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Nintendo's NES classic The Legend of Zelda is 30 years old this year, and what better way to celebrate it than to drag it kicking and screaming from its console origins, right to your browser. The Legend of Zelda 30-Year Tribute is an open-source version of the original game buil … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston has announced that she’s taking a temporary leave of absence, stepping aside after 11 years of being a major part of the Silicon Valley startup program. During her one-year sabbatical, she plans on spending time with her f … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Intuit made headlines last month when VentureBeat reported that one million people were using TurboTax on their mobile phones. And now with the U.S. tax filing deadline less than two weeks away, the company is working to simplify the process even further. Speaking today … | Continue reading
Nest is dropping support for one of its products on May 15. More than just dropping support, the product will cease to work entirely.The product isn’t one of Nest’s branded lines – it’s not the thermostat, the smoke alarm or the Nest Cam. Instead it's the Revolv smart home hub.Ne … | Continue reading
Tips are everywhere. There’s an abundance of generic advice available for how to build teams and culture, how to fundraise, how to be productive, how to stay above the noise… But what about specific advice? Specific tips for what differentiates the leaders from the followers. And … | Continue reading
An untold number of schools will be receiving some happy news this coming Friday.According to an on-stage appearance today at the Female Founders Conference in San Francisco, philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs revealed that a six-month-old national education challenge she’s backi … | Continue reading
Thomas Staggs, chief operating officer at The Walt Disney Corporation, is stepping down. Staggs is widely seen as the successor to CEO Bob Iger, so this makes the entertainment giant’s plans after Iger’s departure seem a lot less certain. Staggs has been at Disney for 26 years, a … | Continue reading
Despite implementing a stricter app review process last year, Google still has some work to do when it comes to its developer policies. The company removed an app created by the Taliban from its Play Store Saturday. The app was reportedly published to Google Play on April 1, 2016 … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
NASA has collaborated with Microsoft to create a new mixed-reality exhibit known as “Destination: Mars“, allowing the public to explore the red planet with holographic tour guides. The exhibit will open this summer in Florida at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Featur … | Continue reading
Doppler Labs’s augmented audio device, Here, seems to be all the rage in music hardware these days. Doppler recently won a SXSW Innovation Award and will begin a partnership with Coachella starting next week. Each Coachella attendee received a code with their tickets to claim the … | Continue reading
There’s now a lobbying group to protect the rights of drone owners, and the interests of drone companies. Called ‘The Drone Manufacturers Alliance,’ the group is made up of former Small UAV Coalition members DJI, 3DR and Amazon Prime Air. In a statement, the alliance said it woul … | Continue reading
[appicon]Hi there, friends! It's time once again for the RPG Reload Podcast, where Eric, Andy, and I discuss all kinds of things RPG and otherwise. First of all, I have to apologize. This was recorded at the height of a nasty cold I had, and I sound exactly how I felt. I hope to … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Machine Zone, one of the top-ranked mobile game companies, said it is launching a platform today that lets other companies license its cloud technology to enable many millions of people to communicate and interact in real time. The company, which makes the hugely popul … | Continue reading
The wheels of government turn slowly, especially when it comes to technology. So when one branch, the executive, gets an upgrade, it’s worth noting, especially since it's unlikely to happen again during this or the next administration.According to The New York Times, the While Ho … | Continue reading
Combine love at first sight with powerfully simple design and what do you get? More than one million dates each week on Tinder, perhaps the world’s most popular dating app. Best known for it’s “Swipe Right” feature, Tinder has been on a tear in recent months introducing new featu … | Continue reading
Most content and digital marketers learn over time with experience where and how to promote content but here is a 40 point content promotion checklist | Continue reading
Way back in 2002, the worlds of Disney and Square Enix collided in the original Kingdom Hearts for Playstation 2. The series has spawned tons of games since then and gone on to become one of the more beloved video game franchises around. Just about a year ago, series director Tet … | Continue reading
NASA took the wraps off a new website on Monday dedicated to tracking global changes in the sea level. It’s packed full of free online resources that will likely be useful to teachers, the climate-change-curious, and anyone just looking to dig into publicly available data. Read M … | Continue reading
To attempt to compete with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, BBM is making some premium privacy features free to all. | Continue reading
We know that Apple's iPhone SE has the guts of an iPhone 6S with the body of an iPhone 5S, but which one holds up better against the elements?Phone warranty company SquareTrade put the SE through a series of tests to see how well it fares when dropped on the ground and dunked und … | Continue reading
When Microsoft announced its Windows 10 strategy last year, the thinking was that the unified platform would drive Windows Mobile and finally bring the Windows phone out of the doldrums where it’s been virtually forever. The idea was you could develop once for Windows 10 desktop … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda originally released on the NES in 1986, and went on to become one of the most successful and popular video game series on the planet over the next 3 decades. That makes 2016 the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, which is a big milestone for an absolutel … | Continue reading
If you have an old TV from the 70s or earlier sitting around (or see one at a garage sale), here’s a neat mod to get Chromecast running on it. A YouTuber has posted a tutorial with simple instructions on how to bring an old TV to the modern age with just a few adaptors. First, yo … | Continue reading
A committee of industry representatives appointed by the FAA turned in recommendations suggesting a four-tiered system for classifying drones and how they may (or mayn’t) interact with crowds. Read More | Continue reading
Those who subscribe to EA Access - the Xbox One service granting access to several EA games for £3.99 a month - will now be able to play Dead Space.Of course Dead Space is already available the first half of this month for Xbox 360's Games With Gold offering, and it's now backwar … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is home to hundreds of minigames like no other. It is a virtual world where bitcoin lovers can play a role play game that offers them the | Continue reading
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When a bug is squashed, another exploit tends to show up. After releasing a quick fix to keep the iPhone from bricking during Safari links in iOS 9.3, a video has surfaced showing a way to get into anyone’s photos or contacts through a trick of double-talk through Siri. First spo … | Continue reading
It seems like all the rage right now is Crossy Road [Free] games crossed with dungeon-crawling. There was The Quest Keeper [Free] last year, Looty Dungeon releasing this week, and now Boxy Kingdom. Developed by a team including the founder of 3D Realms in Scott Miller, and Gears … | Continue reading
A couple of hardcore Zelda fans have created a browser-based remake of the original Legend of Zelda with voxels as a way of celebrating its 30th anniversary.It's not a full remake, however, as certain areas are noted as being still under construction. Right now it only consists o … | Continue reading
Until April 16th: walk into a brick-and-mortar Best Buy with your old phone and a one-dollar bill, and you can walk out with a Samsung Galaxy S7. | Continue reading
CoinDesk recaps the DTCC's first Blockchain Symposium, an all-day event held in New York last week. | Continue reading
Have you considered how your marketing messaging affects the governance of your company? Until I attended the Company Director’s inaugural Governance Summit, I hadn’t thought about effective messaging beyond the marketing and sales functions. The two-day summit taught me effectiv … | Continue reading
Cork Apartment - This spacious flat in high-rise block, which was designed for a young man, passed through a total reconstruction. | Continue reading
Google today talked for the first time about Walt, a piece of software that people can use to figure out how long it takes for a device to respond to touch or voice input. Google has been using Walt to do performance tests on Android devices and Chromebooks, and now the software … | Continue reading
With an announcement today, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar is open for business, in its first full version released and available for downloads. It has been nearly two years since initial chatter arose, with word of a decentralized marketplace being developed i … | Continue reading
A big shakeup happening in the world of deep learning, as Salesforce announced that it has acquired startup darling MetaMind. According to a report from VentureBeat, it’s one of a long string of Salesforce AI acquisitions — and arguably the hottest name in the bunch. As part of t … | Continue reading
Norwegian startup Auka is setting its sight on hitting two birds with one stone: Helping banks lagging behind compliance with EU regulation, and rolling out high-tech banking to customers across Europe. The company is a white-label service aimed at retail banks, and is the first … | Continue reading
About a month ago I was quite intrigued with an upcoming game called No Thing from developer Evil Indie Games. It appeared to be a first-person runner type of game but with crazy retro-inspired visuals, an oddly unsettling computer voice narrating the storyline, and just lots of … | Continue reading
Back in 2014 retro hardware boutique manufacturer, Analogue Interactive announced a $499 1080p variant of the NES called the Analogue Nt. Before that it manufactured a £400 / $649 wooden SNK Neo Geo CMVS. Now it's releasing its priciest, most ostentatious offering yet with the $4 … | Continue reading
YouTuber Uncle Rob ist ein echter Hinterhof-Tunichtgut, dessen Scherzvideos aber bislang eher mäßig spektakulär vonstatten gingen (Mentos ins Dr.-Pepper-Fass werfen, etc), jedenfalls bis er neulich auf die Idee kam, sich im Action P... | Continue reading
MetaMind, a Palo Alto-based AI startup founded in July 2014, is being acquired by Salesforce. According to a new post published at the company’s website by CEO Richard Socher — a Stanford PhD who studied machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vi … | Continue reading
Salesforce has acquired MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Salesforce cofounder and chief executive Marc Benioff. The startup’s services will stop working on May 4. MetaMind announced the news in a blog post. “Salesforce plans to integrate MetaMind’s technology into Sale … | Continue reading
While everyone’s eyes are on Tesla’s affordable electric car, the Model 3, it’s easy to forget that Tesla makes some pretty speedy vehicles. In a bit of a friendly competition, the company pitted its Model S against a Qantas Boeing 737-800 preparing for take-off. The race is cert … | Continue reading
Tesla blamed its own "hubris" for stuffing its Model X crossover with too much technology, making it difficult to produce in volume, according to a Tesla statement.The company was able to ship just 2,400 Model X cars in the first quarter. In a surprisingly frank statement that re … | Continue reading