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Seamus Byrne

Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.

Business

How Lily Robotics disintegrated before launch

Wired goes deep on what went wrong with the sexiest 'self flying' camera drone ever conceived, the Lily drone.

How Lily Robotics disintegrated before launch
Technology

How should we design driverless cars?

Great question, excellent design challenge. When we don't have to think about a standard driving position, should we even be thinking of the car as a

How should we design driverless cars?
Games

PVP pinball

Great carving machine work to create a modern-yet-old-school take on 2-player pinball. Literally PVP pinball as you aim to knock the ball over the top into

PVP pinball
Art & Culture

THIS is how you Comic Sans: the Inkwell font

A gorgeous family of handwriting fonts. Incredibly diverse for a single type family, but it makes sense.

Games

Pokemon Go cracks $1.2 billion in a year

Pffft... that flash in the pan augmented reality Pokemon game only made a little more than a billion in a year. And by 'a little' more I mean around $200

Pokemon Go cracks $1.2 billion in a year
Crypto

Ethereum mining hurts gamers right in the wallet

Graphics card prices are getting pushed higher because of folks looking for a piece of the cryptocurrency mining action.

Ethereum mining hurts gamers right in the wallet
Art & Culture

This Hyperloop Hotel takes you where you want to go

One room, thirteen cities.

This Hyperloop Hotel takes you where you want to go
Games

The iPhone's first wave of games

Of all the 10th anniversary iPhone content out there, this caught my eye. Because it was the App Store in year two, and the games that appeared, that really

The iPhone's first wave of games
New Realities

Sonicam VR camera looks great

It's not cheap (but what good camera is), but it looks like it's focusing on something that can often be overlooked. Not just nine cameras, but 64 microphones

Sonicam VR camera looks great