EA Announces Netflix for Xbox One: EA Access

On Tuesday, EA made a huge announcement. Beginning on Tuesday, EA and Microsoft are rolling out a new feature to the Xbox One: EA Access. Essentially, EA Access is a sort-of Netflix for games. Here is a bit of EA's official statement: We have partnered with Microsoft to deliver EA Access, an all-new monthly (or [...]

Flipkart – The Indian Amazon – Closes $1B Round

On Tuesday, Flipkart - who raised on of the largest rounds in 2013 - announced that the company had raised a new round of funding valued at $1 billion. Flipkart's $1 billion round comes in as the largest ever funding round for an Indian company, and the second largest round globally, just behind Uber's recent $1.2 [...]

Facebook to Remove Messaging From App, Force Users to Messenger

Over the coming week or so, Facebook will discontinue messaging within its main Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps. If users want to send messages through Facebook, they will now have to do so through the company's standalone Messenger app. This move has been in the works for a few months, and has already been [...]

Pro-2 Lives Up To The Hype For Cyclists, Hockey Players And Football Players

For athletes in some of the most rigorous sports, breathing training is as important as strength and conditioning. In fact the two go hand in hand. Training the way you breathe helps improve your endurance and thus your performance as well. A new device, the Pro2, currently on Kickstarter is an easy to use tool [...]

Students And Teacher’s Love Edsby So Much They Wrote A Song About It [EdTech]

We know that edtech is becoming insanely popular. More and more schools, districts and state-wide school systems are replacing old systems with new technology platforms. Sure edtech games and curriculum delivery systems can be interesting. New technology in the classroom can be fun, but schoolwide systems typically run on the boring side. So it's exciting [...]

Google Fights Back With Showers

Most of the technology world knows about Google's recent squabbles with residents in San Francisco. People living in San Francisco had a problem with Google using public bus routes and stops without paying for them, in order to pick up Google workers and shuttle them to their Mountain View campus. The people of San Francisco [...]

16 Year Old Google Science Fair Finalist Takes TALK AAC Device To The Masses

16 year old Arsh Shah Dilbagi believes that everyone has the right to talk. That's why he came up with a new device called TALK for the Google Science Fair. The Google Science Fair is a science and technology competition open to students worldwide ages 13-18.  As with most of Google's social initiatives the science [...]

Amazon Launches 3D Printed Products Store

Today, Amazon announced a new category of products in its ever expanding ecommerce platform: a 3D Printed Products store. The "3D Printed Products store, [is] a marketplace that gives customers access to more than 200 unique print on-demand products, many that can be customized by material, size, styles and color variations, and personalized with text [...]

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EdTech: Educational MMORPG, Tyto Online, Heating Up On Kickstarter

There are so many companies out there that will tell you the quickest way to captivate a young students mind is through gaming.That's true to a degree, but that's not what Lindsey Tropf and Florida based Immersed Games are all about. Immersed Games first came on the scene two years ago at the One Spark [...]

Google Right To Be Forgotten To Go Global?

Earlier this year Google and the European Union came to an agreement that Google would have to block certain search results in European countries. These blocked results come from the "right to be forgotten" which basically says that any citizen in a country represented by the EU can fill out a form and request that [...]