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The Sims remade in the style of Pokémon is wonderful and sad

Sometimes you come across a video game mashup so perfect it makes you question why anyone let Mario and Sonic compete in the Olympic Games. Pokémon Sims is an example of a game we’d like to play – the chocolate and peanut butter of video games. It comes from the brain of YouTuber Hat-Loving Gamer (thanks Kotaku) and mixes the graphic style of the older Pokémon games with the gameplay

Updated: Facebook introduces happiness, laughter and anger 'Like' buttons

Update: Facebook has now officially announced the new ‘Like’ buttons, which are called Reactions and allow you to give alternative responses to the standard thumbs up. Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook, shared a video of Reactions in action and said, “As you can see, it’s not a ‘dislike’ button, though we hope it addresses the spirit of this request more broadly. “We studied which comments and reactions are

High-rise office blocks can be attacked by printer-hacking drones

Printers in high-rise office buildings could potentially be hijacked by hackers using drones to pilfer confidential documents. First reported by Wired, Singapore-based researchers demonstrated how malicious actors armed with a drone and mobile phone are able to intercept documents sent to a Wi-Fi printer that’s otherwise inaccessible to the outside world. The setup consists of a drone that’s used to transport a mobile phone on which there are two different

Facebook's 'Like' button set to get more emotive

The social network said on Thursday it is launching a pilot test of “Reactions”, which will allow users to express a range of emotions including love, happiness, anger and sadness. The feedback from the pilot test will be used to improve the feature and the company hopes “to roll it out to everyone soon,” Cox wrote in the post.