During my time at the 2016 SMITE World Championship, I had the chance to sit down with co-founder and COO of Hi-Rez Studios, Todd Harris.
Tesla Motors stock price dropped 10% Tuesday after Consumer Reports published its findings on the reliability of the manufacturer’s Model S electric sedan, giving the car a below average “overall problem rate.”
Riot Games found themselves at the center of a controversy last week following several League of Legends players posting publicly that their in-game names had been changed without their consent and they’d been sent what looked like “psychiatric testing” surveys in exchange for a free name change.
Former White House spokesperson and current public relations lead, Jay Carney, just published a blistering response to the New York Times’ investigation of Amazon.com on Medium.
Wynton Hall is a Social Media Director and Managing Editor at Breitbart, which has been rising fast in our rankings of the largest publishers on Facebook each month.
Silicon Valley and other tech center start-ups raised $2.06 billion in “agtech” venture capital in the first half of 2015 to develop apps and devices to help farmers manage the four-year-old drought.
The White House reportedly wants to shell out a whopping $700,000 for standing desks. While it’s true that sitting all day long has debilitating health effects and it’s smart business to keep employees healthy, it’s an extraordinary amount of money to pay for something that can be recreated with a free cardboard box.
Multiple League of Legends players in the North American, European, and Oceanic regions were surprised to log into their game and find that their names had been changed without consultation.
According to sources close to New York based E-sports organisation Major League Gaming, the company is currently in sales talks with California tech giant Yahoo for an undisclosed fee.
Netflix executives hinted Wednesday that the streaming giant could take on a new challenge in the next couple of years: getting into news programming.
As Patreon user information starts to be leaked and dissected following the site’s hacking last month, an interesting fact has already emerged. Jason Kapalka, a cofounder of PopCap Games, is the top donor to two of the most prominent professional victims on the internet, Zoe Quinn and Randi Harper.
Swedish media company Modern Times Group have been slowly increasing their e-sports market share under the radar. Following the purchase of a 74% share in ESL for €78 million in July they have been busy looking at other ways that they can expand into the growing e-sports market.
At the first Democratic Presidential Debate, we learned there is at least one consensus belief among all the presidential candidates: whistleblower Edward Snowden should be punished.
Apple Inc.’s near-billion-dollar loss Tuesday for violating a University of Wisconsin patent from 1998 that improves processor performance in all of its iPhone and iPad products will encourage more universities to sue tech companies.
The $67 billion Dell-EMC merger–a record-breaking offer in Silicon Valley–is an effort to take a Valley behemoth private in order to make the disruptive changes necessary to become a dominant force in the coming cloud computing era.
Technology’s advance is bringing us closer to the uncomfortable point at which organic and mechanical life begins to merge. That’s really what the growing ethical, legal, and practical conflicts in science boil down to.
My first moments with the Star Wars: Battlefront beta are pure and unfettered jubilation. Everything looks right, and everything sounds right. My first impression is that I am part of Star Wars in a way that I’ve only dreamt of for most of my life. It is crisp, clear, and more immediate than any other experience I have had in a universe that was as real to child-Nate as the one outside his window.
On Friday, a Chinese official declared to the United Nations General Assembly that it was “highly necessary and pressing for the international community to jointly bring about an international code of conduct on cyberspace at an early date.”
The executive editor of Cracked.com, Jason “David Wong” Pargin inadvertently made himself the victim of internet slapstick this week after he was temporarily “shadowbanned” on Reddit for breaking a rule just moments after he accused his critics of violating it
Big tech companies are safeguarding billions of dollars in offshore tax havens, according to a new study. Apple alone, the biggest offender, is stashing $181B in revenue with an estimated tax burden of $59.2B. In other words, Apple’s taxes could pay for nearly the entirety of President Obama’s plan for free two-year community college (an estimated $60B).
In moves that just get weirder every day, Google–now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet–has revealed that it owns abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.
(Ferenstein Wire) – The tech industry, now one of the largest private sector lobbying forces in Washington DC, hasn’t had much to say as Republicans scramble to find a new Speaker for the House of Representatives. But now, Congress’s geekiest member, Representative Darrell Issa, is “considering” putting his hat in the ring and has turned heads in the well-heeled tech halls of D.C.
The United Nations report on “cyberviolence against women and girls,” which called on national governments to censor the internet, was withdrawn for revision earlier this week following widespread criticism and mockery. But a new hashtag by the U.N-created Internet Governance Forum (IGF) designed to spread the concept even further is still scheduled for today.
In preparation for the launch of Treyarch’s latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise, Activision will be hosting ‘Black Ops Fridays’ on its YouTube channel.
(Ferenstein Wire)—The technology industry is scrambling to understand how it will continue business in Europe, after the continent’s high court struck down a privacy agreement that protected U.S.-based companies operating abroad, known as Safe Harbor.
An extraordinary United Nations report on “Cyberviolence Against Women and Girls” has been withdrawn pending revision by the U.N. Broadband Commission, the body that published it. This followed widespread criticism from across the political spectrum.
