Russia's National Settlement Depository is developing a blockchain platform to provide deposit and settlement service for digital assets. | Continue reading
This week: Facebook has some new announcements, Amazon makes a big change for third-party sellers, and some folks learned how to game the Google AdSense system. Here’s what happened this week in digital marketing. Amazon Will Require 3rd-Party Sellers to Accept Automatic Returns … | Continue reading
OPINION: Facebook this week announced Watch, a new tab dedicated to watching (oh, my, how clever) shows on the social network. This isn’t the first time the company has attempted to take on traditional television, Netflix, and YouTube. But this time, I’m genuinely excited about t … | Continue reading
From Uber’s former CEO Travis Kalanick getting sued by his company’s lynchpin investors at Benchmark to Google’s struggles with a recently fired employee over a gender diversity screed that went viral, it’s been a wild week in tech. Meanwhile, Snap and Blue Apron both reported d … | Continue reading
Esports is becoming a true spectator sport, but will the average Joe one day care about competitive League of Legends or Overwatch or Counterstrike the way they care about watching football on Sundays? A number of factors are at play for esports to garner the same level of popul … | Continue reading
Google is running a promotion dubbed “Daydream Summer Sale,” and you can get popular VR titles for up to 60 percent off until August 17. | Continue reading
A trip through Geirangerfjord in Norway, an earthquake in China, a submerged monastery in Russia, contentious elections in Kenya, the crowning of King Puck in Ireland, and much more. | Continue reading
Razer recently introduced a gaming mouse that's a nearly perfect competitor to my favorite mouse of all time, Logitech's G900. The Razer Lancehead is a high-end, ambidextrous wireless gaming mouse, with the option to seamlessly switch to wired. Also, Razer made a whole video comp … | Continue reading
The latest update for No Man’s Sky was unveiled today, and the much-maligned game is finally taking the form it was supposed to have on release. According to the update notes, released today, the “Atlas Rises” update will have co-op play, improved graphics, interface tweaks, terr … | Continue reading
Hey startups! Disrupt San Francisco (September 18-20) is just a few weeks away and registration is open for startups looking to showcase their product or company to thousands of people on the Disrupt floor. Read More | Continue reading
If you enjoy wasting time on the internet, you're probably going to love Memeois, the new iOS app made solely to deliver you the hottest new memes.SEE ALSO: 4chan hackers take over city billboard to broadcast hate memesThe app was made by 17-year-old Anushk Mittal and is free for … | Continue reading
The company launched a Kickstarter last year with the promise of “streaming music without your phone,” delivering the still-tangible benefits of devoted music hardware for the Spotify generation. The startup built up enough excitement to hit $300k on the crowdfunding site, and t … | Continue reading
A year ago, Colin Kaepernick—as an injured San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback during an exhibition game—began his practice of sitting during the pregame rendition of the national anthem. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black pe … | Continue reading
President Trump is most comfortable when he’s on the verbal offensive. He loves a good war of words, whether his target is a foreign adversary, a foreign ally, a Republican rival, or Rosie O’Donnell. According to a New York Times tally, Trump has attacked 351 separate people, pla … | Continue reading
Motorola's Moto X line is back. Android Authority reports today that the lineup, which hasn't seen a new phone since 2015, will definitely be updated this year with a new device called the Moto X4. We thought this might be the case when a photo leaked last month. Android Authorit … | Continue reading
Netflix is still in active talks with Marvel over potentially retaining streaming rights to Marvel and Star Wars movies after 2019, which is the date Disney has set for when it’ll remove Disney and Pixar movies from the subscription service in favor of its own in-house Disney st … | Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we delved into Hearthstone’s new expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne. Also, Overwatch is getting Deathmatch modes, and we announced some exciting speakers for our GamesBeat 2017 conference. Enjoy, and have a g … | Continue reading
If you’ve been hearing or reading a lot about blockchain but you still aren’t entirely certain how to define it, you’re not alone. It’s something that Jack Dorsey, the chief executive officer and chairman of Square (and CEO of Twitter), describes as the “next big unlock,” somethi … | Continue reading
You can now download the beta version of Xiaomi's latest UI, based on Android Nougat, on three of its major handsets. | Continue reading
Budweiser and tuba in Guam It takes a lot for people on Guam to get collectively riled up. After all, the chill, can’t-be-bothered islander is a stereotype with good reason. But with the repeated threat of missile strikes against my tiny, Pacific home this week, people all over G … | Continue reading
Asus accidentally pushed new phone listings live on its French website this week, thereby leaking its own products. That's a bummer for the company, but good news for those of us who hate surprises. The leaks include the ZenFone 4, the ZenFone 4 Selfie, the ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro, … | Continue reading
Today’s episode is going to give you gear barn envy and for your Type A people, you will love how Jeff Thompson packs his summer backpack. | Continue reading
SoundCloud today announced that it has closed the investor round necessary to keep it going for the foreseeable future. As part of the agreement, Alex Ljung will step aside and former Vimeo leader Kerry Trainor will become SoundCloud’s new CEO, with Mike Weissman as COO. Ljung wi … | Continue reading
It’s been a busy week for streaming services, and Amazon is closing things out with a huge announcement: the company has closed an overall deal with The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, along with signing a first-look agreement for his production company Skybound Entertainmen … | Continue reading
