What We’re FollowingNetanyahu’s Visit: During a joint press conference today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump said he wouldn’t commit to a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instead, he said, “I’m looking at two states and one … | Continue reading
Winter is coming... to an end. We suppose NVIDIA saw this as a good reason to offer discounts on some of the most popular games they have to offer. | Continue reading
An audio company that specializes in making monster sounds is getting help from of gaming’s biggest names. Former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies is the lead investor in a six-figure deal with Krotos, an Edinburgh-based audio company that creates software triple-A game a … | Continue reading
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You may need to take a second look at the sketch. Highlighting how the new Lexus IS is “impossible to ignore”, Lexus has put the IS to the test to showcase the car’s bold design in an innovative way. Using futuristic eye-tracking technology that maps the pathway of vision, Lexus … | Continue reading
Comcast Xfinity subscribers will be treated to a tricked-out new mobile TV experience later this month.Xfinity Stream is an overhauled app that will serve as a replacement for the cable giant's current on-the-go platform, Xfinity TV. The new app adds a slew of features to Comcas … | Continue reading
Bees in the U.S. are more endangered than ever, requiring protection under the Endangered Species Act for the very first time back in October.Now a college student in Georgia is showing the world just how environmentally vital these creatures really are — by creating a bee drone … | Continue reading
The next iPhone could see the elimination of the Home button and Touch ID sensor in favor of an edge-to-edge design and “virtual buttons” at the bottom of the screen. The rumors come from the well-sourced Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst for KGI, via MacRumors.There is said to be a new p … | Continue reading
Mark your calendars Xbox fans; Microsoft has “big news” coming June 11. On Twitter today, Microsoft hinted at news that E3 would bring the long-awaited Project Scorpio reveal. The biggest clue? Microsoft used the same motherboard image featured in its Scorpio teaser trailer. Pres … | Continue reading
Polish developer Woddland Games has announced their new auto-running platformer Scrap, and they need beta testers from our forums to help make it. You play as the eponymous Scrap, who has become sentient and is running for his life to escape the factory he's from, while its defen … | Continue reading
Google and Kaggle today announced a new machine learning challenge that asks developers to find the best way to automatically tag videos.The challenge, which comes with a $30,000 prize for the first-place finisher (and $25,000, $20,000, $15,000, and $10,000 for the next four tea … | Continue reading
Once again the rumor mill suggests Google Play is on its way to China. But what exactly would that mean for Google Play? Let's explore that thought. | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was a work of virtuoso improvisation: Even though it seemed to be in permanent chaos, with frequent changes of leadership, perpetual gaffes, and a strategy devised on the fly, the Republican managed to defeat the elaborate, best-and-brightest, data-wo … | Continue reading
When Cola formally launched in 2016, bot technology was still in its infancy, but there seemed to be promise with Slack, Kik, Microsoft, and Facebook getting in on the act. Nearly 12 months later, Cola finds itself on the downside of this trend and is in the process of selling it … | Continue reading
Motorsport Manager [Free], the racing management game that came out a couple of years ago, became popular primarily because of its tilt-shift camera effect during the races, but there is more to that game than just fun visuals effects; Motorsport Manager is one of the most entert … | Continue reading
For Google, recognizing objects in photos is no longer a challenge. See Google Photos for proof. The next challenge is video. There’s more data to deal with, and videos are simply harder to summarize than images. Not that Google is alone here — Facebook, Snap, and Twitter have be … | Continue reading
The front page of reddit is a good place to catch up on the latest internets, or so an increasing number of users think. To broaden the appeal of the site to lurkers and first-time visitors, the company is making some small but significant changes to the front page that gets pre … | Continue reading
For the last couple of years, I've been telling any VR company I meet that to truly take the technology mainstream, they need to move beyond mobile to virtual reality arcades. On Wednesday, the industry took a giant step in that direction with the launch of the very first IMAX V … | Continue reading
Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, became President Donald Trump's first failed cabinet pick when he withdrew from consideration for U.S. labor secretary. WSJ's Shelby Holliday reports. Photo: AP | Continue reading
UK startup PawSquad is expanding coverage for an on-demand service that brings vets to pets — offering convenience and reduced stress for pet owners willing to stump up a little more than they’d pay for a check up at a bricks-and-mortar vet. Read More | Continue reading
Thanks for the appointment, governor: You’re under investigation.Those weren’t Steven Marshall’s words exactly, but that was the gist of his announcement on Wednesday a few days after Governor Robert Bentley gave him the promotion of a lifetime: He made the local county prosecuto … | Continue reading
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers today introduced a bill that would require US police agencies to obtain a warrant before deploying cell-site simulation surveillance devices known as “stingrays,” reports USA Today. Stingrays are typically used by police to triangu … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesPresident Trump condemned a report in The New York Times that claimed his associates had contacted Russian intelligence officials in the year before the presidential election, tweeting that it was “an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton’s … | Continue reading
