Nintendo’s first smartphone game is coming before the end of the year
In a financial results briefing released on Friday, Nintendo announced that its first smartphone game will launch before the end of the year, with four more mobile titles to follow before the end of March 2017.
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The funniest thing you’ll see today: Conan reviews The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
It’s been months since the last Clueless Gamer segment on Conan, but with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt coming out later this month, the clueless team has reassembled once more. If you’re not familiar with The Witcher, it’s a series of mature, epic fantasy games, taking cues from Game of Thrones and other adult-oriented properties.
As such, you can probably guess what Conan’s favorite part of the game is…
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More details emerge on how Apple plans to steal you away from Spotify
Apple really wants Beats Music to succeed, which inevitably means it will have to go head-to-head with Spotify, the music service that is now the king of the mobile streaming world. A new report in Re/code gives us some fresh details about how Apple plans to take on Spotify and get music lovers to make the switch to Beats Music.
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Hilarious: What if your mom were as dependable as Siri?
Siri, Apple’s voice-activated virtual assistant that’s available on many devices including iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, isn’t always as accurate as you’d want it to be, although it desperately tries to understand you. Apple is going to further improve Siri in future iOS releases, just as Google and Microsoft are constantly improving their own Siri alternatives, including Google Now and Cortana. While you’re waiting for Siri to become even better in helping you with daily chores, you can check out a hilarious new video that imagines what it would be like if your mom were as dependable as Siri.
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This solar flare captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is positively stunning
If you weren’t aware, NASA likes to keep a close eye on everything that’s happening in our solar system. Occasionally, the phenomena they observe are too incredible not to share, such as the huge solar flare that erupted from the surface of the sun on May 5th, an event that NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is calling the ‘Cinco de Mayo’ Solar Flare.
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3 Android Wear features Apple should steal for the next Apple Watch
The general consensus among early smartwatch adopters is that Android Wear has a lot to learn from the Apple Watch, although neither wearable platform is anywhere close to perfect. Mashable’s Ray Wong has written a feature on six things that Android Wear can do right now that the Apple Watch can’t and three of them seem like particularly cool features that Apple should definitely swipe for its next-gen Apple Watch.
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Check out the first photos from Tarantino’s upcoming movie, ‘The Hateful Eight’
One of the more highly anticipated films of 2015 is Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Scheduled for release in late 2015, details about the film have been few and far in between, save for an intriguing and stylized trailer which, while incredibly cool, didn’t reveal too much information.
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Meet Duet, the charging dock Apple Watch owners are going to love
The Apple Watch is one of the best smartwatches you can buy, but it’s far from being perfect. The main problem with it for many users is its battery life. You’ll need to recharge the device nearly on a daily basis, even though the Watch can beat Apple’s own usage estimates. That means Apple Watch owners now have to worry about charging two devices and packing two different cables when traveling.
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Being a Lyft driver can now lower your Verizon bill
Lyft this week announced a new strategic partnership with Verizon that it hopes will give it some added firepower in its ongoing battle against Uber for ridesharing supremacy.
Under the newly formed partnership, Lyft’s mobile app will come pre-installed on select Android smartphones on Verizon. This type of strategy is of course nothing new as carriers have, for years now, gladly littered cellphone homescreens with apps from anyone willing to pay for that level of placement.
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