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Nearly seven decades after the Chicago Tribune’s infamous presidential race headline, we’re still seeing incorrect predictions in political races. Take the 2016 Iowa caucus for example, where Ted Cruz triumphed despite expert predictions to the contrary. It’s enough to make you wonder: What data is used to create these predictions? And with today’s technology, why… Read More... →

Social marketing company Nanigans announced today that it’s launching support for Twitter. Nanigans is best known as a Facebook ad automation tool, but CEO Ric Calvillo said last year that one reason for raising the company’s $24 million Series B was to expand beyond Facebook. He’s also started to make good on that by launching on Instagram last August. Asked about what… Read More... →

The first thing I notice is a feeling of weight on my face. Followed by a sensation of standing in boundless space. A monochrome 360-degree vanishing point vista winks into view. I look around, blinking into the far distance and very quickly my adjusting eyes fill with grit… Welcome to the weird world of 21st century virtual reality. Read More... →

Posted by Sam_AnthonyToday I'm going to share how the website FunThingsToDo.io generated 22,000+ pageviews from a single blog post. The unbelievable part is that the post had zero backlinks and the domain was only three and one-half months old when this happened. (The website went live in December of 2015, while the specific article that gained this much traffic was published Feb.1, 2016.) In this post, I'm also going to share with you how FunThingsToDo gained more than 1,300 new email subscribers in just t... →

Augmented reality smart helmet company Daqri announced today that it had acquired 1066 Labs, a leading head-mounted display manufacturer focused on serving enterprise clients with augmented reality solutions. Founded in 2007, 1066 Labs manufactures a variety of “see-through components” for head-mounted displays and has worked on implementing its tech with “advanced… Read More... →

Slack laid out its plan to stay ahead of its workplace chat competitors today with new products for its 2.4 million daily active users, up from 2 million in December. The big changes will center around message enhancements, greater Usability, and voice and video. The strategy centers around building a product that enables productivity, communication, and transparency. Outside its own… Read More... →

Sony may have accidentally shared a few more details about one of 2016’s most anticipated games. No Man’s Sky is a $60 release, and Sony says it is coming out on Thursday, according to a new PlayStation blog post. The company has since updated that post and removed any reference to the science-fiction space-exploration game that simulates […]... →

Microsoft held an Xbox spring showcase last week, showing a bunch of games to the press. Here’s a summary of what they announced, as well as links to the interviews we did during the event. We saw a hands-on preview of the first act and first full video episode of Quantum Break, the big exclusive coming […]... →

A battle broke out just outside of Jerusalem Monday after GPS mapping app Waze led Israeli soldiers into the Kalandia Palestinian refugee camp. According to several reports, two armed soldiers from the Isreali Defense Force (IDF) Okets unit were traveling in a military vehicle along a route they thought was within the Isreal border. Palestinians immediately started throwing rocks and a… Read More... →

A battle broke out just outside of Jerusalem Monday after GPS mapping app Waze led Israeli soldiers into the Kalandia Palestinian refugee camp. According to several reports, two armed soldiers from the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Okets unit were traveling in a military vehicle along a route they thought was within the Israel border. Palestinians immediately started throwing rocks and a… Read More... →

Zynga has a new boss. The mobile developer and publisher announced today that Frank Gibeau will become the company’s new chief executive officer after current CEO Mark Pincus steps down. It’ll be Gibeau’s job to put Zynga back on the path of success. The company helped to start the social gaming revolution in the late […]... →

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Zynga has returned again to the Electronic Arts well of talent. The social mobile game company has named former EA executive Frank Gibeau as its new chief executive. Zynga made the announcement today, after Gibeau served for seven months on its board of directors. Mark Pincus, the founder and prior CEO, now becomes the executive […]... →

Scrolling through the @shopboxfox Instagram account is enough to notice the clean-cut aesthetic: feminine, driven, artistic. However, the ladies behind LA’s BOXFOX, Chelsea Moore, Sabena Suri and Jenni Olivero, are channeling much more than their social media accounts let on; they are enhancing strategy and technology to make one of life’s favorite moments, gift giving, easier and… Read More... →

Алишер Усманов, Владимир Скоч, Фархад Мошири, Иван Таврин и Иван Стрешинский, которые являются акционерами USM Holdings, в 2014 году создали фонд для инвестиций в технологические компании. Объём фонда $1 млрд, сообщает РБК. По данным издания, фонд инвестирует «преимущественно в азиатские» компании. Доли инвесторов в фонде распределяются пропорционально долям в USM Holdings. Алишеру Усманову принадлежит 48% USM, 30% акций у Владимира Скоча, 10% — у траста главы совета директоров USM Фархада Мошири, по 3% акц... →

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer gave a passionate defense of encryption today, saying his coming stood with Apple in its legal battle with the FBI. He made his remarks during a keynote address at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. “There is no technology better than encryption,” Smith said. “Despite the best intentions, the path to… Read More... →

A newly launched “tweak store” called Extensify wants to offer iOS users an alternative to jailbreaking their devices, by offering a simpler way to install modified versions of popular third-party applications like Snapchat, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp, Vine, Instagram and others. Unlike with some of the jailbreaking efforts in the past, the Extensify app – basically an… Read More... →

Ashes of the Singularity looks like a technical tour de force. In this real-time strategy (RTS) game for the PC, you’ll be able to take direct control of a full army, with as many as 100,000 combat units on the screen at the same time. A title like this doesn’t come along every day, and […]... →

Pouring petrol on the bonfire of news tech, Google announced that it has invested more than $30m into projects spanning the European news tech scene. The fund’s goal is to ‘help stimulate innovation in digital journalism’ over the next three years, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO said. This batch of investments is the first from a €150m ($167m) fund the company announced… Read More... →

Oh what a tangled web we weave … when we’re playing and watching Quantum Break. I discovered that the story behind the big Xbox One and Windows 10 video game coming from Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment is very complicated. That’s the hallmark of Remedy, which made memorable story-based games such as Alan Wake and Max Payne […]... →