Last week, I heard a lot of smart people talking about the game industry at the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. After I got home, people kept asking me what the most interesting thing I heard was. I had to punt and say I couldn’t think of any single barn- … | Continue reading
Bryan Henderson has told the people behind a new game bundle designed to give him up to $10,000 that he wants the money to go to charity instead.Henderson told GameBundle.com to give the 10 per cent of revenue promised to him by the company to video game charity Special Effect.La … | Continue reading
While most video games have a story to tell, the best tales are actually told by the players themselves. It's one thing to play an online shooter; it's another for someone to regale the time they randomly lobbed a grenade across the stage and won the game with half a point of lif … | Continue reading
There are auto shows, and then there is Geneva.This is the show of the state of the automotive art, a place where car companies flex their muscles and give us a sense of what it looks like when both engineering and design are pushed to the jagged limits of present-day technology. … | Continue reading
2016 is the year of Pokémon. Nintendo revealed Pokémon Sun and Moon today, the next entries in its popular series that has so far sold over 200 million games. We don’t know much about Sun and Moon yet, other than that it will come out worldwide this holiday. This announcement com … | Continue reading
Samsung phone owners will get the first new set of emoji since the S5 when the company releases the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge next month. Get ready, taco fans, unicorn lovers, and volleyball players because the release on March 8th will include all the emoji you’ll need to communicat … | Continue reading
Popcorntime.io, probably the most popular iteration of slippery movie piracy app Popcorn Time, is back — sort of. Earlier this week, part of the team apparently behind popcorntime.io announced a comeback, four months after being shut down and hit with a lawsuit from the MPAA. Lik … | Continue reading
The Flint water crisis did not begin on April 25th, 2014, when the city switched its water supply from Detroit’s system, tapping Lake Huron to its own on the Flint River. That tragic mistake was the culmination of a much longer ongoing disaster, one caused by greed, politics, inc … | Continue reading
Human resources and insurance software startup Zenefits has announced that 250 employees are being made redundant, representing 17 percent of the company’s workforce. The news comes as Zenefits faces increasing scrutiny over the way it sells insurance policies to small businesses … | Continue reading
Apple has just made a big — and timely — hire, recruiting a developer behind encrypted messaging app Signal, perhaps best known for being Edward Snowden's chat app of choice. The developer, Frederic Jacobs, confirmed the news on Twitter:I'm delighted to announce that I accepted a … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch piece, we reiterated our Thursday evening comments – primarily focusing on the muted action we had seen in the bitcoin price throughout the Thursday evening session and, in turn, the Friday morning session in Europe. We were hoping that the s … | Continue reading
The Omni Foundation, developers behind the Omni Layer, the largest asset layer built on top of and secured by the Bitcoin blockchain have released OmniDex 1.0. The developers proclaim it as the “first true decentralized” cryptocurrency exchange. OmniDex also allows for the trustl … | Continue reading
The game and tech industry has heard a lot of chatter about diversity, recruiting women and minorities into development, and encouraging girls to become engineers. This kind of talk usually takes place on a high level, with chief executives like Brian Krzanich at Intel weighing i … | Continue reading
When it comes to new emoji, Samsung users are typically one of the last to receive updates including the latest batch approved by the Unicode Consortium. Finally, that’ll change. Today, the company has shown off some of the new emoji iOS and Android users have been enjoying for m … | Continue reading
If you have a decent gaming PC and you are torn between console or computer for Far Cry Primal, these screenshots should make the decision for you. Far Cry Primal is already available on consoles, but won't arrive on PC until March 1st. I've spent a couple hours touring the Windo … | Continue reading
As you've probably guessed from all the stories I write about Hearthstone, I enjoy a good CCG on my device. I like strategy games, and for me CCGs are a quick path to complex strategic play. Star Crusade: War for the Expanse, is an upcoming CCG that looks like it might hold its o … | Continue reading
Ab heute ist die neue Kooperation der Marken Sennheiser und Freitag erhältlich. Der Kopfhörer F703 bekommt in dieser auf 1.500 Stück limitierten Edition ein einzigartiges Freitag-Design. Man kennt die Taschen der Schweizer Marke, d... | Continue reading
In this hackathon in particular, we focus on concepts and business models rather than the development itself. by Fred Truyen, KU Leuven. The Photography hackathon “Hack your Photo Heritage” is taking place this weekend, hosted at the FabLab of KU Leuven in Heverlee (Belgium). Pe … | Continue reading
Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft are expected to file a joint motion in support of Apple, as the company fights a ruling forcing it to bypass iPhone security. | Continue reading
Good news for everyone who constantly has to battle "not enough space" messages on their smartphone: Samsung has announced a 256GB flash embedded memory, aimed specifically for high-end mobile devicesBesides offering a lot of storage space — top smartphones today only go up to 12 … | Continue reading
At a brief online event today, Nintendo unveiled the next big Pokemon games: Sun and Moon. The two releases will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS in holiday 2016, and are the first major entries in the series since Pokemon X and Y in 2013. The titles for the games actually leaked ou … | Continue reading
Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, which will launch for 3DS this year.The two games were announced just now in a Pokémon Direct broadcast from Nintendo.Pokémon celebrates its 20th anniversary this year - a perfect time, then, for a new generation of … | Continue reading
