Mediocre Games is the name of a company that makes really good games. It can get confusing, but it also makes sense. Most of the companies that flood the App Store with crappy shovelware are named "Best Top Games Flappy WhatsApp Kim Kardashian Company Limited" so I guess there's … | Continue reading
Darwin. Hawking. Einstein. Tesla. Newton. Curie. Pythagoras of Samos. Each one has expanded our understanding of the physical world. And yet, somehow, we've never honored these luminaries with a 16-bit fighting game, until now.For an upcoming "newsgame" by Superinteressante magaz … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence seems to have become ubiquitous in the technology industry. AIs, we’re told, are replying to our emails on Gmail, learning how to drive our cars, and sorting our holiday photos. Mark Zuckerberg is even building one to help out around the house. The proble … | Continue reading
Here’s an excuse to play Half-Life 2 again. Gaming hardware and peripheral maker Razer announced today that several SteamVR games, including popular hits like Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, are now available to play in virtual reality via OSVR, an open VR software and hardware … | Continue reading
A 32 year old set a new Guinness World Record recently when he reached 59.55mph on an modified electric skateboard. Mischo Erban, who describes himself as a "human Formula 1 car," set the record at Portorož Airport in Piran, Slovenia, on a NEXTBoard created by the Slovenian start … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Stephen Curry goes down against the Oklahoma City Thunder HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Adrenaline no doubt carried Stephen Curry through the scintillating finish of the Golden State Warriors win over the Oklahoma City Thunder Saturday night, after he went down with a sprained … | Continue reading
Not since the Concorde have commercial airline passengers been able to break the speed of sound. However, several designers and manufacturers are working to change that, including NASA. The agency announced Monday an award to Lockheed Martin to develop the first 'X-plane' design … | Continue reading
I was starting to believe the magazine industry was being ripped off. Until the past weekend, I hadn’t seen any Trump branded magazines among the many lists of Trump failures appearing. I recalled some as I blogged about them nine years ago. Even better, my friend Dylan Stablefor … | Continue reading
On launch, the iPhone was a brilliant (but flawed) device, but it’s major selling point was a touch interface. Interestingly enough, it inherited its touchscreen from the Mac, which still doesn’t have one. At an event honoring his accomplishments, former Apple employee (and Nest … | Continue reading
Dzień dobry! Kochani, na Waszą prośbę przedłużam ceny przedsprzedażowe olejku z dzikiego oregano górskiego o dwa tygodnie, do połowy marca (do 15 marca). Przypominam,... | Continue reading
The Toronto Raptors' Kyle Lowry and the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry today were named NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, Feb. 22 through Sunday, Feb. 28. | Continue reading
Right now, buying games via the Windows Store is a poor choice, due to limitations on the game engines, graphics settings, and user control. Services like Steam and GOG offer far more features and capabilities for identically priced software. | Continue reading
Google has been pushing the widespread adoption of virtual reality for a few years now, so it's no surprise to see the company has finally created a dedicated virtual reality section in the Google Store. | Continue reading
So let's say you're a giant ogre. You have conquered all in your path. Humans are but a mere annoyance to you. Frankly, you're bored at this point. You've got one life and you're gonna live it up. But you gotta stay in the house. So, what are you gonna do? Well, those humans thou … | Continue reading
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Monday it bears "some responsibility" after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month. | Continue reading
It was bound to happen eventually: one of Google’s self-driving cars has gotten into a minor accident – and, for once, it was while the AI was in control. Read More | Continue reading
Fairpixels is giving startups a helping hand, and open sourcing rejected logos for anyone to use. The company, which is a pay-what-you-can-afford design firm, says it has “unused logo design proposals piling up on our hard drives,” so it’s just giving them away, and will be freei … | Continue reading
Grizzlies forward-center Brandan Wright is out indefinitely after an MRI exam found a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee. | Continue reading
That’s right! Android 6.0 Marshmallow is slated to hit the DROID Turbo 2 on March 1. | Continue reading
In a press release shared jointly, Red Hat Software, ConsenSys and BlockApps announced the launch of a new offering called STRATO on Red Hat’s OpenShift container application platform. STRATO offers a single-node blockchain instance which will be where developers can test Ethereu … | Continue reading
Which players are on the rise in our fantasy rankings? @NBAFantasy has you covered on Twitter so you can dominate your league. | Continue reading
Standard Chartered is moving ahead toward "full commercialization" with its blockchain trial for trade finance. | Continue reading
The smartphone market is dominated with hundreds of new phone designs each year, but they all have one thing in common: their rectangular shape. Washington-based startup dToor, aims change that with The Cyrcle Phone, a rounded flip-phone that aims to set women back at least half … | Continue reading
Machine learning isn’t a silver bullet for network security. I know, right now you’re saying “But wait Matt, All I hear is that every hot new company in the space is based on machine learning and that VCs are funding machine learning companies in record numbers, even with the ec … | Continue reading
