Samsung recently teamed up with Oculus to launch the Gear VR headset, and just announced at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah that it has plans to open a virtual reality studio in New York City. The South Korean company has announced the production studio will be located in a Samsung marketing team's office in the Big Apple.
Apple appears gearing up for major disruptions this 2016 as the tech giant is reportedly touching down products that again could end up as game-changers. The iPhone, for instance, is expected to deliver monumental upgrades along with other exciting updates and introductions to company’s product portfolio.
Google Play is offering a promotion with discounts up to 50 percent on in-app purchases for a list of Android games that are free to download including Jurassic World, Super Heroes, Mobile Strike, Pac-Man 256, and SimCity Buildit. The search giant's deal includes nearly 60 games including big mobile developers such as Electronic Arts, Bandai Namco, and TinyCo, and small studios.
Tech giant Google made a deal with Apple in 2014 that will make Google the default search engine on all iOS devices. The deal cost Google $1 billion, but many tech analysts consider it as an excellent deal for the search giant.
The mobile app version of the Exploding Kittens card game jumped to number one in the Apple App Store just one day after its launch, to become the top paid application. It is only available for iOS devices now but an Android version is being developed. The local multiplayer game had already become the all-time most funded game of the Kickstarter crowdfunding site.
Steam's Atari Vault is bringing back 100 classic video games from the time the company was an industry leader in the 1970s and 1980s. The old-school game collection will include titles such as Centipede, Asteroids, Tempest, and Missile Command. They will feature local multiplayer, online, Steam Controller support, and Steam leaderboards.
An Apple's executive in charge of its electric car project is reportedly leaving the company for personal reasons. The code-named Project Titan was launched to develop the "Apple car." Last year the company met with California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) about the rules of the road for self-driving cars, and was in talks with a Bay Area testing facility about road tests for driverless vehicles.
Google reportedly paid Apple about $1 billion in 2014 to make its iOS search bar the default option for iPhones and iPads. Public transcripts from an Oracle lawsuit against the search giant states that Google paid a percentage of the revenue earned from searches on smartphones, tablets, and other iOS devices.
Nintendo is keeping its silence on the company’s plans concerning the rumored Nintendo NX gaming machine. The Japanese game-maker, however, hinted anew that the device on release date will be remotely different from the Wii U console.
President Barack Obama's goal was to have 1 million electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) on the United States' roads by the end of last year. However, many factors including low gas prices prevented the U.S. president from reaching that figure.
