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City Guide app by Foursquare to be replaced with new Swarm app

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

Foursquare has announced that it will officially sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024, marking the end of an era for the platform that has long served users in discovering local businesses, venues, and attractions. The decision, while difficult, is driven by the company’s intent to concentrate efforts on its companion app, Swarm, which will now become th...

Social-fi web3 app Memstagram featured on Coinbase Wallet

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Memstagram, the social-fi app, is now featured on Coinbase Wallet, making it accessible to millions of users worldwide. Coinbase Wallet users can now easily participate in Memstagram’s unique meme ecosystem, built on the Base chain, and earn rewards for participating in the decentralized meme economy. Social-fi Web3 app Memstagram featured on Coinbase Wallet ...

Astronomy magazine ScopeTrader releases October 2024 issue

Thursday, October 3, 2024 by Austin Harris

The October 2024 issue of ScopeTrader astronomy magazine has been officially released, packed with a wealth of articles, insights, and features tailored for astronomy enthusiasts. The cover story, penned by Christopher Smythies, narrates his captivating experience at Goldendale Sky Village, a renowned destination for stargazing. Smythies shares the community’s ded...

NIKKE and EVANGELION collab announced by Level Infinite

Friday, August 23, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield

Level Infinite, a gaming brand dedicated to delivering high-quality experiences to a global audience, announced that GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE, the mobile sci-fi RPG shooter developed by SHIFT UP, will feature a limited-time crossover event with Evangelion, the beloved anime series. This collaboration will take place for a limited time and features characters, outfits a...

WWDC24 highlights from Apple

Friday, July 26, 2024 by Austin Harris

Apple recently showcased a series of groundbreaking updates and innovations at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 (WWDC24), captivating the developer community with a week of insightful sessions. The event highlighted the latest advancements across various domains, including machine learning, Swift, SwiftUI, spatial computing, and more. WWDC24 highlights from&n...

SmartBear HaloAI boosts code quality through transformative automation

Monday, July 8, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

SmartBear has launched two innovations that fundamentally change how both API and functional tests are performed, integrating SmartBear HaloAI, trusted AI-driven technology, and marking a significant step forward in the company's AI strategy. GenAI technology, known for automating repetitive and error-prone tasks, enhances efficiency and reduces manual intervention,...

NodeScript low code tool released by UBIO

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

NodeScript has been released by UBIO, the automation platform who built the tool to service internet superpowers including Google, Kiwi and Trivago. NodeScript gives developers a simple and intuitive visual toolset to effortlessly connect APIs and program online services. NodeScript, the low-code visual toolset for data workflow automation NodeScript is a ful...

GDC 2024 conclusion

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by Richard Harris

This year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), the event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, has officially come to a close after hosting nearly 30,000 registered attendees for five full days of inspiring sessions and networking opportunities with peers and leaders in the games industry. GDC will be returning to the Moscone ...

GPT app store revenue and API insights

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

GPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer." It refers to a class of artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI that use transformer architecture for natural language processing tasks. These models are pre-trained on vast amounts of text data and can generate human-like text based on the input they receive. It has been two months since...

SXSW keynote speakers revealed

Monday, February 19, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals has announced the addition of new Keynotes and a fifth round of Featured Speakers for the 38th edition of its annual Conference, which celebrates the convergence of technology, film, television, and music. SXSW takes place March 8-16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. The Keynotes announced include five-time Olympic gold meda...

PGC London 2024 celebrates 10 year anniversary

Thursday, November 30, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Pocket Gamer Connects will celebrate its 10th anniversary this upcoming January at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2024. Hosted at the city's familiar Brewery venue, this conference will be the ultimate knowledge-sharing and networking event for the games industry. Starting in the UK in 2014, the Pocket Gamer Connect event series has transformed from its modest...