Watching the rapid evolution of VR technology in recent years has been pretty fascinating. Both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are now available for preorder, but as we've pointed out before, Google has shipped millions of Google Cardboard viewers. While the Cardboard experience is … | Continue reading
After months and maybe even years of rumors for the Facebook dislike button, let's welcome Facebook reactions. You’ve probably noticed it. It’s not exactly the dislike button, but it does give Facebook users the option to express how they feel about posts. | Continue reading
Here are the best ways to offer customers a great experience on Amazon, maximizing your conversion rates and Amazon search rank. | Continue reading
The RSA security conference is being held this week in San Francisco where security pros come together to discuss strategy. IBM made several security announcements this morning ahead of the conference, headlined by the purchase of Resilient Systems. Instead of trying to prevent a … | Continue reading
Technology has made our lives so much easier. We have instant directions at our finger tips, it has never been easier to find a date, and with a push of a button we can get food delivered directly to usBut could these modern miracles have solved the epic problems found in classic … | Continue reading
It looks like T-Mobile has already begun shipping out Galaxy S7 and S7 edge pre-orders to early adopters. | Continue reading
McDonalds will join the virtual reality party this month with a limited run of Happy Googles, a VR display a la Google Cardboard. The goggles are created in part by deconstructing a Happy Meal box. According to Ad Week, McDonald's will launch the promotion in 14 restaurants in Sw … | Continue reading
Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who remain trapped unless their employers eventually go public or else sell to an acquirer in a cash deal. The problem centers on the option plan structure that startups use. Owing to a decades-old tax provision, … | Continue reading
China’s Mobvista has agreed to acquire mobile ad monetization firm NativeX for $25 million in cash. The deal signals further consolidation in the mobile market for advertising aimed at acquiring new users for games and apps. In this multibillion-dollar market, bigger companies ar … | Continue reading
Google has prided itself on the fact that its self-driving car fleet has never been responsible for any of its crashes — they've always been caused by another (decidedly more human) force — but that may have just changed. According to a California DMV filing first reported by wri … | Continue reading
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Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Read More | Continue reading
Majora's Mask is unique among Legend of Zelda games for a few reasons. There's the Groundhog Day-like structure, that has you repeating the same three days over and over again. There's the fact that it's set in Termina, a parallel version of Hyrule, where most Zelda games take pl … | Continue reading
When the FBI order to break security protections on Syed Farook’s phone arrived on February 16th, it came as a surprise to nearly everyone. FBI director Comey had hinted that the bureau was still struggling with a locked phone from the San Bernardino case, but the bureau had been … | Continue reading
If you've watched The Walking Dead TV show, then you probably know Michonne as the almost-immortal bad-ass with the samurai sword who chops off zombie heads as if her sole purpose is helping the poor creatures depart this world. The Michonne of the TV show has consistently been t … | Continue reading
Did you get your HTC Vive this morning? Pre-orders for the $799 headset began today, and eager VR enthusiasts will get their hands on the product April 5 — mere days after competitor Oculus Rift ships. The pre-order bundle is costly, but arguably it comes with more goodies to sin … | Continue reading
Transport for London (TfL) has enlisted author and comedian Julian Clary to deliver a one-off story time experience on the Emirates Air Line cable car tomorrow (2 March), in celebration of World Book Day. | Continue reading
It’s easy to think of Twitter first when you see Moments than Facebook’s photo-sharing app – but while you’re busy figuring out why the Moments tab moved on Twitter.com, Facebook’s app has quietly hit 400M photos shared – 100M of which was from the past month alone. Facebook’s mi … | Continue reading
Your transactional emails are leaking money. A lot of it. That should be concerning to everyone, not just eCommerce companies. Here's how to plug the leak. | Continue reading
Facebook’s Moments, the social network’s private photo-sharing application – and replacement for photo syncing – will now support video-sharing, the company announced today. The new feature is live in the updated version of the Moments mobile application for iOS and Android devic … | Continue reading
Sony's PlayStation TV is no longer being shipped in Japan.According to Japanese site AV Watch (translated via Kotaku), Sony confirmed that it would cease shipping PlayStation TVs at the end of February 2016, i.e. today.Indeed the Japanese PlayStation Store noted that shipping has … | Continue reading
You know what Google does as a company, but do you know how they do all of it? Probably not, but there’s now a website where Google software engineers can tell their stories, and give us better insight on the inner workings in Mountain View. Called bar.foo, the name itself sugges … | Continue reading
Understanding Millennials is key to tapping into a market of 92 million consumers. | Continue reading
Mate1.com just proved that after the Ashley Madison hack, we’ve learned nothing. A hacker on ‘Hell,’ a dark web hacking forum, claims to have gained access to over 27 million plaintext passwords from Mate1.com, which he says he later sold. The asking price was 20 bitcoin ($8,700) … | Continue reading