4 fun toys to get your kids into coding

Whether you’re a tech geek who wants to pass your interests on to your offspring, or a tech-challenged individual desperate to end the technical illiteracy cycle with you, toys are a great way to trick your kids into learning. There’s a huge trend in STEM toys meant to spark chil … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Cervin Ventures unveils new $56M fund aimed at the future of the enterprise stack

 Cervin Ventures, under the direction of Preetish Nijhawan and Neeraj Gupta, is announcing its latest $56 million fund. Built on the success of previous angel and micro-venture portfolios, Cervin is targeting seed-stage startups across the enterprise stack — running the full gamu … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy release date set for June

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy - the remastering of Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot: Warped - will launch on 30th June for PS4.Developer Vicarious Visions (of Skylanders fame, also working on the next Destiny) has massively rehauled th … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Coursera’s new skill search could do for learning what Netflix did for TV

 Coursera has emerged as a formidable competitor in the online education space, racking up 24 million registered learners with access to 1,900 courses. But with that growth in volume comes new challenges. With so much content, it’s difficult for users to find the videos they need … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Ces images d'une "cascade de feu" dans le parc de Yosemite vont vous fasciner. https://s.staraffaires.com/ll/

Actu33 a partagé un lien | staraffaires : Social et Affaires. Premier réseau social Algérien. Créer votre compte staraffaires mainatenant et commecez a publier | Continue reading


@staraffaires.com | 7 years ago

Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta begins next week

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands will be free to try next week in an open beta for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.The beta begins Thursday 23rd February and will last until Sunday 27th.You'll get an exclusive mission to play through, "Unidad Conspiracy", where you spark a war b … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Elon Musk is totally, hilariously serious about tunneling his way out of traffic jams

Elon Musk is laughing all the way to the center of the Earth.After the idea to build tunnels hit him while stuck in traffic late last year, he went ahead and founded a business to disrupt the tunneling industry — called the Boring Company (surprisingly, the URL was available). Ch … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Bitcoin Price Watch; 1000 In The Crosshairs

In this morning’s analysis, we noted that price had been relatively flat throughout the majority of this week, and that there was a chance that action could remain flat as we moved into the last day of the week and beyond into the weekend. We also noted, however, that when price … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Deal: Permanent second phone number for life, $25

Perfect for work, Tinder, or Craigslist. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

You can now ask your Google Home to buy things

Google’s Home digital assistant has been compared to Amazon’s Alexa a lot over the last few months, and now it’s getting the ability to order things through voice commands, just like Alexa can. Of course, Home is still a Google product, so instead of buying things through Amazon … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Pulling The Lever: Marketing Wins and Where They Come From

Marketers live for the moment they do that one thing and stats go through the roof. But that doesn't happen often, and when it does, there's more to it. | Continue reading


@portent.com | 7 years ago

LA ride sharing gets a charge as Maven brings a fleet of Chevy Bolts into service

 Planting its first flag in the effort to make autonmous electrified vehicles accessible nationwide, GM’s car sharing business, Maven, is giving Los Angeles drivers an electric new way to get around the city. GM is making 100 new fully electric Chevy Bolts available for use acros … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Google Home now lets you shop by voice just like Amazon’s Alexa

 The Google Assistant on Google Home is getting a new feature today that may sound rather familiar to anybody who has ever owned an Amazon Echo. You can now use your Home to order everyday essentials like toilet paper and shampoo from the company’s Google Express partners. Those … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turned on, but won’t do anything about it

FCC chairman Ajit Pai says he’d love to see more smartphone makers activate the hidden FM radio inside their devices, but he doesn’t think the commission should step in to do anything about it.Though it’s not well known, most smartphones include an FM radio that would be capable … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

The EPA posted a backup of its website dated just before inauguration day

 In what could either be a paperwork-saving decision or a thinly veiled gesture of defiance, the Environmental Protection Agency has put a mirror of its own website online — a “snapshot” from January 19, the day before Trump was sworn in as president. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

A recently launched website is inviting you to become a citizen archaeologist

Space Archaeologist Funds Citizen Science Platform With $1M TED A year ago, University of Alabama professor Sarah Parcak won a $1 million TED Prize for her work in "space archaeology" -- using satellite imagery beamed down from space to search for archaeological sites lost throug … | Continue reading


