Netflix announced today that it’ll start supporting Dolby Atmos surround sound for select titles later this month, starting with Okja. That’s great news: Atmos is the next generation of surround formats, using audio processing to place sounds in 3-D space around you instead of ju … | Continue reading
It’s pretty rare to see a laptop with a full number pad. In fact, none of Apple’s MacBooks have ever had one. But if you’re someone who does some serious number crunching, Nums might be able to help.Currently looking for funding on Kickstarter, Nums is essentially a giant glass p … | Continue reading
The Equal Rights Center has filed a lawsuit against Uber today, adding another legal battle for the company to juggle among rape lawsuits and class action lawsuits. This time Uber is accused of denying equal access to people who use wheelchairs and violating Title 3 of the Americ … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Augmenix, Inc., a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and sells proprietary absorbable hydrogels that separate and protect organs at risk during radiotherapy, today announced that the first patients have been treated... | Continue reading
The first trailer for BBC America’s rebooted American Top Gear has finally been released. It’s short, but we do get a glimpse at the new crew driving the Acura NSX, a Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, and a few other wild rides. The series premieres on July 30th at 8PM ET. Top Gear … | Continue reading
We go hands-on with the Honor 9, a phone every bit as enticing as its predecessor. | Continue reading
Google rolled out today one of the more interesting features it announced during its I/O conference in May: the ability to easily share pictures with friends and family in Google Photos. The updated Photo app adds a fourth dedicated tab, labeled “sharing,” at the bottom of the ap … | Continue reading
Heineken in Cox’s Bazar Outside, the Indian Ocean was the temperature of bath water, lapping gently at the shore. The dull murmur of the waves was barely audible above the incessant horns of passing rickshaws and motorized three-wheelers scooting through Cox’s Bazar, a burgeoning … | Continue reading
A UX designer in fintech shares unexpected insights he gained from a day trip to a vacuum museum. | Continue reading
GUEST: For all the excitement around artificial intelligence and other automation technologies, we’ve only seen a fraction of the opportunities automation will create. With all the change still to come, it’s worth considering now the role these technologies will play in your comp … | Continue reading
CastAR was one of the most ambitious augmented reality game companies in the business. But it looks like it has shut down amid one of the most obvious problems in the fledgling industry: It was too early, and the challenges it faced were incredible. CastAR failed to raise a new r … | Continue reading
The price of cryptocurrency Ethereum dropped dramatically following news of its creator’s death. One problem: he wasn’t dead. A post on 4Chain claimed Vitalik Buterin — creator of blockchain technology Ethereum and currency Ether — died in a fatal car accident. Following news of … | Continue reading
Facebook isn’t done with chatbots quite yet, today, the company is launching Discover, a hub inside Messenger for discovering new and interesting chatbots to message with. The section which Facebook announced at F8 is going live for users stateside and the company is billing it … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Neill Blomkamp began releasing short films from his experimental film venture, Oats Studios. First came Rakka, an alien-invasion concept. That was followed by Cooking With Bill, a wacky infomercial that goes terribly wrong. Oats’ third and most recent short fi … | Continue reading
Fans of Skyrim, it's time to revisit those Dragon Shouts and famous heroes, but this time in Bethesda's Elder Scrolls: Legends [Free (HD)]. The Heroes of Skyrim expansion, which has just gone live, introduces 154 new cards to the game and allows you to enjoy all the famous locati … | Continue reading
Expect even more selfie-style videos in your Twitch feed, as the company is improving one of its key apps to make it easier to use its platform on the go. The iOS and Android Twitch apps are getting an update today that adds a new navigation bar, interface options, and mobile str … | Continue reading
Game streaming service Twitch is making some big changes to its app on iOS and Android. The overhaul will include a number of features the company says have been long-requested by fans. That includes major functionality tweaks, like the ability to stream directly on mobile from t … | Continue reading
Pretty Little Liars’ final episode aired on Tuesday, marking the end of five teenagers trying to unmask their stalker by fearfully scrolling through texts, cringing at every ring of a cellphone, and elaborately tracking down lair after lair. At its high points, the show gave us c … | Continue reading
Netflix has announced Dolby Atmos support starting with the critically-acclaimed Okja, but the number of compatible devices is extremely limited. | Continue reading
If you typically buy your computers pre-built, it might surprise you to learn that a 512GB SSD isn't 4 million dollars. You can get a good 500-ish GB SSD from Samsung or Crucial for around $150. But Intel just showed up with some new first-to-the-market tech that might shake thin … | Continue reading
Area 120 is the name for Google’s in-house startup incubator that has developed a variety of odd apps. These include Uptime, a social YouTube app that recently opened to the public; the voice-based Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger; and the just announced Advr, which is experimentin … | Continue reading
The second-largest port in Europe by container capacity is now running a pilot blockchain project focused on logistics automation. | Continue reading
Startup Alley is at the center of TechCrunch’s Disrupt events, and this year at Disrupt SF (September 18-20) we are taking it to the next level! We are looking for 30 outstanding startups to participate in one of our Featured Pavilions, exhibit your startup and attend Disrupt SF … | Continue reading
We've played with Portals, we've played with Spiders, and now we'll get to play with 22 copies of the same card. This week's Hearthstone [Free] Brawl is called All-Star Squad, and it's been around before. You pick a class, and then pick one card and get 22 copies of it in your de … | Continue reading
Looking at the periodic table, most of us have no issues identifying the use of certain elements. Sodium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and others are no-brainers but what about the less talked about elements. Seriously, do you know what vanadium is used for? How about Polonium? Chanc … | Continue reading
