EXCLUSIVE: There’s no limit to the range of emotions that arise from playing games. Yet if most stock photos are anything to go by, pure excitement is the most common expression when someone’s caught up in the latest pretend Xbox One or PlayStation 4 game. I asked some well-known … | Continue reading
Public transport involving taxi cabs are becoming more personal these days. Gone are the days when people were forced to go out on the street to hail a yellow or black taxi cab. Now, all one needs is a smartphone with the right application installed. The rise of companies like Ub … | Continue reading
The modern Web is often lauded for the way it has democratized communications and provided a platform through which individuals can influence and reach a mass audience, without gatekeepers like the traditional media. The reality, however, may be somewhat different, according to D … | Continue reading
In a day when the major bitcoin headline was that of Microsoft seemingly cutting ties with Bitcoin, the company has now been forced to apologize for what it deemed as “inaccurate information”. Bitcoin will continue to be supported. Technology giant Microsoft had suggested in a re … | Continue reading
If you're building a new social network likely to get battered in the marketplace, you may as well call it Waffle. The latest entry in the ever-expanding category of Weird Samsung Things allows you to post a photo that your friends can annotate by adding their own photos or drawi … | Continue reading
Bitcoin was almost dealt a major blow today when it seemed Microsoft would stop accepting the cryptocurrency for digital purchases through customer accounts. But the company now says an update to a support page was posted erroneously and contained "inaccurate" information. Bitcoi … | Continue reading
Last year at E3 Square Enix teased an all new console RPG codenamed "Project Setsuna", and now the publisher has finally confirmed a western release for the title now called I am Setsuna.The oldschool RPG will be coming to PS4 and Steam this summer, though sadly the Vita version … | Continue reading
Last year, Verizon began offering an annual upgrade option for customers who purchased an iPhone 6S or 6S Plus. Now it's expanding the offering to customers who pick up a Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge. Every Verizon customer who utilizes its device installment option to pic … | Continue reading
The first episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne [$4.99] was an entertaining start to Telltale's new miniseries primarily because of the complexity of the lead character (spoilers ahead). The way Telltale tried to bring Michonne's pre-apocalypse life into play made for an intrigui … | Continue reading
The FBI has gone all-out in its latest filing against Apple -- and noted that it can compel the company to turn over the source code to iOS if it doesn't play ball. | Continue reading
It looks like the Samsung Galaxy S7 costs about $255 to build, and almost a quarter of that is thanks to the Snapdragon 820. | Continue reading
Kanye West made his first update to The Life of Pablo today, a change reflected only on Tidal, where Kanye says the album will live forever. As Reddit user JayElect points out, the album track "Famous" has gotten a few new lyrics and some minor production changes. It's not a big … | Continue reading
As 2015 came to a close and the new year began, many thought leaders in the financial technology space made their predictions on the trends and innovations that will get us excited in 2016. One of the most prominent technologies that repeatedly appeared on these lists was the blo … | Continue reading
Iconic cartoonist Hugh Macleod is launching a series this week inspired by some of my work. Thanks, Hugh! On Being's Krista Tippett has a new book ready for pre-order. Doug Rushkoff's new book is out this month. Also, a new... | Continue reading
Japanese murder mystery horror visual novel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is coming to Steam on 18th April.As you may recall, the first Danganronpa arrived on Steam last month for £22.99 after the series previously premiered on Vita.Eurogamer contributor Cassandra Khaw made an i … | Continue reading
A New York man has been charged with operating an unlawful money transmitting business in connection the sale of bitcoins. | Continue reading
As the battle between Apple and the FBI heats up over encryption, it's increasingly clear this isn't just about one iPhone.A New York Times article on Saturday reported that the Department of Justice is worried about the encryption on apps such as WhatsApp.See also: Apple calls D … | Continue reading
Several years back The Grinns Tale launched on Facebook as primarily a city-building game with battling and RPG elements peppered in. Since that time, city-builders have oversaturated the mobile market, so when considering taking the game, now known as Grinns Legacy, to the mobil … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Gordon Hayward’s sore right foot will keep him out of the lineup against the Cavaliers HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The Utah Jazz will have to deal with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) without their leading scorer Gordon Hayward, who will … | Continue reading
Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of the embattled blood-testing startup Theranos, has lost commercial partners, board members and a lot of credibility over the last few months. Prize-winning reporting from the Wall Street Journal indicates that her multibillion dollar startup’s highly publi … | Continue reading
I was beginning to have the itch, a low-level anxiety that occurs on the third or fourth day of a film festival when you haven't seen anything you feel terribly strongly about one way or another. SXSW, in addition to being a premiere showcase for brands, bands and media outlets, … | Continue reading
