Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with the recently announced Eye Control feature, as well as improvements to Edge, Console, input, and Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG). This is the ninth build of the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, whic … | Continue reading
LG has announced that its “next flagship smartphone,” widely reported to be the V30, will feature a six-inch OLED panel as rumored. LG is describing the screen as a FullVision display, meaning it'll have a taller 18:9/2:1 aspect ratio and thinner surrounding bezels like a G6. The … | Continue reading
Oren Peli, who wrote and directed the enormously successful film Paranormal Activity, is launching a new iOS and Android app designed to help users create, find, and join local events. Spot‘s launch might be doubly surprising — not only is Peli launching an app, but it seems lik … | Continue reading
Social virtual reality — online spaces where you can interact with others using VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift or the Samsung Gear — is at the forefront of innovation in this growing but still young sector. But one of the most important companies working in this space is shu … | Continue reading
One point five terabytes. That's the amount of data hackers claim to have stolen from HBO. It's a cache that, at a minimum, includes unreleased episodes of various shows, at least one Game of Thrones script, and the personal information of a senior HBO executive. We know this bec … | Continue reading
Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker brought in the big players in his quest to transform Wisconsin into what he dubs “Wisconn Valley.” At an event hosted at the White House, Walker appeared with Terry Gou, chairman and founder of Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn. Gou … | Continue reading
Asus’ new ZenFone AR, which supports both Google’s Tango augmented reality tech and its Daydream virtual reality platform, is available for preorder at Verizon for $648 outright or $27 per month on a leasing plan. Asus had been rather quiet about the pricing and availability deta … | Continue reading
PREVIEW: Adding Princess Peach to my party was what did me in. It seemed like a solid choice: she’s got strong defensive skills, a quick little heal on many of her moves, and a powerful shotgun. When is picking a shotgun bad? Never, I thought, and that was the problem. That shotg … | Continue reading
For someone who insists he has no interest in running for office, Mark Zuckerberg is really, really good at surrounding himself with top political strategists.The latest: Zuckerberg's philanthropic foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has reportedly hired Joel Benenson, wh … | Continue reading
It was only yesterday that Microsoft announced a new built-in eye tracking feature for Windows 10, but the company is already interested in getting the accessibility option out in the wild. The latest Windows Insider preview build includes support for a beta version of Eye Contro … | Continue reading
Since their first introduction many decades ago, we learnt that distributed systems enable use cases we couldn’t even think about before them, but they also introduce all sorts of new issues.When these systems were rare and simple, engineers dealt with the added complexity by min … | Continue reading
Activist and writer Ijeoma Oluo is the latest to suffer for Facebook’s inability — or perhaps unwillingness — to improve its reporting and moderation infrastructure. After receiving hundreds of racist and threatening messages in response to a joke made on Twitter, Oluo began pos … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Looking to implement an intelligent assistant or chatbot? Don’t miss our latest VB Live event, where we tap a panel of developers with long-term, hands-on experience in selecting the right digital engagement solution, planning a strategy, and seeing results. Register now … | Continue reading
There has been a lot of press regarding my generation, the millennials, and how we’re spending our money, and, in turn, ruining many, many things. Apparently, our obscure spending habits have killed the napkin industry, casual dining restaurants (give us a better experience, mayb … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said today the forthcoming Model Y electric crossover vehicle will be built on a similar architecture to the recently released Model 3, in an effort to bring the car to market sooner. The news, announced in an earnings call Wednesday, is a reversal from severa … | Continue reading
Regular host Jeff Grubb is on vacation and is getting ready to road trip up to Mount Rushmore, but he came in to record this week’s podcast with (the much superior GamesBeat staffer) Mike Minotti. Inspired by this presidential monument, the GamesBeat Decides crew is going to pick … | Continue reading
In the eternal question of Mac vs Windows, you’ll find plenty of people willing to argue for one OS or the other. But I don’t see the point anymore. But over the past few months I’ve realized the differences don’t matter to me — because I use mostly third-party, in-browser softwa … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingJob Insecurity: National-Security Adviser H.R. McMaster removed Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the controversial senior director for intelligence, from the National Security Council. Last month, he also forced out a top official who had authored a memo claiming President … | Continue reading
Tesla reported its second-quarter earnings today, which means a bunch of Wall Street analysts jumped on the phone to probe the ever-quotable Elon Musk — including, believe it or not, about SpaceX. To be sure, it wasn’t specifically about space or flight — it was whether some of … | Continue reading
During its earnings call in May, Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk said that the ‘Model Y’ (whose name isn’t yet actually finalize, he noted) small SUV actually would use a brand new platform, totally distinct from the Model 3. On the earnings call for the company’s Q3 results on … | Continue reading
Your cute, sparkly iPhone case could be putting you in danger.The company behind some of the most popular glitter-filled iPhone cases is recalling hundreds of thousands of its products after nearly two dozen of reports of chemical burns. SEE ALSO: The iPhone 8's biggest new featu … | Continue reading
GUEST: Uber has weathered sexual harassment allegations, accusations of strikebreaking, and a failed expansion to China. But with Travis Kalanick out as CEO, the company faces a new challenge: a power vacuum. It’s not only Kalanick’s chair that’s vacant in the C-suite. The ride-h … | Continue reading
When President Trump on Wednesday signed into law a bill that will impose new sanctions on Russia, he simultaneously expressed his opposition to the measure. The law aims to punish Moscow for its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and limit the president’s own ab … | Continue reading
Tesla has already completed the first installations of its Solar Roof products, which use integrated solar panels to gather energy. The solar tiles were first introduced last year, and are designed to look essentially indistinguishable from traditional roofing materials, so that … | Continue reading
