2019-12-4 03:30 |
Halo: Reach has just been made available on Xbox One and PC, and as much fun as it is, the story still just feels a little wrong. The post Why the Halo: Reach Story Is All Wrong appeared first on CCN.com origin »
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“Rot in hell you pervert,” wrote one. “Go to hell, child rapist,” said another. These were all tweets directed to Jeffrey Epstein, a publicist at the Walt Disney Company, whose sole connection to the late disgraced financier is his name.
2019-8-12 13:57 | |
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This is the inside story of how a "white hat hacker" approached Binance with inside information - and how it went wrong.
2019-8-8 01:30 | |
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This is the inside story of how a "white hat hacker" approached Binance with inside information - and how it went wrong.
2019-8-8 01:30 | |
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Chuwi’s Hipad LTE tablet took me by surprise. I’m not a big fan of ‘phablets’ to begin with. And when I saw it only cost $159 I was certain this slab would be a hot mess. I was wrong. The 10.
2019-7-27 01:20 | |
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I’ve written about gaming phones before. Whether it was the unveiling of the Razer Phone 2, the Asus ROG Phone, or my review of the latter, there was something that always popped up: these are going to be niche devices.
2019-7-26 16:56 | |
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“Yes, time travel is finally possible. ” As someone who’s written extensively about quantum physics, the arrow of time, and other wacky aspects of our amazing universe, I’ve waited my entire career to see that sentence pop up in my inbox.
2019-7-26 23:26 | |
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End-to-end encryption is an essential technology that can keep sensitive data secure when it is being transmitted digitally. Without proper encryption, important information — including your financial records, acquisition plans or worse, your customers’ credit card data — can easily fall into the wrong hands, with devastating results.
2019-7-12 12:00 | |
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Nike’s strong digital presence and tech advancements, like their smart shoe released last year, proves that they’re at the forefront of tech. As Michael Martin, Global Head of Digital Products said on the TNW Conference main stage last month, “Nike is now a technology company — full stop.
2019-7-11 16:52 | |
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There’s something wrong on Freeview channel 21. That’s the conclusion I landed upon after watching two hours of Ideal World, a free-to-air UK teleshopping station, where they shamelessly pitched an unambiguously low-end smartphone using sales tactics I regard as misleading and high-pressure.
2019-7-9 16:19 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I love YouTube. I use it to watch videos, play tracks, and listen to podcasts.
2019-7-3 18:15 | |
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The world is still processing the specifics of Facebook‘s Libra digital currency, but even the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has realized it’s set to rub cryptocurrency purists the wrong way.
2019-6-20 12:38 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Resumes are important. They help showcase your experience, skills, and potential to possible employers.
2019-6-19 17:40 | |
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E3 has drawn to a close for another year, and with the end comes the usual question of what the conference’s purpose is in the gaming industry. According to Xbox head Phil Spencer, the purpose is to raise the profile and reputation of gaming worldwide.
2019-6-14 23:05 | |
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In the age of Google, Siri, and Alexa, memory and knowledge can feel like relics of humanity — something AI and machine learning have made obsolete. With the world’s knowledge in the palm of our hands, shouldn’t we skip learning facts in favor of applied skills and creativity? That may be precisely the wrong lesson to learn.
2019-6-9 17:00 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. One of the best parts of buying an ebook from Amazon is the syncing.
2019-6-4 18:35 | |
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A pair of scientists from prestigious Dartmouth University recently published research postulating why Godzilla has more than doubled in size since 1954. If you guessed a gym membership and a high-protein diet: you’re wrong.
2019-6-1 02:31 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! You might think the world is complicated enough and there’s no need to make basic tasks harder, right? Right? Wrong.
2019-5-25 15:00 | |
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My home is inundated with smart speakers. I’ve got Echo Dots aplenty, Google Minis to spare, and enough third-party voice-assistant devices to reproduce Plugged’s Bluetooth speaker symphony. And that’s not even getting into all the other “smart” gear I have.
2019-5-24 03:01 | |
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“It worked in staging!” says the dev team. And the ops team replies: “it must be a code issue. ” Developers and ops people sometimes have different perspectives on why a deployment went wrong.
