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Valve halts Steam Holiday Auction due to exploit that dupes virtual currency
What started as a fun holiday event quickly devolved into a desperate cash-grab when Steam gamers discovered an exploit that allowed them to cheat the system. The intent behind the Steam Holiday Auction was to allow Steam users to trade virtual items like Steam trading cards or in-game items like Team Fortress 2 hats and weapons for “Steam ...
Zuckerberg talks of a Dislike button, privacy, and more in second Facebook Q&A
Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the possibility of a “Dislike” button, as well as answering other questions about privacy and more in his second ever “Q&A With Mark” community town hall meeting. Will Facebook ever add a Dislike button? “I don’t think there needs to be a voting system on Facebook ...
Kill Boredom for Christmas: 4 Apps to Entertain Guests & Yourself
December is one of the busiest months of the year for travel, with people all over the country driving, flying, and snowmobiling across the U.S. to visit friends and family. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (the most exciting government agency, obviously), the number of long-distance travel increases by 23 percent during the Christmas/New Year’s holiday. The average ...
Father’s experiment takes young son through gaming history
For the past six years, Andy Baio has conducted an experiment based on one simple question: “What happens when a 21st-century kid plays through video game history in chronological order?” Baio fondly remembers the games he grew up with and the way they shaped his childhood, and he wanted his newborn son, Eliot, to go through ...
Twitter slips off the list of best places to work
Last year, Twitter, Inc. was listed by Glassdoor.com as the best tech company to work for and the second best company overall, but due to a number of changes, Twitter has now fallen off of the top 50 list completely. Glassdoor collects anonymous salary information and employee opinions, providing a more honest internal view of big companies than ...
The Witcher 3 delayed again, but is it a good thing?
Polish game developer CD Projekt RED has had some surprising successes with their video game adaptations of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher fantasy novels, but they seem to have hit a snag in the development of the third game in the series, causing it to be delayed for a second time. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was originally slated ...
Facebook working on AI to save users from embarrassing themselves
Facebook Inc. knows you can’t help yourself sometimes, so they are working on a new AI that will look at post content and warn users when a picture might not be the best thing to put on the internet for all to see. Over one billion people are using Facebook’s services now, and with millions of ...
Assassin’s Creed: Unity is almost stable — one month after release
Ubisoft Montreal announced another round of fixes for Assassin’s Creed: Unity, making the game almost totally playable one month after its initial release. According to Ubisoft, the new patch will focus on stability and reducing problems with graphics such as drops in frame rates. Since its launch on November 11, Assassin’s Creed: Unity has been plagued with numerous ...
Google afraid biggest YouTube stars will get poached by Facebook or Vessel
YouTube has started offering bonuses to some of its biggest stars, ahead of new competition from Facebook Inc. and other video services like Vessel. The Google-owned YouTube basically invented the idea of user-generated streaming video, and even after 10 years it is still going strong with over 1 billion unique visitors each month. But the king ...
Virtualization solves new challenges in an old industry: Book Printing| #VTUG
Virtualization has been key in solving the modern problems facing the printing industry, John Judson, Senior Systems Analyst, Courier Corporation, told theCUBE host Stu Miniman at The Virtualization Technology Users Group (VTUG) in Massachusetts. “Our challenge has been a transition from printing large runs of books to short runs,” said Judson. “And we’ve kind of ...