Facebook’s Safety Check feature was activated today, following news that a fire had engulfed a 24-storey block of flats in West London, with reports of several fatalities. Clearly this is a tragedy. But should Facebook be reacting by sending push alerts — including to users who … | Continue reading
iPhone assembler Wistron has confirmed what Apple fans have been waiting to hear: it’ll be waterproof, and offer wireless charing. According to two Apple analysts, Jeff Pu and Arthur Liao, Wistron is splitting orders with Foxconn on the new 5.5-inch iPhone — presumed to be the iP … | Continue reading
A new poll from Morning Consult sheds some light on what attracts people to the smart voice assistant speaker category that Amazon established with the Echo, and now includes Apple’s HomePod and Google’s Home. The company surveyed 2,200 people to research how brand loyalty would … | Continue reading
Stories of countesses bathing in virgin blood, or vampiric nobles sucking the juice out of the young, have captured our attention for centuries. But when stories started coming out that tech billionaire Peter Thiel was interested in transfusing teen blood into his own body, it s … | Continue reading
The Wi-Fi Alliance, the non-profit organization that certifies Wi-Fi enabled products, is ready to usher in a new era of the smart homes. Traditionally, there have been no set standards for integrating a wireless network directly into home blueprints, unlike other essential utili … | Continue reading
Late last summer, I cut my 3,000 Instagram posts down to 30. It took innumerable hours spread out over weeks to delete them all, using a hyper-specific (and fairly buggy) app fittingly called Delete for Instagram. It let me select batches of 50 posts, saving the images and videos … | Continue reading
I was wrong about Ethereum because it’s such a good store of value… no wait, let me try again. I was wrong about Ethereum because it’s such a decentra… nope. I was wrong about Ethereum because everyone is using it as a supercomputer… No. I do admit I didn’t see this Ethereum bubb … | Continue reading
Apple’s Siri team lost its head of natural language understanding this month. Rushin Shah left his post as a senior machine learning manager on Apple’s virtual assistant to join Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning team, where he’ll be working on natural language and dialog unders … | Continue reading
Digital rights agency Merlin last week released the results of its 2017 member survey. The good news is that even though nobody buys albums, revenues from digital music are increasing. Merlin paid revenue out in the amount of 353 billion dollars over the last year, which accounts … | Continue reading
Finding the Qibla — the direction that should be faced when a Muslim prays, wherever they are in the world — is now easier thanks to a new Google web app for Android. Launched during Ramadan, Qibla Finder (g.co/QiblaFinder) uses augmented reality to show Muslims the fixed directi … | Continue reading
According to Wikipedia, over a dozen video games featuring the venerable Monday-hating cat Garfield were made between 1987 and 2017. I haven’t played any of them, but I’m willing to bet that none of them had you wander the streets of your city looking for Domino’s Pizza gift card … | Continue reading
A lot of interesting things are happening in the world of finance right now. It appears the US Dollar bull run is finally showing some signs of weakening. In fact, the US Dollar is tanking in value right now. At the same time, demand for bullion is on the rise once again. Unfortu … | Continue reading
Google may have moved more than 1 million units of its Pixel smartphone, if you believe the Play Store download counter. According to Ars Technica, the Pixel Launcher, which is exclusively available for Google’s smartphone, crossed the 1 million install mark in the Play Store, in … | Continue reading
Supercell's Brawl Stars tournament livestream is going on right now – seemingly a prerecorded video being shown off. The first gameplay footage has been revealed. This is a top-down shooter where players are fighting for gem mines, collecting gems and fighting against opponents a … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Reform is hard. Uber took a series of steps this week to reform its corporate culture, including setting in motion an indefinite leave of absence for founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, firing nearly two dozen employees (including a top deputy to Kalanick), overhauling the … | Continue reading
BEIRUT — Three years after the last war in Gaza, the leaders of Israel and Palestine seem to be lurching toward another round of fighting—although not for the reasons you may think.On Sunday, the Israeli security cabinet agreed, at the request of the Palestinian president, to red … | Continue reading
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Take Facebook’s Safety Check feature, which allows people to ‘check in’ to let their friends and family know they’re safe in the aftermath of a disaster, like an earthquake or terror attack. On one hand, it’s relatively sensible. It … | Continue reading
Google has set up an online quiz so that people in the US can figure out if the company's Project Fi MVNO would be a good fit for their phone needs. | Continue reading
Authorities have not officially named the shooter who opened fire this morning during a congressional congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, but The Washington Post and other outlets, citing unnamed federal law-enforcement officials, identified him as James T. H … | Continue reading
Some people make it their entire life’s work to understand the way Google’s algorithm works. This post is not for those people. This one goes out to digital marketers of all shapes and sizes—executives, interns, content creators, project managers, and designers. Because SEO is im … | Continue reading
The majority of consumers in the U.S. and Canada are no longer interested in hefty pay TV packages filled with channels they don’t watch. According to a new study from TiVo out this morning, 77.3 percent now want “a la carte” TV service – meaning, they want to only pay for the c … | Continue reading
PDFs are a universally accepted document format. But if you’ve ever tried to edit one without a formidable PDF editing program, you know they can be pretty frustrating. You can bypass most of those PDF headaches immediately if you pick up PDF Expert 2.2 for Mac, which is on sale … | Continue reading
Hollywood properties have been getting VR tie-ins frequently over the past few years, but now The Walking Dead is stepping things up with an entire series of virtual reality games. Skybound Entertainment, the production company co-founded by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, a … | Continue reading
In the face of historically low approval ratings , President Trump mounted a puzzling charade on Monday. He opened a Cabinet meeti... | Continue reading
Pushing last year’s Galaxy S7 Edge to third place, the Galaxy S8 Plus and Galaxy S8 are now ranked first and second respectively by Consumer Reports. | Continue reading
Late last year, Netflix enabled downloads for offline playback, which was great news for subscribers who take planes, ride the subway, or own a phone. The function came with some minor caveats, like expiration dates for downloads and limited support for microSD storage on Android … | Continue reading
“You press the button, we do the rest.” These are the touching words of Kodak’s first advertising slogan. Coined by George Eastman, Kodak’s iconic founder in 1892, this tagline almost seems relevant 120 years later. Almost. There was a time in history where uttering those words e … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch analysis, we noted that the correction we were seeing in the bitcoin price, while not ideal, was relatively insignificant when considered against the magnitude of the upside run that brought us to trade at current levels. Turns out we spoke t … | Continue reading
The 'Tertill' by Franklin Robotics is an autonomous robot that takes care of those pesky weeds growing in your garden. It's solar-powered and waterproof, so you can leave it outside without worry.It uses technology similar to the Roomba, with added sensors that detect the differe … | Continue reading
During Game of Thrones’ second season, Arya Stark famously tells Tywin Lannister, “Anyone can be killed.” No line better encapsulates the show. Over the course of six seasons, fans have seen kings and peasants killed so often that it’s a wonder that we’re not desensitized to it a … | Continue reading
Updated on June 14 at 11:35 a.m. ETOn Wednesday morning, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon became both the highest-ranking person charged in the ongoing Flint water-crisis investigation. He and four other Michigan officials received the first inv … | Continue reading
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Champagne brand Charles Heidsieck will launch its 'Maverick Encounters' events series, which aims to celebrate the brand's heritage and founder. | Continue reading
CoinDesk highlights the results of a survey it conducted in Q1 on the state of the ethereum protocol and its sentiment among users.Source | Continue reading
When it arrived in 2014, Warner Bros.’ Shadow of Mordor delivered a masterful action role playing game set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. But the game offered just a hint of the developer’s actual vision, says Bob Roberts, the game’s design director. Shadow of Mordor told only … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to Musgravian Musings, a little space of my own where I can do some non-review reflections on recent game releases. In general, the featured games are ones that have caught my interest in some way or another, and will tend to be games that I didn't (an … | Continue reading
Teaching people to code in bite-sized, gamified chunks delivered via mobile app is Py’s mission. The fledgling startup is the brainchild of two friends and college computer science majors who found themselves repeatedly asked for advice on how to learn to Read More | Continue reading
Netflix's new download option is a great way to take shows with you when you're outside Wi-Fi or cellular range, but there's a catch. Download content too often, and you'll find yourself locked out the rest of the year. The post Netflix’s New Content Download Option Has a Hidden … | Continue reading
Creating your content machine is all about taking the time and effort to do it right. Once done, your goals will be achieved if not exceeded over time. | Continue reading
Xbox One X has much to prove in the run-up to its November 7th launch. Forza Motorsport 7 demonstrates how beautifully 1080p first-party engines scale up to ultra HD resolutions, but what about taxing third party titles, typically rendering at 900p on base Microsoft hardware? Ass … | Continue reading
In summer 2014, an intern at the ACLU found a memo from a public meeting in which the San Jose Police Department asked to be reimbursed for a “UAV,” which he immediately recognized as a type of drone.“It was tucked in the back of an agenda item,” says Nicole Ozer, director of tec … | Continue reading
In 2014, 500 of the highest-paid senior executives at U.S. companies made nearly 1,000 times as much money as the average American worker, after taking into account salary, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. That discrepancy is so enormous that it prompts a question: How exac … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: WWII is supposed to be the Activision franchise’s back-to-basics moment: an opportunity to shed recent COD installments’ future-obsessed trappings and craft a “serious” shooter game against the backdrop of the world’s most horrific war. Developer Sledgehammer Games … | Continue reading
Users of Facebook's "M" — an artificial intelligence powered component of the Messenger application — can now choose from two languages: English or Spanish. The tech company announced the addition yesterday, saying users in the United States will be able to select one of the two … | Continue reading
For the first time ever, Grammy voters for the 2018 awards show will cast their votes online, instead of with paper ballots. The Recording Academy hopes the swap will increase voter turnout and encourage younger members to vote, the LA Times reports. The new online ballots will a … | Continue reading
You are still all my one-up boys and girls. Remember that when you are watching the Nintendo Switch footage of Super Mario Odyssey from the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles. Nintendo brought the pre-E3 media presentations to an end yesterday with its half-h … | Continue reading
Finding a good backpack, one you can use in a range of situations, is tricky. But Venque’s Transformer A, which is currently on Kickstarter, might just fit the bill for a good chunk of customers, however. The modular pack is the latest from Venque, which got its start on the cro … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.If you've played a Ubisoft game a … | Continue reading