Google announced on stage a few numbers to update its progress on its hardware program – the company said that it’s sold over 55 million Chromecast devices, and that it has provided over 100 million answers to users via Google Assistant, its voice-powered AI software. The other … | Continue reading
At its Made by Google hardware event today, Google hardware chief Rick Osterloh announced that the company has sold 55 million Chromecasts, the company’s cheap streaming dongles that let you send music, photos, and videos from your phone to a TV or an external speaker. Google had … | Continue reading
Oracle has always had a swagger that reflects the public persona of its bombastic leader, Larry Ellison, but over the last several years, as the company has transitioned to the cloud, it has required a transformation to one that is softer and more customer-centric. Mind you, thi … | Continue reading
Police in Finland have moved into a new stage in their ongoing investigation into to the OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme. | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency World Expo –Warsaw Summit, will take place on December 1st and 2nd 2017. With over 1400 delegates attending, the event will be held in the Multiplex at Zlote Tarasy (Golden Terraces) in the heart of Europe. Accommodating the attendees, the lectures will be organize … | Continue reading
What can lighting do for a community? For some fascinating answers, just look at the results of one pilot research project in Cartagena, Colombia.Concentrating on the Caribbean city’s extremely busy Getsemaní neighborhood, the project, a collaboration spearheaded by Arup’s lighti … | Continue reading
Deep in the Mariana Trench, at depths lower than the Rockies are high, rests a tin of reduced-sodium SPAM.NOAA scientists caught sight of it last year near the mouth of the Mariana’s Sirena Deep. It isn’t an isolated incursion, but it was nevertheless startling, the sight of thos … | Continue reading
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EFPL) have designed a robotic snake that is capable of pinpointing the source of pollution in contaminated water. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Robot, Water, Swimming, and Switzerland | Continue reading
What is happening in Puerto Rico?Since the storm made landfall on September 20, Hurricane Maria has wreaked havoc on the island, causing a level of widespread destruction and disorganization paralleled by few storms in American history. Almost two weeks after the storm abated, mo … | Continue reading
Last year, the company behind the Unity game engine released Adam, a proof-of-concept short film designed to show off its cinematic creation tools. It doesn’t have much of a story: it’s just a robot escaping a prison. But Unity Technologies earned enough of a response to justify … | Continue reading
Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java. Fittingly, the company made this announcement at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. As Microsoft … | Continue reading
FogHorn, which provides data analytics software for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, announced today that is has secured $30 million in funding. Intel Capital and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures co-led this round, with new investor Honeywell Ventures … | Continue reading
As any dedicated disc golf fanatic would know, today marks the start of the US Disc Golf Championships in South Carolina. While this event is apparently the pinnacle of the disc golf season, the App Store serves as a year-long celebration of the frisbee-throwing sport, as mobile … | Continue reading
This is why Paradex is not a website by any means. Instead, it will work within users' Ethereum wallets directly, which is a nice change of pace. | Continue reading
Here's something to make you feel old: the original Assassin's Creed launched a whole decade ago. It's been 10 years since Assassin's Creed featured grumpy old Altair, imprisoned poor Desmond, and introduced now-ingrained concepts such as the Animus, Abstergo, and snazzy clothes … | Continue reading
UK shop GAME sold Star Wars Battlefront 2 PC beta codes this afternoon for the sum of £0.10 - although the link has now been removed. The codes did work though - we tried it. We contacted GAME and the retailer told us that the now-removed offer was a mistake - part of the bundle … | Continue reading
After the 2012 presidential election, Republicans came to a conclusion: They needed to make inroads with Hispanic voters. Four years later, the party chose Donald Trump—whose controversial rhetoric and hardline stance on immigration alienated many Hispanic voters—as its nominee, … | Continue reading
Did you know Razer is planning to release a phone? Razer really wants you make sure you're aware. Bloomberg reported in July that the gaming accessory company was considering building a device following its acquisition of Nextbit earlier this year. CEO Min-Liang Tan further confi … | Continue reading
French telecom company Orange is launching a bank. But it turns out that launching a bank is harder than expected. After many delays, Orange CEO Stéphane Richard finally announced that Orange Bank will be live on November 2 — La Tribune first reported the launch details. At some … | Continue reading
British Prime Minister Theresa May suffered bouts of coughing, a prankster on stage and falling scenery as she struggled to deliver closing remarks at the U.K.'s Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester, England. Photo: AP | Continue reading
The New York Times Co. today announced that it will offer new digital subscribers a free Google Home device when they sign up for a new account in the All Access tier or higher. It’s similar to promotions the company has offered over the past few months, including a free year of … | Continue reading
Fifty-nine people are dead from the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history. As happened after Omar Mateen killed 49 people at a nightclub with a gun, or after Dylann Roof killed nine African Americans with a gun, or after Adam Lanza killed 26 children and teachers with a gun, … | Continue reading
