Sega mascot and Mario arch-frenemy Sonic the Hedgehog has turned 25 today.The famous blue hedgehog made his debut in the game of his namesake on Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis on 23rd June 1991 in North America.He's since gone on to star in over 30 titles of varying quality. His … | Continue reading
What do you get when you combine Escape the Room with a vehicle test drive? It turns out, a lot of fun.If you’re not familiar, Escape the Room is a real-world puzzle game where teams of users have to follow clues to (surprise) escape a room. It’s fantastic.This weekend, Ford has … | Continue reading
PC makers have been trying to replicate the MacBook Air for years with little success.Alternatives — including 2-in-1 convertibles, transformers and touchscreens — have intrigued customers, but none have been as popular Apple's laptop. So HP decided on another strategy to compete … | Continue reading
Surprise, Nitrome's got a new game out now, called Redungeon [Free]. They're describing this as kind of being the Platform Panic [Free] of top-down dungeon crawlers, in that you collect coins and have multiple characters that you can upgrade. This one has you moving from tile to … | Continue reading
It's true that it's fairly difficult to get the back cover off the OnePlus 3, but after that the components are well-organized for removal and replacement. | Continue reading
BMW i joins Tesla and Mercedes-Benz in bringing energy storage home with its new system, which has yet to be given a catchy name. The system uses new or used batteries from the BMW i3 electric car to store power from solar panels for later use. It integrates with the charging sta … | Continue reading
During the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University today the AngelList, the equity fundraising platform, and activist Shiza Shahid announced plans to create a new venture firm, called NOW Ventures, to back what they’re calling “mission-driven” startups. That’s the l … | Continue reading
Despite reports that say millennials believe "phone calls can be burdensome," users of the very popular messaging service WhatsApp are making over 100 million voice calls every day, taking that oh-so-heavy burden head on. With over 1 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the biggest … | Continue reading
Stanford University researchers are testing software that is meant to help autistic children with social cues. The Google Glass software reads the emotions on people's faces, then tells the user what those emotions are. Early research is yielding positive results. Read more...Mo … | Continue reading
Employers that outsource jobs to a third party that relies on foreign workers must make sure the contractor is not engaging in citizenship discrimination, a federal official said. | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: An Honest History of Hacking Source: Wall Street Journal Why we like it: An Honest History of Hacking, brought to you by WSJ & BitDefender takes users through the build up to the pressing cyber crime issues of today. A perfect lead in for BitDefender and rel … | Continue reading
Apparently this is the week for color-based shooters! Not long after we posted about Star Crew from Oh BiBi, our old constantly-making-games pals Foursaken Media took to our forums to announce their own color-based shooter called Color Bots. The concepts are definitely similar. I … | Continue reading
Designed by Andrew Simpson of WireDog Architecture, the Island Bay House is set on a sloping quarter-acre lot in New Zealand. | Continue reading
Facebook is making a few changes to its live video initiatives, including letting users stream from the MSQRD app. When you broadcast from MSQRD, you’ll be able to try out different masks and effects live — and even swap them on the fly. You can also select the audience you want … | Continue reading
A new survey estimates that finance companies will invest as much as $1bn on blockchain initiatives related to capital markets in 2016. | Continue reading
Facebook has grand plans to continue expanding and improving its live video platform this year, starting with support for face-swapping app MSQRD. In the coming weeks, you can go live on Facebook from the MSQRD app and utilize its many different Snapchat-like masks and filters wh … | Continue reading
It was on June 23, 1996 that the Nintendo 64 made its debut — in Japan, that is. We wouldn’t see it on this side of the Pacific for another three months. But today is its proper birthday, and 20 years is a significant enough anniversary that we should probably just take a moment … | Continue reading
The MULTI-TIER SHELF system has shelves that rest on vertical slanting legs without any hardware connections. | Continue reading
Volkswagen will pay between $1,000 and $7,000, and in some cases as much as $10,000, to owners of cars that were affected by the diesel emissions scandal, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. The reports state that the payouts will vary depending on fa … | Continue reading
Microsoft has a new Windows 10 feature in the works -- one that'll tie your license and product key information to your Microsoft account. In theory, this could make swapping hardware or reinstalling the OS simpler. | Continue reading
Look! It's Kit Harington, aka Jon Snow, aka Admiral Salen Kotch, the villain of the upcoming Call of Duty game!Kit has been doing motion capture in London for the last week, according to a press release. Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie directed the shoot, but I don't know wh … | Continue reading
Today at VidCon Facebook pre-announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live, their live-streaming platform built into Facebook. The platform will soon let you do two-person remote broadcasts, pre-schedule your streams and create a virtual waiting room for viewers, and … | Continue reading
Creating ideal reader personas will inform your content creation and help you increase your own blog’s visibility. | Continue reading
Financial dudes like strong musical endings. Arcade games players, not so much. Those are a few of the findings of AdColony’s new study on app install ads. The video-heavy mobile advertising network categorized 11,000 different video ad creatives and then studied their efficacy i … | Continue reading
