coworking spaces in cities around the world. Holders of their digital token, ParagonCoin, will be able to vote on where the coworking spaces will be constructed. In addition to voting rights, ParagonCoin can be used to pay for goods and services in the coworking spaces — anything … | Continue reading
Intel’s CEO is the latest executive to leave one of Trump’s advisory councils in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, which many felt was inadequately addressed by the president and his administration. Read More | Continue reading
Key Points Bitcoin cash price continued to move down and currently trading below the $320 level against the US Dollar. There is a crucial descending channel pattern with resistance at $315 forming on the hourly chart of BCH/USD (data feed from Kraken). The price may extend its de … | Continue reading
Intel isn’t going to take its time responding in its CPU battle with AMD. The company revealed today in a short notice on its website that it is preparing Ice Lake, which is the next platform for its Core processors. Ice Lake will use a manufacturing method that will produce smal … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price seems unstoppable in its rally as it sets it sights on new highs closer to the $4850 mark.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 08/15/2017 – More Upside Targets appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
SpaceX launches and recovers another rocket, GoDaddy tells Daily Stormer to find a new domain provider, Amazon refunds fake eclipse glasses and OpenAI bot beats masters of Dota 2. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Indie action role-playing game Songbringer is on-trend with its pixel art, procedural generation, and a protagonist with a mysterious past. It’s a sci-fi adventure with swords and robots, and it’ll be available on Xbox and PC on September 1 and on PlayStation 4 on September 5. Na … | Continue reading
Kevin Plank, the founder and chief executive of Under Armour, is the latest high profile leader of a major American company to leave President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council. In a statement tweeted out late on Monday, Plank wrote in his statement, “Under Armour en … | Continue reading
Chances are, approximately one out of ten of you reading this sentence have or are currently experiencing some form of an anxiety disorder. As defined by the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety is a disorder where anxiousness doesn’t go away, eventually growing to affect … | Continue reading
The white nationalist leaders who helped organize a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia two days ago that turned bloody gave a press conference in Virginia in which they refused to condemn the man suspected of driving his car into a crowd of protesters and dismissed President Tr … | Continue reading
MobileGo tumbled against bitcoin and ethereum as these managed to take the lion's share of the cryptocurrency rebound. | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin passed $4,400 for the first time on August 14, a move that helped bring the total value of the crypto market above $140 billion. | Continue reading
A blog post attacking a victim of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend was shared more than 65,000 times on Facebook — but those posts are disappearing. The company said today that links to the post on the Daily Stormer website violated its community … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Stop letting fraudulent bots burn through your budget — and start maximizing the power of mobile advertising with must-click messaging. Join our latest VB Live event for an in-depth look at how to stay in front of your audience, ahead of your competitors, and on top of f … | Continue reading
Blizzard Entertainment’s meandering approach to rebranding its well-known Battle.net service has taken another turn, as the company now plans to revive the name and attach the word “Blizzard” to it. Yes, that’s right — the game company’s storied online platform and storefront sha … | Continue reading
GUEST: Ralph Nader once said: “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” The problem is, this is easier said than done. Effective leaders inspire teams to collaborate in decision-making. This means choosing the best courses of action and integrat … | Continue reading
Indie studio Critical Force is declaring mission success. Its mobile first-person shooter Critical Ops reached 25 million downloads in two years and boasts 860,000 daily active players. Critical Ops features FPS gameplay similar to Counter-Strike, and it’s available on Android an … | Continue reading
OPINION: President Trump today belatedly offered a direct condemnation of white supremacists and Nazis following the eruption of violence at a Charlottesville protest and subsequent murder of a counter protestor. OK, fine. But what about the tech industry? Once, there was a utopi … | Continue reading
Last year Blizzard made what I felt was a huge mistake in scrapping the Battle.net brand, which gamers have associated with properties like StarCraft and Diablo for decades. The company has now reversed that decision, in what can only be a humble acknowledgment of my wisdom in t … | Continue reading
Apple has been making all sorts of tiny changes to its app icons in the iOS 11 beta. And today, it made two of the most interesting changes yet: one to Maps, and one to the App Store.The Maps change is a bit more fun (you can see the difference above via iCulture). The icon has, … | Continue reading
After years of featuring the same design, Google Calendar's desktop client will finally get updated to adhere to Material Design guidelines. | Continue reading
Now, first of all, Kroger is a Cincinnati-based company not a Seattle-based company, so it is only natural that I should hear more about the things Amazon is experimenting with than those of Kroger, owners of a portfolio of grocery … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Those who work in artificial intelligence must laugh at the mistakes journalists all make (including yours truly) when we write about their field. We assume the worst; we call their subroutines in machine learning dangerous and even globally cataclysmic. Meanwhile, the actual pro … | Continue reading
DJI is working on a “local data mode” for its apps that prevents any data from being sent to or received from the internet. The feature will be welcomed by many, but it’s hard not to attribute the timing and urgency of the announcement to the recent ban of DJI gear by the U.S. A … | Continue reading
