Earlier this month, The San Diego Union-Tribune launched an unusual experiment: asking readers to become small-scale philanthropists. Partnering with crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, the paper began adding a small widget to its online articles, providing a link to start a fundrais … | Continue reading
The winners of the 15th anniversary edition of the Imagine Cup were just announced in Redmond this morning. Xglu from the Czech Republic developed an app that gives children with diabetes a cheap, easy and reliable way to measure and monitor their glucose levels. Instead of luggi … | Continue reading
A Russian man was indicted by a U.S. jury on Wednesday on charges of laundering more than $4 billion through a Bitcoin exchange, Reuters reported. Alexander Vinnik, 38, and likely operator of popular Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, was arrested in northern Greece on Tuesday, according to … | Continue reading
Let’s get something straight: The Magnitsky Act is not, nor has it ever been, about adoptions.The Magnitsky Act, rather, is about money. It freezes certain Russian officials’ access to the stashes they were keeping in Western banks and real estate and bans their entry to the Unit … | Continue reading
Last year, slimy green and foul-smelling algae took over Florida’s beaches, releasing toxins that killed fish and shellfish and sickened people. The algal bloom prompted the Florida governor to declare a state of emergency and likely caused widespread economic damage. If climate … | Continue reading
Russia this week announced plans to develop AI-powered missiles. This follows earlier news that Russian arms manufacturer Kalishnikov is designing an autonomous small-arms weapon system for military use. The Russians seem intent to prepare for a world where robots, or autonomous … | Continue reading
Liron Damir, Pebble’s former VP of design and one of the leaders behind creating webOS for HP and LG, is heading to Google to serve as the new head of UX for Google Home, via Variety. Per Damir’s announcement on LinkedIn, he’ll be “lead[ing] the design of Google Home products,” i … | Continue reading
Today, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority announced a change is coming to Airbnb that will allow users to leave an online review even if they haven’t completed their full stay. Previously, these types of reviews could only be left with the assistance of Airbnb’s customer … | Continue reading
2017 has been a wonderful year for smartphone design – and more specifically, killing the bezel. After Xiaomi made waves with last year’s Mi Mix, LG and Samsung both had own takes on maximizing screen real estate – no to mention Andy Rubin’s new Essential phone. Then there’s the … | Continue reading
GamesBeat 2017 will take place at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5-6, and we’re delighted to announce our next three speakers. This trio can teach us a lot about making big decisions in the game business. The speakers include Ed Fries, the former head of Microsof … | Continue reading
Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 S, a new Windows variant designed to only run Windows Store apps, to MSDN subscribers today. The new operating system will be available in an ISO file so developers can download and install it to test their apps on Windows 10 S. Specifically, Mic … | Continue reading
Sign up for R&K Insider, our collection of the most compelling happenings in food, politics, and travel from across the web. Hello, dear readers! This week, we published an article on the Scottish fishing industry by the grandson of a Scottish fisherman. Regular R&K contributor M … | Continue reading
In VR, we’re all robots, but some experiences make that a bit more apparent than others. Today, Oculus is releasing a VR comedy called “Miyubi.” The experience, produced by Funny or Die and Felix & Paul Studios, is the longest VR narrative to be funded by Oculus to date, clockin … | Continue reading
If you go to Apple’s iPod section today, you might notice something’s missing. Apple removed the Nano and Shuffle models from the store, and officially confirmed the littlest iPods are being discontinued. An Apple spokesperson told Business Insider: Today, we are simplifying our … | Continue reading
Officials in Karnataka are planning an event on blockchain and governance in the near future. | Continue reading
A report released today by activist group Global Voices found that not only does Facebook’s Free Basics violate net neutrality principles, it’s not even very helpful to those who use it. Free Basics, an app that provides free access to specific services in parts of Asia, Africa, … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.While few people absolutely loves their alarm clock, the Sandman Doppler Smart Alarm Clock is making it possible to change that. Compatible with Amazon Alexa, the smart clock all … | Continue reading
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are having a spat about whether or not artificial intelligence is going to kill us all.Musk, the chief of Tesla and SpaceX who has longstanding worries about the potentially apocalyptic future of AI, recently returned to that soapbox, making an appea … | Continue reading
Radio Flyer is releasing a drivable, kid-sized replica of Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder from Star Wars: A New Hope. Read more...More about Cars, Kids, Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, and Jedi | Continue reading
The invoicing and payments process in the commercial construction industry is broken. It takes a median of about 70 days to get paid, which means contractors are often stuck without enough working capital. Net30, a startup in Y Combinator’s current batch, wants to solve that pro … | Continue reading
More than two years ago, soon after Donald Trump entered the presidential race, I noted online that no one like him—with no political, military, judicial, or public-service experience, with no known expertise on policy matters, with a trail of financial and personal complications … | Continue reading
Facebook today launched Messenger Platform 2.1 with new features to give developers and brands more ways to reach potential customers, like built-in natural language processing, a payments SDK, and a global beta that makes it easier to switch between automated bots and the humans … | Continue reading
Private spaceflight startup Astrobotic has secured a rocket to launch its lunar spacecraft for the first time. The company’s Peregrine Lunar Lander — designed to carry multiple payloads to the surface of the Moon — is slated to ride on top of an Atlas V rocket, made by the United … | Continue reading
Netflix (and social media, and Seamless, and the convenience economy, and so on) has totally wrecked my fitness routine. But a new program from Dublin Institute of Technology student Ronan Byrne may save the day. Cycflix is a project that lets you hook a stationary bike up with … | Continue reading
