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Consumers bemoan the $10 price point, other consumers rage against them in turn; Nintendo’s attempt to upend the dominance of F2P is as contentious as we expected Share this article Companies in this article After years of encouraging Nintendo to get into mobile gaming – often by the rather unsubtle means of darkly predicting the…
When they were first announced in September, it was obvious that AirPods were Apple’s attempt to distract everyone from the iPhone’s lack of a headphone jack. At $160, AirPods are Apple’s version of truly wireless earphones, a gadget lots of companies have been trying to perfect with varying degrees of success. No one disagrees that…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Book readings, interviews, and news radio are coming to Facebook thanks to its new Live Audio feature launching today with a few publishers and authors before opening up next year. A complement to its Facebook Live video streaming, it could bring audio-first content like podcasts to the News Feed, and provide…
.entry-header December 20, 2016, 6:35 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons In what appears to be the largest digital advertising scam in history, a group of Russian hackers reportedly built a click-fraud machine that stole up to $5 million daily from top advertisers and publishers. But even that is just the tip of…
(Philip Habib) Depending on whom you ask, Evgeny Morozov is either the most astute, feared, loathed, or useless writer about digital technology working today. Just 29 years old, from an industrial town in Belarus, he appeared as if out of nowhere in the late aughts, amid the conference-goers and problem solvers working to shape our…
Image: Getty A lot of people, including some of the world’s best known commentators on Apple, are saying that the company is facing serious challenges in its Mac business—unsurprisingly, Apple is clapping back at those reports and says everything is just fine. It’s no secret that inside of Apple, the iPhone is the favored child….
Do you know what “frontend” really does? Or “ops”? How about “leadgen”? Well, this comic should clear things up. It’s totally accurate, too: This comic was created by the Toggl Goon Squad – the developers behind the world’s no. 1 time tracking app (certified, probably). We do these comics to give the squad a quick mental break…
Hide CM floating unit The past year was almost certainly not the worst one ever, but 2016 does seem to have earned some sort of special designation. Barrier Status: ‘none’ A meme is currently circulating on Twitter in which people post two contrasting photos: one is “me at the beginning of 2016”; the other is…
Information literacy, wrote Dr. Carol Kulthau in her 1987 paper “Information Skills for an Information Society,” is “the ability to read and to use information essential for everyday life”—that is, to effectively navigate a world built on “complex masses of information generated by computers and mass media.” Nearly thirty years later, those “complex masses of…
It wasn’t so much a reckoning as a reboot. The nation’s top tech executives couldn’t know what to expect when they headed to Trump Tower in Manhattan on Wednesday for what President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team had billed as an innovation “summit.” They had reason to fear an ambush. But if Trump holds grudges against Silicon…