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Pokemon Go too late to save Nintendo from major Q1 loss
Nintendo Co Ltd’s share prices took a hit earlier this week after it sent a letter to investors clarifying its relationship to Niantic Inc’s phenomenally successful mobile game, Pokemon Go, and now it looks like the company may have more trouble ahead after revealing its worst Q1 results in five years. The disappointing sales of the ...
Twitter’s struggles continue after disappointing Q2
Microblogging platform Twitter Inc. continues to struggle to find its place in a world dominated by the likes of Facebook and Google, and its recent Q2 earnings report revealed that even a bump in user growth may not solve all of its problems. According to Twitter, its user base grew by 3 percent year-over-year last quarter, ...
Nvidia and AMD face off over workstation graphics chips
Archrivals Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) have more or less become the Coke and Pepsi of the computer graphics industry, and this week both companies have announced new lines of high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) designed for use in design workstations. Nvidia Quadro P6000 Nvidia’s new product is the Quadro P6000, which the company claims can be ...
Cyanogen lays off 20 percent of its staff, denies rumors of pivoting to apps
A new report by Android Police claims that CyanogenMod creator Cyanogen Inc has just laid off 30 employees, which represents roughly 20 percent of its workforce. According to Android Police, the layoffs came immediately after an executive retreat for Cyanogen’s leadership, with no warning being given before they took place. The report also says that the layoffs have primarily ...
British Columbia outlaws hunting animals with drones
Humans have had an unfair advantage when hunting animals ever since we first started sharpening sticks tens of thousands of years ago, and our advantages have only gotten stronger thanks to the unending progress of technology. These days, some hunters have even turned to drones to track game from above without frightening them away, but now it ...
US Navy accused of pirating 558k copies of VR software
German software company Bitmanagement Software GmbH has accused the United States Navy of illegal installing over 558,000 copies of its BS Contact Geo product, a virtual reality program used for visualizing real world geography in a virtual environment. According to Bitmanagement, the company offered a small batch of software licenses to the Navy on a trial basis, but ...
Nintendo’s Pokemon GO bubble bursts as stock prices tank
The phenomenal success of Pokemon GO caused Nintendo Co Ltd’s stock prices to soar to the highest they have been in years, but after the company recently downplayed the earnings it would make from the popular mobile game, those prices went plummeting by 17.7 percent While Nintendo is a major investor in Pokemon GO creator Niantic Inc., it is only ...
EFF lawsuit argues DRM copyright rules are unconstitutional
It has been nearly two decades since the passage of the (DMCA) , which criminalized the act of copying protected digital content such as DVDs or video games. The DMCA also criminalized the act of circumventing the systems put in place to protect that content, such as digital rights management (DRM) software, and this week, the ...
Facebook’s solar-powered internet drone takes its first flight
It has been nearly one year since Facebook first unveiled Aquila, a long duration, solar-powered drone that is capable of beaming down internet access to hard to reach areas that lack their own networks. Today, Facebook announced that it has successfully completed Aquila’s first test flight, bringing the company one step closer to its goal of getting the ...
The last VCR maker has finally called it quits
It has been roughly 40 years since the first videocassette recorders (VCRs) hit the consumer market, and while they more or less vanished after the arrival of DVDs in the late 1990s, there were still a few stubborn manufacturers who continued making new VCRs even today. Now it looks like the last of those manufacturers, Funai Electric, will be halting ...