GM’s Cruise self-driving unit is hosting a special event at the end of November, the company revealed today via invites to select media. The tagline for the event is “Come experience our vision of a self-driving future,” and while advance details are scarce, it sounds likely tha … | Continue reading
When the iPhone X rumor mill began churning everything seemed to suggest Apple tried to fit a Touch ID sensor under the display, but failed. Now Apple is flatly denying those rumors, saying it spent “no time looking at fingerprints” for the iPhone X at all. The comment comes from … | Continue reading
Clearing homeless people off the streets and out of parks may make cities look tidier to the powers that be, but what happens to rough sleepers when they’re forced to move on?This is a question Berlin is currently grappling with, after the high-profile eviction of homeless people … | Continue reading
Instagram is finally rolling out native support for Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi – three popular languages that are all written right-to-left. They join 36 other languages that Instagram supports natively. And just like all other language options on Instagram, everything besides som … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, drawing app developer Astro HQ released a video of a really clever new idea for its apps: it turned the iPad’s front camera into a button, letting you tap on the lens to activate things on screen. It was a smart way to free up screen space, but as it turns out … | Continue reading
This past Friday, Netflix released the second season of its hit series Stranger Things. Last year, the show appeared out of nowhere, catching pretty much everyone by surprise with its combination of retro-’80s nostalgia and Steven Spielberg-meets-Stephen King storytelling. But th … | Continue reading
In 1986, the social psychologist David Sears warned his colleagues that their habit of almost exclusively studying college students was producing a strange and skewed portrait of human nature. He was neither the first to make that critique, nor the last: Decades later, other psyc … | Continue reading
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For approximately four hours below the Caribbean Sea on October 27, 1962, Vasili Arkhipov found himself in the middle of a nuclear standoff. The 34-year-old Russian naval officer was stationed aboard the B-59, one of four Soviet Foxtrot-class submarines bound for Cuba. It was no … | Continue reading
Getting tired of the same old Instagram Stories? Get ready for stop motion, the newest feature in Instagram's story camera. The tool allows you to take a series of photos, string them together into a short stop-motion video and post them to your story. SEE ALSO: 9 mind-blowing fa … | Continue reading
After years of ambiguous signals, Russian president Vladimir Putin finally clarified Russia’s stance on cryptocurrencies last week with five presidential orders demanding officials set up a legal framework to handle digital currencies. The orders include plans to tax crypto miner … | Continue reading
Intel’s new Optane SSDs are finally coming to regular PCs with the Optane SSD 900P. They’re superfast, with Intel claiming sequential read speeds up to 2,500 MB/s and sequential write speeds at up to 2,000 MB/s, via ZDNet. If you haven’t been keeping up with all the latest and gr … | Continue reading
CircleUp, what’s been a marketplace for consumer and retail investing, is announcing that it now has a $125 million growth fund to invest in companies directly. Using machine learning technology called Helio, CircleUp Growth Partners says it will be able to identify potential in … | Continue reading
Waymo, Googles Schwesterfirma für autonome Vehikel, verabschiedet sich vom Autopilot-Modus, der das Eingreifen des Fahrers in Notsituationen erfordert. Zu Beginn der Selbstfahr-Entwicklung hatte man darauf spekuliert, dass der fast-autonome Modus... | Continue reading
Jimmy Chin may be best known as a professional climber, skier, and mountaineer, but his recent foray into photography and filmmaking (Meru) affords him the ability to share what he describes as “some of the deeper meanings and ideas behind climbing.” In this short animation, exce … | Continue reading
I3 attended an event in Brussels on the 17th October 2017, in order to spark collaboration among all H2020 media related projects managed by Unit DG CONNECT-I4. Main goal of the workshop was for projects to meet each other, find common points for cooperation and discuss the futur … | Continue reading
At the NGI Forum Georgios Tselentis, Scientific Project Officer at European Commission, spoke about the Next Generation Internet as resilient, reliable and ready for all Europeans. An internet that is human centric and at the service of people and society. The Next Generation In … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.Given that it's Halloween today, … | Continue reading
The Great British Bake Off (GBBO) final is the highlight of the UK television calendar. The anticipation is palpable, as the British public wait to find out who will be crowned master baker. That anticipation will be deflated somewhat, much like a souffle that wouldn’t rise, as G … | Continue reading
The 8th consortium meeting of the COGNITUS project concluded recently, 18-20 October 2017, in London, UK, hosted by the project partner Queen Mary University of [...] | Continue reading
Razer will likely announce its first smartphone tomorrow, November 1st, but last-minute leaks keep coming. Phandroid spotted that UK phone dealer 3G leaked the phone's specs early, and apparently, the device will feature a display with a relatively unprecedented 120Hz refresh rat … | Continue reading
Liar, a six-part miniseries whose finale airs on SundanceTV on Wednesday, is constructed around the premise that two people are telling different stories about a sexual encounter and one of them is lying. Laura (Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt) has no memory of what happened at t … | Continue reading
Amazon and Walmart aren’t the only major U.S. retailers looking to better merge online with brick-and-mortar operations. Today, Target announced a new app called “myCheckout” for its store staff that will allow them to process online transactions on the customer’s behalf, includ … | Continue reading
