DirecTV Now, AT&T’s live TV service aimed at cord cutters, has now reached nearly 500,000 subscribers only 7 months after launch, the company announced today as part of its Q2 2017 earnings release. That uptick comes from the addition of 152,000 subscribers this past quarter, an … | Continue reading
Customer journey mapping allows digital businesses to understand the full picture. Learn about goals, personas, triggers, traffic channels, landing pages, funnels and more in this video. Customer Journey Map Video Transcription Hi there, I’m John Lincoln with ignite visibility an … | Continue reading
This New York City Loft with rooftop is located in the heart of TriBeCa on one of the few original cobblestone streets. | Continue reading
Solar DAO, a blockchain based investment fund has announced the launch of its upcoming pre-ICO campaign, starting July 27, 2017. The crowdsale will offer a unique opportunity for cryptocurrency community members and investors to be part of the clean energy revolution. The energy … | Continue reading
The SEC said today that the offering and sale of digital tokens "are subject to the requirements of the federal securities laws". | Continue reading
Another tech company is working to keep you safe during times of crisis.Google announced a new set of safety features called "SOS alerts" in a blog post on Tuesday. With SOS alerts, which the company will add to Google Search and Google Maps, Google hopes to "make emergency infor … | Continue reading
After months of rumors and speculation, Motorola announced the Z2 Force earlier today. I had the chance to play with it for a while, and, well, it’s pretty much what we expected. That’s both good and bad. If you want to read more about its specs and numbers check out our original … | Continue reading
This AIA award-winning Sonoma retreat reinterprets the wonderful spaces of the original Spanish haciendas of Mission-Era California | Continue reading
USB-C has long been touted as the universal standard that will save us all, a single port that can charge your phone, your laptop, your tablet, your Bluetooth speaker, and even your Nintendo console, all through a single common port. Sadly, the future of charging isn’t quite that … | Continue reading
'ORII' is a voice-enabled smart ring that uses "bone conduction" and allows you to make calls by placing your finger to your ear. Read more...More about Google, Apple, Iphone, Android, and Kickstarter | Continue reading
Ether prices are down more than 11%, dropping below $200 amidst a wider market fall among the world's top cryptocurrencies.Source | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Ah, the new car smell. So refreshing. So pure. So ripe with promise.And yet, so fleeting. Because not long after you drive your new ride off the lot does it begin to absorb bad s … | Continue reading
ABC News announced today it’s teaming up with digital media company ATTN: to develop original news videos that will be distributed across social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The partnership aims to produce videos targeting audiences who no longer tune … | Continue reading
iRobot CEO Colin Angle has been talking about his company’s plans to map user homes with the Roomba for a while now, but a recently published Reuters interview has raised a number of new privacy concerns. Of particular note is a bit where the executive speculates that the compan … | Continue reading
Self-driving cars are a looming threat to to the human drivers that operate taxis around the world, but in one of the most populated countries, it could take a while before driverless cars start stealing jobs from humans.SEE ALSO: Driverless vans will now deliver groceries in Lon … | Continue reading
British enterprise software company Sage Group has agreed to purchase Intacct, a 19-year-old accounting software company, for $850 million, the companies announced today. A cash and stock transaction, the deal aims to help build out Sage’s cloud financial management offerings. I … | Continue reading
The house was a three bedroom bungalow home with a lean-to at the rear in which the owners lived for a few years before the renovation. | Continue reading
Android users will no longer be able to blame emoji for misunderstood texts. Developers working on updating their apps for the upcoming Android O release can now build in support for "emoji compatibility," which will prevent emoji from showing up as blank boxes when a user isn't … | Continue reading
If you want a NES Classic Edition (and you should) but don’t want to pay hundreds on eBay (and you shouldn’t), you’re in luck. ThinkGeek has a few in stock that its parent company, GameStop, mysteriously didn’t sell back when everyone was trying to buy them. They’re on sale righ … | Continue reading
In January 2015, Brandon Stanton, creator of the popular photo blog Humans of New York, interviewed a middle school student named Vidal Chastanet. He asked Chastanet, who goes to school in Brownsville, a neighborhood with one of the highest crime rates in New York City, who had i … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Conference has named Katie Stern as its new general manager starting on August 7. She’s taking over for industry vet Meggan Scavio, who resigned in May after 18 years in the role. Though Stern hasn’t led any games events before, she has years of experience in … | Continue reading
Washington, D.C. and New York City (July 25, 2017) -- The Atlantic, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Aspen Institute will host CityLab Baltimore, a half-day “pop-up” summit exploring the key challenges and opportunities faced by American cities today, from public health to cultu … | Continue reading
When Atsushi Hashimoto was a kid, he loved role-playing games. He’d settle in front of the television for hours, controller in hand, lost in quests full of magical spells and powerful evils. He was particularly enamored with the works of Squaresoft, now known as Square Enix, the … | Continue reading
Lenovo hat dann neben dem Moto Z2 Force auch ein neues Moto Mod vorgestellt, mit dem die Smartphones der Moto-Z-Reihe modular erweitert werden können: Das 360 Cam Mod macht erwartungsgemäß Rundumaufnahmen und zwar in Bild und Ton, mit... | Continue reading
Reston, Virginia — July 25, 2017 — John Wise, CEO of Loci.io, worked as a data engineer and manager in top American auto racing teams. Over the years, he witnessed the creation of thousands of racing inventions, as well as the mind-numbing endeavor of patent filing necessary with … | Continue reading
