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Against all authority“I told my parents, I’m willing to die on this hill. I don’t want to go on with this because it’s just about ticking boxes. My dad happened to agree.“We went to the school, I think it was on my 16th birthday, and I withdrew.”Read More: The Top Universities for Blockchain by CoinDesk 2021You may not know Keonne Rodriguez by name, but you know his story. From the age of nine he compulsively played with the family computer, and was being paid to code web pages for local businesses by the time he was 14. He would go…
Hypercasual developer 8SEC has opened an office in Paris. After six years of operation, and hits such as Trivia.io and Idle Army taking the company’s total downloads to over 30 million, the Lyon-based developer is expanding to continue team growth and enable it to work on new projects. 8SEC has grown from 5 to 20 people in 12 months and with this move hopes to reach a headcount of 35 by the end of 2021. New location, new projects The new Paris office will be led by co-founder and chief creative officer Louis Croquet. “With the imminent launch of Hero Squad,…
Choosing the correct USB-C charger and cable for you laptop is about as fun as visiting the dentist, but new logos released today should go a long way toward making things easier. The USB Implementers Forum group that oversees the USB standard has released logos that easily indicate whether a cable or charger can hit the new 240 watt rating. Previous USB-C chargers and cables were rated to hit 65 watts or 100 watts but a new version of USB Power Delivery released this May has pushed the limit to an impressive 240 watts. Obviously, that means if you’re looking…
Microsoft has released new information about the latest version of its suite of office software, Office 2021.With the company going all-in on its Microsoft 365 subscription package, it looked as if we may never see another traditional Office release. But Microsoft has now confirmed it will give users the chance to access the newest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the like for a one-time fee.The Office 2021 bundle arrives on the same day as the company’s new operating system, Windows 11, and appears to follow the same pricing format as the previous edition (although non-US pricing is yet to…
I’ve been using a Product (Red) iPhone 13 mini for the past week. It manages to be small, highly portable, and pretty much uncompromised compared to larger models. Almost anything you can do with a larger iPhone, you can do with this device.Who is it for?There’s this trend among many writers to remain fixated on the high-end, but the majority of Apple’s tens of millions of new smartphone purchasers don’t look at devices like that. Yes, sales breakdowns favor the Pro devices (which provide the very best cameras), but there’s a healthy market for all the company’s devices.Last year’s alleged…
Anyone who knows about Roblox, knows about Robux. It’s the currency used to access premium, user-created games, and buy game passes and other in-game items. However, did you know that the Roblox games you create can generate real money? The stories are different from one developer to the next, but it’s possible to make a real-world living with virtual-world money.There are many ways to make money with Roblox, and we’ll detail how to do so below. However, before we do that, please note that your game or item’s popularity drives revenue. Simply putting content up for sale doesn’t mean you’re…
4) Cost of attendance: To calculate a school’s Cost of Attendance score, we looked at both overall cost and a normalized construction of overall cost of attendance. We assumed here that lower tuition was preferable, and feel that we ought to acknowledge the important caveat that we only considered the base price of a university, while in actual practice, grants, scholarships, opportunity costs, and even residency can completely change an individual’s calculation. Along similar lines, tuition is a purely student-facing concern, while we hope that these rankings find use by non-students. Because of these concerns, our cost metric is, by…
GAME INFOJett: The Far ShoreOctober 5th, 2021Platform PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5Publisher SuperbrothersDeveloper Superbrothers, Pine Scented Studios Indie space exploration games have had a bit of a moment in recent years, with everything from No Man’s Sky to Outer Wilds letting players tackle that final frontier. That said, most of these games are still rather fanciful, not really showing how challenging and intimidating venturing to new worlds would really be. Enter Jett: The Far Shore, a more down-to-earth (er, so to speak) take on planetary exploration that’s more about the basics like shelter and survival than uncovering the secrets of…
GAME INFOAlan Wake RemasteredOctober 5th, 2021Platform PC (Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox OnePublisher Epic GamesDeveloper Remedy Entertainment Here’s the thing with me and Remedy Entertainment. I’m not exactly a big fan of their work as opposed to other game companies. Do I controversially think that the games they make are all bad? No. I just never really thought much of their works. However, the exceptions to this rule are the first Max Payne game and Alan Wake. Alan Wake has always had this sort of intriguing aura about it that makes me want to…
The trash talk between Intel and Apple continued unabated this morning when Intel pushed out a new video asking Apple users what they want in a laptop and the answer is basically a PC. The new video is presented in the style of the Chevrolet “Real People” campaign. It opens with “die hard” Apple users walking into the lobby of a building—well, all but one, who is doing the most stereotypical Apple-user thing you’d expect: rolling through the lobby on a hover board. The video broaches nothing new and feels about as authentic as those Chevy commercials, but it also…