@digitalmeetsculture.net | 7 years ago

Future iPhones could catch screen cracks before they turn into major problems

Walking around with a cracked iPhone screen isn't a good look. It's a major turn-off in the dating world, and it can be outlandishly expensive and complicated to fix without Apple's own care plan.Since clumsy texters will always find a way to thrash their smartphones, a new paten … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Verizon buys Skyward, a drone operations company

 Forget about Yahoo for a minute. Verizon just announced it has acquired Skyward, a drone operations and management company based out of Portland, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. Verizon says Skyward will help developers and businesses better create and manage drones that also … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The Failure of Race-Blind Economic Policy

After Donald Trump’s presidential victory, many left-leaning politicians and commentators started considering what sort of message would help them regain political power. Given the clear racial subtext to the 2016 campaign—Trump stereotyped Mexican immigrants and Muslim families, … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Elon Musk doesn’t just want to bore tunnels – he wants to make boring better

 Elon Musk really is starting a tunnel digging company, and it really is called The Boring Company – TBC for short, which he says could also mean “to be continued.” The Tesla and SpaceX CEO detailed his tunnel ambitions, which he shared first via Twitter, with Bloomberg, and show … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The Hidden History of the Laundry Chute

In June 1998, while renovating his home in St. Louis, Joseph Heathcott found a collection of trash moldering in the slender cavity between his pantry and his laundry chute. It was a stack of small paper scraps “lying in repose at various scales,” with sooty edges that were just b … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

The Perils of an Unstable Executive Branch

Republicans understandably want to use the GOP’s control of Congress and the White House to pass the domestic agenda Paul Ryan has spent years crafting. If the executive branch wasn’t such a mess they could focus on that project with a clear conscience.Instead, Ryan and his colle … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

HTC will stop making cheap phones this year

HTC will exit the entry-level smartphone market later this year, the company announced during its earnings call earlier this week, according to Phonescoop. The company said it would continue to support cheaper phones that have been released, but acknowledged that its focus would … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

ET deals: Save 89% on the big data mastery with Hadoop bundle

Are you being saddled with a huge data set? Desperately trying to make meaningful decisions on this massive pile of data? Today, StackSocial is offering up eight online courses for one low price that aim to help you whip your data into shape with Hadoop.The post ET deals: Save 89 … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

'Causality' Review - Destroying Your Brain and The Space-Time Continuum

Is your brain working properly? Are things in the world making too much sense? If you answered yes to these questions, and you desire that your brain be thrown into the washing machine, and then crushed with a hammer, then Causality [$1.99] is the game for you. It's a puzzle game … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

ZTE ist erster mit einem Gigabit-Smartphone

5G steckt noch in der Testphase, aber sicherlich dürfte es dieses Jahr zu einem der Themen in der Mobilfunkindustrie werden. 5Gbps Downloadgeschwindigkeiten sollen dann - eines Tages - keine seltenheit mehr werden. Für einen Vorgeschmack sorgt... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago

Investment Analyst Pegs Bitcoin Price to Hit $3,678 If SEC Approves ETF

[…]The post Investment Analyst Pegs Bitcoin Price to Hit $3,678 If SEC Approves ETF appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 7 years ago

We’re still waiting on a fix for the annoying Chromecast “cast to a nearby device” popup

Multiple Android owners are still waiting on a fix for a mysterious Chromecast popup that's even affecting people that don't own a Chromecast. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

As Kickstarter matures, crowdfunded games find safety in sequels and big names

If you take a look at the “most funded games” section of Kickstarter, one major trend becomes immediately clear. You’ll spot a number of spiritual successors, games meant to evoke (and made by many of the same developers as) classics like Castlevania, Mega Man, and Banjo-Kazooie. … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

PS Dept makes shopping for clothes as simple as sending a message

 The fashion industry isn’t necessarily racing into the future, but some startups and even some big brands are taking steps toward technology that not only help end-users but also help the brands and retailers themselves. One such startup is PS Dept, founded here in New York. PS … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Commonwealth Bank Plans More Blockchain Investments in 2017

Commonwealth Bank plans to keep spending on blockchain tech. Source | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

The Daily Show’s MakeTrumpTweetsEightAgain is political commentary at its geekiest

 Whether you agree or disagree with his policies one thing is certain: making someone’s Tweets look like they were written by a third-grader is really funny. The folks at the Daily Show proved this with their Chrome/Firefox plugin MakeTrumpTweetsEightAgain. The extension is prett … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Sprint follows Verizon and T-Mobile in offering better unlimited data plans

