Lip-syncing social network Musical.ly is getting into original content, thanks to new deals with Viacom, NBCU and Hearst, which will bring short-form video series to the app. However, unlike the original videos found on Snapchat – an app that’s often the next step up for the twe … | Continue reading
If your family's current mobile plan is starting to become insufferably expensive, consider making the switch to FreedomPop's family plans. Just invest $0.50 per SIM card, bring over your existing unlocked GSM phone, and you can get your first month of unlimited talk, unlimited t … | Continue reading
Dropout Games have quickly developed a reputation for beautiful minimalistic puzzle games, and their emphasis on accessible gameplay that becomes deceptively difficult is one that suits mobile gaming to a tee. Last year the developers released Blyss [$0.99], which layered an ethe … | Continue reading
Research firm Kantar released some of its findings covering the three months ending April 30, and it’s a mixed bag for Android. | Continue reading
Mere days after President Donald Trump took office, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed a suit alleging that the president is violating the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause, which bars elected officials from accepting “a … | Continue reading
Every year, the Global Book Fair Report published by the International Publishers Association (IPA) provides a comprehensive and authoritative compendium of world book fairs. A key finding of the 2017.. | Continue reading
It took him over two years of development, but this daring Swede was recently propelled aloft for around eight minutes of flight in his homemade electric multirotor. And what a glorious eight minutes it was. The unnamed pilot, who has been posting updates on his quadcopter projec … | Continue reading
Award shows for art always have their credibility in question, but the Grammys are the major ceremony most clearly experiencing a crisis of coolness. This year’s telecast was skipped by a number of stars, some of whom—Frank Ocean, Justin Bieber, Kanye West—indicated either explic … | Continue reading
In Western fiction, dystopic stories often ask, "What if this atrocity had happened to white people instead?"That was the formula more than 100 years ago, when H.G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds, its narrator comparing the Martian invasion of Britain to Britain’s ruthless inv … | Continue reading
Otto Warmbier’s father said Thursday he does not believe North Korea’s explanation for why the 22-year-old University of Virginia student is in a coma, credited the Trump administration for freeing his son, and criticized the Obama administration’s advice to the family “to keep a … | Continue reading
Soeben hat Spotify glücklich verkündet, dass sie für jeden Buchstaben in ihrem Feier-Tweet eine Millionen User haben. 140 Millionen um genau zu sein. Noch vor knapp einem Jahr waren es erst 100 Millionen. Der Streaming-Riese legt also... | Continue reading
Consumers used to interact with brands either physically or online; now, they are now doing both. Here's why marketers must focus on the "no-line" world. | Continue reading
I've often wondered if simply upgrading to a better bike would make me a better mountain biker. We discuss the need for gear and cajones. | Continue reading
I'll be honest with you - Cars is, in my view, one of the weaker Pixar films. Releasing at the precipice of my teenage years means it doesn't have the nostalgic pull of some of the older Pixar franchises, and overall the cast of characters and story just felt a bit hollow and ove … | Continue reading
We've seen it, we've played it, and it's beautiful. Nvidia is proudly displaying the PC version of Destiny 2 at its E3 booth, running on a system powered by the GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. All quality settings are pushed to the max, resolution is set to full-fat 4K and the action … | Continue reading
Airbnb Deutschland: Berlin (ots) - Neues 5-Mio.-Euro "Community Tourism Programme" fördert innovative lokale Projekte, um verantwortungsvollen und nachhaltigen Tourismus zu stärken Reisen mit Airbnb trägt bis 2020 mit geschätzten 340 Mrd. Euro zur europäischen ... | Continue reading
Looking to save some dough on a new wall charger, car charger, or USB cable? Anker's got you covered. | Continue reading
Airbnb has become of the more popular ways of travelling around Europe, offering visitors to cities and regions home-based alternatives to staying in impersonal or expensive hotels when they are away from home.That hasn’t been without controversy, though, and so as it continues … | Continue reading
We’re doing two episodes of The Vergecast this week: the usual one on Friday, and this very special edition with Brian Merchant, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone. We ran a big excerpt of the book earlier this week, so we spent the show talking about the … | Continue reading
Buyer personas, the distinct demographic groupings of your potential customers, are critically important for successful marketing that leads to sales success. | Continue reading
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- Inglewood Mayor James Butts and the five-member City Council will meet to review an exclusive negotiating agreement between the city and the Los Angeles Clippers that could lead to building a new arena for the NBA team. | Continue reading
Microsoft and its Xbox One X game console have generated the most conversations at the game industry’s biggest trade show in the U.S. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) show floor should draw an estimated 65,000 attendees in Los Angeles this week, and Synthesio, a social inte … | Continue reading
This is the Green4U Panoz Racing GT-EV, and while it might look like a giant BattleBot, it’s actually a new all-electric racecar that could run in the 24 Hours of Le Mans — next year, that is. The GT-EV was created by Don Panoz, a guy with a predilection for racing weird cars. He … | Continue reading
As Republicans have been casting about for legislation to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, Democrats have offered a consistent message in public: If the GOP drops its demand for repeal, we’ll work with them to improve, or fix, the current law.Exactly how Democrats would change … | Continue reading
