Google is officially launching Android Wear 2.0 today — the biggest update to the company’s wearable operating system since its launch in 2014. If you’re not a Wear aficionado who has been patiently waiting for this release, you probably remember Wear 2.0 from its Google I/O ann … | Continue reading
The next time you go to your favorite restaurant or cocktail bar, talk with the manager about bookkeeping. Chances are that they’ll tell you that they waste a ton of time collecting and recording various documents. German startup Zeitgold wants to automate this pesky process so … | Continue reading
It seems that nobody can escape virtual reality, least of all the event industry. Here we identify five of the rising trends we’re seeing right now. This time last year, virtual reality adoption appeared to be very much on the rise and many of us speculated about how it would aff … | Continue reading
Facebook's investment in the developing world is paying off. More than 200 million people now use FB Lite every month, the company announced Wednesday. That's up from 100 million last March. Facebook Lite, or FB Lite, is a standalone Android app made for lower end phones and opti … | Continue reading
After months of waiting, Android Wear 2.0 is finally upon us. And it’s arrived with two ambassadors in tow – both designed by LG. The Watch Style and Sport are two sides of the same coin, separated my $100, a handful of key features and a significant chunk of wrist real estate. … | Continue reading
Box decided early on it wanted to be a platform on top of which which developers can build applications using Box services. Today, it introduced several new tools designed to make it easier for developers to get up and running on the Box platform.Today’s announcement starts with … | Continue reading
LG’s two new smartwatches might be the centerpiece of today’s Android Wear 2.0 launch, but Google’s making sure to spread the love, bringing its long-awaited wearable OS update to a whole slew of existing devices. The software giant isn’t offering much in the way of specifics as … | Continue reading
Android Wear watches are an interesting breed. Because Google mostly locks the operating system down, there are only so many ways the hardware manufacturers can differentiate themselves from the pack. With the launch of Android Wear 2.0 today, Google is giving its partners the o … | Continue reading
As Airbnb, Uber and Snap gear up for potential, and actual, IPOs, public investors are asking a key question: Can these former startups build more than one breakout product? What will determine whether Uber, Airbnb and Snap truly become long-term franchises versus single-product … | Continue reading
Are you wearing a smartwatch? Not likely. Despite the fact that modern wrist computers have been available for over three years, most people have not found them to be as desirable or necessary as the ubiquitous smartphone. They’ve gone from being "the next big thing" to becoming … | Continue reading
In the new trailer for indie game Old Man’s Journey, the elderly protagonist gingerly makes his way up a small hill, with a huge bag on his back and a tall walking stick at his side. Magically, a hill in the background lowers to his level — controlled by a player on the other sid … | Continue reading
LG’s new smartwatches are here and come complete with the much-awaited Android Wear 2.0. The LG Watch Style and LG Watch Sport both feature circular P-OLED displays, 4GB of storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivities, 1.1GHz Snapdragon Wear 2100, wireless charging and dust and wa … | Continue reading
Android Wear 2.0 is available now — at least in the form of two new smartwatches from LG. But it’s also coming to a pretty big list of existing Android Wear watches — and future smartwatch releases (though fewer than you might think, since HTC and Motorola have officially bowed o … | Continue reading
There are two kinds of people: Those who are fine with a smartwatch being a "companion" device for their phones and those who want it to replace their phones, at least in some respects.I always thought I would fall into the latter group — because, honestly, who would rather carry … | Continue reading
The smartwatch landscape is dramatically different than the one that greeted the first batch of Android Wear devices in the summer of 2014. It’s a lot harder to be bullish about the whole thing these days. Shipments are down, declining 51.6 percent in Q3 of last year, by IDC’s c … | Continue reading
Android Wear's second coming is finally hereAfter months of delays and more than a few leaks, Google is finally launching Android Wear 2.0 with two new watches from LG: the LG Watch Style and the LG Watch Sport, both of which go on sale Friday. The update, which will roll out to … | Continue reading
Subscription-based toy company Pley.com entered the Disney accelerator last year with a toy rental business that would ship out toys like Lego, American Girl or Hot Wheels, which could be played with, then kept or returned, starting at $12 per month. Now that the company has exi … | Continue reading
One angry programmer has declared war on all Windows Support scammers – and now he wants to send a massive army of bots to shut down every fake support line around the globe. If you’re not familiar with the infamous Tech Support scam, the scenario tends to follow the same path. Y … | Continue reading
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One of the most striking aspects of Tuesday night’s dramatic encounter between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren was how little real drama there was.The Republican leader forced Warren to sit down for impugning Senator Jeff Sessions, P … | Continue reading
Sometimes the irony is just too much.According to Bloomberg, a fire broke out at a factory in Tianjin, China, that may have manufactured the faulty batteries that led to Galaxy Note7 smartphones catching on fire worldwide last year. A factory of Samsung SDI, a Samsung affiliate b … | Continue reading
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Project Cars is ready for another lap. Publisher Bandai Namco today announced Project Cars 2, the sequel to its racing simulator that strove for realism. Project Cars 2 will come out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in “late 2017.” The PC version will have virtual reality supp … | Continue reading
