Taboola, the startup that works with hundreds of online publishers to run carousels of recommended content and ads from their own and other publishers’ sites to grow engagement and revenues, has made another acquisition to grow the services it offers to its customers beyond the b … | Continue reading
If you still haven't been able to find Fujifilm's excellent X-T2 in stock, or if the equally wonderful (and my personal favorite) X-Pro2 is yet to persuade you of its charms, perhaps these new variants will tip you over the purchasing edge. Fujifilm is launching "Graphite" — gunm … | Continue reading
At this year’s CES, Nvidia took to the stage to announce the revamp of its Geforce Now game streaming service. While it previously only beamed PC games to the Android-based Nvidia Shield TV that connects to your TV, the Geforce Now will begin streaming games to Windows and Mac de … | Continue reading
Griffin Technology showed off its new Reserve battery case at CES 2017, which has a 3,000 mAh battery and a 3.5mm headphone jack, in addition to still offering a pass-through Lightning connector to charge an iPhone 7. The Reserve joins the OX, from Griffin’s parent company Incipi … | Continue reading
As bitcoin's price hovers close to an all-time high, buy-side pressure is mounting according to exchange data.Source | Continue reading
LAS VEGAS — Google Assistant is about to get a new platform: TVs.Nvidia's new Shield set-top box will ship with Google Assistant built in, Nvidia announced Wednesday. The company is also making a separate microphone, called the Nvidia Spot, so you can interact with the Assistant … | Continue reading
METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- The New Orleans Pelicans say forward Quincy Pondexter, who has not played because of a left knee injury since the 2015 playoffs, has had successful arthroscopic on his injured knee. | Continue reading
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Russell Westbrook said he has "no idea" why he was assessed a technical foul for hitting a game official in the head with a ball during the first quarter of Oklahoma City's 123-112 loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday night. | Continue reading
This is BB8. It’s Nvidia’s autonomous car and it’s been driving around in California and New Jersey testing things out. It’s always nice when companies give their cars cutesy names (this one is, of course, borrowed from The Force Awakens) but between the upbeat music and the eage … | Continue reading
Qualcomm sold its Snapdragon 835 mobile processor as a virtual and augmented reality powerhouse earlier this week, but it’s been light on examples — at least, until now. As part of a partnership with Lionsgate, it’s showing off a VR tie-in to the upcoming Power Rangers movie, com … | Continue reading
Growing up with smart devices means kids these days are becoming more stationary, so Fisher-Price has introduced an adorable solution at CES 2017. The Think & Learn Smart Cycle is a toy bike that works with a companion app so toddlers can play educational games while pedaling. It … | Continue reading
Nvidia announced several new partners for its efforts to bring autonomous cars to public roads in a production capacity today, but the biggest by far was Audi. Nvidia is working with the carmaker to bring its AI driving tech, which is available thanks to its latest in-car autonom … | Continue reading
Nvidia is partnering with Audi to develop artificial intelligence for a new generation of self-driving cars. The companies are looking to commercialize Nvdia’s latest technology for advanced automotive applications. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, announced during his keynote spee … | Continue reading
Sellers are looking for ways to keep the attention of consumers who are increasingly spending more of their money on experiences. | Continue reading
eMarketer’s scan of the key developments of the day, plus data to make sense of it all. Today’s topics: Wearables on the high seas; a virtual assistant for kids; and more. | Continue reading
China's Tencent revealed that it's partnering with local content distribution platform Ookbee in Thailand to create a user-generated content service called Ookbee U. It's the latest move by Tencent, WeChat's parent company, to establish itself in Southeast Asia … | Continue reading
Without data, brands are blind to their customers’ preferences, and therefore bereft of the insights needed to create successful loyalty programs. eMarketer’s Dustin Sodano spoke with Mary English, general manager for Hong Kong at International Customer Loyalty Progra … | Continue reading
Ad agencies in France profess to a host of challenges when it comes to managing mobile ad budgets, and do so to a greater degree than their marketing counterparts. | Continue reading
Clothing and accessories are a top choice when buying online in Vietnam, but the ecommerce market is still young. | Continue reading
A new survey indicates that roughly one in five internet users have at least tried purchasing a product on a social site. Will that number grow further? | Continue reading
Sales of smart-home appliances in Germany accelerated in 2016, surpassing 2015's total in just 10 months. But most were smart-entertainment devices, not appliances of the helpful everyday variety. | Continue reading
Chinese ecommerce spending is moving from C2C websites to B2C platforms. | Continue reading
The healthcare industry is under pressure to go beyond the pill for a number of reasons: escalating costs, a shift to outcomes-based compensation, demands from digitally savvy patients and the need to competitively differentiate offerings. | Continue reading
CES 2017 starts tomorrow, Tesla’s Gigafactory starts battery production, Asian Snapchat clone has grown to 40-50 million users and Mark Zuckerberg’s 2017 challenge. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
A year ago, Ford teased a possible integration with the Amazon Echo smart home device, so car owners could turn on their home lights or browse their music libraries from the comfort of their Fusions or F-150s. Or they can switch it up and ask Alexa to start their car from inside … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is starting to establish new record highs, indicating a strong start for 2017 on increased investor interest.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 01/05/2017 – More Bullish Momentum Past $1200? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Nvidia teased out a powerful system that would serve as an AI supercomputer earlier this year, giving cars the ability to drive themselves. But while there’s been a ton of progress in building safer autonomous driving, we might not quite be at the point where we can fully trust t … | Continue reading
