December 21, 2015
Pinball In Virtual Reality? Yes Please
OK, it doesn’t exist just yet, but one group called “Pinball Labs” has a new Kickstarter to bring back the feels you felt when you entered an arcade…
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December 21, 2015
We Heart It, The Image-Sharing Site Used By 40 Million Teens, Launches Its Second App, Easel
We Heart It, an image bookmarking service popular with teenaged girls, is out now with its second mobile application called Easel. The new app is designed to complement…
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Extroverts Rejoice! Now Facebook Finds You Parties
Facebook should tell me what to do tonight. It already knows what I like, where I live, and who I hang out with. Now it will. After accidentally…
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Colopl Launches $50M Global Fund Dedicated To Virtual Reality
There’s no shortage of ideas and projects in the virtual reality space. There are tons of studios popping up all over the world to create immersive content for…
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First Round’s Holiday Video Will Have You Reaching For Your Cell Phone
In the tech world it’s just not the holidays until First Round Capital drops its annual holiday video. It’s that time again, folks. The annual festivities started way…
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CAH’s Max Temkin On ‘Secret Hitler’ And Making Fun Games For Money
If you’re a maker, getting people excited about what you’re doing can be difficult — no matter what it is you’re making. One guy, Max Temkin, has been…
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Facebook Filters Out Sadness And Adds Editing To Your Year In Review Photoset
Facebook broke some hearts in 2014 when its algorithmically selected Your Year In Review photosets accidentally included depressing photos of people’s exes, blocked friends and deceased loved ones.…
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Hit Or Miss, A Tinder-Like Curated Fashion Shopping App, Looks To Keep Shopping Simple
Amber Reyngoudt and Dave Peck want to figure out how to perfect the mobile shopping experience — and they thinks it’s flipping through fewer products, not more. Skull Ninja…
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The Future Of In-flight Entertainment Is Virtual Reality
I fly a lot for work, be it a quick two hours or less to Seattle to 10+ hours to Germany, and everything in between. I don’t really…
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LinkedIn Revamps Its Jobs Listings With Big Data Analytics
LinkedIn, a social network focused around the working world with nearly 400 million members, is well known for how it uses algorithms to suggest potential business connections and jobs…
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