After CRM with Salesforce.com, Human Ressources (Workday, SmartRecruiters…) and Service Management (ServiceNow, BMC), cloud-based Planning and Forecasting solutions or Corporate Performance Management (CPM), as it’s called in industry lingo, is poised to be the next wave of cloud solutions to disrupt the enterprise software market dominated today by traditional players like SAP or Oracle.

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Disclosure: I own a small number of shares in Apple stock.
About five months ago, Apple released iOS 8.3 with racially diverse emoji. When Apple iOS 9.1 is released, it will include many more highly anticipated emoji characters. The new emoji are based on 41 characters included in the Unicode 8.0 update, which have 37 new emojis and 5 emoji modifiers.
Nearly every category has new emoji added. The new emoji includes: hugging face, thinking face, face with rolling eyes, zipper-mouth face, nerd face, upside-down face, face with thermometer, face with head-bandage, money-mouth face, sign of the horns, prayer beads, robot face, lion face, unicorn face, turkey, crab, scorpion, cheese wedge, hot dog, taco, burrito, popcorn, bottle with popping cork, amphora, place of worship, kaaba, mosque, synagogue, Menorah with nine branches, cricket bat and ball, volleyball, field hockey stick and ball, ice hockey stick and puck, table tennis paddle and ball, badminton racquet and shuttlecock and bow and arrow. It also has an offensive middle finger emoji with different skin tones that was included in Windows 10 first.
These emoji are already included in a special iOS 9.1 beta uploaded for developers with paid accounts, according to TheNextWeb. However, it is expected to be released to the public within the next couple of months. The first major iteration of iOS 9 will be released on September 16th.

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There was a time when I actually believed that we were going to get single-player DLC for GTA 5. Sure, it always seemed like Rockstar was more interested in GTA Online, but they kept saying they were making more single player DLC, and, well, I believed them, for a time. But it’s been two years at this point, and it’s looking less and less likely. IGN had an interview with design director Imram Sarwar about the future of GTA Online, and he gave a classic non-answer that makes the possibility of story DLC for GTA 5 very unlikely:

“Right now our focus is on GTA Online which has exceeded our expectations. We currently have all key members of the team that launched Grand Theft Auto V focused on supporting GTA Online in every capacity. The community we’ve been able to foster is massive, growing each day and we have so many ideas that have yet to make it into the game. The evolution of GTA Online on these newer platforms is also an exciting prospect as the power of those systems is going to allow us to achieve even more.”

So, it’s not a no, but it’s more or less a no. I’m torn about this: on one hand, I’m not exactly excited to see what sort of story the team behind GTA 5 comes up with next. There was a lot to love about the world Rockstar built in its latest crime caper, but the story left me flat: just a bunch of annoying dudes and lame jokes, too enamored with its own notion of being “edgy” to get a decent plot going. It was better than GTA 4, but that’s not really saying too much. On the other hand, GTA 4 also gave us The Ballad of Gay Tony, which was better than the main plot in every way, and served to deepen the world of Liberty City in new and interesting ways. It was a bold idea for what a GTA game could be: not just a single experience, but a platform for new stories to be told. If Rockstar gave us something on that level for Los Santos, I’d be over the moon.

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This fertile area outside of Johannesburg is called ‘The Cradle Of Humankind’ – and for good reason. It’s widely thought to be the birthplace of humanity, as evidenced by today’s announcement of a new species that was a likely ancestor to modern human beings.

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Todd Kenreck speaks with Felicia Day about how video games allowed gamers to find their community long before other social networks like Facebook and Twitter even got their start.

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