All eyes are on Microsoft next year, in 2011 the team screwed up by offering a mobile-like experience to Windows customers with Windows 8, alongside pricing it rather highly, compared to Apple who decided to drop the price of OS X and make it free to all desktop users on the platform. It looks like […]
Leave it up to Facebook to develop something useful. As of yesterday (Wednesday), a new feature known simply as Safety Check has been unveiled. And, it’s exactly what it sounds like: a tool that lets your friends and family members know you’re safe in the event of a local emergency. How exactly does Facebook know […]
It’s not been a good past couple of days for Snapchat or their users. Approximately 200,000 photos which users thought had been deleted have reportedly been put online by hackers, some of them believed to have been of nude underage children, since half of Snapchat’s users are between the ages of 13 and 17. It’s […]
Google has just released the x86 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image. This allows developers to begin testing their 64-bit apps. Building 64-bit apps on an Android platform enables developers to access more addressable memory space, a bigger number of registers and new instruction sets. Google elaborated on the news: Apps built in Java will automatically […]
Veteran of British games industry, Ian Livingstone, has officially applied to open a free school with the lessons being built using video gaming. Mr Livingstone is most famous for being known as the man behind epic gaming franchises of Tomb Raider and Warhammer. If the application is successful, the school could open in 2016, would […]
For just about as long as I can remember, since I’ve been using the internet, there has been Amazon.com. I really can’t remember a time without it, that’s how big it is. Of course when I first started using it, I mainly used it to only purchase books, but now, a person can seriously buy […]