(Reuters) — Walmart is teaming up with Google to enter the nascent voice-shopping market, currently dominated by Amazon, adding another front to the giant retailer’s battle with the online megastore. Google, which makes the Android software used to run most of the world’s smartph … | Continue reading
The latest update for AT&T’s Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus includes the ability to hide the on-screen navigation bar as well as Daydream support. | Continue reading
Code42 has announced that it’s shutting down its CrashPlan for Home data backup service on October 23, 2018. After that, you won’t be able to retrieve your files. The company says it’s shifting its strategy to “focus exclusively on enterprise and small business segments.” That’s … | Continue reading
Key Highlights ETH price after a sharp correction towards $290.00 against the US Dollar found support and moved higher. There was a break above a steep bearish trend line with resistance at $308 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via SimpleFX). The pair is currently well a … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Nestle, Unilever, Tyson Foods, and other large food and retail companies have joined IBM’s project to explore how blockchain technology can help track food supply chains and improve safety, the companies said in a joint statement today. Blockchain, which first emerged … | Continue reading
A Dogecoin-like Scrypt cryptocoin has been announced with a promise of better return on investment. Linda, a sweetly and beautifully titled cryptocurrency, proposes to offer over 70% of pure PoS block reward phase and 99% APR, which is favorable for investment. The bullish aspect … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum classic price after a minor decline found support near $13.60 against the US Dollar. There is a key ascending channel pattern with support at $14.00 forming on the hourly chart of ETC/USD (Data feed via Kraken). The price is also positioned well above the … | Continue reading
Walmart and Google are today announcing a new partnership that will enable voice shopping through Google Assistant, Google’s virtual assistant that lives on devices like its smart speaker, Google Home. Specifically, consumers will now be able to take advantage of Walmart’s “Easy … | Continue reading
Patrick Flanagan, vice president of digital marketing and strategy at Simon Property Group, and Christian Brucculeri, CEO of Snaps, talk about the hurdles associated with building a retail chatbot. | Continue reading
In the latest episode of "Behind the Numbers," senior analyst Patricia Orsini and senior director of forecasting Monica Peart discuss whether brand advertisers have been spooked by concerns about brand safety online. | Continue reading
Email marketing technology is central to an organization’s content marketing effort, but there’s more to an effective campaign than just an email solution. | Continue reading
China’s food delivery market leader Ele.me has already secured the backing of Alibaba. Now it looks to close out the competition by buying Baidu’s platform. | Continue reading
Critics of Twitter in the UK say it’s not doing enough to address threatening and hateful speech. But the platform has rolled out new tools in recent months to combat the problem. | Continue reading
The shares of the US and UK populations using Instagram and Snapchat at least monthly will rise by double digits in 2017, according to eMarketer’s latest forecasts of social network usage in those countries. But social network leader Facebook’s monthly average user gr … | Continue reading
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We’ve officially hit peak ICO. Estonia, a small country in Northern Europe, just floated the idea of potentially raising money by issuing a token called “estcoins“.So why Estonia?The country is pretty forward thinking when it comes to technology – they are first nation to offer … | Continue reading
Jim Clark just can’t quit starting companies.The billionaire cofounder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, Healtheon, and Shutterfly, moved to Florida roughly 16 years ago to dive into the Miami real estate market. Now Clark, a native Texan who dropped out of high school, is b … | Continue reading
Body sensors have long been bulky, hard to wear, and obtrusive. Now they can be as thin as a Band-Aid and about as big as a coin. The new sensors, created by Kyung-In Jang, professor of robotics engineering at South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, an … | Continue reading
Key Points Bitcoin cash price after trading as low as $533 against the US Dollar found support and traded higher. Yesterday’s highlighted crucial descending channel pattern with resistance near $625 on the hourly chart of BCH/USD (data feed from Kraken) was broken. The price is n … | Continue reading
We once again braved the traffic of the 101 to bring you all the companies presenting on the second of Y Combinator’s day of demos, for what is the 25th batch of startups that have gone through the program. Read More | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is in correction mode after the latest drop and sellers might be ready to hop back in from here. | Continue reading
LinkedIn now allows anyone to upload video to the platform, Databricks raises $140 million and Druva raises $80 million, the first day of Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Days wraps up and Verizon throttles down to 480p for its unlimited plan. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Dreams of an autonomous Apple car maybe be dead, but it seems the company is at least trying to resurrect some of its self-driving work. According to a report in the New York Times, Apple is working on a self-driving shuttle to cart its employees around its sprawling network of o … | Continue reading
If you can’t get enough of cats in actual reality, you can now obsess over kitties in virtual reality, too. The adorable Cat Sorter VR is exactly what it sounds like: a game where you sort cats. It hits Steam and Viveport, the HTC Vive content platform, on August 29. The Cat Sort … | Continue reading
Microsoft knows that Xbox Live is not working for a ton of people right now, and it has engineers investigating the problem. A significant number of Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC players who use the Xbox Live platform are complaining on social media that the network is not functioni … | Continue reading
