Oh, Bodega. The newly launched startup’s insensitivity hit some pretty tender nerves during a time when cultural and societal tensions are high. The first article published about Bodega read almost like a Silicon Valley parody. Read More | Continue reading
Apple has tried its best to channel Steve Jobs’ showmanship during its recent presentations, as seen during the company’s recent iPhone X launch. But perhaps it goes deeper than that: an AI speech analyzer thinks Steve Jobs and Tim Cook actually have the same speechwriter. There’ … | Continue reading
HP is back to its old tricks locking printer firmware and blocking ink cartridges again. They pulled this trick a year ago, almost to the day.The post HP Is Once Again Breaking Printers With Third-Party Ink Cartridges appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Earlier this week, I posted some pretty exhaustive first impressions of Iron Marines [$4.99], and consider this review a continuation of that article. In it, I cover most of the basics of the game and how various mechanics work. To avoid endlessly repeating myself a bunch, I'd re … | Continue reading
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend,” the Bible observes—in other words, friends tell each other hard truths. For Donald Trump, that means suggesting on Twitter, in the raw moments after an explosion on a London train injured dozens on Friday, that the “loser terrorist” behind t … | Continue reading
Blizzard revealed today that two new characters and a new map inspired by Overwatch are coming to its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for PC, Heroes of the Storm. Junkrat and Ana are joining the fight, while Volskaya Foundry will be the new battleground. We don’t know when … | Continue reading
Your destination will now come to life when you search on Google Maps.Google has added a new video feature to accompany its mapping service, the company announced. Now, when you search a destination, you'll be able to find video footage of the location in the section of the map w … | Continue reading
BlackBerry announced it reached a patent licensing agreement with Timex, which could lead to a BlackBerry-branded smartwatch in the future. | Continue reading
Sitting on a gently sloping site with oblique downtown and mountain views, the Mackenzie Heights House is designed to accentuate its ... | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of angst in Silicon Valley. Tech leaders are still reeling from the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Their increasingly rich companies are coming to be viewed as more and more sinister, thanks in part to the jobs they look to the automate. Calls to … | Continue reading
As artificial intelligence creeps deeper into each and every industry vertical, demand for experienced technical talent only continues to increase. Now online education tools like Udacity and Coursera are being thrust into the spotlight as potential solutions to the problem. But … | Continue reading
This is one of the minor dangers of owning an Amazon Echo. Most anyone can activate the device by just saying the wake word including Cartman. And in the season opener of South Park, that’s exactly what happened. Watch. South Park messing with Alexa #SouthPark #Alexa pic.twitter … | Continue reading
All else equal, the market may take less time to recover from the latest sell-off than from the one that took place in December 2013. | Continue reading
If you like playing MMORPGs on your mobile device, you probably already know about the upcoming Lineage 2 Revolution, the open-world action-RPG from Netmarble that's been on soft launch for a few months now. Starting today, you can pre-register for the game and receive the Hero's … | Continue reading
To get some answers, I hopped on the phone with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi. We went through a bunch of the common concerns in rapid fire fashion, and I’ve also been asking around and listening to Apple folks who have been using the feature over long per … | Continue reading
Cool Hand Luke, Kelly’s Heroes, Dillinger, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Escape from New York, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Pretty in Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart,… | Continue reading
American Vandal takes the investigative approach of shows like Making a Murderer and applies it to something a little less serious — not a murder, but the spraypainting of dicks on teachers’ cars at a fictional California high school. Yes, it’s a Netflix parody of a Netflix show … | Continue reading
Just one day after Facebook responded to an ongoing anti-Semitic advertising controversy, both Google and Twitter have become embroiled in the same debate concerning oversight and moderation on the web’s pervasive and powerful ad platforms. Google’s ad tech, the main contributor … | Continue reading
Despite our best efforts, we’re teaching AI the wrong lessons. Bias has crept into our machines and, unless we urge developers to change business as usual, it’s there to stay. We’ve asked the computers to try and see the world as humans do, and they’ve responded by showing the po … | Continue reading
Chinese news reports that two of the country’s largest exchanges have been given an extra month to operate domestically. It appears OKCoin and Huobi will be allowed to continue offering services until October 31, 2017. This corresponded with an instant upswing in crypto markets w … | Continue reading
Jaybird has announced a set of truly wireless earbuds, as well as a follow-up to their popular Freedom buds. Should these replace your current buds? | Continue reading
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and 11 other Democratic senators introduced a bill this week that could give people the ability to freeze their credit for free. Warren also announced that she's sent letters to the country's three biggest credit reporting firms (Equifax, Tr … | Continue reading
Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, has just held Demo Day for its eighth London cohort, seeing 14 newly-formed startups pitch their wares onstage to investors, press and other actors in the European tech scene. What’s particularly interesti … | Continue reading
Tesla is still exploring options to make swapping vehicle battery packs easier and faster. This patent filed in May reveals one option that would allow technicians to change out packs in less than 15 minutes. This isn’t the first of such ideas. Back in 2014 Tesla briefly played … | Continue reading
