Nielsen (you know, that group that’s always going on about TV show ratings) is entering a new entertainment market. The company revealed today that it is going to start gathering data and insight on mobile games. It’s calling the new program Mobile Game Tracking (MGT), and Neilse … | Continue reading
The final panel on the last full day of Consensus 2016 featured a debate between R3 CEO David Rutter and 21 CEO Balaji Srinivasan. | Continue reading
I’m not talking about you, of course, I’m talking about them — but more on that later. Today, Adblock announced a new feature that allows users to send a few pennies to the websites they visit most often. Its a feature designed to “revolutionize web monetization” by ridding the W … | Continue reading
EA is giving away free DLC for Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline in the buildup to the next Battlefield title - which is planned to be revealed this Friday at 9pm UK time.To commemorate that, the publisher is letting folks snag Battlefield 4's add-on Dragon's Teeth and Battl … | Continue reading
Ford is showcasing 50 years of automotive innovation with one strange and distinct exhibit.SEE ALSO: Google adds 100 Chrysler hybrid minivans to self-driving fleetFord and the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Alexandria, Virginia will unveil Wednesday morning a permanent … | Continue reading
Hello, friends! It's that time of the month once more, which means we've got a delicious hot 'n ready episode of the RPG Reload Podcast ready for your consumption! The main topic this time around is Crescent Moon's Ravensword: Shadowlands [$6.99], and we ended up doing something … | Continue reading
Uber wants to use machine learning to predict when a surge of people will be out looking for rides. The intention is to get more cabs on the road before surge pricing would normally kick in. That way, drivers will be ready and waiting for riders when the surge happens — and rider … | Continue reading
Forget Google Glass, forget smart contacts. Google is going the whole nine yards with a device that will be injected into your eye. | Continue reading
If you were a console gamer last generation, chances are good that you have a story about a broken Xbox 360. Years later, one of the people responsible for overseeing that mess is talking about what that crisis taught him. Microsoft’s customer satisfaction numbers never dropped d … | 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
This is my opening speech at GamesBeat Summit 2016. Welcome. We are still here. Many game publications have come and gone. Game conferences have also faded away. But GamesBeat is still alive. Why? I asked that in a recent DeanBeat column, and I wondered why we’re still relevant. … | Continue reading
If you need (or just want) to get out of the lease on your apartment, a startup called Flip can help you do it — and you might even make money in the process. The company launched back in December, and now it’s joining as the “anchor startup” for the second class at MetaProp NYC, … | Continue reading
I will forever be a sucker for 2D pixel art platformers, and Sky Pirate Studios' Help I'm Haunted looks utterly amazing to me. You'll be taking your very-unlicensed set of ghost-busting equipment to Neo-Transylvania, where Dr. Victor Frankenstein has really gone off the rails, un … | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
Apple has hired robotics expert Yoky Matsuoka to work on health projects, according to a report from Fortune today. Matsuoka has an impressive resume, having co-founded Google's experimental Google X lab in 2009 before joining Nest as head of technology. Before that, she was a ro … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messaging service resumed in Brazil on Tuesday after an appeals court overturned a suspension and many of the application’s 100 million users in the country voiced outrage. WhatsApp was cut off in Brazil at 2 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Monday after a j … | Continue reading
Access to WhatsApp has been restored in Brazil, roughly 24 hours after telecom providers began blocking the messaging app in response to a court order. A judge in the Brazilian state of Sergipe ordered local phone carriers to block access to WhatsApp for 72 hours, but his ruling … | Continue reading
Balaji Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO of 21 Inc., announced the launch of the 21 software package at the Consensus 2016 blockchain conference. | Continue reading
Jet Set Radio is one of three new titles currently available on Xbox One via Xbox 360 backwards compatibility.The other games included in today's update are MX vs. ATV Reflex and Texas Hold 'Em, a 2007 XBLA poker title by Gearbox Software before it blew up with Borderlands.Last w … | Continue reading
Madison Avenue Penthouse was designed by ODA Architecture in Manhattan, New York. This penthouse has an area of 930 sqm. | Continue reading
Adblock Plus will add a new feature this year that allows its users to automatically tip the websites they visit. Its intention is to "revolutionize web monetization" by getting rid of almost all ads and instead letting readers pay websites directly. Adblock will also keep some o … | Continue reading
As part of their bug bounty program, Facebook is handing over $10,000 to award this young Instagram hacker. | Continue reading
So today Spotify launched a slightly redesigned version of its iOS app that (thankfully) ditches the overused "hamburger menu" that's become a lazy crutch for developers. The new layout is way more sensible! And as my colleague Jake says, it's definitely easier to navigate. But t … | Continue reading
Rusty Moyher's Astro Duel [$4.99 (HD)] is set to get a big update this Thursday on May 5th. Several new features are going to be in the game that are set to change the game up. A new dash ability will allow you to escape some hairy situations by double-tapping the Thrust button, … | Continue reading
Facebook's WhatsApp is back online in Brazil after the service was temporarily banned Monday, following a judge's ruling. Service was restored Tuesday afternoon after another judge in an appeals court reversed the ban, The Wall Street Journal reported. WhatsApp was offline for ab … | Continue reading