It’s not really clear just what “humanoid” robots are actually for. I’ve seen them do all kinds of things, but almost none of them well; at our recent Robotics event in Boston, several leading experts in the field questioned their necessity. But we grew up with Data and Robby an … | Continue reading
We’ve heard for some time now that Apple had decided to get out of the game of trying to build an entire self-driving car itself and was instead focusing on the software side of autonomous driving. Now, in a new report by Daisuke Wakabayashi at The New York Times, we see that tho … | Continue reading
Companies like Apple seemingly do everything in their power their laptops from being opened up. HP’s new Omen X laptop embraces it. It’s a beast of a device. The base model comes with a GTX 1070, 16GB of RAM, a i7-7700HQ processor, a 256 GB SSD, a 1TB hard drive, and a 1080p 120H … | Continue reading
The Department of Justice has dropped its request for the IP addresses of visitors to an anti-Trump inauguration protest website. The news is a win for DreamHost, which went public with the situation last week, riling privacy advocates who decried the DOJ request for IP addresse … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingAfghanistan Strategy: President Trump unveiled his plan to extend the war in Afghanistan without a timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops. (Read his complete address here.) The plan departs from Trump’s previous calls to withdraw from the war, but as James Fallo … | Continue reading
Uber is stepping up its efforts to win over drivers — by making it easier for them to say no to rides they don't want to take.Today the company announced several new features meant to make it easier for Uber drivers to plan trips around their schedules. SEE ALSO: Uber is rolling … | Continue reading
The DJI Spark is one of those fun, selfie-taking drones you'll want as soon as you see it. But if you already own one, you need to update it by September 1 — or risk never flying it again. SEE ALSO: Drug cartels are now using hulking drones to smuggle goods over the borderOn Mond … | Continue reading
Warner Bros. has never had the clearest vision for what it wants to do with its DC universe movies, and one new idea the studio is now reportedly adding to the mix is a Joker origin story film produced by none other than Martin Scorsese. Deadline reports that the project, which i … | Continue reading
This afternoon Microsoft announced Brainwave, an FPGA-based system for ultra-low latency deep learning in the cloud. Early benchmarking indicates that when using Intel Stratix 10 FPGAs, Brainwave can sustain 39.5 Teraflops on a large gated recurrent unit without any batching. Mi … | Continue reading
Well, this is interesting. A video showing what may or may not be the soon-to-be released iPhone 8, just leaked — and oh man, will it have Apple fans scratching their heads. SEE ALSO: This Apple leak is like nothing we've ever seen beforeThe 10-second clip, which we cannot confir … | Continue reading
Dolby Labs, the San Francisco-based company best known for Dolby Atmos audio tools and Dolby Vision imaging technology, is now setting its sights on screens that are decidedly much smaller than theater screens: our laptops. The company said today in a briefing with journalists th … | Continue reading
LCD Soundsystem, the beloved band that called it quits in 2011 only to come back five years later, has launched a WebVR experience with Google’s Data Arts Team for American Dream song “Tonite.” The experience, called Dance Tonite, is accessible to interact with via HTC VIVE or Oc … | Continue reading
Thanks to the recent preliminary settlement over misleading commercials, you might be owed up to $300 from the Japanese electronics company. | Continue reading
GoDaddy said CEO Blake Irving will retire at the end of 2017, with the company’s current president and chief operating officer, Scott Wagner, replacing him. Irving will also step down from the board next June. Irving, 58, became GoDaddy’s CEO in 2013 after serving as Yahoo’s chie … | Continue reading
Flat-pack furniture made Ikea a global powerhouse, and the same principles may help create a new generation of robots. Interactive Robogami is a project from MIT that lets users create ambulatory robots from a library of pieces that fold and fit together like origami. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook today announced a feature designed to increase visibility on the platform. Publishers, as of today, can add several logos to a new Brand Asset Library (shown below). These logos will then appear next to anything published by the page, but only in the Trending and Search … | Continue reading
After controversy over a broad search warrant that could have identified visitors to an anti-Trump website, the Justice Department says it’s scaling back a demand for information from hosting service DreamHost.The Justice Department says it will carve out exceptions to the reques … | Continue reading
The Super NES Classic went up for pre-order today in North America. It was a disaster.It all started at about 1 a.m. ET when pre-orders for the SNES Classic went live on Amazon and Best Buy. While most of North America was asleep, lucky night owls nabbed SNES Classics before they … | Continue reading
Forms on the web don't usually play nice with bad connections. If you try to submit a form while offline, you'll most likely just lose your input. Here's how we might fix that. TL;DR: Here’s the CodePen Demo of this post. With the introduction of Service Workers, developers are n … | Continue reading
You don’t have to worship Satan to appreciate the proper grammar and surprising wit behind the Church of Satan’s Twitter account. In fact, it would be silly if you did, because its members don’t. While the bulk of the tweets it sends out may center around correcting misinformatio … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesPresident Trump will hold a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, at 7 p.m. MT. Navy Commander Admiral Scott H. Swift said divers have found remains of some of the 10 missing U.S. sailors from the USS John S. McCain, the Navy warship that collided with an oil tanker … | Continue reading
I understand people's phone choices say something about their personalities, so what does the luxury Lamborghini phone say about the person who uses it? They're glamorous? They enjoy leather? They value luxury, maybe? I can't say, nor can I even guess, because I doubt I'll ever s … | Continue reading