Play with Facebook Messenger’s ‘hidden’ soccer game

Basketball isn’t your thing? Well, maybe you’re more a soccer fan. Facebook is capitalizing on that and adding another game into Messenger. Instead of flicking a basketball to shoot in a hoop, this time you try to keep a soccer ball up. Think of the mechanics of Flappy Bird. It’s not easy as it looks either. If you want to give it a try, just like the basketball game, send a friend a soccer ball and get the ball rolling (pun intended).

Magic Leap and Lucasfilm want to bring C-3PO into your living room

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It’s feels like a match made in heaven when you think about Lucasfilm and mixed-reality startup Magic Leap partnering, especially if you think about the technology the two companies can bring into the world. What took over a year of “courtship” has resulted in the two innovators working to bringing Star Wars content into our lives. Magic Leap is working closely with Lucasfilm’s forward-looking division, xLab, to do something both brands won’t elaborate on. But a video showed at WIRED Business Conference shows the possibility of having C-3PO in your living room interacting with you and sharing the issues from the Star Wars galaxy, making use of augmented reality and other “mixed reality” tech we’re sure is headed our way many years from now. What they could put forward could be a new medium to consume content or change the way we tell stories. It’s all pretty exciting, if you ask us.

Source: WIRED

Shazam brings auto listening to Android

Saying this feature has been a long time coming is an understatement. After about two and a half years, Shazam finally decided that Android users could enable its auto listening feature. What this feature does is it keeps the app on in the background to listen to whatever tunes are playing. You no longer need to whip out your phone when you want to quickly capture a song you discovered you like. This’ll come in handy at the next party you go to or while you drive and you hear a song you like on the radio. Of course, you have to be prepared for the battery drain. But you can opt to just turn it on in places where you think you’d be listening to good music.

Source: Engadget

Microsoft opens state of the art facility in Vancouver, promising a $90 million yearly investment

This morning, Microsoft  officially opened the Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre (MCEC) – a new, first-rate facility in the heart of downtown Vancouver that will bring together the best and brightest minds from Canada and around the world. 

The MCEC will allow Microsoft’s presence in Vancouver to grow to more than 750 positions. It will inject $90 million in direct investment in the city annually. Across the province, it will have an estimated economic impact of $180 million each year.

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