When the Curiosity rover studies soil on Mars, it does it with a little shimmy. Its robotic arm collects a pinch of soil and drops it into the sample-analysis unit in the robot’s belly. The unit vibrates at different frequencies, shaking the powdery sample so it settles down into … | Continue reading
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And so we are done with another day in our bitcoin price trading efforts, meaning it’s time to take a look at how action matured throughout the European session today and use this action to put forward a strategy with which we can carry forward into the US session this evening. W … | Continue reading
The ZenFone 4 boasts a wide-angle dual-lens camera on the back whereas the ZenFone 4 Selfie duo gets two front-facing cameras for perfect selfies. | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Last month, San Francisco-based indoor farming startup Plenty scored a win for the California ag tech scene when it secured a $200 million investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, one of the largest rounds ever for an ag tech startup. With $2 billion invested in Californ … | Continue reading
Beoplay often delights us with unique colors for its products, like its tangerine-colored H4 headphones. And today, the company announced that in honor of the fall equinox, it'll be releasing some headphones and portable speakers in various moody new shades. Who doesn't commemora … | Continue reading
Uber's co-founder, first CEO, and current head of operations, Ryan Graves, is stepping aside from day-to-day activities at the company to become director of Uber’s board, according to a company-wide email that just went out. “In the past 7.5 years of building Uber, I’ve learned s … | Continue reading
A price increase is on the way for Canadian Netflix users, with new users facing the charges immediately. CBC News reports that the service’s basic and standard plans will both now cost a dollar more ($8.99 and $10.99, respectively) while premium users should expect a two-dollar … | Continue reading
Wisconsin’s plan to treat Foxconn to $3 billion in tax breaks in exchange for a $10 billion factory is looking less and less like a good deal for the state. In a report issued this week, Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau said that the state wouldn’t break even on its investme … | Continue reading
Uber SVP of Global Operations will be leaving that full-time senior leadership role in the middle of September to “focus” on his role as a director of Uber’s board. Graves, who acted as Uber’s CEO from early 2010 until founder Travis Kalanick took over the position at the end of … | Continue reading
SoundCloud will soon collapse if investors don’t vote for a rescue funding round tomorrow. The stumbling music streaming community site had to suddenly lay off 40% of its staff last month. Now it’s asking investors for $169.5 million at a pre-money enterprise valuation of just $ … | Continue reading
Wharton School professor and author Adam Grant argues that kids are too often sheltered from struggle. In this short interview at the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival, Grant recommends that parents seek advice from their children so that they can practice responding to adversity. | Continue reading
Über diverse Webseiten ging heute, ausgehend von einer etwas verfrühten Produktbeschreibung auf Ikeas TRÅDFRI Seiten, die Info rum, dass mit einer neuen Firmware die TRÅDFRI Lampenserie nun, wie vor einer Weile schon angekündigt,... | Continue reading
The Russian Ministry of Health is working with one of the country's state-owned banks to explore possible uses of blockchain. | Continue reading
2016 was a stormy, sweltering, and altogether exceptional year for Earth’s climate system, breaking dozens of records across every type of environment before ultimately ranking as the hottest year ever measured, according to a new report from the U.S. government released on Thurs … | Continue reading
Enlarge the informative infographic below by clicking on it. Most small businesses invest more time on Facebook than they do on LinkedIn – in fact, much more. In an earlier article I shared some insights about why Facebook may not be the best place to focus your social marketing … | Continue reading
Microsoft is officially launching its Xbox Live Creators Program today, to let developers directly publish games to the Xbox One or Windows 10 PCs. The first games are available today from a special section in the Xbox Store named “Creators collection.” Only nine games are availa … | Continue reading
Kids who grow up in homes with cats are much less likely to have behavioral issues than kids who grow up in homes without cats.This is according to a divisive statistical analysis thrust upon the world this week by scientists at the Rand corporation. Pro-pet research findings lik … | Continue reading
Facebook malware is nothing new, but an emerging threat offers some unique karmic retribution. In an unpublished report, security researchers at Sydney-based LMNTRIX Labs have identified software advertising itself as a Facebook password stealer that injects malicious code in th … | Continue reading
The UK is so into football/soccer that a British indie developer recently released a game inspired by the fact that it’s impossible to escape football/soccer. You would think, then, that it’d be the perfect market for the latest ridiculous PS4 controller cooked up somewhere in So … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies are back. But did they ever go away? If you ask cryptocurrency advocates, they’re going to tell you that it’s been a slow and steady rise filled with initial coin offerings, forks and updates. That’s why we’re excited to welcome Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buter … | Continue reading
The luxury smartphone brand that went belly up is auctioning off its back catalog of phones with bids starting at a whopping $26,000. | Continue reading
Amazon is facing a lawsuit from two former employees that alleges the company harassed them and threatened them physically. The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) filed the lawsuit on behalf of the couple, Allegra Schawe-Lane and Dane Lane. Read More | Continue reading
