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The Texas film industry is tired of sharing tax incentives with video games
Many states offer tax incentives to movie makers in order to draw a small piece of the film industry away from Hollywood, along with the prestige and economy boost that come with it. This was the main reason Breaking Bad was filmed in Albuquerque rather than in Riverside, California, as it was originally planned. The success ...
Pro-ISIS Facebook knockoff “5elafaBook” lasted about a day
With mainstream social media sites like Facebook and Twitter blocking groups involved with acts of terrorism, supporters of the Islamic State decided to create their own alternative. The site was called 5elafabook.com – pronounced Khelafabook, meaning “Caliphate Book.” The domain of the website is registered under the name Abu Musab in Egypt. It stayed up for roughly one ...
Augmented Reality startup Aireal wins $2,000 pitch prize at Dallas Startup Week
Correction: The pitch competition won by Aireal was hosted by the Dallas FortWork coworking space, not by the Dallas Startup Week event itself. Last week Dallas, Texas, hosted its first ever Startup Week, which brought together dozens of local startups and business leaders for a week of meetups, seminars, and pitches. The event was capped off by a ...
Riot Games on how AI can improve online communities | #GDC2015
Riot Games’ League of Legends is one of the most popular games in esports and frequently sees over 100,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch.tv, but it also has a reputation for a sometimes toxic player base that came make jumping into the game difficult for newcomers. While harassing players are frequently banned from the game, Riot found that ...
Nielsen’s brainy approach to Twitter is the obviously smart thing to do
Current Nielsen ratings do a poor job of tracking the new landscape of television—sometimes it even gets it entirely wrong, but Nielsen recently conducted a brain study that could take it into the realm of social media data and carry the ratings company into the future. Television ratings do more than tell networks what shows are ...
HedgeChatter combines social media data with stock market prediction
The stock market might seem like a roulette wheel to some or a temperamental herd of cats to others, but there is more science, psychology, and art to trading than simply picking the stocks that match your initials. No one can predict the future, but Dallas-based “social media stock sentiment analysis” company HedgeChatter says that it has ...
Xbox head Phil Spencer on “The Future of Gaming Across the Microsoft Ecosystem” | #GDC2015
Microsoft Corp’s Xbox One gaming console is locked in a heated battle with Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 4 and, to a lesser extent, Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii U, but Xbox head Phil Spencer believes that Microsoft can offer a unique cross-platform experience thanks to the upcoming release of Windows 10. “Our goal in gaming at ...
Civilization: Beyond Earth devs say they “were too conservative” | #GDC2015
Sid Meier’s Civilization series is a staple of the turn-based strategy game genre, with over half a dozen titles spread out over a span of 23 years. The series is still going strong today, but the designers of the most recent game, Civilization: Beyond Earth, say they wished they had taken more risks when creating it. “We should have been ...
Zuckerberg talks hiring philosophy, censorship, and more during Facebook Q&A
Back in November, Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg started a tradition of holding regular public town hall Q&A meetings, allowing people to ask him anything they wanted during a one hour livestream. This week, Zuckerberg held another public town hall meeting while attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Some questions were light-hearted, such ...
Rockband 4 announced for fall release on Xbox One and PS4
A few months after rumors hinted at a possible return of the Rock Band rhythm game franchise, Harmonix has officially announced that Rock Band 4 will be released later this year for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Harmonix helped define the music rhythm game genre with early titles such as Frequency and Amplitude, but its biggest contribution came when ...