Here are two videos that consider why we need to start taking digital sabbaths and remember what it is to be bored again. | Continue reading
San Francisco-based startup Protocol Labs has sold $52 million in a token pre-sale ahead of an initial coin offering launch next week. | Continue reading
In the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967, Detroit police raided an unlicensed social club, or “blind pig,” on the city’s Near West Side. The all-black clientele, who had been celebrating soldiers returning from Vietnam, were hauled away in paddy wagons, igniting five d … | Continue reading
The annual Maine Lobster Festival is underway, so it seemed like a good time to go big on lobsters. Of course, festival organizers might not have been huge fans of David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” piece for Gourmet magazine. And they might not like the weird lobster … | Continue reading
The game industry always fluctuates between hope and despair. I witnessed that this week at the Casual Connect game event in Seattle. All sorts of tea leaves show games are hitting a lull, and yet many believers have faith that their part of the industry is growing. I’m still sor … | Continue reading
If you missed out on getting a half-priced Amazon Echo on Prime Day, it looks like you’re getting a second shot. Amazon’s Alexa-infused smart speaker is once again on sale for $89.99 — half off the usual $179.99 price tag — at a variety of retailers, including Best Buy, Bed Bath … | Continue reading
Der Autor und Journalist Dan Lyons hat viele Jahre für das Magazin Newsweek gearbeitet und dabei vor allem über das Silicon Valley geschrieben. Als er eines Tages gefeuert wurde, heuerte er bei dem Start-up Hubspot an. Lyons versprach sich... | Continue reading
Chris Brogan's advice —to make blogging the bedrock of your social media outreach—spurred me to start blogging 10 years ago. In thos... | Continue reading
Social media has become the new American pastime. Members of Generation Z spend 8 hours on screens every day, with a large chunk of that time on social media, interacting with friends, family and influencers. Because they spend such a massive amount of time spent online, many you … | Continue reading
In a nondescript Apple office building in Cupertino, California, a group of engineers has spent the past four weeks working feverishly on the next big thing in consumer hardware, prototyping a water-saving shower head, a new version of the Apple Watch, and a “smart” water bottle. … | Continue reading
Google is teaming up with Italian authorities to teach the country’s increasingly digitized population how to stay safe when browsing the web. The Mountain View giant will collaborate with the Italian Data Protection Authority and the Communications Regulatory Authority to launch … | Continue reading
Every week, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week. But what if you don’t have time to watch every video — maybe you have a deadline, a hungry pet, … | Continue reading
Alexa’s ability to help you find the right music got a boost this week. The virtual assistant is now able to pull up music for a wide range of activities – like music to focus to, music to nap to, to run to, to meditate to, to cook to, and much more – just by asking. The feature … | Continue reading
Coffee brand Lavazza worked with brand experience agency Amplify to stage an experiential campaign at Wilderness Festival, which finished yesterday (6 August). | Continue reading
Toyota has agreed to purchase a five percent stake in Mazda, and will build a joint plant in the U.S. worth $1.6 billion, the automaker revealed today. Toyota also said it’s going to increase its investment in “crucial fields” related to the future of automotive technology, incl … | Continue reading
We are without Nilay Patel on The Vergecast this week, so Dieter Bohn and Paul Miller step up to host with some very special guests: transportation editor Tamara Warren, and tech editor Natt Garun. Tamara was one of the few people who got to test drive the Tesla Model 3 last week … | Continue reading
This modern lakeside house renovation is an elegantly-proportioned, meticulously-detailed frame for an extensive modern art collection. | Continue reading
Facility management might not sound like the sexiest use of AI technology. But office space can be a huge expense for larger businesses — the biggest after staff costs — which is why Y Combinator-backed startup, VergeSense, says it’s settled on facility management as the initial … | Continue reading
An unaired episode of Game of Thrones appeared on the internet early this morning. While HBO’s servers were breached earlier this week, The Verge has learned that this episode leak was not part of that successful hacking attempt. Sources familiar with HBO’s security breach tell T … | Continue reading
New York could be backing away from a key tool used in the “broken windows” strategy of policing: arresting people who jump subway turnstiles.Two state legislators from Brooklyn recently proposed a law that would decriminalize the offense, the latest in a growing wave of local of … | Continue reading
Out of e-commerce’s many tricky aspects, a great product description is one of the most important. Whether you sell thousands of different products or just one, people won’t give your store … | Continue reading
Indeed, the job platform with over 200 million people searching for jobs each month, is acquiring Interviewed, the online job assessment tool. The terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, but all 12 of Interviewed’s employees, including the three co-founders, will be going to w … | Continue reading
When the next iPhones are unveiled next month, I can finally, at long last, ditch my iPhone 6 that I spilled water on. (I’ve been too cheap to pay for repairs.) I’m sure I’m not alone, although you are probably not as clumsy as me. If you have an iPhone from the last year or thre … | Continue reading
Tacoma, the just-released exploration game from Gone Home studio Fullbright, relies on some very familiar tropes. A salvager named Amy Ferrier shows up on an abandoned space station run by an inattentive corporation, piecing together what disaster has befallen its crew, with the … | Continue reading
