Moonshot: A Journey Home Blasts Into Apple Arcade's Orbit

Moonshot: A Journey Home, a new physics-based puzzle game, is now available to play onApple Arcade. Travel across the universe with a mix of slingshot gameplay and puzzle solving. Avoid black holes and aliens as you make a run at find your way back to Mother Earth. The game was created byMorsel Interactive, husband-and-wife developer duo Milan Cubic and Valentina Bregovic. Eventually the story of a curious moon wandering away from Earth emerged....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Brenda Lara

More Amazon warehouse workers in New York file for a union election

The NLRB didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Amazon faces multiple organizing efforts around the country. A separateunion election will kick offfor workers later this week at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The organizing drives at Amazon facilities come as union pushes pick up across the country. An REI store in New York is also looking at unionizing. NLRB officials have made findings that Amazon violated labor laws during union pushes....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 87 words · Stephanie Hernandez

More Women in Leadership Roles Ready to Ditch Jobs and Find Better Ones

In November 2021, 4.5 million people left their jobs, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s compared with 34% of male leaders). Women in senior roles aren’t the only ones placing importance on those factors. For companies, losing women in leadership roles and losing younger women exacerbates an already persistent problem. In short, companies don’t need more reasons to lose women. Only one in 10 said they’d prefer to work mostly on site....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · Stacey Cunningham

Mortal Kombat sequel with Marvel writer at helm gets the greenlight, says report

The film is in development with Jeremy Slater on board as the scriptwriter. Other famous fighters included Raiden, Jax, Mileena, Kano, Goro, and Liu Kang. But the tale brought things into the modern age and introduced a new hero in Cole Young. After all the bloody violence and death, audiences were left with acliff-hanger ending. It hinted that Johnny Cage would be next to enter the scene – and possibly a tournament....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Laura Freeman

Mortgage Fees Are Changing on May 1. What It Means for Homebuyers

Some changes are coming tomortgagesthis month that could decrease fees for newhomebuyerswithlow credit scores. The changes could result in lower fees for homebuyers who have credit scores under 700. Overall, borrowers with higher credit scores will still pay less. But the changes could mean less of a penalty for people who have a low credit score. What does this mean for new homebuyers? On a $250,000 loan, this equates to a savings of $1,250....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Lisa Jordan

Motorola adds three 5G Edge 20 phones to its lineup for international markets

But Motorola fans in the US are out of luck. The new devices are only arriving in international markets. The first5G phonesavailable in 2019cost significantly more than their 4G counterparts. Many have introduced mainstream devices alongside or shortly after pricier flagship models. And even new, premium models have seen steep discounts. “But we’re also bringing these incredible new features at more accessible price points.” The Edge 20 Lite will be available in two colors, electric graphite and cyber tea....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Angela Holmes

Mount Rainier Isn't Erupting, It's Just Wearing a Cloud Hat

Mount Rainier is a scenic jewel of a mountain in Washington state. It’s also an active stratovolcano that theUnited States Geological Survey sayshas a “very high” threat potential. But everything’s cool with Mount Rainier right now. A video showed a white steamlike plume emanating from the peak and lengthening. Clark put out a call to the National Park Service to chime in on what was happening. Rainier seems to be venting....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 111 words · Connie Sanders

MoviePass Returns Sept. 5 With $10 Starting Price, Beta Waitlist Opens Thursday

MoviePass is relaunching in beta on Sept. 5. The service is now returning with a credit-based system starting at $10. MoviePassis relaunching as acredit-based movie theater subscription serviceon Labor Day, with prices starting at $10. ET(6 a.m. PT) on the MoviePass website. The waitlist will run on a first-come, first served basis and is free to sign up. Spikes first launched MoviePass in 2011 with Hamet Witt. The service went through several initial iterations, including a $50 per month subscription for unlimited movies....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 110 words · Douglas Wright

MoviePass Waitlist Is Open, but 'Overwhelming' Demand Is Crashing Its Servers

ThoughMoviePassis set to officially relaunch on Labor Day, thewaitlistfor the once popular subscription service has already opened. The provider is working to increase capacity to meet demand. Thanks your your patience. We will give an update soon. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for additional comment. MoviePass originally launched in 2011 and tried out various subscription models. The plan brought in thousands of customers but also burned through the company’s money....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 123 words · Steven Sanchez

Mozilla levels up its browser gaming plan

Mozilla is touting the advances in ASM.js processing speed as rapid. Improvements in the past year have brought ASM.js to around two-thirds the speed of native code. “Games are a good test case because they require more processing,” he said. Unreal Engine 3 has powered some of the most powerful and most popular games around. “Unreal Engine 4 has been re-architected for the next generation of games. One-quarter of them came stayed on the Web version....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · Sandra Irwin

Music Streaming Services Are Getting Record Amounts of Money

Paid subscriptions for music streaming services, likeSpotifyandApple Music, brought in over $11 billion in revenue. Subscriptions are at an all-time high, up 5.7% in 2023 to almost 97 million. Limited-tier subscriptions (like Amazon Prime and Pandora Plus) made $1 billion. CNET namedSpotify the best streaming servicefor 2024 due to its rich mix of features and best-in-class free tier. ButApple Musicis close behind, and other contenders includeYouTube Music,Tidaland audiophile-favoriteQobuz. At its peak in 2012, digital downloads accounted for 43% of recording industry revenue....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 103 words · Bonnie Harris

Musk Floats DOGE Stimulus Checks Proposal, but Will It Actually Happen?

“Will check with the President,“Musk wrote. For all the info we have on this stimulus proposal, read on. What is DOGE and what does it do? Musk initially said the goal of this effort was to cut around $2 trillion in spending. Critics have argued that the real intention of DOGE is not to cut spending but rather toconsolidate powerandcreate chaos. Why is the proposed stimulus $5,000? DOGE’s website now claims to have saved $55 billion, but the math on this hasbeen challenged....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Brittany Sanchez

Musk Says Tesla Robotaxi Service Could Debut in 2025, but Questions Remain

Tesla is already testing the robotaxi service among employees in the San Francisco Bay Area, Musk said. Eventually that will no longer be the case, he said. It charges via induction and uses AI to navigate roads. Musk said a robotaxi service would be a profound shift in Tesla’s identity. “It will be very exciting,” he said. “It’s really a profound change. Tesla becomes more than a sort of vehicle and battery company at that point....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 90 words · Philip Dean