When you get a new smartphone, do you buy phone insurance? Or do you think it's a waste of money? Let us know in the latest Poll of the Week. | Continue reading
Amazon is shutting down its DVD rental service in the UK and Germany this fall. The service, Lovefilm, was acquired by Amazon in 2011, and does not operate anywhere else in the world, according to Variety.For a monthly subscription fee, Lovefilm users receive a DVD or Blu-ray dis … | Continue reading
TouchPoints is a pair of pulsating wearables that use stimulating vibrations to help diffuse stress.Bilateral Alternating Stimulation Tactile (BLAST) has been used in several studies to treat stress disorders. The stimulation prompts the brain to reassign its response to stress f … | Continue reading
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) wants to ensure your streaming video experience stays smooth. A research team led by MIT professor Mohammad Alizadeh has developed an artificial intelligence (dubbed ‘Pensieve’) that can select the best algorithms for … | Continue reading
A US-based money manager is seeking to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tied to the price of bitcoin. | Continue reading
Immotor Go is a portable electric scooter with a three-wheel design that makes it easy for anyone to ride. It can go as fast as 16 mph and can even carry your bags. But there are still a few kinks that needs to be worked on like the maneuvers and its ability to reverse. Read more … | Continue reading
This week in Game of Game of Thrones, your Thronesmaster had to Google “knuckle massages” and “carpal-tunnel risk factors.” What I’m saying is, too much is happening too quickly on this show, and I can barely write it all down without injuring myself. So let’s get right to it, an … | Continue reading
Canary, the maker of connected home security cameras, issued a firmware update today that it says will give users a more accurate look at what's happening in their home. The update will reportedly provide users with a more up-to-date stream. Until now, users experienced a five-se … | Continue reading
On Wednesday night ABC will be airing the CMA Music Festival, Nashville’s paean to the boot-scootin, honky-tonkin, hoedown throwdown music that the Grand Ole Opry helped build. As part of the celebrations, some of country music’s rising and established stars are going to be stre … | Continue reading
Auf Reddit ist zu lesen, dass das Galaxy Note 8 bereits am 24. August in den Handel kommen soll, nur einen Tag nach der offiziellen Vorstellung in New York. Aufgestellt hat die These ein Mitarbeiter von Best Buy, einer der großen Handelsketten... | Continue reading
If you’re planning on attending a Miami Heat game at the team’s home court American Airlines Arena this coming season, you’ll need to own a smartphone. The basketball team announced last week that it would be switching over to mobile-based tickets for entry at home games, becomin … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm, announced today a US$4 million commitment for Agilence Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based analytics for store operations and loss prevention. The new capital... | Continue reading
Fusion Guitars, a company that’s seeking to bring the humble electric guitar into the modern digital age, has launched its much-anticipated instrument to the public. The eponymously named Fusion Guitar is a normal electric guitar in just about every sense, except it comes with a … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by Intel Among the pantheon of video game superstars, Cliff Bleszinski, founder of Boss Key Productions and former Creative Director at Epic Games, holds a unique position. Still only 42 years old, he has racked up a resume the envy of many, with multi-millio … | Continue reading
With digital tools, it is easier than ever to create, edit, and publish your work to the world. But there’s a cost. It’s also easier than ever to spread misinformation. And fake news has become a real issue in recent times. | Continue reading
No, code is not law. But if the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's new members have anything to say about it, that might someday change. | Continue reading
Attention nonprofits and NGOs! Apply to showcase in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF on Wednesday, September 20th. Applications are open from now till August 21st. Read More | Continue reading
In Zeiten, in denen Männer heute mindestens genauso viel Zeit im Bad verbringen wie ihre Frauen, ist dieses Designkonzept des koreanischen Designers Yu Seo-joung eine Erwähnung wert. Er hat einen Haartrockner/Fön entwickelt, der die Gestaltungssprache... | Continue reading
The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Sunday, August 13, 2017. The battle for the center screen — Facebook Watch, Disney v Netflix, Twitter turns the tables on cable news. 2 weeks ago: G3: Care Bares recorded … | Continue reading
Didier Hilhorst is a director of design at Uber. In this episode, he shares how his graduate degree in economics helped mold him as a designer and, in turn, shape how he and his team redesigned Uber from the ground up. It’s not every day economics and design overlap with one ano … | Continue reading
Serverless applications are all the rage right now — and some companies are even leapfrogging containers to go all-in on services like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. Unsurprisingly, these services are now spawning their own startup ecosystems. IOpipe, coming out of beta today, … | Continue reading
REVIEW: After years of disappointments, with only a few decent games offering a small reprieve from an onslaught of garbage, the Sonic series has its first great entry in years. Sonic Mania, which comes out on August 15 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch (the PC version foll … | Continue reading
The hedgehog finds new life going back to his roots Continue reading… | Continue reading
If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them . — Yogi Berra Because email marketing li... | Continue reading
At 8:00 a.m. on Monday, CEO of Merck pharmaceuticals Kenneth Frazier announced his resignation of his position on the president’s Manufacturing Jobs Initiative, a group of business leaders initially assembled by the White House in January.Frazier explained his decision as a direc … | Continue reading
