The Game Developers Conference has named Katie Stern as its new general manager starting on August 7. She’s taking over for industry vet Meggan Scavio, who resigned in May after 18 years in the role. Though Stern hasn’t led any games events before, she has years of experience in … | Continue reading
Washington, D.C. and New York City (July 25, 2017) -- The Atlantic, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Aspen Institute will host CityLab Baltimore, a half-day “pop-up” summit exploring the key challenges and opportunities faced by American cities today, from public health to cultu … | Continue reading
When Atsushi Hashimoto was a kid, he loved role-playing games. He’d settle in front of the television for hours, controller in hand, lost in quests full of magical spells and powerful evils. He was particularly enamored with the works of Squaresoft, now known as Square Enix, the … | Continue reading
Lenovo hat dann neben dem Moto Z2 Force auch ein neues Moto Mod vorgestellt, mit dem die Smartphones der Moto-Z-Reihe modular erweitert werden können: Das 360 Cam Mod macht erwartungsgemäß Rundumaufnahmen und zwar in Bild und Ton, mit... | Continue reading
Reston, Virginia — July 25, 2017 — John Wise, CEO of Loci.io, worked as a data engineer and manager in top American auto racing teams. Over the years, he witnessed the creation of thousands of racing inventions, as well as the mind-numbing endeavor of patent filing necessary with … | Continue reading
Jason Chaffetz, who stepped down from his Utah seat in the House of Representatives last month, still absolutely hates the idea of non-wealthy Americans having smartphones. Today, the former Republican lawmaker posted an Instagram photo of an apparently homeless person near Times … | Continue reading
GUEST: The slogan “AI first” is often used in keynote speeches, corporate agendas, and business writings. Google now considers itself an AI-first company, and AI-first design is raising its profile in the blogosphere. But you have a business to run. So how do you practically appr … | Continue reading
Senate Republicans have voted to begin debate on legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, clearing a key procedural hurdle even as it remains unclear what—if any—legislation the party might ultimately pass.The vote was as narrow as it gets: With two of the 52 Republicans … | Continue reading
See how SEO content writers think outside the box when creating blog posts and other content, looking at local news, events and employee profiles. | Continue reading
Missed out on the NES Classic? Already eagerly looking forward to being disappointed by not being able to purchase a SNES Classic this fall? Well, don’t give up hope just yet. ThinkGeek (which is owned by GameStop) has just put up one last batch of the NES Classic on its website. … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.In the quest for the smallest Bluetooth device possible, Origami Labs may be leading the packThe Hong Kong start-up that builds voice-enabled hardware just launched their first K … | Continue reading
Tito Hamze gives an in-depth review of the Sling Studio, a multi-camera production studio that turns your existing cameras wireless and makes your phones into cameras with the ability to control everything from an iPad as a switcher. It’s the most portable multi-cam setup I’ve ev … | Continue reading
Adobe today announced it would be killing off Flash by the end of 2020, and it called on several major sites for help with the hit. It’s not the first time we’ve talked about Flash’s impending doom — from Chrome killing Flash, to Mozilla killing Flash, to the death of Flash. Repo … | Continue reading
When I wrote a largely personal, impressionistic piece last week about the burqini, it elicited one of the most charged reactions I’ve seen about anything I’ve written. The piece—or at least one reaction to the piece—went viral. The subtitle (“Is there any right way to react to t … | Continue reading
If Facebook is planning to make a smart speaker, it should really reconsider.A report in Digitimes today says that Facebook’s Building 8 research group is developing a smart speaker with a 15-inch touch panel. There are lots of reasons to be skeptical of this: Digitimes has a mix … | Continue reading
The ROI of content can be a maddeningly long game. But just because it’s messy doesn’t mean it’s not measurable. Our guide to 15 Content KPIs can help. | Continue reading
Toyota is touting its progress on a new kind of battery technology, which uses a solid electrolyte instead of the conventional semi-liquid version used in today’s lithium-ion batteries. The car maker said that it’s near a breakthrough in production engineering that could help it … | Continue reading
Five years from now, company leaders will be looking back and wishing they developed an artificial intelligence strategy sooner, according to one of the veterans of the field. Andrew Ng, the cofounder of Coursera and the former machine learning chief at Chinese tech powerhouse Ba … | Continue reading
In Cenderawasih Bay, in West Papua, Indonesia, fishermen set out for days on hand-made floating platforms called bagans. At night, they turn on lights to attract squid and baitfish, and lower nets from their bagans—also attracting whale sharks to the smell and commotion. Bagan fi … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a tournament in Germany with a $350,000 prize pool. The Gamescom PUBG Invitational will take place August 23 through 26, and developer Bluehole is planning to sell cosmetic items to fund the tournament and raise money for select charities. … | Continue reading
The next time you’re swimming in Lake Geneva, don’t be surprised when you feel something eel-like and yet artificial touch your leg. That would be Envirobot, the latest biomimetic creation from Swiss researchers that autonomously swims around bodies of water and tests them for t … | Continue reading
GIFs are fun to share. It feels like there’s one for almost every different set of circumstances. But did you know that it’s not particularly difficult to create your own moving pictures? This is equally true for mobile devices, as there’s a wealth of GIF-making apps for Android … | Continue reading
Colin Angle, iRobot CEO and the father of modern robot vacuums, may have some cleaning up of his own to do.In a recent interview with Reuters, Angle indicated iRobot might want to sell home mapping data collected by its Roomba robot vacuums to third party smart home product compa … | Continue reading
Last November a Jordanian guard at a military base opened fire at a training center near Amman, killing three Americans, later identified as Special Forces soldiers.The guard, Sergeant Maarik al-Tawaiha, 39, was sentenced last week to life in prison for killing Staff Sergeant Mat … | Continue reading
