The Mayan city of El Mirador might have been more advanced than we thought. The post Lidar used to map ancient Mayan superhighway system appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild finally launches on March 3rd, but a second Zelda adventure will be traveling across North America this year. With Hyrule hype at an all-time high, it’s no surprise that Nintendo has licensed a bunch of Zelda content to Scrap, a company tha … | Continue reading
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Tact, the AI-driven sales tool that uses software smarts to simplify sales tasks, today announced integration with the newly-announced Slack enterprise product, Slack Enterprise Grid. Tact, which currently has a mobile app and Amazon Echo integration (along with in-car integrati … | Continue reading
The Walking Dead: March to War is an upcoming story-driven multiplayer game developed by Disruptor Beam that will have players cooperate to fight against other players for control of scarce resources while also taking out walkers. The game takes place during the events of the war … | Continue reading
Facebook is prioritizing “authentic” content in News Feed with a ranking algorithm change that detects and promotes content “that people consider genuine, and not misleading, sensational, or spammy.” It’s also giving a boost to stories that are going viral in real-time right now … | Continue reading
Bethesda is bringing one of its most popular settings into its massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and I’m sure that makes you want to scream with joy. The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind will introduce new content to MMO when it launches for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, … | Continue reading
As the state of our climate becomes increasingly dire, more and more people are looking into adopting a cleaner commute.Though carpooling does help, biking is a much better option. Not only are you decreasing your carbon footprint, but you're also getting some fresh air in the pr … | Continue reading
As the state of our climate becomes increasingly dire, more and more people are looking into adopting a cleaner commute.Though carpooling does help, biking is a much better option. Not only are you decreasing your carbon footprint, but you're also getting some fresh air in the pr … | Continue reading
Samboja, an 11-year-old orangutan at a Dutch zoo, is looking for love. Samboja and a team of scientists are foregoing the traditional approach of finding a mate and instead opting for the application many singles are currently using to find love: Tinder. Scientists hope that by s … | Continue reading
In this morning’s analysis, we noted that things have been relatively flat so far this week (as they were over the weekend) and that – as a result – we were looking for some volatility during today’s session to get things moving for the week. Like we said before, it’s not really … | Continue reading
The United States Senate has confirmed Elaine Chao as President Trump’s transportation secretary by a vote of 93-6. Secretary Chao, nominated by the president back in November, has prior experience in a presidential cabinet as secretary of labor during all eight years of Presiden … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: The following was issued by Sector 5, Inc. (OTCQB: SFIV): Chromebooks had traditionally been designed to run Google Chrome apps only. Now, the new Sector 5 E1 and E2 Chromebooks will run Android Apps and have access to the... | Continue reading
Following the election of Donald Trump and, most recently, the president’s ban on immigration from seven countries, the American Civil Liberties Union has received a surge in financial support from those in opposition to his policies. This past weekend alone, the ACLU received $2 … | Continue reading
Chevrolet is putting its electrified bets on the Bolt EV, as the company announced today that it’s ending production of the Spark EV, the compact car with a relatively meager 82 miles of electric range. The decision to end production of the car likely has a lot to do with the Bo … | Continue reading
While the big N has stated that their first mobile game release Super Mario Run [Free] wouldn't be getting major content updates during the course of its life, they've still been pretty active about updating the game in general and running new events and sometimes even adding new … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of its redesign from last week, Snapchat is back with another update to its app, adding the ability to make custom Snapcodes for websites. Like the original Snapcodes, which add a user on Snapchat when viewed in the app, the new Snapcodes will prompt users to ope … | Continue reading
For individuals seeking extra privacy online or trying to access geo-blocked content, a virtual private network (or VPN) can seem like an ideal fix. VPN applications protect users by encrypting internet traffic and routing it through different countries. That makes it harder for … | Continue reading
LEGO Life is a new app for Android and iOS where all LEGO lovers can create and share their virtual building sets on a child-friendly platform. | Continue reading
Google has uploaded its Chrome for iOS code into the open-source Chromium repository. In other words, Chrome for iOS has now been open-sourced like Chrome for other platforms, letting anyone examine, modify, and compile the project. Chromium is the open-source Web browser project … | Continue reading
Google today announced that the code for Chrome for iOS is now part of its Chromium open source project. On iOS, Chrome has to use Apple’s WebKit rendering engine instead of Google’s own Blink engine. Because of this, Google didn’t add the Chrome for iOS code to the Chromium cod … | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao received the confirmation of the full Senate on Tuesday. That’s the last hurdle for Chao, who now becomes the head of the Department of Transportation, replacing the outgoing Secretary Anthony Foxx, who was nom … | Continue reading
Call of Duty’s first downloadable content map pack for Infinite Warfare arrived today on the PlayStation 4. Sabotage has four new multiplayer maps and a zany new 1990s-themed Zombies co-op mode, dubbed Rave in the Redwoods. The undead episode features filmmaker and actor Kevin Sm … | Continue reading
