Anthropic launches Claude Design
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Anthropic launched Claude Design, a new AI native visual design tool powered by its flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7. The tool turns plain text prompts into polished websites, landing pages, pitch decks, product mockups, and marketing collateral. Within hours of the launch, Figma shares dropped around seven per cent, and Adobe slid on the news, with Wall Street reading i...
Not letting AI become you: The trap so many are falling into
Friday, October 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
I’ve always loved the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton. The clever idea of cloning yourself to get more done, or just to kick back while another version of you handles the work - was brilliantly portrayed. In the end, though, it drives home a simple truth: when you try to create another “you,” things rarely turn out the way you expect.
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App marketing for Indie Developers 101
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
As an indie app developer, standing out in a crowded digital marketplace can feel akin to navigating a vast, uncharted ocean. We often find ourselves grappling with the dual challenges of creating innovative apps while simultaneously trying to master the art of marketing them. Yet, despite the odds, there are strategies and tools that can help us carve out a niche and t...
Slime Rancher 2 gets major updates
Monday, October 16, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Slime Rancher is a life simulation adventure video game developed and published by Monomi Park. First released in 2017, the game is available for multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.
In Slime Rancher, players take on the role of Beatrix LeBeau, a rancher who travels to a distant planet known as the "Far, Far Range...
Top 10 video game soundtracks of 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 by Richard Harris
Music has always been an essential part of the gaming experience; therefore, video game developers always place great importance on the soundtrack selection for each game. Gaming experts at SecureCheats have compiled a list from the IMDB of the 50 most popular video games. Spotify data was then found for 29 of the games; as every game soundtrack has a different number o...
WW2 mobile game Warpath reaches 30 million downloads
Friday, August 18, 2023 by Austin Harris
Lilith Games announced that Warpath, the free-to-play competitive RTS game available on PC, iOS, and Android devices, reached 30 million cumulative global downloads, further solidifying its reputation as one of the best military strategy games recognized by military game enthusiasts. Warpath is an epic military strategy simulator that tests players’ courage a...
Bell Ringer app launches with brilliant new features
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 by Austin Harris
As we surge forward into the digital age, an innovative era has emerged, characterized by exciting applications that introduce unique and enjoyable experiences. A new entrant to the app world, "Bell Ringer," stands out from the crowd, dazzling users with a suite of creative features and immersive effects.
Unleashing the magic of 'Bell Ringer': A gro...
Apex Legends Mobile Hyperbeat event
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 by Austin Harris
EA and Respawn Entertainment are pleased to announce a brand new event for Apex Legends Mobile. The Hyperbeat event launched with lots of hot new features to explore. In addition to the arrival of Legend Crypto, the Hyperbeat event also included a brand new ranked split, new events, a new Battle Pass, and updates to core systems.
Hyperbeat event updates
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NFT partnership to create fashion pieces
Friday, May 6, 2022 by Richard Harris
Ready has announced a new partnership with SmileyWorld, the lifestyle brand from Smiley that revolutionized Smileys in technology, and EPIK Prime Team, a licensing agency putting brands into video games. The brands will collaborate together to create virtual fashion pieces for Ready Games' app ICON Avatar Fashion Universe. This will be Ready and Epik's...
$1M Graph technology challenge from TigerGraph
Thursday, February 10, 2022 by Austin Harris
TigerGraph, the provider of a graph analytics platform, announced the launch of "Graph for All Million Dollar Challenge", a global search for innovative ways to harness the power of graph technology and machine learning to solve real-world problems. The challenge brings together brilliant minds to build innovative solutions to better our future with one q...
Ethereum expected to hit 5k
Monday, May 3, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Ethereum price is likely to hit $5,000 over the next seven days as the cryptocurrency reaches new all-time highs, predicts the CEO of deVere, Nigel Green.
The bullish prediction from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes as Ether, the token transacted on the Ethereum blockchain, and the world’s second largest cryptocurrency after B...
Decentralized technologies solve Illiquidity problems
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 by Richard Harris
Illiquidity is one of the major factors affecting global financial markets. Digitizing new assets and finding corresponding buyers and sellers is difficult and costly. Much has been said about the potential for decentralized technologies to solve these problems, but current offerings fundamentally lack the necessary performance guarantees, feature set, and architectural...
