(Reuters) – Chief executives of major U.S. companies huddled with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday and some of them expressed concern about a travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries traveling to the United States. Business leaders said afterwa … | Continue reading
Massive game releases this week come with a massive episode of The TouchArcade Show. We don't waste any time before hopping straight into the game chat. Games covered include Fire Emblem Heroes [Free], Glitchskier [$1.99], Missleman [$2.99], Snailboy: Rise of the Hermitron [Free] … | Continue reading
It's a wrap for us this week here at TouchArcade, and provided nothing crazy happens in the world of iOS gaming, we'll see you again on Monday morning for Shaun's Update Mondays and Tasos's Touchstone Tavern Hearthstone [Free] roundup before diving in head-first to whatever aweso … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
Anyone who has ever dealt with a cable company’s customer service department knows that the industry is stuck in 1995 — or perhaps in the ninth circle of… well, you know where.But it’s 2017. We no longer need to be beholden to cable companies. As alternative options to traditiona … | Continue reading
The first direct measures of radioactivity near the heart of Fukushima's Reactor #2 have come back much higher than Tepco had previously estimated -- but don't believe reports that this represents a spike or surge. The post Fukushima’s Reactor #2 is far more radioactive than prev … | Continue reading
New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson and trustees for his estranged heirs have ironed out legal and structural sticking points of a settlement that has been in the works since last June, avoiding a federal trial that was scheduled to begin on Monday. | Continue reading
Evergrow looks like a rather clever game of physics and survival in space. You control a mass of chromaroids, floating about in the blocky vacuum of space. You have some defenses, but you also have to grow your mass of chromaroids to become stronger, to fell off ever more dangero … | Continue reading
The Charlotte Hornets announced today that guard Ramon Sessions has been diagnosed with a lateral meniscus tear in his left knee. Sessions will be listed as out for tomorrow's game against the Utah Jazz and he will be reevaluated upon returning to Charlotte. Further updates on S … | Continue reading
uBeam is a bit of a mystery in Silicon Valley. The wireless charging company claims to have developed a way to charge electronic devices using ultrasonic waves, for truly cord-less charging regardless of what surface your smartphone is touching. The company has been criticized fo … | Continue reading
After failing to secure another round of funding and shutting down my startup, Katch, I’ve been thinking about candor. While failure isn’t a unique story in our industry, talking about it is. Of course, I don’t advocate dwelling on one’s failures as a key to success, but paradox … | Continue reading
Connections between the Obaman administration and Silicon Valley abound, but particularly for Josh Kushner. The latest? Kushner’s venture firm Thrive Capital just hired Josh Miller, a member of the White House Office of Digital Strategy under President Barack Obama. Miller, just … | Continue reading
HOUSTON (AP) -- The first time Yao Ming ever watched an NBA game as a young boy in China, he wondered why there were jerseys hanging in the rafters. | Continue reading
During a time of impassioned protests, controversial policies, and steadfast political resistance, the people of Trump's America and those standing in solidarity across the globe are coming together in unique ways to make a difference.The stark change in political tides has reign … | Continue reading
The popular Twitter account WeRateDogs has launched its official app, Good Dogs! It's now available for free in the Google Play Store. | Continue reading
Android may get a wee bit uglier this spring.Google will discontinue its beloved Google Now Launcher app on March 1, according to an email to phone manufacturers published by Android Police Friday. While the company will allow phone-makers to bring Google Now features into their … | Continue reading
Snap Inc. is the shiniest thing on Wall Street right now. But it wasn't always like that.As recently as a year ago, Snapchat was a roll-your-eyes startup. To the biggest names in tech, advertising, and media, Snapchat was "too confusing"—just a "sexting" app and simply "overhyped … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Another gaming company is downsizing its staff. Perfect World Entertainment, the publisher responsible for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and other massively multiplayer online role-playing games, has confirmed to GamesBeat that it has laid off fewer than 30 employees. Included i … | Continue reading
In January Amazon said that it plans to hire 100,000 more workers in the next 18 months, which received a fair amount of attention in the news. But it turns out that’s right in line with Amazon’s current hiring habits. According to the company’s fourth quarter earnings report rel … | Continue reading
Newly appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai reversed a number of his predecessors’ actions this afternoon, including shutting down a series of inquiries into net neutrality violations.While those were the more attention-grabbing changes, Pai also took actions that suggest he’s planning … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants you to have the latest and greatest Skype experience. If you want the old Skype, well, uh, tough. The company said today that starting on March 1 — less than 30 days from now — people will no longer be able to sign in to version 7.16 of Skype for Windows desktop a … | Continue reading
Medium is turning a new page in its business.The digital self-publishing platform will release a consumer subscription product in the next month, Medium CEO Ev Williams announced at the Upfront Summit Thursday. SEE ALSO: Digital media is brutal, and Medium's Ev Williams just show … | Continue reading
The FCC giveth, and the FCC taketh away… from itself. Chairman Ajit Pai has ordered the revocation of several papers and findings issued by the Commission before the turnover to the new administration. Spiking investigations into zero-rating practices by telecoms is the most ser … | Continue reading