The Keck Observatory just released a batch of new images of nascent planetary systems, captured with their shiny new vortex coronagraph.The post New exoplanet beauty shots made by redirecting starlight into the eye of an optical storm appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Facebook is expanding Safety Check with a new feature meant to help users connect with each other after a disaster or other emergency. Called Community Help, the feature opens up Safety Check so Facebook users can connect with each other to offer help after a crisis.SEE ALSO: Bla … | Continue reading
More than 2 million US subscribers are now tuning in to HBO’s standalone streaming service, which launched in April 2015. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes revealed the subscription growth during today’s conference call discussing the company’s latest earnings report, according to Vari … | Continue reading
Accenture has debuted a new blockchain-focused hardware solution for storing private keys.Source | Continue reading
Am 17. März startet auf Netflix die neue Marvel-Serie "Iron Fist". 15 Jahre nach seinem angeblichen Tod bei einem Flugzeugabsturz taucht Danny Rand (Finn Jones) plötzlich in New York City auf und stellt Ansprüche an sein Familienunternehmen.... | Continue reading
Fans of Netflix’s supernatural show The OA can breathe easy: the company announced today that it has renewed the show for a second season, according to Variety. The OA is about a woman named Prairie Johnson who returns to her family after vanishing for seven years. She comes back … | Continue reading
Considering recent leaks of both the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the LG G6, it looks like we're going to be getting two very similar looking flagships this year. | Continue reading
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I've lived in some pretty awful places in my time, but even I have to take my hat off to the squalor in which Resident Evil 7's Baker family resides. Given how filthy the house is - and how nasty its inhabitants - you wouldn't expect it to be particularly fertile ground for a vid … | Continue reading
Netflix has decided that I was wrong to think The OA ended exactly as it should’ve after its first series, and has renewed the show for a second season. We don’t know much more than that at this stage, beyond the fact that it refers to the follow-up instalment as “Part II” and t … | Continue reading
At this point in iOS's life, it's getting hard to find a new spin on the whole roguelite genre. Most of the people reading this probably own at least twice as many as they've had time to play. I suppose my job here is to try to convince you that you ought to add Dandy | Continue reading
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Signal, the encrypted chat application praised by Edward Snowden, is looking to move beyond just messaging. A new beta version of the app, now in testing, has enabled voice and video calling features as well. According to the app’s changelog, beta users are able to try the new f … | Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch launch game 1-2-Switch will support a lot of head-scratching, “I didn’t know I wanted this until now” mini-games. One Reddit user discovered a treasure trove of mini-game videos uploaded to Nintendo’s Japanese YouTube Channel that include intuitively titled ga … | Continue reading
Hayo’s pitch video is much better this time out. The New York-based startup had a bit of a misfire last time with a goofy and confusing promo tied to the announcement of an otherwise fairly compelling connected home product. As it readies it Indiegogo campaign, the company is do … | Continue reading
500 Startups’ last class will be presenting next week, which means the firm is already underway getting another new class up and running.The majority of the startups in the 20th batch consist of digital health, financial technology and companies that supply technology and addres … | Continue reading
Subscription-based buying has finally broken out of its telecom, video and music niche. Soon, it might turn the rest of software into rental-wear. It only takes a cursory glance at your monthly credit card bill to see why. You might be surprised by how many monthly payments you h … | Continue reading
In heutigen Zeiten zwischen Fake und Echt zu unterscheiden ist für die allermeisten ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit geworden. Auch weil immer wieder solche Satire-Geschichten im Umlauf sind, von denen sich einige vielleicht sogar wünschen,... | Continue reading
E3, the world's most high-profile games show, will this year host 15,000 members of the public for the first time.Up until now the show has been designed for industry and media attendees, although recent years have seen these rules relaxed to allow larger numbers of bloggers, You … | Continue reading
Technology is often a double-edged sword. Take the smartphone, for example, which is both a powerful tool to communicate with anyone around the world, but oftentimes a social deterrent. Or Twitter, a revolutionary real-time social network that also is a hotbed of abuse and harass … | Continue reading
Facebook gave Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren a voice late last night when her Senate colleagues attempted to silence her on the floor. As Democrats rally against many of Trump’s cabinet nominations, an arcane rule was whipped out of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s pock … | Continue reading
Trident Capital Cybersecurity has raised $300 million to invest in new technology companies tackling security threats around the internet of things, payment technologies, identity management, privacy and data management. The new fund, launched by the longtime mid-to-late-stage i … | Continue reading
One of gaming’s biggest events is opening its doors to the public. As Gamespot reports, today E3’s organizer, the Entertainment Software Association, announced that a limited number of fans will be able to attend the convention this year.Tickets will go on sale on February 13th f … | Continue reading
Augmented reality glasses may be stuck in the dorky phase for the foreseeable future but smartphone-based augmented reality is only going to grow more popular moving forward. Outside of Pokemon-catching, the primary augmented reality applications being used in the wild have been … | Continue reading
The next time you fly to New York or Disneyland, you may be asked to turn over the passwords to your social media accounts, depending on where you come from. The move comes as part of a tightening of security checks currently being contemplated by Homeland Security secretary John … | Continue reading