John Maeda thinks that companies should rethink their understanding of design into three parts that could give them a better grasp at what’s needed to not only craft a great customer experience, but to be more competitive. In fact, the design partner for Kleiner Perkins Caufield … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: How do leading CMOs really drive customer loyalty and boost revenue? Join top marketing minds in the C-suite as they discuss the right KPIs, budget allocation across the customer journey, structuring teams for success, and more. Register here for free. Increasingly CM … | Continue reading
If you can’t execute, you aren’t a digital marketer. At least not yet. | Continue reading
Wiosna to wspaniały czas, by odwiedzić włoskie targowisko. Tyle tu życia, smaków, zapachów i kolorów! Dzisiaj kilka słów i nieco więcej zdjęć z mojej ubiegłorocznej wycieczki na Campo di Fiori (a tutaj znajdziecie krótką opowiastkę fotograficzną z naszego rzymskiego pikniku).Opro … | Continue reading
The new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal -- BIP75 makes Bitcoin Payments Protocol more user-friendly and safe by incorporating new features to its predecessor, BIP70. | Continue reading
The sci-fi adventure set to follow up indie-hit Gone Home has been delayed until next year. Game studio Fullbright announced this morning that development on Tacoma has taken longer than expected, requiring it to push the game's release date from "mid-to-late 2016" to spring of 2 … | Continue reading
Volkswagen continues to take hits from all sides. It's facing down a whistleblower lawsuit over alleged data deletions, it just fired its US CEO, and US dealerships are so angry, they're talking about suing the company themselves. | Continue reading
Qualcomm is planning a brand new developers’ kit that focuses on unleashing the true VR potential of high-end mobile devices. | Continue reading
Titanfall is coming to the Origin Access Vault on 22nd March, offering subscribers unlimited access to Respawn's shooter - among other games - for £4 a mont… | Continue reading
In December 2014, Microsoft added Bitcoin as a payment option, courtesy of Bitcoin processor BitPay, for a variety of its content. On Saturday, a simple message titled “Microsoft Store doesn’t accept Bitcoin” was spotted on Microsoft’s website and naturally interpreted that suppo … | Continue reading
Following a successful pilot program, US financial services firm USAA is expanding its bitcoin integration to all members. | Continue reading
It's Monday of GDC, which means you're going to hear a lot about games that are in the works in the future. But interestingly enough, this Monday is actually a notable release day for a few interesting indie games that have rolled out. Could be that they're trying to draw attenti … | Continue reading
Google just published best practices for bloggers who receive free products or services. If bloggers don’t follow the practices, the search engine giant may consider them in violation of its webmaster guidelines and eliminate them from search results. PR and marketing departments … | Continue reading
Michael Goguen, the longtime venture capitalist who was asked to leave Sequoia Capital last week following a stunning breach of contract complaint, has just filed a counter complaint in San Mateo County Court. In reaction to claims that Goguen sexually and emotionally abused a wo … | Continue reading
After shelling out $2m in rewards to security bounty hunters in 2015, Google today announced it’s doubling the reward for revealing top security flaws from $50k to $100k. Google has been pretty serious about its security on everything Chrome, and has had a bug-hunting bounty in p … | Continue reading
Since the dawn of music, mankind has wished to turn their laziest vocal expressions into song. And since roughly 2011, when Smule introduced the Songify app, that's been totally possible. But what if you just wanted to hum? That was the ambitious question that Samsung began to as … | Continue reading
Verizon wants to put a brand new Samsung smartphone in your hand every single year. | Continue reading
Microsoft just gave the term "console wars" a whole new meaning.Xbox developers now (or soon will — as of yet, it's not clear) have the ability to support cross-network play in their games. That means Xbox players can clash with PC or even PlayStation/Nintendo players in the mult … | Continue reading
A surprisingly smart tyrannosaur has been uncovered — and this dinosaur may have hunted smarter, not harder, evidence suggests. Once thought to have grown large while acquiring intelligence, this new specimen suggests something new: tyrannosaurs didn't have to be big to be smart. … | Continue reading
Microsoft today pulled the covers off of some holograms that people have made with Actiongram, a tool for creating holographic experiences for the HoloLens augmented reality headset that doesn’t require developers to have a lot of visual-effects experience. Microsoft first made m … | Continue reading
Next-generation blockchain platform Ethereum has released 'Homestead' the first production release of its software. | Continue reading
Users will be able to test drive Android games from mobile search results through a new ad format called Search Trial Run Ads. | Continue reading
This morning we posted a 360-degree interview with Michelle Obama. It was an incredibly ambitious project, and we learned a lot. One of my favorite parts of shooting in 360 degrees is the ability to see the whole production (even me in the corner), including everything that went … | Continue reading
Nokia may be a dinosaur of the smartphone world, but the Finnish company has been pushing its technology smarts in other verticals recently — one of which is the Ozo virtual reality (VR) camera. First announced last summer, Nokia opened pre-orders for the camera back in November … | Continue reading
Battlezone VR will contain a procedurally-generated campaign, developer Rebellion (Sniper Elite, Aliens vs. Predator) revealed. "Whenever a player starts a new campaign, the game's 'Hex' campaign map is re-generated procedurally, and dozens of environments, levels and mission typ … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever thought your GitHub pull request was so good it should have been a paid gig, now it can be. CodeMill is taking an interesting approach to open source. Rather than leave it up to good souls who want to help out, it’s letting developers and organizations monetize the … | Continue reading