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HyperX’s January keycap was a cute winter kitty and I missed it
Keke Palmer learns some weird facts about Hello Kitty in ‘SNL’ sketch
What would you do if you found out that Hello Kitty was not actually a cat, but a human? If you’re Keke Palmer and Bowen Yang in the above Saturday Night Live sketch, you lose your mind.
The two play new employees at New York’s Hello Kitty store who are very excited about their new jobs… until they find out Hello Kitty’s human nature, that is. (Yes, Hello Kitty creators Sanrio have said that she is human.) And honestly, who can blame Palmer and Yang’s outrage? You expect me to believe that this cat is a human, but that her boyfriend is an actual cat? I’d be throwing chairs too!
The sketch escalates to even more bizarre factoids that leave Palmer and Yang fuming, giving them a great opportunity to showcase their comedic chemistry. Stick around for the reveal of who’s in the Hello Kitty suit — it’s a treat.
Netflix’s latest batch of games includes a Hello Kitty rhythm title
Netflix has added three new mobile games to its catalog, and they’re eclectic… with a distinctly feline theme. The highlight is Hello Kitty Happiness Parade, a relentlessly cute rhythm game from Rogue Games that has up to three players dance down the street while collecting coins and thwarting the fun-hating Kuromi. It’s not the most complex game by any means, but you might not mind given the kawaii aesthetic.
Another title, Neowiz’s Cats & Soup, tasks you with helping cats make (what else?) soup. Thankfully, this is more a low-key relaxation title than a weird Neko–Atsume-meets-Overcooked crossover. And yes, there is a game for the less cat obsessed. Devolver’s Reign: Three Kingdoms is a card battler that has you waging war and politics at the end of China’s Han dynasty.
As with other Netflix mobile releases, you just need a subscription and an Android or iOS device. The hook remains the lack of sales pitches you frequently find in mobile games — there are no ads, in-app purchases or other rude surprises. If there’s content to earn, you’ll do it strictly by playing.
Netflix has been ramping up its game efforts in recent months. The creators of Downwell and Her Story have contributed to the catalog, and the streaming giant has been establishing in-house studios in addition to buying developers like Next Games (The Walking Dead) and Night School Studio (Oxenfree). The company is also poised to expand beyond mobile with not-so-subtle hints of work on blockbuster PC projects. Gaming certainly isn’t the main reason to subscribe to Netflix, but it may represent a better incentive before long.
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Larry Page’s flying car startup Kitty Hawk is shutting down
Kitty Hawk, the ambitious “flying car” startup funded by Google co-founder Larry Page, is winding down, which the company confirmed in a brief post on LinkedIn earlier today.
According to a report from Insider, sources inside the company said Kitty Hawk had already shut down work on the 100-mile-capable Heaviside vehicle. Insider also reports that Page had become increasingly hands-off from the company but said he was more closely involved with its shift to research and development after the end of the Heaviside project.
Although Kitty Hawk is shuttering development of its own aircraft, at least one project will live on in its joint venture company with Boeing: Wisk Aero. “Today’s news does not impact Wisk. We remain in a strong…
Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk air taxi startup is shutting down
After more than a decade of trying to make flying cars a reality, Kitty Hawk is shutting down. “We’re still working on the details of what’s next,” the Larry Page-backed startup posted to LinkedIn on Wednesday afternoon. Before today’s announcement, the last time we heard from Kitty Hawk was in the spring of 2021 when it came out the company had parted ways with engineer Damon Vander Lind following “months” of infighting with Page and CEO Sebastian Thrun. Almost exactly a year earlier, the company canceled its original Flyer project and laid off most of the 70-person team that had worked on the aircraft.
It’s unclear why Kitty Hawk decided to call it quits, but comments Thrun made after the company ended development on Flyer may provide a clue. “No matter how hard we looked, we could not find a path to a viable business,” the chief executive said at the time. After Vander Lind’s departure the following year, it appeared Kitty Hawk was ready to double down on its Heavyside vertical take-off and landing aircraft. It acquired 3D Robotics and brought on the company’s co-founder, former Wired editor Chris Anderson, as chief operating officer.
Despite the demise of Kitty Hawk, this probably isn’t the last we’ll hear of Larry Page’s flying car ambitions. According to CNBC, Wednesday’s shutdown won’t affect Wisk Aero, the company that was borne out of a 2019 partnership between Kitty Hawk and Boeing.
“Kitty Hawk’s decision to cease operations does not change Boeing’s commitment to Wisk. We are proud to be a founding member of Wisk Aero and are excited to see the work they are doing to drive innovation and sustainability through the future of electric air travel,” Boeing told the outlet. “We do not expect Kitty Hawk’s announcement to affect Wisk’s operations or other activities in any way.”
Flying Car Startup Kitty Hawk Is Winding Down
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