Organizations have raised over $1.8 billion through initial coin offerings (ICO) since January 2017. For the first time this June, Blockchain entrepreneurs raised more money through ICO than traditional venture capital investment. If you haven’t heard of ICOs, it’s the new fundr … | Continue reading
Viewed from the most obvious angle, the latest scoops about special counsel Robert Mueller investigating Paul Manafort are at best neutral news for the president and more likely bad news.The new reports say that U.S. officials got warrants to surveil Manafort, Trump’s former camp … | Continue reading
Agent AI is looking to automate more of the customer service process. To do that, it’s built its own customer relationship management product, as well as AI tools that sit on top — and now it’s making the CRM part available for free. While giant software businesses have been bui … | Continue reading
T-Mobile just announced that it’s increasing its soft cap for unlimited data plans from 32GB to 50GB, a move that continues to put it far ahead of competitors. In comparison, Verizon and AT&T have 22GB caps, while Sprint’s is 23GB. If you’re new to modern unlimited data plans, yo … | Continue reading
As India gears up for the festive season, online retailers will kick-off their annual sale events starting with Flipkart’s Big Billion Days sale this week. | Continue reading
Accidental Queens' Another Lost Phone [$2.99] was an unexpected hit that resonated with players partly because of its unflinching approach to what some would consider controversial topics, and Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story, releasing on the 21st, is going to give us another c … | Continue reading
Yellowstone National Park, now 145 years old, was the first national park established in the world. In 2016, the 2.2-million-acre park was visited by a record 4.2 million people who came to experience the wilderness, explore countless geothermal features, witness the gorgeous vis … | Continue reading
Ethbet, the first gambling platform on the Ethereum blockchain that has announced support for peer-to-peer betting, opened its much-anticipated crowdsale on September 17th. Within the first day, over 70% of available tokens were purchased, leaving the crowdsale with only 30% of i … | Continue reading
Twitter launched a news aggregation tool today that collects the most shared stories by people in your network. Twitter calls it Popular Articles, and it sounds, looks, and works a lot like Nuzzel, the no-frills, RSS-like link aggregator that launched back in 2014. Nuzzel has bee … | Continue reading
Apple is updating its Apple Music app for Android with new features that are also debuting on iOS 11 today. Social profiles are perhaps the biggest addition across Android, iOS, and desktop; now you can make an Apple Music user profile and have it publicly show friends what you’r … | Continue reading
It only takes two words to get my attention these days. In a teaser for an upcoming Google event on October 4, Google uses the phrase “ask more” in the URL. The pitch is simple: The search giant wants us — just a few weeks after Apple announced the new iPhone X — to consider […] | Continue reading
“Every couple has a breaking point,” the trailer for Make Up or Break Up states, as fact. “Thankfully, all of Facebook is here to help.” One of Facebook’s first forays into commissioned original content for its new Watch tab, the show is live and controlled by hashtags. In each … | Continue reading
Xbox 360 controllers are being called back to active duty. The US Navy will be replacing $38,000 periscope sticks with $30 gamepads aboard its top-of-the line Virginia class submarines. The military has been using video game controllers for decades now. I was lucky enough to watc … | Continue reading
Indiegogo has shut down the Frank phone campaign only a couple weeks after it went live, citing a "a violation of [Indiegogo's] Terms of Use." Oh, the Frank phone. It had a short but controversial life.The creators of the Android device marketed it as a smartphone market disrupto … | Continue reading
Next month, students at the University of Oxford will return for their fall semester, known as the “Michaelmas” term—named after the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels—to a campus strewn with the sort of colonial- and slave-era tinder that has helped fuel the outrage and prote … | Continue reading
I’ve been wearing Fitbit’s new smartwatch, the Ionic, non-stop for about four days now. While I haven’t spent quite enough time for a full, comprehensive review of all its features and performance, one thing is already clear: The Ionic is Fitbit’s best tracker ever, but it’s also … | Continue reading
Part of a zcash transaction was verified on an ethereum testnet amidst testing for the upcoming Byzantium upgrade. | Continue reading
Apple's newest mobile operating system, iOS 11, comes out today, and Steve Jobs probably would've been super pissed if he were still alive.HackerNoon's Ryan Lau has posted a comprehensive breakdown that calls attention to all the ways iOS 11's design is flawed. From misaligned ti … | Continue reading
The US Navy is beginning to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate the periscopes on submarines, according to The Virginian-Pilot. The first submarine to get the new controller will be the USS Colorado, which goes into active duty in November. The Xbox controllers will later be adde … | Continue reading
Luno, a bitcoin wallet and exchange based out of Singapore, is riding the crypto wave into Europe after it closed a $9 million Series B round for market expansion. The funding was led by new investor Balderton Capital, with participation from existing backer Digital Currency Gro … | Continue reading
Morpholio is introducing new measurement tool for its interior design app Trace, enabling artists and designers to use Apple’s augmented reality technology to precisely measure rooms and the objects in them in an automated fashion. The company is also introducing a new app, Board … | Continue reading
John Giannandrea from Google had many great things to say about artificial intelligence at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. In particular, he thinks that people are too scared about general purpose artificial intelligence. A few years ago, Giannandrea compared artificial intelligence to a … | Continue reading
Autonomous driving is often considered the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun among a few other technologists — but Thrun is already looking to move on to the next mode of transportation, and he isn’t alone. At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, Thrun talked a lot about flying cars and how … | Continue reading
