When it comes to shaving, go with a hybrid

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.When it comes to shaving, guys have historically had only two choices in the realm of hair removal.    There’s the bulky black electric razor that sounds like a hive of angry bee … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

These soft robots are inspired by plants and move like sentient vines

A thick tendril snakes its way across a desk. It turns sharply, heading up to wrap its single, tube-like appendage around a valve that moves slowly under its pressure. Though it looks like the work of a sentient vine, it’s actually a robot: a soft, plant-inspired creation that “g … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Half of All Plastic That Has Ever Existed Was Made in the Past 13 Years

In 2014, scientists found a new kind of of “stone” on the beaches of Hawaii. It was made of sand, organic debris, volcanic rock, all swirled together with melted plastic. So they proposed the name “plastiglomerate” and they suggested that, as plastic lasts pretty much forever, th … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Apple veröffentlicht Updates für alle Plattformen

Apple hat heute Abend all seinen Software-Plattformen Updates spendiert. Wirklich neue Features sucht man vergebens, es handelt sich lediglich um kleinere Maintenance-Versionen, die ein paar Bugs beseitigen, dafür aber auch die eine oder andere... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago

Zynga and MGM are planning a Words With Friends TV show

Zynga has teamed up with MGM Television to develop a primetime TV show based on Zynga’s Words With Friends puzzle game. There’s a trend to combine games with TV game shows, and it’s either a brilliant way to do cross marketing — or a doomed effort to save TV as millennials go onl … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google quietly released a killer new feature in Google Maps

Google added a neat feature for cyclists in Google Maps in 2014. Whenever you asked for directions from point A to point B, Maps would also provide a little map with an estimated elevation for each part of the route. Now the same is true for walking directions. For each set of di … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

DC prosecutors are ramping up secret requests for location and internet history

New data released this week by the DC District Court shows a massive increase in sealed court orders demanding location or internet data, as first reported by The Washington Post. The number of orders increased seven times over during the last three years, reaching 1,136 orders i … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

'Game of Thrones' is still the most pirated show, but there's a twist this year

There have never been more ways to watch Game of Thrones legally, but that hasn't stopped the show from continuing to be the most popular TV show for illegal downloads and streams. SEE ALSO: Here's how Twitter reacted to the 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 premiereThat's the finding f … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Franklin Robotics’ Tertill wins the pitch-off at TC Sessions: Robotics

 We’re pleased to report that a so-called Roomba for weeds, Franklin Robotics’ Tertill, won the TC Sessions: Robotics pitch-off. Because if there’s a task that should be relegated to a robot, it’s weeding a garden. For winning the pitch-off, Franklin Robotics was awarded an exhib … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Hulu’s new 20th Century Fox deal brings 3,000 more TV episodes to its streaming service

Hulu today announced a sizable content deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution that will allow Hulu to add nearly 3,000 more episodes of popular TV shows, including dramas and comedies, to Hulu’s streaming service. The deal will give Hulu the streaming rights to severa … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Surprise: pairing your Segway hoverboard to an app isn't a great idea

Hoverboards are still a thing, apparently, and they're still terrible. Researchers at IOActive have found that security oversights in the Ninebot by Segway miniPRO hoverboard could allow an attacker to remotely track hoverboard riders, circumvent safety locks, remotely execute co … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

New iOS Games on Our Forums: 'Judas Priest: Road to Valhalla', 'Sidewords', 'Project Mallow', 'Finn in 1989', and More

Today is apparently National Hot Dog Day, the day of the year where all hot dogs are equally appreciated. Being in Chicago, I'm pretty deep into the Chicago style hot dog scene, but, I'd say I love all hot dogs equally. If you're looking for some new games to play while you wait … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Seeing Your Ransomware Outbreaks from Inside F-Secure

This is guest post by F-Secure trainee Mari Mäkinen. The cyber security market is extremely fascinating, highly competitive and very fast-paced, which contributes to the fact that there’s never a dull day at work. Since I started at F-Secure two months ago, two huge outbreaks of … | Continue reading


@safeandsavvy.f-secure.com | 7 years ago

Harbour, Ethereum-based DAO For Token Asset Management, Begins ICO in 12 Days

Harbour, a decentralized, autonomous and community-managed token asset management system, starts its initial coin offering (ICO) in 12 days. Conceptually, Harbour is nearly identical to the original decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) launched on top of the Ethereum proto … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

VIBERATE WILL ENABLE MUSICIANS TO CHARGE FOR THEIR PERFORMANCES IN CRYPTOCURRENCIES

Supported by the European Commission’s “Music Moves Europe” initiative as well as the Slovenian Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, additionally being advised by Charlie Shrem and Stanford professor / Pinterest Chief Scientist – Dr. Jure Leskovec, Viberate is bound t … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

