To paraphrase science fiction writer William Gibson, the farm of the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Read More | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.From Photoshop v1.0 to today’s Creative Cloud suite of apps, Adobe has remained the industry standard within the design world. And if you want to stay plugged in, too, you’ll nee … | Continue reading
Every high-rise building in London the U.K. government has tested for combustible siding has failed the safety test, the government said Monday, bringing the total to 75. The tests, which are focused on the buildings’ exteriors, were ordered after the Grenfell Tower caught fire e … | Continue reading
Republicans are trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s mandate forcing nearly all Americans to pay a tax if they don’t have health insurance. But they’ve just proposed a new penalty of their own for people who go without coverage: a six-month waiting period.Under a provision … | Continue reading
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube have launched a partnership aimed at combating terrorists online. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism builds on several existing initiatives, which are designed to scrub terrorist recruitment material from the internet and prom … | Continue reading
Evernote today announced its apps for BlackBerry and Windows Phone will be discontinued on June 29, 2017. The company today also sent an email notifying its users who use the apps that support is ending. This news is by no means a surprise — many apps and services over the past f … | Continue reading
The Muslim three-day Eid al-Fitr festival, marking the end of the month of Ramadan, began this weekend in parts of the world where sightings of the new moon were made. During Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, devout Muslims must abstain from food, drink, and sex from dawn un … | Continue reading
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Samsung has released the Notebook 9 Pro, its first laptop with an S Pen. Announced at Computex last month, the Notebook 9 Pro features a 360-degree hinge allowing it to operate as a laptop and a tablet. It comes in 13.3-inch and 15-inch variations. Both versions featur … | Continue reading
Vimeo has decided not to launch the subscription video service it announced in a shareholder letter last November and planned to unveil sometime in 2018. The letter outlined Vimeo’s intention to spend tens of millions on new original content in an effort to “follow in Netflix’s f … | Continue reading
Hello Hearthstone [Free] players, and welcome to another Touchstone Tavern, our roundup of the best stories and videos from last week. As you've probably heard by now, we got some great news last week about changes in the card packs, changes that should help free-to-play players … | Continue reading
Plaid wants to make it easier for financial services companies to serve consumers and businesses, but it sees significant holes in the fintech ecosystem. As a result, the company has issued a Y Combinator like “request for startups” to tackle particular issues where it believes … | Continue reading
I confess up front to being a budget hawk. I basically believe that as long as the Pentagon is still buying two manned fighter planes after the unmanned revolution, there is more than enough money going to the Defense Department—because if money were really tight, one or both of … | Continue reading
Nintendo’s SNES Classic announcement this morning means 21 stellar retro games are coming back in a mini-console bundle this September. The list includes some obvious favorites, like The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, Super Metroid, and Earthbound. But one notable addition wo … | Continue reading
The Nokia 6 will be hitting Amazon in July for $229, supporting all T-Mobile bands and being partially supported on AT&T. | Continue reading
A startup called Rythm has announced Dreem, a device designed by Yves Béhar that will supposedly help you sleep better. The very sleek device uses white noise via bone conduction to help you get to sleep quicker. It monitors your brain function during deep sleep and synchronizes … | Continue reading
This post contains minor spoilers through Season 6, Episode 10 of Veep.The finale of the last season of Veep found Selina Meyer, mediocre politician and terrible person, laid low for her shortcomings. She had lost the U.S. presidency. The one real achievement she had accomplished … | Continue reading
When Nintendo released the NES Classic last year, it came bundled with a surprisingly robust collection of 30 games. They ran the gamut from classics like the original Super Mario Bros. trilogy to more obscure titles like StarTropics, striking a nice balance that covered a wide r … | Continue reading
“Social media spark[s] a revelation that we, the people, have a voice, and through the democratisation of content and ideas we can once again unite around common passions, inspire movements, and ignite change.” – Brian Solis Social media has become a prominent part of every brand … | Continue reading
Digital asset exchange GDAX is moving to issue refunds after a stunning flash crash last week stoked anger amongst affected traders. Source | Continue reading
Last month, hailstones as big as baseballs pounded the Denver area, knocking down power lines, damaging homes, and smashing through windshields “like tissue paper,” The Washington Post reported. The hailstorm hit during rush hour, when lots of cars where on the road, and ended up … | Continue reading
The transformation of Dell into Linux hardware maker is nothing short of extraordinary. It started in 2012, when Dell’s Project Sputnik started to offer Ubuntu pre-installed on specific developer-class laptops, like the Dell XPS series. Five years later, Dell is offering Ubuntu o … | Continue reading
Today marks the official end of Google Talk, or Gchat. As Google warned earlier this year, the company is making anyone still on the older messaging platform transition to Hangouts today. Gchat debuted in 2005, and was followed in 2013 by Hangouts. Still, for years, Google has be … | Continue reading
