Easter eggs in video games are everywhere, but most don’t take nearly three decades to figure out. ‘Punch-Out’ — aka ‘Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out’ — is the obvious exception to this rule. Reddit user Midwesternhousewives used his weekend to discover an Easter egg in Punch-Out that tel … | Continue reading
It's public relations 101. What's the best way to draw attention away from bad news? Release some awesome news instead. That's what Tesla has done with this fantastic Mario Kart Easter egg. Right when the embargo lifted on the Model X recall this morning, Tesla CEO Elon Musk twee … | Continue reading
Lytro’s consumer cameras introduced the intriguing concept of being able to refocus your image after a shot was taken, but the execution wasn’t quite convenient enough to catch on with the masses. So now the company is aiming much more upmarket – professional movie-making – where … | Continue reading
Date: 18/04/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationThe European Fruit Juice Association and the PHBOTTLE consortium invites you to a half-day workshop dedicated to discussing biopolymers and their use in food and non‐food packaging applications. The EU-funded PHBOTTLE project set out … | Continue reading
For decades, Latin American elections have been rigged. In the 21st century, technology has abetted the practice, resulting in the region’s dirtiest elections over the past half-decade. And, when hacking an election, Bloomberg reports, using Bitcoin is crucial. As Enrique Peña Ni … | Continue reading
Periscope is testing a feature with beta users to allow hand-drawn doodles on top of live video streams, according to The Next Web. Called Sketching, the feature lets the broadcaster paint in an array of colors to bring attention to certain parts of a shot. You can even use an ey … | Continue reading
At CES 2016, New Balance and Intel announced they were working together to offer the first pair of sneakers outfitted with 3D-printed midsoles. Today, the companies are ready to make this reality in limited edition, but it’s going to cost ya. If you’ve got $400 handy and are in t … | Continue reading
What does virtual reality do for a game that doesn’t need to be played in VR at all? That’s the question I’ve been asking about Chronos, one of the best games on the Oculus Rift. Chronos is a gorgeous third-person action game that fits well in the Rift, using VR to turn players’ … | Continue reading
In early February we caught the first teaser for Choppa, an upcoming Choplifter-inspired side-scrolling rescue game from developer Parta Games. Choppa took the formula of rescuing people and delivering them to safety using a helicopter popularized by Choplifter and added in proce … | Continue reading
Banking consortium R3 discusses the implementation strategy behind its forthcoming distributed ledger tech Corda. | Continue reading
Although emoji fill in where words are lacking, their true meaning might be getting lost in translation. People interpret emoji differently, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. This holds true even if chatting is happening over the same operati … | Continue reading
After releasing its first public API less than two weeks ago, Ticketmaster has landed its first major integration with Facebook, first reported by Buzzfeed. The ticketing platform will begin to sell its tickets directly on Facebook in the next few weeks. (Image c … | Continue reading
A new site launching today wants to be the app store for bots. Botlist, as it’s called, is a third-party database that’s a catalog a lot of the bots currently available across platforms, including email, web, SMS, Slack, mobile, apps, and more. There’s no question that bots are a … | Continue reading
Tesla is voluntarily recalling 2,700 of its Model X vehicles over a flaw in the third-row seat that may be dangerous in an accident. In the meantime, the company has advised owners via email that they should not use the third row seat until it is replaced. Read More | Continue reading
Back in 2014 Killer 7 and No More Heroes director Suda 51 announced a PS4-exclusive free-to-play third-person brawler called Let it Die. Little has been seen of the game since, but publisher GungHo Online Entertainment has revealed that the project is still on track for a 2016 re … | Continue reading
Tesla got it right with the Model X — almost. A new report from Fortune notes the upstart car manufacturer is recalling about 2,700 of its SUVs due to faulty seats. The problem is a recliner latch on the third row seating. In testing the feature internally, Tesla engineers found … | Continue reading
LEGO games on iOS are, by this point, nothing if not reliable. Apart from the earliest releases on the platform and the occasional experiment, the LEGO games based on licensed properties all essentially do the same things. They tell (or retell) a humorous story using a selection … | Continue reading
I fear that overhyping minor vulnerabilities by branding them, pushing the topic with the media and yes, pre-announcing them will cause people to go numb to these announcements. Read More | Continue reading
Tesla Motors has issued a voluntary recall of approximately 2,700 Model X SUVs today, citing a need to check for faulty seat backs in the vehicle’s third row. The ones affected are those built before March 26 at the company’s plant in Fremont, California. The company issued an em … | Continue reading
Altitude Digital says it has poured $20 million into its just-launched Arena platform for publishers. That sounds like a lot of money for one product, but Altitude is also announcing that it has raised $17.5 million in new funding. Arena is Altitude’s customizable, self-serve SSP … | Continue reading
Kremowe, zielone risotto z groszkiem i jarmużem. Podawane z ugotowanymi na parze filetami białej ryby i zielonym pesto (z bazylii lub jarmużu). Użyłam filetów halibuta, ale może być np. dorsz, sandacz, sola, morszczuk.Risotto z jarmużem i groszkiem można też oczywiście podać jako … | Continue reading
Pay per click (PPC) is a valuable strategy that savvy PR agencies and corporate PR departments include in their repertoire. While PR does not traditionally include advertising in its services, knowledgeable PR teams now supplement their activities with PPC ads. Google AdWords is … | Continue reading
The United Launch Alliance's next rocket launch has been delayed indefinitely, as the company continues to investigate an engine malfunction that occurred on its last flight. The upcoming mission, which will send up a military communications satellite on top of an Atlas V rocket, … | Continue reading
Augmented reality gaming glasses startup CastAR recently sent out a taste of what the future of tabletop games will be like. Using its special AR glasses, CastAR can overlay animations on top of the real world, creating a “mixed reality” environment that makes you feel like you’r … | Continue reading
