ESports advertisers seen as way to subsidize the increasing cost of game development.
Activision Blizzard, makers of the popular Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo gaming franchises, has announced that it has acquired eSports organizer Major League Gaming (MLG) in hopes to become the ESPN of the growing world of eSports.
Much more than marketing, the experience lets users feel what it’s like to survive on Mars, just like Mark Watney. Yes, there are potatoes.
If you’re in the middle of creating what could well be Hollywood’s most ambitious consumer virtual reality project yet, you’d think having a concrete plan for how to get from beginning to end would be crucial.
A huge name in athletic wear introduces a system with its own fitness band. And scale. And heart-rate monitor. And shoes. And more.
It isn’t tough to come up with arguments against entering the fitness wearable market in 2016. After all, any company that does so is a decided latecomer to a crowded market. The first Fitbit debuted more than seven years ago; Nike, which helped ramp up the category in 2012 with its FuelBand, has already backed out of it in favor of partnering with tech-savvy companies such as Apple.
Hackers leave hundreds of thousands without power in Ukraine.
The first known cyber attack to cause widespread public blackouts has occurred in Ukraine, it is believed. On December 23, an electricity blackout left about half the homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine without power, according to local reports at the time. It is now believed by security researchers that the blackout was achieved by hackers using malicious code known as the BlackEnergy Trojan.
Bernooli promises its technology can make anyone feel like an experienced mixologist.
These days, it seems everything is connected, from our thermostats to our locks to our cars. So why not our cocktails?
Lumosity agreed to pay $2 million to settle FTC charges it deceived consumers about the cognitive benefits of its game app.
The maker of brain game app Lumosity has agreed to pay $2 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged it deceived consumers about the product’s brain-training benefits.
Fitbit revealed a $200 wearable device, called the Blaze, at CES in Las Vegas.
Fitbit announced a new device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today—a new wearable called the Blaze that looks a lot like a smartwatch—and Wall Street doesn’t appear to like Fitbit’s apparent move toward Apple Watch territory.
Snapchat is launching an API that will let advertisers buy more and better mobile ads, Digiday reports.
Snapchat is working on an application-programmer interface that would let brands buy more targeted and sophisticated ads on the popular mobile messaging platform, according to a Digiday report.
The cable giant says it is looking into claims that the jamming system’s wireless signals disconnect intrusion sensors from hub.
Cable providers want to do more than just service the dumb pipe that shuttles information and content to and from your home. One way of expanding their reach is to provide online home automation and home security systems, as cable giant Comcast does with its wireless Xfinity Home offering. But that system is apparently easy to undermine, reports cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which claims that it had difficulty reaching Comcast to alert it to the vulnerability. Comcast says it is looking into the claims, adding that Rapid7 didn’t make much of an effort to alert it to the purported vulnerability.
Twitter is reportedly considering an enormous expansion of its character limit. Users expressed their dismay, 140 characters at a time.
Twitter is tinkering with its most iconic feature. The 140-character limit that’s practically synonymous with the service is getting retooled, according to a report in Re/Code. But rather than boosting the per-tweet limit to 200 or even 500 characters, Twitter is reportedly going all out and extending the limit to 10,000.
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