I’ve never quite understood the whole early access thing. I’ll play the thing once it’s done, I figure, and I certainly won’t pay for it until that point. I get it from a developer perspective: it helps fund development, provides constant testing and all that, but it’s just never appealed to me all that much from a payer perspective. Ark: Survival Evolved, however, has piqued my interest for a little while, and I figured I’d give it a shot now that it was out on Xbox One. In case you didn’t get the gist from the headline, it didn’t go all that well.

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IBM confirmed its Ustream acquisition, earlier reported to be for around $130 million, while announcing a new cloud video unit Big Blue says will target a $105 billion market opportunity.

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I’ve been talking a lot about the Nintendo NX since the new year began, because Nintendo isn’t, and someone has to.

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With all the excitement surrounding robo-advisors and automated investing advice, it’s easy to forget that there are people out there who still prefer to manage their own investments. It’s a sizable group, too. According to Statista, there are 14 million people living in U.S. households that used an online investing/stock trading service within the past 12 months. That number has grown 20% since the spring of 2008. Just as recent technological advances by startups like Wealthfront and Betterment have enabled the automation of basic asset allocation, do-it-yourself investors have also been privy to a significant upgrade in the tools they use to pick stocks.

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There is a curious disconnect between how many companies treat their data and their actual decision-making processes. At a high level, it is very current to describe one’s business as “data-driven” or at least to claim to be moving in that direction.

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Phazon asked for $80,000 for its wireless earbuds on Indiegogo. When the crowdfunding campaign ended, it had amassed nearly $1.5 million. Now it’s racing the clock to produce and ship all those earbuds by July.

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When Hiroaki Nakanishi asked Hitachi employees in 2011 how many people the company employed, the room went silent. No one could answer the CEO?s remarkably simple question.

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GOP consultant Rick Wilson made Twitter waves with his claim that Donald Trump supporters are mostly ?single men who masturbate to anime.? As any anime fan will let you know, it?s called *clears throat* hentai, a specific genre of X-rated Japanese animated cartoons. But what?s interesting is that in order to intentionally make people angry, Wilson targeted anime geeks as his insult.

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