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Tom Verlaine, co-founder of Television, which helped put New York club CBGB on the map in the 1970s and continues to influence ambitious rock bands today. (Kerstin Rodgers / Redferns) Tom Verlaine, the singer and guitarist who fronted the singular, ambitious and oblique New York band Television, with whom he made two of rock’s most acclaimed albums, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73. Verlaine’s death was confirmed to The Times by his former manager, John Telfer, who stated that it… Source link

BTS ARMY is feeling the love from Google. In honor of the ninth anniversary of the origin of BTS ARMY — the name of the K-pop superstars’ massive fanbase — on July 9, 2022, Google has launched a pair of new collabs with BTS. Starting Friday, fans who search for “BTS” on Google Search can unlock a secret Easter egg. On the search results page for BTS (on mobile or desktop), users can click on the purple heart icon that appears next to the BTS header on the upper left-hand… Source link

Hundreds of workers at Google parent Alphabet announced that they have formed a union, a rare move within Silicon Valley that is set to increase tensions between the tech giant and its employees. The group, which announced their plans with an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday, includes 226 of Alphabet’s more than 140,000 employees and is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America union. Alan Morales, a cyber liabilities engineer and union organiser, said the… Source link

Google has signed on five new developers to make exclusive titles for its Stadia cloud gaming service. Two of those five already have fully realized projects, with one ready for release. Developer Splash Damage, which developed the recent Microsoft exclusive Gears Tactics, is now making an online multiplayer game called Outcasters, while popular strategy and tower defense studio Robot Entertainment has its third installment in its Orcs Must Die! series arriving on Stadia today as part of… Source link