Life became too painful for one of a handful of Knightscope K5 security robots today. It tragically took its own life in a DC water fountain, possibly thwarted from rescuing itself by its inability to navigate stairs or lift its own body. The post Security Robot Takes Its Own Lif … | Continue reading
Dieses Rennen war als besondere Show-Einlage des Formula-E-Events in New York gedacht und ein Spektakel wurde den Zuschauern auch tatsächlich geboten, wenn auch ein unerwartetes: Das Rennen zwischen einem Formula-E-Rennwagen und der Renndrohne... | Continue reading
Parking inventory and booking startup SpotHero announced it has raised $30 million in a series C round of funding from investors such as Insight Venture Partners, Global Founders Capital, and Autotech Ventures. Founded out of Chicago in 2011, SpotHero offers an online platform th … | Continue reading
“There are too many favourites,” begins the very first response to my callout for favorite Jane Austen lines, from Gillian in Ontario. Readers shared an admirable assortment of them: wisecracks and ironic turns of phrase, expressions of affection, assertions of independence and s … | Continue reading
Samsung mobile chief DJ Koh confirmed the availability details at a recent event in Taiwan. | Continue reading
“His favorite technique was to keep grants of authority incomplete, jurisdictions uncertain, charters overlapping. The result of this competitive theory of administration was often confusion and exasperation on the operating level.”You could be forgiven for assuming this comment … | Continue reading
Managing a cryptocurrency mine is a complex and time-consuming endeavor. To ensure profitability, a delicate balance of performance, stability, and energy consumption must be maintained—a task which requires careful optimization of dozens of operating parameters. Thanks to easyMI … | Continue reading
Based just on trademark filings and reported plans, Amazon’s potential entry into the prepared meal kit market has had a significant impact on freshly-IPO’d Blue Apron’s stock price. Now, however, we know that Amazon is actually already testing its own “Amazon Meal Kits,” thanks … | Continue reading
Google Glass, the smart heads-up display and camera that was supposed to become everyone’s next portable computer, isn’t dead. It’s gotten a job — multiple jobs, in fact. The second iteration of Google Glass has been tested and deployed across many factories in the United States … | Continue reading
A loft-style house designed by the architects for their own family, this budget-sensitive human-scaled project wove together the architects | Continue reading
How Artsy finally convinced galleries to sell fine art online Continue reading… | Continue reading
On Tuesday, House Republicans released a budget plan that would make cuts to Medicare and Social Security, despite President Trump’s pledge to keep entitlement programs intact.The proposal calls for more than $200 billion in cuts to mandatory programs. It also attempts to move ta … | Continue reading
Transformation Mask is an experiential sculpture piece that brings art and technology together as it morphs from bird mask to human-merged-with-machine. It’s the result of a collaboration between Canadian artist Shawn Hunt and Microsoft Vancouver’s in-house maker space, The Garag … | Continue reading
This year is the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love,” those months in 1967 when a hundred thousand hippies convened in Haight-Ashbury. Flower children held a Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, and Timothy Leary coined the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out.” It was the heyday … | Continue reading
Syte.ai, a visual search startup focused on fashion products, announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A. The lead investor is NHN Ventures (the investment arm of Korean internet services giant NHN), with participation from Naver Corp., messaging app Line Corp., Magma V … | Continue reading
Graphic design is an art that can be smartly used to influence customers and extract monitory benefits. | Continue reading
Russia said two Russian diplomatic compounds in New York and Maryland seized by the Obama administration in retaliation for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election are no closer to being returned after talks Monday in Washington—and warned of a strong response.“We came up with … | Continue reading
A changing of the guard at TransferWise, the unicorn startup based out of London that specialises in providing money-transfer services, typically with better rates than banks and other incumbent providers. The company’s CEO and co-founder Taavet Hinrikus announced that he is ste … | Continue reading
Self-driving trucking startup Embark has raised $15 million in Series A financing, the company announced on Tuesday. Embark first broke cover back in February, when it revealed trucks equipped with its neural net-based deep learning approach to autonomous trucking. The startup’s … | Continue reading
Daimler AG's blockchain-based "Schuldschein" bond signals the first step in a much larger plan to explore the technology.Source | Continue reading
Ever wanted to know the genetic mix of your mutt? Embark, a doggie DNA startup has raised $4.5 million in seed to expand its offering of genetic kits for your pup’s pedigree. Embark launched in Austin, Texas two years ago with its “Embark Dog DNA Test Kit” that tell dog owners t … | Continue reading
Dan Monaghan entwickelt gerade eine iOS-App, die Fotos aufnimmt und dort lässt, wo sie aufgenommen wurden. Nimmt man mit ihr ein Video auf und bewegt sich durch den Raum, kann man durch sie hindurch die einzelnen Frames des Videos in einem Augmented-Reality-Modus... | Continue reading
The Xiaomi Mi 5X will feature a dual-camera setup, a metal body, and run Android Nougat with the new MIUI 9 user interface on top. | Continue reading
Recently I had some minor surgery done and should, by rights, have been resting. Instead of doing that though, I couldn't stop obsessing over some map coordinates I found hidden in Get Even.Out of a handful of fake coordinates listed in the game this one specific coordinate point … | Continue reading
