Two days ago, a friend who invested in Bitcoin asked me how secure her Coinbase investment was. She had plans to put her coins in cold storage but as a security stopgap was relying on two-factor authentication (2FA) through Coinbase, as many people do. My main question: What kin … | Continue reading
Waymo and Intel just announced a blockbuster new partnership in the self-driving space — but it's a collaboration that's actually been going on for years. The two companies, which are among the leaders in the race to develop driverless car technology, officially announced their p … | Continue reading
Want to attend the 2017 Samsung Developer Conference but aren't thrilled about the price? Use this code to save 50% on your registration fee! | Continue reading
This weekend, we got a great view into the broken way that the American political media covers climate change. Many people sense that U.S. politics reporters don’t always cover global warming in the most substantive or evidence-grounded way. This weekend provides a good example o … | Continue reading
Three upcoming phones could redefine the smartphone in our time. As smartphones become more and more common, OEMs need to branch out and get creative. | Continue reading
Pinterest is rolling out a new feature inspired by its power users, said Pinterest CEO and co-founder Ben Silbermann, speaking today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The new addition, called Sections, allows Pinterest users to divide their board into various sub-groups relat … | Continue reading
In the future, said Andy Warhol, everyone will be bionic for fifteen minutes. I’m paraphrasing, but it looks like a Portuguese company called Nuada is about to give us that opportunity. Created by Filipe Quinaz and Vitor Crespo, the seed-funded company pitched on our Disrupt sta … | Continue reading
As a corporate video editor, there are few things more exasperating than completing a video, being very proud of it, sending it off to the client, only to be told it is completely the wrong thing. And it’s not just annoying for the editor — it’s a huge frustration for the client, … | Continue reading
Facebook is serious about using Groups to propel its new mission to “bring the world closer together”. That’s why it’s made a big-name hire for the product leader for the Facebook Groups team. Former Change.org COO and President Jennifer Dulski will take the role. In a Facebook … | Continue reading
Google is adding the ability to automatically recognize addresses, phone numbers, and contacts to the Gmail website and mobile apps today (including Inbox), in the rollout of a feature that seems so blatantly obvious that I refuse to believe that Gmail didn’t have it already.A fe … | Continue reading
Bridgefy, which is launching in our Disrupt SF Battlefield today, allows developers to build a mesh network into their mobile apps so that their users and apps can still communicate, even when those devices aren’t connected to the internet. Read More | Continue reading
Back in June of this year, we wrote about a company called Future Family that aimed to simplify the world of female fertility testing, all while bringing down the cost of treatment options. But female fertility is but a part of the baby equation; it takes two to tango, as they s … | Continue reading
There is no shortage of city-building games on the App Store, but you know what there IS a shortage of? City-building games that aren't free to play. Sadly, that particular monetization system has turned this great genre into something more akin to an idle game rather than the hi … | Continue reading
Google has added a new feature to Search that will show you if your local library has the ebook you’re looking for in stock. If you’re old like me and didn’t know that you could borrow ebooks, well you can, and many libraries across the US have a digital collection that you can b … | Continue reading
There's a chance that Huawei will announce its mobile payment service for the US later this year, but an early 2018 debut is also in the cards. | Continue reading
GUEST: Recent commentary from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other influencers in the tech space has reignited the age-old conversation around how artificial intelligence will affect humanity. I say “age-old” because the idea of automation and advancements in technology disrupti … | Continue reading
It turns out you don't need to spend $999 to get the iPhone X's most noticeable features.No, not the talking Animoji or slightly creepy face scanning, but the notch. A clever developer has created an Android app that brings the iPhone X's distinctive camera cutout to Android hand … | Continue reading
2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service has a fairly succinct premise: an ultra-violent, laddish James Bond crossed with My Fair Lady, from Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn. Based on a graphic novel by artist Dave Gibbons and writer Mark Millar (who also wrote Kick-Ass), the film pai … | Continue reading
Wireless charging isn’t new — but with the new iPhones picking it up as a feature, it’s about to get a huge boost in visibility. But wireless charging is still pretty limited, particularly in terms of where your device can be while pulling a charge. For the most part, “wireless … | Continue reading
For many, Bitmoji is a hard sell. Scarred by annoying BitStrips years ago, the concept of creating an emoji of yourself seemed juvenile, and kind of cheesy. Even after Snap bought the company last year, it still didn't bring much to the table. Then, Snapchat rolled out an update … | Continue reading
Most virtual reality games are leaving me cold these days. The latest shooting gallery doesn’t even register in my brain anymore, and even the more original games have to get some buzz before I’ll try them. Thankfully, Lone Echo has picked up enough hype that I took the time to s … | Continue reading
Robots are stealing jobs, the narrative says and according to this video, robots are stealing the arts too. The video shows several industrial robotic arms playing the piano, guitar, drums and a keyboard. Through some stellar music production, it sounds amazing too. Nigel Stanfo … | Continue reading
Two years ago the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation to Volkswagen, setting off the far-reaching investigation and media storm into the VW diesel scandal. New research captures some of the real-world impact on lives lost due to air pollution associate … | Continue reading