After its shocking reveal with a tournament stream, it took only one night for the Brawl Stars soft launch to happen. Debuting initially in Canada, this means that it's relatively easy to get access to Supercell's top-down multiplayer online shooter. But if you need the specifics … | Continue reading
Hours after traders reported taking steps to prepare for a correction, the global cryptocurrency market began to see declines Thursday.Source | Continue reading
The developer training and recruitment service Andela announced its expansion into Uganda. The company―which recruits African software developers and places them at global companies―completed its first recruitment cycle in Kampala. The Uganda opening adds to offices in Nairobi, … | Continue reading
Last year, America’s total medical costs hit a new record of $3.4 trillion, according to the federal government. That’s about 18 percent of the country’s total GDP, meaning that one out of every six dollars we spent in 2016 went to health care. The national doctor bill dwarfs any … | Continue reading
Ever since 8bitdo updated their NES30 Pro and other game controllers with Nintendo Switch support, I’ve been using them as the primary way to play on the console. Now at E3, 8bitdo has revealed a new model that might just become the best Switch controller of all time.The SNES30 … | Continue reading
Tart rhubarb enhances the sweet freshness of early summer strawberries in this classic pie. | Continue reading
Tart rhubarb enhances the sweet freshness of early summer strawberries in this classic pie. | Continue reading
The first iteration of Amazon’s Dash Wand wasn’t long for this world. The company trialed the barcode scanner with select Prime Fresh customers in California, but the hardware didn’t seem to really go anywhere. Instead the company switch tacts, moving to those now familiar singl … | Continue reading
As more video providers finding audiences directly through apps and the web — and away from pay-TV-based packages — we’re seeing the emergence of more analytics to measure how those videos are delivered, and who is watching them. Conviva, a company that has developed a set machi … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Penguin Random House announced that it will be adapting Charlie Booker’s anthology television series Black Mirror as a series of books. This is a fun change of pace: usually, it’s a novel or short story that gets adapted for film or television, not the other wa … | Continue reading
How do you keep up-to-date with all the mentions of you and your brand or competitors? And how do you keep tabs on the latest trends in your industry or niche? It’s impossible to monitor...read more | Continue reading
How do you keep up-to-date with all the mentions of you and your brand or competitors? And how do you keep tabs on the latest trends in your industry or niche? It’s impossible to monitor...read moreThe post 12 Alternatives to Google Alerts for Tracking Mentions Across the Web app … | Continue reading
Spotify has surpassed 140 million monthly active users, the company announced today. Back in March, the service announced it had 50 million paying subscribers, which puts its free user base around 90 million. The numbers are truly massive, and they show just how much of a lead Sp … | Continue reading
It’s one of the hardest figures to square in the American health care system: A small slice of patients, just 5 percent, account for over 50 percent of all medical expenditures for the entire United States. In other words, if the country’s population was just 20 people, it would … | Continue reading
Wir kennen Sphero vor allem von dem Robo-Ball oder dem BB8, aber derzeit scheinen sie lieber Merchandising mit etwas "Intelligenz" aufzupumpen. Der Spider-Man (ach, ist gerade ein neuer Film im Kino?) soll Kindern Comic-Bücher erzählen. Auch... | Continue reading
Microsoft is rolling out an update to its AI-powered photo editing app, Microsoft Pix, that aims to give Prisma and others like it some new competition. While the app was originally designed to enhance your iPhone photos by tweaking things like color, exposure and other variable … | Continue reading
The OnePlus 5 design represents a step backwards for a company that has increasingly come to be seen as "all grown up". | Continue reading
The death toll from the blaze at London’s Grenfell Tower, which has now risen to 17, is expected to climb further, police said, and the fire service said there was no hope of finding more people who escaped Wednesday’s fire that engulfed the 24-story apartment building.Thirty-sev … | Continue reading
The Polybius cryptobank project ICO managed to raise over $6 million in less than three days into the ICO that went live on May 31, thus meeting the requirements to receive a European banking license and start operations in the EU. According to the calculations made by the Eston … | Continue reading
With last fall’s formation of Group Nine Media, four digital media organizations (Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo and Discovery’s Seeker) came together under a single corporate umbrella. Now the company says it’s seeing real success connecting with readers and viewers, with 114 mil … | Continue reading
Payments startup Circle is offering no-cost international transactions to its users, the company announced today.Source | Continue reading
Your website can be informative and easy to navigate. You might have put countless hours into making sure it is both functional and useful to your audience. But if your … | Continue reading
The announcement of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy in December was a welcome surprise. But lower-than-usual pricing, combined with the relatively quick timing of the release, raised questions about how substantial the fifth installment of the series could be. Will The Lost Legacy hav … | Continue reading
If you own an LG G6 or are planning to purchase one, LG wants you to know that it stands by its products. It wants you to know that so much that today it’s announcing a new program that extends the warranty of the G6 from 12 months out to a full two years. The company is calling … | Continue reading