In big blow, Facebook set to get sued over biased ad algorithms

Update: It's the second day of the Big Deal Days sale, which means new deals are live and ready to be snapped up. Check out the best PlayStation offerings below!

Following confirmation of Microsoft’s buyout of Activision Blizzard, controversial CEO Bobby Kotick has confirmed he will remain boss of the Call of Duty maker only until the end of 2023.

A dispute between Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard and the makers of Chinese strategy game Myth of Empires has come to a happy ending, as all parties involved say they're now going to work together to «re-release» Myth of Empires on Steam and other platforms in early 2024.

It was another interesting day in the artificial intelligence space with areas such as regulation, healthcare, and big tech witnessing some big developments. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, in an interview, highlighted that the US government should hold big tech companies accountable for any harm caused by the technology. In other news, China is gearing up to increase its AI and computing capabilities at an exponential rate. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.

Microsoft Corp. has “fundamentally altered” its combat goggles, changing them from a bulky helmet to a streamlined flip-up visor to improve the prospect that soldiers will embrace the $22 billion project, according to the Army's chief weapons buyer. “The technology might have worked perfectly, but I'd still had worries before about the ‘form-factor' and way soldiers wore them,” Assistant Army Secretary Doug Bush said in an interview.

For most of us, Amazon's Prime Big Deals Days event is a prime day to pick up bargains. But for lots of unscrupulous people, it's also a prime day to profit from scams. Thieves come out of the woodwork to capitalize on big online shopping events like this, so before you dive in to all the deals this year, you should take some extra precautions to avoid getting duped. Here's what we recommend:

After months of anticipation, Google finally took the wraps off its Pixel 8 series at the Made by Google 2023 event on Wednesday, October 4. It is Google's latest entry into the smartphone race, and perhaps a late one, with the aim to offer the best smartphone in the market - a race that is joined by several competing brands such as Apple with its iPhone 15, and Samsung with its Galaxy S23 series.

Elon Musk is not above lobbing insults at random strangers on the internet, but his summertime effort at "citizen journalism" has now resulted in him being sued for incorrectly suggesting that a 22-year-old college student was associated with a neo-Nazi extremist group.

Amazon Prime Big Day Deals is right around the corner and the online retail giant is giving up to $30 in credit to people who perform a few simple tasks.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is prepping a mid-week wake-up call with a test of its Emergency Alert Systems.

Fountain, a provider of hiring automation software for frontline workforces, considers India as one of the "big hubs" in this space, a top company official said. The company is present in the US, UK, France, Germany as well as in South Africa, India, New Zealand and a few other countries. "The big hubs are India, UK and France," Founder and CEO of the company Sean Behr told PTI. "Fountain focuses exclusively on the blue collar and gray collar workforce. A vast majority of people ... don't ...do PowerPoint or Excel, they do things on the frontlines of our economy," Behr said, adding that hiring and retaining workers in the blue and grey collar economy has never been more difficult.

Cyberpunk 2077 game director Gabe Amatangelo has confirmed that the studio isn’t planning any more big updates for the title.