Author Archives: Chris Morris

10 strangest data findings you need to know

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While strange big databig data is fast becoming an essential tool for businesses and marketers, it can still be hard for the average consumer to grasp. Faced with dense data sets and jargon-like “Hadoop,” people’s attentions tend to quickly wander elsewhere.

But big data isn’t all about optimizing shipping routes and streamlining customer support calls. Sometimes, it reveals details about the world we might never have suspected. As data scientists crunch more and more numbers, they’re finding a few startling trends— and they’ve managed to conclusively prove some long-held beliefs.

Read more at CNBC.com

PS4, Xbox One take painful body blow from Watch Dogs delay

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Chris watchdogsMorris looks at the ramifications of Ubisoft’s last-minute delay of one of the hottest new IPs in the industry

Nintendo will be the first company to tell you about the importance of must-have titles at a console launch. The more you have, the better – as it not only increases the initial frenzy (attracting the wandering eye of the mass media), but keeps demand alive long after Christmas has come and gone.

With Ubisoft’s announcement on Tuesday that it would be delaying Watch Dogs until Spring 2014, both Microsoft and Sony saw their new systems take a painful body blow.

Read more at GamesIndustry.biz

My Status, Myself

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While facebook findingsoversharing on Facebook is nothing new, we might be giving a lot more information than we realize in our posts. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently did a deep dive into Facebook status updates and found that the social media site offers a new lens through which to analyze personalities. While some of their findings were “face valid” — i.e., people who live in the mountains talk about mountains — this large study did yield some new hypothesis and insights about men, women and certain personality types.

Read more at Ozy.com

Angry Birds next adventure? Kart racing

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The angry-birds-goAngry Birds are leaving the nest — and the slingshot.

On Tuesday, Rovio introduced the next installment in the ridiculously popular mobile gaming series, which sees the birds and their porcine nemeses take to the track. Angry Birds Go! is a free-to-play kart racing game, filled with the upgrades and special powers you’ve come to expect from the genre.

Read more at Yahoo! Games

10 games fit for your iPhone 5S

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The infinity-blade-3iPhone 5s is a beast. Packing a 64-bit processor chip that’s 40 times faster than the original iPhone and tailor-made for hi-end graphics, it’s a mobile device that, in many ways, rivals what you might find on a home console.
Developers, not surprisingly, are wasting no time in taking advantage of the A7 chip. If you’ve got the latest top-of-the-line iPhone in hand, here are some graphical powerhouses that can help showcase what your phone can do.

Check out the amazing new voice of The Joker

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To jokera generation of Batman fans, Mark Hamill is The Joker, having voiced the villain for two decades worth of animated shows and video games. So when the former Luke Skywalker announced he would no longer be voicing the pivotal Batman character, there was a lot of concern.

Relax, folks. The clown prince of crime is in very capable vocal chords.

Read more at Yahoo! Games

Rock music’s new heroes: Lady Gaga and…big data?

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The lady gagadigital world has done more than change the way music is delivered to fans. It has revolutionized how labels find new acts and position existing ones.

While the days of scouts stumbling across the next big artist in a darkened bar are not completely gone, they’re quickly being replaced by deep data mining. And agents and labels are increasingly leaning on social media to help guide a performer’s career.

Read more at CNBC.com

Rockstar apologizes to GTA Online players with $500,000 of in-game cash

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Washington GTA Vpoliticians take note: This is how you do a stimulus package!

As an olive branch to players who have suffered through server woes, vanishing characters and a variety of other technical hiccups marring the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online, Rockstar Games has announced plans to give players $500,000 of in-game money.

Read more at Yahoo! Games