T-Mobile will limit data speeds on the Apple Watch Series 3 to a maximum of 512kbps despite the smartwatch’s support for LTE connectivity, a spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge. As MacRumors noticed earlier today, the throttled speeds are mentioned on the carrier’s website. A … | Continue reading
Create a residential SoHo penthouse duplex from a two-story shell in Jean Nouvel’s iconic 40 Mercer Street building | Continue reading
I've been using this tiny 40% keyboard for a week to see how well I adapt (if at all).The post Tiny Keyboard Experiment: Living with the ‘Minivan’ appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster responded to questions Friday about recent U.S. sanctions on North Korea, and whether a military option is on the table. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
The hacking group OurMine has been breaking into company networks and social accounts for years, usually inflicting more embarrassment than outright damage — but when they gained access to Vevo servers last night, the company somehow managed to provoke something worse. According … | Continue reading
If you are a Hearthstone [Free] player, you can now proudly display your love for the game as an official phone case. Specifically, FabZat is now offering official, high-quality (or so they say) 3D-Printed phone cases based on some of the game's most memorable cards and card back … | Continue reading
Recent projects like Westworld: The Experience have merged film and television with the world of in-person, immersive experiences, and now Amazon is embracing the concept with an interactive haunted house based on its upcoming new show Lore. Lore: A Haunting Experience will run f … | Continue reading
GUEST: Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful technologies invented by humankind. This technology has affected almost every industry, including the medical, finance, and banking Industries. Due to its enormous potential, investors are sinking some serious funding int … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, I picked up Ruthanna Emrys’ debut novel, Winter Tide, a tale based on the exhaustively canvassed cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft. Along with a previous novelette called The Litany of Earth, it subverts Lovecraft’s notorious racism by making his monsters — which … | Continue reading
Add NYC to the list of cities that want to be the home for Amazon’s new headquarters. To inform its proposal, the city is asking for people, community organizations, and businesses to submit ideas and information about what the potential Amazon space and programs could look like. … | Continue reading
In the modular world, today it is Essential vs. Moto Mods. Which flavor of modularity is the better one? It's beauty versus the beast. | Continue reading
REVIEW: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is one of the biggest gaming stories in the world. It has sold more than 10 million copies since debuting in March. It recently surpassed more than 1 million concurrent players on Steam. And it has caught on as one of the top games in the Uni … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.You want an Echo. They’re nifty! But, maybe you don’t want to shell out $165 to get one. Well, here’s an idea: why don’t you get a certified refurbished Amazon Echo? It’s a previ … | Continue reading
The tech community and students need each other to thrive and compete and fuel innovation in this country. That’s why it is more important than ever to invest in America’s youth, and that starts with education and building opportunities for students and young grads across the U. … | Continue reading
Hurricanes Jose and Irma, an earthquake in Mexico, the Festival of the Winds in Sydney, the World Wingsuit Championship in China, a lightning storm in San Francisco, a 3,500-year-old tomb, newly discovered in Egypt, Cassini’s grand finale above Saturn, and much more. | Continue reading
There’s only one scene in First They Killed My Father that isn’t told through the eyes of Loung Ung (Sareum Srey Moch), the young daughter of a high-ranking Cambodian government official who was swept up in the terror of the Khmer Rouge’s campaign of genocide in 1975. It’s the op … | Continue reading
Netmarble announced today that it is opening what it’s calling “preregistration” (though this is just signing up) for its mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game Lineage 2: Revolution globally, including North America, Europe, and the Middle East. It has already la … | Continue reading
Floyd Mayweather is stepping up his support of cryptocurrencies, promoting his third initial coin offering (ICO) in the past month. | Continue reading
NEW YORK -- New York Knickerbockers announced today that the team has signed guard Jarrett Jack. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. | Continue reading
Last week, the Syfy channel unveiled its Origin Stories podcast, a series of 15 episodes featuring interviews between Adam Savage and a number of well-known celebrities within the geek world.The episodes make for a couple of hours of solid listening, with the various actors, show … | Continue reading
Asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight has added The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's iconic mass murderer, Leatherface, to the game as paid DLC.… | Continue reading
The first wave of Trump White House refugees is now landing on American shores. The instability of their former abode has already set nearly a dozen senior staffers into motion, with who knows how many more to follow. No question, many of them have suffered horrible abuse and mal … | Continue reading
When developer PikPok threw up a teaser site in early August for some sort of creepy upcoming game, most folks guessed that it would be a follow-up to their atmospheric zombie runner/shooter Into the Dead [Free]. Well, it turned out those people were right as just a few short day … | Continue reading
Credit Karma said it will add Equifax to its credit monitoring service as part of its free product, which proactively notifies members of significant changes to their credit report. It includes a whole suite of notifications for significant changes in credit queries, such as ope … | Continue reading