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March 2018

28 posts

Brutality is a Medieval Combat Brawler Board Game

Brutality is a PVP (player vs player) medieval combat brawler board game. It is designed for 2 to 4 players. The Brutality Kickstarter has 19 days to go (at the time I am writing this post). Its goal was $42,000, and it currently has $69,969. It was funded in 29 hours. Brutality comes with 8 figures, 8 Hero Cards, 56

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Stephen Hawking RIP

Stephen Hawking has died and with that a great mind and scientist RIP. The show today is made up of a bunch of mini-stories not a lot of super big stories. So it's a little shorter have fun. My New Personal YouTube Channel Geek News Central Facebook Page. Download the Audio Show File Show Notes: Spot a Cosmic Disco Ball

AdPlugg Can Now be Used for AMP Ads

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a technology from Google that makes your pages load faster in mobile browsers. AdPlugg can now be used to serve ads into your AMP formatted pages. AdPlugg can schedule, rotate, and report on the ads that appear in your AMP pages. This might be useful for those who want to include ads on their website,

Wikispaces Says Farewell

Wikispaces has been around since 2005. It is used by educators, companies, and individuals across the globe. Those who are currently using Wikispaces need to find an alternative soon. Wikispaces has announced that it is time for them to say farewell. Over the last twelve months we have been carrying out a complete technical review of the infrastructure and software

Day 1 of Wearable Technology Show 2018

It's the Wearable Technology Show in London, England today and tomorrow, so GNC was in attendance to check out some of the latest developments in the space. I was last here in 2016, so it's interesting to see what's changed (and what hasn't) in the last two years. The event isn't anything like the size of CES and there are

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Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm Halted

Broadcom acquisitions of Qualcomm got smashed today by the President over National Security concerns. Personally, I think this was the right decision. Although this type of order by the executive branch is rare, the chip industry inside the United States needs protecting after all are we going to buy defense chips from the Chinese or off-shore companies. Nope.. Plus all

Twitch Updated Their Community Guidelines

Twitch updated its Community Guidelines and those changes went into effect on March 5, 2018. Twitch put together an FAQ update that provides some additional explanation about the Community Guidelines changes. Twitch defines hateful conduct as: any content or activity that promotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence based on the following characteristics, and is strictly prohibited:

Reuters Launched Reuters Esports Wire

Reuters announced the launch of a new wire service devoted to coverage of esports. It is available now to Reuters News Agency customers. To me, this suggests that esports has become mainstream enough for large news providers to dedicate time to covering it. The Reuters Esports Wire is designed for easy use across print, digital and social media, and provides

Here’s What Happened to the Robotech RPG Tactics Kickstarter

Palladium Books held a Kickstarter to produce Robotech RPG Tactics. A total of 5,342 backers pledged $1,442,312 to bring the project to life. Robotech RPG Tactics is a tabletop strategy game that expands on the popular Palladium role playing game. Palladium was intending to create miniatures as game pieces. Unfortunately, things did not work out as planned. President of Palladium

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Girls Code for Free

Girls Code for Free is an initiative by Microsoft that celebrates International Woman's day. I talk extensively tonight about providing opportunities to our children that let them get exposure across a lot of disciplines. I also discuss the power of the Ohana's Audience and how you and I can expand our sphere of influence to do better good. My New

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NASA Hiding Aliens?

The rumor is NASA is hiding Aliens I would tend to not get to excitted over a story such as this but when a non-crack pot Doctor is saying it I have a tendency to get excitted. All the details on the show today, plus some mini rants from your beloved host as well. My New Personal YouTube Channel Geek

Gigantic will Close in July

Perfect World Entertainment and Mortiga announced that Gigantic will be closing down on July 31, 2018. The game was first released on July 20, 2017. In the meantime, players will be able to access all Heroes for free. The announcement was posted on the Gigantic website in January. Those who are still playing the game can access all of the

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