While VR is more popular with consumers, AR technologies have the potential to transform commercial industries like healthcare. | Continue reading
Tony Branda, chief data and analytics officer at mortgage lender Embrace Home Loans, discusses how the company chose the right partner to integrate and manage its marketing technology stack. | Continue reading
India-based messaging service Hike this week became the first chat app in the country to offer its users a digital payment service. But the move also puts the company in direct competition with Paytm, perhaps the market’s leading fintech service provider. | Continue reading
Facebook remains Finland’s most widely used social network. But daily use of most other mainstream social platforms is rising much faster among the country’s internet users. | Continue reading
Madrid, Spain-based (and U.S. incorporated) edtech startup Lingokids is on a mission to get young kids learning a second language. The company, previously known as Monkimun, offers language lessons in the form of interactive games for children aged 2-6 and delivered via an onlin … | Continue reading
Being a CEO—even one of the world's best CEOs—doesn't mean you have to stop partying.Just ask Elon Musk.SEE ALSO: Has Elon Musk finally ... cracked?The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX came in eighth place on the 2017 Glassdoor Highest Rated CEOs list this year.But that's not the best par … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is showing a pickup in bullish momentum but technical indicators are giving mixed signals.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 06/21/2017 – New Channel Forming appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Key Highlights Creditbit price after failing to move above the 0.00070BTC resistance against the Bitcoin moved down. There are two bearish trend lines with resistance at 0.00040BTC and 0.00045BTC forming on the 7-day chart of CRB/BTC (data feed from Coinmarketcap). The price is t … | Continue reading
Mobike, the Chinese bike-sharing company that raised $600 million last week, has lifted the lid on its plans to expand beyond rides and move into services. The Beijing-based company announced last week that it plans to expand to reach 200 cities before the end of the year, many … | Continue reading
The family of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who was fatally shot in 2014 by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, reached a settlement with the City of Ferguson on Tuesday more than two years after filing a wrongful death lawsuit. The judge, Richard Webber, agre … | Continue reading
Netflix launches a “choose your own adventure” style cartoon for children, Uber adds tipping as the first change in its “180 days of change” campaign, Skype outage causes connectivity issues and Boom has 76 pre-orders for its supersonic Jet. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
10 years ago on June 29th, 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, the world’s first multi-touch smartphone. Since then, the iPhone has revolutionized our visual communication, from the rise of vertical video and a new world of UX design, to real-time journalism and ubiquitous, user-fri … | Continue reading
Chris Lattner, a longtime Apple software guru, has left his post running software for Tesla’s Autopilot division after just six months. Lattner announced his departure in a tweet late Tuesday. Earlier in the evening, Tesla announced that it had hired leading AI expert Andrej Karp … | Continue reading
Smart beds are here to save your relationship. First, Smartduvet came up with a self-making bed. Now the company is back with an Indiegogo campaign to fund a dual climate-controlled comforter (don't worry, it still works with the self-making feature).SEE ALSO: From vibrating pil … | Continue reading
The adorable action-adventure virtual reality game Moss debuted at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo last week for Sony’s PlayStation VR. It’s the first game from Polyarc Games, a studio founded by ex-Bungie developers. Moss takes place in a fairy tale setting that spring … | Continue reading
It's June again, which means it's that time of year when Facebook sticks a rainbow on several of its features in celebration of Pride. This year, to the delight of many, the company went so far as to create a rainbow Pride reaction to join in with the hahas, wows, and other well- … | Continue reading
JanSport is dabbling in smart-tech fabric, and they want your backpack to be just as social as you. According to Steve Munn, President of JanSport: “A [backpack is a] place to put something to eat, something to drink and something to wear — [that’s] what’s most important. Now, it … | Continue reading
The GamesBeat team is back home after a long week in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles. E3 2017 had plenty to get fans excited, and now it’s time to look back to assess the show, the games, and everything else on this week’s episode of th … | Continue reading
We’re all in a love/hate relationship with social media. For all the obvious benefits, studies are now showing Facebook and Twitter could actually be detrimental to our well-being. Yet we push on. But what motivates us to share our lives with friends and strangers on social media … | Continue reading
Tesla has hired deep learning and computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy in a key Autopilot role. Karpathy most recently held a role as a researcher at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence nonprofit backed by Elon Musk. He has an extensive background in AI-related fields, having … | Continue reading
At least 15 people are dead and around 18 wounded following a car bombing led by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab that targeted a government building in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. According to Mohamed Hussein, a senior Somali police officer, the death toll is expected to … | Continue reading
As we've talked about a few weeks back, Amazon Prime members have an easy and free way to support TouchArcade simply by linking their accounts to Twitch and, as Twitch Prime members, subscribe and support our Twitch channel for free. If that wasn't enough reason to go ahead and g … | Continue reading
On most Tuesday evenings in the United States, if you listen carefully, you can hear a crowd of people groaning loudly at their computers. That’s because the popular PC gaming platform Steam typically goes offline for maintenance for a short period around this time. And now is on … | Continue reading
Few people know coding better than Rob Percival. In his latest course he teaches you everything you need to become a hot-shot web developer. | Continue reading
