“If you are cold, put on a sweater, perhaps an overcoat, and maybe even turn up the heat,” Justice Stephen Breyer told his colleagues from the Supreme Court bench Monday. “But don’t set fire to the house.”Breyer favors deliberative rhetoric; but Monday he was, himself, in a low-k … | Continue reading
GUEST: Advances in artificial intelligence and deep learning have changed our lives. We are already using it even without realizing it: AI helps to power Google’s search engine, Tesla’s self-driving cars, Apple’s voice assistant, and Amazon’s shopping recommendations. The impact … | Continue reading
Knowing of the significant contributions foreign-born founders have made to the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the broader U.S. economy, NVCA has long championed the creation of a Startup Visa for talented immigrant entrepreneurs to remain in the U.S. if they can demonstrate thei … | Continue reading
Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who spent a year in a North Korean prison before being released last week in a coma, died Monday, his family said. He was 22.“We would like to thank the wonderful professionals at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who di … | Continue reading
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I remember quite a few years ago when a very ambitious card game called Eminence: Xander's Tale got successfully funded on Kickstarter and also become quite popular in our Upcoming Games forum thread. And then it went pretty silent, with the last post in our forum dating back to … | Continue reading
Apple's new ARKit will help to bring an onslaught of new AR games and apps to your iPhone, and at least one of them might wind up saving you some headaches on your trips to IKEA.The Swedish home goods behemoth was mentioned as a potential AR partner at Apple's Worldwide Developer … | Continue reading
Violent extremists march over the bodies of the innocent in an effort to rip societies apart and rebuild them in a darker image.While extremists do sometimes fight each other directly, they rely on the tool of terrorism to aim their fire at the center of society. The immediate ef … | Continue reading
A mysterious “Sponsored Content” opt-out setting recently appeared in Spotify, and now the streaming giant has confirmed to TechCrunch what it’s about. Spotify is now testing a new “Sponsored Song” ad unit that a company spokesperson tells us is “a product test for labels to pro … | Continue reading
Drug-resistant bacteria is rapidly outpacing the development of new drugs. A 2016 report, The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, estimates that globally 700,000 people die each year from drug-resistant bacterial infections. Part of the problem is that developing new drugs has be … | Continue reading
A new system by University of California, Santa Barbara researchers Yasamin Mostofi and Chitra R. Karanam uses two drones, a massive Wi-Fi antenna, and a little interpolation to literally see through solid walls. The system is two-fold. The one drone blasts Wi-Fi through the str … | Continue reading
Back in April Glitch Games, who have previously brought us such adventure game gems as the Forever Lost series and A Short Tale, announced their newest project, a creepy new adventure originally titled The Bunker but renamed All That Remains. As that original title alluded to, th … | Continue reading
Seven episodes into the return of Twin Peaks, even a devoted viewer might be forgiven for not knowing exactly what David Lynch’s 18-hour Showtime revival of his most beloved property is about. He’s unfurled dozens of story threads—including a murder investigation, various bits of … | Continue reading
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive has been widely criticised by fans recently over its legal threats shutting down popular modding software OpenIV. However, it also recently shut down some less benevolent GTA5 mods that enabled cheating in GTA Online. Weirder, the g … | Continue reading
Of the hundreds of noble efforts to teach kids to code, Fuze is one of them. Fuze has created its own programming language, Fuze BASIC, a riff on the classic BASIC programming language that was the foundation of Microsoft as a company and a formative experience for anyone who typ … | Continue reading
Apple Music has a new subscription option for you to choose from, as first spotted by TechCrunch, but you’ll have to dig a bit to find it. The music streaming service added a $99 annual subscription plan — a few months ago, according to Apple — to go along with the monthly, famil … | Continue reading
The task was to design an overall reconstruction of the suburban house in a retro style in Lány for weekend living. | Continue reading
Last year, Apple was ordered to refund ebook readers who purchased certain books between April 1st, 2010 and May 21st, 2012. The company paid out $400 million to impacted consumers who should have seen credits added to their various accounts, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and … | Continue reading
Researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) recently made an unexpected discovery while trying to improve chatbots. The bots — known as “dialog agents” — were creating their own language. Using machine learning algorithms, dialog agents were left to … | Continue reading
The Bank of Thailand has issued new remarks that highlight its evolving thinking on blockchain and distributed ledgers.Source | Continue reading
In the action-packed second half of Orange Is the New Black’s fifth season, a number of horrific events occurred. A prison guard stalked and kidnapped women. He ripped clumps of hair off Red, leaving her scalp bald and bloody. He broke Alex’s arm. Suzanne had a psychotic breakdow … | Continue reading
At home the American president is beset by questions about his ties with Russia. But in Syria, U.S.-Russian ties are unraveling. On Monday, after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane for the first time in the civil war, the Russian Defense Ministry suspended a hotline f … | Continue reading
[appicon]Clash of Clans [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clash-of-clans/id529479190?mt=8"] is getting ready to introduce June's balancing update to the game, and today the developers announced the new defensive and offensive content that will be added to the game. S … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley is Mike Judge and Alec Berg’s biting comedy about the American tech industry, now in its fourth season. Every week, we’ll be taking one idea, scene, or joke and explain how it ties to the real Silicon Valley and speaks to an issue at the heart of the industry and i … | Continue reading
Time Warner and Snap Inc. have announced a new deal that will bring increased ad spending and the development of new made-for-Snapchat shows. People familiar with the deal tell TechCrunch that the deal is valued at about $100M spent over the next two years. The newly created sho … | Continue reading
LG is offering US customers a longer 24 month warranty with the new LG G6, but could the company be doing more to restore trust? | Continue reading
French President Emmanuel Macron’s decisive win in the second round of the country’s legislative election Sunday was no surprise, with polls projecting strong showings for both Macron’s La République En Marche (LREM) party and its small centrist ally, Democratic Movement (MoDem), … | Continue reading
Drivers filed a federal class action lawsuit last week against so-called “driver-friendly” ride-hail apps Gett and Juno, alleging contractual breaches, intentional misrepresentations, false and deceptive advertising, and stock fraud.When it first launched in New York City in Apri … | Continue reading
Mint tea in the Sahara We had been driving off-road through the Sahara near the Moroccan-Algerian border for what seemed like a day, but was probably closer to two hours. Every bump along the landscape became more pronounced. The rattling of the truck grew louder, drowning out th … | Continue reading
Continuing the patent dispute internationally, China has now given the Charpentier/Doudna side a patent to edit genes in the country.CRISPR pioneers Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna lost a patent case to the Broad Insititute earlier this year when the court determined … | Continue reading
GUEST: Marketing has undergone a revolution in the internet age. Almost every traditional marketing tactic and gimmick has evolved to keep pace with the changing world. Chatbots are the latest addition to the digital marketer’s bag of tricks. The software platforms are deployed i … | Continue reading
The Spot is a multi brand chain of premium fashion sportswear stores, located in three retail spaces in Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Thanks to Apple’s 2017 WWDC, developers now have a host of new toys to play with and new trends to anticipate. With all of Silicon Valley watching, Apple debuted iOS 11, macOS Hi … | Continue reading
Every year, 1.2 million blue wildebeest migrate across East Africa, and despite their extraordinary numbers, they can still take you by surprise. “It’s like magic,” says Amanda Subalusky from Yale University. “One day, there are these vast empty plains of really tall grass. The n … | Continue reading
Overwatch’s deep roster of characters offers players a variety of ways to play, making it one of the more accessible entries in the first-person shooter genre. But it still requires some mix of speed and skill if you want to achieve excellence. But what would Overwatch look like … | Continue reading
On Stackshare, Airbnb lists over 50 services in its “stack,” Slack lists 24, and Spotify lists more than 31; these stacks are collections of different pieces of software that each company is using to run their operations, and range from infrastructure tools to communications too … | Continue reading
The fire at the Grenfell Tower housing estate in West London last week has left, at present writing, 79 people missing and presumed dead. The business of figuring out the how and why of the disaster is already underway, and a few probable culprits have been identified, chief amon … | Continue reading
NASA has found new evidence of 219 planets outside our Solar System. Ten of those exoplanets appear to be similar to the size of the Earth and orbit their stars in the habitable zone — just far enough away to develop water, but not so far that they freeze. If confirmed, they woul … | Continue reading
Grand Theft Auto 5 publisher Take-Two Interactive has found itself in the crossfire after sending a cease and desist letter to the lead developer of popular modding software OpenIV. In fact, people are so unhappy with the company that GTA5, a game that's typically been very widel … | Continue reading
Spurred by a sudden exchange listing, the price of the cryptocurrency litecoin hit a new all-time high today above $50.Source | Continue reading
Like Silicon Valley startups, the Federal Government grapples with technical debt – but on a massive scale. Read More | Continue reading
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare wasn’t the most popular in the long-running first-person shooter combat series. But you wouldn’t know that from the growing popularity of the Call of Duty World League, the official esports league for professional Call of Duty players. Last weekend, … | Continue reading
Unlike the rest of us, brands truly have no age. The ones that endure for decades—centuries, even—merely find a way to reinvent themselves. | Continue reading
The best brands are timeless. Those that endure for decades—or the few that survive for centuries—have to continually find relevant ways to reinvent themselves. And sometimes that relevance presents itself in the form of an...read moreThe post How “Hamilton” Launched a Bank – and … | Continue reading
It’s easy to pick out Koji “Iga” Igarashi in a crowd. Clad entirely in black, with a cowboy hat perched above a long ponytail, Igarashi looks the part of a renegade. Exactly what you’d expect from the man who brought Castlevania back to life with the seminal Symphony of the Night … | Continue reading
Is your website’s FAQ page working hard to sabotage you? Here are some FAQ best practices that show when and how to effectively use FAQs for the best user experience (and SEO!) | Continue reading
With traditional advertising methods slowly dying out, everyone who is somehow involved in the marketing industry is looking at new ways of approaching their audiences. All the surveys and statistics point towards the same things; the majority of marketers believe in influencer m … | Continue reading
Toy and board game company Hasbro is entering the subscription box market with Hasbro Gaming Crate. The box is offered in two options: a family-friendly version and one geared more toward party games for adults. It includes three games, delivered every three months for the cost o … | Continue reading