The Web Software Google Sheets now offers AI-powered charts and data analysis It can also generate Python code for complex spreadsheet analysis By Skye Jacobs, February 1, 2025, 12:37 PM
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Software Tech Culture The most popular programming languages in 2024: What does it mean for your learning journey? Options are not limitless, but choice largely relies on what you want to do By David Matthews, September 3, 2024, 5:01 PM 12 comments
The Web Vanishing act: A quarter of all web pages that existed between 2013 and 2023 are gone Father Time is undefeated By Shawn Knight, May 21, 2024, 11:29 AM
Gaming Industry Helldivers 2 emerges as best-selling game in February, PlayStation 5 the best-selling console Unsurprisingly By Rob Thubron, March 22, 2024, 6:55 AM
Tech Culture The Web Internet usage study shows we spent over 1.3 trillion hours online in 2023 This year, Taylor Swift streamed 69.4 million songs per minute, and ChatGPT answered 3.6 billion queries By Cal Jeffrey, December 14, 2023, 3:44 PM
Gaming Steam revamps its Stats page with real-time & weekly top-sellers charts And a new way of working out revenue By Rob Thubron, September 23, 2022, 5:15 AM
Gaming Tech Culture More Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are playing games You're never too old for a bit of gaming By Rob Thubron, April 13, 2021, 8:11 AM 28 comments
Gaming Industry PS5 titles made up 19% of all UK games sales last week, despite the console not being available in the country yet And Call of Duty missed out on the number one spot for the first time in 13 years By Rob Thubron, November 17, 2020, 7:15 AM
Gaming Industry Fortnite and FIFA 2019 were the top-earning games last year Despite Fortnite's revenue falling 25% By Rob Thubron, January 3, 2020, 10:24 AM
Gaming The UK's first digital download chart contains some unexpected games Uno? By Rob Thubron, June 4, 2019, 6:59 AM
Gaming Industry Despite its problems, Anthem was the best-selling game in the US last month The power of hype By Rob Thubron, March 20, 2019, 8:14 AM 8 comments
Wearable Tech Industry The wearables market grew by nearly 30 percent during 2018 The wearable market continues to grow rapidly By Cohen Coberly, March 6, 2019, 6:42 AM
Gaming Animated chart shows the most-played Steam games over the last four years DOTA 2 has some real lasting appeal By Rob Thubron, March 4, 2019, 8:12 AM 9 comments
Tech Culture Amazon Prime Video statistics are uncovered for the first time Prime Originals could be a highly profitable venture By Greg Synek, March 15, 2018, 11:27 AM
Gaming Industry Microtransactions from free-to-play games almost three times the revenue of paid game releases $22 billion in 2017 alone should be enough motivation for developers to keep microtransactions alive By Rob Thubron, November 30, 2017, 6:15 AM 12 comments
Gaming Industry Brick and mortar video game retailers may be obsolete by 2020 ESA reports that digital sales crushed disc sales by 74 percent By Cal Jeffrey, April 20, 2017, 1:00 PM 21 comments
Gaming Mobile Nintendo shares soar as Pokémon Go reaches number one in the app charts By Rob Thubron, July 8, 2016, 8:30 AM 11 comments
Industry Mobile Snapchat overtakes "confusing" Twitter in number of daily users By Rob Thubron, June 3, 2016, 2:15 PM
The Web Industry Yahoo tops Wall Street Q3 forecasts, reveals mobile advertising revenue for the first time By Himanshu Arora, October 22, 2014, 8:15 AM
The Web Billboard and Twitter real-time music charts are now live By Shawn Knight, May 27, 2014, 7:30 PM
Mobile Industry Ditching the feature phone for good: Smartphones now 87% of US handset shipments By Julio Franco, May 22, 2014, 5:00 PM 9 comments
Industry Twitter partners with Billboard to launch first phase of new music strategy By Shawn Knight, March 27, 2014, 5:15 PM
The Web Google Zeitgeist highlights top searches of 2013, from Mandela to Batkid By Jose Vilches, December 17, 2013, 12:30 PM