The iPhone X has been getting a lot attention since it was announced last week with its eye-watering starting price. However, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook during a segment on Good Morning America, the iPhone X’s $999 cost is a “value price” for the technology it offers (via 9t … | Continue reading
In its latest Transparency report, which covers requests it’s received from governments pertaining to content on its platform, Twitter has reported a big decline in the proportion of pro-terrorism accounts being reported over the past six months, as well a drop in the number of … | Continue reading
Notches vs bezels: the great debate that absolutely no one thought we'd be having in 2017. Where do you stand on this hot-button topic? | Continue reading
There could be yet another smart speaker to choose from.The popular streaming device maker Roku may be building its own competitor to the Amazon Echo. Roku already has some voice-command tech, and some publicly available information suggests its leveraging it to branch out into n … | Continue reading
Google may have accidentally let us in on some details about the Pixel 2 a little early.Code buried within the Google app has revealed what appears to be a series of features slated for the Pixel 2, including the so-called "squeezable frame" and new ways to use the company's Assi … | Continue reading
Cat-collecting mobile sensation Neko Atsume is getting a PlayStation VR adaptation.The game was announced on Sony Japan's PlayStation Twitter account as part of its Tokyo Game Show news, though no details are known about it. Will the once 2D game be expanded into a fully 3D virtu … | Continue reading
President Trump called Venezuela's government a "corrupt regime" that has inflicted "pain and suffering" on its people. Mr. Trump also said took aim at socialism, saying it leads to failed states. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Google drives the vast majority of content creation - how the search engine giant responds to, indexes, and places various pieces of content steers the practice as a whole. Google is in turn driven by the individual searcher: you can bet if searchers are gravitating towards a con … | Continue reading
Facebook has often been under fire for deleting contentious content from the platform.SEE ALSO: Mark Zuckerberg talked baby names with the president of China during Facebook's charm campaignThis time, for example, the company has been accused of deleting posts from Rohingya activ … | Continue reading
Amazon's updated tablet now comes with a better display, better performance, longer battery life, and a smaller price tag than its predecessor. | Continue reading
Today, Apple pushed out the final version of iOS 11, its latest mobile operating system release. Most iPhone and iPad units made in the last few years should be capable of downloading it now if you head over to the Settings panel and check for a software update under the General … | Continue reading
You likely won’t be surprised when I tell you that building a self-driving car is difficult and complex. Udacity has tried to help address that difficulty with flexible, online education for self-driving engineers through its Self-Driving Cars Nanodegree program, and now it’s ex … | Continue reading
In line with plans announced last week at the Apple event introducing iPhone X and other products, the company today began to roll out iOS 11 to iPhone and iPad users. Developers and members of the public have participated in public betas of the operating system since June, but A … | Continue reading
Online education company Udacity is growing its new Nanodegree program yet again – it’s adding two entirely new programs to the roster, including a new entry-level self-driving Nanodegree, as well as a brand new one focused on ‘flying cars’ (though it’s actually a bit more nuanc … | Continue reading
It seems Skully, the AR helmet company that crashed and burned last year after the former CEO Marcus Weller refused to sign a confidentiality deal with investors is trying to make a comeback. A letter sent to those who had previously subscribed to the Skully email list, and obta … | Continue reading
This summer the TC team took a brief trip to Shenzhen, where I met Wells Tu, whose company TimeKettle has made an earpiece that translates spoken Chinese to English and vice versa in near real time. Having created a functioning prototype (it isn’t vaporware; we tried it, as you … | Continue reading
After months and months of beta, iOS 11 is finally here — and it’s a huge update. In particular, Apple has tucked away many little features that you won’t see right away. If you want to impress all your friends with your mad iOS skills, here is a list of some of these features. … | Continue reading
After reading back the preview I wrote back in June, the dominant tone was that iOS 11 is so different that it takes a while to get used to it:I’m not going to lie to you. It takes time to get used to those new gestures. I’m not there yet, and I often find myself thinking about … | Continue reading
The first King’s Daughters—or filles du roi—arrived in New France in 1663, and 800 more would follow over the next decade. Given their numbers, they were not were not literally the king’s daughters of course.They were poor and usually of common birth, but their passage and dowry … | Continue reading
Apple has just released the final version of iOS 11. This update is packed with new features for the iPad and new core frameworks for the iPhone. The update is currently rolling out and is available both over-the-air in the Settings app, and by plugging your device into iTunes f … | Continue reading
Following the typical cadence of iOS releases, iOS 11 was originally revealed at WWDC this summer then predictably released mere moments ago leading up to the iPhone 8 launch this Friday. I feel like most of the benefits of iOS 11 are going to be on the iPad where the new icon do … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.Humble's End of Summer Sale final … | Continue reading
AI researchers have a new set of free hardware that they can use for their work, thanks to Intel. At the O’Reilly AI Conference in San Francisco today, the chipmaker announced a new Nervana DevCloud aimed at giving thousands of people access to the latest chips for new innovation … | Continue reading
YouTube today is taking on Twitch with the launch of a new program that will allow gamers to make money from their channels through the use of sponsorships. Like Twitch’s subscriptions, which offer fans access to custom emotes, special badges and other perks, YouTube’s sponsorsh … | Continue reading
Starting today, online teaching startup Udacity is opening registration for a new “Intro to Self-Driving Cars” course to anyone in the world with an internet connection. The four-month “nanodegree” class is $800 to enroll, but ride-hailing service Lyft is teaming up with Udacity … | Continue reading