08 October 2017

Top 10 Free Online Tycoon Games You Should Try


You’ll find thousands of websites that let you play tycoon games for free. But that doesn’t mean they’re any good. In fact, the number of terrible tycoon games out there, vying for your valuable gaming time, can be a little overwhelming. Well, you’re in good hands. I’m going to show you 10 free online tycoon games worth their salt, and worth sinking some time into. Let’s take a look! 1. OpenTTD Where else to start than with one of the single best tycoon games of all time: Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (read our short review). If you’re a tycoon game fan and you...

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Comparing Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Siri smart speakers


 The smart home assistant race has been building to a fever pitch over the course of the last couple of years. Things really came to head this past two weeks, when Amazon, Google and Sonos all held big events highlighting their latest smart speaker plays, making the already busy field a heck of a lot more crowded. The burgeoning category can be a tough one to navigate. A lot of picking the… Read More
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Angry young men


 I used to build bombs in my basement. My friend, a guy who called himself Damage Inc. on the BBSes, built pipe bombs and made a rocket launcher that shot small Estes rockets tipped with razors. We set them off in abandoned fields and fired rockets into trees. We lived in Columbus, Ohio, where there were wide stretches of open field and wide vistas of open time and we were bored and we made and… Read More
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Facebook security chief rants about misguided “algorithm” backlash


 “I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman tech cos” wrote Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos on Saturday in a reeling tweetstorm. He claims journalists misunderstand the complexity of attacking fake news, deride Facebook for thinking algorithms are neutral when the company knows they… Read More
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Germans are doing deep scans of ancient instruments to uncover their secrets


 I don’t know if you’re into baroque music, but I can tell you that Germans sure are. So it’s no surprise that German R&D outfit Fraunhofer has turned its considerable resources towards learning about and conserving every little detail of the instruments for which the likes of Bach and Handel composed their music. Specifically, they’re putting them into an enormous… Read More

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