David Cage was halfway through the script for Detroit: Become Human when tragedy struck Paris, France, the home of developer Quantic Dream. In November 2015, terrorists attacked the city in a series of suicide bombings and mass shootings, culminating with a raid on the Bataclan t … | Continue reading
CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery finally has release date. Deadline reports that the first two episodes of the long-delayed series will premiere on September 24th. With the announcement comes word that the network is splitting the season into two parts. The first eight episodes will ru … | Continue reading
Senate Democrats can’t stop Republicans from passing a health-care bill that guts the Affordable Care Act. They can’t force Mitch McConnell to release the legislation, or hold hearings on it, or unilaterally block President Trump’s nominees in retaliation.But Democrats can grind … | Continue reading
Japan Display is often Sony's mobile display supplier, so its new 18:9 aspect ratio panel could mean a change might be on its way to future Xperia devices. | Continue reading
In this morning’s analysis, we discussed the corrective action that we had seen in the bitcoin price over the weekend and suggested that – temporarily at least – an overarching bearish bias seemed smart. We also noted that we needed to widen out our core range and trade only on b … | Continue reading
Sledgehammer Games and Activision revealed Call of Duty: WWII’s multiplayer combat last week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles. I played a few rounds of multiplayer on some close-combat maps, and then I interviewed Michael Condrey, … | Continue reading
The Verge recently got the chance to visit OnePlus' facilities in Shenzhen, China to get a closer look at the OnePlus 5, and what exactly went into the design this time around. | Continue reading
LG’s G6 is one of the best phones you can buy right now, but it faces stiff competition from Samsung’s S8. Now LG is trying to gain an edge over Samsung with a premium version of its flagship, the G6+. To be clear, the device isn’t any larger than the current G6; the ‘plus’ desig … | Continue reading
Toy company Hasbro is belatedly entering the subscription service market with today’s launch of Hasbro Gaming Crate – a service that ships a themed box containing three board games to users every three months. The service, which costs $49.99 per crate, offers two options – one d … | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission just announced they will authorize legal action to block the merger of DraftKings and FanDuel, the two largest daily fantasy sports sites in the U.S. The FTC noted that they will jointly file a complaint with the Attorneys General in California and t … | Continue reading
Investigators have only begun their search for answers into what caused a Philippine container ship to collide with a U.S. Navy destroyer over the weekend, which led to the death of seven U.S. sailors. One of the biggest questions is why it took the container ship’s crew nearly a … | Continue reading
Partisan gerrymandering can be unconstitutional—at least in theory. In the 1986 case of Davis v. Bandemer, the Supreme Court did not find reason to declare an unconstitutional gerrymander, but its ruling did state “that political gerrymandering cases are properly justiciable unde … | Continue reading
It feels like ages ago now, but do you remember Facebook’s most recent F8 event? One thing that captured my attention was M Suggestions. This was Facebook’s effort to make messenger more useful by anticipating the user’s desires. So, if you were to message a friend about going fo … | Continue reading
Meltwater, the self-described ‘media intelligence’ company, continues on an acquisition spree. Following the purchase of Oxford Uni spin-out Wrapidity in February, it has acquired Hong Kong-Based startup Klarity to enhance its social media monitoring and analytics capabilities i … | Continue reading
Strandakirkja. An old votive church. | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. In addition to a bunch of 64-bit updates, regular updates keep on rolling in at a steady rate. I've found some of the most interesting ones for you to … | Continue reading
Lyft is touting a metric that its main rival can’t crow about – tip money earned through the platform. Lyft famously offers an in-app tipping option for riders, while Uber does not; and since Lyft announced that drivers had collectively earned over $100 million in tips four year … | Continue reading
Aura is the app which acts as your personal meditation guide to relieve all of the stresses of everyday life. Start feeling better today. | Continue reading
In 2004, a team of geologists discovered something extraordinary while exploring the Gulf of Mexico. They were searching for sites where oil and gas seep out of the ocean floor, but instead, two miles below the ocean’s surface, they found a field of dormant black volcanoes. And u … | Continue reading
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Microsoft is now allowing Surface Laptop owners to switch back to Windows 10 S after they’ve upgraded to Windows 10 Pro. While the upgrade path from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro on the Surface Laptop is quick and easy, going back to Windows 10 S isn’t straightforward. Microsoft … | Continue reading
Join Workfront on June 27th for a deep dive into the 5 generations that managers need to monitor and embrace to thrive in the future of work. | Continue reading
With a public comment period over, financial firms are beginning to publish remarks submitted to the European Commission on DLT.Source | Continue reading
The partisan gerrymandering beauty pageant is returning to the Supreme Court next fall for a limited engagement for an audience of one: Justice Anthony Kennedy. Whether or not Kennedy sees something he likes will go a long way toward determining whether courts will pay a role in … | Continue reading
Razer CEO Tan Min-liang stated in a new interview that the PC hardware maker has big plans for the mobile gaming market. | Continue reading
