Don’t MissBran Stark and the Problem of Omniscience—Spencer Kornhaber notices that the Game of Thrones character joins a long line of fictional oracles who are inscrutable, all-knowing, and troublesome to the narrative.Katie PosnerThe Business of CreativityThe Podcast Made From I … | Continue reading
We've been looking forward to the upcoming Suzy Cube for some time, especially because we really liked how well it played when we got a chance to check it out at GDC 2016. This 3D platformer works great on the touchscreen, so when I saw that Suzy Cube's developer, Louis-Nicolas D … | Continue reading
Ah, the police body camera. It's brought us such disturbing hits as a Baltimore cop appearing to plant drugs on someone, an officer telling a recently shot man "fuck your breath" as he cried out for help, and the foot chase and death of a Chicago teenager. Well, thanks to one Sal … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.This post is about a thing that's great—Star Wars—and a thing that's very terrible—losing your belongings. What do they have to do with each other? Today, in honor of Force Frida … | Continue reading
Russia may have a finalized cryptocurrency trading bill by the end of the summer, according to a senior lawmaker. | Continue reading
Ark: Survival Evolved just left Early Access on Wednesday, and Studio Wildcard is wasting no time announcing new premium-priced content. The Aberration pack, as Wildcard is calling it, debuts October for the PC and console versions. It will focus on a harsh new land mass with dan … | Continue reading
Honor is releasing its Honor 9 phone in a new "robin egg blue" shade. The turquoise is certainly unique, although I'm not sure whether that's a good thing. We all want our phones to stand out, but this blue makes my eyes hurt a little bit? It's just so bright and so turquoise. I … | Continue reading
When faced with a question or obstacle in life, odds are you've turned to Google for guidance once, twice, or maybe a few hundred times.Well, thanks to a new website created by Google's News Lab and visual data journalist Xaquin G.V., you can take comfort in knowing you're not al … | Continue reading
This is the best back to school tech for 2017. Including laptops, tablets, power banks and accessories to stop you losing your keys! | Continue reading
Citibank recently disseminated a predictive research paper in its “Technology at Work” series, wherein a number of experts lay out the future of human employment. The co-director for the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, Carl Benedikt Frey, writes “Retail is o … | Continue reading
Daimler's Frankfurt Auto Show concept is a small EV for ride-hailing and ride-sharing. Riders would be paired based on common interests.The post Smart Envisions EQ Fortwo Concept as Ride-Sharing, Self-Driving EV appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Since at least 2014, Twitch was the League of Legends network. Sure, nearly every game has an audience on the livestreaming platform, but League of Legends was the biggest draw … until PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. For the first time since at least 2014, Riot Games’ megapopular … | Continue reading
When we talked about all the games we're losing once iOS 11 hits on September 12th (or thereabouts), we saw many of you complain about Playdek's Lords of Waterdeep [$4.99] going away, but we finally have good news on that front. Playdek just announced that the game is getting a 6 … | Continue reading
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It sounds like America’s favorite $400 juice machine will be no longer. “After selling over a million Produce Packs, we must let you know that we are suspending the sale of the Juicero Press and Produce Packs immediately,” reads the blog post. Juicero had raised over $118 millio … | Continue reading
It is the year 2017 and we carry the future with us in our pocket – that is a simple and sleek mobile device. Texting is one of the most common activities that are performed in a smart phone. Apart from exchanging text and picture messages and videos, the messaging Apps has gone … | Continue reading
Juicero, the company that made its name by creating a proprietary juice-squeezing machine, is shutting down. The announcement comes from Juicero's website. In its post, the company writes that it is suspending the sale of both its juice packets and its Juicero Press device. The l … | Continue reading
Recovery from Hurricane Harvey in Texas, the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, the World Bog Snorkeling Championships in Wales, devastating floods in Pakistan, pangolin smuggling in Thailand, wildflowers in bloom across the Atacama Desert in Chile, and much more. | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.One of the many great things about the internet is the access to hundreds of items you never even knew you needed, like the cableyoyo.SEE ALSO: Showcase your adventurous side wit … | Continue reading
Herosphere is preparing an ICO to issue HEROcoin, an Ethereum based cryptocurrency for betting. On September 14th customers will be able to spend ETH for HERO and become part of a community that’s being designed to rub out the middle-man, and make sure the “house” never wins agai … | Continue reading
Twitter bots – robots that interact with humans – have a long history. The Twitter API is fairly easy to use (I made a bot that plays Zork with a friend two years ago) and there is little protection against creating new accounts automatically. This ease of use used to be great f … | Continue reading
Life is Strange didn’t need a prequel. Dontnod Entertainment’s time-traveling teen drama was a breakout hit when it launched in 2015, but the developer has been clear that it did not want to return to the story of Max Caulfield and Chloe Price. And so, Life is Strange: Before the … | Continue reading
Alcatel has just announced two new additions to its budget smartphone lineup today at IFA 2017: the Idol 5 and A7. Targeted at millennials, the Idol 5 comes with a feature called App Cloner, that duplicates social apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, allowing you to be logged in to … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Are you the kind of dog owner who sometimes puts on a movie for your dog to watch while you go to work? Or who leaves the house every morning wracked with guilt over leaving your … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.The next edition of the Star Wars saga lands in theaters on December 15 this year — but it’s already generating some serious buzz. SEE ALSO: The cutest new member of the Star War … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo is bringing more indies love to the Switch, Pokémon Go adds more Legendaries, and we check out Mario + Rabbids and the Destiny 2 PC beta. Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: The Leisure Economy — where we all … | Continue reading