To mark the new season of HBO's comedy programme Ballers, the brand will open a fashion-focused pop-up store in Los Angeles, California. | Continue reading
You might have difficulties getting through to the 911 emergency hotline if you happen to use the all-new OnePlus 5 as your daily drive. Concerned OnePlus 5 owners are flocking to Reddit to report a troubling glitch that is causing their devices to abruptly reboot anytime they ca … | Continue reading
Da oggi, martedì 18 luglio, lo sportello del Cittadino è ospitato a Palazzo Leonetti Luparini, nel cuore del centro storico di Spoleto, sotto la nuova denominazione Centro Servizi al cittadino (fornisce attività di servizi demografici, certificazioni, cambi di indirizzo e immigra … | Continue reading
New rumors indicate Intel will respond to AMD in the consumer space, possibly with new Core i7 and i5 offerings that add six-core CPUs to Intel's desktop lines.The post Intel May Respond to AMD Ryzen With Six-Core i5, i7 CPUs appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Demandware founder Stephen Schambach has moved on to his next startup and investors are betting $50 million. NewStore, an enterprise platform for mobile commerce, has raised a Series B from Activant Capital, General Catalyst and Schambach’s own money. The company previously rais … | Continue reading
For a decade and a half, FreshBooks has worked to establish itself as one of the most popular accounting software platforms for small businesses and the self-employed around the world. To accelerate growth, the company has raised $43 million in Series B funding led by existing i … | Continue reading
If ever there were any doubt that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is one of the biggest hits of the year, some new numbers last night confirmed it. The breakout shooter reached number 4 in Steam’s ranking of most concurrent players ever, its figure of 382,561 beating out Grand Thef … | Continue reading
Weet-Bix in Sydney I have vague memories of an ad campaign that ran during the lead-up to the Sydney Olympics. Buffed and toothy athletes in their green-and-gold tracksuits stood, backdropped by an Australian flag, talking about how many Weet-Bix they ate each morning. “Five,” br … | Continue reading
I simply don’t get Xiaomi’s sales pitch for its Mi Max 2 – a 6.44-inch successor to its well-received ‘phablet’ from last year – in which it’s billed as a handset for just about anyone who wants great battery life. That last bit might be true, but why you’d want to use a larger-t … | Continue reading
Läuft schon ein bisschen, aber weil es hier noch nicht erwähnt wurde: Im Museum of Modern Art läuft noch bis Ende September Emissaries: Eine sich weiterentwickelnde virtuelle Welt, die sich selbst spielt wie ein Computerspiel.Technisch... | Continue reading
Of all the ideas percolating on college campuses these days, the most dangerous one might be that speech is sometimes violence. We’re not talking about verbal threats of violence, which are used to coerce and intimidate, and which are illegal and not protected by the First Amendm … | Continue reading
UK developer Splash Damage is working on multiplayer games for World of Tanks maker Wargaming.Splash Damage, developer of Brink, Dirty Bomb, the multiplayer portion of Batman: Arkham Oranges and parts of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and Gears of War 4, is developing games in "t … | Continue reading
The worlds of VR and AR may deeply change how we interact with computers but it may also change how we follow celebrities as well. ObEN, which uses artificial intelligence-powered tools to create avatars that look and sound like the real deal, announced today that it has raised … | Continue reading
An initial coin offering led by noted bitcoin investor Li Xiaolai has set a record in China, but has also received criticisms.Source | Continue reading
We already sort of knew, but now we really know: Samsung will launch its next flagship, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, in late August. According to ePrice, Samsung Mobile chief DJ Koh recently confirmed as much at a meeting with journalists in Taiwan, saying the announcement will com … | Continue reading
The Atlantic announced today the promotions of Matt Thompson and Adrienne LaFrance to two of the company’s top editorial positions. Matt Thompson, the deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com, moves into a new role as executive editor overseeing all cross-platform projects, and staff wri … | Continue reading
Want to know the way to make money through the Fiverr? Well, here I am with this article to show you an easy way to make money using Fiverr. | Continue reading
Google Play Music is debuting a useful feature in its Android app that lets you play music straight from search results. The update spotted by 9to5Google comes several months after the same feature rolled out on Play Music’s web interface, and appears to be enabled server side — … | Continue reading
Price predictions in the Bitcoin world are always rather interesting. Especially considering how the price turned very bearish over the weekend. It now appears the Bitcoin price is slowly rebounding, which is a positive sign. John McAfee feels one Bitcoin can become worth as much … | Continue reading
Creating genuine engagement is a daunting proposition. One content marketer found valuable community-building tips in his baseball blogging passion project. | Continue reading
Both devices will go on sale for AUD$199, and the Google Home will even include some Australia-specific surprises. | Continue reading
Der zweite Trailer zur Fortsetzung des Kinoklassikers Blade Runner zeigt auf den den ersten Blick vor allem mehr von der bereits angeteasten Remake-Soße aus aufwendigem aber im Grunde genommen kreuzbravem Setdesign und sattsam bekannter Action-Hektik,... | Continue reading
Spaliłam ciasto. Miało być z jagodami, wyszperanymi z zamrażarki na początek nowego sezonu. Adios wszystkie mrożonki, robimy miejsce na nowe. Ale nastawiłam piekarnik na 70 minut, nie wiem, co mnie podkusiło, miało być 35 góra czterdzieści. No i poszłam lulać to najmniejsze, któr … | Continue reading
An existing 1830 farmhouse located in historic Hyde Park, NY underwent a full-gut renovation to transform into a Rustic Modern retreat. | Continue reading