Highland Games in Scotland, a diving jaguar in France, wildfires in California and western Canada, virtual reality in Japan, a rally race through China, a wax Donald Trump, and much more. | Continue reading
When it emerged that Donald Trump had had a second, unscheduled and unsupervised chat with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, the media’s already-overstressed conspirometer dialed up to 11. But what if the real story now is less one of collusion with the Russians as collisi … | Continue reading
Facebook is exploring new handheld gadget with interchangeable parts that could used like a smartphone or portable speaker, a new patent application revealed on Thursday.The product is described in the patent as a "modular electromagnetic device" and would work with different swa … | Continue reading
One out of every five phone calls to 911 in Memphis is a mistake. Of the 130,000 emergency calls in 2016, some 25,000 of them are really non-emergency calls, for everything from misdiagnosed stroke symptoms to simple sore throats. The city dispatches thousands of ambulances to re … | Continue reading
This week: Snap, Inc. has some new announcements, Amazon launches Instagram for shopping, and wait until you see how much native ad buying has increased in the past year. Here’s what happened this week in digital marketing. Introducing Amazon Spark: Instagram for Shopping! This … | Continue reading
OPINION: It’s been a tough month for wearables. Two weeks ago, The Information revealed that Jawbone is being liquidated. This week, CNBC reported that Intel had axed its wearables division. As my colleagues and friends know, I’m one of the biggest skeptics of wearables in the wo … | Continue reading
Last week, astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico announced they had picked up some strange radio signals coming from a small red dwarf star, and they couldn’t quite figure out what was causing them. Now, it seems they have an answer: it turns out these bizarre rad … | Continue reading
Our nervous system is the fastest, most adaptable tissue in the body. Our thoughts scientifically translate to our physical abilities. | Continue reading
Aditya Agarwal, who came in to Dropbox from its acquisition of Cove way back in 2012 and was given the CTO role last year, will be leaving the company. He announced his departure in a post on Facebook. Agarwal held the CTO role for about 9 months and was previously the VP of eng … | Continue reading
Yesterday, we reported that Verizon Wireless appeared to be throttling Netflix traffic, — and today, the company seems to have come clean. In a statement provided to Ars Technica and The Verge, Verizon implicitly admitting to capping the traffic, blaming the issue on a temporary … | Continue reading
Razer is interested in building a smartphone for gamers, according to a report from Bloomberg. The company is planning an IPO in Hong Kong later this year that could value its business at $5 billion. It will reportedly use some of the funds to build its smartphone.The news isn’t … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Whether you’re trying to fully transform your living space into an underwater oasis with a multicolored light projector or you’re just trying to spice things up a little bit, col … | Continue reading
On February 3rd, The Fault in Our Stars’ romantic lead Ansel Elgort released his debut music video. It was for a song he wrote and produced, called “Thief.” In the video, he wears a leather duster and no shirt as he sings to his real-life girlfriend, Violetta Komyshan, “Call me a … | Continue reading
When Andy Weir first began publishing The Martian on his website, he had little inkling that it would become one of the year’s best-known, most celebrated science fiction novels, or a best-seller later adapted into a popular, Oscar-nominated thriller starring Matt Damon. Later th … | Continue reading
A subsidiary of global consulting firm NRI has announced the launch of a new blockchain system assessment service.Source | Continue reading
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Healthcare, life sciences, and pharmaceutical research are hot-button issues in the U.S. and abroad. As the debate surrounding federal health care plans rages in Washington D.C., a quiet undercurrent is forming to help make a change in the industry regardless of political opinion … | Continue reading
A heat wave may be pummeling the East Coast right now, but we should really be taking pity on Shanghai, which had its hottest day in at least 145 years. Temperatures hit a record 105.62 degrees Fahrenheit today in the Southern Chinese city, which is the highest temperature record … | Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Atari revealed its new system, the PlayStation 4 won June, and we mourned the slow death of the Vita. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Roblox’s kid developers make enough … | Continue reading
The White House saw a dramatic shake-up in its communications team Friday, as the New York Times reported that Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned and President Trump appointed Anthony Scaramucci, a former hedge-fund manager, to be the administration’s communications director.Th … | Continue reading
Before attending the Social Media Masters Summit on Thursday, June 22nd, I knew social media was taking over the world, but this event taught me just how much it truly is. All aspects of social media are growing at a beyond rapid pace, and attending... | Continue reading
Video games have never been just games, but as developers grow their ambitions, thanks to evolving, powerful game development tools, the line between real life and simulation has been growing much murkier. To hear more about what’s enabling these brave new virtual worlds, join u … | Continue reading
You might soon be able to use merely your finger to board your next plane.Delta announced a new biometrics boarding pass experience on Thursday that'll allow passengers to use of fingerprints, instead of traditional boarding passes, to board planes at Reagan Washington National A … | Continue reading
