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Facebook adds suicide prevention features to the social network
While Facebook’s role in mental health is not always positive, the social network is taking steps to help some of its users by providing new tools designed to prevent suicide. Facebook Inc has allowed users to flag potentially suicidal content since as early as 2011, but the option was buried in Facebook’s help files and not ...
How Google’s new AI plays video games like a human
What the IBM-made Deep Blue computer did with chess, Google Inc’s new DeepMind AI may soon do with video games. Google has developed a new AI capable of teaching itself how to learn and master video games in ways that could have big implications for both gaming and the future of AI in general. Google acquired ...
Batman: Arkham Knight receives Mature rating, a first for the series
The Batman: Arkham series is well known for its comic book aesthetic, which falls somewhere between the cartoony action of Batman: The Animated Series and the gothic horror of Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, but while the previous games in the series managed to somehow keep the bone-breaking violence to a Teen rating, the newest title, Batman: Arkham ...
Only 37.9% of the world uses the internet, says Internet.org report
Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s side project Internet.org has released its findings on the current state of global internet access and connectivity, proving that while the internet has become ubiquitous in some countries, most of the world still can’t watch funny cat videos on their phones. “With the benefit of connected devices, people from all over ...
Hunger Games studio Lionsgate invests in Telltale Games
Lionsgate Entertainment, the movie maker behind the blockbuster film franchise The Hunger Games and critically acclaimed TV series such as Orange is the New Black and Mad Men, has just made a “significant” investment in video game studio Telltale Games. Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner told Entertainment Weekly that the game developer would be working with Lionsgate to create new “Super Show” ...
Insightpool seeks to combine sales and social marketing to improve both
Nearly four months after launching the updated version of its social drip marketing tool, Insightpool has acquired the Silicon Valley-based social selling startup Next Principles in a step toward creating its own unified social media marketing and selling platform. Social media is an incredibly powerful tool for marketers, and not simply because of its massive audiences and targeted advertising. Consumers, vendors, and ...
Valve to take on Oculus Rift with SteamVR, debuting at #GDC2015
The virtual reality race is heating up, and now a new player has entered the field. Valve Corporation, the creator of the incredibly successful Steam Client and popular game series such as Half-life and Portal, will be showcasing its new SteamVR platform at the upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 in San Francisco. Valve quietly announced SteamVR ...
Facebook’s privacy policy breaks EU law, says Belgian watchdog
The social network giant Facebook Inc. is facing tougher scrutiny in Europe after a Belgian watchdog group determined that the company’s privacy policy violates European Union law. The Belgian government’s Privacy Commission enlisted the help of academics from the Catholic University of Leuven and the Free University of Brussels to scrutinize Facebook’s current privacy policy for several weeks ...
11-year-old livestreamer loses Destiny characters to troll
Online services, including multiplayer games, often warn users against sharing account information with strangers, and one young boy from California has learned that lesson the hard way. 11-year-old Henry Kramer frequently streamed sessions of the popular PlayStation 4 game Destiny, a first-person shooter known for its grindy levelling system and rare item drops that some players strive for ...
Is it ok to livestream someone else’s game? A League of Legends controversy
League of Legends is one of the most watched video games on the livestreaming site Twitch.tv, with well over 100,000 viewers at any given time. One Twitch channel streams games played by Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, a LoL superstar reportedly worth close to $1 million to the esport. There is just one problem: The channel isn’t his. The ...
