HP releases slew of new Windows 10 devices for the holidays

HP's just announced its latest offerings in time for the holiday season. New devices range from a productivity-focused 8-inch tablet in the ENVY Note 8 to various 2-in-1's, Ultrabooks, tablets, all-in-on PC's and even a Star Wars themed notebook.

Click to read more ...

Masters of Code Hackathon Montreal

Recently the Masters of Code hackathon series hit Montreal and almost 120 coders, MasterCard staff, mentors and sponsors gathered for 24 hours of extreme coding. With a kickoff from MasterCard Canada’s President Brian Lang and prize presentations from Mung Ki Woo, Executive Vice President, Digital Products and Solutions at MasterCard, the event showed developers in Montreal just what it takes to win a MasterCard hackathon.

The Montreal edition of Masters of Code was part of the company’s ongoing outreach to developers and of its commitment to helping today’s tech innovators create tomorrow’s best technology. MasterCard worked with a number of local incubators, schools and their lead sponsor, National Bank of Canada, to get the word out to developers across the city. By the time Masters of Code started on Saturday morning the event was almost completely sold out.

Click to read more ...

Design your own ASUS ZenWatch watch face with FaceDesigner app

If you truly want to make the 2^nd-generation ASUS ZenWatch your own, the wearable now has a FaceDesigner app that lets you customize its watch face. It works with Android Wear and only works on a ZenWatch. What you can do with it is change the watch face, clock type, as well as the widget you want shown on the screen. It allows you to change things like background color, image, text color, weather info, tick icon, time zone information, battery information, calories, etc. If there’s a specific photo you want to use as your background, you can use that, too.

Source: Android Authority | Download: Google Play Store (Free) 

James Bond gets free-to-play mobile game with ‘World of Espionage’

With the new Bond flick, Spectre, coming out soon, it means different promotions are going to pop up to promote the 24^th movie in the franchise. Glu Mobile and MGM teamed up to create the free-to-play mobile game James Bond: World of Espionage. It’s a multiplayer strategy RPG game that has you finding, recruiting, and developing spies for the MI6 HQ in London. And since you’ll be going on covert missions around the world, you need to have the best team with you.

You can also play things like the Alliance Wars or join limited time event challenges to help make your agency the best. The game employs over 100 real-world actors and models to play both agents and villains, making you feel like James Bond himself, even if it’s just for a game.

Source: Android Community + Flickering Myth | Download: iTunes App Store (Free) + Google Play Store (Free)