Eight months ago, thousands of Iraqi and Kurdish troops, supported by the United States, France, Britain, and other western nations, began a massive operation to retake Iraq's second largest city of Mosul from ISIS militants. Now, after months of war, the Iraqi military says it h … | Continue reading
Famed investor Michael Novogratz, who recently said he has 10% of his money in Bitcoin and Ether, now states that digital currencies could reach a value of $5 trillion in five years — if the industry will be able to reach massive adoption. “The Nasdaq got to $5.4 trillion in 1999 … | Continue reading
Event has released its third annual Brand Experience Report, which contains in-depth analysis on the key issues affecting the experiential industry and includes the top 45 agencies list. | Continue reading
The 'LAER' is the laptop bag techies have been thirsty for for years. It charges all of your devices at once, so you can stay connected and stop stressing about that 10% battery alert. Read more...More about Tech, Mashable Video, Tech, and Innovations | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 is the smartphone equivalent of a daytime soap opera character: just when you think it's died dramatically in a fire and been stricken from the storyline, it pops up again.The South Korean company announced its plans to sell the retooled phones in its nati … | Continue reading
Toshiba announced today that it has successfully developed what it claims to be the world’s first QLC — quadruple-level cell — 4-bit flash memory in a 3D flash device. That’s pretty big news for the future of flash memory, creating even higher storage density at cheaper prices. F … | Continue reading
MZ, the developer behind mobile hits Game of War: Fire Age and Mobile Strike, has launched a Final Fantasy XV game for iOS and Android. Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire looks a lot like Game of War and Mobile Strike. It’s a strategy role-playing game that has you building a town (a … | Continue reading
To save world from the climate change apocalypse, we need to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a group of scientists claims. We have just three years to do this, or the planet will warm to levels that kick off irreversible, catastrophic climate changes. To help avoi … | Continue reading
It's been 160 years since the first cable elevator was invented and it has come to define how we build any high-rise building. A German company is looking to change that with their multi-directional elevator system that uses magnetic levitation and linear motors to allow sideways … | Continue reading
Ethical hacking is not only a cool skill to possess, it's also highly valued by employers. Learn to hack using just your Android device for $23. | Continue reading
A massive cyberattack swept across systems worldwide this week, spanning Europe, the Middle East, and the United States and affecting a variety of companies, from banking institutions to airlines to hospitals. The breach comes just weeks after the WannaCry attack that hit at leas … | Continue reading
Millions of jobs will be lost to automation as part of the so-called fourth industrial revolution, according to a recent World Economic Forum report, with an anticipated net loss of as many as five million jobs by 2020. Another recent report indicated that more than 100,000 legal … | Continue reading
It would have been easy for a show like HBO’s Silicon Valley to show off a machine learning app that classifies hotdogs with some clever post processing — drop in some fake static screenshots and call it a day. If the team wanted to create a real app for branding purposes they c … | Continue reading
Nintendo walked away with a lot of the awards for the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game industry show in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. Nintendo’s Super Mario Odyssey won all three of its nominations for the prestigious Game Critics Awards, in … | Continue reading
It’s easier than ever to skip the doctor and go straight for the at-home test these days, thanks to updated regulations and the technology to match — and for many, it’s the answer to invasive and expensive hospital visits. A new army of startups has popped up in the last couple … | Continue reading
Geckos, some of nature’s most skilled climbers, may hold the key to cleaning up the enormous amount of debris clogging up the space around Earth. Scientists at NASA and Stanford have developed a prototype robot that can grip objects in space, the same way a gecko sticks to walls. … | Continue reading
The global Petya virus has “significantly affected” the worldwide operations of TNT Express, a subsidiary of FedEx that’s based in the Netherlands. Both the domestic and international shipping services remain operational, but they are experiencing delays, the companies say. FedEx … | Continue reading
Facebook Live and YouTube Live are the two leading contenders in the battle for live streaming content supremacy, followed by Twitter and Instagram. | Continue reading
Google today will begin rolling out new sharing functionality in Google Photos, first unveiled at the company’s I/O developer conference in May. Specifically, it’s launching the AI-powered Suggested Sharing feature along with Shared Libraries, both of which are designed to make … | Continue reading
Supercell might be famous for games such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and—more recently—Brawl Stars, but its first hit mobile game was Hay Day [Free], a game that has players run a farm and trade goods with neighbors. Supercell decided to celebrate the bonds players can make … | Continue reading
The function of advertising, wrote Robert E. Lane in The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies, “is to increase people’s dissatisfaction with any current state of affairs, to create wants, and to exploit the dissatisfactions of the present. Advertising must use dissatisfaction … | Continue reading
Video streaming services have become the site for mini-platform wars unto themselves, with different services rolling out 4K, high-dynamic range video, and other improvements as they jockey for position. Today Netflix announced that it is adding the immersive Dolby Atmos sound fo … | Continue reading
The Equal Rights Center is suing Uber for denying equal access to its services for people with disabilities. According to the lawsuit, the ERC alleges that Uber has chosen not to include wheelchair-accessible cars as an option in its standard UberX fleet of vehicles, and exclude … | Continue reading