Your music is probably always with you in today’s streaming-focused world, but sharing that music with others can be tough. Whether it’s a party on the beach or camping with friends, you probably want something a little more powerful than your phone...
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Inside the modern science fair: Wind-tunnel tests, spacecraft parachutes and Kevlar soccer socks
Push Me Pull You—and the other modern 4P couch games you should be playing
Last week, one of my favorite video games of the past few years, Push Me Pull You, launched on PlayStation 4 (with a PC/Mac/Linux version "coming soon"). It's not the best game of the year by any stretch, and it may not even be the best multiplayer game that we see this year—but it'll almost surely top my year-end list.
Why? I'm a couch-combat freak....
Popcap brings Bejeweled into modern era with Bejeweled Stars
Match-3 games may be the perfect mobile entertainment apps. They’re easy to learn, can continually challenge you with ever-more-difficult puzzles and are just as fun whether you play for five minutes or for half an hour.
However, while some indie houses have come...
Box CEO Aaron Levie: How Microsoft is creating a blueprint for modern tech partnerships
Box CEO Aaron Levie has a unique perspective on Microsoft, growing up just down the road from the company in Mercer Island, Wash., before competing with Microsoft as the co-founder of the enterprise cloud storage company. But...
Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals
It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside Africa 47,000–65,000 years ago. Here we analyse the genomes of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan from the Altai Mountains in Siberia together with the sequences of chromosome 21 of two Neanderthals from Spain and Croatia. We find that a population that diverged early from other modern humans in Africa contributed genetically to...