Baldur's Gate, the award-winning fantasy game series, is being adapted into a TV series by the creator of HBO's "The Last of Us," Craig Mazin, according to BBC Technology. The series will continue the story from the games, which sold over 20 million copies and won all five major Game of the Year awards in 2023. However, the developers of the game, Larian Studios, will not be directly involved in the production.
Meanwhile, Google is facing pressure from its employees regarding its ties to the federal government's immigration enforcement, as reported by BBC Business. Nearly 900 Google employees signed an open letter demanding more transparency about how the company's technology is being used within the US government. One Google employee of seven years found it "mind-boggling" that the company was maintaining its ties with immigration enforcement, according to the same source. Google provides cloud services to federal agencies and has links to work being done on immigration enforcement.
In other business news, YouTube's revenue for 2025 was revealed to be over $60 billion, a figure that surpasses streaming rival Netflix's $45 billion, as reported by BBC Business. This revenue includes money generated through advertising and paid subscriptions. According to Midia Research senior analyst Hanna Kahlert, the announcement was "perhaps not a surprising one," given the platform's widespread use.
Also, National Highways reports revealed that many smart motorways are not delivering the value for money expected, according to BBC Business. Two schemes, involving sections of the M25 and the M6, were found to be offering "very poor" value. The AA, representing motorists, said the schemes had turned out to be a "catastrophic waste of time, money and effort."
In a positive development, a button-sized snail, the greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis), once thought to be extinct, is now thriving again after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 of the molluscs, according to The Guardian. The snail was found in the fossil record but believed to have vanished from its Bermudian home until a remnant population was discovered.
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