Top BAYC NFTs are up for sale at a major price drop

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), a collection of NFTs found on the Ethereum blockchain, boast some of the most expensive NFTs ever sold. However, with the recent news of NFTs continuing to decline, how much are they valued at now? The most expensive BAYC NFTs are up for sale: experts reveal how much their price has dropped Experts at CryptoGambling.tv analyzed Ope...

WW2 mobile game Warpath reaches 30 million downloads

Friday, August 18, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

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...

Its not NFTs people want its ownership

Thursday, August 25, 2022 by Richard Harris

Sami Khan, the co-founder, and CEO of Atlas Reality chatted with us about his journey from an App Marketer to where he is currently, all about ATLAS: EARTH, and how it pairs a mobile-first game world where players can buy land right where they live. We also asked Khan about how the inspiration for the game was derived, what his vision and mission entail for Atlas, ...

GDC 2022 highlights

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

The 2022 Game Developers Conference (GDC), the event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, concluded its 36th edition, after a week of networking, learning, and inspiration. The conference was the largest in San Francisco in the past two years, with a total of 12,000 industry professionals attending at San Francisco's Moscone C...

Preserve NFT data on Web3

Monday, March 7, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

Concept Art House is partnering with NFT.Storage to preserve NFT data on Web3 protocols IPFS, and Filecoin. The NFT.Storage API combines the power of IPFS and Filecoin to meet the specific needs for Web3 games, such as the ones developed by Concept Art House (CAH). By storing game assets on these protocols, developers can avail of immutable referencing and verifiable...

NFT smart contract that pays NFT artists securely

Friday, February 25, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

Ethereum co-founder, Joseph Lubin’s blockchain incubator, ConsenSys Mesh has announced the NFT platform TreeTrunk.io at the celebrated ETH Denver developer conference. Launching in a beta release on the Polygon Mumbai testnet, TreeTrunk has introduced a new smart contract that, for the first time in the Ethereum ecosystem, collects and distributes royalty payments...

NFT Super Bowl prop bets

Friday, February 11, 2022 by Richard Harris

For publicity, bookies often provide odds (prop bets) for featured Super Bowl events that are predetermined, such as the halftime show and commercials. Cryptocurrency and NFT Super Bowl prop bets Odds for these "entertainment" events surrounding the game are set by oddsmakers despite the understanding that small groups of people who work on these pr...

Data privacy predictions from Ground Labs

Monday, January 17, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

As Ground Labs Co-Founder, Stephen Cavey leads a global team empowering enterprise partners to discover, manage and secure sensitive data across their organizations. Stephen has deep security domain expertise with a focus on electronic payments and data security compliance. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as PrivSec Global, and his expert analy...

Metaverse experience from the Billionaire Zombies Club

Friday, December 17, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

The Billionaire Zombies Club has released its official white paper, a preview of their upcoming metaverse experience, and has empowered their community to mint "Skeleton King" NFTs which will eventually have DAO Governance and significant ingame utility. As of this writing, the BZC Collections across Open Sea have aggregated more than 600 ETH in volu...

Nylas expands operations in Europe

Wednesday, November 3, 2021 by Richard Harris

Nylas announced that one of Europe and the world’s leading e-commerce platforms have selected Nylas to quickly, securely, and automatically connect real-time communications data into their application. With Nylas’s Email and Neural APIs, this fintech enterprise can more intelligently extract and structure data from the more than 2 million transactions on the...

Huawei Developer Conference highlights

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 by Richard Harris

The annual Huawei Developer Conference 2021 (HDC 2021) recently returned, kicking off an eventful weekend filled with highly anticipated hardware and software launches, keynotes, and tech sessions. The conference began with a bang, as five Huawei speakers affirmed their goal to forge a smart, safe and flourishing ecosystem alongside its partners in the opening keynot...

Ubuntu Impish Indri lands from Canonical

Monday, October 25, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10, the environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices, and cloud. "As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to innovate. From the biggest public clouds to the tiniest devices, from DGX ser...

