Indie Developer Matt Stark has tweeted a video of his idea for a game on twitter. It’s what he’s callling the “Polaroid Effect,” after the once-ubiquitous instant cameras. The experimental game mechanic allows a player to take a picture of a slice of environment using a camera, then place the instant-camera picture into the world as a piece of interactive environment—physically altering the world around them into a surrealist photo collage. He first posted the concept in November 2019, but was then unsure if what he has done now was even possible. “The effect is purely visual and the player can’t physically…
Author: Loknath Das
With another US Presidential election on the way in 2020, we can expect the debate around fake news to once again ramp up, and become a key focus of discussion as we look at how political influence spreads online. But what if fake news isn’t actually the problem? Sure, it would be easier to be able to attribute the broader shifts in the political landscape to lies and deceit online – that would help explain the more polarizing movements which seem to be gaining momentum, often despite significant evidence against many of their key claims. But various investigations – including…
No one likes to be audited. On its own, the word “audit” implies wrongdoing or, at the least, carelessness. Opening the books particularly stings when the subject of an audit believes that every obligation has been met in good faith. An audit suggests the reviewing party sees only an act of bad faith. But for software vendors, an audit has often been the traditional path to confirm whether a customer is complying with its software license agreement. In such a scenario, a vendor likely has a legitimate suspicion of misuse — regardless of whether the misuse was intentional or not.…
By chaos, Jackson is referring to the avalanche of open source software code out there that’s used anonymously for some very important projects. GitHub.com alone hosts some 40 million developers, he pointed out. “We are building the world’s critical infrastructure on software somebody else wrote, a stranger with unknown skills, motivations and desires, but the desire to innovate is so high, we’re willing to accept the risk of using some random person’s software invention,” Jackson said. Sometimes developers understand the practical use of the open source code they’re creating, and sometimes they don’t, according to Jackson. Some of it is…
Residents predict the future of technology. While each one of us have witnessed how the process of communication has evolved, the technological advancement in the 21st century has completely revolutionised the way we communicate in an unimaginable way. For years, information was relayed to us through traditional media channels like radio, TV and newspapers, but in the last 10 years, the biggest change that has taken over the communication process by a storm is the near-instant communication by email, instant messaging and social networking. With most people now having access to instant communication right in their pockets, communication of the…
Without a doubt, social media has changed the way we live in the world. It has become a tool for us to meet new people, access information and demand political change in this day and age. Did you know that social media platforms are used by one-in-three people in the world and by more than two-thirds of all internet users? That’s a lot of active users! Social media’s influence amongst the world’s internet users is undeniable. So yes – while it’s true that social media may rule the internet and our social lives, our question is, is social media is king for businesses…
According to eMarketer, Facebook lost over 2 million users under the age of 25 in 2018, which set a trend for the entire year of 2019. We are already heading into 2020 and the number of Facebook users keeps dropping. However, it’s not only Facebook that is losing members but also other social network technology enterprises such as Twitter and LinkedIn. The problem is not in anything that Mark Zuckerberg did lately. In fact, the reason why general social networks such as Facebook are becoming less interesting is the growing interest in vertical networks. What Are Vertical Social Networks A…
Our cars are literally becoming mobile devices running on software platforms. Safety is critical when it comes to automobiles, because written safety standards and our lives depend on it, necessitating mission-critical embedded systems. Enter BlackBerry QNX, designed not to fail, innovating the way cars automate both safety and entertainment features. The company is covering all the bases with fail-safe connectivity and software that meets the needs of users, according to Grant Courville (pictured), vice president of products and strategy at BlackBerry Ltd. “Where things have to be reliable, safe, secure, work all the time, that’s where you’ll find our software — factory floors, we’re…
Will enable identity verification, better tracking of users Data Protection Bill requires social media companies to create e-KYC like validation process. The validated users will get something like a blue tick or ‘visible mark of verification, which shall be visible to all users of the service’. This will turn companies like Facebook and Twitter into e-KYC firms, allowing government to identify the identity of each ‘verified profile’. Experts feel this will, on the one hand, increase compliance costs for social media companies, while at the same time, allow government to track individuals on social media more effectively. In addition, the…
‘As the first Facebook employee who worked on paid political marketing in Europe, I am convinced that simply banning political ads on social media fixes nothing.’ Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images Most people celebrated when Twitter announced its ban on political ads in October, and for good reason – there’s a lot wrong with the current state of political campaigning online. But as the first Facebook employee who worked on paid political marketing in Europe, I am convinced that simply banning political ads on social media fixes nothing; in my opinion, it encourages inflammatory, polarising rhetoric and drives campaign money…