best-selling mobile apps, is back with a sequel. anxiousry ry sangry birds two was launched tuesday with more than a million down loads. the original version was released in 2009 and it turned the franchise into a global phenomenon. but the game started losing its appeal a few years later after competing with other free to download alternatives. will the sequel help rejuvenate angry angry birds stand in the gaming world. joining me now, with mashable. there have been 12 total angry birds games in the last six years so this is the first angry birds two but they ve continued to add to the original game. there have been the angry birds in space, angry bird seasons, angry birds star wars so this is hardly the first new angry birds
were coming up to me that younger viewers are starting to scatter. and i read something on mashable that was linked to a media deal that over the last six months i think it is, 11% or 12% drop of viewers watching television something like ages 18 to 30. right some we re in the age we are in this world where the recording industry was in 1998 without a napster. so the traditional record company doesn t survive. but are there other ways for bands in brooklyn to record at home market on the internet and create a massive following? yes, there is. that is the future. and you just have to be able to
stuff on your site. imagine that it s a phone, a galaxy or an iphone and that they re just doing this. if you put all your information in a vertical scroll you re going to help yourself immensely. there s also something called vertical design. it s smart enough to know how to resize itself depending on the device you are looking at. mashable happens to be this kind of site where you can look at it on the desktop or you can look at it on something as small as the iphone and it s the same site but it automatically resizes itself. it makes sense. most developers understand what responsive design is. to me that is the only answer when you re designing for mobile because then you re not designing two separate experiences. right. you re taking your site but it s tricky because and i know this because we ve gone through it right, and you get something that is beautiful on the screen and then you put it on your phone and it just doesn t work. so it means a lot of
editor i m joined now by the editor at large and chief correspondent with mashable. lance, good to see you. i have one complaint, and you had it too, it had to end. why? keep going. keep going. give us the movie already, please. i m ready. we love to break the internet, since kim kardashian used that phrase but truly this might have broken the internet 19 million hits. there s so much more to this. this is the reboot that we ve been waiting for with the star wars franchise. you had the three films in the late 90s and early 2000s, which honestly did not move the story forward, they were full of too much cgi. this finally, we get to learn what happens. we re jumping many decades into the future of the story and there s practical effects. i cannot believe, that bb-8 robot is real. i read a story yesterday about
warren, southeastern tech analyst for mashable. give me an assessment how did the trip go and was it automated for the entire journey? it was automated they say for 99% of the journey. the way this works is that you can t actually send a fully automated vehicle without a driver behind the wheel going this many miles and going the speed they were going without at least having a driver in the driver s seat just in case something goes wrong. but delphi says 99% of the journey which was over 3,400 miles was completely automated and it went through some interesting traffic conditions. there were some traffic circles, some roadwork and it looks like it handled it like a champ. what are engineers hoping to find out from this trip? they captured more than three terabytes of data, based on things like location, speed. they had cameras and lasers attached to the car. they hope to take the information and build it into the technologies around the future of self-driving cars so that they can