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Google’s hyperlocal news app Bulletin makes headlines as it shuts down after just a year

Sep27
by on September 27, 2019 at 8:40 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google


Google is killing one of its products, again. This time it’s the company‘s hyperlocal news app Bulletin. In a letter to users obtained by Android Police, the company states it’s shutting down the app on November 22. The company had introduced the app last year as a pilot in the US and Canada. However, it never moved out of that phase. The app was meant to be a hub for crowdsourced stories allowing anyone to submit text, photos, or video clips. The search giant’s letter doesn’t state any reason for ending the project. However, it’ll allow you to download your stories…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price plummeting for fourth day in a row’

Sep27
by on September 27, 2019 at 8:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nietzsche used to say: Buy low, sell high! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 26 2019, at a price of $8,118. That’s a notable 4.34 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$368.69. It was the lowest closing price in one hundred and six days. We’re still 59 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap…

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‘Accessibility’ and ‘playability’ in video games are not the same thing — here’s why that matters

Sep27
by on September 27, 2019 at 7:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming, syndication


This article was originally published by Super Jump Magazine, an independent publication all about celebrating great video games and their creators through carefully-crafted, in-depth features produced by a diverse team of games journalists, designers, and enthusiasts. It was founded by games journalist and product designer James Burns, and can be be found on Twitter and Facebook. The dust has settled — to some extent — on a major furore that swept the internet over recent months: the whole question of adding an easy mode to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Some argued every game should be accessible to every player, while others pointed out titles like Sekiro are intended…

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Facebook tests hiding Like counts, just like Instagram

Sep27
by on September 27, 2019 at 7:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Facebook has gone ahead and done it. The company begun hiding the number of likes that posts have received, starting today in Australia. You will see “John Doe and others” instead of “John Doe and 15 others” under your post. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong uncovered this test from a beta version of the social network’s app, earlier this month. A Facebook spokesperson said the company is testing this to understand if it improves the site’s user experience: We are running a limited test where like, reaction, and video view counts are made private across Facebook. We will gather feedback to…

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