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We may spend a wee bit too much time in downtown Las Vegas, partially because we work there (at Fremont Street Experience), but also because we like our Vegas cheap, lucky and occasionally semi-nude. There is some benefit to our chronic infatuation with downtown, however, as we’re uniquely qualified to …

Anyone who enjoys creating Internet of Things projects may be interested in a new range of building blocks which have been specifically created for IoT development and prototyping, designed by Pure Engineering. The new building blocks have been built to simplify the development of low power wireless IoT hardware and …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Arundhati Bhattacharya says real progress will take a few more years “Things are changing – but I don’t think enough has happened.” Arundhati Bhattacharya is talking about the need for more women on the boards of Indian companies. And as the first female boss …

Pokemon Sun/Moon are almost here- the seventh entry in one of the biggest franchises in video gaming launches next week, and this new game promises to be a special one indeed. Every Pokemon game is, of course, an occasion, but Pokemon Sun/Moon look to be big releases even by the standards of Pokemon– …

Photo: Twenty20 Is there anything more miserable than being saddled in bed with the flu? The common (and highly contagious) virus can lay you up so bad that even watching a Real Housewives marathon can seem too strenuous. Some slightly-more-scientific signs of influenza: You’ll likely experience fever, body aches/chills, a sore …

Photo: Pond5 The bright lights, wall-to-wall mirrors and spandex-clad regulars might leave you too intimidated to even step foot inside a boutique fitness studio. Which is totally understandable. (And why we love our DailyBurn workouts that much more.) It’s natural to feel like an outsider looking in: “There are so …

Anyone who enjoys building Internet of Things projects may be interested in a new smart cube which has been developed by Ubiqweus and this week launched via Kickstarter to raise the CA$100,000 the team requires to take their new IoT hardware into production. The qBiq smart cubeIs capable of measuring …

Out of nowhere, Nintendo, Niantic, Google, and The Pokemon Company launched the long awaited Pokemon GO on iOS and Android smartphones in Australia, New Zealand, and USA last week- and since then, the game has been a huge success, taking over the collective consciousness in the kind of frenzy that hasn’t …

Pokémon Go Launched a few days back- provisionally, at least- in a few parts of the world, and the game/app has taken the world by storm. The popularity of the game has spread like wildfire, and with such a large following, people were bound to point out the game’s flaws- …

2016 is coming to a close- it’s been an eventful year for gaming. This was the year that we had three new VR headset launches. This was the year we learned about the next wave of gaming consoles, from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo (and the year that one of them even …