Google just published best practices for bloggers who receive free products or services. If bloggers don’t follow the practices, the search engine giant may consider them in violation of its webmaster guidelines and eliminate them from search results. PR and marketing departments … | Continue reading
Michael Goguen, the longtime venture capitalist who was asked to leave Sequoia Capital last week following a stunning breach of contract complaint, has just filed a counter complaint in San Mateo County Court. In reaction to claims that Goguen sexually and emotionally abused a wo … | Continue reading
After shelling out $2m in rewards to security bounty hunters in 2015, Google today announced it’s doubling the reward for revealing top security flaws from $50k to $100k. Google has been pretty serious about its security on everything Chrome, and has had a bug-hunting bounty in p … | Continue reading
Since the dawn of music, mankind has wished to turn their laziest vocal expressions into song. And since roughly 2011, when Smule introduced the Songify app, that's been totally possible. But what if you just wanted to hum? That was the ambitious question that Samsung began to as … | Continue reading
Verizon wants to put a brand new Samsung smartphone in your hand every single year. | Continue reading
Microsoft just gave the term "console wars" a whole new meaning.Xbox developers now (or soon will — as of yet, it's not clear) have the ability to support cross-network play in their games. That means Xbox players can clash with PC or even PlayStation/Nintendo players in the mult … | Continue reading
A surprisingly smart tyrannosaur has been uncovered — and this dinosaur may have hunted smarter, not harder, evidence suggests. Once thought to have grown large while acquiring intelligence, this new specimen suggests something new: tyrannosaurs didn't have to be big to be smart. … | Continue reading
Microsoft today pulled the covers off of some holograms that people have made with Actiongram, a tool for creating holographic experiences for the HoloLens augmented reality headset that doesn’t require developers to have a lot of visual-effects experience. Microsoft first made m … | Continue reading
Next-generation blockchain platform Ethereum has released 'Homestead' the first production release of its software. | Continue reading
Users will be able to test drive Android games from mobile search results through a new ad format called Search Trial Run Ads. | Continue reading
This morning we posted a 360-degree interview with Michelle Obama. It was an incredibly ambitious project, and we learned a lot. One of my favorite parts of shooting in 360 degrees is the ability to see the whole production (even me in the corner), including everything that went … | Continue reading
Nokia may be a dinosaur of the smartphone world, but the Finnish company has been pushing its technology smarts in other verticals recently — one of which is the Ozo virtual reality (VR) camera. First announced last summer, Nokia opened pre-orders for the camera back in November … | Continue reading
Battlezone VR will contain a procedurally-generated campaign, developer Rebellion (Sniper Elite, Aliens vs. Predator) revealed. "Whenever a player starts a new campaign, the game's 'Hex' campaign map is re-generated procedurally, and dozens of environments, levels and mission typ … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever thought your GitHub pull request was so good it should have been a paid gig, now it can be. CodeMill is taking an interesting approach to open source. Rather than leave it up to good souls who want to help out, it’s letting developers and organizations monetize the … | Continue reading
The head of Alphabet Inc's Google self-driving car program will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to grant national auto safety regulators new authority to speed the introduction of self-driving cars on American roads. | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is a unique game, and the first of its kind. Dragon’s Tale was the first Bitcoin Casino game to offer its users the chance to play a role play game where they can complete tasks, engage the community and earn some real bitcoins. Dragon’s Tale developed a new gamblin … | Continue reading
We hear a lot about how companies like Uber are transforming car-based transportation, but today comes news of another play in the sector, this time covering rail services. Trainline, a U.K.-based ticket service for railway and long-distance bus journeys, has acquired Captain Tra … | Continue reading
Digital currency exchange Bitfinex has added ether trading prior to the release of the Ethereum's next software implementation 'Homestead'. | Continue reading
While her actual doppelganger may be disputed, this isn’t: C4D’s Alicia Fiorletta is an unquestionably talented Content Strategist who shines at distilling important strategies and messaging into engaging content for Content4Demand and our clients. Alicia juggles an impressive nu … | Continue reading
An excerpt from the newly released book "Intelligent Content: A Primer” provides the top five characteristics of intelligent content. | Continue reading
Google has lost an appeal in a Russian court against an antitrust ruling pertaining to its Android mobile OS. The competition complaint was brought against Android back in February 2016 by local company Yandex. Read More | Continue reading
Netflix confirmed this morning the existence of what appeared to be a new Android beta testing program, but says it did not intend to make it available to consumers via Google Play. In addition, the company tells us that features in the beta app should not be taken as indication … | Continue reading
Oklahoma City police are holding a news conference to discuss the death of Chesapeake Energy founder Aubrey McClendon, whose body was found in a burning car beneath a rural turnpike two weeks ago. | Continue reading
This puts Google in something of a pickle, because they’re staring down the barrel of a serious fine if they don’t radically change their business model in Russia. | Continue reading
King's Quest - Chapter 3: Once Upon a Climb is due 26th April on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. This time it out we follow the exploits of young King Graham rescuing his future bride from the witch Hagatha's tower.The Odd Gentlemen's reboot of Sierra's classic point-and-cli … | Continue reading