We're already halfway through the summer, and as tough as it is to think about going back to school again, it's much easier when you start exploring all the tech accessories that come with the season. Tech can help you in the classroom and outside of it, to study and to unwind. W … | Continue reading
Go’s slices are cleverly designed. They provide the look-and-feel of truly dynamic arrays while being optimized for performance. However, not being aware of the slice mechanisms can bring you into trouble. | Continue reading
A few months ago, while working on gravity, I started looking around for guidance on how I should manage encryption keys. I found a few references here and there, but the best I happened to put together with the limited information available was something like: | Continue reading
On the heels of the Model 3 launch last week, Tesla says it is still growing sales of its Model S and Model X amid a soft luxury car market. But boasts of growth don’t make up for the amount of cash the company has burned through to get Model 3 launched by its end of the year tar … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesPresident Trump signed a bill that imposes new sanctions on Russia, despite calling it “seriously flawed.” He, along with two Republican senators, unveiled a plan to dramatically reduce legal immigration to the United States. At a White House press briefing, senio … | Continue reading
The National Security Council’s controversial senior director for intelligence programs has been removed from his position, sources say, in the latest sign that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is asserting control over the office he runs.Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a 31-year-old … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 has been a long time coming, but it launches later this month — and now we might know exactly what'll be under the hood when it does. Trusted leaker Evan Blass of VentureBeat just revealed an exhaustive list of the upcoming flagship's specs, citing a "pers … | Continue reading
NBA 2K17 has come out on top as publisher Take-Two Interactive’s top-selling sports game ever, selling more than 8.5 million copies. In an earnings report today for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, Take-Two noted that the basketball title NBA 2K17 was one of the largest con … | Continue reading
Hackers rarely invent new tricks. Rather, they just find new ways to use old ones. When Tom Van de Wiele — F-Secure Principal Security Consultant — was growing up, taking over IRC accounts and channels was the thing. “Now people amuse themselves with social media accounts and bri … | Continue reading
GUEST: Albeit small, Baltimore’s startup community is a thriving one. Just 45 minutes outside of the District, the city’s innovation scene is rich with opportunity and talent. Maybe that’s why Baltimore is one of the most successful places working with Venture for America, a two- … | Continue reading
iSentia has finally dropped the axe on its failing content marketing agency, King Content. It’s easy to imagine content marketing agencies across Australia, and the global markets where King Content operated, dancing on the company’s grave. But we shouldn’t be. King Content’s ha … | Continue reading
A recent Upwork study revealed a 300 percent uptick in hiring for those with skills related to VR last quarter. VR programmers were clearly in high demand, leading the list of nine other skills hiring managers look for most often on the platform. The study highlights the followin … | Continue reading
Over the years I’ve seen concepts of solar-powered sunglasses come and go, but the dream of for some reason wearing solar panels on my face has eluded me — until today. Genius engineers at Karlsruhe Instutite of Technology have successfully made a pair of shades with organic sol … | Continue reading
Just last month, Amazon launched Spark, an online hangout where you can rub virtual shoulders with people who share your interests. It’s Facebook for shoppers. Here’s what you need to know about Amazon Spark. You were probably visiting Amazon recently and thought to yourself: “Yo … | Continue reading
GUEST: In October 2016, when a truck delivered a shipment of beer in Colorado without a human driver at the wheel, the question stopped being if automation is changing jobs forever. It is. Beyond blue-collar workers, every single job category will be affected as AI and machine le … | Continue reading
Fitbit’s shares are not much more than 10% of the highs it reached of $47.60 in July 2015, the month following its public debut. On Wednesday, Fitbit closed $5.07, just barely a “unicorn” at $1.16 billion in market value. But the stock saw a rare boost after the company reported … | Continue reading
Okay so, it all started with a children’s cartoon.In December, the BBC released on YouTube an old animated video about life in Roman Britain, which featured a family with a dark-skinned father. This depiction recently caught the ire of an Infowars editor, who tweeted, “Thank God … | Continue reading
In its second-quarter earnings report today, fitness-tracking company Fitbit said that its long-awaited smartwatch, which we’ve reported has been delayed due to production issues, will be available by this holiday season. On the earnings call, chief executive James Park said that … | Continue reading
The internet, which started as an internal network of the defense sector has grown into one of the basic necessities of today’s life. As the revolutionary technology of yesteryears continued to progress, it gave rise to cloud computing. However, cloud computing has a lot of room … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, social game developer Zynga shut down Mafia Wars, the mobile reboot of the original web game that soft-launched back in April. In a call today with GamesBeat, CEO Frank Gibeau says that the reason was because it wasn’t meeting performance expectations. On the … | Continue reading
Just over 24 hours after splitting from Bitcoin, the derivative currency Bitcoin Cash (BCC) now ranks as the third most valuable altcoin. With a market cap of more than $7.7 billion, BCC trails just Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) after passing Ripple’s $6.7 billion cap in the w … | Continue reading
Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods sent a stark message to e-commerce, modern commerce and traditional retailers alike. But it’s just one of many significant announcements in recent months. Amazon also recently announced a new “meal kit” service to take on BlueApron and others. … | Continue reading
In the late 19th century legend of Crazy Horse, the Oglala Sioux leader prophesied an economic, spiritual, and social renaissance among Native Americans. Now that prophesied generation, the Seventh Generation, is here—and they’re determined to live up to the legend. The South Dak … | Continue reading
North Korea’s second test of an intercontinental missile on July 28 demonstrated at least two important new realities. First, even experts who doubted the country’s range capabilities after the first test on July 4 now concede that it can likely strike the eastern coast of the Un … | Continue reading