Facebook has struggled to keep teenagers on their platform. Parents and family members joining the social media site have led to many privacy-cautious teens leaving the site to find other ways to chat with friends. The social media giant announced a new app that is geared towards people 21 years of age or younger.
The app, called Lifestage, was released...
Social media giant Facebook is trying to compete with Steam, according to an announcement from the company. Facebook announced that they’re working with Unity, a game engine, to be able to offer a desktop gaming platform.
The effort will also be ported to Facebook.com to increase the experience for users.
The gaming platforms will allow developers to provide Android and iOS...
Netlify has secured $2.1 million in funding from Tank Hill Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. The company allows developers to write frontend code that can be pushed to numerous services and servers with the click of a button. The service allows for code to be pushed to the company’s delivery networks (CDN), offers one-click SSL, instantly invalidates cache and allows...
Josephine, a food-sharing startup, aims to change the view of Silicone Valley’s gig economy. The economy has not been supportive of its core workers. A prime example of this can be seen with Uber and Lyft, two companies that take a large share of the profits from their drivers.
Josephine’s goal is to offer the cooks that work for the...
Google Duo was released this morning. The video chat app works on phones only, and serves as Google’s attempt to compete against FaceTime. The app allows for a simple interface, with the ability to tap on the face of a person you want to call and talk to them if they accept.
The one-on-one video app is available on Android...
Pokémon Go players that have been caught cheating are facing a permanent ban from the game, according to Niantic, the app’s maker. Players that violate the game’s terms of service are being banned, and the bans can occur for any violation of the lengthy terms.
Reports of bans indicate that the company is only banning players that have used techniques...
There have been a number of new gadget releases and a whole host of gizmos released that you might want to get your hands on recently. Some get more fanfare than others, and deservedly so. Some are underrated, and it seems that even more are overrated. For today let’s leave that distinction up to you and just look at...
Millward Brown Optimor (Never heard of them? You aren’t alone) has come out with their annual ranking of the most well known, and financially prevalent, global brand names. The list itself is titled the Brandz Top 100. Let’s get into the statistics and findings first, then we will pick it apart.
The study has concluded that Google is indeed the...
InfoSonics Wireless Handsets
Here is some good news for music lovers. InfoSonics has finally declared that the i300 and the i400 wireless handsets will now be available on the market for purchase. These are now being shipped in South America as well as Central America. There is a speakerphone and the music player has really high sound quality, which is...
Here are some quirky gadgets which can colour up your collection or add a dash of quirkiness to your work table. Artists have used traditional gadgets and created new innovations when it comes to the designs, thus giving mundane things like USB flash drives a new look. Want to know more? Read on.
Drink Away the Night with the Battleship...
