Mar 07
“We need to speak up,” House progressives say in a foreign policy challenge to Donald Trump — and their own party.
Mar 07
Glenn Beck’s Suggestion Trump Is 1 Of The Last Male Role Models Doesn’t Go Well
Posted in: Today's Chili“He’s over the top, but he fights back, he doesn’t flinch. He is the almost cartoon of an alpha dog.”
Mar 07
The parents of Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary say the singer “brainwashed” the women into joining an alleged sex cult.
Mar 07
There are lots of Americans out there that would like to have a slick wagon, or shooting brake but alas the wagon isn’t that popular here, so few are offered. One of the few options comes from VW with the Golf wagon and Alltrack, and another is from Subaru with the Outback. Mercedes has a new shooting brake for Europe … Continue reading
Mar 07
Kick Off Your Smart Lighting Addiction With These $13 Bulbs, No Hub Required
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While they might not have the name recognition of Philips Hue bulbs, Anker’s Eufy smart bulbs are a great, affordable entry point into smart lighting, and you can stock up on bulbs for just $13 each today.
Mar 07
Mar 07
While voice chat is clearly a more effective tool to communicate with your team when gaming (versus typing), there are some downsides to revealing your voice, especially to strangers. For example it might reveal your age, your gender, your ethnicity, things you might not necessarily want strangers to know about you.
In some cases, especially with females, it can also lead to unwanted harassment. However it seems that a couple of MIT graduates are exploring the idea of “voice skins” through an app called Modulate. The idea is that by applying these “voice skins”, it will help change your voice to mask your identity or just for fun.
According to the company’s founder Mike Pappas, “You go online and have the freedom to design your avatar, choose your username, pick what communities you jump into. You can design your online persona completely separately from who you are in the real world. Modulate gives you the complete freedom to design your online persona from scratch instead of bringing the real world with you.”
In addition to helping protect your identity, Pappas believes that such a tool could be useful in helping gamers get more immersed into a game. For example imagine being able to use voice chat while sounding like a character from the game. Modulate is expected to be making its way into more games later this year, and have already been tested out on games such as Dota 2 and League of Legends.
‘Voice Skins’ Could Soon Change How Gamers Sound Online
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Mar 07
These days in-app purchases are a pretty common feature to see not just in games, but other apps as well where it could come in the form of unlocking additional features or purchasing a subscription to a service. These in-app items aren’t free, but if you’d rather not spend money on it, Google has a way.
The company has recently announced that they will soon start to reward users with in-app items by watching ads. According to Google, “Rewarded products make it easy for Google Play developers to increase their monetized user base. Our first rewarded product offering will be in a video format. Users can elect to watch a video advertisement and upon completion be rewarded with virtual goods or in-game currency. In the example below, the user selects ‘watch ad’, views the video, and then is granted 100 coins.”
This means that in the future if you’d rather not spend real-life money for certain in-app purchases, you can choose to earn them by watching ads instead. Given that ads also help developers generate revenue, it kind of adds up in the end. This move also seems to sync up rather nicely with Google’s previous announcement where they introduced shoppable ads to Google Image search.
Google Is Rewarding Users With In-App Items For Watching Ads
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Mar 07
Mar 07
Fiat has unveiled a concept EV to promote the idea of a completely customizable car that’s available to everyone. The Centoventi, which means “120,” in honor of Fiat’s anniversary, would be sold as a bare gray car. The buyer could then pick four…
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