The president of the United States and the president of France have weaponized an ancient gesture invented to signal the absence of weapons. They have double-handedly ruined the handshake. On Friday, they made it official, in an excruciating conclusion to a long-running saga.I. T … | Continue reading
The latest version of Google Keep for Android brings a long overdue feature: the ability to undo and redo changes. | Continue reading
Most Econ 101 classes start with an explanation of fixed and marginal cost in the context of factories. The factory is the principal fixed cost — expensive and permanent. Canvas wants to smash this assumption of expensive, inflexible, factories by replacing infrastructure with a … | Continue reading
Bordeaux Red in Paris It’s Bastille Day Eve here in Paris, and… he’s here. “He” being the (I still can’t believe I’m typing these words) President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. Yes, that basic reality-TV-show clown. Time for a glass of wine. I’ve lived here wi … | Continue reading
Indie hit Superhot, which introduced an ingenious time-bending feature to the first-person shooter genre, is coming to the PlayStation platform next week, including in virtual reality. Both the original and its VR counterpart will be available in Europe starting July 19th, while … | Continue reading
Services like Instapaper and Pocket are often used by consumers to save longer news articles they don’t have time to immediately read, and both services offer some form of narration for people pressed for time. However, a startup called Audm believes that there’s a better way to … | Continue reading
Imagine a group of volunteers, their chests rigged with biophysical sensors, preparing for a mission in a military office building outfitted with cameras and microphones to capture everything they do. “We want to set up a living laboratory where we can actually pervasively sense … | Continue reading
Welcome back to another week of The Vergecast. Nilay, Paul, and Dieter sit down in the studio to bring you the news that hit our site this week. First off, the net neutrality day of action was on Wednesday, as was Nilay’s piece on the matter. The gang debate the issue in this net … | Continue reading
Recording phone calls on an iPhone can be a pain. You either have to pay for an app that probably only works through a custom dialer (or the phone app, which doesn’t help if you need to make a call through WhatsApp, Skype, or a different service), or you end up using a tape recor … | Continue reading
A 1.76 pound drone can now move faster than a Tesla at top speed in Ludicrous Mode. Yesterday, the Drone Racing League set the Guinness World Record for fastest drone, or the category of “fastest ground speed by a battery-powered remote-controlled quadcopter.” Called the DRL Ra … | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court is on something of a summer vacation. But the ongoing legal battle over President Trump’s travel ban is taking no time off.A federal district court in Hawaii ruled Thursday night that a category of travelers previously blocked by the directive can now enter … | Continue reading
Ether prices have fallen below $190 across the world's digital currency exchange, according to market data. | Continue reading
This week: you have a couple of new retargeting options, Amazon sets a new record, and Google has banned pop-under AdSense ads. Here’s what happened this week in digital marketing. Amazon Set a Record on This Year’s Prime Day Amazon’s biggest sales day ever was this past week. … | Continue reading
Today, Verily — formerly Google Life Sciences — began releasing bacteria-infected male mosquitoes in Fresno, California.The release marks the launch of Debug Fresno, a field study that aims to rid the central California county of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Also known as yellow fev … | Continue reading
ZTE has announced the ZTE Blade Spark, a $99 Sprint-exclusive smartphone that offers a lot at the price point. But so does a certain Motorola handset. | Continue reading
Two separate attacks in Egypt on Friday have killed seven people, including five policemen at a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, and two tourists at a popular resort on the Red Sea. In the attack on officers, the suspects escaped and no group has claimed responsibility. One man … | Continue reading
Grab, the Uber rival in Southeast Asia that operates across seven countries, is reportedly in talks to raise up to $2 billion from Japan-based SoftBank and China-based Didi Chuxing, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. The funding would reportedly value Grab at more … | Continue reading
I tried my best, through the first half of this year, to avoid getting caught up in the political emergencies of each day, so as to write about some longer-term developments that I know are more encouraging than current national-level trauma, and that I believe are at least as si … | Continue reading
The Oklahoma City Thunder underwent somewhat of a roster overhaul this summer, trading for Paul George and signing free agents Patrick Patterson and Raymond Felton. While changes are afoot in OKC, one constant will be back for the Thunder -- power forward Nick Collison. | Continue reading
W. G. Sebald was born in Germany just a year before the end of World War II, and grew up in the conflict’s long shadow. In his prose, he explored the landscapes of postwar Europe—the ruined cities, the lethal machinery of the Holocaust, the vast collections of records—and the th … | Continue reading
Manik Suri, a former D.E. Shaw hedge fund wunderkind, has been wrestling with how best to help government put compliance policy into practice for years. A recent affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and former director on the board of Entrepreneurship for … | Continue reading
Online banking service Swissquote is launching a new bitcoin trading feature in partnership with digital currency exchange BitStamp.Source | Continue reading
If you're not hanging out on our upcoming games forum, you should be. It's a great place to not only find about games looking for beta testers, but also upcoming titles like Mr Jump S. The original Mr Jump [Free] came out in 2015, sort of at the height of the super difficult one … | Continue reading