If a presidential election were held today, President Trump’s approval ratings suggest he would be in deep trouble. The good news for Trump is he doesn’t have to face voters again until 2020 (though the fate of his Republican allies in 2018 is a different question). But what if h … | Continue reading
The ascendance of the so-called “hard right” in the US and the Trump administration’s work to protect its power means it’s unlikely the movement will be beaten by Democrats or left leaning parties at this point. The power of the hard right in red-states has become institutionali … | Continue reading
Every week we hold a TNW Answers AMA session to offer readers a chance to address their questions about the future of technology to the world’s most influential minds. This week we had the pleasure to host none other than entrepreneur and The Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde. Durin … | Continue reading
Coinbase has had a pretty crazy six months. It may be hard to remember, but at the beginning of 2017 the cryptocurrency world was a different place. Bitcoin was below $1000 per coin and the entire market cap for all cryptocurrencies was about 7x less than it is today. Since then … | Continue reading
Get ready for more BuzzFeed-branded products. The company has hired Eric Karp, previously the general manager of licensing at Crayola, as its first head of licensing. Karp will be working with outside partners to develop new products around BuzzFeed brands. BuzzFeed has already … | Continue reading
Lyft today announced the acqui-hire of startups DataScore and YesGraph to fuel its continued pace of growth and better serve drivers. About 25 people from both companies will join Lyft, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat. As part of the deal, Lyft will also acquire YesGraph’ … | Continue reading
Ride hailing company Lyft has acquired two companies focused on growth, including customer acquisition, retention, referral programs and more. The companies being acquired are YesGraph, whose team and talent will join Lyft, and DataScore, whose growth team is coming over to the … | Continue reading
Discord wants to destroy its biggest, best-funded competitor in the battle to be the communications layer for gaming. It wants to be the home for gamer clans strategizing and trash talking with each other. After out-gunning its gaming-specific competitors like TeamSpeak, Mumble, … | Continue reading
Discord has begun testing video chat and screen sharing — two of the most-requested features from its audience of free voice and text chat users — for about 5 percent of its users. That’s a big deal, as Discord has (at least) 45 million users for its game voice and text chat plat … | Continue reading
Coinbase has closed what is likely the largest-ever funding round by a startup building on a public blockchain and providing cryptocurrency services. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Vyze, which offers retailers a platform to connect with various lenders to increase credit approval, announced today funding of $13.1 million in a round led by Austin Ventures. New investor Fathom Capital and returning investor Starvest Partners also joined. “50 percen … | Continue reading
The wings of the peppered moth are usually white with black speckles—a pattern that renders them invisible against the bark of a typical tree. But in the early 19th century, the trunks of English trees became jacketed in soot, which was belched forth from coal-fired factories. Ag … | Continue reading
The Surface line has been a surprising hit for Microsoft in recent years. What many regarded as little more than proof of concept for Windows 10 has become a leader in the two-in-one tablet category in its own right. But according to a new survey conducting by Consumer Reports, … | Continue reading
Following the Galaxy A7 (2017), its smaller sibling the Galaxy A5 (2017) has also started receiving the much-anticipated Nougat update. | Continue reading
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betaworks, the startup studio responsible for companies like Giphy, TweetDeck, and Dots, is today formally announcing the launch of a $50 million early-stage fund called betaworks ventures. betaworks ventures has actually been active in the market for the last year, though opera … | Continue reading
LG hat jetzt bestätigt, was wir schon durch Leaks erfahren hatten: das LG V30 wird ein Kameramonster. Zumindest auf dem Papier. Die Dualkamera soll wie vermutet mit einer f/1.6 Blende ausgestattet sein und damit 25 Prozent mehr Licht einfangen... | Continue reading
It’s clear that voice is becoming a major interface, as we witness the rise of the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Siri, Cortana and their ilk. We’re also seeing an increasing use of chat bots and other voice-driven tools, which often require speech recognition with a very specific vo … | Continue reading
Great project managers are just like Liam Neeson in “Taken.” They have a particular set of skills, which allow businesses to feel comfortable entrusting them with carrying major corporate projects from conception through to successful completion. You can start learning those part … | Continue reading
Somewhere deep in Apple's new spaceship campus, CEO Tim Cook and chief design officer Jony Ive are cursing out the world as fanatic developers continue unearthing clues about the unreleased iPhone 8 from a recent software leak.The latest discovery: The iPhone 8 might have a resiz … | Continue reading
Getting picked up by your Uber driver is about to get a lot easier. The ridesharing company is rolling out a new in-app messaging feature that lets you communicate directly with your driver. When a passenger messages a driver, they’ll see their license plate number, car model, an … | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft talk a big game about the end of personal car ownership, but they’ve always lacked hard evidence to back up their claims. Now a new study has been released that lends some credibility to their futuristic predictions.The study, compiled by the University of Michigan … | Continue reading
The next part of Tesla's future will be fueled by debt. Elon Musk's automaker is issuing $1.5 billion in debt to fund its plans. That means that instead of raising funding from investors, the company will offer $1.5 billion of debt a a form of capital. It's a new move for Tesla, … | Continue reading