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In high school, geeks and nerds aren’t exactly seen as cool, but have you noticed how that perception gets turned on its head once you reach adulthood? Suddenly sci-fi films, high-tech gadgets and video games are hip.
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In this comic, Scott Johnson of ExtraLife illustrates those friends who pretend to be geeks, just to feel included. Do you know the type?
Comic illustration by ExtraLife. Published with permission; all rights reserved. Read more…
Gifs, man! They’re trending harder than Jennifer Lawrence right now, but that doesn’t mean that finding them is the easiest thing in the world. That’s why Giphy, a startup that launched out of betaworks last month, is rolling out new tools to build out its library of awesome, high-quality gifs.
See, Giphy is a gif search engine. It lets you search by keyword for any gif you could possibly want, and then saves load time and keeps things snappy by only playing the gif once you hover over one…
We all have those Facebook friends who seem to make a living posting pictures and video clips of their kids
How cute is little Johnny eating a banana?
Here’s Johnny at the playground going down the slide!
Oh, poor Johnny is upset because mommy won’t give him another cookie.
We get it, your kid is cute. But truth is, no one is really interested
Useless kid information is one of the many reasons I quit Facebook over a year ago. Of…
Gaming has evolved from single-player to head-to-head to massively multiplayer, but it’s also retreated from public arcades to isolated homes. Today’s launch of the Xbox One makes the whole console experience social, not just the gaming itself. You’ll still be battling other humans, but how you communicate with them and choose what to play is about to change.
Think back 20 years ago, before home gaming devices became the powerhouses they are today. You’d go to an arcade, and the way you’d…
Not all iPad games are created equal, especially when it comes to cost. You might download a great game only to fall into a trap of ugly graphics, bad controls and in-app purchases.
Lucky for you, we’ve tested 15 games for their fun factors — and they’re all free. You’ll find complicated strategy games, creative titles and games you can play against your friends.
Check out our list above. Do you have a favorite free game we missed?…
Zynga has apparently told the makers of the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site’s name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga’s trademarks.
CupidWithFriends was built by the startup Apartment 7 (which also released the dating apps Flock and Wednesday Night). The site launched a couple of months ago, allowing users to build and edit dating profiles for their friends.
Apartment 7 co-founder Jared Tame just forwarded me a copy of the letter from Zynga’s lawyers….
Google’s first video promo for Google Play Music All Access, which launched Wednesday during Google I/O, walks us through the new subscription service’s features with help from the world’s most famous vampire, Dracula
Craving for the perfect music to best suit his taste, Dracula picks a song, turns the song into a radio station of related tracks and uses the unlimited skip feature until he finds something he likes. He then creates a playlist titled “Night Beatz,” moves his discovery into…
Google’s first video promo for Google Play Music All Access, which launched Wednesday during Google I/O, walks us through the new subscription service’s features with help from the world’s most famous vampire, Dracula
Craving for the perfect music to best suit his taste, Dracula picks a song, turns the song into a radio station of related tracks and uses the unlimited skip feature until he finds something he likes. He then creates a playlist titled “Night Beatz,” moves his discovery into…
Google announced tools to help developers make their Android games more social at the Google I/O Developer Conference Wednesday morning.
The suite of tools is part of updates to the Google Play Developer Console, which developers use to organize their apps released onto Android. Google announced a slew of updates it says will help get players engaged for longer.
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Developers can now add leaderboards and achievements to their games that exist in Google…
Today at I/O, Google rebranded “Hangouts” as a new unified, cross-platform messaging system. It lets people text, photo, and group video message across Hangouts’ Android and iOS apps, plus its Gmail and Google+ site integrations. Hangouts rolls out today, replacing Google Talk [GChat] and G+ Messenger. While it doesn’t support SMS yet, it could challenge Facebook Messaging and Apple’s iMessage.
For over a year, whispers from GigaOm, Droid Life and others signaled Google would undertake…