The fire that engulfed west London’s Grenfell Tower last week, killing at least 79 people and leaving several dozen others injured, is not the first time the city has witnessed the collapse of one of the many tower blocks that make up its public housing.In 2011, it was estimated … | Continue reading
Last week Two Worlds 2, a seven-year-old role-playing game, got an expansion. But the PC version got something else too, something unwanted: microtransactions.In a new Marketplace section of the game's main menu - screenshots from a Reddit thread - were optional purchases for in- … | Continue reading
Registered U.S. voters dating back more than a decade have been exposed in what's believed to be the largest leak of voter information in history.SEE ALSO: Russian hackers hit voting systems in 39 U.S. statesA data analytics contractor hired by the Republican National Committee ( … | Continue reading
The Kickstarter campaign for rhythm action game Project Rap Rabbit needs to raise another £700,000 in seven hours to be successful. Realistically, its success now looks very unlikely.The struggling project launched a month ago, but with mere hours left to run has only raised £159 … | Continue reading
In the U.S., childcare presents a nerve-wracking quagmire for parents. It’s expensive—almost a fifth of American families spend more than a quarter of their income on childcare—but that doesn’t mean it’s a lucrative business. In fact, many caregivers make so little that they can … | Continue reading
Digital marketing may seem as simple as setting up a website and posting to social media. But finding true business success in the online world requires a real understanding of your customers and the digital environment, as well as a cohesive strategy. You can assemble that roadm … | Continue reading
Using the iPhone to transform typical text adventures into something so much more immersive has been done to great effect on the App Store as of late, with the Lifeline [$0.99] series providing some of the more memorable narrative experiences on the platform. However, A Normal Lo … | Continue reading
Vice Media has raised $450M in new funding from private-equity firm TPG, with a deal valuing the media company around $5.7 billion post-money. Shane Smith, co-founder and CEO of Vice was just on CNBC answering questions about the funding and Vice’s plans to eventually become a p … | Continue reading
I report back from the Fifteen Seconds Festival in Gratz where I recently spoke about the power of Creativity. Oh, and it's episode 200 | Continue reading
Google quietly released an academic paper that could provide a blueprint for the future of machine learning. Called “One Model to Learn Them All,” it lays out a template for how to create a single machine learning model that can address multiple tasks well. The MultiModel, as the … | Continue reading
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In his 1973 book Supernature, the scientist and adventurer Lyall Watson tells the story of a six-foot-long whistle. Part of an experiment in the 1960s, the enormous device was designed to explore the effects of low-frequency sound on humans. The technician who first tested it “fe … | Continue reading
Interested in picking up HTC’s latest premium smartphone, the squeezable U11, but don’t like the current US color choices of blue, silver, or black? Then I’ve got some good news on that front. HTC has spent the last few days counting down on Twitter toward a release of the intern … | Continue reading
To expand its channel lineup and grow its customer base, FuboTV has raised $55 million in Series C funding led by Northzone, with participation from 21st Century Fox, Sky and Scripps Networks Interactive. That brings total funding to $75 million since being founded in 2014. Read … | Continue reading
For small and medium-sized digital agencies, making more money comes down to three options. 1) You could raise your rates, making more money for the same work without changing much else. 2) You could get better at attracting and retaining clients, increasing your work load. 3) Or … | Continue reading
Jared Spool is the founder of UIE and co-founder of Center Centre. In our 19th episode, he hits on the topics of UX design’s coming of age, the true role design plays in a business, and dives into the details of what his design school is aiming to do differently.When trying to c … | Continue reading
Talla, a bot that helps employees complete tasks and answers employee HR and IT questions, has raised $8.3 million to expand its operations and better understand words used by humans. Talla Service Desk bot uses natural language processing to answer questions in a conversational … | Continue reading
Sure, the internet is for cats, but who do we have to thank for bringing us these companions? One answer comes from a paper published today in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Researchers analyzed DNA extracted from the teeth and bones of over 200 cats. These remains span … | Continue reading
Sometime around the invention of agriculture, the cats came crawling. It was mice and rats, probably, that attracted the wild felines. The rats came because of stores of grain, made possible by human agriculture. And so cats and humans began their millennia-long coexistence.This … | Continue reading
Netflix regularly experiments with new ways to introduce viewers to its own original programming, including through recommendations, trailers, and other featured selections on its homepage. The latest experiment, underway now, is the use of pre-roll advertisements that play befo … | Continue reading
Internet of Coins (IoC) is a not-for-profit project to develop an open and accessible digital wallet for personal finance. | Continue reading
Some of Mexico’s most prominent journalists and activists were targeted by a massive spyware campaign, according to a new report from Citizen Lab. Conducted mostly between August 2015 and July 2016, the campaign included 76 separate spyware-laced SMS messages sent to 11 different … | Continue reading
Asus brought its new ZenBook 3 Deluxe to both CES and Computex this year, and now it’s available to buy. The laptop costs $1,699 on Asus’ eShop, Newegg, Amazon, and B&H. It appears Asus wants to directly compete with Apple’s new MacBook Pro or the Surface Laptop by featuring a 14 … | Continue reading