The Skype team today announced that anyone using a Chromebook or Chrome on Linux can visit web.skype.com to make one-to-one and group voice calls on top of the messaging features they get today.The Alpha version of Skype based on WebRTC inherits the same features as the Alpha ver … | Continue reading
It's interesting watching the flow of game design over time. While it's sometimes painful to watch established game designs hop from a paid model to a free-to-play set-up, those very same free-to-play hits have now been around long enough to start inspiring developers to travel t … | Continue reading
Few spaces are safe from computers anymore. We’ve got them in our refrigerators, in our beds, and on our bikes. I would say all these spaces should be sacred so as to make relaxing while eating, sleeping, and biking easier, but whatever, I've clearly lost this war. Now, Garmin is … | Continue reading
Thirty Flights of Loving and Atom Zombie Smasher developer Blendo Games is releasing its long-anticipated cyberpunk heist game Quadrilateral Cowboy on 25th July.This will only be the PC version, however. The Mac and Linux versions will follow in September.Quadrilateral Cowboy has … | Continue reading
In the early morning hours I pad down the hallway in my grandmother’s ranch-style home in Martins Ferry, Ohio. It’s June 1986. I’m eleven years old and still in my pajamas. The house has cooled overnight and it’s even a bit chilly but as the sun rises the dark roof will warm up a … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s grand vision for the Kinect clearly hasn’t gone according to plan. The few Xbox One games that supported the device for motion or voice controls were mostly forgettable, while the Kinect also largely failed to catch on as a way to navigate the console’s myriad menus. … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is calling for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's resignation after she spoke out against the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. WSJ's law bureau chief Ashby Jones joins Tanya Rivero to discuss the precedent for political comments from the Justices, and t … | Continue reading
If you've ever been at a large event like a music festival, you're probably aware of just how awful cell service can get as hundreds or thousands of people all try Instagramming from the same spot. AT&T thinks it might have a solution.In a blog post today, AT&T floated the idea o … | Continue reading
You want fries with your Psyduck? If a snippet of code found in the Pokemon app has been correctly parsed, McDonald’s could soon be a sponsored location within the Pokemon Go app. Deep within the app’s code there’s a curious mention of McDonald’s; specifically, it reads Sponsored … | Continue reading
The Harry Potter film series might be long over, but recent trademark filings from Warner Brothers shows that the film company could be planning for the franchise beyond the upcoming Fantastic Beasts trilogy, with the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.The story of Harry Pott … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is family friendly entertainment, while also being the latest popular video game about life after the apocalypse and nature’s inevitable reclamation of our planet. At least, that’s my theory.Unlike the series of roleplaying games that precede it, Pokémon Go doesn’t bot … | Continue reading
ETNews, a credible Korean tech publication, reported today that both Samsung and LG would bring forward the release of their respective flagships. | Continue reading
BitTorrent has long focused on helping others distribute content online — but starting next week, BitTorrent plans to start producing content of its own. It's launching an online TV channel called BitTorrent News, which will provide live news coverage of politics and sports.The c … | Continue reading
We live in an age with no shortage of robot animals — they seem to multiply like little unstable rabbits, except they're hardly ever rabbits — but none have proven themselves quite so relatable as this one. This is PneuHound, and while its name doesn't quite slide off the tongue, … | Continue reading
A Dutch asset management service that oversees the largest pension fund for government and education workers in the Netherlands has begun exploring possible blockchain applications. APG announced earlier this week it is partnering with Maastricht University and the Netherlands Or … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is giving away the first Splinter Cell to celebrate the publisher's 30th anniversary.As such, it's offering one free game a month on PC. Last month it was Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and there are still five months to go this year. What could be next?You only have … | Continue reading
A Nintendo game for smartphones sends people around the real world chasing virtual monsters. WSJ's Joanna Stern takes to the streets to explain everything you need to know about the latest craze. Photo: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. | Continue reading
Tesla has ended its Resale Value Guarantee program for cars purchased after July 1st, a company spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge. The program guaranteed the resale value of a Tesla Model S after three years when purchased through one of the company’s loan financing program … | Continue reading
As early reviews have indicated, Paul Feig's new Ghostbusters isn't the transcendent antidote for years of Hollywood gender imbalance some might have hoped for. It's broad and dubiously sentimental, and relies gross-out slime gags to mega-pratfalls. Its special effects are big an … | Continue reading
Adobe has updated Lightroom for both iOS and Android, each with some special features users will love. On the Android side, a new photo capture experience brings manual controls like shutter speed, ISO, white balance and focus. There is also a new capture widget for Lightroom, an … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has already brought in millions of users and tons of money to Nintendo. Now, just a week after its release, developer Niantic is preparing for its next big move. Financial Times reports that the company plans on letting advertisers create sponsored locations to drive b … | Continue reading
Wissenschafts-Moderator Steve Mould demonstriert, charmant wie gewohnt, wiederum mit seinem Messbecher die Eigenschaften eines ausgefuchsten Kunststoffs: Natriumpolyacrylat. Der Superabsorber kann das 200fache seines Eigengewichts binden und kommt in... | Continue reading
In the fleeting ecosystem that is the App Store, games live and die by the strength of their core concept, and how well the developers are able to execute such pivotal ideas. Owing to the ease of development for iOS, there are innumerable innovative ideas in games - in terms of r … | Continue reading
