Facebook has launched an open-sourced communications platform, as part of the social network’s continuing attempts to bring internet connectivity to underserved parts of the world. Mark Zuckerberg shared images on his profile of a shoebox-sized device that contained the hardware needed to set up a local, wireless network. “OpenCellular is the next step on our […]

Animated GIFs are everyone’s new favourite way of expressing themselves. They’ve become the moving equivalent of the emoticon, so it can be helpful to know how to create your own. The GIF and its animated cousin have been around for almost 30 years. GIFs, which stands for Graphics Interchange Format, are no longer widely used for still images, […]

Microsoft’s DirectX 12 and Apple’s Metal are next-generation graphics platforms. They provide lower-level access to graphics hardware, allowing game programmers to squeeze more performance out of the hardware. Vulkan is the cross-platform answer to Microsoft and Apple’s technologies. As Vulkan is cross-platform, it brings this next-generation graphics technology to Google’s Android, Valve’s SteamOS, Linux, all versions […]