Joypad brings iOS gaming to Apple TV via iPhone, iPad and Airplay

There’s no doubt that Apple’s iPhone and iPad have revolutionised gaming, bringing touch-enabled titles to our smartphones and tablets that we simply cannot put down. However, many iOS device owners still like their console games and clamour for titles can deliver a gaming experience via a joypad. If you own an iPhone, you may have been aware of theJoypad app, a small utility that turns your Apple smartphone into a NES-style control pad, allowing you to play games on your Mac, PC or iPad using your iPhone....

2 min · 378 words · Brenda Moore

JPMorgan raises $1.22 billion to invest in social media sector

JP Morgan Chase & Co has raised $1.22 billion for a new fund to invest in the social media sector. The filingfor the aptly named “Digital Growth Fund” details that the fund will offer ‘pooled investment fund interests’. There’s no specific mention of Social Media but theNY Times reports‘The Digital Growth fund’isindeed the social media fund. The launch of the social media fund follows January’s$1.5 billion fundraising by Facebook, mainly from Goldman Sachs Group Inc and its international investors....

1 min · 198 words · Katherine Roy

jQuery Lifestream makes it easy to pop your online activity onto any page

It’s hard to find a good lifestream app with support for all the right services and the flexibility you need. There used to be a few good ones for WordPress, but the viable options have simmered down. jQuery Lifestreamis a little JavaScript that pulls in information from 25 different sources, and can be more easily dropped into any page than plugin alternatives and styled as you wish. Conversely, it’s not a plug-and-play solution so you may want to leave this if you’re afraid of fiddling with scripts and styling things yourself with CSS....

1 min · 212 words · Matthew Palmer

Judge finally rules that Uber and Lyft drivers are employees — but this is just the beginning

Judge finally rules that Uber and Lyft drivers are employees — but this is just the beginning Strap in, this is a bumpy ride What Uber and Lyft say In response to the latest injunction, an Uberspokesperson said: “The vast majority of drivers want to work independently, and we’ve already made significant changes to our app to ensure that remains the case under California law.” “When over 3 million Californians are without a job, our elected leaders should be focused on creating work, not trying to shut down an entire industry during an economic depression,” they added....

4 min · 700 words · Autumn Adams

Judge says Amazon suit alleging Trump interfered in Project JEDI can go ahead

An Amazon lawsuit alleging former President Donald Trump interfered in the selection process for the Department of Defense’s JEDI project can go forward, a federal judge ruled today. The ruling stems from a 2019 lawsuit where Amazon insisted Trump purposefully snubbed the company in favor of Microsoft for the JEDI account – a $10B program to build AI solutions for the Pentagon. The reasoning for this, according to Amazon, has to do with its CEO’s ownership of the Washington Post, a newspaper Trump referred to as the “enemy of the people” numerous times during his one-time stint as US president....

3 min · 536 words · Courtney Keller
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