London is one of the top financial capitals of the world and London’s unique position gives Britain a stakeholder seat in the global financial markets. Breaking news suggests that Britain might soon be warming up to the idea of having Bitcoin run side by side with the Pound Sterl … | Continue reading
Do you like single-player card games like Solitaire but wish they had more explosions and stuff? Then developer Nathan Meunier's Missile Cards is for you. Released on desktop a couple of months ago, Missile Cards has you defending a city from incoming attacks by playing a card ga … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: The magic of machine learning is its ability to uncover patterns to return astonishing results. Things get dark when suddenly you realize that those sophisticated machine learning-powered recommendation engines are laying bare the secrets you’ve been hiding and revealin … | Continue reading
The rise of online video has been staggering over the past few years. It simply dominates the way content is consumed online and the statistics surrounding it do nothing to disprove this: More video content is uploaded to the internet in 30 days than the major US television netwo … | Continue reading
Hello, fellow fidget spinner enthusiasts. Are you sick of how nobody appreciates the cool stunts and tricks you're always doing in the back of class? Does it make you hopping mad that you can't pair your fidget spinner to your phone over Bluetooth? Are you ready to challenge the … | Continue reading
We've known since its announcement that SteamWorld Dig 2 would be a Nintendo Switch exclusive upon its launch. What we didn't know is what other platforms it would be arriving on and when. Now developer Image & Form Games has confirmed that its side-scrolling sequel will arrive o … | Continue reading
Over the last four decades, the percentage of Americans who are solidly in the middle class has shrunk, from 61 to 50 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. Some of those who have left the middle class are doing better, and others are doing worse. As the Washington Post c … | Continue reading
GUEST: AI research has long been the domain of universities, public institutions, and large corporations. Thanks to some amazing developments in the field over the past few years (and a whole lot of hype), every startup, VC, agency, and hot dog cart is scrambling to find a way to … | Continue reading
T-Mobile announced earlier this year that it would begin supporting LTE-U sometime this spring, and today the company announced that it’s making good on its word, as it starts rolling out support for the new wireless standard in six cities.If you live in Bellevue, WA; Brooklyn, … | Continue reading
Seattle’s decision to hike its minimum wage up to $13 an hour—on its way to $15—ended up costing its low-wage workers time on the job, hundreds of dollars of annual income, and a shot at a better livelihood.That is a reasonable conclusion one could draw from a blockbuster, if not … | Continue reading
iOS 11 is finally available for everyone to try – and if you’re willing to put up with some bugs, you probably should. It’s not an exaggeration to say iOS 11 is one of the biggest updates to Apple’s mobile OS yet. This is especially true if you’re an iPad user, thanks to numerous … | Continue reading
Amazon will officially release the Show in a few days, but in the meantime, the company is introducing a long-awaited intercom feature for existing Echo devices. The addition uses Drop-In, a teleconferencing feature introduced on the Show that lets close friends and family membe … | Continue reading
The Fourth of July will be here soon, and many Americans will need to figure out a way to tell the difference between hot dogs and... other types of food. Thankfully there's an app for that. | Continue reading
Maintaining a high-quality blogging process can be time-consuming. Here’s how you can break each different stage down into manageable chunks. | Continue reading
Autotalks has been developing technologies that allow vehicles to talk to anything — V2X, to the nerds in the know. It’s one of the technologies that will enable fully autonomous vehicles to roam our roads. But where does that leave motorcycles, which will still have riders who … | Continue reading
Developer Tomás Garcia has a few of the more notable augmented reality demos since ARKit, Apple’s augmented reality tool, was released earlier this month. But his newest one is the most impressive yet. Standing in the backyard of his office, Garcia trains his iPhone 7’s screen at … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies suffered widespread losses today, as traders took profits and rebalanced their portfolios. Source | Continue reading
For Joshua Johnson, the host of 1A, an NPR talk show inspired by the First Amendment, Americans can better thrive despite their differences and disagreements by taking inspiration from the courageous lead character in a modern classic.“In Westside story, our Romeo, Tony, interven … | Continue reading
The NES Classic Edition controller has an absurdly short cable. The SNES Classic Edition wouldn’t make the same mistake. Would it? Well, kind of not. Nintendo has told Kotaku’s Jason Shreier that SNES Classic Edition controllers will have cords that are 5 feet long. By comparison … | Continue reading
It's no secret that Apple is betting that AR, and specifically its ARKit, will be a game-changer for the iOS ecosystem, and after seeing some recent examples, I can see why the company is so confident. In the first video, developer Matthew Hallberg shows off his Minecraft [$6.99] … | Continue reading
McMansion Hell is a Tumblr blog that highlights the absurdity of giant real estate properties and the ridiculous staging and photography that are omnipresent in their sales listings. The blog, started by 23-year-old Johns Hopkins graduate student Kate Wagner, began as a way to po … | Continue reading
As the world gets ready to celebrate the iPhone’s 10th anniversary on Thursday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City gave a sneak peek at its experimental Talking Pictures exhibit today, which invites artists to communicate to one another only in photos snapped on smar … | Continue reading
If smartphone hardware rumors are on the money, and they are usually at least in the ballpark (with the exception of transparent, bendable phones; apparently forever doomed to be mocked up in Photoshop) — then a 3D depth sensor is coming to the front-facing camera of a handset n … | Continue reading
