Snap reportedly bought its very own 3D game engine

Snapchat’s parent company bought a web-based 3D game engine startup out of the UK this past May, Business Insider (paywalled) reports. PlayCanvas is a development tool focused on letting people easily design rich 3D environments. Unlike products from companies like Unity and Epic Games, PlayCanvas’s...
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Unusual smoke-breathing elephant baffles scientists

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For scientists conducting long term research on tigers and their prey, catching an elephant smoking is a rather strange sight. That’s what they discovered when they visited camera trap locations around India’s Nagarahole National Park. “I believe the elephant may have been trying to ingest...
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Google Cloud Next ’18—Registration now open!

Registration for Google Cloud Next ’18 isnow open—we hope you’ll join us July 24-26, 2018 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Each year at Next, we bring together a community of leaders, developers, and entrepreneurs to explore the ways we can build the future of...
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