Candy Crush and its mind-blowing success has spawned an endless see of candy-based games looking to grab even a tiny piece of that money-printing pie, and as such it's hard not to kind of dismiss any new puzzle games built around the theme of candy. In Puzzlepops!, an upcoming lo … | Continue reading
"You mind if I smoke?"I’m sitting outside a trailer in Austin, TX, a few days into the South by Southwest film festival, talking with director Ilya Naishuller. There’s a relentless energy about the young Russian filmmaker in the Ray-Ban aviators; he leans forward intensely one mo … | Continue reading
I bought an Apple Watch six months ago. This was no casual purchase. As an Apple fan, a watch collector and with more than 20 years of experience in the design innovation space, I had extremely high expectations of the purchase. While I have enjoyed the stylish Apple Watch’s feat … | Continue reading
New York City residents who found themselves tweeting at a bar in 2014 may have actually been contributing to the betterment of machine-learning algorithms. And let’s be honest, drinking for science is an idea I think each of us can get behind. A study published this week by a gr … | Continue reading
It’s finally here. After teaming up with Michael J. Fox to tease us with self-lacing Nike Mags on Back To The Future day in October, Nike has finally announced a mass production shoe that will feature real-life power laces. Meet the HyperAdapt 1.0. Announced today at the Nike Inn … | Continue reading
Google’s Local Business Cards are a new publishing “podium” for local businesses’ content. Here’s how they might change local optimization and SEO. | Continue reading
It’s time to take wearable devices to the next level. Plume Labs and DigitasLBi have teamed up for an interesting experiment. What if pigeons could fly around London with tiny backpacks to measure air pollution during peak hours? I’m not sure if they were drunk when they thought … | Continue reading
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are teaming up once again, this time to launch a new reality show called The Runner exclusively on Verizon's Go90 video app. The show has an outlandish premise: one individual must traverse the country in less than 30 days unnoticed while countless part … | Continue reading
Nike just announced a self-lacing shoe called the HyperAdapt 1.0, bringing to life the dream that sneaker fans have shared since Back to the Future II premiered almost 30 years ago.When you step into the HyperAdapt 1.0 your heel hits a sensor that automatically tightens the laces … | Continue reading
The venerable bento box, Japan's lunchtime staple of schoolchildren and office workers alike, is one of the few things that have defied the country's famously fast-moving innovation cycles. But one new commercial from Japan offers a new idea for the busy salaryman on the go: the … | Continue reading
Valve has released a list of 38 titles coming to Vive as part of its GDC showcase this year.The following titles aren't 100 per cent confirmed to be ready at launch, but most, if not all, should be available shortly after Vive ships in early April.It's worth noting that not all o … | Continue reading
Ransomware has become the malware of the season. Other malware, viruses and trojans are things of the past. Cyber criminals seem to find bitcoin ransomware more profitable than other malicious software. The number of bitcoin ransomware attacks stands evidence to it. Bitcoin ranso … | Continue reading
Early last month we talked about Exiles of Embermark, an upcoming RPG battling game that aims to give mobile players satisfying combat in one minute sessions. The game is being developed by Gunslinger Studio, an offshoot of Industrial Toys, and they showed off an in-progress buil … | Continue reading
First Lady Michelle Obama’s keynote at SXSW brought an all-star panel together for a broad discussion of music, activism, and diversity, one that also gave her a chance to encourage men in positions of power to bring other voices into the discussion. Obama was joined onstage by M … | Continue reading
In just three months, Mozilla will ask developers to try out Servo, its new browser engine. The news was first revealed in a Google Groups posting, and we reached out to Mozilla for more information. “This June, Mozilla Research plans to release the first tech demo of Servo, a ne … | Continue reading
Last year's Midnight Star [Free] was a fun take on first-person shooters rethought with mobile and touchscreens in mind. It had an element of "on rails" restriction, but this served to make the gunplay itself the focus which proved to be a great move, in my opinion. Now developer … | Continue reading
High-performance Camaros have always been enlivening, raucous and fast. That's just the nature of the best. However, they've never really been techie machines. More often than not, they've supplanted modernity and creature comforts with a Big Gulp-size of American muscle performa … | Continue reading
The integration of offline to online as well as online to offline is a fascinating new frontier for marketers. | Continue reading
Sony announced yesterday that its PlayStation VR headset costs $399 when it launches in October. And that move has gone over well with industry analysts, who expect this to be a $30 billion market by 2020. “I like the price point, but it doesn’t include all the necessary componen … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is the most original and innovative game players are able to find in the entire digital currency Industry. In this game, the developer has found a way of mixing two of the most wanted gaming styles in the whole gaming industry. Dragon’s Tale brings a Casino-based g … | Continue reading
In the wake of its GDC 2016 announcements of price-point, release date and headline software, Sony has begun to reveal more of the inner workings of PlaySta… | Continue reading
BMW and Nissan are reportedly in talks to join Formula E, the global all-electric racing series that was started in 2014. "Multiple sources" have confirmed to Autosport that the manufacturers are already speaking with teams about becoming a part of the series as early as the thir … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that it is partnering with Dominion Virginia Power and the Commonwealth of Virginia to build a 20 megawatts solar energy plant in Virginia. Microsoft — like its competitors AWS, Google and others — has long been investing in renewable energy projects. Mo … | Continue reading
