GM has been doing a lot to try to make it easier for developers to create software for use in their vehicle infotainment systems. Back in January, it opened up access to a wide range of data points from the vehicle, and made it possible to develop using a simulator on the deskto … | Continue reading
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Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.What’s worse than not being able to fall asleep? Dripping in sweat while trying to sleep.Don’t let the heat get you down this summer. This Penguin cooling pillow mat is here to t … | Continue reading
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Today at 1:15 NY time, I'll be doing a Facebook Live, answering your questions about marketing. You can join us here. (Facebook archives these, so it's okay if you don't see it live... but if you're there when it happens,... | Continue reading
Netflix may have its first blockbuster movie on its hands. The new, full-length trailer for the upcoming Will Smith movie, “Bright,” from “Suicide Squad” director David Ayer dropped during San Diego’s Comic-Con yesterday. The trailer gives viewers a longer look into the upcoming … | Continue reading
Washington, D.C. (July 21, 2017)—Today The Atlantic premieres “Radio Atlantic,” the flagship show on its new podcast platform. Co-hosted by editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, executive editor Matt Thompson, and contributing editor Alex Wagner, the new weekly show will draw upon Th … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Being a developer is awesome. The money is great, the hours are great, and you pick up on all kinds of hidden jokes while watching Silicon Valley. But mobile operating systems ar … | Continue reading
The idea that Donald Trump might fire—or try to fire—Special Counsel Robert Mueller has bubbled up enough times to seem possible, but still improbable. For one thing (as Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, among others, can attest) press reports that this president might fire someone … | Continue reading
Facebook yesterday filed a patent detailing plans for a modular smart device. The patent shows off a design that would allow consumers to mix and match different hardware components compatible with a base frame. Information gleaned from the patent doesn’t make it clear whether th … | Continue reading
Writing has never been easy. But in the age of emojis, abbreviations, microscopically tiny keys and autocorrect, it’s never been more painful to wade through paragraphs clogged with typos, grammatical errors and prose that would make your 5th grade English teacher smack her foreh … | Continue reading
The iPhone 8—or whatever it winds up being named—drops later this year, but the endless churn of tech innovation and product development means that its successor, which we're calling the iPhone 9, is already starting to shape up. The next-gen phone's supply chain could be coming … | 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
The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a not-for-profit bug bounty program backed by such tech companies as Facebook and Microsoft, revealed that it has received three $100,000 donations from Facebook, an existing donor, and new investors GitHub and the Ford Foundation. Founded in 2013, … | Continue reading
There’s no arguing that the Snapbot is an impressive display of retail technology, But if Snap wants to achieve widespread distribution of Spectacles (and presumably other forthcoming hardware devices), it eventually had to expand beyond the Snapbot. So yesterday the camera comp … | Continue reading
It was the best four bucks The Atlantic ever spent.In late 1861, a New England abolitionist named Julia Ward Howe, moved by the sight of thousands of blue coats massing outside Washington, D.C., wrote a martial and stirring poem that placed God on the side of the Union cause. She … | Continue reading
Yesterday Europol announced the FBI, the DEA and the Dutch National Police have cooperated on a massive investigation aimed at shutting down AlphaBay and Hansa. Now rumors are spreading that the third largest illegal dark web marketplace, Dream Market, has also been compromised b … | Continue reading
There’s a new release date for the first phone from Andy Rubin’s Essential: August, with Rubin saying in an email to potential customers that the phones will start shipping “in a few weeks.”Rubin says that the Essential Phone is now going through testing with US and international … | Continue reading
A U.K. blockchain startup has received a notable grant to continue its work with the technology.Source | Continue reading
HBO’s series Westworld has sparked some useful cultural shorthand for describing any kind of live entertainment where participants directly engage with actors and environments to create their own story. A Disney resort where people can have their own Star Wars adventures? That’s … | Continue reading
This weekend, a team of scientists who sent the first spacecraft to Pluto caught a brief glimpse of their vehicle’s next destination: a tiny, primitive space rock at the edge of the Solar System. Members of the mission team trekked down to a remote part of Argentina and spotted t … | Continue reading
This week, identity is the theme that courses through the posts. Writer Steve Oney talks about masculinity and the creation of identity as an act of will. In South Africa, the women of the District Six neighborhood try to recapture an identity lost to apartheid when they were upr … | Continue reading
Lyft is betting the future of the road centers on sharing autonomous vehicles. It aims to be at the forefront of that technology with a new self-driving division and a self-driving system vehicle manufacturers could integrate into their self-driving cars.The company expects to h … | Continue reading
