Jaguar Land Rover has brought two new startups into its Portland Tech Incubator: LISNR and PILOT Automotive Labs. Previous cohorts at the incubator have ranged from parking apps to drones; these two continue to build on JLR’s creative approach to the automotive future. LISNR use … | Continue reading
One day, we’ll have an entire Tumblr account for hilarious VR accidents, but until then, George Takei’s Facebook account will have to do. Takei, the Star Trek alum and current boss of sharing things on Facebook, recently shared a video of a man attempting to conquer a virtual cli … | Continue reading
Popular survival shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is getting a new competitive mode where some players are zombies trying to infect the last surviving humans.As revealed on a Twitch stream earlier, this upcoming mode will be separate from the game's core Battle Royale mode, … | Continue reading
CaSA - Colombo and Serboli Architecture dark apartment into an open-spaced two-bedrooms home with a large living space and bespoke features. | Continue reading
Logitech has developed a wireless mouse charging system that can charge your mouse even while you're gaming. It's not cheap, but it neatly solves the battery life problem inherent to the wireless system. The post New Logitech Mouse Pad Offers Wireless Charging for Supported Mice … | Continue reading
Interview with Eddy Colloton This is the first in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Eddy Colloton is Assistant Conservator specializing in electronic media at the Denver Art Museum (DAM). DAM is planning to use MediaConch primarily for … | Continue reading
If you like your Hearthstone [Free] classes mixed up or want to get a taste of how two-class decks would look, go play Cart Crash at the Crossroads, this week's Tavern Brawl. We've played this one in the past, but as is the case after every expansion, new cards make for fresh bra … | Continue reading
Consumers trust companies less than ever before. In that maelstrom, ratings and reviews are a life raft of information. | Continue reading
Supercell, the developers behind Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, have announced its next mobile game: a multiplayer combat title called Brawl Stars. | Continue reading
A terrifying scene unfolded in London early Wednesday morning when a 24-floor public housing tower went up in flames. Home to around 600 people, West London’s Grenfell Tower was the site of a fire that spread quickly to other floors, causing at least six fatalities so far, with t … | Continue reading
Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has given an update to Eurogamer on his long-awaited next Pikmin project.Speaking to me today at E3, Miyamoto did not give much away - but confirmed the project was still in development."I've been told not to share anything about this from PR," Mi … | Continue reading
As was to be expected, Michael Bay's Transformers: The Last Knight, whose trailer looks like five movies combined into one, is paying a visit to Transformers: Forged to Fight [Free] in an update that's gone live today. This new update brings backgrounds inspired from various scen … | Continue reading
With the wildly successful press reception of ATB Сoin’s U.S. introductory launch last Thursday, the company’s Management Team is reporting over $12 million has been raised within the first fifteen minutes of the cryptocurrency’s highly-anticipated ICO. According to CEO Edward Ng … | Continue reading
Oftentimes, the best way to describe directions to someone is to explain using street view technology, so you can use notable landmarks as cues for turns and stops. While Google Maps has been pretty good at covering a large part of the world, it’s certainly missing one useful com … | Continue reading
You love your iPhone: the form factor, the user interface, the just straight-up coolness of it all. But a peek into the early days of the now-ubiquitous device reveals a startling truth. It was almost awful. SEE ALSO: This could be our first look at the iPhone 8's glorious edge-t … | Continue reading
Whisky in Antarctica In March, I boarded a ship to Antarctica to shoot a documentary on climate change. The Ocean Endeavor departed from Ushuaia, on the southernmost tip of Argentina, and sailed around West Antarctica for 10 days. My fellow passengers were a strange mix of scient … | Continue reading
At least 300 people have been killed in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS’s de-facto capital, since March in what UN war-crimes investigators have called a “staggering loss of civilian life.”The surge in fatalities coincides with intensified airstrikes by the Syrian Democra … | Continue reading
Fugia is only a teenager, but her sense of ambition is tangible. Just 15 years old, she has plans to be a doctor, and she understands education is the surest path to achieving her dream.But getting an education isn't easy. Fugia, whose parents are Somalian, is a refugee growing u … | Continue reading
The latest beta version of Nova Launcher offers users integration with Google Feed for the first time, via a companion app. | Continue reading
Google Drive is ready to be the answer to all your computer storage needs — and not just the files you create and upload using its cloud-based services like Google Docs and Photos. The search giant just announced a new Backup and Sync tool, which will give everyday users the chan … | Continue reading
If you want a fun game about launching a slingshotting cat through a psychedelic landscape, but don't want to pay anything, then I have good news for you! Star Cat Adventure [Free] is free today! You launch yourself from miniature planet to minature planet, collecting stars and e … | Continue reading
In the perhaps not-so-distant future, drones could be first responders.That's the conclusion from a report published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) following a simulated study involving drones carrying defibrillators in Sweden.SEE ALSO: Scientis … | Continue reading
Now it’s the GOP’s turn. “I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric,” said New York Republican Congressman Chris Collins after the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and five others at an Alexandria, Virginia baseball field. “The rhetoric has been ou … | Continue reading
If you paid close attention to the 9-minute Spider-Man demo at Sony’s E3 2017 event, you might have noticed the superhero knocking a goon off a skyscraper — only to sling him safely back onto the building. Bryan Intihar, creative director of Insomniac Games, explained that the ga … | Continue reading
