Rocco Penn

  A tech blogger, social media analyst, and general promoter of all things positive in the world. "Bring it. I'm ready." Find me on Media Caffeine, Twitter, and Facebook.

   

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1478 Stories by Rocco Penn

NVIDIA wants to power the autonomous robots of the future

NVIDIA is known to most people as a graphics card company, one that specializes in gaming computers, but the company has been trying to...
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Pinterest now lets you search for things you can’t describe with words

Have you ever seen something cool on Pinterest that you wanted to find out more about, but you couldn’t come up with the right...
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The first wave of Fallout 4 reviews are starting to come in

We’ve spent the last seven years waiting for Fallout 4 to be released, but it’s the next twelve hours that’re going to be the...
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The FCC refuses to force websites to honor Do Not Track requests

Do Not Track requests are basically a way for you to politely ask websites not to track your online activity, and I probably don’t...
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Blizzard wants to resurrect some of its most beloved classics

Earlier this week, Blizzard announced on its website that it’s looking to hire some new software engineers, not to design a new game, but to...
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Bethesda has released a Fallout-themed messaging app

With less than a week to go before Fallout 4 launches, Bethesda has released a new Fallout-themed messaging app called Fallout CHAT in order...
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Activision has acquired the maker of Candy Crush Saga for $5.9 billion

With titles like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft in its portfolio, Activision Blizzard is one of the biggest names in the traditional...
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Next-generation anti-virus software will work like a human brain

Evading anti-virus software isn’t exactly easy, but if malware authors have a mind to do so, they can design their malware to mutate in...
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Viewers didn’t seem to like Twitter’s first television commercial

In order to help people understand what Twitter and convince them to start using the service, Twitter released its first-ever television commercial during the World...
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Twitch is no longer just a live-streaming platform for video games

You may know Twitch as that place where people can make millions of dollars by having other people watch them play Minecraft, but the...
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Brace your wallets, the Steam Halloween Sale is here

Halloween is just a few days away, which means its time for Steam’s annual Halloween Sale to assault our wallets. Since it’s a Halloween-themed sale,...
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GoPro has released some teaser footage for its upcoming drone

Remember a few months back when we started hearing rumors that GoPro was working on its own consumer drone? Well the company confirmed those...
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Apple doesn’t want developers using 3D Touch to its full potential

Earlier this week, and app developer by the name of Ryan McLeod took to Medium to tell a story about how he made an app...
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Google is bringing podcasts to Google Play Music

Google Play Music has some of the best data-driven music curation on the market, and now it’s applying those skills to podcasts as well....
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More people are switching from Android to iOS than ever before

Adding insult to injury, not has Apple been selling record numbers of iPhones almost every quarter, last quarter saw the largest percentage of Android...
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BlackBerry’s new Android apps are already hitting the Play Store

With less than two weeks to go before the BlackBerry PRIV launches, BlackBerry has started bringing its new Android apps to the Google Play...
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Twitter is already bringing advertisements to Moments

Well, that didn’t take very long. I’m sure many of you were hoping that the Moments feature that Twitter recently rolled out was going to...
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This unique smartphone focuses on being ethical and modular

Even those of you who follow Android news closely may have overlooked the Fairphone, so let me bring you up to speed. Basically, as...
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