Engadget : Business, Style

Nintendo has set the date for its second US store to set up shop. Following the announcement last year, Nintendo's brick and mortar location in San Francisco will open its doors on May 15. The opening is happening almost exactly two decades after Nintendo launched its first US store, which is in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza.

Engadget : Business, Environment

Jeff and Annie Strain, the owners of publisher Prytania Media, are suing NetEase over claims of "defamation, unfair trade practices and interference with business relations," Polygon reports.

Engadget : Business, Style, Technology

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday it's creating a new Council for National Security within the agency. The FCC's announcement doesn't go into much detail about what the group will do, but a list of its broader goals focuses on US competition with China, including in AI and other tech sectors.

The FCC's statement on the Council for National Security says its three-part agenda includes:

Engadget : Business

Samsung is changing its revenue-sharing policy and reducing its cut for certain apps so that developers and publishers can get more money from sales. As part of its announcements ahead of this year's upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC), the company said that it's implementing an 80/20 revenue share model for games on the Galaxy Store. Previously, Samsung had a 70/30 sharing model, wherein it took 30 percent of an app's revenue.

Engadget : Business, Style, Technology

I went to CES with Engadget for the first time this year and, among the robots, laptops, TVs and more robots, the most exciting products I saw were ones trying to make our homes more eco-friendly in the most low-effort ways possible.

Mashable : Business
a phone with the deepseek logo in front of a screen with the chatgpt logo

OpenAI alleged Wednesday that DeepSeek — its newly ascendant Chinese competitor in the AI space

Mashable : Business, Politics
Clouds pass over the Capitol Dome

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump dangled a "buyout" offer in front of 2 million federal workers, encouraging them to resign en masse.

Mashable : Business, Style
MSO Pro 2021 and Windows 11 Pro

TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2021 and Windows 11 Pro for $54.97 through Feb.