Car audio is almost never very good. It's usually too loud in one corner, too quiet in another. The bass is weak or uncomfortably rumbly, the treble is clipped or doesn't exist.Enter Nelson Hidalgo, an inventive man from Queens who seems to have solved the problem of poor car aud … | Continue reading
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Twilio (TWLO) ended its first day as a public company with a bang. Shares in the cloud communication company rose more than 90 percent to close at $28.53, a feat that beat analyst expectations and comes after the company originally priced its shares at $15. It currently has a mar … | Continue reading
HANG TIME, N.J. — Kawhi Leonard became the latest player to withdraw his name from consideration for the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team this summer. Leonard joins a long list — LaMarcus Aldridge, Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis, Andre Drummond, Blake Griffin, James Harden, Damian L … | Continue reading
Warning: Looking at your smartphone while lying in bed at night could wreak havoc on your vision.Two women went temporarily blind from constantly checking their phones in the dark, say doctors who are now alerting others to the unusual phenomenon.The solution: Make sure to use bo … | Continue reading
It’s sad to think that one day Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow on the HBO fantasy epic, will grow old and gray. But thankfully, game publisher Activision is scanning his face right now to preserve it forever in an upcoming game. Activision released new pic … | Continue reading
Anyone who keeps up with the stock market is likely aware that Lending Club is in hot water. Anyone with professional lending experience is likely unphased by this. Even so, peer-to-peer services remain popular. Because of that, traditional lenders are finally feeling pressure to … | Continue reading
Ethereum's first CEO said he believes the current situation at The DAO was fueled by "greed and arrogance". | Continue reading
Devil's Third, the debut effort of Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki's Valhalla Game Studios, only launched last August but it's already shuttering its online multiplayer at the end of the year.According to Nintendo's official site, Devil's Third is going offline on 29th Dece … | Continue reading
One day after a parade fit for a king, LeBron James is being honored where he first bounced a basketball. | Continue reading
This beautifully sculptured double flight helical staircase, designed and manufactured by Elite Metalcraft, has the hallmark of dedicated ... | Continue reading
Orangepixel's previous game, Space Grunts [$3.99] was basically a fast-paced, roguelike-inspired, action game that just so happened to be turn-based. Heroes of Loot 2 [$3.99] instead is that fast-action game that Space Grunts coult have been in an alternate universe. This Gauntle … | Continue reading
A recent study detailed some rather perplexing problems for autonomous car manufacturers. When polled, people wanted the self-driving car’s programming to minimize casualties during a crash — even if it meant killing the passengers inside the car. But here’s the rub, although thi … | Continue reading
As Democrats began a sit-in Wednesday morning to protest the lack of action on gun control legislation, the House of Representatives went into recess. Recess means no TV cameras allowed in the chamber, which in turn meant no cable news coverage of the historic sit-in still occurr … | Continue reading
Awkward Black Girl star Issa Rae has spent the last few years working on a new comedy for HBO, and it's just around the corner after suffering through its fair share of development hell. Insecure's eight-episode first season is premiering this fall, and the network released its f … | Continue reading
The use of Periscope to document the House sit-in has captured the hearts and minds of internetgoers, who proclaim the live-streaming app a necessity for liberty. Mark Zuckerberg would like to point out, though, that some people are using Facebook Live, too. Read More | Continue reading
When I get a pitch about a new gadget, my first reaction is typically skepticism coupled with severe doubt that the product actually does what it promises. My skepticism is amplified even further when that gadget is considered an Internet of Things device. Now, with that in mind, … | Continue reading
A new feature is rolling out to the Instagram app that lets you translate text in a tap. | Continue reading
How do you celebrate an IPO? If you’re Twilio, you build apps in real-time on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. During trading, two Twilio engineers and one stock trader built apps as excited investors rushed to snap up stock in the company. The trader, a 35-year veteran … | Continue reading
The notion of materiality helps to reinforce those traits by classifying economic information’s usefulness to its customers.It Will Get Done – I don’t forget being so frustrated when a partner I worked with would tell me to just keep calm, it would all function out. In the course … | Continue reading
Happy birthday, Nintendo 64! Nintendo’s third home console released in Japan on June 23, 1996. It was a pioneer in 3D gaming and had some of the greatest titles ever released for it. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, GamesBeat reporter Jeff Grubb and community manager Mike Minot … | Continue reading
Even though printing out photos is no longer is the only means of viewing and sharing them with others, people still often want to do something more meaningful with these images – especially those of their family and children – than simply sharing them via ephemeral social media … | Continue reading
They say the best investors know how an event in one corner of the market impacts a company in another. New mining laws in Colorado require thousands of workers to wear a certain type of hardhat, and suddenly a plastics company in Norway quadruples its business to meet the increa … | Continue reading
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a brand-new blemish on the surface of Neptune. New images from the spacecraft reveal that a "dark vortex" has popped up in the planet’s atmosphere. No, this has nothing to do with the Guardians of the Galaxy, nor has a spell been cast on Ne … | Continue reading