This week's Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl is a brand new one, and it's an interesting change from what we usually play. Blood Magic has you constructing a deck, but any spell you cast costs health instead of mana, which makes for some interesting deck-building decisions. What t … | Continue reading
A new report claims that Google and Amazon are both working to add voice-calling features in their Google Home and Amazon Echo connected speakers. | Continue reading
Microsoft’s Build developer conference, easily the company’s biggest event of the year, is always popular. But this year, tickets for the three-day event, taking place May 10 to May 12, didn’t quite sell out as quickly as before. They went on sale yesterday at 9:00 a.m. Pacific a … | Continue reading
A new article makes some speculative statements about Google's mysterious Fuchsia OS and how it may be the key to rumored Android-Chrome OS merger. | Continue reading
For the two weeks that the Microsoft Surface Studio sat at my desk, it attracted a lot of attention. I'm an illustrator and I work with a lot of other creatives, and artists love to look at something beautiful. There were plenty of “Oohs” and “Aahs,” and the beautiful simplicity … | Continue reading
Clash Royale's Draft Challenge - which used to be known as Crown Duel Challenge - is a very fun challenge, and it's returning to the game tomorrow. If you haven't play | Continue reading
Shamrock Shake hype starts early for some. Who are you Shamrock Shake lovers? I’ve never cared about the McDonald’s shake timeline, but with age, I’ve realized that maybe the Shamrock Shake inspires you in the same way daylight saving time’s ending reminds me that summer is comin … | Continue reading
GUEST: We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing. — Daniel H. Wilson We all use robots, or robot-made products, on a daily basis. Throughout recent history robots have replaced humans, eliminat … | Continue reading
This is a new series called "Paul's doing it wrong and everyone is smarter than Paul and if he'd only just listened..." where I explain something dumb I've done in my life and people at work can't stop giving me shit about it.Let me just explain to you how I take screenshots on W … | Continue reading
Scott Shepherd is a former grand dragon of the Klu Klux Klan in Tennessee, but now refers to himself as a reformed racist. Shepherd’s troubled past includes witnessing violent physical beatings and plots to attack the government—and cheering them on. In this short documentary by … | Continue reading
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted and then quickly deleted three tweets condemning President Trump’s executive order on immigration today. The tweets took on a much more critical tone than the statements Musk made on January 28th. Shortly after deleting the tweets, Musk expl … | Continue reading
Tuesday evening, The New York Times reported that associates of then-candidate Donald Trump, including within his presidential campaign, had had “repeated” contact with Russian intelligence officials, and that American intelligence and law-enforcement officials had records of int … | Continue reading
Last year, Huawei leapfrogged a couple of fellow Chinese hardware companies to secure its spot as the third largest smartphone maker worldwide. As the company takes aim at the number two spot, it’s apparently working to differentiate itself even more from the competition by deve … | Continue reading
Republicans may try to reverse a landmark privacy rule that requires internet providers to get permission before sharing your web browsing data and other sensitive information with outside companies.Politico reports that Senate Republicans are planning to introduce legislation th … | Continue reading
Parasitic worms may be causing an often-deadly seizure disorder that has puzzled scientists for years. The seizures affect at least 17 percent of children in parts of Uganda, and make sufferers look like they’re nodding involuntarily. Right now, the disorder is incurable — but to … | Continue reading
A month and a bit ago, we wrote that Solforge [Free], the promising but troubled CCG, was going to shut down its servers and go to app heaven, but it looks like the plans have changed and Solforge is sticking around after all, at least for now. The game had some very promising id … | Continue reading
Botkit, an open source framework for making bots made by Austin-based startup Howdy, announced an integration with the Cisco Spark chat app today. The integration will allow developers using Botkit to add bots made for Slack to be added to Cisco Spark, which is kind of ironic giv … | Continue reading
NEW YORK -- New York Knicks center Willy Hernangomez will replace injured Denver Nuggets guard Emmanuel Mudiay on the World Team in the 2017 BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge on Friday, Feb. 17 at 9 p.m. ET at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk addressed Trump’s immigration ban on Muslim majority nations directly via Twitter on Wednesday, saying that the order is “not right” and refers to it as a “Muslim immigration ban” – but he then deleted those tweets almost immediately, referring to them as “ea … | Continue reading
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The ACLU has filed a lawsuit alleging that the San Diego police skirted California privacy law by taking DNA samples from five teenage boys without a warrant or meaningful consent. Police allegedly stopped and frisked the teens without cause, and then told them to agree to cheek … | Continue reading
HTC is working on some kind of mobile virtual reality product, but a company spokesperson said it won't be similar to a headset like the Samsung Gear VR. | Continue reading
The fear of a job recruiter stalking your Facebook account just got shook up.Starting Wednesday, Facebook users can apply to a job directly on the social network. So if you're browsing Facebook all day because your job is boring, you're really in luck with this new feature.Facebo … | Continue reading
A group of researchers has proposed a new way to more closely monitor the behavior of nodes that relay information on a blockchain network.Source | Continue reading
It’s no secret that the criminal justice system in the United States is broken. With 2.2 million people behind bars in prisons and jails in the country, the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. In our first episode of Bullish since taking a break in May, I sat d … | Continue reading