AI powered news app Audibrow launches
Thursday, December 12, 2019 by Austin Harris
Do you have the time to sit and read the news for 2 hours? Is it okay to miss the news that's important to you?... We didn't think so.
Audibrow's free news app is the first AI-powered news app that reads aloud news & educational content with human-like speech. When you don't have time to read, simply listen to the sam...
Workboard integrates with Jira Software
Thursday, October 17, 2019 by Austin Harris
WorkBoard announced even deeper integration with Jira Software to deliver its market-leading enterprise OKR solution as a native experience within Jira’s popular software development and issue tracking tool.
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in WorkBoard provide the purpose and value of the work technical teams do every day while Jira helps keep that work organ...
Embracing feature experimentation one step at a time
Thursday, June 6, 2019 by Sophie Harpur
For many organizations, when it comes to product development and evolution, experimentation can be a loaded word. It can carry connotations of both guesswork, ‘gut-feel,’ and ad-hoc exploration as well as formal, math-heavy, dense work depending on your experience. But in a world of continuous delivery, where incremental updates to products are constant and ...
The Taiwan Tech Arena returns to CES 2019
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 by Richard Harris
A new epicenter of advanced consumer technology research and development will take center stage at CES 2019 when the Taiwan Tech Arena returns to CES 2019 to introduce the world to 44 of the most promising Taiwanese technology start-ups in the Taiwan Tech Arena located in the Eureka Park Marketplace in the Sands Expo & Convention Center at Booth #52443.
According...
Software architecture in 2019
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Software is increasingly becoming more complex, and dealing with the changes happening in the software industry every day is something all developers, especially software architects, need to pay attention to.
While software architecture isn't anything new - the speed of mobile undoubtedly has put critical elements of creating software outside of the main focus fo...
Best GPS tracking app
Thursday, August 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
When the freedom of Summer has come to an end for millions of students starting School, kids fret about what a new year brings, but parents, rejoice! However worry at the same time because despite their best preparation to ready kids to start the year - it’s just part of being a parent to be concerned about everything, especially knowing the location of their kids...
Robotics competition to be hosted by Washington State
Sunday, April 1, 2018 by Austin Harris
Imagine being surrounded by towering mountains and rich vegetation all while using highly-crafted underwater robots to locate a simulated long-lost airplane wreckage at the bottom of a swimming pool. That will be a reality for students from around the world at the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 17th annual international student underwater robotics ...
Clemson students make apps to help people with intellectual disabilities
Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Students and faculty at Clemson University have developed two smartphone apps to provide practical, real-world assistance to help people with intellectual disabilities maintain employment and live independently.Roy Pargas, associate professor emeritus in the School of Computing, led the technical aspects of the project devoted to producing the apps. He said the apps req...
What VR developers need to know when creating educational apps
Thursday, May 25, 2017 by Baptiste Grève
From dissecting frogs without the guilty consciousnesses, taking a history class in ancient Rome, or swimming with marine animals in the Galapagos islands, VR is offering modern students a more authentic and immersive learning experience, in which they can interact with dimensional environments and place themselves in different times and locations.While the initial hype...
Seven Keys to Obtaining Meaningful Patent Protection for Your Mobile App
Friday, September 16, 2016 by Mark Lezama
You’ve come up with a brilliant idea for a mobile app that will deliver disruptive technology. You’ve sketched out a rough storyboard of your user interface and user experience. You’ve outlined the algorithms and architecture you need to implement your idea and satisfied yourself that your app is technically feasible. You are ready to finalize you...
Mobile App Greatness: It Matters
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Joe Schulz
Mobile user expectations are an interesting thing. We all hear that they are through the roof, and that users expect app behaviors and responses to occur in near-nanoseconds. What most of us don’t hear is that the features and functions that matter to users do not necessarily align with what developers are giving them - or what developers think they want.As a result, ev...
A Developer's Perspective on Mobile Security in the Age of BYOD
Thursday, March 31, 2016 by Joe Schulz
With the cost savings of BYOD continuing to lure organizations to adopt this approach, the number of companies allowing employee-owned devices is still on the rise, as well. In early 2015, Tech Pro Research announced that 74 percent of organizations either already allow or were planning to allow employees to bring their own devices to work. At the time of this writing, ...