As Apple likely predicted, it appears a large number of prospective iPhone buyers are waiting until the iPhone X goes up for preorder in late October rather than purchasing the more readily available iPhone 8, which launches Friday. Noted Apple watcher and industry analyst firm K … | Continue reading
The 'Shonin Streamcam' wants to help you document your next march, social activation or eventIt acts as a watchdog camera, streaming straight to social media or to an SD card. Read more...More about Tech, Mashable Video, Social Good, Protection, and Activism | Continue reading
The Galaxy S8’s devoted Bixby button was one of the least popular features on an otherwise well received phone, owing in part to the fact that Samsung’s smart assistant was still half-baked at launch. Unsurprisingly, the feature also made its way onto the Galaxy Note 8, though, … | Continue reading
Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx has promoted an upcoming initial coin offering (ICO) on social media. | Continue reading
NewsBTC sat with Alex Bessonov, the CEO of BitClave, an upcoming decentralized search engine platform, to discuss its importance in the mainstream world. As we dwelled into a detailed conversation, Alex introduced us to some never-explored-before earning mechanisms within the onl … | Continue reading
When bots finally do take over the world, let’s hope they allow us to at least pick our own coffee. We might all be plugged into machines Keanu Reeves-style as in The Matrix, providing the power they need, but maybe we’ll still be allowed to partake of a fine blend intravenously. … | Continue reading
The Two Halves House on Silverwattle Drive is divided in to two pavilions of exactly the same size. The upper level pavilion houses the ... | Continue reading
With around a half century behind the video game medium at this point, it's clear that it is taking after other forms of entertainment media in at least one point: no idea that was ever bankable will stay dead forever. Genres wax and wane, creators leave their beloved IPs and ret … | Continue reading
While I’m generally cynical when it comes to most fintech startups (I’m British – cynicism is my default position), I’m a huge fan of Monzo. This UK-only banking startup lets you track your spending through a gorgeous mobile application, as well as spend with abandon while overse … | Continue reading
We’ve seen Bluehole Studio crow about its number of people playing 2017’s biggest gaming phenomenon, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, on Steam. But over the weekend, Divinity: Original Sin 2 made some unexpected noise when it comes to how many people are playing it on Valve’s PC pl … | Continue reading
Intel’s putting its investment fund where its mouth is when it comes to artificial intelligence: The chipmaker announced today that it has funneled over $1 billion into AI startups via its Intel Capital center arm. That includes participating in rounds in companies including Mig … | Continue reading
The Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is as much art as it is a phone. The world-renowned designer, Philippe Starck, tells the story of his inspiration for the design. | Continue reading
Microsoft is holding an event on October 3 to discuss the latest on its mixed reality efforts. The company has just sent out press invites for the event, which will take place in San Francisco. Mixed Reality head honcho Alex Kipman will be there to elaborate on and show off the “ … | Continue reading
Augmented Reality is used to define technology that creates a computer-generated image that the user can see in the real world. A physical environment is created whereby the elements therein are augmented and extracted through real-world sensory inputs such as audio, video, graph … | Continue reading
Earlier today, on September 18, prominent financial analyst and RT’s Keiser Report host Max Keiser expressed his optimism in regard to bitcoin’s short-term price trend. After reaffirming his interim target of $10,000, Keiser noted that it is likely for bitcoin price to hit $6,000 … | Continue reading
When it premiered in the U.K. in August, Peter Kosminsky’s four-part miniseries The State capped a summer that had seen two of the worst terrorist events in recent British history: a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester that killed 22 people and wounded 250, and an a … | Continue reading
Automaton is a new game studio in the United Kingdom, and it’s raised $10 million to make an online survival game built on simulation technology from infrastructure firm Improbable. In the game, as many as 1,000 players will be able to fight in a combat arena that is about 12 kil … | Continue reading
The mind behind Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, is matter-of-fact about the crypto. In short, he believes what interviewer Raval Navikant called “brain virus” is the true future of security and economics and, with the right incentives, Ethereum can replace things like credit card net … | Continue reading
In the Papagayo peninsula, placed on the tip of an seaward pointing with forest on both sides is the house named Indios Desnudos. | Continue reading
Nine months after Donald Trump won the presidency by unexpectedly swinging key states in the upper Midwest by slim margins, Facebook’s role in the 2016 election is still not clear.Just in the last week, Facebook’s advertising has come under new scrutiny. Friday evening, The Wall … | Continue reading
GUEST: Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have improved the human factor of machines. Like humans, machines can be influenced by people with varying ethical values. In looking at AI’s brief history, exemplified through innovations like chatbots, we encounter ethical challe … | Continue reading
Pepe the Frog will no longer be a go-to symbol for the white supremacist far right, if creator Matt Furie has his way. Motherboard reports that Furie’s legal representatives have sent DMCA takedown notices to “alt-right”-affiliated sites and figures using the symbol, including wh … | Continue reading
Today at Disrupt SF 2017 Vitalik Buterin sat down with AngelList founder Naval Ravikant to talk Ethereum. Because, well, Vitalik created Ethereum. Up front, Ravikant asked him to explain Ethereum and this is what he said.“You basically need to have some system that keeps track o … | Continue reading