Quantum computing company receives over $9M in funding

Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Richard Harris

Quantum Brilliance, a venture-backed Australian-German full-stack quantum accelerator startup, has announced closing a USD$9.7 million seed investment co-led by the QxBranch founders’ and Main Sequence investment consortium. Quantum Brilliance harnesses synthetic diamonds to build quantum accelerators that do not require near absolute zero temperature or comple...

Faster customized chat experiences announced from Sendbird

Thursday, April 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Sendbird unveiled its latest tools for developers to bring industry-leading chat capabilities into their applications. Sendbird’s new Flutter SDK makes it easy for developers to build chat in Flutter applications. Because Flutter apps can extend across multiple platforms with a single code base, time to market to launch Sendbird Chat can be dramatically decreased....

Automation Cookbook introduced by Applitools

Thursday, April 15, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Applitools announced the launch of its “Automation Cookbook,” featuring free bite-sized videos aimed to upskill developers and test engineers of all experience levels. Anyone looking for quick answers to their test automation questions can use recipes to solve everyday challenges and also practice in the Test Kitchen for free. The initiative is led by Angie ...

Geospatial PaaS allow developers to integrate location in apps

Monday, February 1, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Esri announced the launch of ArcGIS Platform, a geospatial platform as a service (PaaS) for developers that need to integrate location capabilities into their apps, business systems, and products. ArcGIS Platform gives developers direct access to Esri's powerful location services using the APIs and web frameworks of their choice. "ArcGIS Platform lets users ...

App Store Optimization for 2021

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 by Dave Bell

So much has changed in 2020, from the way we work to new advancements in mobile technology. App Store Optimization (ASO) has also changed, as the app ecosystem grows and developers continue to compete for downloads. As we’re more than halfway through 2020, it’s important to look to the future and see how ASO will continue to change heading into 2021. New ...

CircleCI hits 1 millionth user

Thursday, September 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

CircleCI celebrates nine years and the addition of their 1 millionth user to the platform. “When CircleCI started, CI/CD was a kind of niche, bleeding-edge practice. Now, we’re seeing the market accelerate like never before as companies prioritize automation and continuous delivery systems,” said Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO. “No matter what market ...

GDC 2021 event lineup

Tuesday, September 1, 2020 by Freeman Lightner

Informa Tech, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), have revealed a new structure for virtual and physical GDC events for the rest of 2020 and 2021, which are continuing to evolve due to changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the inability to meet in person for the near future, organizers are expanding multiple aspects of its program. GDC 202...

Immediate availability of SkySQL from MariaDB

Thursday, April 2, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

MariaDB Corporation announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform for transactions, analytics or both, and optimized with a cloud-native architecture. SkySQL delivers the “MariaDB in the cloud” experience customers have been waiting for - fully-featured, fully c...

Self-learning technology for conversational AI from Boost ai

Thursday, March 26, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Boost.ai has released a self-learning technology for conversational AI. Developed and offered exclusively by boost.ai, self-learning AI overcomes the ‘cold start’ challenges of building and managing virtual agents with an automated system that intelligently analyzes and recommends both new conversational dialogs, as well as suggestions to improve existi...

SignEasy earns Innovator title again from Aragon Research Globe

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

SignEasy has once again been named an 'Innovator' by Aragon Research Globe in the category of Digital Transaction Management (DTM). The report, released annually, evaluates 20 major DTM providers in a market that has become known as the best way to automate legacy paper-based transactions. SignEasy offers a mobile-first approach and intuitive interface, in ad...

DesignCon 2020 schedule announced

Friday, November 8, 2019 by Richard Harris

DesignCon announced its 2020 conference schedule presenting 14 newly refined and reorganized tracks covering a broad range of highly technical sessions, boot camps, tutorials, and more to fit the needs of the hardware design engineering community. Hot topics of interest for this year’s programming include signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) for single-m...