Yesterday morning, George Papadopoulos emerged from a blithe food coma in his elderly mother’s town of Larissa in Greece—she had made orzo with red sauce and beef, George Papadopoulos’s favorite dish—to find that the world had discovered him and all the Georges Papadopouli of his … | Continue reading
Es ist ein merkwürdiges Smartphone, das Elephone hier S8 nennt. Vor allem wegen des Namens, denn, nein, es ist so gar kein S8 Klon, aber auch wegen des Designs generell. Es ist auch ein sehr hübsches, recht wuchtiges Smartphone, das zwischen... | Continue reading
Samsung is announcing record profits for Q3 2017 despite shaking up its leadership. Why did the current leader step down and who are the new co-CEOs? | Continue reading
Google is trying to make video conferencing less awful by designing its own speaker-mic and other hardware that works with Google Calendar. It’s bundled together a touchscreen controller, a speaker-mic, a camera, and an Asus Chromebox that work in sync to let offices coordinate m … | Continue reading
Hangouts Meet, Google’s service for running video and audio meetings, is getting a few new hardware companions. The company today announced the Hangouts Meet hardware kit that includes a touchscreen controller, speaker microphone, 4K camera and an ASUS Chromebox to control it al … | Continue reading
Here’s one of the secrets from my video game pile of shame. I never played Shadow of the Colossus, the hit game that came out in 2005 on the Sony PlayStation 2. But I got a chance to remedy that yesterday at a Sony event in San Francisco, where I played the remake of Shadow […] | Continue reading
In September, Google launched the beta of its dedicated interconnects for Google Cloud enterprise users. These direct connections to the Google Cloud Platform essentially give enterprises a private on-ramp to the Google Cloud, which is especially important if they want to mix and … | Continue reading
The lesser-known cryptocurrency vertcoin is trading at a record high – and upcoming changes to its underlying economics may hint at why. | Continue reading
Google announced a few enhancements to its cloud networking capabilities today that are designed to provide customers with more options for connecting their private datacenters with those run by the tech titan. First off, the company’s Dedicated Interconnect service, which allows … | Continue reading
Google is looking to boost the enterprise-focused version of Hangouts by selling a dedicated hardware kit to businesses. Back in March, Google split the Hangouts communications platform into two core services, with Hangouts Chat focused on bringing instant messaging to teams and … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was the No. 1 game for livestreams in the third quarter, with more than 3.8 million hours streamed on Twitch alone. That’s one of the facts in a new report on livestreaming from company Streamlabs, which has a platform that allows streamers to collec … | Continue reading
Scientists have created a new form of invisible ink, but it has one big hitch: it might be toxic. Invisible inks, or “smart inks,” can be used for everything from preventing counterfeit money to simply storing information. These inks are supposed to be invisible unless activated … | Continue reading
David Cage is no stranger to controversy. Through the 20 years of Quantic Dream's existence - an anniversary celebrated after last night's PlayStation showcase that kicked off Paris Games Week - the French studio has always made games that push at various boundaries. The trailer … | Continue reading
Not long ago, it was thought that planes would flatten the world, spreading us out even more than the rise of railroads and cars did in previous eras. But the reality has been much the reverse. Airplanes, airports, and air travel have contributed to our geographic spikiness, fuel … | Continue reading
People unfamiliar with the idea of the bicycle as real transportation sometimes see Amsterdam—the famously bike-friendly Dutch capital—as a fantasyland that has very little to do with the grown-up transportation world of cars and trucks. In reality, a readjustment of perspective … | Continue reading
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Nintendo has shifted more than 2m SNES mini consoles since its launch a month ago.The retrotastic microconsole launched in Europe and North America on 29th September, and then in Japan on 5th October.Since then, it has shifted 2m units worldwide. Nearly 370k units were shifted in … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.If you're embarrassed to admit to your dentist that the last time you flossed was the last time the dentist did it for you, join the club.This Kickstarter project is looking to h … | Continue reading
Featured speakers from WSJ. Magazine's first-annual D.Luxe conference, including chef Daniel Humm and artist Alex Israel, reveal what's on their phones. Photo: Jeff Bush/The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Did George Papadopoulos wear a wire?On Monday, the former Trump campaign foreign-policy aide pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents investigating alleged Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. Papadopoulos had been offered “dirt” on Trump’s Democratic rival … | Continue reading
What is a Christ-centered treatment approach? At Selah House, it means we regard every person as a spiritual being on a human journey, and we treat your whole being with therapies, psychiatric care, and dietary and nutritional care that support you physically, spiritually, and em … | Continue reading
Google CEO Sundar Pichai lit a fire under the internet Sunday when he asked the Twitter-verse to provide its thoughts on the "correct way" to build a cheeseburger, and accordingly a cheeseburger emoji.SEE ALSO: These 'Stranger Things' waffles are super easy to makeWill drop every … | Continue reading
Astronomers track asteroids and comets in space near Earth, and some are unfathomably far away in the outer solar system. However, scientists may have spotted the first such object from someplace even more distant--another solar system. The post Astronomers Discover Extra-Solar O … | Continue reading
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