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Grand Theft Auto V is the bestselling game of all time, following a new announcement by Rockstar Games’ parent company Take Two Interactive, confirming it has shipped 45 million copies since launch. Wii Sports technically still holds the title with 82 million sold copies, but considering Nintendo bundled the... Read more
In December 2014, ride sharing service Uber, announced plans for much tighter safety measures in India, following the rape of a passenger who was using the service. Uber have now confirmed that two new security features, an in-app panic button and journey/location sharing, will be rolled out to users in India... Read more
If you have ever gone through a load of stock images, you’ll know they often feature real people, doing real things, however they tend to look a little fake and staged (which of course they are!). So art director Matthew Vescovo decided to inject some reality into stock images... Read more
Amazon To Open Its First Shop
Internet February 5, 2015
Amazon is about to enter the ‘real world’ with the company’s first attempt at a bricks and mortar location. The online retailer is making this move to begin the transfer from online retail to physical retail, with their very own Amazon ‘shop’. Technically, it is a staffed pick-up and drop-off... Read more
McDonalds is making the news post Super Bowl with the announcement that they’re going to be giving away some free food for those who “Pay with Lovin'”. Just what exactly is “lovin'”? Well, according to McDonald’s, it can range from high-fives to hugs to selfies and beyond. We should’ve... Read more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler has officially declared support for Title II reclassification. It comes after a failed attempt by the commission to create a hybrid net neutrality plan, which neither side found ample. Wheeler has apparently warmed to President Obama’s own pledge to net neutrality,... Read more
There are some pretty good reasons for a kid getting suspended from school these days, such as bullying others, getting into a fight, verbally abusing the teacher(s), breaking rule after rule after rule after repeated warnings, etc. Those reasons, among others, are perfectly acceptable and even somewhat expected causes... Read more
Some people watch the Super Bowl for the football. Some people watch it for the commercials. Heck, some people just watch it for the halftime show. And then, there are those who watch it just to see what famous faces they can spot in the stands. This year, though,... Read more
For the last month or so, give or take a few days, torrent website The Pirate Bay, have been teasing their return. On Saturday of last weekend, The Pirate Bay team have finally brought back online the vastly popular torrent download service. This was before the planned February 1st relaunch, so... Read more
“Used” Star Trek Phaser Going Up For Auction
Internet January 30, 2015
While I’m no “Trekkie”, I have watched my fair share of Star Trek. I loved the space-travel, the Enterprise, but most of all, I thought the phasers were awesome. They reminded me of the future, yes, but they also reminded me of something out of the past, like, something out... Read more
Teen Murdered Over Snapchat Message
InternetMobileSocial Media January 30, 2015
Snapchat has faced all kinds of controversy in the past year, not the least of which being when users of the photo-sharing service were hacked through a third party client and all kinds of pictures of underage teenagers were released on the internet. Even more recently, the popular app... Read more
YouTube Now Uses HTML5 Instead of Flash Video
Internet January 30, 2015
The Google-owned media giant, YouTube, has just announced that it has begun using HTML5 video as its default for all media playback on the website. This marks a substantial forward step in its progressive move away from Flash. YouTube has stated the new default standard will work in the... Read more
The gaming world in 2014 lacked any significant punches, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Bayonetta 2 were all fantastic titles, but there wasn’t a killer game everyone was playing. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt could be the killer game for 2015, if CD Projekt Red’s third... Read more
Google is back on track with its fiber deployment schedule, following a blank 2014 where Google Fiber arrived in Austin, TX, and will be hitting four new cities in the US very soon. Under the #FiberIsComing campaign tag, Google Fiber will arrive in Nashville, TN, Atlanta, GA, Charlotte and... Read more
Last week Microsoft announced a new browser, Project Spartan. That’s not the only news in the browser wars as the ex CEO of Opera has just announced a new browser as well, Vivaldi. This new browser is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and although it is still in its infancy,... Read more
On Monday of this week the Whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks, accused Google of giving up the emails and electronic data of its top level staff to authorities in the US, without providing a notification. That is until nearly three years later. Apparently Google was acting in response to warrants that were... Read more
A team of hackers that have claimed to be from the “Lizard Squad – Official Cyber Caliphate” group have attacked Malaysia Airlines official website. The homepage of the national carrier was showing, for a time, an image of a lizard wearing a tuxedo and a top hat. Officials at... Read more
Teen Arrested For Allegedly Making Threats With Emojis
InternetMobileNewsSocial Media January 27, 2015
People get arrested for some crazy things anymore, and while I’ve heard of some outlandish stories, this one just has to come close to the top of the list. A 17-year-old from Brooklyn was recently arrested after he allegedly threatened police with emojis. Go ahead and read back over... Read more