If you ever miss one of the huge Comic-Cons, it’s always worth checking out the music videos from filmmaking duo Sneaky Zebra. They attended San Diego Comic-Con last week, and put together a catchy video that captures the essence of what attracts people to cosplaying. Sneaky Zebr … | Continue reading
Vodka brand Grey Goose is launching a dining and cocktail experience called 'Le Grand Fizz Brunch Club'. | Continue reading
Working with an SEO company can be hard if you don’t hire the right person for the job. There is a lot that needs to be done in order to boost your ranking. The problem is that the majority of service providers will not do as much as is needed. It is for this reason that you have … | Continue reading
Sometimes combining two companies that compete in the same market provides a quick way to leapfrog your market share. That was likely the thinking behind Mitel’s decision to buy ShoreTel this morning for $430 million. Combining the two companies catapults Mitel to number two in … | Continue reading
Despite changes in technology, there’s still a prevailing perception out there on the internet among the blogging community that companies have direct control over their brands. Their brands depend directly, they tell us, on the decisions marketing departments make on a day-to-da … | Continue reading
REVIEW: Metroidvanias — a genre inspired by non-linear sidescrollers like Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night — have become a favorite project of smaller studios. I love Metroidvanias, so that’s great for me, but I do wonder how much room for innovation could pos … | Continue reading
Advanced Micro Devices is launching its low-end Ryzen 3 processors today as it completes its broadside against Intel in consumer and gaming PCs. Both of the chips use AMD’s Zen cores, which can process 52 percent more instructions per clock than the previous generation. Zen-based … | Continue reading
Megacool is a startup born out of the mobile games studio Dirtybit, and it’s just raised $1.5 million to scale up its GIF-recording integration technology. Alliance Venture, an early-stage venture capital firm from Norway, led the round. The integration enables developers to defi … | Continue reading
GoPro is launching a new feature today called QuikStories that makes it even easier for users to receive automatically edited videos of their footage. It will also make it possible to transfer footage from a GoPro Hero 5 camera to a user’s phone with just one swipe (on iPhone) or … | Continue reading
Nick Woodman believes QuikStories represents the path forward for GoPro. The company’s founder/CEO doesn’t hold back. “You can say this is the biggest thing we’ve done to simplify the experience of sharing video since the invention of the GoPro itself,” he says matter of factly. … | Continue reading
Rent the Runway customers can now be one step closer to actually not having a closet. The company just announced they are launching same-day delivery in NYC, with plans to expand to other markets soon. Customers who order by 12pm will have their order delivered by 5pm, and recei … | Continue reading
New regulations that apply money transmitter laws to cryptocurrency exchanges have gone into effect in the U.S. state of Washington.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft today is launching a couple of major updates to PowerApps, its low-code service for quickly building line-of-business applications, and Flow, its business-centric IFTTT competitor. While these are obviously two very different applications, the general idea to allow bus … | Continue reading
The creation of Bitcoin Cash will be an interesting social experiment. More specifically, there seems to be a strong support for a token that doesn’t even exist yet. BCC Tokens will be created on August 1st and provide Bitcoin users with “free coins”, so to speak. For the time be … | Continue reading
This edition of the Copyblogger Weekly features 37 specific steps you can take to have more fun, create better content, and reach more people. | Continue reading
Emojis have taken root in the modern consumer's vocabulary, and marketers need to speak the language. These tips can help you leverage emojis' marketing value. | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
Running a successful webinar is no walk in the park. Follow this guide on how to do a webinar effectively to make sure yours goes off without a hitch. | Continue reading
It was about 2AM on a Friday morning, and Connor White couldn’t find the baby great white shark he was supposed to be tracking off the Southern California coast. He wasn’t worried about the shark,... | Continue reading
We’re thrilled to announce that Anna Hensel is joining VentureBeat as a reporter today. Her areas of coverage will include news and analysis for our Heartland Tech Channel, which explores the technological and economic divide between Silicon Valley and the rest of America. She is … | Continue reading
In what looks like a potentially useful use of drone technology, Russian scientists at the Moscow Technology Institute have stuck a defibrillator on a drone so it can be remote piloted to a person in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Read More | Continue reading
Twitter did not add any new monthly active users in the past three months, but said 12 percent more users are accessing the site on a daily basis than in the same quarter last year. The number of monthly active users stands at 328 million, but the company declined to disclose a d … | Continue reading
Mit einer neuen Sofware will eBay in Kürze (Herbst) das Einkaufen über Bilder ermöglichen, falls einem nicht mehr einfällt, wie das Ding der Begierde eigentlich heißen könnte, oder falls man schlicht zu faul ist, einen... | Continue reading
A legal expert discusses the potential impact of a new SEC report on the use of blockchain-based tokens for fundraising.Source | Continue reading
A diverse team can increase your productivity, output and ultimate success. But how do you hire and build a diverse team? Find out here. | Continue reading
There’s a new preview out for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and it will give you the creeps. In fact, it will make you so angry that you’ll have no compunctions blasting the Nazis who have taken over America in this upcoming video game. Just as it did with Wolfenstein: The Ne … | Continue reading