Wer von sich behauptet, regelmäßig im Flugzeug den obligatorischen Sicherheitsanweisungen der Crew akribisch und konzentriert zu folgen, dürfte nichts anderes als ein schlechter Lügner sein. Unter Umständen hat man das Prozedere... | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies like the surging Bitcoin prove there’s a growing universe of investment possibilities available for those who understand how and why digital currencies work the way they do. You can get the primer and start taking advantage of those money-making opportunities wit … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.So, you really want a career in tech. But, you don’t know how to code. You could crawl back in bed, throw your hands up in despair… or, you could look for a different way into th … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.If our modern age had an official question, it might be: does anyone have a charger? Your phone is secretly your best friend, the thing you spend more time with than any other, a … | Continue reading
Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across AfricaJeffrey Gettleman | The New York Times“Kenya has a land problem. Africa itself has a land problem. The continent seems so vast and the land so open. The awesome sense of space is an inextricable part of the beauty here—the … | Continue reading
It was only a matter of time before hip-hop would find its way to rapping about getting rich off digital money, after all, it’s being called gold 2.0: It might not be as easy to wear around your neck, but it’s just as easy to buy and sell in a pinch. Faberyayo and Abel, two Dutch … | Continue reading
Sony’s Xperia XZ Premium is one of the few smartphones with an HDR-capable display. And now, its owners are getting a new way to take advantage of it: Netflix.As spotted by Android Police, Netflix has added support for streaming HDR video to the XZ Premium. That makes Sony’s high … | Continue reading
Lenovo is canning its Vibe Pure UI Android skin in favor of the stock version of Google’s mobile OS for its future smartphones, starting with the upcoming K8 Note, according to an interview from Gadgets 360 with Anuj Sharma, Lenovo India’s head of marketing.According to Sharma, t … | Continue reading
Auris Surgical Robotics, a 10-year-old, San Carlos, Ca.-based surgical robotics company that was founded by serial entrepreneur Frederic Moll, has quietly raised $280 million in Series D funding led by Coatue Management. The company had previously raised at least $184 million fr … | Continue reading
Elon Musk might make his own Hyperloop after all, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is said to be planning to build the Hyperloop portion of his planned underground tunnel-based Hyperloop network himself, rather than relying on outside partners a … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced the first shipping laptops with Windows 10 S at a price tag under $300, but its own partners don't seem to have gotten the message.The post Microsoft, Lenovo to Ship Sub-$300 Windows 10 S Notebooks appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast where we walk through the numbers driving Silicon Valley each and every week. This episode, Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and I — Alex Wilhelm — were joined by NEA partner Rick Yang to dig into the week’s … | Continue reading
Für eine bislang unbekannte Summe übernimmt Facebook das in Palo Alto ansässige Unternehmen Ozlo. Ozlo ist auf AI spezialisiert und soll für die Abteilung Facebook Messenger arbeiten. Die meisten der 30 Mitarbeiter sollen dabei übernommen... | Continue reading
Everyone remembers the global WannaCry ransomware attack. During that incident, thousands of computers and servers around the world were impacted. The developers of this malware also collected a fair amount of bitcoins from their actions. It now appears all of the money collected … | Continue reading
REVIEW: The Shrouded Isle is the third release from the four-person indie studio Kitfox Games. It has a moody gothic look and an equally grim premise that takes inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft novellas such as The Shadow over Innsmouth. As often happens in Lovecraftian lore, the … | Continue reading
An online forum account tied to the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e has issued a new statement, claiming to be in control of databases and user wallets. | Continue reading
The Los Feliz House includes a 630 sf 2nd floor addition and a complete interior renovation to a 1920's stucco bungalow for two actors | Continue reading
Most content marketing programs are missing two simple elements: Great ideas and a strong process. Here’s how we’ve learned to sniff out great ideas and build a repeatable, stress-free content process. | Continue reading
First Global Credit, a renowned Bitcoin margin trading platform, launched AlCoin ICO on July 17, 2017, that is going to last until August 28, 2017, or until the required capital is achieved. The AlCoin token holders are the members of its Investment Collective that would receive … | Continue reading
HP’s latest 2-in-1 convertible is improved, but doesn’t match up to the Surface Pro Continue reading… | Continue reading
Streaming music service Spotify should finally make its way to Microsoft’s Xbox One sometime soon, as a report from The Verge confirms user posts from Reddit that a beta version of the app is being tested internally at Xbox. The Spotify app has been available on PlayStation 4 si … | Continue reading
Chatbots are transforming customer service by making it possible for users to interact with a brand or site without directly contacting an individual. Unfortunately for those outside of the tech world, it isn’t easy to build your own AI unless you can write advanced code. How Cha … | Continue reading
Was für eine schöne Minidoku von Nils Clauss über die Robo-Mannequins, mit denen koreanische Geschäfte Kunden anlocken wollen. Ästhetisch ist das irgendwo im Labyrinth von gestern und morgen, eine kaputte, perfekte Welt ohne... | Continue reading