2019-5-22 13:13 | |
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Most people play games like Dungeons & Dragons to get away from their problems. But Megan Hardy isn’t most people. She used it to solve hers. When her husband was laid off in 2016, she signed up to teach D&D classes on Outschool, an online learning platform for kids up to age 18.
2019-5-22 01:59 | |
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BEWARE! If you haven’t finished Game of Thrones yet, there might be some spoilers in here. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Been on the internet recently? Then you’ll be aware that the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is all wrapped up.
2019-5-21 17:06 | |
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How many times in the past week do you think your life was affected by a robot? Unless you have a robot vacuum cleaner, you might say that robots had no real impact on your life. But you’re wrong.
2019-5-14 17:10 | |
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Laure Cucuron, Managing Director of specialist recycling firm TerraCycle, took to one of the coziest stages on the first day of TNW2019 – the Future Generations track – to tell listeners how companies are thinking about recycling in all the wrong ways.
2019-5-10 11:55 | |
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When I first joined the blockchain space as a PR guy a few years ago, my focus was almost entirely centered on press coverage on high profile business publications. Sure thing, most of my clients simply would not buy anything but Forbes, Business Insider, and Entrepreneur features.
2019-5-9 10:00 | |
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I have an opinion I wish to share that you almost certainly won’t agree with. (Not like that’s stopped me in the past) Mike Cessario, a former creative director at Netflix, recently raised $1.
2019-5-8 18:28 | |
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By CCN: Even prior to Apple delivering strong earnings that beat estimates, tech stock analyst Gene Munster said that Apple would rise 70% over the next two years. With today’s earnings announcement from Apple, it may initially appear that he’s right.
2019-5-1 05:05 | |
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The world is one step closer to the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto being revealed after latest developments allegedly pinpoint the location of the pseudonym, based on the timestamps of his/her posts.
2019-4-25 17:00 | |
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Have you been itching to make your first cryptocurrency investment, but you’re too afraid to get in on the hype at the wrong time? eToro‘s got your back. The social trading platform is giving away free Ethereum to anyone who opens an account in its standalone wallet app.
2019-4-24 16:35 | |
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It came so close. It even took a selfie. But with only a few kilometers left to descend, something went wrong and the spacecraft Beresheet veered out of control, taking one final photograph just before it hit the surface.
2019-4-18 14:20 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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CCN previously reported on a disturbing discovery by a security researcher who had a problem with Sistemkoin exchange. He found that he was able to spy on other people’s support tickets, and more to the point that most of the support tickets were related to withdrawal troubles.
2019-4-13 22:49 | |
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We recently discovered a new perpetrator of the dreaded “crunch culture” of video game development — the legendary Bioware. When Kotaku‘s Jason Schreier wrote an article about the struggles during development of Anthem, the studio lashed out, before privately admitting that maybe it does have problems.
2019-4-5 04:10 | |
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Remember Apple Newton? Neither could we. This mobile tablet, released in 1993, is often hailed as Apple’s biggest flop. Its hefty price tag, large size, and blatantly inaccurate handwriting recognition software were to blame for its inglorious demise.
2019-4-2 10:14 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our brand-new series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Yes, this is my hype. The Lenovo Smart Display (with, of course, Google Assistant) is on offer for only $99.
2019-3-30 15:00 | |
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Gearbox Software today revealed its latest game, Borderlands 3, at the PAX East Conference. Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong, but at least the game looks cool. No, I’m not exaggerating — it was a shitshow.
2019-3-29 22:46 | |
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Apple today held it’s latest special event, and if you ever thought Apple couldn’t put on a good show without new hardware, then this would be the show in which it proved you wrong. It pulled out all the stops introducing its new apps, including upgrades to its existing News and TV services, along with a new credit card and a game subscription service.
2019-3-26 00:22 | |
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The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically injured, was streamed live on Facebook by the man accused of carrying it out.
2019-3-23 20:00 | |
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GitLab, the hugely popular devops platform, today announced the introduction of secrets detection with version 11. 9 of the service. This means that should someone inadvertently include an API key or secret in a commit to a shared repository, the service will warn the user.
2019-3-23 18:06 | |
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“Shut up, Siri!” “Screw off, Alexa!” We’ve all heard people berating their voice assistants, often in colorful terms. You’ve probably done it yourself, and so what? It’s not like our voice assistant has feelings — “she” is just a collection of code and a disembodied, robotic voice.