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a General Exclusion Order banning a number of personal transporter products that infringe on Segway's patents. The infringing products are banned from importation into the United States until the relevant patents expire.The o … | Continue reading
Samsung has a problem. It can't stop putting stones on its devices. It keeps happening. The company needs help. And now the problem has escalated. Mere Swarovski crystals weren't enough for Samsung. No, now it's graduated to the harder stuff. The hardest stuff. Samsung has partne … | Continue reading
The Samsung Gear S2 by de GRISOGONO is a statement of status, style, and perhaps even opulence. | Continue reading
Interdealer broker ICAP has completed an internal blockchain technology trial focused on securities post-trade processes. | Continue reading
A new Waze update for iOS aims to take the stress out of planning the perfect departure time to make sure that you’re never late — or obscenely early — again. ‘Planned Drives’ works best when you grant Waze access to your calendar and/or Facebook so that all of your appointments … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Choice Awards is the closest event the games industry has to the Oscars or the BAFTAs. Held annually at the Game Developers Conference, the ceremony celebrates the previous year's best video games and the artists, musicians, programmers, designers, and produce … | Continue reading
A medtech startup called AliveCor today unveiled what may be the first medical-grade EKG band for the Apple Watch, the Kardia Band, pending its FDA clearance. The product is intended to help wearers detect cardiac arrhythmia conditions that can cause stroke, as well as indicate w … | Continue reading
The FAA has been voicing its concerns over the threat posed by drones to airplanes for a while now. Nobody likes the idea of something damaging an aircraft they’re travelling through the sky in so of course people welcomed efforts by the organization to curb any accidents. Howeve … | Continue reading
Ninja Theory is making a highly realistic viking psychological thriller called Hellblade. At the center of it is a woman warrior, Senua, who is battling madness. The game studio showed off an amazing demo today at Epic Games’ briefing at the Game Developers Conference in San Fran … | Continue reading
For an extremely limited time, Samsung is offering you a free wireless charger when you buy one. Offer ends Friday. | Continue reading
Buzz the bee mascot for Honey Nut Cheerios has gone missing. The cereal character is out to save the real bees. In a superb example of cause marketing with an inspired product tie-in, General Mills temporarily removed the picture of the bee mascot from boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that its browsers will stop supporting the RC4 cipher over HTTPS connections next month. The change to Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 will come as part a cumulative security update on the next Patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of every month): A … | Continue reading
An executive for the United Launch Alliance compared two of the company's business partners to "two fiancées" that ULA has to plan on marrying, Space News reported. Brett Tobey, ULA's vice president for engineering, was discussing how ULA has commissioned new rocket engines from … | Continue reading
Drones and airplanes might not be as dangerous a mix as everyone thinks.At least that's the conclusion George Mason University researchers made after studying the Federal Aviation Administration’s wildlife strike database. More specifically, they looked at bird-strike data.Largel … | Continue reading
Independent developer TouchMint has come out with a really clever companion app to Clash Royale [Free] that will help you figure out when your long-awaited magical and giant chests are bound to hit. Chest Tracker for Clash Royale [Free] is pretty much what it says on the tin: it … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants developers to use Xbox Live to facilitate budding esports and pro-gamer scenes. The company announced today that it is incorporating a new tournaments feature geared toward developers into Xbox Live. Xbox product manager Jason Ronald took the stage at the Game Dev … | Continue reading
Every year, mosquito bites cause up to 400 million dengue virus infections — but an experimental vaccine developed by the NIH could change that. Though the study of the vaccine was small, its results were promising. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Google is changing how its massive webcrawler, Googlebot, is identified when accessing websites. Googlebot's job is to scan the internet and add any new websites or updated webpages to Google's index, a catalogue that underlies its search engine. When doing this, Googlebot will p … | Continue reading
When you think of Maserati, you probably think of expensive Italian steel — you know, the kinds of machines that are built for traveling triple-digit speeds with ease. And that's more or less an accurate assessment. But hopefully, they're only breaking the speed limit at your com … | Continue reading
Approach, research and teamwork are essential ingredients for successful inbound selling. | Continue reading
The Pi 3 has a better CPU plus built-in Wi-Fi & Bluetooth. Is it a worthwhile upgrade? Is the now the best time to buy your first Pi board? Let's find out. | Continue reading
Microsoft has teamed up with esports league ESL to introduce a new Xbox Live SDK for standardised esports tournament support.This will allow developers and publishers easier access to organise esports events within their game, over Xbox Live. Furthermore, this will extend to Wind … | Continue reading
With the success of Crossy Road [Free] and its many spinoffs, it can be tough to get excited when a developer describes their upcoming game is an "endless hopper." You immediately imagine yet another Verby Noun game that doesn't do anything especially different from the many simi … | Continue reading
Three years after launching a $100 million initiative to create a Watson-inspired tech platform that finds “commercially viable solutions to the continent’s grand challenges,” Watson’s African equivalent—Lucy—is shaping up and IBM’s Africa research facility is more defined in st … | Continue reading
While South by Southwest is a festival that examines a lot of things — new technology, up-and-coming trends, and big questions about the future of film, music and technology — rarely do attendees get the opportunity to see a battle that was sparked and largely fought online play … | Continue reading