Monday, 18 July 2016

How Pokemon Go did what these 3 hype-heavy startups couldn’t

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 13 :   A group of Pokemon Go users playing Pokemon gathered outside the State Library of Victoria Melbourne, Australia 13 July 2016. Australia is one of only three countries where the game is currently available. (Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Pokemon Go has been continuing its global rollout fairly slowly, with a launch in Canada just this past Sunday, and even without an official debut in some key markets like Japan, it already dominates. In the course of winning so winningly, Pokemon Go has also achieved – almost as a side-effect – the kind of success some celebrated (but ultimately shuttered) startups have pursued in… Read More

Xbox One S hits stores on August 2

Xbox One S In this brave new world of significant mid-cycle game console upgrades, the Xbox One S will lead the way. The Microsoft Xbox One semi-successor will be available in its 2TB ‘launch edition’ to shoppers on August 2. The Xbox One S got a big reveal last month, but we didn’t know exactly when it would actually get in the hot little hands of gamers until today.… Read More

Casual games go pro as Doodle Jump announces plans for an e-sports league with Skillz

Doodle Plush How about some mobile games news that isn’t about Pokemon Go? Lima Sky has committed to launching an e-sports league and new edition of their wildly popular Doodle Jump mobile game, according to the company’s Chief Operating Officer Matt Turetzky. Lima Sky, which was founded seven years ago, has amassed 200 million unique downloads for its Doodle Jump games across every platform. Read More

5K people turn up to catch Pokémon in Chicago

Pokemon Go Chicago About 5.000 people showed up at Millennium Park on Sunday for probably one of the first massive Pokémon Go player gatherings since the game was released in the US a couple of weeks ago. Teenagers, artists, cosplayers, young adults and families with children spent a couple of hours or more chasing Pokémon near Cloud Gate, the silver sculpture — nicknamed “The Bean” —… Read More

Inside a factory making robot waiters and waitresses

Meet the people making robot waiters and waitresses for restaurants in China

Social coup

How smartphones and social media played a pivotal role in Turkey's failed coup, and the plotters failed to realise the crucial role of modern communications.

Storage device writes information atom-by-atom

The quest for storage devices that pack ever more information into a small space has reached a new limit, with memory that writes information atom-by-atom.