2019-3-17 10:30 | |
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What happens when machines learn to manipulate us by faking our emotions? Judging by the rate at which researchers are developing human-like AI agents, we’re about to find out. Researchers around the world are trying to create more human-like AI.
2019-3-15 22:09 | |
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I’m supposed to be packing up all the electronics I “won’t need until after the move. ” What does that even mean? I need all of my electronics all of the time. Instead, I’m pretending to write a review of these Aukey smart outlets.
2019-2-28 21:03 | |
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The existential threat of harmful AI recently reached ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’ proportions after a major research institute (checks notes…) modified the model size of a text generator. Apparently we’ve finally run out of real things to be scared of.
2019-2-26 17:53 | |
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The recently unveiled foldable phones are astonishing, both in terms of the technical aspects, but also their eyewatering price tags. The Samsung Galaxy Fold, announced mere days before MWC, will retail for ˆ2,000.
2019-2-26 02:05 | |
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In more than 600,000 attempts at spelling actress Scarlett Johansson’s name, fewer than one-in-three were successful. In terms of absolute certainty, all we can be sure of is that most would get the first five letters correct.
2019-2-26 23:13 | |
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Update: Turns out it was a simple misunderstanding. Larry Sanger told TNW he accidentally logged in with the wrong username of and older account. Wikipedia spokesperson said the older account had been inactive for some time (about 10 years) and was blocked by volunteer administrators after showing signs of being compromised.
2019-2-16 19:24 | |
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Update: Turns out it was a simple misunderstanding. Larry Sanger told TNW he accidentally logged in with the wrong username of and older account. Wikipedia spokesperson said the older account had been inactive for some time (about 10 years) and was blocked by volunteer administrators after showing signs of being compromised.
2019-2-15 19:24 | |
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The trending story of QuadrigaCX is no newer in the cryptospace but the recent turn of events keeps changing earlier inferences and further building wrong speculations especially with respect to customers assets locked on the exchange.
2019-2-14 04:17 | |
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It’s going to be a very happy Valentine’s day for one EOS user, after the unexpected return of $300,000 dollars in cryptocurrency, which had been inadvertently sent to the wrong address.
2019-2-13 18:19 | |
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It was just a few months ago that Focal Audio revealed the Elegia, its first take on a premium pair of closed-back headphones. I liked the Elegia when I reviewed it, but given its $900 price tag and recent release, I thought it would be quite some time before Focal tackled closed-back headphones again.
2019-2-12 17:00 | |
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Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, have had a roller-coaster past year or so. It seemed that they could do no wrong in 2017, with Bitcoin leading the way with a $20,000 USD valuation per token at one point in December.
2019-2-1 16:42 | |
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Zilliqa has revealed a new Web3-focused gaming console and hub set to launch in 2023. The post Nintendo, PlayStation, & Xbox Get New Competitor as Zilliqa Prepares to Launch Web3 Gaming Console appeared first on BeInCrypto.
Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s executive vice president of gaming, shared his skepticism around some NFT gaming projects as he feels the entertaining side of games is being compromised by the use of the new possibilities the blockchain brings for them.
The tech giant seems to be changing its stance on being more friendly with the cryptocurrency sphere amid the current hype. Microsoft has been asking its Xbox gaming console users about the possibility of implementing payment methods, such as bitcoin.
Coinspeaker Sony Announces that PlayStation 5 Will Hit Markets Starting November 12Sony revealed that the launch of the PlayStation 5 (PS5) will come with the introduction of new game collections.
Coinspeaker Gaming Giant Nintendo Reports 428% Increase in Q1 ProfitsGaming giant Nintendo has reported a 428% increase in its Q1 profits. It joined other gaming firms that have managed to record gains despite the COVID-19 crisis.
Coinspeaker MSFT Stock 2% After Market, Microsoft Posts 13% Higher Revenue in Q4Microsoft reported Q4 earnings that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, as the still-raging coronavirus outbreak proved no match for the tech giant’s booming cloud computing business.
Coinspeaker Sony (SNE) Stock Down Nearly 5%, PlayStation 5 Still on Track for 2020 Holiday SeasonSony (SNE) stock is down nearly 5%. The company reported a 57% drop in fiscal fourth-quarter operating profit but claims PlayStation 5 is still on track for the 2020 holiday season.