Michelle Obama, probably the coolest First Lady of all time, has just joined Snapchat. According to The Verge, Mrs. Obama will use the account to post snaps from the White House and give followers a behind-the-scenes view of her daily life and events with the president throughout … | Continue reading
Streaming’s nice and all, but when you need to watch a good-old local file, VLC is one of the most popular choices around. The Android app was just updated to version 2.0, with a few features make power-users giddy. Perhaps most notably, you can now watch videos in a pop up windo … | Continue reading
Burner, the app that lets you create and destroy new phone numbers on a whim, now has a bot of its own that automatically blows people off. Called Ghostbot, the bot lets you assign it to any number you have active, and respond to any number that may text you. Burner says there ar … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Vinylize.it, a service that turns your favorite SoundCloud tracks into a vinyl record. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Vinylize? Vinylize.it is a service for all music fans, enabling them to c … | Continue reading
Right on cue after yesterday’s ‘rumors’ Tumblr is launching live video. The surprising bit is how it all actually works. Instead of wasting time and money on its own live-streaming technology, Tumblr is simply integrating existing live video solutions. To start, the platform is l … | Continue reading
Instagram today hit 500 million monthly active users, of which 300 use it daily. That's up from 400 million in September. | Continue reading
No matter what industry you’re involved in, data analysis is an extremely valuable skill set which separates true leaders from daydreaming subordinates. With The Essential Data Analysis Bundle, you’ll develop deep familiarity with the vital role data analysis plays in high-level … | Continue reading
Blinkist takes non-fiction books and offers them in an abridged format, allowing users to understand the key concepts and ideas of these books within 15 minutes via kindle, the mobile app or on the web. This month the company launched Blinkist Magazine, making it easy to explore … | Continue reading
I use apps for everything. Maybe it’s the millennial blood coursing through my veins or a general desire to accomplish as much as possible while doing as little as humanly possible, but when I want to accomplish a task or do something more effectively I go searching in the app s … | Continue reading
Adobe is rolling out a host of updates to its Creative Cloud platform, including some very welcome new features to its suite of apps. Pretty much everyone reading this site will use Photoshop at some point in their life, so we’ll focus on that. First up, Photoshop CC “2015.5” is … | Continue reading
Twitter is extending the length of Vine uploads for a select few users to 140 seconds, and making the same format available to all on Twitter proper. There’s also a new iOS app called ‘Engage’ to help you track analytics. Previously, Twitter supported videos of 30 seconds or shor … | Continue reading
When we decided to start this company, we needed to hunt down for writers. We didn’t have a big budget so only one writer was needed. So we wrote down some requirements and tweeted them in hopes we would find that special someone we were looking for. And nothing happened. Nobody … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Tribune Publishing Co., a 168-year-old newspaper publisher that’s been home to the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun and Chicago Tribune, changed its name to tronc. I didn’t mistype, that’s what the company decided to go with, and it really is all lowercase … | Continue reading
Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós are known for their expansive ambient soundscapes and beautiful live shows. For its next track, the band has something different up its sleeve. On ‘Route One’, the group is driving through Iceland for 24 hours and livestreaming the journey. The ac … | Continue reading
Gary Vaynerchuk builds businesses: Fresh out of college, he took his family wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in just five years. Now, he runs VaynerMedia–one of the world’s hottest social media-first digital agencies. Along the way, Gary became a prolific a … | Continue reading
It’s not uncommon that people sometimes lose their place in a mobile app because they were interrupted by something else – like a notification from another tool – and struggle to find their way back. A team at Microsoft Research believes it has a solution to that problem, and it’ … | Continue reading
At the end of April, Microsoft revealed a preview of Flow, an automation tool that connects productivity apps and triggers actions between them, similar to IFTTT and Zapier. For example, you could set it to notify your team on Slack when you’ve added a file to SharePoint. When it … | Continue reading
Two-factor authentication is a great way to keep your online accounts secure, but between hunting for your phone and manually typing in the auto-generated passcode, it can be quite a pain. Google’s hoping to fix that with a simpler security prompt option. The next time you try lo … | Continue reading
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t yet watched episode nine of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, you’ll want to bookmark this post for later and watch the show first. When Jon Snow decides to take on Lord Ramsay Bolton in the Battle of Winterfell, the odds are stacked against him. … | Continue reading
Originally spotted in a report from Apple Insider, and verified by TNW, Apple is clearing its retail locations of the legacy (non-Retina) 13-inch MacBook Pro. After phoning half a dozen Apple stores in and near San Diego, TNW found that clerks reported no real news (from manageme … | Continue reading
In news not pertaining to Netflix’s new icon: according to a study by Nomura Securities, Netflix’s $2 price increase earlier this year could lead to almost a half million US customers (480,000) abandoning the service. With cable increasingly breaching the $100+ per month mark (an … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on July 14 to identify and open spectrum for truly next-gem high-speed 5G wireless. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants everyone to get on board, or get out of the way. “[If the FCC] approves my proposal next month, the United Stat … | Continue reading
Netflix looks ready to change up its logo. The company is sporting a completely new design on its Facebook and Twitter accounts. For comparison, here’s the old one, which can alternate between white or black backdrops: And here’s the new one: Though we’re not seeing the new desig … | Continue reading
The Sacramento Kings are set to open a new $507 million stadium in October. Inside you’ll find screens that are nearly as long as the court itself (84 feet) as well as high-capacity Wi-Fi systems intended to provide blazing fast internet for all in attendance. In addition to twee … | Continue reading