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced this evening that directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are leaving the Han Solo standalone film over “creative differences.” Lord and Miller gained clout in Hollywood for writing and directing The Lego Movie, as well as 21 Jump … | Continue reading
There seems to be an unspoken rule for OS users to stay in their lane. You’re a Mac user or a PC user, full stop. So when you want to make the leap from one to the other — either because you’re switching teams or you want to try both — there can be a bit of a learning curve. I’m … | Continue reading
On the heels of what must feel to employees like the longest six months in Uber‘s eight-year history, the company last week tried ending relentless news reports about its corporate misbehavior by encouraging its CEO, Travis Kalanick, to take a leave of absence. (He has obliged, … | Continue reading
Version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard is almost here, which means you can soon send your friends vomiting emoji! Here are a few Emoji 5 sample images: And our favorites are: Hijab: Finally. Breast feeding: Emoji representation matters. Face with monacle: Because sometimes you nee … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingDemocratic Hopes: Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff are facing off today in a high-stakes special election in Georgia’s sixth district—a conservative stronghold where a liberal victory could send a significant message about the trajectory of U.S. … | Continue reading
Twitch, the popular game-streaming site owned by Amazon, just inked a deal with one of the most popular game developers to broadcast a host of game tournaments exclusively on the service. The two-year deal between Twitch and Blizzard surrounds some of the biggest titles in espor … | Continue reading
GUEST: What an unexpected twist in the tale of bots. A McKinsey write-up says the bots are stumbling. Google’s Igor Markov warns that AI could turn into the plague. Yet some of the world’s largest companies have recruited tens of thousands of workers to build AI and chatbots. The … | Continue reading
Good news, emoji fans: 56 new characters are officially ready to make their debut. But that doesn't mean the wait is over just yet, as it will take some time before companies will make the update available.Unicode, the organization that oversees the creation of new emoji, release … | Continue reading
Facebook is taking some heat for the pride reactions roll-out this month. The social media network added a rainbow reaction to its standard reactions in support of LGBTQ pride month. The problem: in places like Russia, users don’t have access to the new reactions. This isn’t the … | Continue reading
Soldo, the London-based fintech startup that offers a multi-user spending account, first launched for consumers and since tailored to businesses too, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. Read More | Continue reading
The TechCrunch Summer Party is a thing of tradition and we hope you can make it out this year. Like in year’s past we’ll gather on the spacious grounds of August Capital in Menlo Park and enjoy an evening of cocktails and the spirit of entrepreneurship. Read More | Continue reading
Nobody can accuse Google of not moving as fast as it can to make up the considerable gap in available cloud regions between its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its two biggest competitors: AWS and Microsoft Azure. Today, the company is launching its previously announced Sydney r … | Continue reading
One thing you can say for Michael Bay’s work: it’s consistent. Bay’s name on a film project guarantees a fast-paced story filled with explosions and visually arresting action happening almost too fast to track. So it’s no particular surprise that Transformers: The Last Knight — B … | Continue reading
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Eating too much? A Dartmouth researcher thinks he may have a solution to all those who hate manually writing in all the foods they eat throughout the day into an app – a wearable system that detects how much you chew and enters it for you.The device, created by graduate student … | Continue reading
Emil Rensing, the former chief digital officer of premium cable network Epix, pled guilty today to defrauding his employer out of more than $7 million, according to the Department of Justice. Rensing was first arrested and charged in April 2016 for having used shell companies and … | Continue reading
AI assistants like Siri and Cortana are making voice commands the go-to way we interact with our speakers and smartphones, but on our computers, most of us are still chained to the keyboard. Microsoft, which is in the midst of a major push to put AI in just about everything, want … | Continue reading
More companies at the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow are targeting a PC gaming audience. Alienware had a booth on the E3 show floor to reveal new prebuilt rigs with AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper CPU. Razer was showing its new Razer Blade Stealth with a smaller bezel and Intel … | Continue reading
Why do democracies fail?It’s suddenly a very urgent and important question. Daniel Ziblatt’s new book arrives just in time to deliver a powerful and supremely relevant answer.Don’t be misled by the aggressively unsensational title, the careful prose, or the hyper-technical charts … | Continue reading
Splunk I’ve been using Splunk for almost 10 years, after first being introduced to it as a Security tool while I was working at a major Australian bank. So impressed with the product, I joined the company, and have been a Professional Services consultant with them ever since. Wha … | Continue reading
Georgia Special Election Results:South Carolina Special Election Results:Voters head to the polls on Tuesday in special elections to fill House seats in Georgia and South Carolina, vacated by congressmen who joined the Trump administration.The most watched of the two races is Geo … | Continue reading
Dashcam footage seen by investigators and members of the courtroom during the trial of former police officer Jeronimo Yanez was made public on Tuesday, shedding new light on the shooting of 32-year-old Philando Castile. Yanez was previously accused of second-degree manslaughter a … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesVoters head to the polls in Georgia and South Carolina to fill House seats vacated by congressmen who joined the Trump administration. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he has not talked with President Trump about whether he believes Russia interfered i … | Continue reading
I can’t tell you for sure if we’ve reached peak GAN, but there are far more people messing around with them than a year ago. Two undergrads at Williams College taught themselves introductory machine learning and read a lot of papers on the now almost mainstream Generative Advers … | Continue reading