Monopoly GO!: Did you get an invitation to take a survey?
Monopoly GO! recently rolled out an in-game survey prompt titled “Can you spare a minute?” to active players. As is typical with Scopely’s approach, the survey was not available to everyone—the developers frequently test new features, events, and prompts on select player segments before a wider release. Upon opting in, players were redirected to an […]
White House Launches Retro Video Game Portal to Highlight Administration Agenda
The Trump administration launched a new digital portal on the official White House website hosted at arcade.gov and whitehouse.gov/arcade. The page features a collection of low-resolution, retro-style video games designed to promote key policy priorities. Each title adapts established video game mechanics around specific policy themes, ranging from immigration enforcement to school nutrition, the games […]
MonopolyGO!: Infinite Harvest and Mr. M’s 20K dice sweepstakes?
Sometimes it can be easy to skip though the pop-ups and actually missing some news as they do not have an official way of bring up the pop-ups unless it is the items they are selling or the mini-event, or prize you won that shows up on the right-side. Infinite Harvest I saw this pop-up […]
The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) down? Yep, it’s down for us.
The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) is an online digital library that allows anyone to be able to see what a website looked like in the past. While there are others very close to The Wayback Machine such as archive.is, The Wayback Machine allows a website to almost look like it is live and it also archives […]
Monopoly GO!: Two new features seem to have rolled out recently – Pick Your Reward and Trade Fest
Monopoly GO! is not done with the surprises, Monopoly GO! has recently released two (2) features in this season’s album where if you complete these select sets: four (4), seven (7), ten (10), fourteen (14), and seventeen (17) you will win the traditional rewards which are dice rolls and/or cash, but now added a surprise […]
Building Your Own Home TV Channel: From Analog Coax to Digital Virtual Channels
Ever since the release of the VCR, consumers have had the ability to run their own mini “broadcast stations” at home. Early VCRs and DVD players came equipped with built-in RF modulators that outputted signal on standard analog channels—usually Channel 3 or 4. If you hooked up a coaxial cable from your VCR to multiple […]
Monopoly GO! has rolled in something called “Roll Rush”.
If you have logged into Monopoly GO! over the last day or two, you might have noticed a new feature popping up on your screen called “Roll Rush”, but not everyone will see this quite yet as this is still in the beta testing phase where only a random select group of players are able […]
The White House website archives of past Presidents and you can view the live copy as well
Every four or eight years, when a new president is elected, it is out with the old president — along with their significant other, children/kids, pets, personal belongings, and even the décor they selected for the White House. The physical transition is visible: moving trucks arrive, staff changes occur, and the residence is prepared for […]
How to stop advertisements from eating your data?
Some websites state that advertising is necessary to remain operational. While this may be true, there is no clear justification for displaying an excessive number of advertisements—especially video advertisements that automatically play, whether they include sound or not. These types of ads often consume large amounts of data and negatively impact the user experience. Reasonable […]
Is YouTube’s Content ID System Being Used Beyond Its Original Purpose?
Is YouTube using the Content ID system—originally intended to give copyright owners an effective way to manage their copyrights by removing allegedly infringing content—to also function as a tool for broader enforcement, including political or informational content moderation? To provide context, it is useful to briefly outline what copyright and online piracy are and how […]