Your website is the entry point to your sales funnel. You have to build your site and everything that happens on it with that in mind. | Continue reading
Double Fine's sci-fi action platformer Headlander will launch on 26th July for PS4 and PC, publisher Adult Swim has announced.Set in a future where mankind has collectively uploaded its consciousness into the cloud, there is only one human still tethered to their corporeal form - … | Continue reading
Pitching” to journalists and bloggers remains an indispensable PR skill despite the rising influence of social media. As PR pros develop content marketing, social media and video programs, they can’t neglect media relations. When done well, media relations can reach more people, … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has quickly become one of the most viral mobile applications of all time. The game is now the biggest ever in the U.S.; it has now topped Twitter’s daily users, and it sees people spending more time in its app than in Facebook, according to reports from various trackin … | Continue reading
When you’re Land Rover, you can’t just test connected and autonomous vehicles on regular roads. You have to live up to your rugged, but polished brand, simultaneously. That’s precisely why the automaker is testing off-road connected convoy research vehicles. It’s all a part of th … | Continue reading
The RT81 is a higher end, entry-level turntable. It will cost you a little bit more than some of the $100 plastic entry-level turntables out there, but it’s much higher quality both in terms of appearance and sound quality. Read More | Continue reading
Twenty years after it was released, the Sega Saturn's DRM has finally been breached. James Laird-Wah, an engineer known online as Dr. Abrasive, has developed a way for games to be loaded onto the console via USB, skipping past the Saturn's hardware DRM system that requires game d … | Continue reading
The London Underground, famous for its iconic subway maps and stations, now wants to share its peerless fare payment system with the rest of the world. The Transport for London (TfL), which runs the Tube, signed an agreement with Cubic, a defense and transportation contractor, to … | Continue reading
Skype is getting a proper Linux client. Given it’s an alpha, there are some features missing, but it’s a good start for team Linux. To be clear, Skype already had a Linux client, but it had been long abandoned. Rather than just an update, this is an all new app follows Skyp’es mo … | Continue reading
Official Police Business is a weekly column and newsletter by reporter Matt Stroud about new developments in police technology, and the ways technology is changing law enforcement — think body cameras, cell-site simulators, surveillance systems, and electroshock weapons. Sign up … | Continue reading
Deep inside Facebook's very first data center, located in a sprawling facility in the hills of Prineville, OR, lies a series of about 60 server racks. Each one houses 32 smartphones, all of which are running a version of one of Facebook's many mobile apps. The company calls this … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Facebook gave a small group of reporters a tour of its Prineville, OR data center. In the process, the company also showed off its mobile device lab for testing on physical devices new iOS and Android versions of the Facebook app, Messenger and Instagram. The m … | Continue reading
PRINEVILLE, Oregon — Tucked deep in a Facebook data center, amid hundreds of humming server racks, nearly 2,000 smartphones are running some some version of a Facebook app.Some are scrolling through the News Feed, Facebook's notoriously algorithmic and somehow always-controversia … | Continue reading
Facebook’s quarterly earnings typically has one particularly eyebrow-raising statistic: the number of mobile users. That’s why the company’s new Oregon datacenter has a ‘Mobile Device Lab,’ which uses real devices to monitor Facebook performance in real-time. Scaling Facebook In … | Continue reading
To add to Apple's "declining sales" woes, Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are outselling the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in the U.S.. | Continue reading
When Lee Atchison arrived at Amazon, Amazon was in the process of moving from a large monolithi... | Continue reading
Pokémon GO became an overnight craze. Media outlets filled their pages with stories of people using their cell phones to search for Pokémon in stores, offices, parks – almost everywhere, sometimes gathering in large groups. The new game offers the possibility of a bonanza for mar … | Continue reading
Amazon has the OontZ Angle 3XL going for $79.99. That’s almost 40% off the normal selling price and the lowest this device has ever got on Amazon. | Continue reading
Apple has been working on an unscripted TV series for a few months now. The TV show should be about the app economy, but it’s unclear how Apple is going to distribute it. Apple just announced an open casting call. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook said it would take awhile to integrate Apple's 3D Touch features on the iPhone 6S into its apps, and it certainly has. You've been able to peek and pop within the main Facebook app for some time, but only today — two months before the next iPhone — is the same functional … | Continue reading
Are we allowed to feel joy anymore? A level of cynicism will eventually infect the joy of playing Pokémon Go, until we can no longer experience the happiness of finding a Squirtle on a park bench without anticipating the inevitable letdown.Pokémon Go is not the best game ever, no … | Continue reading
While it seems that Pokemon Go [Free] has completely taken over the planet, brave developers are still releasing new iOS games this week. The haul feels a little lighter than usual as far as big name releases are concerned, and we got more than a few emails from devs who pushed t … | Continue reading
Wenn alle Welt Pokémon Go spielt, bedeutet das eigentlich auch, dass sehr sehr viele Menschen quer durch Stadt laufen und dabei auch Orte bevölkern, die an sich keinen Besuch lohnen, aber seitdem die Realität mit begehrten Dingen wie... | Continue reading
Those of you that watched yesterday's gameplay reveal for Overwatch's newest hero, Ana, will have likely paid close attention to the moment she prevents McCree's ultimate using her sleep dart ability. That has some serious potential, we think.With the character already being play … | Continue reading
After decades, the DRM solution on the Sega Saturn has finally been bypassed without a need for mod chips. The move should boost the console's homebrew community, given that the CD-ROM drives inside the system are now more than 20 years old. | Continue reading