Nvidia unveiled a little gadget that you stick on a wall in your home, instrumenting it for the voice commands of Google Assistant. The Spot allows you to issue voice commands in your smart home that can control all sorts of things in your home. The Spot has a microphone, positio … | Continue reading
Simplehuman is a company known for high-end home goods, including its deluxe trash cans (yes, those are a thing). And at CES 2017, the company showed off its most technological garbage bin yet: a voice-activated trash can that can open and close through verbal commands. … | Continue reading
Nvidia’s GeForce Now video game streaming service, previously exclusive to its own Android-based Shield devices, is coming to PC and Mac. Announcing the imminent launch of the service on stage during Nvidia’s CES press conference, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrated its capabilities, … | Continue reading
Nvidia has extended its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to PC gamers. Prior to now, the service has been available to Shield TV set-top box owners. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said in a keynote speech at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, that the service will be avai … | Continue reading
Xupo is a slim Bluetooth tracking device that has a few extra tricks up its sleeve including a replaceable battery that lasts a full year. | Continue reading
It’s been a big day for Mass Effect fans. Not only do we now have a release date for the next game in the sci-fi series — Mass Effect: Andromeda is out on March 21st — but we’ve now got an even better look at how it will play. Developer BioWare released new footage of Andromeda d … | Continue reading
When Epson messaged to ask if I wanted to try a new augmented reality headset designed to improve the experience of piloting a drone, I was all ears. After spending some time piloting a DJI drone using Epson’s augmented reality headset, I was hooked — there is no better way to fl … | Continue reading
Google is bringing its Siri and Alexa rival, Google Assistant, to TV screens. The company just announced that Google Assistant will be coming to supported televisions and set-top boxes running Android TV “in the coming months.” At a minimum, devices will need to be running Androi … | Continue reading
Nvidia is announcing a new version of its Shield TV home streaming box today. The new model has an updated design and support for 4K HDR streaming. It now comes with both a remote and game controller and is available for preorder now for $199.99. It is expected to ship to custome … | Continue reading
Nvidia today announced the launch of its GeForce Now platform for PCs during its CES keynote tonight. As the company’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang noted during today’s keynote, the majority of PCs in use today aren’t able to play modern games simply because they can’t support modern graph … | Continue reading
Nvidia has a new Shield streaming device that has 4K streaming capability, with built-in streaming support for 4K content via Netflix and other services. The new streamer is a much more powerful device, and also has Google Assistant built-in, with Nvidia looking for it to not onl … | Continue reading
Saying goodbye to Dwyane Wade and taking a dip in the standings might have been part of a greater vision for the Miami Heat and their future. But losing forward Justise Winslow for the rest of the 2016-17 season seems a little like overkill. | Continue reading
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced today the company is launching a new version of its Shield TV set-top box, and it is beefing up its usefulness by integrating it with artificial intelligence apps such as Google Assistant. The upgrade is the biggest change since it introduced t … | Continue reading
Nvidia is giving gamers using the GeForce Experience will now be able to broadcast directly to Facebook Live, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced at CES today. Huang basically breezed past the announcement heading into a trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda streamed live, but it does repr … | Continue reading
Nvidia said today it is connecting its GeForce Experience video game capture technology to Facebook Live. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, made the announcement at his keynote speech at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. With the connection to Facebook Life, … | Continue reading
I was a bit cautious when Blue debuted its first set of headphones. I’m not sure why, exactly, but it’s always hard to say how a company known for something specific will transition into a new – albeit related – category. Turns out there was really nothing to worry about. Like th … | Continue reading
The latest iteration of LG’s ultra-thin Gram 14 laptop, announced earlier today at CES, came with a bold claim attached: between 21 and 24 hours of battery life on a single charge. It turns out, however, the claim is too good to be true. As CNET pointed out earlier today, LG reli … | Continue reading
The key to keeping your business card out of the trash can (where 9 out of 10 cards go) is to create a card that's so cool or so useful that nobody wants to throw it out. With that in mind, designers are getting more and more creative in how they customize business cards. | Continue reading
BMW today unveiled what it called a “glimpse into the mid-future” for the interior of its cars. It’s called the BMW i Inside Future sculpture, and it’s what BMW thinks you might be sitting in after 2020. It’s got comfy seats, a futuristic control system called HoloActive Touch, a … | Continue reading
Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of devices you can talk to to make them do stuff. That’s all good and well, but apart from talking back to you, they don’t really seem to care about you all that much. Emotech takes a different tack with Olly, adding personality and giving the ass … | Continue reading
If this VR stuff fails to take off again, man are we going to feel silly about all of the things we tried over the past few years. Two fairly solid examples right here from a CES kickoff event. Both attempt to make VR that much more immersive, and both make you look pretty silly … | Continue reading