There’s a lot to like about Google’s own self-driving cars, but if you’ve got kids, you’d need a fleet just to get them to the soccer game and back. That, presumably, is why the Google initiative’s first direct collaboration with an automaker will automate a nice, roomy new Pacif … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks back our resident clicker lover Carter Dotson posted the trailer for Final Meteor, a clicker game that aims to bring a similar satisfaction as classic 16-bit JRPGs but in clicker form. The art style in Final Meteor was definitely on point and it seemed like it w … | Continue reading
Are you too sexy for LinkedIn? That’s the question photographer Julissa Shrewsbury posed in a recent blog post designed to get people thinking about what the images they use on social media say about their level of professionalism. It got the Brand Newsroom team thinking about pe … | Continue reading
Former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers took part in a fireside chat at Consensus 2016 where he discussed blockchain and bitcoin today. | Continue reading
VB LIVE: David Lane, founder and managing director of Fat Fish Games (named Best Indie Game Developer at the 2015 Apps World conference) joins our ASO masterclass to show how the company has used ASO to increase install rates by 20% and cut CPI by half. Register here for free. … | Continue reading
Philadelphia-based biotech company Bioquark, Inc. is seeking to awaken 20 dead people. Bioquark has been granted ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board at the National Institutes of Health in both the United States and India to complete a clinical trial at Anupam Hos … | Continue reading
This house is a reinterpretation of a classic terrace house conceived by Aileen Sage Architects. A house designed by architect Amelia Holliday | Continue reading
Often our desire to find a new kind of input — something beyond a mouse, trackpad, or game controller — is strictly for novelty's sake or some kind of intellectual curiosity. But while something like Tobii's eye-tracking system can be used to play Assassin's Creed, there's a seco … | Continue reading
After reviewing the video from Monday night’s Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals, the NBA has ruled there were five officiating errors made in the chaotic final 13.5 seconds of Oklahoma City’s 98-97 win at San Antonio. The referee trio of crew chief Ken Mauer, Marc Davis … | Continue reading
Beginning next week, Uber will officially transition to Android Pay as its preferred platform for in-app payments on Android smartphones. The ride hailing company integrated Google Wallet for similar purposes way back in 2013. But earlier this year, Google repurposed that app to … | Continue reading
Google just figured out how to make minivans relevant: Make them autonomous.SEE ALSO: McLaren is selling one of the rarest and fastest supercars ever builtGoogle announced Tuesday afternoon that it is teaming with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and adding 100 Chrysler Pacifica H … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Booking.com, the largest travel company in the world, will tomorrow announce a chat communication service that allows its millions of users to interact more easily with the hotels before and after their stays. The move comes during a wave of excitement surrounding the … | Continue reading
This month's Android version distribution numbers have arrived, and Marshmallow continues to make gains. | Continue reading
The NBA said Tuesday there were five incorrect non-calls on the wild final sequence in San Antonio, including a foul on Oklahoma City's Dion Waiters that referees earlier had already acknowledged they missed. | Continue reading
Another day, another confirmation that the shadowy figure called Satoshi Nakamoto is indeed Craig “Verbal” Wright. This time Wright himself claims that he will offer “extraordinary proof” that he is Satoshi. This means, we can assume, he will sign messages using Satoshi’s private … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it has partnered with Fiat Chrysler to get dozens more self-driving cars in the wild. The partnership was rumored to be in the works last week, and now it’s real. “We’re planning to more than double our fleet with the initial addition of about 100 new … | Continue reading
Just as expected, Google has announced that it's planning to more than double the amount of self-driving cars in its fleet thanks to a new deal with Fiat Chrysler. | Continue reading
If Nixon went to China today, he’d be playing League of Legends. Online gaming was worth $15.3 billion in China in 2015, but Asian games market intelligence group Niko Partners expects that number to reach $20.4 billion by 2020. The growth is thanks to the popularity of esports i … | Continue reading
Tesla is adding a new 75kWh battery option to its Model S sedan. The new battery will deliver 259 miles of range, up from 240 miles in the 70kWh battery, which will still be available. The larger 90kWh battery boasts 294 miles of range. The 75kWh battery will be a $3,000 option w … | Continue reading
Most of Captain America: Civil War breaks down into two storytelling modes. In one, heroes have quiet, sincere talks about their personal beliefs and intentions. They explore the principles they operate on, and sincerely try to communicate them to each other. In the other mode, t … | Continue reading
Google, the company who wants you to live forever so it can continue to pull every bit of interesting information about you to sell to advertisers, has filed a patent to shove a computer into your eye. Forget smart contacts — Google wants to be inside your eye. I … | Continue reading
Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are working together to put self-driving capabilities into Pacifica minivans. From Google: This collaboration with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is the first time we’ve worked directly with an automaker to create our vehicles. FCA will desig … | Continue reading
The enterprise level distributed ledger technology solutions provider Bloq has waded into the deeper waters of blockchain technology by announcing its very first product, a truly enterprise level product called BloqEnterprise. As the name suggests, this enterprise level solution … | Continue reading