First Verizon announced that it would begin offering a new unlimited data plan. Then T-Mobile upped its unlimited plan to keep up with Verizon. Now, Sprint is getting in on the action with an improved unlimited data plan that’s on par with Verizon and T-Mobile’s latest offerings. … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Here's when Apple will show us the next major versions of iOS and macOS

Mark your calendars, because Apple just announced its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will take place on from June 5-9 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose.Apple is expected to announce new versions of iOS (11?), macOS (10.13?) and possibly software for tvOS … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

A Strike to Show What America Is Like Without Immigrant Workers

On Thursday, immigrant workers across the U.S. won’t be going to their jobs in protest of the immigration policies of the Trump administration. “A Day Without Immigrants” is meant to show what the country would be like without immigrants, with employees and employers giving up th … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Clever hackers don't even need your password to access your account

Here we go again. Yahoo is warning some of its users that hackers may have used forged cookies — small files that websites create to store your information — to log into their accounts, thus gaining access without a password. Forging. Cookies. SEE ALSO: Marissa Mayer is stepping … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Edgeless Casino Introduces Revolutionary Transparent 0% House Edge Online Gambling

The fast-growing ($46B in 2016) online gambling industry has a problem: TRANSPARENCY. In 2017 all online casinos have full power to cheat against their own players. They can do it easily, without being spotted. It is also difficult for the casino to prove when they are not cheati … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Google’s Android RCS support to Telenor subscribers in Asia and Europe

Google continues to push forward its plans to bring RCS to more Android users. with Telenor as the latest carrier to partner up, bringing RCS support to its subscribers in Asia and Europe. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Skype tests integrated camera, find panel, in-call and messaging reactions for Android and iOS

In its long-term crusade to fix Skype, Microsoft today announced four new features it is testing via the Skype Insider program for Android and iOS: integrated camera, find panel, in-call reactions, and messaging reactions. You can try the new functionality by downloading the Skyp … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

A Saudi feminist’s spoken-word performance finds its power in protest

Waad Janbi, a Saudi feminist and aspiring filmmaker, has long fought against misogyny using her hands–furiously typing on her smartphone or laptop. But last month, for the first time, she fought it using her feet. Coming from a conservative country where freedom is clearly uneven … | Continue reading


@niemanstoryboard.org | 7 years ago

IBM is bringing machine learning to a mainframe near you

Machine learning is the fastest growing area of computer science, but it's typically the domain of specialists. IBM aims to open it up to domain experts at its Enterprise customers to model their own data.The post IBM is bringing machine learning to a mainframe near you appeared … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

Alto’s Adventure follow-up Where Cards Fall is coming this fall on iOS, Steam, and Apple TV

The creators of Where Cards Fall have been teasing their new game for quite some time, initially announcing the project nearly a year ago. The game is a collaboration between Alto’s Adventure creator Snowman and new studio The Game Band, and today the developers have released a n … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Facebook's new 'Trending Topics' update is here — now with less fake news

The world's largest social network has finally settled on an effective way to list basic news stories.Facebook deployed a revised version of its controversial "Trending Topics" feature Thursday. It now shows each user a standardized list of news stories based on an automated surv … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Beware of 'Astroneer' Scam App on the App Store

We typically ignore these types of things as you could literally spend your entire day listing off scam apps, knock-offs, and other similar things that are constantly released on the App Store. Normally, we assume folks are pretty savvy when it comes to spotting these, as 99.9% o … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Snap poised to raise up to $3.2B from IPO at a valuation of $18.5B

 Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has set a valuation range of $16.2 billion to $18.5 billion for its upcoming IPO. That’s according to an updated filing which revealed that Snap shares will be priced between $14-$16, meaning it could bring up to $3.2 billion in capital. Sna … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The Flawed Designs of Drug Trials for Autism

Taylor Stevenson’s family never left him out of conversations, but they never expected him to participate, either. His contributions, if he made any, were a few random words—gibberish or a Big Bird quote.So when Taylor started speaking his mind in his squeaky, sing-songy voice, h … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Coin.mx Bitcoin Exchange Trial Begins in New York

Despite a slight delay, the trial of two individuals tied to the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Coin.mx has commenced. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Vormerken: Apple WWDC startet am 5. Juni

Wer es gar nicht abwarten kann, wie die Reise im Universum der Apple-Betriebssysteme weiter geht: es ist offiziell, vom 5. bis 9. Juni ist die diesjährige WWDC.Ausnahmsweise ist die Konferenz dieses Jahr in San Jose im McEnery Convention Center,... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago