Uber bets its API will transform the way we ride in 2016
Stratio’s LinkSquare can scan your food or drugs to test their authenticity
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
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The overlooked games of 2015: Mad Max
How Apple, Google, and Microsoft used each others’ app stores in 2015
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Future Marketing: 4 steps to achieve data-driven marketing (webinar recap)
Japanese developers vote Splatoon as their game of 2015
How this French sculptor crowdsourced his 3D-printed, life-size InMoov robot
Apple agrees to pay $348 million to settle tax dispute with Italy
LG and Samsung will reportedly supply OLED screens for Apple’s iPhone
Instacart increases its minimum grocery delivery fee by 50%
Suikoden II, an all-time JRPG classic, is on sale for less than a Big Mac on PS Store
Google confirms next Android version will use Oracle’s open-source OpenJDK for Java APIs
Retailers and consumers face counterfeit scam with holiday gift returns
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The overlooked games of 2015: Yakuza 5
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2015’s funniest, glitchiest, and most ridiculous gaming videos
Twitter officially defines ‘abusive behavior’ as harassment persists
Piracy in 2015: Game of Thrones, Interstellar top list of most pirated TV and movies
Psychonauts 2 crowdfunding passes $3 million as it nears goal
Sidecar, once an Uber and Lyft competitor, is shutting down on December 31
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6 ways virtual reality will shape up in 2016
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The overlooked games of 2015 — Dead or Alive 5: Last Round
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Harpooning the whale in a volatile mobile ad market (webinar)
These 5 marketing tech trends will be huge in 2016
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The overlooked games of 2015: Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
Database of 191 million U.S. voters discovered on the Internet
Final Fantasy’s Lightning turns Louis Vuitton model
Lyft creates a ridesharing award to promote its place in local communities
Samsung is adding SmartThing hubs to its 2016 HD TVs to control connected devices
Samsung Pay plans to enable U.S. online shopping in 2016
Microsoft confirms Skype bug that makes new messages show up above old ones
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GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s top 10 games of 2015
Xbox kid waits 8 years to get revenge by Christmas pranking his dad
Flurry: 49.1% of devices activated on Christmas were from Apple, 19.8% from Samsung, and 2% from Microsoft
Call of Duty, Fallout 4, and Star Wars Battlefront are Amazon’s top-selling games
Money isn’t the only valuable thing a VC can give a startup
Steam’s shoot-’em-up library gets stronger with Deathsmiles
Mech Mocha’s Chhota Bheem Himalayan Game beats new Cut the Rope in India’s Google Play charts
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