BIP 91 has officially locked in. At press time, more than 80% of bitcoin's miners, the network of computer operators that secure the blockchain, have now been signaling that they will upgrade to the code for 269 blocks in the same signaling period, a move that takes the software … | Continue reading
The critically acclaimed What Remains of Edith Finch launched on Xbox One yesterday, but those who had a chance to play it on PC and PlayStation 4 when it first debuted in April have had a few months now to process the story. Developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna … | Continue reading
Alright, sub-Saharan African startups, if you want to get in on our inaugural Startup Battlefield Africa, the time to act is now. Seriously. Right now. Tomorrow is the last day to submit an application to the Battlefield, so be sure to get over to our application page right now … | Continue reading
HBO’s hit Game of Thrones is mainly shot in Europe, around world heritage sites, major tourist attractions, and small towns. That sounds like a European PR travel company’s fever dream. Travel comparison site liligo.com has assembled an itinerary for fans of the show to fly to si … | Continue reading
Apple is rumored to finally bring wireless charging to the iPhone later this year with the deluxe iPhone 8, so we might be getting some new accessories to go along with it. The company will likely depend on the Qi inductive standard for the new feature, given its membership in th … | Continue reading
International observers have discovered an execution site in Mosul, where an eight-and-a-half-month-long offensive to retake the city from ISIS militants is drawing to a close, Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday. The site was first discovered on July 17 when a shopkeeper in … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s share price has more than doubled since Satya Nadella was named CEO in February 2014. Building on an enterprise business established by his predecessor Steve Ballmer, Nadella has pushed Microsoft away from its proprietary, on-premise software into a “mobile-first, clo … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingTrump vs. Sessions: The president attacked his attorney general in a New York Times interview released last night, saying he never would have hired Sessions if he knew he’d recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Sessions has been one of Trump’s most sta … | Continue reading
The first trailer for Netflix’s most expensive original film to date has premiered at San Diego Comic-Con. Bright, from Suicide Squad and End of Watch director David Ayer, is a fantasy epic starring Will Smith as a human cop and Joel Edgerton as some kind of Orc cop. The film tak … | Continue reading
Eighty-year-old Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. The cancer that is being described in news reports as it is in medical texts, as an “aggressive brain tumor.”The weight of that diagnosis hasn’t registere … | Continue reading
We’re just under a month away from the debut of Netflix’s live action adaptation of Death Note, the popular manga/anime series from about a decade ago. And at San Diego Comic-Con this afternoon, Netflix used its Hall H presentation to debut a new trailer and a short clip from the … | Continue reading
GUEST: The first major Overwatch League announcement since its introduction at Blizzcon last year came last week, when Blizzard finally introduced the first seven Overwatch League teams. Reactions have been very positive for the most part. Immortals, NRG and Misfits all took to T … | Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch dominated the best selling games in June, according to the industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. In terms of physical games sold, 3 of the top 5 best-selling games last month were Nintendo titles. Arms, the punchy fighter that launched mid-June, takes the No. … | Continue reading
With releases like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nier, and Horizon Zero Dawn, 2017 is already one of the best years ever for games. But plenty of people are still happily buying an old game instead. Grand Theft Auto V is the fourth best-selling game since the start of … | Continue reading
Sony introduced a new model of its of its slim PlayStation 4, and that juiced sales for the console in June. The PS4 was the top-selling hardware platform last month ahead of Nintendo Switch or Microsoft’s Xbox One, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. The new gold … | Continue reading
Shazam will begin production in early 2018 and may be released in theaters by 2019, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The report pegs David F. Sandberg as the film’s director. The production will begin ahead of Batgirl, Flash, and the sequels to both Suicide Squad and Wonder W … | Continue reading
I really don’t know how many Android fans who’ve bought into Google’s ecosystem would favor CarPlay over Android Auto, but maybe Apple’s in-car software is your only choice. If that’s your situation, you can at least now stream from the Google Play Music iPhone app using Apple’s … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesDuring a news conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he will continue to serve in his position “as long as that is appropriate,” a day after President Trump told The New York Times that he never would have nominated Sessions had he known he would recuse h … | Continue reading
Mark your calendars! Samsung's just sent out invitations for when it will likely announce its next flagship Android phone, the Galaxy Note 8.As previously reported, the Note 8 will likely be announced next month on August 23 at Samsung's usual "Unpacked" event. The invitation say … | Continue reading
The clock was tickingThieves stole $32 million worth of Ether out of a popular Ethereum wallet, and with every passing minute the potential for additional losses grew. And so the White Hat Group stepped in. SEE ALSO: It only took hackers 3 minutes to steal $7 million worth of Eth … | Continue reading
Square just announced that Randy Garutti, the CEO of Shake Shack is joining the payment company’s board of directors.Garutti has been with Shack Shack since before they opened their first location in 2004, and led the company public in their 2015 IPO. Garutti has spend his entir … | Continue reading
YouTube TV launched in April to solid reviews (including ours) back in April, but it wasn't perfect. The single biggest criticism was that it only worked in five major U.S. cities: New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia.It took a few months, … | Continue reading
Despite its rough start, I enjoyed the first Destiny. I wasn’t a ravenous fan or anything, but I put in a good amount of time. I even managed to beat one of the Raids. Bungie did a good job improving its online multiplayer shooter after Destiny debuted in 2014 through various upd … | Continue reading