Addressing a major industry conference today in Barcelona, Viktor Shpakovsky, co-founder of The Token Fund, a crypto asset investment vehicle, outlined the benefits he along with his colleagues are planning to bring to their new fund creation and management platform Tokenbox. An … | Continue reading
In its secretive R&D department, Honda has been developing a bipedal disaster robot designed to climb through crumbled buildings.Honda unveiled the prototypical E2-DR robot last week at the 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Vancouver, reports IEEE … | Continue reading
Ein gemeiner Prank, der es in sich hat. Dieser verkleidete Pseudo-Imker kommt mit drei Kartons voller vermeintlicher, gefährlicher Killerbienen in einen Aufzug, telefoniert und lässt natürlich die Kartons fallen. Nun sind aber gar keine... | Continue reading
Western Digital has started shipping its newest and largest hard drive, the HGST Ultrastar Hs14. As the name suggests, this drive has a whopping 14TB of space. The post Western Digital Launches World’s First 14TB Hard Drive appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
A new release of InVID verification plugin was made on October 3, 2017. Check the added features of this new version and send us your feedback! | Continue reading
Wednesday, 11.10.2017 10.00 – 10.45, THE ARTS+ RUNWAY VOICES FOR A UNITED WORLD OF CREATIVITY Creativity has never known boundaries. But there have always been limits. Today, thanks to digitisation.. | Continue reading
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Sony is releasing a new VR headset revision, with HDR support and better cabling. PSVR has been a big seller to date, but the technology's future is still uncertain. The post Sony Launches Updated PlayStation VR With HDR, Improved Cables appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Google has spoiled its own Pixel 2 announcement just minutes ahead of its official unveiling. In a move similar to Apple’s iPhone 7 mistake last year, Google has updated its official Google Home app with images of the Pixel 2 XL. Google’s new Pixel 2 XL smartphone has been heavil … | Continue reading
Capcom's released the first gameplay of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite DLC characters Black Panther and Sigma.Capcom superhero Black Panther looks like he works similarly to Wolverine (there are no X-Men characters in Infinite, unfortunately), with fast claw attacks. Here's the offic … | Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has been awarded the best smartphone camera crown by DxOMark, a title it now shares with the iPhone 8 Plus. | Continue reading
Qoobo may be the perfect cat. It's soft, responsive, and will never scratch, dismiss, or leave you. It's also a robot.SEE ALSO: This super strong artificial muscle may bring us closer to lifelike robotsQoobo, which was unveiled this week by Yukai Engineering Co., Ltd. at the CEAT … | Continue reading
Just last month, Texas passed a law aimed at curbing the epidemic of cyberbullying in the state’s schools. All states have various laws that can be applied in certain bullying situations, but parents are finding with the new onslaught of cyberbullying there are loopholes that oft … | Continue reading
Sonos hat heute in New York den neuen "Sonos One" vorgestellt, den ersten Lautsprecher des Unternehmens, der sich per Sprache steuern lässt. Sechs Mikrofone sind in dem kompakten Speaker verbaut, um mit Amazons Alexa zu kommunizieren. Somit steht... | Continue reading
Price action and historical analysis suggests brighter days ahead for the XRP/USD exchange rate. | Continue reading
You might want to stay away from Google’s Inbox app for Android if you’re waiting on an important email – it turns out the software is suffering from a technical issue that is causing delays in notifications for new emails. A litany of miffed users have taken to the Google suppor … | Continue reading
The UK government has once again bared its anti-technology teeth in public, leaning especially heavily on messaging platform WhatsApp for its use of end-to-end encryption security tech, and calling it out for enabling criminals to communicate in secret. Read More | Continue reading
A French automaker wants to break into the American market, but not by selling cars to individuals.Groupe PSA launched its Free2Move “mobility aggregation platform” Tuesday in Seattle. The smartphone app lets users compare car sharing services such as Car2Go, Zipcar to determine … | Continue reading
Google is having its big hardware show today, where it’s expected to show off the latest Pixel phone among other things. The event begins at 9 AM PT / 12PM ET / 6PM CET, and you can view the livestream on YouTube: The highlights of the event will probably the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 … | Continue reading
An infographic is a set of facts and figures represented in a visually compelling way using graphics. Why should you use them as part of your content marketing? | Continue reading
Sonos is ready to take smart homes by storm with its own smart speaker, the Sonos One — but it needs some help from Amazon Alexa. The company announced the launch of the new speaker on Wednesday at an event in New York City. There's also a new public beta, starting today, to give … | Continue reading
Small business social media is an effective way to target your niche audiences. Here's six tips for getting started and how to grow your following. | Continue reading
More than a year after announcing a “long-term strategic partnership with Amazon,” Sonos unveiled its first speaker equipped with voice control capabilities built in. Called the Sonos One, the speaker will support Alexa. The Sonos One, which will cost $199, is available for pre-o … | Continue reading
Sonos just announced that it’s opening a public beta for Alexa support for its connected speakers, and to go along with Amazon’s voice assistant, the company also announced that it’ll be adding support for Google Assistant to its newly announced, voice-controlled Sonos One speake … | Continue reading