A disastrous event like the Heartbleed bug is sometimes needed to convince big companies to cast aside their differences and work together. Tech giants have agreed for the first time to fund a multi-million dollar initiative that will help protect open source projects, including OpenSSL. The Core Infrastructure Initiative housed at The Linux Foundation will be a three-year effort with at ...

The Samsung Galaxy S5 has made quite a name for itself ever since it was first released back on April 11th. The smartphone’s popularity is well deserved most people seem to think and it’s partially due to its great camera. Samsung developed a fancy 16 megapixel ISOCELL camera that offers fast auto-focus and 4k video recording for the Galaxy S5. ...

Heads-up: PS4 firmware update 1.70, inc. SHAREfactory and HDCP Off, goes live on 30th April. More soon! — PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) April 25, 2014 PlayStation Europe announced today on Twitter that PS4 update 1.70 will be going live on the 30th of April. They didn’t say if it will be arriving to North America on the same day, but it ...

Just a few days ago Bioware revealed the box art for Dragon Age: Inquisition, followed by a new gameplay trailer in which they’ve also announced October 7 as the release date. Recently, the company also updated the game’s website with new screenshots and descriptions for each of the three classes: Warrior, Mage, and Rogue. It’s worth mentioning that every class will ...

We have learned at Pax East earlier this month that the Titanfall Expedition DLC will feature three new maps: Swampland, Runoff and War Games. Respawn Entertainment has recently revealed more information about War Games, created with a “parkour playground” concept in mind. The new map is based on a virtual world and has Pilots competing in the simulated environments of ...

No doubt graphene was indeed a miracle material ever since a pair of chemists from Manchester University first manufactured it. They isolated thick layers of carbon by peeling off the sheets from the powdered graphite using sellotape. Earlyer this year Samsung achieved a breakthrough, developing a technique for synthesizing graphene on a large scale. The material of unusual strength and flexibility ...

A new Dayz devblog got released yesterday after a long period of silence from the team.  With the release of the new patch, the team is now ready to move on to other aspects of the game along with optimizing and bug fixing. The new patch finally got rid of the old mouse control system that everybody was complaining about ...

After many months filled with rumors and anticipation, OnePlus finally announced the One, its first Android smartphone. OnePlus struggled a lot to build their first smartphone, encountering obstacles at every step. Their first challenge was to choose the right material for the One, and using stainless steel and aluminum resulted in a smartphone weighing 198g and that was simply unwanted. ...

I’m sure at least some of you have heard about bitcoin by now, the open source P2P digital currency project started back in 2009. I came across an interesting interview regarding the subject and I wanted to share it with the good folks at Load The Game. The interview follows the Moscow Bitcoin conference that was held recently and has ...

According to B-TEN, the sequel to the Mass Effect trilogy is indeed in development, not only that but they also claim it might be coming out next spring. The leak apparently came from an employee that works at Bioware who also mentioned that neither the company, nor EA will confirm the rumor. That is to be expected, after all we’re ...