Motorola just formally announced the newest addition to its collection of Moto Mod add-ons, a 360-degree camera that magnetically attaches to the back of any of the Moto Z series of devices. I had a few minutes to try out the new Mod, and it more or less works pretty much as adve … | Continue reading
Microsoft presented HoloLens 2.0 on Sunday at an event in Hawaii. The company, known mostly for its software, revealed the newest iteration of its AR headset would contain a Microsoft-made AI co-processor. This marked the company’s entry into the design and manufacture AI chip-se … | Continue reading
Lenovo hat heute wie erwartet dem unkaputtbaren Modell seiner Z-Familie ein Update verpasst: Das ausnehmend elegante Moto Z2 Force, dessen technische Details durch diverse Leaks keine Überraschung mehr darstellen (Snapdragon 835, 5,5-Zoll-Quad-HD-Display,... | Continue reading
Not many people get to contemplate their brain in a jar, but if all goes to plan then I’ll be in that curious position by Christmas.Happily, I’ll still have the brain I’m using right now, which is how I’ll be able to do the contemplating. The other one will be my second brain. Ab … | Continue reading
The creator of the longest-running scripted primetime series ever, “The Simpsons,” is preparing to launch a new show for Netflix. The streaming service today announced it has ordered 20 episodes of an animated comedy series called “Disenchantment,” from “The Simpsons” creator Ma … | Continue reading
As Uber stumbled from a series of self-inflicted scandals, Lyft’s business continues to grow. Bloomberg reported today that Lyft’s gross bookings, the revenue earned by its drivers, grew by about 25 percent to $1 billion in the second quarter from $800 million in the previous per … | Continue reading
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Adobe has finally acknowledged what the rest of us have known for years: Flash needs to die. The software giant plans to stop supporting and updating Flash Player by 2020, according to a statement from the company. Sites that use Flash will continue to work through 2020, but wil … | Continue reading
Netflix announced today that Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, will be developing a medieval animated adult fantasy called Disenchantment. It’s scheduled to begin streaming on Netflix in 2018. The series’s protagonist is a young, “hard-drinking” princess named … | Continue reading
Guest Contribution: This article was written by a guest author. If you would like to contribute to Copytactics, please feel free to get in touch. If you have to edit a text file, you are going to have to choose between multiple good and reliant formats. However, there’s a big dif … | Continue reading
Das überfällige Ende einer Ära. Adobe hat angekündigt, die Entwicklung von und den Support für Flash Ende 2020 einzustellen. Die Pressemeldung beinhaltet Statements der Unternehmen, die schon lange nicht mehr auf Flash setzen... | Continue reading
The fire department responds to a home fire every 86 seconds, and many of those start in the kitchen. Wallflower is a device that easily hooks into most electric stoves, between the outlet and the stove itself, to notify users if there is risk of a fire. If the stove is on when … | Continue reading
An advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that as many as a quarter of computers are infected with cryptocurrency mining malware.Source | Continue reading
“It was more comfortable than I had imagined,” is how The Unit begins, with Dorrit, a single, impoverished 50-year-old woman picked up from her home in a metallic-red SUV and transported to a luxury facility constructed by the government for people just like her. Her new, two-roo … | Continue reading
A foreign journalist representing a reputable German newspaper is picked up and accused of supporting a terrorist organization. A German human-rights organizer is also detained on charges of supporting a yet-to-be-defined terrorist organization. Is this happening in North Korea? … | Continue reading
ContainerShip, which launched at Disrupt NY 2015, helps developers deploy their containerized applications on virtually all of the major cloud platforms. In its early days, the company mostly bet on Docker and its own container management tools for handling its users’ containers … | Continue reading
Like disputes over abortion, the death penalty, and drug prohibition, the conflict between Israel and Palestine divides Americans into polarized camps of mutual distrust. If any consensus is possible on those issues, it is that there is nothing like a consensus, and that the atte … | Continue reading
Take-Two‘s big money maker, Grand Theft Auto Online, is adding a new multiplayer mode and another high-end car. Grand Theft Auto Online is the online component of Grand Theft Auto V, the open-world game that came out in 2013 but is still making money thanks to back-catalog sales … | Continue reading
Velocity String™ is a new content format for content marketing. Unlike print-centric ebooks, PDFs and whitepapers, String is digital native – and very cool! | Continue reading
Twitter has been making an effort for some time to streamline and simplify its interface to make its social media platform more accessible to new and more casual users, and it is doing the same in the backend of its service. In the latest development, we have confirmed that Twit … | Continue reading
Online consignment shop thredUp is taking on The RealReal. The e-commerce site for secondhand items today announced the launch of a new luxury goods storefront, simply called Luxe, which is now available as a public beta. Via Luxe, consignment customers can request a “clean out … | Continue reading
Those mysterious virtual reality gloves Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off back in February still aren't available to the public, but now we have video of exactly how they work. SEE ALSO: Marvel VR game for Oculus Rift lets you become Hulk, Captain Marvel, Rocket RaccoonOcul … | Continue reading
Adobe is finally planning to kill off Flash once and for all. Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari have all been blocking Flash over the past year, but Adobe is now planning to remove support for it fully by the end of 2020. “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player … | Continue reading
If your big problem with headbanging was always that there wasn’t enough reward in it, Japanese electrocore metal band Crossfaith has a fix for the problem. The group has a website that lets you headbang to its music while it tracks your movements through your webcam. The interac … | Continue reading