Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus revels in alternate history – CNET

Bethesda continues the story of Billy Blazkowicz with a third installment that looks just as fun as its predecessors.
Source: CNET

How I learned to stop worrying and love high-tech meditation – CNET

Emails, tweets and phone alerts are stressing us out. Now there’s tech to ease the anxiety.
Source: CNET

Salesforce claims you can set up customer service in Service Cloud update in less than a day

 Salesforce announced an update to its Service Cloud today, which the company says enables non-technical administrators to build a customer service organization with connected services in less than day. That’s a bold claim, even for the marketing department, but the Service Cloud app builder has been built on top of the Salesforce Lightning development platform and designed to drag and… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Explore the Murky Depths With an OpenROV Trident Underwater Drone

We’ve just gotten used to drones buzzing in the skies over public parks; now they’re set to invade the duck pond.
Source: Wired

'Pyre' Is a Game About a Game—But It's Really About Why We Play

The new title from Supergiant is a fun, thought-provoking exploration of sports: how we play them, why, and for whom.
Source: Wired

The Tesla Model 3 Launches the Electric Vehicle Market

The “affordable” electric car is officially released this week.
Source: Wired

Verizon Q2 meets on $0.96 EPS, sales down 2% YOY, plans $1B in ‘synergies’ in Oath

 Verizon Communications has been investing in building out new areas of business like media and wireless services to offset declines in legacy products like fixed telephony, and today it released Q2 results that underscored that strategy. Verizon reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.96 (with GAAP EPS of $1.07), and revenues of $30.5 billion, citing growth in wireless customers (which… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Twitter’s user growth goes nowhere and the stock is collapsing

 The small nice-ish story Twitter had going for itself for the past few quarters was that, at the very least, its monthly active users were growing quarter-over-quarter. While MAUs might not be the right number to look at these days, for better or worse it’s one of the core metrics that Twitter is judged on for now — and that didn’t pan out when it reported its earnings today… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Baidu teams up with PayPal to take its Chinese mobile wallet global

 PayPal has continued its strategy of expanding its presence on mobile after it revealed a tie-up with Baidu. The arrangement will allow the Chinese firm’s 100 million mobile wallet users to make payments to PayPal’s 17 million merchants through the Baidu service. The news is the latest in a series of recent partnerships from PayPal, which this month expanded its integration… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

The Triumphs and Blunders That Have Led to Tesla’s Model 3

Elon Musk’s master plan finally produces an affordable electric car.
Source: Wired