#12 Daily Tech: EA Sports officially ends FIFA partnership

EA Sports officially ends FIFA partnership after 30 years of games

EA Sports announced today that the soccer title it publishes in 2023 would be part of the new EA Sports FC brand, doing away with the FIFA name the series has used since the days of the Sega Genesis and Super NES. The announcement marks a significant break for one of the oldest and most popular continuous franchises in video game history.

Google’s biggest announcements at I/O 2022

At its I/O event on Wednesday, Google showed off the Pixel 6A, a Pixel Watch, a new set of earbuds, and threw in brief teasers for the upcoming Pixel 7, and a tablet it will release next year.

SEC investigates Elon Musk's Twitter stake disclosure: report

Elon Musk potentially saved $143 million by filing a late disclosure, an accounting professor told The Wall Street Journal.

Bay Area startup offers $800-a-month bunk bed 'pods' in shared home

For $800 a month you could live in a tiny bunk bed-style pod with 13 other roommates in the Bay Area. Blackout curtains are provided at the end of each pod for privacy.

I Miss Heroku's DevEx

If you've never really experienced it before, it's gonna sound really weird. Basically the main way that Heroku worked is that they would set up a git remote for each "app" it hosted. Each "app" had its source code in a git repo and a "Procfile" that told Heroku what to do with it. So when it came time to deploy that app, you'd just git push heroku main and then Heroku would just go off and build that app and run it somewhere in the cloud. You got back a HTTPS URL and then bam you have a website.

The real reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1

A lot of history in computing is being lost. Stuff that was mainstream, common knowledge early in my career is largely forgotten now.

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