Fantastic Four and X-Men: The Last Stand screenwriter Simon Kinberg has been tapped to direct the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix movie for 20th Century Fox. Entertainment Weekly reports that it’s Kinberg’s directorial debut after producing several films in the X-Men universe, inclu … | Continue reading
The potential for VR truly boggles the mind. In the future, it’s easy to imagine the various use-cases in education, entertainment, business, and social. But like any new technology, VR needs a ‘gateway drug’, and thus far that initial use-case has been gaming. Sony is pushing P … | Continue reading
At long last, the perfect score for arcade classic Ms. Pac-Man has been achieved, though not by a human. Maluuba — a deep learning team acquired by Microsoft in January — has created an AI system that’s learned how to reach the game’s maximum point value of 999,900, using a uniqu … | Continue reading
Plugging things in is no fun, especially when a certain company refuses to embrace industry-standard plugs. Wireless charging is an obvious solution, which has been embraced by many Android manufacturers but has remained conspicuously absent from the iPhone. That might be about t … | Continue reading
Happy National Strawberry Shortcake Day, everyone. Sorry this Wednesday roundup is coming a little later than usual, Jared has the day off and I've been sort of glued to the new Brawl Stars stuff Supercell has been teasing. It's by Supercell, so, you know it's going to be the nex … | Continue reading
In the final days of 2016, President Barack Obama made a final addition to the conserved lands of the United States.He brought Bears Ears National Monument into existence, designating a new federally protected area of more than 1.3 million acres in southeast Utah. The park, Obama … | Continue reading
Less than 24 hours after her exit from Yahoo, it seemed like former CEO Marissa Mayer was taking a shot at her old company.But, she says, her words were simply taken out of context.At a conference in London, Mayer, who had worked at Google before jumping to Yahoo, reportedly said … | Continue reading
“Bob is not authentic at all,” Joni Mitchell told The Los Angeles Times in 2010, referring, of course, to Bob Dylan. “He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.”Mitchell was giving a particularly acidic summary of what’s become conven … | Continue reading
Microsoft has released a new report detailing how Windows 10's antivirus and antimalware capabilities defended the OS against attacks by ransomware software like WannaCry. Whether these protections will continue to hold against future attacks is uncertain. The post New Microsoft … | Continue reading
You can now buy Apple's new iPad Pro 10.5, which is exactly what the gadget experts at iFixit did so they could tear the sucker down. The damage was done to give us a clue as to what sets it apart from its closest ancestor, the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. The physical changes start on the … | Continue reading
Is your Mac acting just…odd? Stuff like drives not appearing, screens not adjusting correctly, Bluetooth problems, AirPort non connecting? Maybe your fan is running non-stop or your battery has said that it is 50% charged…for two days…and your MacBook is plugged in. Yeah, these a … | Continue reading
The recently revealed PS4 version of Shadow of the Colossus is not just a remastering of the old game, but a full on remake, according to Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida.Yoshida confirmed this in an interview with Japanese gaming outlet Famitsu (translated via Sil … | Continue reading
Congress struggling to finish a huge budget reconciliation bill. A GOP president pushing a major overhaul of federal payments for health insurance that could transform the lives of sick patients.Sound familiar? The year was actually 1986. I was a rookie health reporter on Capitol … | Continue reading
The winners have been announced in the 4th edition of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest photo competition. The contest invited photographers to submit images of the world of action and adventure sports in one of 10 categories, including Energy, Playground, Sequence, and Enhance (wh … | Continue reading
I had more fun with HearMeOut, a social-network built around 42-second voice recordings, than I’ve had with any other social media app to date, though I might be using it wrong. The app is designed to be the Twitter-for-voice, which I’ve heard before over the past few years. The … | Continue reading
I’m in love with a note-taking app for the first time since Evernote wowed me almost a decade ago. ‘Bear‘ is what Notes should have been. Hell, it might be what Notes still aspires to be. It walks the perfect line between simple and feature-rich while offering robust options for … | Continue reading
A major Australian politician has called for increased scrutiny on bitcoin transactions as a means of combatting terrorism.Source | Continue reading
Live TV streaming service Sling TV is today rolling out an improved DVR feature, while also making the option to record TV shows available on more devices and channels. The DVR is one of the key selling points for Sling TV, given the increased competition in the live TV space fr … | Continue reading
Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home are fairly new, but they're already considered a hit among consumers because they're easy to use and can control most popular smart home products.Now, it appears that there's about to be a massive surge of Amazon Echo and Google … | Continue reading
Alto’s Odyssey, the sequel to the runaway mobile hit Alto’s Adventure, is set for release this summer, and amid all the hype and noise of E3, developer Snowman quietly showed off our first good look at gameplay for the upcoming endless snowboarding game. As teased in the initial … | Continue reading
Mario Kart fans, rejoice. You'll soon be able to race, drift, and most importantly, smash your friends with red shells — all in virtual reality.New footage of a VR version of Nintendo's racer, Mario Kart GP VR, popped up in a promo video showing off games coming to the VR Zone Sh … | Continue reading
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Google has been tweaking the design of the Google Feed for a few years, but it looks like it'll soon get a much bigger redesign sometime soon. | Continue reading
Sony continues to do interesting things with the Playstation platform, and the newly announced PlayLink is a great example. As announced at E3, PlayLink combines your phone or tablet and the PS4 to offer new Playstation experiences that take advantage of your phone's touchscreen … | Continue reading