Jason Chaffetz, who stepped down from his Utah seat in the House of Representatives last month, still absolutely hates the idea of non-wealthy Americans having smartphones. Today, the former Republican lawmaker posted an Instagram photo of an apparently homeless person near Times … | Continue reading
GUEST: The slogan “AI first” is often used in keynote speeches, corporate agendas, and business writings. Google now considers itself an AI-first company, and AI-first design is raising its profile in the blogosphere. But you have a business to run. So how do you practically appr … | Continue reading
Senate Republicans have voted to begin debate on legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, clearing a key procedural hurdle even as it remains unclear what—if any—legislation the party might ultimately pass.The vote was as narrow as it gets: With two of the 52 Republicans … | Continue reading
See how SEO content writers think outside the box when creating blog posts and other content, looking at local news, events and employee profiles. | Continue reading
Missed out on the NES Classic? Already eagerly looking forward to being disappointed by not being able to purchase a SNES Classic this fall? Well, don’t give up hope just yet. ThinkGeek (which is owned by GameStop) has just put up one last batch of the NES Classic on its website. … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.In the quest for the smallest Bluetooth device possible, Origami Labs may be leading the packThe Hong Kong start-up that builds voice-enabled hardware just launched their first K … | Continue reading
Tito Hamze gives an in-depth review of the Sling Studio, a multi-camera production studio that turns your existing cameras wireless and makes your phones into cameras with the ability to control everything from an iPad as a switcher. It’s the most portable multi-cam setup I’ve ev … | Continue reading
Adobe today announced it would be killing off Flash by the end of 2020, and it called on several major sites for help with the hit. It’s not the first time we’ve talked about Flash’s impending doom — from Chrome killing Flash, to Mozilla killing Flash, to the death of Flash. Repo … | Continue reading
When I wrote a largely personal, impressionistic piece last week about the burqini, it elicited one of the most charged reactions I’ve seen about anything I’ve written. The piece—or at least one reaction to the piece—went viral. The subtitle (“Is there any right way to react to t … | Continue reading
If Facebook is planning to make a smart speaker, it should really reconsider.A report in Digitimes today says that Facebook’s Building 8 research group is developing a smart speaker with a 15-inch touch panel. There are lots of reasons to be skeptical of this: Digitimes has a mix … | Continue reading
The ROI of content can be a maddeningly long game. But just because it’s messy doesn’t mean it’s not measurable. Our guide to 15 Content KPIs can help. | Continue reading
Toyota is touting its progress on a new kind of battery technology, which uses a solid electrolyte instead of the conventional semi-liquid version used in today’s lithium-ion batteries. The car maker said that it’s near a breakthrough in production engineering that could help it … | Continue reading
Five years from now, company leaders will be looking back and wishing they developed an artificial intelligence strategy sooner, according to one of the veterans of the field. Andrew Ng, the cofounder of Coursera and the former machine learning chief at Chinese tech powerhouse Ba … | Continue reading
In Cenderawasih Bay, in West Papua, Indonesia, fishermen set out for days on hand-made floating platforms called bagans. At night, they turn on lights to attract squid and baitfish, and lower nets from their bagans—also attracting whale sharks to the smell and commotion. Bagan fi … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a tournament in Germany with a $350,000 prize pool. The Gamescom PUBG Invitational will take place August 23 through 26, and developer Bluehole is planning to sell cosmetic items to fund the tournament and raise money for select charities. … | Continue reading
The next time you’re swimming in Lake Geneva, don’t be surprised when you feel something eel-like and yet artificial touch your leg. That would be Envirobot, the latest biomimetic creation from Swiss researchers that autonomously swims around bodies of water and tests them for t … | Continue reading
GIFs are fun to share. It feels like there’s one for almost every different set of circumstances. But did you know that it’s not particularly difficult to create your own moving pictures? This is equally true for mobile devices, as there’s a wealth of GIF-making apps for Android … | Continue reading
Colin Angle, iRobot CEO and the father of modern robot vacuums, may have some cleaning up of his own to do.In a recent interview with Reuters, Angle indicated iRobot might want to sell home mapping data collected by its Roomba robot vacuums to third party smart home product compa … | Continue reading
Last November a Jordanian guard at a military base opened fire at a training center near Amman, killing three Americans, later identified as Special Forces soldiers.The guard, Sergeant Maarik al-Tawaiha, 39, was sentenced last week to life in prison for killing Staff Sergeant Mat … | Continue reading
Motorola just formally announced the newest addition to its collection of Moto Mod add-ons, a 360-degree camera that magnetically attaches to the back of any of the Moto Z series of devices. I had a few minutes to try out the new Mod, and it more or less works pretty much as adve … | Continue reading
Microsoft presented HoloLens 2.0 on Sunday at an event in Hawaii. The company, known mostly for its software, revealed the newest iteration of its AR headset would contain a Microsoft-made AI co-processor. This marked the company’s entry into the design and manufacture AI chip-se … | Continue reading
Lenovo hat heute wie erwartet dem unkaputtbaren Modell seiner Z-Familie ein Update verpasst: Das ausnehmend elegante Moto Z2 Force, dessen technische Details durch diverse Leaks keine Überraschung mehr darstellen (Snapdragon 835, 5,5-Zoll-Quad-HD-Display,... | Continue reading
Not many people get to contemplate their brain in a jar, but if all goes to plan then I’ll be in that curious position by Christmas.Happily, I’ll still have the brain I’m using right now, which is how I’ll be able to do the contemplating. The other one will be my second brain. Ab … | Continue reading