“Our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned,” presidential adviser Stephen Miller told the nation on February 13.Rarely h … | Continue reading
This week on The Vergecast, Nilay, Lauren, Dieter, and Paul begin by discussing the controversy over the Google engineer who was fired over writing a 10-page viral memo about diversity. The story illustrates a deeper problem in Silicon Valley, which Lauren has discussed in her po … | Continue reading
Snap was hailed as the next Facebook. It is starting to look like the next Twitter.Alright, perhaps that’s unfair. But in its latest earnings report, Snap (formerly Snapchat, which remains the name of the company’s app) announced some awfully Twitterish news. User growth has decl … | Continue reading
It took President Donald Trump more than 10 days to comment on Russia’s expulsion of 755 personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and when he did Thursday, he said: “I want to thank him [Russian President Vladimir Putin] because we’re trying to cut down on payroll, and as far a … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.These JBL Flip 3 speakers were made to withstand all of your activities – in all kinds of weather. Whether you’re just hanging in your living room or taking a swim by the pool, t … | Continue reading
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I match the profile of perhaps Dave Meyers’s most notorious type of fan.As the director began making regular appearances on MTV’s Making the Video in the early 2000s, I hit puberty, and set about adjusting my tastes to the pop-culture sights and sounds available to me. Meyers is, … | Continue reading
Netflix is trying to keep Marvel and Star Wars movies on its service after its distribution deal with Disney ends in 2019. Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos told Reuters that the company was “still in active discussions” with Disney to hold on to the rights to stream c … | Continue reading
So that is another week pretty much done for our bitcoin price trading efforts and we’ve managed to close out the week on a pretty positive note. For anybody that caught this morning’s analysis, our efforts throughout the day to do just that won’t come as anything of a surprise. … | Continue reading
In an effort to make the batteries that power wearables and medical devices safer, scientists have developed new flexible batteries that can run on saltwater — and maybe one day blood, sweat, or tears. The lightweight batteries, described in a paper published this week in the jou … | Continue reading
SoundCloud has just closed the necessary funding round to keep the struggling music service afloat. CEO Alex Ljung will step aside though remain chairman as former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor replaces him. Mike Weissman will become COO as co-founder and CTO Eric Wahlforss becomes ch … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Benchmark, the powerful venture firm and a major Uber shareholder, filed a lawsuit against recently the company’s recently ousted CEO Travis Kalanick in a remarkable move. The suit seeks to remove Kalanick from the board, while eliminating three additional board posit … | Continue reading
PureVPN is a 4.5/5 star reviewed private browsing suite for your computer and smartphone, and thanks to this 1-day flash sale, you can get 86% off. | Continue reading
A third-party hardware developer filed a lawsuit against Nintendo this week, alleging that the Nintendo Switch's detachable Joy-Con controllers infringe on its patents.Gamevice filed a complaint for patent infringement against Nintendo with the U.S. District Court for the Central … | Continue reading
Speedtest has long been the go-to for measuring internet speed, and now it’s launched the Speedtest Global Index, a monthly global ranking that allows you to see how your country stacks up when it comes to internet speed.The Global Index compiles data from the billions of tests c … | Continue reading
Lunedì 14 Agosto 2017, le sedi municipali resteranno chiuse. Per eventuali esigenze di servizio si potrà fare riferimento al Centro Servizi al Cittadino di via del Municipio 3 (0743.218197) che saraà regolarmente aperto al pubblico. | Continue reading
Scattered around a meeting room in groups of three or four, 13 women bent over laptop computers and smartphones, squinting at Colorado’s hundreds of child-care regulations.They were child-care and preschool employees from all over Denver on a scavenger hunt of sorts, searching fo … | Continue reading
The philosopher George Berkeley (after whom the California city is named) thought tar water could cure every ill. Famine and disease ... | Continue reading
Washington, D.C. (August 11, 2017)— The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute will present Washington Ideas, the annual must-attend event bringing the most consequential people and issues to Washington’s Penn Quarter, this year taking place from September 26-28. Building on nearly a d … | Continue reading
Into the Wild is an über-modern residential project on 2.3 acres of undeveloped land in the heart of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. | Continue reading
Sleeperbot, which has raised about $2M in seed funding from Birchmere VC and Expa, and boasts hundreds of thousands of users, calls itself Slack for sports.It’s essentially an app (and website) that lets sports fans have conversations around different subjects they’re passionate … | Continue reading
Does your brand have any registered, copyrighted or trademarked terms? If so, you should absolutely include the symbol in your text ads for improved performance. Yes! These little guys: ® © ™ This is not a new tactic in PPC ads by any means, but so many businesses aren’t taking a … | Continue reading
Google is going through the throes of a diversity controversy over its firing of James Damore, the white man who wrote a diversity memo that created a firestorm and got him fired from his job at Google. It isn’t clear where this imbroglio will lead, but we should recognize that w … | Continue reading
Empathy is one of the greatest gifts a journalist can have. If you come by it naturally, you can actually feel what your subject is feeling, and that can be a painful burden sometimes. But even if you have to develop the empathetic wavelength, it not only makes the person you’re … | Continue reading