A look at the use of AI to design and test games, such as to tune difficulty, find world geometry flaws, and sniff out situations that make it impossible to win (Matthew Smith/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Experts weigh in on Meta's impending decision to lift Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram ban; source: the announcement will be made later than January 7 (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Google has agreed to pay $29.5M to settle lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over location tracking practices, after agreeing to pay ~$392M to 40 US states (Jared Gans/The Hill) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

First pretrial hearing in the FTC's case against Microsoft's $69B bid to take over Activision Blizzard set for January 3, 2023 (Alexandra Alper/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

A look at ABBA Voyage, the hit London concert performed by 3D digital avatars of the band created from motion capture, as its producers plan a global expansion (Jenni Reid/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Leaked screener copies of big movies tend to surface at year's end, but didn't in 2022, probably due to more security, streaming, and shorter release windows (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (Ryan Broderick/Polygon) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M (Nathan Crooks/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:42 Rating: 5