Apple supplier Foxconn announced plans to open a new production facility for LCD displays in Wisconsin yesterday. The company and the state of Wisconsin pointed out that the facility's construction would support 10,000 jobs in each of the next four years, as well as 6,000 indirec … | Continue reading
It’s arm-twisting time in the Senate as Republicans close in on a decisive health-care vote, and the arm President Trump has decided to wring hardest belongs to Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.Murkowski, a former member of the party leadership now beginning her third six-year te … | Continue reading
A top Middle East official on the National Security Council was removed from his post on Thursday.Derek Harvey, a former top adviser to David Petraeus who was brought into the administration by former National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn to serve as the NSC’s senior director f … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — A U.S. jury indicted a Russian man on Wednesday as the operator of a digital currency exchange he allegedly used to launder more than $4 billion for people involved in crimes ranging from computer hacking to drug trafficking. Alexander Vinnik was arrested in a small b … | Continue reading
Get out the Kleenex and hit play on the Boyz II Men musical montages — it’s officially the end of an era. Three years after discontinuing the iPod classic, Apple is finally doing the same its lower-end brethren, the shuffle and nano. It’s also doubling the capacities of the iPo … | Continue reading
Aiming in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is broken. When players are crouched and idling, the game’s animation takes a moment to catch up after you start turning. This is causing shots to land to the side of your targets. Developer Bluehole is aware of the issue, and it is working … | Continue reading
Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter co-founder and CEO, is going to step down from his role at the company later this year, he wrote in a blog post last night. Kickstarter is now actively looking for a replacement. Kickstarter’s other two co-founders, Charles Adley and Perry Chen, are … | Continue reading
Apple has officially been granted FCC approval for an experimental license to test 5G data technology — specifically in the short-range millimeter wave spectrum in the 28GHz and 39GHz bands, as reported by DSLReports. The FCC portioned off those chunks of spectrum last summer for … | Continue reading
Google has been working on Tango, its AR platform for smartphones, since 2013. Since then, only one smartphone has shipped that supports Tango: the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, which I reviewed back in December. Now, the second Tango phone is here. Well, sort of. Asus still hasn’t said exa … | Continue reading
AMD’s Ryzen 3 processors — the budget, low-end of its resurgent Ryzen brand — are out today, and we’ve finally got pricing details. For now, AMD is offering two Ryzen 3 chips: the base Ryzen 3 1200 for $109, and the more powerful Ryzen 3 1300X for $129.The specs on the two chips … | Continue reading
This winter, Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel is scheduled to open in theaters. It will be the first film by Amazon Studios released without the help of a distribution partner, Variety reports. Although Amazon has bought and produced several films since 2015, like the Oscar-nominated M … | Continue reading
Andrés Muschietti’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It is due out in September, and it just got its first full trailer. Two teaser trailers for the film were released this spring, and the first photo of Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Clown was released last year. Thi … | Continue reading
For architects, complying with building codes means navigating labyrinthine layers of regulations that vary between municipalities. Sorting through different codes and keeping track of updates is a daunting task and, in a worst-case scenario, a mistake can cost thousands or even … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Spreadshirt, the self-expression global e-commerce company takes a fond look back at their 15 years as an enterprise, with 15 fun facts that show how far and wide the print on-demand apparel and accessory business has grown. While... | Continue reading
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and supporting actor Chris Pine will be reunited for a new six-part series on TNT, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The series is called One Day She’ll Darken, and it’s a true crime story based on the autobiography of Fauna Hodel. Jenkins’ h … | Continue reading
The key to a successful Facebook marketing is posting or sharing content your audience will actually like.You’ve probably heard this like a million times by now, right? Well, there’s a reason for that. It’s because it’s...read more | Continue reading
The key to a successful Facebook marketing is posting or sharing content your audience will actually like.You’ve probably heard this like a million times by now, right? Well, there’s a reason for that. It’s because it’s...read moreThe post 10 Rules for Effective Facebook Marketin … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Forget Instagram filters and get a true retro experience with the Instax Mini 9, a portable and lightweight instant camera that produces photos on the spot.Press the button near … | Continue reading
The last of the traditional iPods that lacked internet connectivity are gone. Apple has quietly taken down the websites for both the iPod nano and iPod shuffle today. As of now, searching for the products still results in “learn more” and “buy” links, but they lead to URLs that a … | Continue reading
The viking-on-knight-on-samurai brawler For Honor is getting new characters, maps, and dedicated servers. Ubisoft announced its plans through February 2018 this morning on its weekly Warrior’s Den livestream. Dedicated servers are a welcome announcement, as fans have previously c … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Fifty years ago in The Graduate, a 21-year-old Dustin Hoffman was pulled aside and given one piece of unsolicited advice that was the key to a prosperous future: plastics. If The … | Continue reading
In honor of Tasty’s two-year anniversary, BuzzFeed announced its newest cooking venture — the Tasty One Top, a smart hot plate that syncs with the just-released Tasty app. The One Top, when used in conjunction with the app, will “automatically adjust temperature and power setting … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.While the most commonly used drones are smaller than your average aircraft, they’re not exactly safe for work. After all, they’re meant to soar through the skies, not careen arou … | Continue reading
Middle-earth: Shadow of War is one of the most anticipated games of 2017. The sequel to Shadow of Mordor will continue the story and open-world, orc-recruiting gameplay of the original when it comes out on October 10 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. But mobile gamers won’t be … | Continue reading