Samsung’s next Unpacked event is arriving right on schedule — and all signs point to it bringing the Galaxy Note 8 along for the ride. The big show lines up with the phablet’s traditional release schedule, and the graphic appears to show an Infinity Display version of the Galaxy … | Continue reading
Samsung has officially sent out invitations for an Unpacked event on August 23rd in New York City, where it will presumably reveal the next Galaxy Note device. While Samsung hasn’t quite outright confirmed the Note 8 will make an appearance, the invitation pretty blatantly confir … | Continue reading
How do budding film buffs, lacking experience or funding, start making movies? Traditionally, there have been a few ways to pull it off. They can follow the conventional wisdom and go to film school, spending a few years writing and fundraising before taking on their own projects … | Continue reading
With net neutrality fresh on the minds of many in the United States, it seems that the data speeds at which Verizon Wireless customers can stream Netflix videos have quietly been capped in some instances. A tipster forwarded a tip directing The Verge to this Reddit thread, where … | Continue reading
GUEST: Enterprise chatbot adoption has reached what some would call a fever pitch. But the reality is that the capabilities and possibilities of chatbots are just beginning to be mined, and the space is expected to grow exponentially. Social media messaging platforms — with over … | Continue reading
Christopher Nolan’s 10th film, Dunkirk, comes out tomorrow in a variety of formats including laser IMAX, 70mm IMAX, standard 70mm, 35mm, and, uh, normal. It stars Tom Hardy, World War II, beaches, jam, Harry Styles, and boats, and early reports say it is somewhere between “pretty … | Continue reading
President Trump’s extraordinary broadside this week against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Special Counsel Robert Mueller raised eyebrows across the nation’s capital. But it’s unclear whether it will affect how either man performs his day-to-day job.The president expressed fr … | Continue reading
Fundraising is a stressful process. You do all you can to impress prospective investors by honing the story, optimizing key metrics and making your company look as attractive as possible. But before you decide the amount of money you raise and the type of investor you want on bo … | Continue reading
Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a neural network that can, in theory, can “look” at an image and find the recipe for the food that’s depicted. It’s the latest addition to an increasing list of similar project … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, we were honored to host many of the greatest minds in the field on the MIT campus — the birthplace of much of this robotic innovation. Industry and university leaders joined us at TC Sessions: Robotics, including Amazon Robotics’ Tye Brady, Disney Robotics’ Ma … | Continue reading
Chester Bennington started as a rock star by saying that he was finished. “I cannot take this anymore / saying everything I’ve said before” went the opening lines to Linkin Park’s first smash, “One Step Closer,” which is among the many, many songs that take on an awful resonance … | Continue reading
The Japanese internet company has announced the launch of Blockchain SS, an open source software initiative in the blockchain sector. Read more... | Continue reading
Microsoft has reported a revenue of $23.3 billion in its Q4 2017 fiscal year for a total net income of $21.2 billion this year so far. LinkedIn contributed $1.1 billion to revenue during Q4, $125,000 more than it did in Q3, the first quarter LinkedIn showed up in Microsoft’s repo … | Continue reading
Shyp, the on-demand shipping service launched in 2013, has announced in a blog post that they are withdrawing from all but one city and “reducing headcount at headquarters” in an effort to “prove their business model and set Shyp up for long-term success”. As of today the compan … | Continue reading
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Microsoft‘s gaming division generated $1.657 billion during its fiscal Q4, and that is up $44 million or 3 percent year-over-year. Xbox game sales and services picked up a lot of momentum and were more than enough to make up for a dip in revenues from hardware. Console sales are … | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin was up on Thursday, driven to a one-month high on optimism that the network's technology could soon upgrade.Source | Continue reading
EBay shares were down about 4% in initial after hours trading, after posting second quarter financial results. But in terms of revenue and net income, the company’s results were in line with expectations. According to Yahoo! Finance, analysts were forecasting an adjusted 45 cent … | Continue reading
Following its longstanding tradition of reporting quarterly earnings for its fourth financial quarter of the year in July, Microsoft today announced non-GAAP revenue of $24.7 billion and GAAP earnings per share of $0.83 (and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.98) for the last thr … | Continue reading
Google’s big experiment in digital counter-terrorism begins rolling out today. Collaborating with its own in-house think tank Jigsaw, the new effort seeks to bury ISIS-related propaganda on YouTube. Now, when a potential ISIS recruit searches for known extremist content using a … | Continue reading
Instagram has long been the social network of choice for subtly showing off to your friends. If you’re most people, that means videos of your cool vacation or pictures of your perfect brunch. If you’re billionaire Jeff Bezos, though, your Instagram humblebrags tend to be a little … | Continue reading
Rum in Saigon It’s Friday night in Saigon and I’m at the WOO Social Bar. It’s chic, trendy —whatever you want to call it—and not exactly my style, but I’m here because of the man making drinks behind the bar: Roddy Battajon, enemy of my liver. To be more precise, I’m here to drin … | Continue reading
The dream of long-lasting batteries is a little closer now that scientists have made progress on a big problem: a battery material that holds a lot of energy but breaks down quickly. They’ve found a way to use little “pulleys” to keep the material, silicon, intact.Manufacturers a … | Continue reading
One of Call of Duty’s biggest modes, Nazi Zombies, is getting a major update in the new game WWII due out November 3. You’re still killing waves of undead scum, but this time you’re doing it alongside Doctor Who star David Tennant, Elodie Yung who played Elektra in Daredevil, Vik … | Continue reading
‘High quality content’ is not marketers’ buzzword anymore. And the debate over what matters more – quantity or quality – has long settled. When it comes to content creation, each one of today’s savvy marketers strives for high quality content because that’s what major search engi … | Continue reading