The time has never been better to enter IT: with demand for high-level security professionals rising as the evolution of malicious hackers intensifies. If IT and digital security interest you, TNW Deals has put together an offer to greatly improve your employability in a promisin … | Continue reading
The day has finally arrived: Mailbox, the once red-hot email startup, is no more. After nearly three years of helping us in our (often futile) quest for inbox zero, Dropbox has officially shut it down.Luckily, in those three years, email apps have come along way — thanks at least … | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
It’s time to crack open your Pokéball and catch some fresh news about pocket monsters first thing in the morning. Nintendo is about to start its Pokémon Direct livestreaming show at 8 a.m., and you can watch it right here. We don’t know what the company has in store for us, but w … | Continue reading
Welcome to Nomineering, where we take a weekly look at the news and stories behind the most lavish, high-budget spectacle the film industry has to offer: Oscar season. No matter how you feel about them, awards are one of the key ways to gut check what Hollywood itself thinks is i … | Continue reading
General Management - Creative collaborations can be challenging when employees work remotely. The following tips can help remote workers facilitate brainstorms and creative sessions. | Continue reading
Public Relations - Does it frustrate you when your TV screen fills with your competitor's face as he relates pertinent industry insights studded with self-deprecating chuckles? Don't get mad, get even. | Continue reading
Social Media - This week social got serious about customer support: Facebook's plans to improve sentiment tracking and talking to customers directly, Twitter's Customer Feedback, Snapchat's tracking and services, and Foursquare's in-store traffic ... | Continue reading
Don’t worry, this probably isn’t coming to a store near you anytime soon, but the Macbook Selfie Stick project from Art404 – art not found – gets pretty close to the bone as a comment on modern life. Why indeed. Art404 is an aptly self-styled ‘artup’ of devs and designers based i … | Continue reading
Creating a home page is momentous for any business. You spend weeks carefully crafting every line of copy, every image, every color, every icon. Agencies are hired, opinions are gathered, and budgets are obliterated. This is your brand we’re talking about, right? Everything is on … | Continue reading
This week in Barcelona, mobile giants Samsung, LG, Sony and Xiaomi showed off their flagship smartphones for 2016 at Mobile World Congress. Each brand has worked hard to deliver something special, but which one is worth your time? We spent some time checking out the Samsung Galax … | Continue reading
Photo source: Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny. All rights reserved. The EUscreen community has spoken! The results from our video competition are […] | Continue reading
The first US uterus transplant was performed at the Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday, doctors announced yesterday. The operation — which has been performed in Sweden before — is a treatment that allows women who were born without a uterus or who have a uterus that no longer functio … | Continue reading
As sartorial activity grips London across London Fashion Weekend (25-28 February), we speak to Carolyn Dickson, producer at Inca, about how the agency staged Temperley's catwalk show at London Fashion Week. | Continue reading
ChangeTip, a social media tipping service, has launched ChangeTip Wallet. a blockchain-powered, decentralized platform that provides a way to send and receive bitcoin online. ChangeTip Wallet combines the ease and convenience of ChangeTip with the ownership of private keys. Chang … | Continue reading
Every few weeks I dig through the deepest recesses of Kickstarter and Indiegogo to find a few good watches. This time I’ve hit pay dirt. The $227 Hastings & Co Heritage Edition is a mechanical watch with enough class and high design to make it an heir to watches like the Tissot L … | Continue reading
The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwaite. In it he said, “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short n … | Continue reading
Der deutsche Autohersteller Mercedes-Benz hat im letzten Jahr konstant sein Portfolio für Plug-in-Hybrid-Autos ausgebaut und will nun, dass auch der Vorstand und die Daimler-Mitarbeiter mit gutem nachhaltigen Beispiel voran gehen. Ein hoher M... | Continue reading
Facebook has announced that it is finally expanding its live video-streaming tool to Android devices, but only in the U.S. for now. Today’s news comes one month after the social network opened Facebook Live to all iOS users in the U.S., following a short period of limited availab … | Continue reading
Time's (basically) up: how many Oscar films did you manage to see this year? I made it through five of the eight best picture nominees, plus another five features that show up elsewhere in the list. Which, really, should be enough to let me argue with people even though I haven't … | Continue reading
After first rolling out to iOS users back in January, Facebook is now getting ready to bring its live video streaming service to Android in an attempt to compete with Periscope. | Continue reading
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has now arrived to GeForce Now, allowing you to stream the game on your NVIDIA SHIELD devices. | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss Apple versus the FBI. Links James Allworth: The U.S. has Gone F&*%ing Mad — Medium James Allworth: How the Apple/FBI Fight Risks the Whole U.S. Tech Industry — Harvard Business Review Ben Thompson: Apple, The FBI, and Security — Stratechery Radley Balko: Sur … | Continue reading
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The biggest winner of Mobile World Congress 2016 wasn't a phone or a phone manufacturer, but a phone chip manufacturer: Qualcomm. Having endured a rough time in 2015 due to heat and power issues with its Snapdragon 810 flagship-class processor, the American chipmaker has returned … | Continue reading