Out first meeting at GDC was with Molly and Erik from Arcane Circus, they're from a city I can't pronounce in The Netherlands, and had one of the best game pitches I've seen in a long time. The game itself is a collection of mini games centralized around the idea of doing everyth … | Continue reading
Game developers on Android now have an easy way to turn their fans into livestreamers. Google revealed today that it is opening up Android’s built-in gameplay recording to developers. Studios can enable players to start recording or broadcasting their gameplay with the touch of a … | Continue reading
Game developers are about to get a handful of tools that should make their jobs easier. Google announced a number of improvements to its suite of Google Play game services that should help developers make better apps and more money. These features include a way for studios to byp … | Continue reading
At this point, there's very little difference between the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. But there was one key differentiating point. Xbox gamers could only play with Xbox and PC players as Microsoft was restricting access to the multiplayer component. Microsoft just announ … | Continue reading
Over the past six years, Google has paid security researchers over $6 million (over $2 million last year alone) since launching its bug bounty program in 2010. The company today expanded its Chrome Reward Program with two changes: Increasing its top reward for Chromebooks and add … | Continue reading
The topic you hear all the time around mobile games is trying to create the first big mobile gaming eSport. Vainglory [Free] is really trying at it, throwing events all the time including one this past weekend in Santa Monica. And you see things like Super Senso aiming towards co … | Continue reading
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, the next hack-and-slash action affair by Platinum Games (Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance), will launch on 24th May for PS4, Xbox One,, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.The release date was revealed in a new trailer exclusive to I … | Continue reading
A month after a Google Lexus caused a minor accident with a Mountain View, California bus, Google has set out to ensure that it never happens again with a patent called “Bus Detection for Autonomous Vehicles.” The patent, filed March 8, uses image recognition technology that allo … | Continue reading
Promoted by PayPalSome older stuff is cool. Everyone loves a vintage leather jacket, and classic movies are favorites across generations. But in some cases, old can mean outdated, and when something's outdated, it's simply time to upgrade. Just because something's always been don … | Continue reading
While most of the discussions around blockchain have focused on its potential use in finance, startup Blockai is looking at something different — helping artists, photographers and other creators register their work so that they can protect it from potential copyright infringemen … | Continue reading
“We are not as endlessly manipulable and predictable as you would think,” says Dan Pink in Drive. The results of an MIT study demonstrated that while there is a correspondence between effort expended and inventive expected for mechanical skills. However, when the task involved ev … | Continue reading
Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference. These range from new tools for managing virtual goods and currencies, to the launch of a video recording API so developers can make it easier for pla … | Continue reading
Today at the Game developers Conference (GDC), Google announced new features that will allow developers to make more money, learn more about users and stand out in the crowded Play Store marketplace. Independent developers have the spotlight A new Play Store section named ‘Indie … | Continue reading
Netflix uses a lot of data. That’s fine and dandy when you’re on your laptop using Wi-Fi, but with most mobile plans limited to specific alotment of gigabytes, it can be a problem. Thankfully, the company is working on a solution. Netflix now offers a beta channel on the Play Sto … | Continue reading
On the heels of the White House Computer Science For All initiative (#CSForAll) announcement and the celebration of National Engineers Week, we are excited about the work being done to make STEM opportunities accessible for all kids. The #CSForAll initiative is a plan to ensure … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Remember when your teacher made you sit in the corner after you did something bad and you would spend all that time thinking up crazy ideas for video games? Well, Google is bringing that feature to its Android app market … sorta. Indie Corner is a new feature in t … | Continue reading
Google is announcing a slew of new features for Play Games today, and the coolest might actually be a new type of ad. It might not sound particularly exciting — Google has given the new ad format the drab title "search trial run ads" — but the feature now makes it possible to try … | Continue reading
Golden State Warriors General Manager Bob Myers shows off his workout routine: playing one-on-one basketball with other coaches from the NBA championship team. Photo: Lisa Wiseman for The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
On Feb. 14, one of the company’s several dozen test vehicles struck a bus, the first accident where the autonomous system was at fault. On March 8, a pair of Google researchers filed a patent entitled “Bus Detection for an Autonomous Vehicle.” The patent details specific image re … | Continue reading
A former Volkswagen employee says the company destroyed documents that were required to be preserved because of an EPA lawsuit, reports the Courthouse News Service.The allegation comes in a wrongful termination lawsuit against Volkswagen filed earlier this month by Daniel Donovan … | Continue reading
While it’s been possible for cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 gamers for a while now, there’s never been a way for you to play against, say, a buddy playing the same game on a PS4. That’s set to change in the future, however, with the introduction of cross-plat … | Continue reading
Microsoft is announcing a big new feature for Xbox owners today: cross-network play. It's something the software giant has hinted at for years, and now it seems the reality of PS4, Xbox One, and PC players playing the same game together might finally happen. Developers building g … | Continue reading
Ever wonder how that magic miracle machine in your pocket stays so in-contact with the world around you? Wonder no more! Here we unveil the secret of mobile networks. | Continue reading