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Kids are mean. Just ask any robot. Robotics engineers have discovered a tendency for little kids – kindergartners and grade schoolers – to be abusive towards robots when they’re not near their parents. To prove this, the researchers sent a wheeled robot out into a mall and watched it perambulate around foot traffic. When a little kid approached with his or her parent, the… Read More... →

Lionsgate is teaming up with Starbreeze and others to make a virtual reality game based on Keanu Reeves’ John Wick action flick. The deal shows that a few Hollywood and gaming powerhouses believe that virtual reality will emerge as the next big video game platform. Starbreeze will target the HTC Vive VR platform, which is based […]... →

As Twitter marches closer to selecting its next CEO, outspoken early investor in the company Chris Sacca has made his personal choice known. Via Twitter of course: Twitter's board of directors should put this looming uncertainty to rest by naming those three and letting everyone get back to work. — Chris Sacca (@sacca) August 7, 2015 In a multi-part tweet storm, Sacca backs up… Read More... →

More than 200,000 music lovers are about to don their spirit hoodies and flower crowns for San Francisco’s popular Outside Lands music festival this weekend. That means lots of traffic, congestion, and headaches for neighbors near Golden Gate Park. Ridesharing startup Lyft is helping to combat the problem by picking people up in several music-themed vans. Lyft partnered with Outside… Read More... →

Verizon today introduced a new set of mobile service plans, and nowhere in them does the company offer to subsidize new phones. Subscribers need to buy the phone outright or pay monthly installments. Consumers have always liked the idea of getting a big price break in exchange for signing a two-year contract, but most do […]... →

You don’t just wake up an expert on how to write a crappy headline, someone has to coach you. Thanks to Panz, you are now reading this gem. Coaching is a big business though and there’s a platform for it called Coach.me that’s been seeing some pickup as of late. It was founded by former Odeo engineer Tony Stubblebine and incubated by Obvious, Inc’s investment arm.… Read More... →

IT management platform ZenHub has opened up its enterprise offering worldwide, making its project management tool more available to those with on-premises instances of GitHub. The first customers to take advantage of this include Ikyu.com, ICON Health & Fitness, and photo service Imgur. Called ZenHub Enterprise, it’s billed as the “first-ever collaboration and project management solution” […]... →

Disclosure: The organizers of ChinaJoy paid my way to Shanghai. Our coverage remains objective. SHANGHAI — Xaiofeng Zeng is one of the veteran analysts who studies the Chinese gaming market — and lives in Shanghai. He works as a senior for market researcher Niko Partners, and he recently forecast that the Sony and Microsoft game […]... →

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Clippy is arguably the most beloved and hated animated character that Microsoft has ever come up with. We can’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the little paperclip than a whole music video. That’s exactly what the UK band Delta Heavy has done. Their song Ghost doesn’t mention Clippy by name, but […]... →

The Internetogencia was all in a tizzy this week as it commented upon a cover photo from Time magazine extolling the simple joys of VR. The cover, if you haven’t seen it, features the disheveled founder of Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey, who looked like a jolly baby as he bumbled around a virtual seashore. In short, it was WhiteGuysWearin’OculusRifts on the cover of a major news… Read More... →

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ЦП решил узнать, что публикуют в своих профилях в Instagram известные российские и зарубежные предприниматели и представители ИТ-индустрии. В сегодняшнем выпуске — основатель международного конгломерата Virgin Group Ричард Брэнсон.... →

Исполнительный директор по развитию бизнеса на массовом рынке «Мегафона» и гендиректор ООО «Скартел» (бренд Yota) Михаил Дубин покинул оба поста. Об этом сообщает «Интерфакс» со ссылкой на заявление компании.... →

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! We covered a ton of news coming out of the Gamescom conference in Cologne, including the reveal of World of Warcraft’s next expansion. Also, a composer might have accidentally revealed a Final Fantasy XII remaster, and we compared all of the current toys-to-life game franchises. Happy reading, and have […]... →

Соцсеть для врачей  «Доктор на работе» (ДНР) запустила приложение «Лекарство для мам», которое позволяет узнать, безопасно ли то или иное лекарство для беременной или кормящей матери. Приложение работает на основе основе европейской базы данных безопасности лекарств для кормящих мам. Как пишет Roem, с помощью сервиса  компания рассчитывает монетизировать желание фармкомпаний напрямую связываться с пациентами. Для пользователей приложение будет бесплатным. Ранее ДНР запускала два приложения – «Спроси врача» ... →

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В открытом офисе на территории Института «Стрелка» сотрудники eBay будут консультировать всех желающих... →

Джон Кейплз пришел в агентство BBDO в 1927 году, имея за плечами всего два года работы в качестве копирайтера. Однако там он остановился на 56 лет, где дорос до вице-президента, а последние годы провел в должности креативного директора.Он стал одним из первых рекламистов, кто освоил директ-маркетинг и уделял больше внимание тестированию рекламы. Самой известной его книгой стала «Проверенные методы рекламы», в которой он опубликовал результаты множества своих исследований.ЦП приводит 10 его высказываний о за... →

(Reuters) — A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world’s first ‘car in a bag’. Twenty-six-year-old Kuniako Saito and his team at Cocoa Motors recently unveiled the lithium battery-powered “WalkCar” transporter, which is the size of a laptop and resembles a […]... →