David Lidsky's Blog, page 3198
August 6, 2014
NYU Undergrads Can Now Major In Video Games
Teenage gamers, rejoice: NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts now supports your dreams to design video games for a living.
Starting in 2015, the NYU Game Center, a department within the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, has just announced they'll be offering bachelor of fine arts degrees in video game design.
Sprint Names New CEO After Dropping Bid For T-Mobile
Marcelo Claure will be tasked with strengthening the company's network.
One day after Sprint dropped its bid to acquire T-Mobile, the wireless carrier also dropped its CEO Dan Hesse, replacing him with Marcelo Claure, founder of mobile phone distributor Brightstar Corp.
Lyft And Uber Want You To Carpool With Strangers
"Instead of public transit, we're building what we call personal transit."
Lyft's handy for a night on the town or while you're running errands, but the ridesharing startup wants to be a more regular part of your day--twice a day, preferably.
Michigan Inmates Get A Wardrobe Makeover After Sheriff Deems Orange Uniforms Too "Cool"
The popular Netflix series about prison life has made black and white the new orange in one county jail.
Piper Chapman and all her cool friends on the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black have made orange prison uniforms too fashionable for the liking of one Michigan sheriff. At Saginaw County Jail, Sheriff William Federspiel decided inmates would be getting a wardrobe makeover: their new uniforms will have horizontal black-and-white stripes, channeling old school, 19th-century prison garb.
Is Being A Good Parent And A Good CEO Impossible?
Max Schireson, the departing CEO of MongoDB, says yes--at least for him.
Working mothers have been saying for years that they can't really have it all; now a prominent male tech CEO is joining their lament.
The New Foursquare Is Here
To say it's the most dramatic overhaul to the service yet is putting things lightly.
After teasing out a new logo two weeks ago that looks like something you'd find on a superhero's chest, the new Foursquare has landed.
The Race To Be The Ultimate Siri Killer
MindMeld is powering voice-operated everything, with funding from Google and the CIA.
This article contains an interview with Tim Tuttle, CEO of Expect Labs.
Hewlett-Packard Grants Scholarships To 11 Female Cyber-Security Mavens
Hewlett-Packard grants scholarships to 11 women who are kicking butt in cyber-security, a field where women are underrepresented.
"Do you even know how to code?"
Honk! Your Uber Carpool Is Arriving
UberPool matches riders traveling along similar routes for cheaper fares.
After aggressively slashing prices on its ridesharing service, Uber is following up by debuting a new tier that offers carpoolers cheaper fares.
Disney Infinity's Surprisingly Limited Take On Girl Gamers
The video game blockbuster proves that if you give users the tools, they'll build worlds for girl gamers. So why won't Disney?
When Disney announced at San Diego Comic-Con that the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy would join its phenomenally successful game world Disney Infinity, they were following a familiar path. Disney Interactive Studios built a whole new video game world just for the Guardians and their fans to fight through and their new cadre of fans. It's a guessing game: When they built a Disney Infinity adventure for the 2013 bomb The Lone Ranger, they guessed wrong. But after Guardians took in $94 million last weekend, it's clear that Marvel's (and thus Disney's) bet paid off.
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