If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance that you don’t regularly back up your computer. And why should you? After all, getting a laptop stolen or having a hard drive crash is the sort of thing that only happens to other people. Your files are fine, right?Accidents h … | Continue reading
Cuca Preta in Luanda Ballot-stuffing is so last decade. And so uncouth. Here in Angola, we prefer our electoral fraud more refined, more sophisticated. Ballot-stuffing isn’t necessary when the incumbent’s party controls the media, the National Electoral Commission, and even the S … | Continue reading
BOSTON (AP) -- Kyrie Irving says his decision to ask the Cavaliers to trade him was not about LeBron James but a desire to maximize his potential. | Continue reading
Amazon Alexa’s popular “Flash Briefing” skill, designed to give you the latest news and information from a series of customizable news sources, can now tell you about what’s happening in the world of music, too. On Thursday, Amazon introduced a new skill called “Today in Music,” … | Continue reading
Apple next flagship will be called the iPhone X, not the iPhone 8, according to a report by Dutch site iCulture. If the report pans out, there will be an iPhone 8 too, it’s just not the model we’ve been led to think. iCulture claims the device will be called the iPhone X – pronou … | Continue reading
The first Daydream and Tango phone will be the last. Asus has Google’s ARCore to thank for that. I want to say the Asus ZenFone AR was dead on arrival, but that’s not completely true. Google did give it 27 days to live. When I got my hands on an Asus Zenfone AR review unit, […] | Continue reading
Apple is expected to reveal its newest generation of iPhones on Sept. 12 at a special fall media event, and now, we might have a better sense what they'll be called.According to a 9to5Mac report, the names of the phones announced will be:iPhone 8iPhone 8 PlusiPhone EditionThe rep … | Continue reading
With the amount of money being put in bombastic triple-A games resulting in some truly thrilling experiences with as many explosions as a typical Michael Bay film, it's nice to have a title that is a bit kinder to the senses. The hidden object genre is one in particular that fulf … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: There’s a new Microsoft in town, and the company has spent the past and a half year embedding itself into the worldwide venture capital ecosystem. It’s a move that’s supposed to keep the company in touch with the latest startup developments, something that CEO Satya Na … | Continue reading
A new paper suggests bitcoin mining may naturally resist centralization – a finding with potential implications for the long simmering scaling debate. | Continue reading
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A new method for building database caches from NAND could offer equal or better performance as DRAM, with a fraction the cost, power consumption, and dissipated heat. The post NAND Memory Caches Could Slash Data Center Power Consumption appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Television has periodically portrayed school as the ultimate evil, a frame for fluffy slice-of-life scenarios, or just as a mundane backdrop to supernatural phenomena. Pop culture is obsessed with telling school stories, from realistic dramas about the ways school can feel like a … | Continue reading
The best part of IFA Berlin is that moment when all the big announcements from heavy hitters like Samsung and LG are done, and you can just walk around the insanely convoluted hallways of the Messe venue where the show takes place and look for cool stuff. And while this can hardl … | Continue reading
Dauntless, a PC cooperative action game that has players working together to take down giant monsters, is entering its closed beta test at 12 p.m. Pacific today. You can get access to the testing period by buying a Founder’s Pack for the game, which start at $40. Dauntless takes … | Continue reading
French hypergrowth startup DomRaider aspires to develop an open-source solution dedicated to real-time management of auctions based on blockchain technology. Tristan Colombet, DomRaider CEO, explains the operation in the video Over the last four years, DomRaider has become the … | Continue reading
Chattanooga-based Branch Technology joined with an architectural firm to win first place in a phase of a NASA competition to build a 3D-printed habitat for deep space exploration. The 3D printing company, based in Chattanooga’s small business incubator GigTank, built a number of … | Continue reading
Thank heaven for social media.That sentiment was definitely on the minds of many people caught in the path of Hurricane Harvey, which is shaping up to be one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. It dumped 24.5 trillion gallons of water on Texas — enough to cover the entire sta … | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of weather apps on the market, but you may have noticed that few of them are actually all that good. That’s where a new entry called Weather Atlas, from the developer behind the popular productivity app Launch Center Pro, comes in. This newly launched weather … | Continue reading
When you’re sitting in the park listening to music on your wireless speaker, you’re probably too busy enjoying the vibe to pontificate on the science and innovation that brought music and technology to where it is today. Music has come a long way from the time when dropping a … | Continue reading
Apple’s Eddy Cue is no longer in charge of Siri, according to Apple’s updated leadership page. First spotted by Apple Insider, the voice assistant is now under the purview of Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.Cue, who runs internet software an … | Continue reading
The Surface Laptop is an excellent PC, but we were sad to see the gorgeous color options were only available on the Core i5 configuration at launch. That’s no longer the case, as you can now pre-order the i7 model in Cobalt Blue, Burgundy, or Graphite Gold as well. You have two i … | Continue reading