About Jeff Belanger
I'm a Canadian, I like to write, I like to play video games, watch movies and read books and all that. Also interested in current affairs and comic books as well.
Apple has spoken out and is urging the governor of Arizona, Republican Jan Brewer, to veto a bill that would allow for business owners to deny service to those of the LGBT community. The legislation in question is Senate Bill 1062...
Apple is suing the Chinese government for allowing the development of a program that is very similar to Siri. The lawsuit has been filed against China’s State Intellectual Property Office, which oversees patent rights protec...
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief executive, wants the style of their ads to be more in line with those in magazines like Vogue. She believes that in fashion magazines like InStyle and Vogue they have achieved the perfect balance...
LinkedIn has finally added an option to block other users on their service. According to LinkedIn, who are based out of Mountain View, California, they apparently added the option to help prevent spam and to keep stalkers at bay a...
Gearbox has decided to sue 3D Realms and Interceptor Entertainment for using the Duke Nukem property in an unauthorized manner. The studio which brought Borderlands 1 and 2 also holds the trademarks for Duke Nukem as well. They ha...
The crowdsourcing campaign for the third and final season of Video Game High School, which is a webseries, had been surpassed. The goal for the campaign was $750,000, and after a campaign lasted about a month they have raised $900...
Production on the developer kits of the Oculus Rift has hit a temporary snag in the form of a shortage of components. There are still development kits available, but their numbers are dwindling, and the developers took to the Ocul...
In a Reddit AMA, Neil Druckmann, who works at Naughty Dog and is the studio creative director for The Last of Us, talked about a potential sequel to the game. Druckmann participated in the AMA along with Bruce Straley, who is The ...
A massive co-op version of The Legend of Zelda is now playable on Twitch as well, following in the footsteps of Twitch Plays Pokemon. While some have claimed that Zach Gerlock, the man behind Twitch Plays Zelda, of ripping off the...
Namecheap, which is a popular domain registrar, was just recently hit by one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks that has been seen to date. The attack happened early on Thursday, when around 300 of Namecheap̵...
A new study, which focused on brain imaging, found that the brains of dogs and humans process emotion and voices in a similar manner. For the study, 11 dogs and 22 humans underwent fMRI scans, and while they were being scanned, so...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is working with Worldreader, a non-profit group, to give four secondary schools in Tanzania e-readers. The e-readers will have books that are in both Swahili and English an...
Apple has announced that there is a flaw in their iOS software that allows hackers to catch emails, data, and what not when passed over a WiFi network. Apple users are especially vulnerable when using an unsecured connection, such...
The White House is creating a new initiative to help fight patent trolls and this involves creating a website that those being hit by a patent lawsuit can hopefully use to help. The site was set up by the United States Patent and ...
Google has been in talks with nine cities in the United States over “what it would take” to implement Google Fiber in their areas. Google Fiber, which offers connection speeds of 1 GB per second, announced this in a bl...