This won't change the fact that Allo is Allo, but at least you can make it look more like Google's other messaging client. | Continue reading
If you’re going to be decking your roof out with solar tiles, there’s a possibility that you may forgo what might be the best placement of a skylight in favor of more solar cell square footage. Luckily solar glass is fast becoming an option, and these clever glass blocks are the … | Continue reading
An update to the venerable Faketoken.q Android malware has made it easier for the program to steal your credit card information from ride-sharing apps. Faketoken attacks Russian ride-sharing apps by overlaying text boxes on the credit card information pages that can capture your … | Continue reading
Want to attend Disrupt SF 2017 but missed the early-bird ticket deadline? You’re in luck! We’re giving you one extra week to get your hands on these deeply discounted Disrupt tickets, so you now have until Friday, August 25 to secure your spot at the best startup show in San Fra … | Continue reading
YouTube has started rolling out a “Breaking News” section in people’s feeds today across platforms as Alphabet continues to tailor custom content playlists to users logged into Google Accounts, Android Police reports. For most, YouTube is a place to hop from one video to the nex … | Continue reading
Wendy Dent has a dream.The Australian founder, chief executive and sole employee of Cinemmerse wants to change the way folks think about how they watch everything from advertisements to art films.She’s created Cinnemerse, a website and an app that tracks viewers’ “emotional” res … | Continue reading
While we usually see robotics applied to industrial or research applications, there are plenty of ways they could help in everyday life as well: an autonomous guide for blind people, for instance, or a kitchen bot that helps disabled folks cook. Or — and this one is real — a rob … | Continue reading
The leaks just keep coming.The hackers responsible for the massive breach of HBO haven't let up, and reached out to Mashable to share their latest exploits. And while the latest data dump doesn't include any Game of Thrones spoilers, it definitely contains some information that t … | Continue reading
The world just got a sneak peek at a feature Facebook's working on to make its highly anticipated AR glasses a reality.According to a patent published Thursday, the device "may augment views of a physical, real-world environment with computer-generated elements" and may "be inclu … | Continue reading
Payroll-secured loans are a $40 billion a year business in Brazil, but that business largely happens offline. A startup in Y Combinator called bxblue wants to change that, by creating a marketplace for borrowers to evaluate multiple loan options all in one place. Read More | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingBannon Out: President Trump’s controversial populist adviser is leaving the administration in what the White House described as a mutual agreement, a departure that leaves Trump without key representatives of either the GOP establishment or the populist right … | Continue reading
Zac Carmi showed his 97-year-old grandfather his Tesla. His grandpa was pretty impressed. You can watch video of the adorable interaction below. In what could be some of the cutest footage of a lovable grandpa discovering the future ever, Carmi loads his grandpa into the car and … | Continue reading
You come home from work. It’s been a long day—you’re tired, you’re hungry, and of course, your phone has died. The last thing you want to do is go crawling on the floor, looking for the gosh-darn cord to plug your phone in. Enter the Qi Wireless Charging Pad. This slick device ju … | Continue reading
YouTube is usually one of the first places to look for breaking news, and now Google seems to be making that even easier by adding a “Breaking News” carousel to its mobile apps and homepage, as spotted by Android Police. The new section appears similar to a recommended channel on … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.If you live anywhere near a city, you've likely seen a skateboarder flying past uphill at breakneck speed. No, this is not magic—these skaters are riding an electric longboard. A … | Continue reading
The Mophie Powerstation 8x Battery Pack hold enough juice to recharge your smartphone 8 times, and it's thinner than your device too. | Continue reading
I've only spent a few hours with the Essential Phone and I can already unequivocally declare the screen awesome.I'm not going to repeat all of ways the phone's amazing or falls short (you can read my colleague Karissa Bell's review of the phone for that). Instead, I want to draw … | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin cash surged past $700 today. What's driving these leaps in the young cryptocurrency's appeal? | Continue reading
If you consider yourself a techie and somewhat active online, you probably have encountered them–discussions about tech. I’m in doubt whether to call them discussions, as they rarely are. They are often verbal assaults of tech-related opinions and preferences. Why? What can we do … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.You've probably had Microsoft Office on just about every computer you've ever owned. And so, you might think you know all there is to know. Except that's where you might be wrong … | Continue reading
A new report claims that people who pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 before it officially launches will get some nice free accessories. | Continue reading
Google’s research division today detailed just how easy it is for computer algorithms to bypass standard photo watermarking practices, stripping those images of copyright protection and making them vulnerable to reposting across the internet without credit. The research, presente … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Almost exactly ten years ago, the first-ever iPhone came into the world. And aside from, you know, revolutionizing communication—it caught on because it was so beautifully design … | Continue reading
Apple confirmed that the behavior that lets a $500 box ‘crack’ an iPhone 7 passcode will be patched out of the final version of iOS 11 that’s due this fall. It’s also patched under iOS 11 beta 4, if you’re running that. Read More | Continue reading