So that’s the week pretty much done in our bitcoin price trading efforts and it’s been a pretty strong one. We’ve seen the bitcoin price gain a considerable amount of strength across the week, with initial starting levels of in and around 2200 now very much in the rear view mirro … | Continue reading
Rocko’s Modern Life is getting a one-hour TV movie next year, and Nickelodeon is at San Diego Comic-Con to give fans their first sneak peek at the new series. In the special’s first trailer for Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt find themselves in 2017. … | Continue reading
Let's be honest. Google Doodles are probably one of the best things about the internet. They're fun, and they tend to celebrate a lot of awesome people, and really cool events. But today's doodle is probably the most fitting for the website, as it literally celebrates the man who … | Continue reading
Is AI chipmaker Graphcore out to eat Nvidia’s lunch? Co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon laughs at that interview opener — perhaps because he sold his previous company to the chipmaker back in 2011. Read More | Continue reading
GM has been doing a lot to try to make it easier for developers to create software for use in their vehicle infotainment systems. Back in January, it opened up access to a wide range of data points from the vehicle, and made it possible to develop using a simulator on the deskto … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: Afraid of AI? Fire ants have sticky pads so they can form raft... | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.What’s worse than not being able to fall asleep? Dripping in sweat while trying to sleep.Don’t let the heat get you down this summer. This Penguin cooling pillow mat is here to t … | Continue reading
Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s atelier at Tarvaspää after his demise | Continue reading
Today's post was contributed by Michael J. Hatch . He is a sales, marketing and business development consultant with over 20 years' exper... | Continue reading
Today at 1:15 NY time, I'll be doing a Facebook Live, answering your questions about marketing. You can join us here. (Facebook archives these, so it's okay if you don't see it live... but if you're there when it happens,... | Continue reading
Netflix may have its first blockbuster movie on its hands. The new, full-length trailer for the upcoming Will Smith movie, “Bright,” from “Suicide Squad” director David Ayer dropped during San Diego’s Comic-Con yesterday. The trailer gives viewers a longer look into the upcoming … | Continue reading
Washington, D.C. (July 21, 2017)—Today The Atlantic premieres “Radio Atlantic,” the flagship show on its new podcast platform. Co-hosted by editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, executive editor Matt Thompson, and contributing editor Alex Wagner, the new weekly show will draw upon Th … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Being a developer is awesome. The money is great, the hours are great, and you pick up on all kinds of hidden jokes while watching Silicon Valley. But mobile operating systems ar … | Continue reading
The idea that Donald Trump might fire—or try to fire—Special Counsel Robert Mueller has bubbled up enough times to seem possible, but still improbable. For one thing (as Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, among others, can attest) press reports that this president might fire someone … | Continue reading
Facebook yesterday filed a patent detailing plans for a modular smart device. The patent shows off a design that would allow consumers to mix and match different hardware components compatible with a base frame. Information gleaned from the patent doesn’t make it clear whether th … | Continue reading
Writing has never been easy. But in the age of emojis, abbreviations, microscopically tiny keys and autocorrect, it’s never been more painful to wade through paragraphs clogged with typos, grammatical errors and prose that would make your 5th grade English teacher smack her foreh … | Continue reading
The iPhone 8—or whatever it winds up being named—drops later this year, but the endless churn of tech innovation and product development means that its successor, which we're calling the iPhone 9, is already starting to shape up. The next-gen phone's supply chain could be coming … | Continue reading
Every week, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week. But what if you don’t have time to watch every video — maybe you have a deadline, a hungry pet, … | Continue reading
The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a not-for-profit bug bounty program backed by such tech companies as Facebook and Microsoft, revealed that it has received three $100,000 donations from Facebook, an existing donor, and new investors GitHub and the Ford Foundation. Founded in 2013, … | Continue reading
There’s no arguing that the Snapbot is an impressive display of retail technology, But if Snap wants to achieve widespread distribution of Spectacles (and presumably other forthcoming hardware devices), it eventually had to expand beyond the Snapbot. So yesterday the camera comp … | Continue reading
It was the best four bucks The Atlantic ever spent.In late 1861, a New England abolitionist named Julia Ward Howe, moved by the sight of thousands of blue coats massing outside Washington, D.C., wrote a martial and stirring poem that placed God on the side of the Union cause. She … | Continue reading
Yesterday Europol announced the FBI, the DEA and the Dutch National Police have cooperated on a massive investigation aimed at shutting down AlphaBay and Hansa. Now rumors are spreading that the third largest illegal dark web marketplace, Dream Market, has also been compromised b … | Continue reading
There’s a new release date for the first phone from Andy Rubin’s Essential: August, with Rubin saying in an email to potential customers that the phones will start shipping “in a few weeks.”Rubin says that the Essential Phone is now going through testing with US and international … | Continue reading
A U.K. blockchain startup has received a notable grant to continue its work with the technology.Source | Continue reading