A unique web-based emulator is breathing new life into old Nintendo games like Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man by taking their traditionally flat visuals and transforming them into a glitchy mix of two and three dimensions. Called 3DNES, the software works only with the Firefox … | Continue reading
Late last year we posted the trailer of the then just-announced Super Senso. The game has been soft launched for a while now, and following a few significant updates, Super Senso is another game you should be following our guide on how to download games from other regions so you … | Continue reading
As we all know, Bitcoin industry started gaining momentum in the early days of this decade. Entrepreneurs increasingly started working on bitcoin-based ventures. In the past 4-5 years, many of these startups have matured into full-fledged companies. Few among them have broken out … | Continue reading
Attivio, a Newton, Massachusetts-based startup that promises to “accelerate data discovery,” announced today that it closed a $31 million financing round. The investment, the startup said, will help the company to meet investors’ expectation of turning profitable “later this year … | Continue reading
Julie Desk, the French startup that’s developed a ‘virtual assistant’ to automate the email back-and-forth typically associated with scheduling meetings and appointments, has picked up a further €600,000 in funding. Read More | Continue reading
Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital has raised $45 million for its third fund, Mucker III. The Silicon Beach firm said that it will continue to invest in software and services startups and continue to focus on the greater Los Angeles area. In addition it will invest in seed and pre … | Continue reading
EVE Online has added a new mini-game that crowdsources players to assist in real world science.Entitled Project Discovery, the new feature is based around identifying patterns of protein distribution in human cells. The Sisters of EVE project lead, Professor Lundberg, will guide … | Continue reading
Lightspeed Venture Partners, the 16-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based early-stage venture firm, has raised two new funds totaling $1.2 billion, according to two new SEC filings. One filing, for the firm’s 11th fund, shows a close of $715 million. Lightspeed has also raised $500 mil … | Continue reading
NewCo, a nearly four-year-old, San Francisco-based company that produces city-like festivals that acquaint attendees with local businesses, has raised roughly $4.3 million in fresh funding, shows a new SEC filing that states the outfit has raised just north of $6 million to date. … | Continue reading
Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on our first two days playing The Division. We're looking to have our full review up early next week.A tourist can get more of a bead on a city in their first few hours than those who've lived there for years, Bill Burroughs … | Continue reading
Sales: Marketing Podcast - Adam Bluemner shares strategies for following up with B2B website leads based on his study that analyzed 63,256 phone calls. | Continue reading
Google has been working for a while now on ways to bring more Bluetooth beacon projects into its ecosystem, including the launch of its Eddystone open beacon format and its concept of the “app-free” Physical Web. Today one of its partners unveiled a new project that shows how tra … | Continue reading
Indochino, a Vancouver-based online made-to-measure menswear company, has raised “up to” $30 million in strategic financing from Dayang Group, a China-based clothing manufacturer. Founded in 2007, Indochino serves to make buying stylish clothing for men easier, covering suits, sh … | Continue reading
Immy, a tech startup based in Michigan, said it has been granted a patent on a way to design a new generation of augmented reality and virtual reality products. The Troy, Michigan-based company said it has been awarded a patent for “natural eye optics” technology, which the compa … | Continue reading
Indochino is following up on the recent appointment of a new CEO with a big new round of funding. The company, which allows you to purchase made-to-measure menswear on its website and in physical showrooms, is announcing a $30 million strategic investment from China-based clothin … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that the new version of its Dynamics AX cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for business management is now available to all companies. The service, which runs on top of Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure, includes the Power BI bus … | Continue reading
The mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) market is seeing stellar growth and for good reasons. While traditional systems are costly, have complex pricing models, are expensive to maintain, and are aesthetically challenged, tablet-based POS units are cheap, have simple SaaS-style pricing, … | Continue reading
Craft beer brand Goose Island is hosting its first London-based 312 Day party at Hoxton Docks on Saturday (12 March). | Continue reading
An artist who painted a picture of Donald Trump with a micropenis has been repeatedly banned from Facebook for posting the image online. As Motherboard reports, Los Angeles-based artist Illma Gore posted the image to a feminist Facebook group on February 10th, and it quickly circ … | Continue reading
A nifty new emulator lets you play NES games in 3D - sort of.It's still pretty rough, but the idea behind the software works in practice. Footage posted to Reddit shows NES classics Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man and Contra running with 3D-converted visuals.The emulator appears to … | Continue reading
There’s something magical in the water, or the snow, in Finland. Helsinki-based Supercell announced some astounding financial results for 2015 based on revenues from its three hit mobile games: Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Hay Day. The company made profits (before certain item … | Continue reading
U.K.-based startup Babylon will launch an app later this year that will listen to your symptoms and provide medical advice. Will it help or hinder the health-care system? | Continue reading
iFlix, the video streaming service rivaling Netflix in Southeast Asia, has landed $45 million in fresh funding from UK broadcaster Sky. Read More | Continue reading
Finding affordable primary medical care can be a headache for people in India. SeeDoc is one of the newest companies using technology to solve that problem. Based in New Delhi, its mobile app connects pre-screened doctors and patients through video calls. Since launching in Novem … | Continue reading
There’s a notable moment in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) today, after DeepMind — the London-based company from Google — used its technology to defeat Go world champion Lee Sedol. Read More | Continue reading
Google’s DeepMind-based AI scored a historic victory today in a game of Go against Lee Se-dol, the second highest ranking player in the world. Se-dol resigned after roughly three and a half hours of play in the first in a series of five matches. The win is huge for Google’s Alpha … | Continue reading
Tokyo-based LifeRobotics, the Japanese startup behind a cooperative working robot called Coro, announced today that it has closed a series A round having fundraised about 5 million yen ($4.4 million). The company had secured 270 million yen ($2.2 million) before they announced th … | Continue reading
IO Interactive's popular Hitman franchise was adapted into a big budget real-life interactive experience.Production company Realm Pictures, who you may remember from last year's incredible Chatroulette-based Real Life First Person Shooter, was hired by IO to comprise a scenario t … | Continue reading
Dallas-based precious metals dealer JM Bullion is now accepting bitcoin through bitcoin processor BitPay. | Continue reading
Hearthstone really wants new players to feel welcome. Blizzard announced a new feature — Dark Recipes — for the digital card game today. Dark Recipes are preselected decks that players can create with the in-game deck-builder. If players do not have the cards needed to make the D … | Continue reading
Turn-based strategy infiltration game Invisible, Inc. is coming to PS4 on 19th April, developer Klei Entertainment has announced.It will cost $19.99 (about… | Continue reading
Back in November of last year, St. Lous-based production company Forever an Astronaut announced that they would be creating a series of behind-the-scenes Dev Diary videos on developer Butterscotch Shenanigans and the creation of their latest project Crashlands [$4.99]. As you are … | Continue reading
Austin 3:16 says I just matched three gems! Mobile game publisher company Scopely announced today that it will publish WWE Champions, a match-3 puzzle game based on the wrestling company and featuring its famous stars like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. WWE Champions is av … | Continue reading
Selerity, a content recommendation solution, announced today a $4.2 million investment from Citi. The New York-based startup, which says that it offers personalized content recommendation functions for enterprise applications, also announced that finance consultant Jeff Penney of … | Continue reading
Google today updated its cloud-based document and spreadsheet apps, Google Docs and Google Sheets, on iOS, and there’s a notable addition for these updates — they’ve now officially been given iPad Pro support. Specifically this means the keyboard in the apps now looks much more f … | Continue reading
Spotinst, an infrastructure as a service platform for enterprises of all sizes, closed a $2 million series A round led by PICO Venture Partners, the startup announced today. The Tel Aviv-based Spotinst says it offers a cloud optimization service that “chooses the most effective c … | Continue reading
The thing I love about SMS-based money-saving app Digit is that it steals pieces of my paycheck without my knowledge and squirrels it away as a fund I can tap into on a rainy day. For those who are more anxious about the when and where their money is moving, the startup has relea … | Continue reading
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered comes out on PlayStation 4 on 17th May, Sega has announced.The remake of the much-loved PS3 turn-based strategy RPG includes… | Continue reading
Four years ago, Highlight debuted at South by Southwest’s interactive conference during a time when location-based meetup services were enjoying a surge of interest. Today, it has launched its second app, called Shorts, which is based on the same concept but with a twist: iI is n … | Continue reading
Are you ready to share not just your best photo moments, but almost all the contents of your camera roll with friends, family and maybe a few strangers?This is the new vision from app developer Paul Davison, most known for his social "near me" app Highlight that went viral years … | Continue reading
Feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian has risen to fame by dissecting pop culture. Her series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which breaks down gender-based gaming cliches ranging from kidnapped princesses to women as prizes, has become both a successful YouTube channel and a linchpi … | Continue reading
London-based health startup Yomp, which raised $315,000 (£200,000) from five angel investors last year, set out to be a heath and wellness platform which ‘gamified’ company employees into healthy habits, thus increasing productivity, reducing absenteeism, you know the drill. It’s … | Continue reading
Eclipse has a new IDE named Che, which it thinks will redefine how developers work and coordinate efforts using the cloud. Because it’s centered in the cloud, Eclipse Che is accessible from any local or remote device, and can even support shared access to workspaces. Che supports … | Continue reading
TRON Legacy is still one of my favorite movies and basically any mention of it automatically makes the Daft Punk soundtrack start playing in my head. Now there’s a tiny but amazing little game based on the original TRON’s lightcycles that you can play entirely via SSH. It’s fully … | Continue reading
Always be shipping: Hot on the heels of Zeeqo acquiring London-based delivery startup ParcelBright, another company helping online sellers ship their wares has picked up funding.Bristol, U.K.-based Zenstores, which offers cloud-based shipping software targeting the ‘long tail’ of … | Continue reading
When it comes to smart devices making our lives easier in the home, it’s not difficult to find countless thermostats, lights, coffee machines and even robots. So it surprised me when New York-based startup HERO announced its latest creation – a smart pill dispenser – that I could … | Continue reading
This one's been a long time coming. Last year, we reviewed Intel's Skylake-based Core i7 6700K and lauded its brutally fast gaming performance, where its combination of architectural improvements plus higher levels of memory bandwidth translated into tangibly faster, smoother gam … | Continue reading
In an announcement today, Japan-based Mizuho Bank Ltd., and technology firm Fujitsu Labs Ltd., have revealed the successful operation trial of blockchain | Continue reading