Jennifer Doudna remembers a moment when she realized how important CRIPSR—the gene-editing technique that she co-discovered—was going to be. It was in 2014, and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur had contacted Sam Sternberg, a biochemist who was then working in Doudna’s lab. Sternberg … | Continue reading
Amazon has a new software update for its Echo products, enabling users with multiple Echos to use them as a room-to-room intercom system. The new feature is rolling out over the next few days, and will be available for the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. With the intercom features … | Continue reading
Apple’s new mobile operating system iOS 11, which ships to the public in September, will give users a better understanding over how apps are using their location data. One notable change, which will be immediately obvious, is a more prominent blue status bar that appears when an … | Continue reading
The Senate Republican health-care bill would increase the ranks of the uninsured by 22 million over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office found on Monday in an analysis that could determine the proposal’s fate on Capitol Hill.The CBO’s highly-anticipated report projected just … | Continue reading
The banking industry’s interest in cryptocurrencies stretches beyond just blockchain technology. Barclay, the UK-based banking giant, has made it evident in its recent interactions with the country’s regulatory body – Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). According to reports on var … | Continue reading
If you’re ever in need of perspective on whether our society is in true upheaval or if we’re only experiencing the same cultural battles that have raged forever, old Geraldo clips on YouTube will always offer some clarity. Recently I found myself binging on the talk show’s covera … | Continue reading
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The Trump administration finally got some good news from a federal court Monday. In the twin cases challenging the president’s executive order barring entry into the U.S. by nationals of six majority Muslim countries, the Supreme Court handed the government a genuine but very pa … | Continue reading
A group of universities in China are teaming up to research blockchain technology and its potential impact on financial fraud.Source | Continue reading
How can the “craziest and most eccentric alligator handler in Florida” prove his lunacy? You find a dinosaur and let it eat you. Or at least let the close relative of one take a chomp at your face. The ‘Gator Crusader‘ decided to find out what it’s like to get eaten by an alligat … | Continue reading
Nintendo's delightful boxing game Arms has a new trick up its spiraled sleeves with the addition of LAN support.Added as part of its version 1.1 update, this will allow players to hook up two nearby Switches using a wired LAN adapter, which will cut down on any lag - a necessity … | Continue reading
For those looking to test out the upcoming iOS 11 update, you’ll now be able to download the public beta version of the software from Apple’s website. Announced earlier this month during WWDC, iOS 11 comes with your standard tweaks and refinements, but also a huge focus on making … | Continue reading
Today, private spaceflight venture Blue Origin announced its plans to manufacture the company’s new rocket engine, the BE-4, at a state-of-the-art facility in Huntsville, Alabama. It’s an interesting move for the company, which has been mostly developing the engine at its headqua … | Continue reading
Apple’s iOS 11 public beta begins today, and it brings with it a huge number of improvements and changes. While there are UI tweaks, feature additions, drag and drop, and lots of improvements for the iPad, a change to the way screenshots work might seem bigger. Like many people, … | Continue reading
Are you excited about trying out the new features coming up with iOS 11. If that’s the case, Apple just released the first public beta of iOS 11. It is now available to download for everyone. You don’t need to pay $99 for a developer account to download it. But remember, it is s … | Continue reading
Josh, Joe, David and Adam chat extensively about the OnePlus 5, LG V30, and more. Enjoy Android Authority Podcast Episode #108. | Continue reading
Created by designer James Patten, the "Lift" light uses the shape memory properties of nitinol to move and interact without motors. The fixture is temporarily on display at The Shop at A/D/O in Brooklyn, NY. Read more...More about Tech, Art, Design, Light, and Design Arts | Continue reading
I’ve been playing with a beta version of iOS 11 on a 10.5-inch iPad Pro for the past few weeks. While the final version of iOS 11 is not coming until later this fall, Apple just launched the public beta. Here’s a preview of what you can expect. If you’re using an iPad, get ready … | Continue reading
Kristy Tillman is the head of communication design at Slack. In our 20th episode, she talks about what it’s like building a team from scratch and how brand and communication design plays a role in an organization. She also explains why diversity is less about numbers and more ab … | Continue reading
If you don’t already have two-factor authentication turned on for your Amazon account, now is as good a time as any. At a recent summit held by the SANS Institute, a private information security and cybersecurity company, it was noted that because the Alexa app does not require 2 … | Continue reading
A mobile version of Neo Scavenger, the turn-based hex-grid survival game, is closer to being a reality according to the game's developer. In a recent blog post, Daniel Fedor described the technical difficulties he had to face while trying to port Neo Scavenger on iOS and how he h … | Continue reading
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iOS 11 is coming.This fall, iPhones and iPads will get the latest version of Apple's mobile software, first unveiled earlier in June. Developers have had access to a beta preview of iOS 11 since then, but on Monday it becomes available as a public beta. That means anyone who want … | Continue reading
Apple’s iPad isn’t getting the same kind of love from consumers it enjoyed in its early days. Perhaps that’s a why Apple is now lavishing it with so much attention. iOS 11, which enters public beta today, is a love letter to the tablet, giving it the kind of radical makeover no l … | Continue reading
The Israeli government suspended its plans to create a space where men and women can pray together at the Western Wall, in a move critics say will deepen the divide between Jews in Israel and those in the diaspora.The decision marks a reversal of the government’s approval in 2016 … | Continue reading