Silver Logic Labs (SLL) is in the people business. Technically, it’s an AI startup, but what it really does is figure out what people want. At first glance they’ve simply found a better way to do focus-groups, but after talking to CEO Jerimiah Hamon we’ve learned there’s nothing … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesPresident Trump fired Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart editor who helped fuel Trump's rise. Friends of the ousted White House chief strategist told The Atlantic he’s “going nuclear.” Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer reversed his position on taking down a statue … | Continue reading
HBO's app has set a new record and, of course, it's all because of Game of Thrones. The company's streaming app, HBO Now, has been the top-grossing app in the App Store for two days in a row now, beating out Netflix, Tinder, Candy Crush, and all the other apps that typically domi … | Continue reading
Crime Time™ is back at 8 p.m. Pacific tonight. That’s when the Games Industry Family Chicken Dinner Invitational Tournament returns to GamesBeat’s Twitch channel. Like last week, this is a silly night of custom PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds matches where folks that work in and ar … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Roofing may not be the sexiest thing to think about, but having a solid roof over your head is vital, especially in earthquake-prone places like San Francisco. Roofr, which will be graduating from Y Combinator (YC) next week, developed a satellite imagery software that … | Continue reading
What does a white-supremacist group need in order to exist? Willing members and charismatic promoters, to state the obvious. But it also, like any other organization these days, needs a website and a way to raise money online.It’s easy for anyone, from a mayoral candidate to a co … | Continue reading
NBC News’ first-ever daily show for Snapchat is seeing promising numbers after its first month on the air. In a release sent to reporters this morning, NBCU claims the show has grown its audience to over 29 million unique viewers. That’s roughly triple the number of viewers who … | Continue reading
[…]The post ProtonMail’s Encrypted Email Service Adds Bitcoin Payments appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
Despite clearance from the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month, Target has decided to terminate its relationship with beleaguered food startup Hampton Creek.Target pulled all 20 Hampton Creek products from its shelves two months ago, including its original “Just Mayo … | Continue reading
The Money Makers Club now has 6 of 15 available seats. Learn more here! Just like every romantic encounter can produce a child who grows into a billionaire or a janitor, every ICO is creating a company or product which must now navigate its way into the world. In this three-part … | Continue reading
Reinventing the email experience is an area numerous startups have tried to tackle over the years, with some apps focused more on triage, others on making a better desktop alternative to Outlook, and still more aiming to re-envision email as a mobile-first product, among other i … | Continue reading
The next time a video shows up at the top of your Google search results, it might start playing automatically — fortunately, with the sound muted.Google is beginning to add what it calls “video previews” to search results. They’ll start out on Android, where they’ll appear for se … | Continue reading
Google announced a major update to its mobile search results pages today. Whenever your query brings up a video, Google will now show you a silent six-second clip to help you decide if it’s actually a video you want to see.This will work for the vast majority of videos on the we … | Continue reading
Several major Hollywood studios are in talks with Apple and Comcast, according to a report from Bloomberg. The two forces could potentially create a premium rental service which would offer movies to consumers a scant two weeks after their debut in theaters. Needless to say, this … | Continue reading
Google is working on a way to allow readers to subscribe to news outlets inside of its ecosystem of Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, according to Bloomberg. The company will start testing the new feature with the New York Times and the Financial Times, but is reportedly in talks … | Continue reading
When President Trump assigned blame to “both sides” for the deadly violence in Charlottesville in remarks this week, he was met with condemnation from both sides of the aisle—and then from the other side of the Atlantic. Soon, leaders around the world began to take on the preside … | Continue reading
Prepare for an absolute sweetness overload as you watch this 97-year-old grandpa ride in a Tesla for the first time.His grandson told him about the car, but he could hardly fathom all the things the electric car was capable of doing. So they decided take a little joy ride to test … | Continue reading
Monday's solar eclipse will surely be an unforgettable sight for anyone bearing witness to it. And now, an app is aiming to bring the experience of the eclipse to people who can't necessarily see it in the sky.The app — developed by the Eclipse Soundscapes Project — is designed t … | Continue reading
Bitfinex, a Hong Kong based cryptocurrency exchange, has decided to halt verification requests from U.S. customers, citing a backlog of requests and problems providing USD deposits and withdrawals, according to an announcement on its website. The company noted it has been conside … | Continue reading
China’s new cyber-court in the city of Hangzhou will start hearing cases today that exclusively deal with e-commerce and internet-related cases, according to China Law Blog. The court will have the ability to handle all aspects of a case online from beginning to end.The court wil … | Continue reading
The first car from Henrik Fisker’s new electric vehicle company, the EMotion luxury sport sedan, will premiere at CES in January 2018. That’s according to Fisker himself, who shared the debut date with TheStreet on Friday. We already know what the EMotion looks like, as well as … | Continue reading
The Quebec head office for VICE, an edgy media outlet that was founded in Montreal, represents a return to roots for the company. | Continue reading
In firing Steve Bannon, President Trump has lost his chief ideologue, the man who channeled his base and advocated for the populist-nationalist policies that helped propel Trump to victory.But he has gained an unpredictable and potentially troublesome outside ally who has long ex … | Continue reading
Don’t MissAn Indelible Image From Trump’s ‘On Both Sides’ Press Conference—Megan Garber dives into what it meant when the chief executive chose his own words over the ones that had been prepared for him.Katie PosnerThe Business of CreativityThe Invisible Artists Behind Your Favor … | Continue reading