AR technology company Niantic, best known for Pokémon GO, announced today that it will launch Lightship, an AR Developer Kit (ARDK) that will make building augmented reality experiences more accessible. This free, openly available technology will help Niantic lay the foundation for its vision of the “real-world metaverse.” In the program’s launch livestream, Niantic CEO […]
New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition
A former upstart Instagram rival is suing Meta, formerly known as Facebook, over allegations that the company violated antitrust laws by cloning a competing product and ultimately killing its business. The app, Phhhoto, launched in 2014, inviting users to create and share short GIF-like videos. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the same functionality was […]
Twitter is rolling out a feature to make it easier to search a user’s tweets
Some Twitter users on iOS are starting to get access to a feature that makes it easy to search an individual user’s tweets. For those with access, when you navigate to a user’s profile, you’ll see a search icon in the top right corner of the screen on the user’s profile banner, next to the […]
Once, He Was At The Mercy of Snipers and Explosions IRL. Now He’s A Fortnite Pro.
It isn’t always easy turning tragedy into triumph, but Mounir “33 Mony” Mkhallati is no stranger to that odyssey. Once a child during a tumultuous time in Syria, 33 Mony has gone on to earn some $60,000 since competing in the pro Fortnite gaming circui…
Konami’s New Soccer Game Continues To Be An Utter Fiasco
Things aren’t going well for eFootball, and keep getting worse. Konami’s Friday news dump cannot bury how bad things are. Right now, this is a complete fiasco. It seems like it’s been a complete disaster from the get-go, starting when Konami dropped th…
The daemon that no one comprehends.
COBOL: The code that controls your money. “In fact, these days, when the phone rings in the house Thomas retired to — in a small town outside of Toronto — it will occasionally be someone from the bank. Hey, they’ll say, can you, uh, help… update you…
マイクロソフト、コンテナをサーバレスで実行する「Azure Container Apps」発表。KEDAとDaprを採用。Ignite 2021
マイクロソフト、コンテナをサーバレスで実行する「Azure Container Apps」発表。KEDAとDaprを採用。Ignite 2021 Azure Container Appsは、コンテナとしてパッケージングされたアプリケーションを、何らかのイベントをトリガーにして実行します。アプリケーションは負荷に応じてスケールし、イベントがなくなればインス…
When I Work, an messaging app that lets shift-based teams schedule work and more, raises $200M
Hourly workers make up abut 55% of the working world, yet when it comes to tech built for the world of work, their so-called knowledge worker counterparts dominate the space. Today, an app built specifically to address the needs of the former is announcing a big round of funding — underscoring both the evolving landscape […]
クルマの追加機能にも「サブスク」の時代がやってきた
サーヴィスへの月額課金によるサブスクリプション化の波が、自動車業界にも押し寄せている。自動運転や運転支援、ドライヴレコーダー、データ分析といった機能の利用に課金して収益性を高める取り組みだが、ユーザーからは反発の声も上がっている。
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Flox, an app to help friend groups meet each other, is wooing college students in NYC
There’s nothing like the growing pains of new adulthood, but for college-aged Gen Zers who have spent these formative years in lockdown, it can be even more difficult to form meaningful friendships. While attending Columbia University remotely during the pandemic, first-generation college student Jamie Lee realized how this isolation was affecting her peers, especially those […]