Pretty soon, you might be able to tell when a YouTube video is in the process of going viral. As spotted by Android Police, YouTube appears to be testing a new feature that will display concurrent viewer counts, giving you an insight on how many people are watching the same video … | Continue reading
Amazon wants a slice of the event ticketing market and there’s only one firm standing in the way. Here we look at how that will affect the event industry. Online retail giant Amazon is in talks with US venues in an attempt to take on the world of event ticketing. Ultimately, this … | Continue reading
Tesla is now taking its solar-powered ambitions on the road in Australia, showing off its energy products in the form of a fully-functional miniature house on wheels in a series of tour stops around the country. The Tesla Tiny House is outfitted with a system of six solar panels … | Continue reading
A report published over the weekend suggests that the Lenovo Moto Z2 Force may house a similar screen concern as the OnePlus 5. | Continue reading
Companies looking to move their applications to the public cloud have an easier path to Amazon Web Services’ data centers. The cloud provider launched a new Migration Hub today that’s designed to help businesses more easily track their moves. The hub is a web-based portal that le … | Continue reading
Just when you think everyone's fled Snapchat for Instagram, the app goes and adds the best face lens of all time: friggin' Pikachu.That's right, everyone's favorite electric mouse Pokémon is now a Snapchat lens... at least, for a limited time.SEE ALSO: Congrats world, you watched … | Continue reading
Poncho, the betaworks-backed weather service, has raised $2.4 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Ventures. Poncho launched out of betaworks the same year as Giphy and Dots, and uses SMS and email to bring the news to you in an entertaining way. The premise is simple. Inst … | Continue reading
It's been several weeks since hackers successfully breached HBO, and the network is still facing leaks from the 1.5 terabytes of data that was obtained.While several upcoming episodes of television series — including Game of Thrones — and at least one script have been released on … | Continue reading
The DeLorean name is iconic thanks largely to Back to the Future, in which one of the original automaker’s cars was turned into a time machine by ‘Doc’ Emmett Brown. Now, the original DeLorean founder’s nephew is working on making flying cars a reality, with his own aerospace co … | Continue reading
LaserSnake2 is an extendable robot that uses a high-powered laser to dismantle radioactive structures in nuclear facilities. Read more...More about Tech, Science, Mashable Video, Robot, and Laser | Continue reading
Cities in Europe face challenges with traffic and pollution and so on. These challenges make it harder to live in the cities. Policymakers are searching for answers to the question what creates a vital urban life? EIT Digital finds this an... | Continue reading
Urban service providers get lots of data from various sources. The problem is that these data have been designed independently of one another. So, urban service providers need a way to open up, analyse and exploit all these scattered urban data. The... | Continue reading
The EIT Digital Doctoral School offers an Industrial Doctorate position to foster Autonomous Driving. The doctoral candidate will seek to apply Artificial Intelligence techniques to advance the deployment of Autonomous Driving with the support of... | Continue reading
Amazon is getting out of the DVD rental business with the closure of Lovefilm, the so-called “Netflix of Europe” that Amazon bought in 2011 for a reported $312 million valuation. The company, which operates in the U.K. and Germany, is a subscription service that lets consumers r … | Continue reading
Pokémon is making an entrance into the Snapchat game in the form of a filter with a familiar mascot. If you boot up the app right now, you can add Pikachu’s yellow ears, nose, and dotted cheeks to your otherwise boring face. Like Snapchat’s best filters, the Pikachu mask is a cut … | Continue reading
Cars as we know them will not exist anymore in the near future. Instead we will see vehicles becoming part of a complex interconnected world. EIT Digital is committed to leverage the potentials of the future 5G network to accelerate the transition... | Continue reading
The millennial generation is the first to spend more time on social media than on traditional media channels such as television or the radio. This generation of young and tech-savvy consumers engages with social media...read moreThe post 3 Ways Brands Can Target Millennials on In … | Continue reading
To better understand how to effectively target millennials on Instagram, here are three useful tips that marketers can use to get their attention. | Continue reading
When Apple's executives get on stage next month to unveil the next iPhone, we'll already know almost everything there is to know because, well, they screwed up and leaked the most important details themselves.The new iPhone will probably have an new OLED edge-to-edge screen, no p … | Continue reading
Uber is bringing its in-app tipping option to the UK, TechCrunch reports. Starting this week, riders will be given the option to tip their drivers (or UberEats couriers) in the app at the end of the trip. This both preserves Uber’s cashless philosophy, while also blunting critici … | Continue reading
If you’re too lazy to type, Google’s speech-to-text recognition has added another 21 languages today. That brings support to 119 language varieties for users who want to dictate a message to their phone, which Google claims is three times faster than typing. The 21 languages adde … | Continue reading
After the “dragon-induced Armageddon” of last week’s Game of Thrones episode, “The Spoils of War,” it was inevitable that the follow-up was going to be comparatively smaller and more down to earth. Apart from a big raven flyby that had Bran Stark checking in on the Night King and … | Continue reading
Google finally appears to be giving Calendar a facelift – and a whole new user interface. Redditors are rushing to the Google and Android subreddits to report that the Big G is currently testing a new and improved visual identity for the desktop version of Calendar. The new desig … | Continue reading