There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it. | Continue reading
Make way for one more pivot from Jawbone. The fitness band maker that originally started out in headsets and later made speakers, has abandoned selling and supporting consumer hardware following a deluge poor reviews and media reports that it has run out of money. TechCrunch has … | Continue reading
Another indie megahit is escaping its download-only origins to hit a retail outlet near you as a physical disc. Stardew Valley, the life-simulating farming game that debuted on PC last year, is coming out on disc as a Collector’s Edition for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on April 11 … | Continue reading
The 3-In-1 Avocado Slicer from Oxo tackles every step in peeling and slicing an avocado with ease. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time, Invention, Food And Drink, and Food | Continue reading
There’s a single interesting idea floating around in Rings, the latest sequel in the franchise that turned dripping wet black-haired Japanese ghosts into mainstream Hollywood horror. “What if,” the film asks, “it was possible to scientifically quantify mind-numbing terror, turn i … | Continue reading
A federal judge in Brooklyn unsealed documents this week related to an investigation into a user of WhatsApp, the popular Facebook-owned messenger for smartphones. The documents reveal a New York FBI agent used a grand jury subpoena to demand subscriber information and communicat … | Continue reading
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed the 'Tongue Drive System,' allowing people with limited mobility to control a wheelchair with tongue movements. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time, Engineering, Science, and Wheelchair | Continue reading
If you're feeling totally alone in the aftermath of a traumatic breakup, don't worry, Facebook knows what you're going through. Like, exactly what you're going through: When it happened, who you're pining over, and what you're trying to do to stave off that newly-reignited, deep- … | Continue reading
Livia is a small vibrating device that claims to cure menstrual cramps by distracting nerves that carry pain signals to the brain.Livia should not be used with a pacemaker or heart rhythm problem. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time, Indiegogo, Livia Device, and Liv … | Continue reading
Check out this week's latest trends in the content marketing industry, such as news on Google AdWords and why stock images have to go. | Continue reading
It was bound to happen.Who needs to pay $720 for a pair of Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 self-lacing sneakers when you can make your own? That's exactly what Vimal Patel did.Using a worn-out sneaker, some Lego pieces and a battery to power it all, Patel cobbled together his own Back to the … | Continue reading
Masayuki Ito makes some fine bullet hell shmups on iOS, with .Decluster [$2.99 / Free], .Decluster Zero [$4.99 / Free], and the most recent Bullet Hell Monday [Free] all being fantastic entries in the genre. If you haven't played Bullet Hell Monday yet, or haven't picked it up in … | Continue reading
Fire Emblem: Heroes has already made millions. Intelligence firm Sensor Tower has stated that Nintendo’s second mobile game has grossed $2.9 million in its first day. It launched for iOS and Android on February 2. The free-to-play game takes Nintendo’s popular strategy series to … | Continue reading
GUEST: When governmental leadership in industry and philanthropy have let us down, there have always been pioneering souls that pick up the slack. Andrew Carnegie, George F. Johnson, Bill Gates: all supremely wealthy, and all of them concerned with the well-being of the planet an … | Continue reading
A new rumor claims the unannounced Motorola Moto G5 smartphone could be going on sale in the UK sometime in mid-March 2017. | Continue reading
Republicans in Congress are once again trying to change the Endangered Species Act in a way that would make it harder to protect species at risk of extinction. The bill, introduced last week in the House of Representatives, would require government agencies to consider the econom … | Continue reading
Whether blogging is your side hustle or a full time job, I think all of us have one thing in common: there aren’t enough hours in the day for us to do everything we want to do. I could work 24/7 with no sleeping or eating and still want to do more! Over the years, … | Continue reading
Championships can swing on what happens at or leading up to the NBA's trade deadline. But that doesn't mean it can't qualify as the league's silly season anyway, with rumors and speculation duking it out with semantics for the least reliable information. | Continue reading
Greenlight, a three-year-old, Atlanta, Ga.-based startup is trying to solve a problem that any parent of an elementary or junior high school student can well understand: how to give kids money without worrying that they’ll lose it or spend it on something they shouldn’t.It isn’t … | Continue reading
Blog posts will boost your bounce rate, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. | Continue reading
I'm typing this on a unibody MacBook Pro, probably the most infamous laptop on the planet when it comes to lack of repairability and modularity. But in the drawer next to my desk is a Raspberry Pi and a loose LCD I bought from Adafruit. My heart is in that drawer. Figuratively. I … | Continue reading
Everyone's (except for Brent) favorite Twitter account for rating some h*ckin' good dogs, @dog_rates, has just launched a game featuring some real good doggos and puppers. Good Dogs! [Free] has you doing some endless running with dogs such as Dave Beagle, Arthur Corgicool, and Ke … | Continue reading
The App Store could be just months away from a major shakeup that would render thousands of apps obsolete, including many of the iPhone's earliest success stories.After more than a year of encouraging developers to update tens of thousands of apps that were never adjusted to supp … | Continue reading
How do we make sure the tiny satellites of Breakthrough Starshot don't sail on past Alpha Centauri? Also in this issue: touchscreen-friendly space suits, a shiny new coronagraph at the Keck Observatory, and a Congressional homework assignment for SpaceX.The post This week in spac … | Continue reading