From PC Mag: Part of the Alphabet (formerly Google) empire is the moonshot factory simply called X. X focuses on inventing and launching "moonshot" technologies to make the world a better place. The latest of those technologies just became an independent company called Dandelion.
Dandelion was an...
From CNET: Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset already got one price drop back in March. Now it's getting another.
As part of the "Summer of Rift" sales promotion Oculus is having, the VR headset and a pair of Touch controllers are down to a combined $399, a $200 drop. That undercuts the HTC Vive...
Last week, I made a bet with one of the interns in the office. For the longest time, I have been working about three kilometers away from Chinatown and I have always wanted to go there. We were talking over lunch about how long it would take to walk from our office to Chinatown. I definitely thought it would take less than forty minutes, while the intern was sure it would take more. Over our lunch break, we started our walk. Along with two other...
One of my favorite comedy movies is the Pink Panther movie starring Steve Martin. I know the comedy in that movie is fairly specific and is not everyone's cup of tea. However, there are some laugh out loud jokes. Of course, if I attempt in any way to retell the joke right here, it would fall flat, and you would probably never want to watch it. There is also a sequel to the movie, but it is much worse than the first. What I enjoyed most about the...
From The Verge: Apple says that Imagination Technologies, a chip designer that’s currently blaming Apple for its collapse, is essentially lying about how long the company was aware that Apple’s business plans would leave it behind.
In a statement to Bloomberg this morning, Apple says it’s...
From CNET: Things are looking up for Xiaomi.
The company has just announced a record high of 23.16 million phones shipped in the last quarter, itself an increase of 70 percent over the previous quarter.
Xiaomi has taken quite a beating from its local competitors such as Oppo, Vivo and Huawei in...
From PC Mag: Buy any games console today or invest in a gaming PC and you'll gain access to one or more digital games stores. But the feature set of each store can differ drastically. Visit Steam and you have the option to buy games for yourself or gift them to others. Visit the Xbox One store and...
From PC World: How much Total War is too much? It seems like Creative Assembly’s determined to discover the answer, today announcing yet another spin-off of the strategy series. In addition to the mainline historical Total War and the fantastical Total Warhammer, we’ll now see A Total War Saga games...
From CNET: A new strain of a malware called CopyCat has infected more than 14 million Android devices around the world, rooting phones and hijacking apps to make millions in fraudulent ad revenue, researchers at Check Point said Thursday.
While the majority of victims are in Asia, more than 280,000...
From PC Mag: Over the past 32 years Nintendo's Mario character has appeared in 20 games carrying the Super Mario name. In each and every one, repeated failure will eventually lead to a game over state. But for the 21st Super Mario game, there is no game over and therefore no game over screen.
Super...
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