Check out this Super Mario 64 PC port before Nintendo’s lawyers pounce

May05
by on May 5, 2020 at 10:53 pm
Posted In: gaming


A Mario fan has made a lovely, functional port of the Nintendo 64 classic for PC, with 4K graphics and ray-tracing, the whole enchilada. Everyone come take a look before Nintendo’s lawyers strip it clean like piranhas on a dead cow. The video depicting the port surfaced over the weekend, from a user called “Unreal.” The description reads “I can’t give a download link for obvious reasons and DON’T ask a download link in the comments,” which I’m sure won’t deter the really curious out there. The video is 12 mins long and depicts a big slice of the game: The port…

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Samsung’s Galaxy Book Flex, its most interesting laptop in ages, is now available in the US

May04
by on May 4, 2020 at 11:08 pm
Posted In: Insider, Plugged


Samsung’s Galaxy Book Flex, one of the first laptops with a QLED display, and one of Samsung’s most premium laptops in ages, is now on sale in the US. It’s a sign the company is becoming more serious about its laptop offerings. The Galaxy Flex is a premium 2-in-1 laptop that comes in both 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch sizes. It features a snazzy metal blue design, with a built-in fingerprint reader and a slot for the S-Pen – a feature I appreciate as someone who has lost too many styluses over the years. Spec-wise it’s your usual 2020 ultrabook, with a10th-Gen…

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Tech in Latin America: An entrepreneur’s guide to April’s startup news 

May03
by on May 3, 2020 at 10:18 pm
Posted In: Podium


It’s been nearly four years since influential French journalist and startup founder Anna Heim published her last “Tech in Latin America” round-up article on The Next Web, a news briefing about the technology startup industry in Latin America that I eagerly awaited as a startup founder living part time in Colombia.  Much has changed in four years. Venture capitalists, for instance, have taken a shine to the region, with funding in just the first quarter of 2019 quintupling the $500 million that was raised by companies in all of 2016, and the number of unicorns — privately held startups that…

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How to adapt your product’s UX for the Chinese market

May02
by on May 2, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Design & Dev, syndication


Did you know TNW’s Couch Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full ‘Sprint’ program here. Having started MING Labs in China in 2011, we have seen a big development from the old-internet world of overladen landing pages, to digital products of world-class defining design today. In parallel, we have seen the move from clunky desktop applications with small user bases, to the mobile-first B2C revolution to the rise of the super apps that are the new all-encompassing ecosystems in the market. Throughout those major shifts in digital products and behaviors,…

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