Lyft believes that by 2021, “a majority” of its rides will be in autonomous vehicles. But up until recently, it has been reluctant to do any of the expensive work of building and installing the technology necessary to power these self-driving cars. Today, the ride-hail company sa … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator is raising up to $1 billion for a new venture capital fund, Axios is reporting this morning. The fundraising comes less than two years after YC announced the close of its first big investing vehicle, a $700 million growth fund call … | Continue reading
If you’re among those who use a projector for your home theater, you haven’t really had a great option for jumping on the 4K bandwagon, and you might be feeling left out now that the high-resolution tech is more common among TV manufacturers. But now there’s a great, relatively … | Continue reading
The ever elusive Satoshi Nakamoto was the inspiration for the above art piece by the international contemporary artist Vesa Kivinen. He is giving blockchain and cryptocurrency a new kind of visual credibility and a public artist face through his recently released platform ArtForC … | Continue reading
“Mr. Nivi has no role at the company” AngelList COO Graham Jenkin told TechCrunch in reponse to questions regarding the curious absence of the investment platform’s co-founder. It’s atypical for the creator of such a high-profile company to seemingly disappear without any form o … | Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch Pro Controller is my go-to for lengthy bouts of Zelda or Splatoon. It’s solid and comfortable, and among the best traditional controllers I’ve ever used. It’s also $70, so I’m definitely not buying more than one. Same goes for the Joy-Con controllers, which wi … | Continue reading
Last week, blockchain startup Tezos pulled in a record-breaking initial coin offering (ICO) of about $232 million in a frenetic 13-day fundraise. What had investors excited about Tezos was the fact that it’s a whole new blockchain (currently in alpha testing) that has 1) built-in … | Continue reading
So you’ve picked out (or built) the perfect gaming PC — that’s the hard part — but now what you need are accessories. Because while you may have a monstrous rig capable of running the most graphics-intensive games on the market at 60 frames per second, you won’t have a very good … | Continue reading
Can Tennis Offer a Means of Social Mobility in India?Bhavya Dore | Pacific Standard“Tennis is largely a sport for the affluent. There are few, if any, public courts in the country, equipment and uniforms are expensive, and private club membership is costly. And yet, closely bound … | Continue reading
Hulu’s Live TV service, the expanded version of Hulu launched in May which provides access to live television in addition to Hulu’s existing on-demand library, is now available on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. This is the first major platform expansion since the service’s de … | Continue reading
Gemeinsam mit dem irischen Unternehmen Johnson Controls hat Microsoft die gemeinsame Zukunftsversion eines Thermostats vorgestellt. Es handelt sich um das erste smarte Thermostat mit integrierter Cortana-Sprachkontrolle. Das System nennt sich GLAS und... | Continue reading
Publishing content on the internet is a strange situation. You may write the greatest piece of copy ever known to humanity. It goes to waste if nobody reads it, though. … | Continue reading
Central banks of many countries with considerable Bitcoin usage are in the process of drafting cryptocurrency regulations. The South African Reserve Bank is one among them. According to recent reports, the country’s central bank has decided to go ahead and test these regulations … | Continue reading
The Moneyball of esports is quite a reality yet. But the Brad Pitt movie and Michael Lewis book has been a good way to describe what Tim Sevenhuysen does as a statistics consultant for League of Legends esports teams. Sevenhuysen believes that analytics matters when it comes to a … | Continue reading
At the beginning of the first episode of Ozark, Netflix’s bleak drug drama du jour, Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) is in a kind of existential midlife funk: His wife, Wendy (Laura Linney), is cheating on him; his kids are growing into entitled nightmares; and his job as a financial … | Continue reading
In the entrepreneurial world, it seems that many people focus their time and resources on trying to develop a brand new idea — something that completely disrupts the marketplace, something that nobody else has ever thought of before. While these ideas can lead to some incredible … | Continue reading
Back in May, Hulu launched a newly redesigned app alongside a beta for its new live TV service for Apple TV, Xbox One, iOS, Android, and Chromecast devices. Today, the new interface and live TV beta are coming to Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire Stick devices.The new Hulu is coming to A … | Continue reading
Surprisingly, the most sought after hotel amenities aren't what we'd consider extravagant. Check out what amenities Hotels.com deems as most popular. | Continue reading
Last I checked, the date was not April 1st and Sprint’s CEO was not named John Legere, but here we are with Twice the Price, a pop-up store courtesy of Sprint that mocks Verizon’s pricing schemes. The name of the store is pretty self-explanatory, but in case you’re unsure, here’s … | Continue reading
On the floor of San Diego Comic-Con, Robocop, Jack Nicholson’s Joker, and an astronaut look over the crowds from a high perch. The motionless figures welcome visitors to the booth of Prop Store, a site that specializes in selling screen-used props to fans of all stripes. This yea … | Continue reading
The total value of all cryptocurrencies rose on Friday, crossing $90bn for the first time in weeks.Source | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Baidu and JD.com will join other big Chinese technology firms to jointly invest about $12 billion in the Shanghai-listed unit of China Unicom, the weakest of three big state-owned telecoms firms, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The move is part of … | Continue reading