Layoffs at Microsoft’s gaming division. 19,000 employees at “activision blizzard” and Xbox are losing their jobs. That’s about 9%t of Microsoft’s gaming operation. The cuts come three months after Microsoft acquired activision blizzard, for $69 billion.

Apple is out with a new set of emojis as part of its first IOS 17.4 beta update. They include a phoenix on fire, a lime, a mushroom, and smileys shaking their heads up and down.

NASA’s “little helicopter that could” no longer can. The “ingenuity” chopper has been on mars for three years. but NASA says “ingenuity” suffered rotor blade damage on its most recent flight. It will be left behind, while the rover moves along.