A Judge today ruled that an analytics company has the right to scrape data from LinkedIn (LI). HiQ, the data gatherer, has been processing publicly available data from LI and using it to train AI models, until May when LI demanded they stop. Scraping is a data-gathering process t … | Continue reading
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Facebook Messenger uses an AI assistant called 'M' to suggest Uber rides and remind you to pay a friend back. But M now has a new task — to suggest what music you should listen to on Spotify. SEE ALSO: Spotify Is Watching YouM will step in with the suggestions when you mention re … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingWhat Happened in Charlottesville: Over the weekend, clashes between protesters at a white supremacist rally turned deadly: A man drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 other people, and two state troopers died in a … | Continue reading
Google Contacts used to be exclusive to Nexus, Pixel, and Android One devices. But Google is making it available for anyone with an Android starting now.SEE ALSO: GBoard now supports YouTube and Google Maps for faster textingYour smartphone just has to be running Android 5.0 Lol … | Continue reading
Google announced today its adding 30 new languages to voice typing in its popular keyboard app, Gboard.Now, people who speak Gujarati (India) or Nepali (Nepal) can simply talk directly to their phone rather than having to type as long as Gboard is set as the phone's default keybo … | Continue reading
Battle.net is back. Sure, it never really went anywhere after Blizzard announced its plans to shift to the “Blizzard app” branding. Fans and even some Blizzard executives continued to call the online server for games like World of Warcraft and Hearthstone by its original label. N … | Continue reading
GameStop has announced that all of its US retail locations will have Nintendo’s Switch console available in stores this week. Now, when I say “this week,” the on-sale will begin tomorrow, August 15th, when your local GameStop opens, and I can’t imagine this restock lasting very l … | Continue reading
Gamer voice and chat app Discord today announced it has shut down a server for altright.com, another associated with The Daily Stormer, and removed a number of groups and accounts associated with violence that took place this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one dea … | Continue reading
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky reaffirmed his company’s decision to ban white supremacists and other proponents of Nazi ideology from his company’s service following the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend. “The violence, racism and hatred demonstrated by neo-Nazis, … | Continue reading
Pandora today appointed Roger Lynch, founder and CEO of Sling TV, as its new CEO and a member of its board. The news prompted Pandora shares to rise 2.85 percent in after-hours trading. Lynch will replace interim CEO Naveen Chopra, who will continue to serve as CFO. Pandora also … | Continue reading
Racists will have to find a new place to talk online. Popular voice and text chat app Discord shut down the alt-right server and banned accounts associated with the events in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend.Discord announced on Twitter today that it shut down a chat server … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesPresident Trump specifically denounced “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups” for inciting violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend—two days after he gave a statement condemning violence “on many sides.” Trump attacked Kenne … | Continue reading
Another San Francisco financial tech company is expanding operations into Utah, looking to add 500 jobs with a capital investment of $5.6 million. Earnest Inc., a startup that offers low-interest, no-fee loans using its software to analyze applicants’ creditworthiness, will expan … | Continue reading
Popular voice chat platform Discord has shut down several servers and accounts associated with the alt-right for violations of the terms of service. The company announced the enforcement action on Twitter, emphasizing that it will “continue to take action against white supremacy … | Continue reading
California already has some of the most generous incentives to get an electric car, but people living in San Diego are being further enticed to go the plug-in route. Through September 30th, San Diego Gas & Electric will offer its utility customers $10,000 toward a BMW i3 or Nissa … | Continue reading
A Samsung Galaxy S5 allegedly fell from a plane and miraculously survived after landing in someone’s yard. It also happened to record the whole thing and was returned to its owner, Blake Henderson, with the hilarious footage inside.The 11-minute video posted on YouTube by the pho … | Continue reading
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On Friday, GamesBeat held its first PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Family Chicken Dinner night. For hours, game developers and designers, composers, writers, and other media personalities came together to fight over a few measly drumsticks and a breast piece. It was a blast, and w … | Continue reading
Trying on a pair of jeans in a store’s changing room the other day, I overheard another shopper ask the assistant, “does it look OK?” I’ve no idea what the person was buying but I know the question was directed at a sales assistant because the answer she got was: “Yeah, great; y … | Continue reading
We heard earlier this month that the next Apple Watch would be available in an LTE version. Now, it seems, Apple will make two models of the watch: one with LTE and one without. The company also likely won't iterate on design much with its form factor remaining largely similar to … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin has gained the distinction of being called “digital gold”. The label, befitting the virtual currency is drawn following its comparison with the yellow metal which has remained as a store of value and medium of exchange for centuries. However, … | Continue reading
Four years ago today, the Arab Spring—or what was left of it—ended with a massacre. There were only two countries with largely peaceful democratic transitions. One of them was Tunisia; one of them was Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation and a bellwether for the region. O … | Continue reading