21.2	startup takes a swing at delayed gratification gimmicks for social media.
0:25.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	Another day, another one of these sad announces, Sony plans to lay off around 900 employees
0:39.3	or 8% of its workforce at its Sony PlayStation Division.
0:44.7	They're also going to close the London studio for PlayStation in the UK.
0:49.2	Sony says these layoffs will impact
0:50.8	game makers Insomniac, Noddy Dog, and Gorilla,
0:54.0	three of its most successful subsidiaries as well.
0:57.0	So, the employment situation in games continues to be a bloodbath,
1:02.0	quoting the verge.
1:03.4	Several PlayStation studios are affected,
1:05.5	with Sony closing its London studio in the UK
1:07.7	which developed PlayStation VR games.
1:10.1	Sony's Fire Sprite Studio, which is also impacted, is the British studio behind PlayStation VR's Horizon Call of the Mountain game.
1:17.0	Sony revealed last week that it's working on PSVIR2 support for PC.
1:22.0	In a separate note, Hermann Holst had... PSVieur to support for PC.
1:22.5	In a separate note, Hermann Holst, head of PlayStation Studios,
1:27.4	confirmed U.S. based studios like Insomniac Games and Noddy Dogg,
1:30.3	are also affected alongside Sony's Gorilla Studio based in the Netherlands.
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