Hope Nicholson is raising funds for The Secret Loves of Geek Girls on Kickstarter! An all-female comic/text anthology of true stories about love, romance, and sex! Featuring new cartoons by Margaret Atwood

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Valve has just revealed Source 2, a new, more powerful game engine, at Game Developers Conference 2015. The Source 2 engine is a successor to the original Source engine, which debuted in June 2004 with the launch of Counter-Strike: Source .

The challenge of being a futurist pioneer is being Patient Zero for the future's headaches. In 2009, Raul Rojas, a computer science professor at the Free University of Berlin (and a robot soccer team coach), built one of Germany's first "smart homes."

One of the big complaints aimed towards Sony's popular A7-series of full-frame mirrorless cameras is the lack of a robust native lens lineup. In a concerted effort to stem that tide, Sony continues to expand their FE lineup with the introduction of four new FE lenses, including their first f/1.4 lens for the FE-mount, a Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 optic.

Mozilla has released version 36 of open-source desktop browser Firefox. The update's biggest change is support for the newly-released HTTP/2 standard. Other new features include syncing for pinned tiles on new tab pages and the addition of localization for the Uzbek language. The new version of the browser will no longer accept certificates signed with 1024-bit RSA keys.

The Obama administration has given NASDAQ: Apple ( AAPL ) Pay the presidential seal of approval. The White House announced earlier this month that Apple Pay will join EMV chip-and-PIN as a standard for the roughly 9 million federal payment cards, including debit card accounts, used for distributing Social Security and veterans benefits.

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Mozilla Menu The only browser made just for developers, Firefox Developer Edition was created with your workflow in mind. Build, test, scale and more all from one place, for the first time ever. Inspect and debug your app across any browser or device with Valence - a powerful, pre-installed extension that you'll only find in Firefox Developer Edition.

OnePlus, the firm known for its '2014 flagship killer' smartphone, the One, claims to have shipped more than 500,000 handsets worldwide and aims to sell 500,000 more before the end of this year. Carl Pei, OnePlus' Co-founder and Director of Global, in an interview with Forbes during the Web Summit conference in Dublin, added that the firm only makes 'single-figure' dollar profit on each handset sold.

Details have emerged about the next major release of Angular - which is making some pretty major changes.

Microsoft's problem with mobile has largely been a software one. As the company has learned, it's not enough to make powerful tablets or phones if the software isn't there to support it. But Adobe might be able to help.

Amazon unveiled the Kindle Voyage in a bid to keep e-readers relevant in the e-book consumer market. The Kindle Voyage boasts several new features that could make it the best e-reader that has ever been released into the market so far. The thickness of the Kindle Voyage is only 0.3 inches, making it the thinnest Kindle yet.

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There's a ton of momentum behind the virtual reality movement, but even the Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus are a ways away from reaching consumer markets. Capitalizing on the rush for consumer-ready virtual reality devices, Samsung has partnered with Oculus to develop a new headset that it plans on launching this fall: the Samsung Gear VR Headset.

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