Snowflake grows startup accelerator with $200M in new capital

Snowflake plans to expand its startup accelerator with $200 million in additional commitments, the tech giant that specializes in cloud-based data storage said Thursday. The new injection of capital follows a string of activity by Snowflake over the past several months that illustrates that company’s growth ambitions. The Snowflake Startup Accelerator, formerly known as the…

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Forza Horizon 5 careens onto PS5 on April 29

Forza Horizon 5 is officially coming to the PS5 on April 29. We knew the racing sim was going multiplatform, and now we have a legit date when players will be able to race around a digital replica of Mexico.  This version does have cross-play support, which has already been a boon for Xbox and…

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EA releases source code for four Command & Conquer games

Video game preservation scored a win today with EA’s decision to make four Command & Conquer games open source. The company has released the source code for Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer: Renegade and Command & Conquer: Generals through a GPL license. All four projects are available to the…

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Apple outlines upcoming changes to child safety and age assurance

Macworld In a new white paper on Apple’s developer site (PDF link), Apple has outlined several big changes coming this year designed to help parents and developers produce a safer environment for kids when using Apple products. No timeline is given for when these features will arrive—some already appear to be in the iOS 18.4…

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Streamlining AMI creation with EC2 Image Builder components in AWS Marketplace

This post is written by Smriti Ohri, Senior Product Manager, EC2 and Omar Chehab, Senior Product Manager, AWS Marketplace. At re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of third-party EC2 Image Builder components in AWS Marketplace. EC2 Image Builder is a fully managed service that streamlines the customization, testing, distribution, and lifecycle management…

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