As an American statesman once said, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice—can’t get fooled again.” The Trump family has little love lost with the Bush family, but the president, his son, and their aides and legal team would do well to heed the 43rd president’s mangled maxim, … | Continue reading
Honolulu City Council passed a bill this week which makes it illegal for pedestrians to use their phones while crossing the street. Anyone caught doing so could be fined up to $99. The councilman who introduced the bill said he got the idea from teenagers who were worried about t … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: We've seen algorithms expressed in seeds . Here's an... | Continue reading
The company knows just how much users hate the new Skype app. That's why it has decided to bring back some old but beloved features with the latest update. | Continue reading
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched a whopping 73 satellites into space this morning, sending the spacecraft into three different orbits around Earth. The satellites — ranging from tiny probes the size of a shoebox to a half-ton satellite the size of a car — rode together into space, … | Continue reading
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A few months ago I wrote about a little startup called Collectly going after the big, inefficient debt collection industry by using modern tools to ease the process for debtors while also increasing the amount of money recovered. Based on some early traction, the company has ra … | Continue reading
If I had to smoke a cigarette, should it have a filter?The standard answer from a doctor is simply never have a single cigarette. Never bring your phone to bed, never have unprotected sex, never sit for eight hours at a time. Never is the directive for a lot of things that a lot … | Continue reading
Samsung has a new app for its Android smartphones called Game Live, which lets users live stream games to Twitch, Facebook, or YouTube, as spotted via Android Police.The app itself looks like it does exactly what it says on the label: users can launch a game, log into their strea … | Continue reading
Hey - who doesn't want to be that guy or lady skiing, biking, running at 80 years old? We talk to Dave Leffmann to get ideas. | Continue reading
We have come to the end of the week in our bitcoin price trading efforts and – as far as weekly strategy implementation goes – it’s been a pretty tough one. While we have seen quite a lot of volatility spread across various sessions, this volatility has not necessarily been condu … | Continue reading
It’s hard to describe A Ghost Story without using words like “haunting” and “spectral,” terms that sound like bad puns. But they’re also accurate descriptions of how the film feels. The film, which opened on the coasts on July 7 and is now entering wide release, is one of the lea … | Continue reading
Support for a so-called UASF continues, adding complications to bitcoin's upcoming scaling drama. | Continue reading
With the IFA trade show coming up in Berlin, it's almost time for LG to start talking about the rumored V30. The post LG Teases V30 Unveiling at IFA on August 31st appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
If you like classic science fiction, one of the genre’s best magazines can now be found online for free. Archive.org is now home to a collection of Galaxy Science Fiction, which published some of the genre’s best works, such as an early version of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 an … | Continue reading
You’re out and about, and you want to type a quick email. So, you pull out your MacBook and connect to the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. Before you’re online, you’re dragged to a capture page, and forced to agree to a labyrinthine set of terms and conditions. So, you do. You don’t even … | Continue reading
If you want to get a smartphone that will offer the best mobile gaming experience, there are a number of different options to check out. | Continue reading
Destiny 2 looks like it'll suck up at least as many hundreds of hours of my life as the original game, but on its reveal fans were divided on whether it looked too similar to Destiny 1.The latest reveal of a new Crucible map, for the game's player-versus-player section, doesn't r … | Continue reading
In Paris on Thursday, Donald Trump said, “A lot of people don’t know” that “France is America’s first and oldest ally.” That may be true. But commentators noted that when Trump uses the “a lot of people don’t know” formulation, it’s usually a sign that he didn’t know himself.It’s … | Continue reading
Waymo has provided some additional visibility into how it goes about testing its autonomous vehicle tech in extreme heat, describing a process of stress testing its Chrysler Pacifica minivans that began nearly a year ago, starting with a controlled internal wind tunnel that can … | Continue reading
* * * Z każdym rokiem przyglądam się z coraz większym zachwytem naszym rodzimym miejscom wypoczynkowym. Ponad 800 km od naszego Trójmiasta, nad Jeziorem Rożnowskim w Gródku nad Dunajcem adoptowane zostały zabudowania letniskowe lat 70-tych. Przebudowany kompleks domków letnisko … | Continue reading
It's summer! Time to hit the beach and paaarty! Sand and water ruin normal gadgets, but these essentials will make your beach day easy breezy. Read more...More about Tech, Entertainment, Gadgets, Mashable Video, and Summer | Continue reading
A feeling of loyalty and loss runs through this week’s posts. In Iraq, a local SWAT team tries to avenge their families — and save their city. In a Bruce Springsteen song, a highway patrolman with a brother on the other side of the law says, “Man turns his back on his family, wel … | Continue reading
Director Gillian Robespierre is back. Her 2014 debut, Obvious Child, surprised critics by bringing something fresh to the romantic-comedy genre and the never-ending glut of young-in-New-York-City films. And her new film, Landline, re-teams her with Obvious Child star Jenny Slate … | Continue reading
Ready for Nidhogg 2? Joust as well - the sword-bearing sequel slices onto PlayStation 4 on 15th August.The announcement was made via the EU PlayStation blog so only covers the PS4 edition. We expect its PC version on the same date.Nidhogg 2 features fancier visuals than its very … | Continue reading