Although over 40% of smartphone users in Japan ages 15 to 59 say they have used a selfie photo-sharing app, that masks significant variation by age. Teens use the apps at about double the average rate. Older mobile users, not so much. | Continue reading
Millennials may be just as annoyed by ads that block content as other people are, and many are turning to ad blockers to help combat that. According to July 2016 research, two out of three US millennials use an ad blocker on a desktop or mobile device. | Continue reading
By the end of October, more than half of US internet users will have begun to cross items off their holiday shopping lists. April research suggests that this month is the tipping point, with the remaining 41% of shoppers beginning in November or later. | Continue reading
The iPhone 7's lack of a headphone jack took many people by surprise. The company's new wireless Airpods seemed like a burden to some, who worried the earphones would fall out any minute, even as Tim Cook tried to reassure them otherwise. I don't get #AirPods - what if they get k … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is on a tear but is pausing in a bullish consolidation pattern before heading further north.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 10/13/2016 – Buy on Dips? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell launches a virtual reality company, Baidu raises a $3 billion fund, BMW’s new motorcycle concept, Hyperloop transport system for cargo being built in the UAE and Facebook and Google are partnering to build a trans-Pacific cable. All this on Crunch Rep … | Continue reading
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Between 2014 and 2015, there was a 198 percent increase in social media referral traffic to eCommerce sites. However, few consumers directly purchase through social channels -- because they haven’t quite figured it out yet. In fact, social commerce actually has a promising future … | Continue reading
In the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix, the wise mentor Mopheus explains to the hero Neo that if you die in the film’s simulated world, you also die in real life. It turns out that rule doesn’t carry over to Sony’s PlayStation VR, but that doesn’t mean you’re invulnerable in v … | Continue reading
Valve's Steam Dev Days conference is going on right now in Seattle, and the company is sharing details of upcoming hardware in typically low-key fashion. While there aren't any official announcements yet, attendees have been posting about new virtual reality controller prototypes … | Continue reading
From Cleveland to China, the message was clear on Wednesday: There is real hope of the NBA and its players getting a new labor deal done in the coming weeks. | Continue reading
After the Samsung Galaxy Note7 explosion and recall controversy, these five Android options are looking pretty good. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Smartphone, Google Pixel, Google, and Moto Z | Continue reading
Microsoft is taking its augmented reality headset global.On Thursday, the company announced that the HoloLens, what it calls "the world's first self-contained holographic computer," was available for preorder in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. It's cu … | Continue reading
Those Soylent Food Bars, the ones making some consumers violently ill, you’ll want to go ahead and get rid of those. The company is halting shipments, it announced in a blog post Wednesday, and it advises customers to discard "any remaining bars in their possession.""After hearin … | Continue reading
Thursday, Sony launches PlayStation VR worldwide. With this hardware launch, virtual reality will be making a larger push into people’s homes through the familiar path of their game consoles. Since the original PlayStation launched in America in 1995, and including the handhelds … | Continue reading
While virtually every industry and domain is flourishing and being revolutionized by technological advances, more than three-quarters of U.S. citizens will vote for their next president on paper ballots this November. Read More | Continue reading
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The debate over what to do about the San Francisco’s homeless population has been building for awhile among the many startups and residents here. But now tech billionaires Ron Conway, Michael Moritz and well-to-do hedge fund manager William Oberndorf have each thrown about $50,00 … | Continue reading
Want Google Assistant, but don’t want to spend your allowance on a Pixel? I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is you can get it with two tiny tweaks to a single config file — the bad news is you’ll need root access, and there’s no guarantee it’ll work on your phone in … | Continue reading
Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure. What’s talked about less, and has also been dwarfed in attention and resou … | Continue reading
Mood rings were mostly garbage, but the idea that you could create one that allows you to better understand your furry friends is still pretty fascinating. The ‘Inupathy’ collar wants to do just that. Developed by a biologist in Japan, the collar monitors heart rhythms and displa … | Continue reading
In a city where poverty rates are at historic highs, the homeless population living in tents along the sidewalks could soon be forced to leave.A collection of so-called 'tent cities' have sprouted up in San Francisco and nearby areas, with a single street housing as many as 250 p … | Continue reading
With more than a billion users using Facebook each day, the social network and its affiliated properties are prime targets for hackers and also prone to vulnerabilities. And try as it might, the company isn’t able to account for every gap, which is why five years ago it implement … | Continue reading
Facebook announced a bold move to take over your workplace — and, not surprisingly, it’s called Workplace. If you need a quick conceptual image of how it works and what it does, imagine the Facebook we all know in a closed, tightly controlled system. It has all of the features o … | Continue reading
Google today announced a few additions to its Google Photos online photo storage service. The service will now let you know when you’ve uploaded photos that aren’t rotated properly, and it will give you an easy way to automatically fix them. The feature is live now on Google Phot … | Continue reading
