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Play Station 4’s ‘Share Play’ Could Open Up New Era of Gaming

Sony could be on the brink of introducing us to a new era of gaming where people no longer have to own a copy of the game in order to join their friends in the digital fun.

In a matter of days, an update will be available for Play Station 4 that will enable a feature called Share Play.

Share Play will, somehow, allow users to play games with their friends regardless of whether the other players have their own copy of the game.

Sony hasn’t released any specifics about how the technology will work, but it has finally announced a release date for the new update.

The update will be available on Oct. 28 and will come with a variety of new features in addition to Share Play.

According to a recent tweet from the Play Station account, the update will also come with a USB music player.

Tech Crunch revealed that the USB player will be able to play MP3, MP4, M4a and 3GP while users are playing video games.

It will essentially give gamers the ability to create their own gaming soundtrack as they make their way through their favorite games.

There are some downsides to the new Share Play feature, however.

Sony recently confirmed that Share Play will come with certain limitations and guidelines.

The feature seems to serve promotional purposes as gaming will be limited to 60-minute sessions through Share Play.

In other words, the Share Play will be more of a tease for the friend who doesn’t have a hard copy of the game.

The good news is that the limitations on Share Play won’t be applied differently based on titles as some gamers expected.

This means friends can have 60-minute gaming expeditions with even the newest Play Station 4 games.

For now, Sony hasn’t released many other details, but the concept of allowing friends to join in on gaming sessions without owning a copy is something to get excited about – even if there is a timer on how long that experience may last.

 

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11 Black Child Entrepreneurs You Should Know

Umar Brimah

At the age of 12, Umar Brimah, now 18, started his very own anime store called Yumazu (his name in Japanese). He opened the new shop in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Turning his hobby into a business, his mother put up $ 10,000 as an investment opening. Considering the Internet is one of the only places you can find anime, some products can end up costing twice the price, plus shipping charges, as reported by the Black Money Watch website.

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Chental-Song Bembry

Chental-Song Bembry is the 17-year-old writer and illustrator behind The Honey Bunch Kids. Her mother helps her daughter run the literary business out of their home in Monmouth Junction, N.J.  Ultimately, the duo hope to “launch a dominant brand that would include the images of [Bembry’s] characters being sold on personal items, from bed sheets to book bags,” according to the Black Enterprise website.

She was named youth ambassador for two literacy organizations, LiteracyNation and Mission EduCare. In 2011, she was brought into the funding-and-mentoring program of 100 Urban Entrepreneurs, the nonprofit foundation that offers $10,000 in startup grants and eight weeks of mentoring to talented young businesspeople nationwide.

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Leanna Archer

Leanna Archer was just 9 years old she began using her Haitian great-grandmother’s recipe to sell homemade hair care products, as reported by NPR.org. Today, at age 18, she’s the CEO of a six-figure business. She handles more than 350 online orders a week and generates more than $100,000 in revenue every year. She has also founded the Leanna Archer Education Foundation for underprivileged children in Haiti.

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Firefox Gears Up to Take on Skype With New Browser-Based Video Chat

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Mozilla’s Firefox is gearing up to give services like Skype and Viber some new competition by launching a new browser-based video chat called Firefox Hello.

The new chat service will be available for testing inside the latest Firefox beta release and will be released to the general public in a matter of weeks.

Mozilla shared a blog post about the new service explaining that it aims to open up more possibilities with video chat services.

“Firefox Hello provides more value to Firefox users by making it easier to communicate with your friends and family who might not have the same video chat service, software or hardware as you,” Mozilla’s post explained.

The big advantage with Firefox Hello is that it will allow users to connect with others regardless of their Internet setups.

The chat service won’t require users to download any new software or additional plugins that could possibly slow their computers.

The blog boasts that users won’t even be required to set up a profile or account. All they will need to do is use Firefox to initiate the call.

In order to try Hello Firefox, users need to download the latest Firefox beta and click on the chat bubble icon.

According to Technobuffalo.com, users will then be able to “share a ‘callback link’ with the person you’d like to communicate with, and all they have to do is click the URL to initiate the call.”