Fidget spinners — yeah, they're still a thing. So why not capitalize on the phase if you can?Ben Parnas, an electrical engineer at Formlabs, and his buddy Greg Daneault, an associate software engineer at Carbon Black, did just that. The two created a fidget spinner that may be ev … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has a Twitter problem. In addition to his penchant for delivering surreal, stream-of-consciousness rants at any time of day on the microblogging platform, Donald Trump can't seem to stop deleting tweets. Many times, his tweets are deleted because of typos, including … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the most noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Some awesome games got 64-bit compatibility in the last week! But besides that, some other games got some pretty cool content updates, too. Of co … | Continue reading
We are still searching for innovative startups that want to launch on our Disrupt SF stage and aren’t afraid to get a little competitive! The winning company takes home the legendary Disrupt Cup and an equity-free check for $50,000 — not to mention a place in the startup history … | Continue reading
Lyft will offer pickup suggestions in the latest version of the Android or iOS app, making it easier for drivers to pick riders up without having to do traffic gymnastics, while also hopefully saving riders time. The pickup suggestions only trigger when it’ll actually save you t … | Continue reading
To understand what the world will be like in ten years, it isn’t enough to look back at how different things were a decade ago and presume the differences will be comparable. The pace of technological change is speeding up so quickly, says Astro Teller, who leads the arm of Googl … | Continue reading
Oars + Alps, the men’s grooming line for fellas too fancy to buy their organic soaps and moisturizing supplies from Dr. Bronner’s bar soaps, Tom’s of Maine and/or Kiehl’s, has raised $1.3 million in a seed round of financing. Read More | Continue reading
Nintendo just dropped a bomb in the sedate post-E3 summer game news cycle by announcing the SNES Classic, a miniature $79 version of the classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System preloaded with 21 fan-favorite SNES games. In other words, it’s basically a SNES version of last ye … | Continue reading
Okja is a lot of things. It’s the latest intensely specific vision from Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho. It’s a ham-fisted environmental parable. It’s a sweet coming-of-age story, a wonky 21st century iteration of E.T., and another thrilling opportunity for Tilda Swinton to be … | Continue reading
Dieses Jahr erscheint ja bekanntlich noch der Blockbuster "Spider-Man: Homecoming", aber fast viel spannender noch dürfte die Game-Adaption sein, die im nächsten Jahr für die PS4 erscheinen wird. Zu "Spider-Man" wurde nun ein erster Gameplay-Trailer... | Continue reading
The OnePlus 5 is out and you probably already know if you're going to buy one or not. If you're still on the fence, here are the top five reasons to buy the OnePlus 5. | Continue reading
A few days ago we wrote that the TCG/MMORPG Eminence: Xander's Tales was ready to go into open beta after quite some time in development. While the open beta is still coming, it has been pushed back a month to the end of July. Apparently, the game utilizes a third-party tool for … | Continue reading
The cryptocurrency price rally may soon hit a temporary hurdle, leading to a slight fall, before picking up the pace again. The forecast was made by Fred Wilson, a cryptocurrency investor, and partner at Union Square Ventures. Wilson’s prediction closely follows a general price d … | Continue reading
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin was at the center of a debunked story suggesting that he had died this weekend.Source | Continue reading
Peer-to-peer (P2P) online fundraising platform JustGiving has been acquired by Blackbaud, a U.S.-based software and services provider for not-for-profit organizations. Blackbaud is paying £95 million ($120 million) to procure “all outstanding equity interests of JustGiving,” acco … | Continue reading
ViewSonic has announced the XG2530, a 25-inch 240Hz gaming monitor, according to 144HzMonitors. The 1080p monitor features a TN panel with a 1ms response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, FreeSync support, two HDMI ports (one 2.0, one 1.4), two USB 3.0 ports, and a DisplayPort.While 4 … | Continue reading
Panasonic is planning to release a new hanger in Japan that’ll deodorize your clothes. The deodorizing hanger, as it’s called on Panasonic’s website, apparently not only annihilates scent from your shirts and jackets, but suppresses pollen, too. The hanger relies on a proprietary … | Continue reading
Square Enix’s mobile role-playing game Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius is celebrating the first anniversary of its worldwide launch, which happened on June 29, 2016. The free-to-play app has hit over 23 million downloads since then. Brave Exvius is the No. 973 game in the Apple App S … | Continue reading
Slated for a launch on September 29th, the Super NES Classic Edition is a console kit similar to the original console that launched more than 20 years ago. Like the NES Classic edition that came before it, the new Super NES allows you to play retro Nintendo games in high-definit … | Continue reading
A few months ago, amid much fanfare, Facebook started rolling out its new tool against fake news which warns users when they try to post fake stories on the platform.SEE ALSO: Facebook has new safeguards for profile pictures, but it's just a first stepThe feature, announced in De … | Continue reading
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It’s easy to see machine learning as a creativity-killing, bubble-inducing agent invading our Facebook News Feeds and dumbing-down our Netflix habits. But increasingly machine learning is finding a home helping humans break their own internal biases to enhance rather than subjug … | Continue reading
Nintendo has revealed details for the SNES Classic. The standalone mini console will feature 21 games, including Super Mario World, Earthbound, Super Mario Kart, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. But the most surprising inclusion is Star Fox 2, the unreleased sequel to … | Continue reading
Amazon’s new Echo Show is shipping this week, giving yet another platform for Alexa to exist on. The Echo Show is a lot like prior Echo devices in that you can control it entirely with your voice and it can hear you from across the room. But the Show is the first Amazon Alexa dev … | Continue reading
Honesty is 100 percent the best policy, especially when it comes to selling your underperforming social network to the general public. Which is why Twitter’s new ad is so damn good. It’s part of the company’s new #SeeEverySide marketing campaign and is supposed to show ”how large … | Continue reading