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.” [Bruce Lee] When we're honest with ourselves, we are free to pursue our fullest development. In The Warrior Within John Little says when asked about how he would raise his son Brandon in a world filled with prejudice, Bru … | Continue reading
Samsung says it doesn’t plan on removing the headphone jack from its phones anytime soon, but didn’t stop the company from trying to step up its Bluetooth headphone products with the fitness oriented Gear IconX. Wireless headphones with a heart-rate sensor are an awesome concept. … | Continue reading
The Audi R8 e-tron is dead if a report from Car and Driver is to be believed. The production version of the car was unveiled at the 2015 Geneva Auto Show and apparently Audi produced less than 100 vehicles — which sported a $1.1 million window sticker each. When announced the e-t … | Continue reading
After years of binging on Top Chef and pinning recipes on Pinterest, chances are you’ll never be as good at preparing a hot dog as Juha-Pekka Perämäki. Granted, you probably aren’t preparing your delicious sausages with an 8.5 ton excavator either. Perämäki has a bit of a reputat … | Continue reading
Now that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is officially dead, with production stopped and customers being asked to power down the device and exchange it, a whole slew of accessories have been rendered useless. For those who may have bought a case, wireless charging dock, or some other Not … | Continue reading
Of course Amazon wants you to own an Echo device. But not just one. The company really, really hopes to get one into every room of its customers homes. That’s where the second generation of the Echo Dot comes in — $50 a pop and even cheaper if you buy them in packs of six or twel … | Continue reading
Twitter is experimenting yet again with the structure of its mobile app. This time around, the company is thinking about replacing its Moments tab, first introduced last fall to let users better track breaking news and other prominent events, with a new "Explore" tab, according t … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Coupa Software Incorporated ("Coupa") today announced the closing of its initial public offering and the exercise in full of the underwriters' option to purchase an additional 1,110,000 shares of its common stock. After the underwriters'... | Continue reading
Ken Bone is unanimously the winner of the latest presidential debate. Do you have a Ken Bone in your event? If you don’t know who Ken Bone is, you are probably not into politics or you don’t like the Internet. During the last presidential debate, one of the crudest ever, there wa … | Continue reading
Skylanders Imaginators has a new way to engage its players: enabling you to make an action figure, T-shirt, and playing card. And I have taken advantage of this to create my own character: Fire Smasher. It is not particularly inspired as far as 3D-printed toy characters go, but i … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced a full slate of activities it will be involved in at the upcoming 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), which kicks off October... | Continue reading
The DJI is a fantastic all-purpose drone, but with the Exo 1 exoskeleton, it becomes a dedicated search and rescue tool. The 3D-printed add-on quickly attaches to the drone and adds a host of features key to making the drone a valuable tool for first responders. There are GoPro m … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama has made his interest in science fiction known in the past, but in a new interview about very real, very serious aspects of our future, the outgoing president reveals that he's far more of a Trekkie than anyone suspected.SEE ALSO: NASA is run by a bunch of … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: There are chatbots, and then there are the bots built to understand and strengthen a customer’s experience with your brand. Which would your user rather talk to? Join our latest VB Live event with Smarter Child creator to learn more about how to turn A.I. innovation into … | Continue reading
Music streaming service Spotify today announced the launch of Playlist Takeover, a new series of original recordings in which stars recommend music. For the first installment, Spotify has brought in British supermodel Jourdan Dunn, who has selected hip-hop tracks for a playlist e … | Continue reading
PlaceIQ has a new, big-name investor — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.The companies aren’t disclosing the size of the deal; they’ll only say that it’s a strategic, minority investment, and that it’s an addition to the $25 million round that PlaceIQ announced at the beginning of … | Continue reading
Publishing in Lithuania over the years of independence has undergone the same developments as its counterparts in Eastern Europe: • The deterioration of the old structure of publishing • The.. | Continue reading
As more and more reports of failing Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices crop up, so, too, do videos of smoking smartphones — a terrifying sight for the vast majority of users. What you'll notice in some of these videos is the sight of people handling the failing device as thought it's a … | Continue reading
Ricoh has just announced a smaller, cheaper version of the Theta S — the company’s handheld 360-degree camera. The new camera is called the Theta SC, uses twin f2.0 lenses and two 12-megapixel sensors to capture 360-degree stills and 1080p-quality spherical video. It costs $300 a … | Continue reading
A new reality series designed to educate the masses about bitcoin and digital currency usage will air in Japan starting in November. | Continue reading
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Capturing 360-degree video and photos is still very much a thing for geeks, but Ricoh, one of the first companies to release a consumer 360 camera, wants to change that.The company's new $300 Theta SC 360 camera is less expensive than the company's flagship Theta S, but more feat … | Continue reading
Ethereum is planning for another hard fork to foil an ongoing series of attacks on the network.Source | Continue reading