Mozilla will also be making use of user’s Google address books.

Instead of being forced to create new contacts one-by-one, users will be able to import their entire Google address book to their Firefox Hello contacts list.

Users interested in trying out the beta version can follow the corresponding links provided by the Mozilla blog.

 

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How This New Technology Developed at MIT Allows You to Interact With Objects Will Blow Your Mind

Source: UppWhats – “The inFORM is MIT’s new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.”

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9 Best US Cities for Black Tech Entrepreneurs to Thrive

As tech entrepreneurship thrives, it is increasingly important for Black people to be represented in this group of successful entrepreneurs. According to Bauce Magazine’s 7 Cities for Young Black Professionals and Black Enterprise’s 10 Best Cities to Start a Business, these are the best cities for Black tech entrepreneurs due to their social, cultural and professional opportunities.

Washington D.C.

Washington, D.C., is considered by many to be one of the best places for African-Americans to live. Ranking as one of the best-paying and millennial-friendly cities, D.C. is responsible for more Black internships than any other city in the U.S. Plus, Washington, D.C., is the place to be if you want to rub elbows with some of America’s most-influential people. Many of the city’s startups have ties to the federal government because the founders once worked for Uncle Sam, have a potential solution for a big government problem, or both, as reported by Entrepreneur.com.

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New York  

The Big Apple is arguably one of the country’s most-opportune cities. It’s a hub for virtually every industry. Fast-paced and ever-changing, New York City is perfect for those who love to constantly be on the move and in the mix of things. New York’s Silicon Alley has emerged as a heavy-hitting startup ecosystem, with a strong foundation of entrepreneurial and tech talent, venture capital, accelerator and incubation programs, marketing/public relations and ad agencies, nongovernmental organizations and government programs, according to Forbes. The city is also the global capital for diverse and female tech entrepreneurs.

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Los Angeles 

As the intersection of technology and entertainment emerge, tech entrepreneurs find great momentum through the networking and schmoozing of the Los Angeles scene. For example, Hollywood heavyweight Troy Carter, whose clients have included singers Lady Gaga and John Mayer, has recently launched his tech venture AF Square, a venture investment division investing in startups that “disrupt the status quo,” according to the AF Square website. L.A. startups are 58 percent more likely to have consumers as their primary paying customers versus business-to-business. Flourishing communities in L.A. are contributing to its appeal as a startup hub.

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Childish Gambino Teams Up with Ubisoft for ‘Far Cry 4’ Trailer – Video

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Childish Gambino, better known by some as actor Donald Glover, recently teamed up with Ubisoft for a rather unexpected project.

While it may not be the first place you would expect to hear the hip-hop star’s music, the trailer for the action-adventure first-person shooter Far Cry 4 uses one of Childish Gambino’s 2013 hits to add some energy and a bit of comedy to the game’s trailer.

It isn’t clear if a hip-hop soundtrack will be used to set the tone in the actual game, but it certainly made a surprisingly pleasant match in the game’s trailer.

Scenes of intense, rated-M gore, extreme violence and hand-to-hand combat are accompanied by Crawl playing in the background.

While some fans may be surprised to hear the song paired with the video game teaser, the hip-hop star himself says Crawl is the perfect match.

The 31-year-old actor and rapper recalled the day he was in the studio making the song and that’s where the connection with the game comes in, he said during a short appearance on the trailer.

He said he remembered someone telling him, “You should go hard on this.”

To that statement he simply replied, “You know what, you’re right.”

He went on to say that the song’s twisted political nature is a perfect fit for the game’s action-packed trailer.

“Where we were, kind of thing, bet you crawl, all alone,” Canadian pop star Kai sings on the song’s chorus.

In the midst of shots of a player gunning down a helicopter and stabbing enemies, a hint of comedy is still introduced into the trailer.

Right when Childish Gambino raps “looking at her booty” the game’s trailer focuses on the giant rear end of an elephant before quickly returning to the action-filled clips.

Far Cry 4 is scheduled to be released in the U.S. on Nov. 18.

The full trailer for the video game can be seen below. Warning: Content rated M for Mature.