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Facebook City: Zuckerberg plans waterfront town in SF
Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting into the city planning business by creating a 200 acre community for over 10,000 Facebook employees. The small town – currently nicknamed “Zee” for Zuckerberg – would be a waterfront housing development and community near San Francisco for the social network’s ever growing workforce. Plans for the development ...
Twitch.tv will be hosting its own convention in September: TwitchCon
Popular video game livestreaming service Twitch.tv has announced that it will be hosting its first ever convention later this year. TwitchCon will take place at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, California, on September 25-26. “One thing we do want to hear from you is, what do you guys want?” said Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham, the ...
Google set to launch a new kid-friendly YouTube app
Google Inc. will soon be releasing a new app called YouTube Kids that will offer a safer, sanitized version of the video streaming service that will be aimed at children. “Parents were constantly asking us, can you make YouTube a better place for our kids,” said Shimrit Ben-Yair, the group product manager for YouTube Kids. “(Year ...
Assassin’s Creed: Unity patch removes unpopular companion app
Assassin’s Creed: Unity has been criticized for many things, not the least of which was its horribly botched release, which included numerous bugs and glitches that made the game unplayable for many gamers for several days or longer. Ubisoft has released several patches over the last few months addressing many of these issues, and a ...
New York toy museum creates a World Video Game Hall of Fame
The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has announced that it is establishing a Video Game Hall of Fame dedicated to recognizing culturally important video games across all gaming platforms, including arcade systems, home consoles, PCs, mobile devices, and more. “There is no other video game award and recognition program such as ...
Zuckerberg compares Internet.org to critical services like 911
In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV’s Emily Chang, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg compared basic internet access to critical services like 911. To help realize his goal of connecting the world, Zuckerberg founded Internet.org, a charity organization led by Facebook that also includes supporters like Microsoft, Ericsson, and Qualcomm. Internet.org works in developing countries to improve infrastructure ...
How a West Coast port strike could be bad news for Nintendo
A long running dispute involving a West Coast union and Pacific shipping companies does not seem to be ending anytime soon, which is bad news for Nintendo Co Ltd and many other Asian manufacturers. Cargo ships might seem like ancient technology, but it is still the primary method of shipping heavy goods across the world. The slowdown resulting from ...
Facebook releases Stetho, an open source debugger for Android devs
Facebook Inc. has become more than just a social media company over the last few years as the company started developing new technologies to solve its own unique challenges. Some of these innovations have been released into the open source community, such as the 6-Pack networking switch that was unveiled last week. Today, Facebook has announced the release of yet another open ...
Epic Games offers $5 million to devs for using Unreal Engine
Epic Games Inc. has announced that it will be giving out $5 million in financial grants to developers with “no strings attached” provided that they use the company’s Unreal Engine to develop their games. “When a developer succeeds with the Unreal Engine, we succeed,” Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told GamesBeat. “We are trying to make developers ...
Virtual reality Facebook apps may be coming to Oculus Rift
Some people already live inside Facebook, but the social network might be making that obsession literal with the creation of virtual reality apps for Oculus Rift. “I mean, virtual reality is pretty cool. We’re working on apps for VR,” Facebook Inc. CPO Chris Cox said this week at Recode’s Code Media conference. “You realize, when you’re ...