HMD Global, the company behind new Nokia phones, loses its CEO

Arto Nummela, now former CEO of HMD Global, has left the company due to personal reasons just over a year after HMD acquired rights to use the Nokia brand. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Splatoon 2 hates friends who don’t use Nintendo’s app

Nintendo is releasing Splatoon 2 for the Switch this Friday. Alongside that ink shooter, the publisher is also planning to introduce its new online app that enables players to group up and voice chat when in multiplayer matches. And it turns out that playing online without that a … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Segway miniPRO scooter had a huge, dangerous security hole

A scooter you can also remote control sounds cool, until you find out it can be hacked. Then it's not cool at all — it's terrifying.Every Friday, I ride an electric Segway/Ninebot miniPRO around the office. It's my favorite rideable (A.K.A. balance board, A.K.A., hoverboard). It' … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Wie immer praktisch: Samsung veröffentlicht ersten Bixby-Spot

Nutzer des Samsung Galaxy S8 in den USA dürfen sich freuen. Der Smart-Assistant Bixby kann endlich genutzt werden. Und was sich damit alles theoretisch machen lässt, wird in einem dazu produzierten Werbespot gezeigt. Wir sehen einen jungen... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago

Crescent Moon's Low-Poly Space Adventure 'Morphite' Finally Arriving September 7th, New Trailer Released

It's been more than a year since Crescent Moon first publicly unveiled a new game they're releasing called Morphite, a low-poly space exploration adventure, and we've covered the game a ton in the time since then. Well, it's all finally coming to a head as today Crescent Moon, in … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Google’s brave new friendless feed

 It’s a fundamental shift in content consumption from curation based on our explicit choices to curation based on our implicit preferences mined from past behavior. It could unlock our niche fascinations without us ever having to pledge allegiance to them. Today Google officially … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Texas Congressman: Cryptocurrenices Must Not Enable Terrorists

A Texas Congressman is seeking to make public his views on cryptocurrency regulation following a hearing in Washington. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Minimize the Twitter Chaos with Lists

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@jacksonmarketingservices.com | 7 years ago

Pictures of Death

Photography owes much of its early flourishing to death. Not in images depicting the aftermath of violent crimes or industrial accidents. Instead, through quiet pictures used to comfort grieving friends and relatives. These postmortem photographs, as they are known, were popular … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

The internet saved the laugh track

Today I watched a YouTube video of a Roomba rolling and tripping its way through an obstacle course. The video was shot during a student robotics challenge at UC Berkeley, and it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect when you hear the phrase “Roomba obstacle course.” So what st … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Hulu is adding a ton of new TV shows, including Glee, How I Met Your Mother, and MASH

Hulu is getting its hands on the streaming rights to a new lineup of shows, including every episode of How I Met Your Mother, MASH, NYPD Blue, and Glee. Episodes for these shows are expected to be added to the service over the next few weeks. Unlike NYPD Blue or MASH, shows like … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Leading VC Tim Draper invests in Gravity’s ‘Iron Man’ flight suit, on a $100 bill

 You’re a bored former finance guy who decides one day to strap on some micro-jet engines and see if you can become Iron Man. Hey it happens all the time. Or maybe not. But that’s what British entrepreneur Richard Browning decided to do and just this year found himself demoing hi … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Loaded reverses Silicon Valley’s failure formula, and embraces the comedy side of startups

It’s easy to watch the British comedy Loaded and immediately compare it to HBO’s biting satire Silicon Valley. Both feature a group of four adult men working in the tech industry and maneuvering through the complexities of running a company, while engaging in ludicrous antics bor … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

How Castlevania producer Adi Shankar turned his own game fandom into a Netflix series

The history of video game adaptations in movies and television is littered with failure, from the now-infamous 1993 Super Mario Bros. film to the more recent Assassin’s Creed, which was praised in part for not being completely terrible. One surprising success story, though, has b … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

The Surge now has a demo on all platforms

Sci-fi soulslike The Surge now has a demo on PS4, Xbox One and PC.According to developer Deck13, this demo comprises "hours of unlocked content" and your progress will carry over into the full game, should you buy it.The Surge is Deck13's follow-up to Lords of the Fallen. It's a … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

China’s biggest movie is based on an internet novel

Wu Kong came out last Thursday and dominated Chinese box offices over the weekend. It has raked in $60.4 million so far, beating the likes of Despicable Me 3 and Transformers: The Last Knight, according to China’s EntGroup. The action / fantasy movie from Hong Kong director Derek … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google’s right to be forgotten appeal heading to Europe’s top court

 Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling, which allows private citizens in the region to make requests that search engines delist incorrect, irrelevant or out of date information returned by an online search for their full name, is set to return to the region’s top court to settl … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

This famous roboticist doesn’t think Elon Musk understands AI

 Earlier this week, at the campus of MIT, TechCrunch had the chance to sit down with famed roboticist Rodney Brooks, the founding director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the cofounder of both iRobot and Rethink Robotics. Brooks had a lot to say abo … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The Weirdest iPhone Cases Ever

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@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Google’s new security features will protect you from unverified apps

You’ll now see a new “unverified app” screen when trying to access web apps and Apps Scripts that haven't gone through Google's app verification system yet. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Why My Dad Reads Jane Austen

Elinor, in an 1899 illustration (Chris Hammond)If you took Elinor Dashwood, the heroine of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, and turned her into a male software engineer in his sixties, you’d get my dad. Seriously: He’s kind, smart, moral, sometimes stoic in the extreme. He ca … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Amazon orders two seasons of Mr. Robot creator’s podcast adaptation

Amazon has ordered two seasons of Homecoming, an adaptation of the popular Gimlet podcast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The podcast, a psychological thriller with a narrative structure borrowed from traditional radio and an A-list voice-acting cast including Oscar Isaac, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Aufgeflogen: Schmugglerin mit 102 iPhones am Körper

Vor einigen Wochen versuchte eine Frau 102 iPhones und 15 Luxusuhren der Marke Tissot von Hongkong nach China zu schmuggeln. Die Geräte wurden fest am Körper befestigt und die Schmugglerin bemühte sich, die Fracht so gut wie möglich... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago

LiveStories nabs $10M to organise, analyse and visualise fragmented civic data

 Big data analytics continues to be a key driver in how organisations utilise their vast quantities of information to run their businesses, and now a startup that has built a big data platform specifically focusing on data from the public sector has raised a round of funding. Liv … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Nimble Named #1 in Sales Intelligence Customer Satisfaction and High Performer by G2 Crowd

PRESS RELEASE: Nimble, the pioneer of Social Sales and Marketing CRM, has been named Sales Intelligence High Performer and #1 in overall Customer Satisfaction by G2 Crowd, the world's leading business software review platform. Prospect... | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Ready-made team doesn't attract new Minnesota Timberwolves guard Jamal Crawford

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- After meeting in the NBA Finals for three straight seasons, the Warriors and Cavaliers were in another duel this summer when both came calling for Jamal Crawford. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Apple launched a blog to show off its machine learning research

Apple is investing in machine learning, and it wants you to know. The company just launched a blog dubbed the Apple Machine Learning Journal, with the intent to show off its research into the technology. The company sums it up in its introductory post: Welcome to the Apple Machin … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Amazon’s ‘Treasure Truck’ deals program is expanding nationwide

 Amazon’s Treasure Truck, the retailer’s deal programs that offers discounts on select items paid for online then picked up in person from an actual truck, is expanding across the U.S. First announced back in 2015 in Seattle, then rolled out the following year, Treasure Truck ini … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Hubble Catches Some of the Earliest Stars Ever Formed on Camera

Not only are these some of the earliest stars we've ever seen, but their very existence confirms theories about early star formation.The post Hubble Catches Some of the Earliest Stars Ever Formed on Camera appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

From Mining to Investing in Cryptocurrency

What Is Mining Mining is the process by which transactions of crypto currencies are secured. For this purpose, the miners carry out mathematical computations for the network with their computer equipment. As a reward for their services, they collect the newly created coins, as we … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Nokia phone maker HMD Global parts ways with CEO Arto Nummela

HMD Global, the business vehicle set up specifically to create and market Nokia-branded mobile devices, has announced that its CEO Arto Nummela has left the company “with immediate effect.” No reason was given for the departure, but Florian Seiche, who has served as HMD Global’s … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Travelers flying to the U.S. from Mexico and Canada will now face addition security screenings

Anyone flying to the United States from the nation's immediate neighbors — Mexico and Canada — will have to go through a new ream of security measures, as of Wednesday.Both WestJet and AirCanada have posted travel advisories warning customers to arrive at airports earlier to acco … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Chinese Exchanges Follow Japanese Brethren By Halting Bitcoin Functions Around August 1st

With the August 1st deadline drawing closer, Bitcoin exchanges have a tough decision to make. More specifically, they need to determine if they want to halt BTC trading or not. Considering how a chain split seems likely, halting trades is the best course of action. All major Chin … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago