In a hole in your pants there lived a wallet. Not a nasty, dirty, wet wallet, filled with the receipts and cigarette papers and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, boring wallet that fit nothing and there nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Baggizmo wallet, and that … | Continue reading
Virgin Mobile USA today announced that it will offer an iPhone-only cellular plan that offers unlimited data, text, and calls for $50 a month. The partnership with Apple marks Virgin as the first iPhone-only carrier in the US.Called Inner Circle, Virgin is offering the deal for $ … | Continue reading
A lot of chatbots have launched on Facebook in recent months, but the Ticketmaster bot launching today is among the best that I’ve been forced to work with. Normally I avoid reaching out to businesses through Facebook (it still doesn’t seem like a natural channel to me), but the … | Continue reading
At Facebook, IT isn’t called “IT.” It’s referred to as the “enterprise engineering organization,” because at a company that operates at the scale of Facebook, IT has to be about more than pushing buttons on a vendor product. To emphasize this, the company today open sourced one … | Continue reading
Let’s step back from politics and look at some cold, hard numbers to assess the current state of cross-border investment and other transactional activity between the U.S. and China. We’ll look at one type of transaction that could be affected: venture capital investments. We’ll … | Continue reading
A true screenwriter needs to be able to write with empathy for any and all characters that exist in their world. The same is true for building great marketing personas. | Continue reading
Travis Kalanick’s fate was sealed the moment Susan Fowler hit “publish.”To be sure, Kalanick wasn’t ousted last night as the CEO of Uber solely because Fowler, an ex-Uber engineer, went public with her explosive account of sexism, harassment, and mismanagement. But her blog post … | Continue reading
Adobe today announced that it has acquired all of Mettle‘s SkyBox technologies and plug-ins for building transitions, titles and effects in VR applications and 360 degree videos. Mettle had already made a name for itself over the last few years by providing these plug-ins for Ad … | Continue reading
We posted about the Sega Forever announcement earlier this morning, and since then it seems that all five of the first batch of new (well, old, but new) free to play classic titles are available for download in the Philippines App Store. If you're curious how to get them now inst … | Continue reading
Philando Castile’s shooting death, at the hands of a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, one year ago, was numbingly similar to a string of other killings of black men by police. But Castile’s shooting was notably different in one crucial respect: Castile was licensed to … | Continue reading
The 'Millo' smart blender claims to be 4x quieter than other blenders and can be powered with a single touch. Read more...More about Health, Healthy Eating, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy, and Quiet | Continue reading
In a leafy Detroit suburb last March, federal authorities raided a one-story brick house. Their target: Rudy Carcamo-Carranza, a 23-year-old restaurant worker from El Salvador with two deportation orders, a DUI, and a hit-and-run.The incident would have seemed like a standard dep … | Continue reading
We got some hot news tips from the boys over at Riverman Media on one new and one old game of theirs. First off, MUL.MASH.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL [$2.99] will soon be getting an expansion update. (They're calling it "Expansion #1," indicating potential additional expansions in the future? … | Continue reading
German automaker Porsche has revealed the winner of a blockchain startup competition first announced in April.Source | Continue reading
With two riveting trailers, Sony has held us spellbound with the story for God of War. It introduced the first trailer last year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 2016), the big game trade show in Los Angeles. It didn’t ship that game yet, so it showed another trailer at E … | Continue reading
Despite years of economic uncertainties and the lack of a proper legal framework to help promising startups obtain capital, Argentine entrepreneurs are building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. The country is home to many of Latin America’s biggest startup success stories an … | Continue reading
Sega Forever will be a new collection of classic arcade games from the Japan-based publisher that will be released on mobile devices for free. | Continue reading
Game of Thrones returns with season 7 on July 16th, and to build maximum hype, HBO has dropped another trailer today. A compilation of the show’s remaining characters as they prepare for the great war ahead, it features what you’d expect: violence, dragons, and A+ costume design. … | Continue reading
Buffering… Buffering… Aaaaad… Fist. Through. Laptop. Screen. Yes, we all know the feeling of trying to binge on some premium Netflix or Hulu eye food, but when a slow video stream results in a frozen screen or poor image quality, the euphoria disappears — and fast. Because nothin … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: In a bid to strengthen its virtual reality offerings, Adobe is buying SkyBox technology from VR software company Mettle. Mettle makes plugins that enable 360-degree and VR tools for Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Introduced by Mettle in 2015, SkyBox plugins are designed for po … | Continue reading
Dads looking to create the next generation of geeks should hold their horses. A new study shows that waiting until later in life to procreate increases the chances that male offspring will be intelligent, aloof, and focused. Researchers from King’s College London and The Seaver A … | Continue reading
The happier your employees are, the better work is churned out. Keep your office happy with some fun team outings and rituals! | Continue reading
The past 24-36 hours have been anything but fun for Ethereum users. The network suffers from a major transaction backlog. This congestion is partially caused by yesterday’s Status ICO, although it is unclear if other factors are at play as well. Unfortunately, two exchanges have … | Continue reading
The successor to Samsung's explosive Galaxy Note 7 is could be here soon.Citing an unnamed source, Reuters reports Samsung plans to hold a launch event in New York City for the much-awaited Galaxy Note 8 smartphone in the second half of August. The report also says the Note 8 wil … | Continue reading
Growbots uses machine learning to provide sales teams with the right leads to kickstart their outbound sales process. The service, which argues that its product can save each member of a sales team a few days of work every month, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million … | Continue reading
On June 8th, K-pop icon G-Dragon released EP Kwon Ji Yong, his first solo work in four years. Unfortunately, there’s a snag: it’s ineligible to chart as an album in his home country of South Korea.South Korea’s Gaon Chart, operated by the Korean Music Content Industry Association … | Continue reading
Y Combinator is officially adding three new team members to its roster this morning. Gustaf Alstromer, formerly product leader of Airbnb’s growth team, is joining YC as a partner. Meanwhile Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky is taking a visiting partner role and Jocelyn Robancho is … | Continue reading
Google Glass just got an update — its first since 2014. The update isn’t anything big, but the usual bug fixes and performance improvements are mentioned, according to Google’s support site.Google did add Bluetooth input device support (see: keyboards and mouse) for some reason. … | Continue reading
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Periscope has a new revenue stream and a new way to attract the best live video content to its Twitter-owned app. Today Periscope launches Super Hearts — in-app purchase virtual goods that users buy for real money, send to creators as animated hearts that get them attention in t … | Continue reading
SQL is the powerful developer tool which could be your key to a high earning new career. The Ultimate SQL Bootcamp teaches you all you need to know. | Continue reading
Hey, it's been a while since I've done one of these, hasn't it? I have no idea why, but a bunch of cool games are on sale right at this very moment. I thought to myself, "You know who really likes cool games on sale? TouchArcade's readers!", and here we are. There doesn't seem to | Continue reading
It's easy to fall in love with an outfit you see someone else wearing. But finding those items to buy for yourself isn't so easy. And even when you can, an outfit that works perfectly in your mind sometimes turns out to be a disaster IRL.Technology is giving us hope, however: Pin … | Continue reading
If you’re interested in showing your AdWords ads at the very top of the first page of the search results, then you’re going to need a stellar Quality Score. | Continue reading
Most of us think “perfect” memory means never forgetting, but maybe forgetting actually helps us navigate a world that is random and ever-changing. So say two neuroscientists in a review published today in the journal Neuron. The argument is that memory isn’t supposed to act like … | Continue reading
Broadcasters on Twitter’s live-streaming app Periscope can now make money directly through the service. The company today is introducing Super Hearts, a set of virtual goods that users can send to their favorite broadcasters as a show of support. The hearts closely resemble “chee … | Continue reading
Short-term rental management startup Pillow has raised $13.5 million in new funding, and is launching a new product to provide more transparency to apartment owners when renters make their apartments available on platforms like Airbnb. A few years ago, Pillow launched to help ma … | Continue reading
Periscope will now let broadcasters make money off their live streams — so long as they're willing to jump through a few hoops.Today the live streaming service unveiled a new feature called "Super Hearts," which allows viewers to purchase in-app hearts with real money and "gift" … | Continue reading
Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind is continuing to partner with new UK hospitals, announcing today that its Streams app will be used by the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. This is the first time that Streams has been introduced outside of London. The app doesn’t use arti … | Continue reading
One of the open internet’s fiercest defenders has a new boss Continue reading… | Continue reading
Stefanie Pender is a hybrid artist, who has spent 15 years mastering the ancient craft of glassblowing. Now she has built a special robot to try and translate the complex knowledge and muscle memory required to blow glass.For Pender, human-machine collaboration can inform a new a … | Continue reading
Being a webmaster (especially a qualified and certified webmaster) means mastering a wide ranging skill set. It isn’t enough to just know coding or graphic design or video and animation creation — you have to know something about all those disciplines as well as how they work tog … | Continue reading
Following speculation from last week, Snapchat has introduced a new location service: Snap Maps. The new feature, which aims to hook you up with nearby users, essentially lets you follow where your friends are hanging out and what they’re up to. In a way, Snap Maps is supposed to … | Continue reading
Borderlands studio Gearbox will publish Epic's sandbox survival game Fortnite on a disc in Europe on 21st July.That's four days before the game becomes available to download digitally, on 25th July.And it's around a year before the game's planned move to free-to-play, which will … | Continue reading
Way back in 2012, Disney and Netflix signed an exclusivity agreement: starting in 2016, Netflix had the right to start streaming Disney films, including those from Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, in the same window when they would begin hitting television networks. Netflix has anno … | Continue reading
All the way back in 2010 the Turbo Grafx Game Box hit the App Store. We reviewed its initial release and thought it was amazing- Particularly as it was constantly updated with new games until it finally vanished from the App Store a good five or more years ago. Around the same ti … | Continue reading
Sea of Thieves is a silly pirate game where you can board an enemy ship by being shot out of a cannon. Microsoft’s Rare studio has been working on it for a few years, and it is looking better each time I see it. The title is a massively multiplayer online game where you can […] | Continue reading
Snapchat will soon let its millions of daily users share their location with friends using a new feature the company is calling Snap Map. From the default camera view, you pinch with two fingers to zoom out and see the map. Friends who have opted into sharing their location throu … | Continue reading