by Asmawisham | Apr 19, 2017 | Technology
Blizzard Entertainment today made wildly popular real-time strategy game StarCraft a free download for Mac and PC, nearly two decades after its original release.The RTS hit was universally acclaimed when it launched in 1998, and went on to become an e-sport phenomenon...
by Asmawisham | Apr 19, 2017 | Technology
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the Newseum’s Free Expression Awards in Washington, D.C., last night to accept the institution’s 2017 Free Expression Award.Cook was named in February as the recipient of the award in the Free Speech category, which recognized...
by Asmawisham | Apr 19, 2017 | Technology
Ada, a London and Berlin-based health tech startup, sees its official U.K. push today, and in doing so joins a number of other European startups attempting to market something akin to an AI-powered ‘doctor’.The company’s mobile offering bills itself as a “personal...
by Asmawisham | Apr 19, 2017 | Technology
If you haven’t heard of Chewy, you aren’t alone. But PetSmart, the retail giant with more than 1,500 stores across the U.S., has clearly been tracking the low-flying, five-year-old pet supplies company. According to Recode, it just agreed to purchase its young...
by Asmawisham | Apr 19, 2017 | Technology
Baidu is opening its self-driving vehicle platform in a bid to help drive the development of autonomous cars.The Chinese internet giant today announced its Apollo project that will see its platform, including vehicle platform, hardware platform, software platform and...
by Asmawisham | Apr 19, 2017 | Technology
80% of Instagram’s users 600 million users are outside the US, so it needed a way to provide a better experience for users with limited network connectivity or no data plan.Today at F8, Instagram announced it’s built support for using most of its features without...