The world tuned in on Tuesday to watch Apple CEO Tim Cook unveil the company’s latest technological advancement, the M1 chipset, as well as the brand new devices that will be running on it. But that was far from all the news from last week, here are some of the top headlines.
US gamers can’t get enough of the Nintendo Switch! More than a decade after hitting store shelves nearly three quarters of a million units of the portable gaming system sold in October, the second highest monthly sales total since November, 2008.
Looks like Twitter is finally getting serious about the spread of political misinformation on its platform... well, serious by Twitter’s standards at least. The company announced last week that it had flagged some 300,000 posts during the run-up to this month’s presidential elections — a whopping 0.2 percent of the overall messages posted during that period.
This is sure to turn out well. In our security-obsessed nation where everybody and their cousins are installing networked home security systems and purchasing firearms “for home defense,” we’re going to make a bunch of overworked, underpaid delivery drivers entering random people’s houses with armfuls of shipping boxes. Right.
Sure BMW’s new flagship eSUV doesn’t have the most horsepower in its class, or the fastest acceleration or even the longest range. But what it does have that its competition doesn’t is a fake front grille that makes the entire front end of the vehicle look like a surprised beaver.
The powerhouse distributor behind Rockstar Games and 2K is apparently getting into the autoracing scene. The company announced on Tuesday that it plans to drop almost a billion dollars to purchase Oxforshire-based Codemasters, the company that created F1, Dirt, and the upcoming World Rally Championship series.
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