Sony’s lineup of full-frame mirrorless cameras are impressive, and have become a staple for videographers and photographers worldwide. But now, the a7S II has gone beyond just our world, capturing amazing 4K footage from outside the International Space Station. The a7S II was mo … | Continue reading
The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking an interest in the hottest craze in cryptocurrency, the initial coin offering (ICO), and apparently the SEC is not into the hype. The commission published a report on Tuesday advising that ICOs, or token sales, are subject to secur … | Continue reading
There was an air of positivity in the buildup to Twitter’s second quarter earnings today, with the company’s share price popping in the wake of its last earnings results in April. But the news out of Twitter towers this morning wasn’t great: Revenue fell 5 percent since the previ … | Continue reading
In a bid to improve user experience, True Flip has announced strategic partnership with DAO.Casino. True Flip, the provably fair international blockchain lottery, and DAO.Casino, the decentralized gambling protocol reported reaching on numerous agreements which resulted in the de … | Continue reading
Bethesda’s Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is going to be an awesome video game when it debuts on October 27. But it’s going to produce a lot of agony once players start trying to shoot the Nazis who have taken over America. That’s because the game is, like its predecessor Wolfe … | Continue reading
Ford is adding its largest market yet for Chariot, the crowd-sourced shuttle service that it acquired last September. Chariot began operations in San Francisco, where the former startup ran commuter routes of its branded transit vans, and expanded to Austin after that. In August … | Continue reading
Bethesda Softworks unveiled the Wolfenstein II – The Freedom Chronicles season pass and preorder program. The new package shows that Bethesda is going all out with Machine Games’ Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus shooter game which debuts on October 27 on the PC, PlayStation 4, an … | Continue reading
Salesforce announced an update to its Service Cloud today, which the company says enables non-technical administrators to build a customer service organization with connected services in less than day. That’s a bold claim, even for the marketing department, but the Service Cloud … | Continue reading
Nach diversen Tests in einigen Ländern hat sich Kaspersky nun entschlossen ihre Kaspersky Free Virensoftware weltweit zu veröffentlichen. Damit sind laut eigener Aussage alle essentiellen Virenscans, Firewalls, Malware-Quarantaine etc. abgedeckt... | Continue reading
A 1963 protest placard in the Smithsonian collections could almost be mistaken for any of the Black Lives Matter marches of today | Continue reading
As you'll know if you read my Wolfenstein 2 hands-on preview, I'm excited for MachineGames' upcoming first-person shooter. Today, I'm excited to present to you an hour-and-a-half of brand new gameplay.Johnny and Aoife recently played two different sections of Wolfenstein 2: The R … | Continue reading
Für viele ist das Galaxy S8 immer noch das trendsetzendste Smartphone-Flagschiff der Saison mit seiner sagenhaften Screen-To-Body-Ratio, aber das Note 8 steht schon vor der Tür und da wundert es nicht, dass man die Preise langsam immer stärker... | Continue reading
Google Chrome is making it easier to inspect how secure the websites you visit are without having to leave the page. The latest iteration of the browser brings back the ability to effortlessly look up certificate details straight from the security interface in the address bar. Us … | Continue reading
The Samsung corporation has nicely weathered a rough year caused by its mobile division, thanks largely to the strength of its other electronics business. Those other products helped the South Korean tech giant post record profits for the second quarter. But regarding its smartph … | Continue reading
Legal analyst Peter Van Valkenburgh offers a positive take on new model legislation designed for state lawmakers.Source | Continue reading
It’s difficult to pick just one thing to hate about the internet, but if I had to, I’d say it was how overwhelmingly relevant everything is. Everywhere I turn online I see content I should click on. Advice for the stressed, advice for the sleepless; news of impending horrors, bot … | Continue reading
The 25th edition of the DEF CON conference starts today in Las Vegas. Hackers from around the world have converged on the infamous City of Sin, in order to share what they’ve learned in the previous year. We can expect a treat. That’s because DEF CON has long been a source of jaw … | Continue reading
The 13 novels longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award, were announced Thursday morning. Among them are some of the biggest names in fiction (Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Paul Auster, Colson Whitehead, George Saunders) as well as two first-tim … | Continue reading
Verizon Communications has been investing in building out new areas of business like media and wireless services to offset declines in legacy products like fixed telephony, and today it released Q2 results that underscored that strategy. Verizon reported earnings per share of $1 … | Continue reading
Twitter reported that it failed to increase the number of users over the second the quarter and that revenue slid as the company’s attempts to reboot seemed to be in trouble. “We’re proud that the product improvements we’re making continue to increase their overall contribution t … | Continue reading
Es gibt diese Art Lösungen schon gefühlte Ewigkeiten. Problem: Browsen auf dem Handy, dann auf den PC switchen und wie landet man wieder genau da, wo man war? Mit einem neuen Preview (Fast Ring) von Windows 10 klappt das nun auch zwischen... | Continue reading
It's not everyday we bear witness to the death of greatness. And so, when it does happen, we should all stand up and take note. Now is such a time. We speak, of course, of Adobe Flash: The best malware vector the world has even seen.SEE ALSO: Goodbye Flash and thanks for all the … | Continue reading