Trippy rhythm-action game ‘Thumper’ is coming to Xbox One
No matter what platform you own, you’ll be able to play last year’s excellent rhythm game, Thumper. Developer Drool writes on Xbox Wire that the equally trippy and violent music game will make its way to Xbox One sometime this spring, teasing that more details will soon follow. And, in related news, if you want something to play on your shiny new Nintendo Switch, Thumper will make its way there as well in the same vague...
Trippy rhythm-action game ‘Thumper’ is coming to Xbox One
No matter what platform you own, you’ll be able to play last year’s excellent rhythm game, Thumper. Developer Drool writes on Xbox Wire that the equally trippy and violent music game will make its way to Xbox One sometime this spring, teasing that more details will soon follow. And, in related news, if you want something to play on your shiny new Nintendo Switch, Thumper will make its way there as well in the same vague...
Period tracker secretly gives Iranian women access to vital info
IranCubator was a program created by United for Iran, a non-profit based out of Berkeley that aims to take advantage of smartphones’ rising popularity in the country. It accepts ideas for Android apps that promote social good in Iran from people around the globe, and it turns the best ones into real applications. The program’s first release was RadiTo, which airs programs from BBC and banned radio networks.Hamdam was...
China ridesharing giant opens a self-driving car lab in the US
The company has hired Uber’s Charlie Miller, best known for his remote control Jeep hack (and plenty of Apple device hacks before that), to head up its safety and security work on self-driving cars. He’ll make sure that intruders can’t compromise your ride, to put it succinctly. Didi has also scored some engineers from Alphabet’s Waymo, one of which (Jia Zhaoyin) will be a principal engineer.It wasn’t a...
Uber confirms it’s hiring a Chief Operations Officer
Regardless of who gets the nod, the move is likely to be welcomed by both Uber’s customers and Kalanick himself. The company is reeling from a string of hits to its already mixed reputation: Susan Fowler’s accusations of sexism, its questionable claims about a self-driving car incident, the Alphabet lawsuit and (the breaking point) Kalanick’s own argument with a driver. A COO theoretically keeps Kalanick and crew in...