If you’re interested in reaching the top of the search engine results pages (SERPs), it’s beneficial to know as much as you can about how RankBrain works. | Continue reading
Drinkbox Studios proved the Vita a viable platform with the wonderful launch title Mutant Blobs Attack, then followed it up with the stylish cross-platform metroidvania Guacamelee, and now it's returning to Vita exclusivity with its latest game Severed, a first-person dungeon cra … | Continue reading
Over the weekend I played through Lost Tracks [Free], an iOS game released by a team of students from The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. Like a lot of student games, it's super experimental, which makes for a pretty neat overall experience. It's one of those weird things … | Continue reading
Online street maps have become incredibly accurate over the last few years, but most maps aren’t all that precise when it comes to knowing exactly where on a street a store, restaurant or other business is located. That’s why your Uber driver sometimes wants to drop you off in th … | Continue reading
Tesla announced this afternoon that it's voluntarily recalling the small number of Model X crossovers that were produced before March 26th, roughly 2,700 in total, over concerns that the third-row seats could fold forward in a crash. The company says the seat passed 15 previous t … | Continue reading
The planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has been returned to stable condition just days after it slipped into "emergency mode," according to NASA. Team engineers were able to point the spacecraft's communications antenna toward Earth on Sunday morning and have since been downlo … | Continue reading
‘Working hoverboard’ is a term that certainly raises flags for the team at TNW, but if this is real, it’s easily the best hoverboard prototype to date. If you’ve ever ridden one of the water-powered Flyboards that turn humans into dolphins by allowing them to jump in and out of w … | Continue reading
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos teased a new Kindle device for this week. While the company has yet to make an official announcement about the new ereader, Tmall.com’s official Kindle page leaked the device. Tmall quickly removed the device, but Kindle Fere spotted the mistake and The Digi … | Continue reading
Trading has been one of the major applications of bitcoin. The price volatility of cryptocurrencies has been exploited by day-traders across the world. As the amount of funds circulating through bitcoin trading increase, the practice is now being scrutinized by governments. In th … | Continue reading
There have been three trailers for the upcoming film Suicide Squad. Over the course of these brief excerpts of the film, we have been introduced to many things: the best line of dialogue ever uttered on screen; The Joker as a scrawny, drugged-out, '90s Tarantino villain; and a ne … | Continue reading
Technology’s neverending story has always, apparently, been the quest for The Next Big Thing. Whether that thing is something entirely new and transformative — unimaginable except within the fantastical confines of the sci-fi genre, say. Or just a far faster/more powerful iterati … | Continue reading
It is a rather outdated iPhone commercial that popularized the pretty cringy mantra ‘there’s an app for that’ back in 2009. Increasingly though, there’s now an algorithm for ‘that,’ and in this case, as spotted by TechCrunch, it’s clothes shopping. There are many subscription ser … | Continue reading
Some players of multiplayer survival game Rust are logging into the game only to discover that their avatar has a new gender. Developer Facepunch Studios, which originally launched Rust in 2013, has just recently introduced female character models to the game — previously it was … | Continue reading
Every week when we post the new games, there's always at least one person commenting asking where the hell Granblue Fantasy is. The game is a social RPG with some Final Fantasy heavy hitters behind the wheel, and first got news that it would be coming to the west back at TGS last … | Continue reading
The sixth season of Game of Thrones is only two weeks away, and each new trailer gives us a clearer picture of what to expect. And more than any other trailer before it, this spot teases as much as it can. Here, we see Davos and Melisandre at the Wall, leaving us wondering just w … | Continue reading
Director Liesl Tommy discusses the brutal effects and aftermath of the Liberian civil war as portrayed in her latest Broadway play, "Eclipsed" with Lupita Nyong’o on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Eclipsed | Continue reading
For anyone needing to use a Linux-based OS and Windows on a regular basis -- especially with different tools on each -- Microsoft's collaboration with Canonical to run Ubuntu on Windows 10 will be a very welcome new offering | Continue reading
It's not enough to get 1 million views if none of those viewers actually buy your product. Here's how to optimize videos for conversions. | Continue reading
The goal of self-driving cars is initially to make them as good as human drivers, but Ford has another trick up its sleeve to nudge things to the next level. By using Lidar, it recently showed that its autonomous vehicles can drive in complete darkness without human intervention. … | Continue reading
Friday night was a big moment for Alibaba, when the company’s artificial intelligence made its public debut. It wasn’t at a university or a tech conference — it was as the super-judge on the popular Chinese reality singing show I’m a Singer.Based on analyses of social media chatt … | Continue reading
Evolution Studios, the developer behind MotorStorm and DriveClub, has become part of Codemasters just a few weeks after Sony announced plans to shut the racing game studio. United Kingdom-based Codemasters, the maker of the Dirt and F1 racing games, aims to create a racing game p … | Continue reading
EA is ready to talk about the sequel to Titanfall. The publisher just released a brief teaser trailer for Titanfall 2, the sequel to the multiplayer mech shooter from Respawn Entertainment, a studio formed by former Call of Duty veterans. As previously reported, the game will be … | Continue reading
Dzień dobry, Dzisiaj chciałam Cię zaprosić do przyrządzenia pysznej herbatki forsycjowej. Forsycje są aktualnie u szczytu rozkwitu i nie wiem czy wiesz, ale te... | Continue reading
Many in Silicon Valley may be worrying more and more about how to transform their startup stakes into cold, hard cash. But that’s not stopping institutional investors from writing out some very big checks to venture capital firms. Somewhat astonishingly, U.S. firms just closed on … | Continue reading