Google has released a beta version of Android Nougat 7.1.2 available to anyone with an eligible device in the public Android Beta Program. This includes, for the first time, Google’s own Pixel and Pixel XL phones, which shipped with 7.1. 7.1.2 is set for a public release in a cou … | Continue reading
Nextbit, maker of the crowdfunded Android smartphone Robin, has been acquired by Razer, the companies said in a statement Monday.Though Razer plans to keep Nextbit as a separate unit within the company "focused on unique mobile design and experiences," according to Nextbit's CEO, … | Continue reading
Happiness is not defined by your circumstances or by what happens to you, and nobody knows this better than Hal Elrod. | Continue reading
Google today said it has started releasing a developer preview of Android 7.1.2 Nougat, an update to its latest version of Android that should become available to everyone in the coming weeks. But the update won’t be available for all Android devices, and today’s preview isn’t, e … | Continue reading
The Doctor is out. Earlier today, Peter Capaldi announced that he would be leaving Doctor Who at the end of this year’s 10th season. No replacement has been announced for the role. Capaldi announced his departure on BBC Radio 2. “I feel it’s time to move on,” he said. "I can't pr … | Continue reading
The Flappy Bird game was massively popular and maybe even, in the words of its creator, “addictive.” It was also so 2014. Now in 2017, the cute little bird is back. The game is available as a bot on Facebook Messenger and it makes its debut on 5 bots to try this week. How far can … | Continue reading
The MPAA and RIAA are throwing in the towel for their so-called ‘six strikes’ initiative. The program — formally known as the Copyright Alert System — started in 2013 as a partnership between ISPs and copyright holders designed to scare off internet pirates. It didn’t work. As pi … | Continue reading
Ben Affleck will not direct the standalone Batman movie as previously indicated, Variety reports. The actor will remain attached to the Warner Bros. project as producer, as well as reprising his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman, but in a statement said he couldn’t juggle both acting an … | Continue reading
It’s time to actually make the world a better place.Silicon Valley was birthed from an existential threat to the world. Nazi radar defense technology was decimating the Allied air forces. But American engineers heeded the call, and in a Harvard lab led by Stanford professor Fred … | Continue reading
Mark Gainey, the co-founder and chief executive of fitness-tracking app Strava, has a message for immigrants who are impacted by President Donald Trump’s recent executive order: “Freedom4All.” Only Gainey didn’t just send a memo to his company, or tweet something showing solidari … | Continue reading
Bitcoin faucets are the ideal place to collect free Bitcoin, but they are often covered with pop-ups and advertisements, frustrating the visitor and sometimes putting them off visiting faucet sites again. CryptoGiveAways.org is a new take on the Bitcoin faucet. Driven by communit … | Continue reading
Your future smartphone could be entirely voice activated, displaying your text messages and other info with holograms. At least, that's the idea behind Alo, a new smartphone concept that imagines a touchscreen-less smartphone. Created by French designer Jamie Olivet with art dire … | Continue reading
Google workers staged protests outside several of its offices in response to new US immigration orders.They were joined by CEO Sunar Pichai and Sergey Brin. | Continue reading
Tech companies are joining forces with the Washington state government to fight against Donald Trump’s recent immigration-related executive order. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit today against Trump’s order, which bars legal immigrants and refugees from s … | Continue reading
Insomniac Games CEO founder Ted Price took a stand against President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from seven Muslim countries. While other game developers issued tweets or sent emails to employees about Trump, Price took the extra step of creating a YouTube video, where he stood … | Continue reading
Twitter is gearing up to release new updates that the company claims will make the service a “safer place.” In a series of tweets, Twitter vice president of engineering Ed Ho acknowledged what many have known for a while: It has done a poor job in stopping harassment. To that, he … | Continue reading
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, a major annual trade show for the video game business, doesn’t seem like it is 22 years old. Or at least it doesn’t seem that way until you look at the video. Freelance photographer Anthony Parisi has published a lengthy video he took while atte … | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into Mylan, the maker of the EpiPen, Bloomberg reports. In August 2016, there was an outcry over Mylan’s pricing practices around the EpiPen, which can be life-saving for those experiencing a severe allergic reaction.The … | Continue reading
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) has written to newly appointed FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai in defense of net neutrality, vowing to “fight to protect it every step of the way.” Read More | 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
Earlier this month, staff at Austria's four-star Romantik Seehotel Jägerwirt tried to sign into the resort's computer systems, but couldn't. SEE ALSO: 1.5 million gaming profiles leaked after site refuses hacker's $100,000 ransomThey had been infected by a kind of software called … | Continue reading
The MPAA and RIAA are giving up on their much-hyped "six strikes" initiative to scare people out of pirating TV shows, movies, and music. Their reason for ending it: the initiative didn’t really work.The "six strikes" system — formally known as the Copyright Alert System — launch … | Continue reading
