Wednesday, December 28, 2016

'Super Mario Run' Review Roundup: Is It Any Good? and other top stories.

  • 'Super Mario Run' Review Roundup: Is It Any Good?

    'Super Mario Run' Review Roundup: Is It Any Good?
    Super Mario Run is out and so far Nintendo is having a lot of success with the game in just a short amount of time it was released on iOS devices. We can only imagine how much money the company will make when the title is made available on Android devices in 2017. The big question right now, is whether or not Super Mario Run is a game worth playing and ultimately, worth purchasing in the end. It's not your typical Super Mario game due to the simple controls, but it does feel like the tradi..
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  • Washington Post Launches Fact-Check Tool For Just One Twitter Account: Donald Trump's

    Washington Post Launches Fact-Check Tool For Just One Twitter Account: Donald Trump's
    In an unprecedented move for a U.S. news outlet, the Washington Post (WP) has released a fact-checking tool for a single Twitter account: Donald Trump's. The U.S. President-elect mainly communicates with the public through his Twitter posts, but his tweets are not always accurate, WP points out. With this in mind, WP designed a Chrome plugin called "RealDonaldContext" to fact-check Trump's tweets in case they're not accurate, "by mistake or by design." "The Washington Post's Fix team has decide..
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  • How the hot startup that stole Apple's thunder wound up in Silicon Valley's graveyard

    How the hot startup that stole Apple's thunder wound up in Silicon Valley's graveyard
    Eric Migicovsky Craig Barritt/Getty Images for AOL Inc. For a moment, it looked like the story would have a happy ending. As struggling smartwatch maker Pebble discussed selling itself to Fitbit, a larger competitor in the wearable technology market, the chatter among the Pebble team was that they would continue working on their product under the wing of a new, more stable corporate parent. Fitbit’s co-founder James Park even visited Pebble’s offices and, following a..
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  • Microsoft Cortana is about to become your all-purpose productivity bot

    Microsoft Cortana is about to become your all-purpose productivity bot
    Microsoft Cortana is playing catch-up with Siri and the Google Assistant, but that’s about to change that. The company Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded in 1975 has made no secret of the fact that they intend to become an AI powerhouse. Many of the recent changes in Microsoft Office have been related to productivity automation. You can click a button to create a slideshow in PowerPoint, use the Editor feature in Word to improve your writing, and find out whether you spend too much time processi..
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  • Tesla Will Charge Users for Hogging the Supercharger

    Tesla Will Charge Users for Hogging the Supercharger
    In an announcement Friday, Tesla said it will impose a fee of forty cents per minute on drivers who leave their cars in a Supercharger space for more than five minutes after they’ve finished charging. Since many Superchargers are located at what are essentially parking spaces, it’s not too surprising some users treat them as such. The goal of the fee is to get those squatters to move along, making the chargers more available for all Tesla drivers. Tesla says they “hope to never make any money” ..
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  • How Street Fighter 5 May Be Keeping Gamers Accountable

    How Street Fighter 5 May Be Keeping Gamers Accountable
    Capcom could be penalizing gamers who rage-quit in the middle of matches, holding them accountable for their online behavior in Street Fighter V. How are they doing this? Well, they might implement a new series of punishments that some hardcore fight fans might appreciate. Gamespot is reporting that someone posted screenshots to NeoGaf that supposedly leaked from an upcoming build of Street Fighter V. In the screenshot it shows that one player has attempted to disconnect and quit during the m..
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  • Microsoft, IBM: We won't help build a Muslim registry

    Microsoft, IBM: We won't help build a Muslim registry
    Spokespeople from Microsoft and IBM say that their companies would not help create a registry of Muslims in the United States, an idea floated by President-elect Donald Trump.“We’ve been clear about our values. We oppose discrimination and we wouldn’t do any work to build a registry of Muslim Americans,” spokesman Frank X. Shaw told BuzzFeed on Thursday in response to their questions.IBM also expressly rejected a registry, with a spokesperson telling The Hill on Saturday, “IBM would not work on ..
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  • Niantic shelved plans for Pokémon Go app for Apple Watch (Updated)

    Niantic shelved plans for Pokémon Go app for Apple Watch (Updated)
    Update: Niantic says that Pokémon Go is still coming for the Apple Watch, though it’s unclear when or in what form the game will arrive. The company also fails to confirm its previous end of the year promise. Pokémon Go for Apple Watch is coming soon. Stay tuned. — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) December 17, 2016 Back in September, Apple and Niantic announced that the popular game Pokémon Go was coming to the Apple Watch before the end of this year. Since then, however, no news has come conce..
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