After selling out with lightning speed, Nintendo is giving the SNES Classic one last production run this year — and we want to make sure you get one with the Super NES Classic Edition Giveaway.
Valve has disabled trading for Dutch CS:GO and Dota 2 players, thanks to a lawsuit from gambling authorities and a controversy a year in the making. The context: The Netherlands was one of multiple countries to investigate lootboxes in the last year. In case you don’t remember, the whole thing began when Warner Bros crowbarred lootboxes into its single-player game Middle Earth: Shadow of War last year. It reached a fever pitch when Star Wars: Battlefront II debuted its frankly insulting lootbox system (and were torn apart for it by an exasperated audience), which is about the time gambling authorities started to sit…
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When Apple removed the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, it set off an industry-wide epidemic of bad design choices. We’re still recovering. So we should all be grateful that, according to a Bloomberg report, Apple’s idea to remove the lightning port from the iPhone X didn’t come to fruition. The report centers around the delays behind Apple’s wireless charging mat, the AirPower. Apple was originally hoping to release it in June, but it turns out making a wireless charger that can handle multiple devices at once is tricky. The company is now hoping to release it in September. It’s long…
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Technology has a great impact on how we consume and interact with sports. Something as simple as a video assistant referee has already altered the FIFA World Cup — so what can we expect for the future? At TNW Conference’s Offside track, we discussed the changes occurring with sports and technology. We’ve highlighted the key takeaways right here: Kevin Langeree, Kiteboarder Kevin discussed how the rise of technology has enabled him to become a professional athlete in a rather niche sport. He shared his personal journey on the road to becoming the best kitesurfer in the world. “I was basically…
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Pymetrics is a New York-based AI hiring-platform, that allows companies to hire more diverse candidates. The company boasts clients of very large sizes, such as Unilever, Google, Airbnb, and Twitter. And now, they were just named ‘Technology Pioneers’ by the World Economic Forum (WOF). Pymetrics’ hiring platform allows job applicants to assess games and tasks. assess games and tasks. But here is where it gets cool: Depending on their performance, the AI-powered platform can calculate whether the candidate is a good match for the job. This mode of hiring is blind, and therefore it also comes in the way of bias…
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