Twitter’s vice president of engineering, Ed Ho, has promised to make changes to the service to combat harassment as soon as this week. Speaking on Twitter, Ho said that the company would be rolling out a number of product changes “in the days ahead,” including “long overdue fixes … | Continue reading
Google employees from eight campuses today staged a work stoppage and walked out in protest of President Trump’s immigration ban. Google, and tech companies in general, stand to be among the most affected should Trump’s seven country immigration ban — and the hazy status on exist … | Continue reading
Bitcoin traders have new uncertainty to deal with as exchanges that once dominated trading volume fall by the wayside and new exchanges rise up.Source | Continue reading
Google has confirmed that its Nexus 6 and 9 devices will not be getting the latest Android 7.1.2 Nougat update, but both will still get security fixes. | Continue reading
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Maybe "The Absence" would be a better nickname for Joel Embiid. | Continue reading
Online reports claim that the 2015 and 2017 NVIDIA Shield TV set-top box can now work with the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One S controllers. | Continue reading
This is pretty much the definition unnecessary, but then, that’s part of the fun of hack days. A quartet of Netflix designers have given the world “MindFlix,” by way of a short video, highlighting the hack’s use of a the Muse headband to control the movie streaming site’s famili … | Continue reading
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and the son of an undocumented US immigrant, says President Donald Trump's immigration ban is both "deeply un-American" and "potentially unconstitutional." Ohanian expressed his views in an open letter to the Reddit community penned under … | Continue reading
Google today announced that in March it will open-source its Google Earth Enterprise software, which lets organizations deploy Google Maps and Google Earth on their on-premises data center infrastructure. Google unveiled the software back in 2006 and stopped selling it nearly two … | Continue reading
In a surprise announcement, Nextbit, the makers of the cloud-centric Robin phone, has been acquired by gaming company Razer. Nextbit is joining the @Razer family! Now we’ll have more resources for more exciting (rebellious) projects. https://t.co/rC6Oww7TMO pic.twitter.com/HJScaI … | Continue reading
One year ago Facebook made the surprising announcement that it was shuttering Parse, the development platform that it purchased in 2013. While the company said they would keep the service online for a year so developers could migrate their apps to a new backend, that time has fi … | Continue reading
More than 2,000 Google employees in offices around the world staged a walkout on Monday afternoon in protest of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration in seven Muslim-majority countries. Using the hashtag #GooglersUnite, employees tweeted photos and videos o … | Continue reading
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Razer has acquired the majority of the assets of Nextbit Systems Inc., and is bringing onboard the management and employees of the company. | Continue reading
Venky Ganesan, managing director of $4.4 billion venture capital firm Menlo Ventures and current chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, is walking a political tightrope and trying not to fall off. The venture capital industry, financiers to many tech giants, relie … | Continue reading
Google employees are currently rallying against President Donald Trump’s executive order that bans immigration from seven majority Muslim countries. Googlers all over the country, including at campuses in Mountain View, New York and Seattle are rallying against the immigration b … | Continue reading
Most of us know well enough not to check our smartphones in a movie theater, but what do you do when your smart watch lights up when you raise your hand to scratch your nose.SEE ALSO: Apple Watch Series 2 review: Less silly, more usableYou can do the panicked wrist grab, covering … | Continue reading
Razer, a startup that makes computers, mice, and keyboards, has acquired Nextbit, a startup that built a smartphone that stood out with its green case and its emphasis on cloud storage. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The Nextbit Robin phone came out last year. It’s unclear … | Continue reading
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Three months after acquiring iconic audio tech company THX, Razer is making another move to expand its business beyond hardware and software for the gaming community. The company has acquired Nextbit, the startup behind the Robin smartphone, founded by Android veterans who had s … | Continue reading
One of the biggest Early Access games ever is getting some serious sci-fi content in one of its biggest patches yet. Studio Wildcard is unleashing the 254th patch for dinosaur-survival sim Ark: Survival Evolved on PC today, and this will bring some new futuristic content for high … | Continue reading
For the past few weeks, we've been dazzled by the various animated gifs that developers Colin Lane and Brad Erkkila have been posting to Twitter for their upcoming iOS game Golf Zero. If this is the first you're hearing of Golf Zero, it's a platforming game with a golfing spin th … | Continue reading
Razer, the gaming laptop and peripheral company, has acquired smartphone-maker Nextbit. A press release announcing the acquisition says that Razer “has acquired the majority of the assets of Nextbit Systems Inc. and has brought onboard the management and employees of the company, … | Continue reading
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Google employees in offices around the world staged a walkout on Monday afternoon in protest of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration in seven Muslim-majority countries. Using the hashtag #GooglersUnite, employees tweeted photos and videos of walkout action … | Continue reading
Google has just officially announced Android 7.1.2 Nougat, and will begin rolling out the public beta build starting today! | Continue reading