Month: February 2020
The third platform: digitizing the rest of the world
Broadly speaking, we have seen the development and realization of two pivotal technological platforms in the last 45 years. The first of these was the internet, which digitized human knowledge; making it both instantly and widely accessible to society at large. Instant access to knowledge made the speed of flow…
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Remember Neopets? There’s a cartoon TV show on its way
Ah, Neopets. Remember Neopets? Well, the cutesy online game looks set to get an even cutesier animated TV show, after Canadian Broadcaster Blue Ant Media acquired the rights for a series. Back in the mid-2000s, all the kids – or at least myself and my siblings – were on it.…
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Streaming accounts for nearly one-fifth of total U.S. TV watching, according to Nielsen
Streaming eats up a big chunk of viewers’ time, though it’s still outweighed by traditional linear TV. That’s according to the latest Total Audience Report from Nielsen — its first Total Audience Report to use smart TV data from Gracenote, and one that’s particularly focused on “the flash point of…
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Here’s two hours of Doom Eternal footage, courtesy of…T-Pain
Doom Eternal may have been delayed for us mere mortals. But if you’re rap royalty, you can already get your hands on a pre-release of the game. And so, courtesy of producer and rapper extraordinaire T-Pain, he who popularised the use of autotune in modern pop music, we’ve got two…
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A list of MWC coronavirus cancellations so far
The world’s biggest mobile tradeshow, Mobile World Congress (MWC), is due to take place in Barcelona just under two weeks’ time, on February 24-27. The annual international telco industry event typically attracts more than 100,000 delegates from around 200 countries across the conference’s four days — with every major telco…
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Mac Pro vs Chrome: can 1.5TB of RAM cope with Google’s memory hog?
Take a shiny new Mac Pro, loaded up with a staggering 1.5TB of system RAM – how do you push such a machine to its limits? Forget the usual stress tests or heavyweight benchmarking utilities – what you need to do is open a shed-load of Chrome tabs. How many…
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