The French government announced a new initiative today in order to promote gender equality in the tech ecosystem in France with the help of 15 organizations. Like in many other countries, there are less women working in French startups than men. This is a key issue when it comes … | Continue reading
Streaming media company Plex has acquired Watchup, which offers streaming on-demand news videos on Android and other platforms. | Continue reading
Slack, the business app that lets teams of users communicate, share files from other services, and work on them with each other, has taken off like wildfire since launching three years ago, with 5 million daily users, 1.5 million of them paying today. Now, Slack is embarking on … | Continue reading
All you need is hydrocarbon gas, oxygen, and a spark plug.The post Explosions used to make large quantities of graphene appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
After observing the groundswell of adoption by employees in individual teams, Slack has set its sight on making its productivity platform available across entire organizations. It has launched Enterprise Grid, a new product that not only scales the core Slack experience to hundre … | Continue reading
Team communication service Slack today announced a new product designed to help its software scale to organizations with tens of thousands of employees. It’s called Slack Enterprise Grid, and it’s essentially a rethinking of the core app. It takes new features, critical design ch … | Continue reading
Enterprise software company SAP announced today that it has created chatbots for users of its Concur expense tracker and SuccessFactors HR software. The bots will initially be available exclusively to users of Enterprise Grid, a new service from chat app Slack for large corporati … | Continue reading
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today on cybersecurity that will commission a review of the federal government’s capabilities and defenses, similar to reviews ordered by Obama when he took office and again last year. A draft of the order, obtained by the W … | Continue reading
Now computers can bluff.This should be a terrifying thought, but it’s a breakthrough moment, watched by thousands of people across 151 countries on the Twitch network, all of them witness to the first time a computer artificial intelligence (AI), Libratus, soundly beat four of th … | Continue reading
Up until the middle of last year, my iPad spent most of its time next to my comfy chair. I’d bring it into the office whenever I needed to test an app on the device, but for the most part it stayed in our living room for reading and browsing. What changed? I added this […] | Continue reading
Es bien sabido que la publicidad en Facebook es una enorme subasta en tiempo real. Hay muchos factores que juegan para ver qué anunciante se queda con el espacio de publicidad que desea. Es importa… | Continue reading
Facebook gave businesses the Like button connected to their Page, and now Snapchat is giving websites their own QR Snapcodes. With today’s iOS update, users can create a unique Snapcode for a website, which will open inside Snapchat when they scan it with the app’s camera. This … | Continue reading
So, the Super Bowl is this weekend. But I mean, who want to watch the USA’s biggest sport event on boring old 2D television? It’s 2017, so now you’ll be able to watch the Super Bowl in VR. Well, kind of. Fox Sports announced today that its Fox Sports VR app will feature a “virtua … | Continue reading
Google Earth Enterprise, which originally launched over ten years ago, was Google’s tool for businesses that wanted to build and host private versions of Google Earth and Google Maps for their internal geospatial applications. In 2015, the company announced that it would shut th … | Continue reading
Sales Enablement is a program of training & resources to maximize your sales efficiency. Follow these steps to developing an effective sales enablement strategy | Continue reading
Academics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have created a working system that allows vehicles to drive autonomously at highway speeds, while navigating multi-lane traffic in real-world settings, using wireless communication based on basic Wi-Fi standards. … | Continue reading
I’m a simple man. I see vikings, I click download. This has been true for years, and it was true a couple months ago, when Vikings: an Archer’s Journey [$2.99] was in the recommended new games section of the App Store home page. I didn’t opt for a review right away because this g … | Continue reading
TechCrunch is getting ready to celebrate some of the most compelling startups and innovations of 2016 at the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards. Will you be joining us?The Crunchies are just one short week away, and if you want to party in style for the cheapest possible price at the … | Continue reading
Scientists at a Dutch zoo want to test Tinder on a female orangutan to study how the animals make their mating choices. The 11-year-old orangutan, called Samboja, lives in the Apenheul primate park in Apeldoorn. Scientists hope that by showing her images of potential mates on a t … | Continue reading
Der russische Künstler Dmitry Morozov baut ja gerne technoide Klang-Skulpturen mit merkwürdiger Funktionalität wie das EEG-Gusli oder den Telefonstreich-Apparat und zu seinem neusten Streich wurde er von notorisch verdrehten Kopfhörerkabeln... | Continue reading
The ELEAGUE 'Counter-Strike: Global Offensive' Major concluded in front of a live audience over the weekend.In the instant-classic Grand Final match, Astralis faced off against Virtus.Pro for the lion's share of $1,000,000 as more than one million viewers watching online. Read mo … | Continue reading
TwelveSouth is back with another useful Mac accessory today with the MagicBridge, a plastic shell that’s meant to hold Apple’s Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Keyboard together — say, if you intend to move around a lot or want to use them as part of a home media center. T … | Continue reading
Jason Mackenzie, the executive vice-president of HTC, announced today he is departing the company after working there for 12 years. | Continue reading
Legislators in New Hampshire have filed a new bill that aims to clarify rules around digital currencies and money transmitters.Source | Continue reading