Tumblr is getting into the live video business. At least, it certainly looks like it. TechCrunch spotted a mysterious livevideo.tumblr.com blog, which is replete with cryptic posts about upcoming livestreams for tomorrow, June 21. Some choice messages include: “We will broadcast … | Continue reading
Websites have suggestions, Walmart has robotic personal shoppers doubling as shopping carts — or at least it wants to. The company is reportedly collaborating with Five Elements Robotics to help consumers ease the burden of pushing around a shopping cart, all while offering up su … | Continue reading
If you’re having an unusual pain or symptoms, chances are the first thing you do is search Google for help, and then probably end up on WebMD or Mayo Clinic. Google’s now making it easier to assuage all your hypochondriac fears by showing you information right from search results … | Continue reading
There are many reasons Microsoft would like you to stop using Chrome – mainly, so you could use Edge instead. But this new ad puts forth a compelling argument: Chrome is terrible for battery life (and Edge is pretty great). If you own a laptop and use Chrome, then you probably al … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we interview co-founder Dave Beech about Starwords, an app that helps kids learn to read. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Starwords? Starwords is a flashcard app that helps children learn to read. It uses tried-and-te … | Continue reading
Don’t you wish you could turn off the world every now and then? The last few weeks I’ve found out it’s actually possible… for a price. Enter any airport around the world and you’ll see loads of people wearing either Bose’s QC15 or QC25 headphones — for a reason. Their omnipresenc … | Continue reading
Twitter has just acquired a fantastically named startup called Magic Pony, which specializes in using artificial intelligence for visual processing. The point of it all? Making sharper live video. Magic Pony’s research centers around using neural networks compare an image to a li … | Continue reading
Let us introduce you to a… pocket-sized camera – the YoCam Versatile Waterproof Camera. The world’s smallest, waterproof camera offers supreme versatility for wherever your life’s adventures may lead. After a successful campaign through crowdfunding site Indiegogo, YoCam has been … | Continue reading
Elon Musk needs to learn that every time he reveals what his electric car company’s vehicles are capable of, owners will test those claims in the worst ways possible. Over the weekend, he did it again. In response to a video showing a Model S merrily floating through a tunnel flo … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Apple was looking to open physical stores in India, but said three weeks ago that it would hold off on its plans unless it was exempted from having to locally source 30 percent of the goods it sold in the country. The company doesn’t have to worry about that an … | Continue reading
Instagram changed its logo last month, and as with almost any significant change to a popular social network, the internet was split. Some loved it. Others disliked it. And the memes started flowing. The Facebook-owned company moved on from its old-fashioned camera icon and embra … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6811 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the five most interesting patents. 1. Microsoft solves its biggest HoloLens concerns Pate … | Continue reading
It’s a sad truth that some governments are within their rights in blocking internet access for their citizens. The Indian state of Gujarat saw mobile Web access turned off last August following violent protests there; similar measures were taken in the state of Haryana this month … | Continue reading
I still fondly remember old-school messaging platforms like IRC and ICQ from when I was a kid, some 20 years ago. Stranger danger aside, it was fun to talk to people from around the world without ever having met before. And while we have loads of new tools for staying connected, … | Continue reading
I’ve stopped caring about hardware specifications in today’s personal gadgets because they seem to matter less and less lately. But if you’re working on complex tasks like encryption, you’ll need all the firepower you can get your hands on. That’s why a team of researchers at Uni … | Continue reading
Tired of dragging around beach chairs and giving yourself Louis Armstrong cheeks while blowing up various inflatables? From the beach to the backyard, music festivals to movie nights in the park, the Loungr Inflatable Chair is the new comfort craze. An ultra portable, sturdy rips … | Continue reading
The most innovative thing Apple did with their Photo app recently was the addition of a ‘Selfie’ filter. You can find the folder in your Photos app, and yeah, it is filled with Selfies. Apart from that Apple still thinks we use photography as we did it 30 years ago: we go on a tr … | Continue reading
Aspiring IT professionals understand the competitive edge of an Amazon Web Services certification, a crucial stepping stone in building a lucrative engineering career. The AWS Engineer Certification Bundle will help you pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS … | Continue reading
You can purchase a semi-automatic weapon in under 10 minutes, but it’s the rifle emoji we’re scared of. Unicode, the organization tasked with overseeing the selection of new emoji, decided that a rifle emoji wasn’t in our best interest after trying to decide which potential emoji … | Continue reading
$15,000/mo in 100 days. Here’s how we got here… I’m about to hit “publish.” What’s the worst that could happen, right? Mm… maybe we should wait until tomorrow. Let me get back to this after taking a few calls. … Alright, let’s do this. *Few more hours more of pondering* Screw it. … | Continue reading
Streaming Netflix or Hulu to your Chromecast is easy-peasy, but getting local files onto your TV generally requires niche software. Now VLC – probably the most popular video player that doesn’t come pre-installed with computers – is prepping to add Chromecast support. The VLC tea … | Continue reading
We’re still weeks away from the first public beta of iOS 10, but why would that stop a jailbreaking community stalwart from getting an early start? iH8sn0w has been a prolific member of the jailbreaking community for some time, and in his latest video he posted an iPhone running … | Continue reading
Robots are becoming self-aware and we’re all going to die. Well, kinda. Promobot, a Russian robot designed to move around independently and test the limits of its artificial intelligence pushed the boundaries by escaping its testing facility on Tuesday. The robot uses advanced AI … | Continue reading
A new update coming to Waze today will help drivers avoid routes that require turns at “difficult intersections.” This includes turns on a two-way road that does not have a traffic light, intersections that bridge more than two one-way roads, large roundabouts, or turns with redu … | Continue reading