DevOps and Agile Lessons from the Story of Stone Soup
Saturday, October 17, 2015 by Pete Waterhouse
I love the old stone soup story. A nifty tale of how hungry travelers with nothing more than a cooking pot, water and a large stone, managed to get curious townsfolk to contribute ingredients to the ‘stone soup’ they were cooking. A wonderful soup, that never quite reached its full potential because it lacked a few essentials. Finally, after the villagers had contribute...
A Guide to Become a Successful Appreneur
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by Ann Lewis
Mobile app development is a lucrative field. The tremendous success of numerous apps on the market adds to its appeal and this has led to a situation, where app entrepreneurs or appreneurs earn truckloads of money from creating and marketing their apps. This write-up traces the steps of successful appreneurs, which will help you follow suit. Know Your Target Audien...
Turbocharging Drupal and WordPress for Big Data Performance and Scale
Friday, August 28, 2015 by Chad Jones
In today’s application-centric business world, nothing matters more than an application’s performance and ability to handle massive data growth. The problem is that Content Management Systems (CMS), which are integral to many applications, are increasingly burdened by performance and scale issues. It’s not their fault, though. In the case of WordPress and Drupal - which...
Incorporating Sustainability to Move Brilliant App Concepts Beyond a Challenge Weekend
Thursday, March 5, 2015 by Andrew Cole
Data. The infrastructure of the digital age. Civic hackathons across the country are acting like megaphones to those who manage data in government: The public data you manage is ours. And here’s how we’ll use it to make our communities and business environments better.Want to participate in a civic hackathon? No problem, you can most definitely find one near you. You’ve...
Interview with Alexander Vashchenko, President of Production at Game Insight
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Alexander Vashchenko is President of Production at Game Insight which has offices in Moscow and San Francisco and consists of 15 development studios spread out across Eastern Europe. While working in the game industry, Alexander has launched a number of financially successful products, such Legend: Legacy of the Dragons and Juggernaut, which garnered mill...
Kolibree Promotes Smart Connected Toothbrush at MWC
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The connected world keeps expanding. I joke with ADM editor Rich Harris that one day we’ll have chips in our toilet paper. And with the Internet of Things, the push to do so is probably not that far away.This January Kolibree announced its connected electric toothbrush at CES and they have been among the mobile tech companies at the Mobile World Congress that ...
Wearable Tech's Hottest Names Converge for SXSW Panel
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
AUSTIN, Texas— Rocksauce Studios—an Austin, Texas-based mobile design and app development studio responsible for SmallCall, TickTalk, Brewski Me, and Tripini — will be presenting SXSW’s most blush-inducing panel to the 2014 Interactive Festival. Tech Off Your Clothes: Naked Truths of Wearables, will be an exciting looking into the tech industry’s most burgeoning sc...
The Oldest Bedtime Story Ever App Launches with Hardcover Companion
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
In the days of "everything digital" it's a bit refreshing to see an author take the approach of creating a story for everyone to read on paper, and an app to go along with it that offers a new perspective on interacting with a story.The Oldest Bedtime Story Ever is a unique way for individuals, families and artists of all backgrounds to explore the Old Testame...
App Marketing on the Cheap!
Friday, November 22, 2013 by Khalil Dandan
How to Successfully Market an App Without a Big Budget
App developers often spend most of their time developing an
app and very little time promoting it. With over 1.6 million apps available in
the App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Phone Market Place combined, gaining
visibility for your app can seem like a daunting, intimidating ...
A Working App Prototype in Less Than 10 Minutes
Thursday, November 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
Introduction to AppGyver Prototyper
When it
comes to effective prototyping nothing counts more than how accurately you can
represent your idea. For app prototyping specifically, that means delivering a
sense of look, touch and responsiveness. We’ve all been put in the position
where we’ve found ourselves defending a great idea just because it...
App Developer Magazine Developer Spotlight Wasabi Productions
Sunday, November 3, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
As part of our series of in-depth interviews with app developers, we recently sat down with Wasabi Productions, a children’s digital publisher.
ADM - Who are your key members?Wasabi - Graham Nunn, Creative Director and Co-Founder; Amy Friedlander , VP Marketing & Strategy, Co-Founder; and Chaz Heitner, Financial Director, Co Founder.
ADM - How lo...
