Month: August 2020
The 2021 Game Developers Conference will try to go physical again — but now in July
Last month, the world’s biggest tech show announced that CES would go online-only in 2021, instead of expecting companies and journalists to brave Las Vegas in January. But the Game Developers Conference (GDC) just announced it isn’t following suit: it’ll hold a “hybrid event taking place physically in San Francisco”…
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Shroud’s comeback stream shows the power of Twitch’s biggest names
Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek’s first stream back on Twitch after his departure for Mixer was, by any measure, a massive success. He came back with more than 500,000 concurrents, a tide of subscriptions, and a new goatee. Grzesiek’s stream was the most popular on Twitch for the time he was live…
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Twitter’s new API for third-party apps is now live
After a security breach caused a delay, Twitter has launched its new API meant to improve third-party apps. Twitter’s API “has long taken a one-size-fits-all approach,” according to a post on the Twitter Developer Blog, but Twitter developers said th… Source
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One of China’s biggest TV makers is now selling 4K TVs for $249 in the US null
Big news for fans of cheap 4K TVs: After it made the announcement that it would start selling TVs in the US at CES this year, one of China’s biggest manufacturers, Konka, has finally released its first wave of 4K and HD TVs. Among the first models to arrive are…
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Trademark issues halt Microsoft’s roll out of its new ‘Dataflex’ low-code service null
Last month Microsoft announced a new brand called Dataflex that would bring low-code capabilities to both its Power Platform and Teams products. The branding provides a new name for the software giant’s Common Data Service (CDS) which is used to build custom Power Apps. Microsoft had planned to use the…
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Facebook will show pop-ups before you share articles about COVID-19
Facebook is taking yet another step to make it harder for bad information about the coronavirus pandemic to spread. The social network will begin surfacing a new pop-up that appears any time a user shares a link to content about COVID-19. The notific… Source
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