Venture capital does many great things for the United States. Importantly, it fuels the innovation economy, churning out disruptive products, companies and entire new industries. Indeed, venture is extreme capitalism. Creative destruction rolls over incumbents, and society is usu … | Continue reading
If you want to create an effective call to action, believe your offer is valuable, useful, and helpful to your customer. Pamela Wilson shows you how. | Continue reading
Obviously the perfect Halloween costume for the year of 2016 is a White Walker from HBO’s Game of Thrones. There are a lot of reasons that this choice makes perfect sense to me:White Walkers had a big year on Game of Thrones this season, in that they killed one of your favorite c … | Continue reading
If you enjoyed the savagery of last night’s U.S. presidential debate, then you may delight in an encounter with Donald Trump via the BFF Trump bot. Or if verbal brawls are not your thing, then there are also bots for HR tasks, for chatting with strangers (remember Chatroulette?), … | Continue reading
BetChain is one of the most popular European Bitcoin Casinos around. BetChain is leading the European market. The Casino allows players to make deposits in Euros and then play in Bitcoin! Players can even withdraw in Euros if they want. Thanks to Cubits integration, new and exist … | Continue reading
NEW YORK, NY October 10, 2016 — EtherCamp is proud to announce a crowdsale of its new token, Hacker Gold (HKG), set to begin Oct. 20 and will run through the course of the company’s second annual hackathon, kicking off in November. The crowdsale will be safe-capped at 4 million e … | Continue reading
Charlie Rose has had a storied career in journalism. After interviewing the who’s-who of international celebrities, Rose pivoted last night from world leaders and entertainment stars to ‘Sophia’ a smart AI in a humanoid robot shell. The interview detailed just how far we’ve come, … | Continue reading
InXile Entertainment hit its $2.75 million goal for the campaign for the development of Wasteland 3 on Fig. The campaign reached its month goal in just three days, showing both the demand for the Wasteland franchise and the maturing of this new crowdfunding platform. So far, the … | Continue reading
The team of Carve and Omgeving (design) and Krinkels (contractor) won the international competition to design an adventurous play-scape. | Continue reading
Palma Plaza House is an old cottage transformed by Hugh Jefferson Randolph Architects into a contemporary home for a family in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading
In a former bin alley and sandwiched between two office buildings on one of Adelaide's vibrant laneways is the Pink Moon Saloon. | Continue reading
Located in Bruton, Somerset, UK, Quaperlake House has been reconfigured, refurbished and extended by Emil Eve Architects. | Continue reading
If I’m Samsung, I’m looking for the next big product to capture the public’s attention while my public relations wing is attempting to put out all a whole lot of proverbial fires (to go along with the literal variety). This isn’t that. In fact, Samsung just kind of let this one l … | Continue reading
Designed by Scott Jarvie, the Safe Cabinet explores the semiotic cues associated with our perception of value. | Continue reading
The Wall House is a modern farmhouse with energy-efficient design and low-maintenance concept. Designed for single man, the Wall House is ... | Continue reading
Android Wear is in a bit of a weird place right now. Google recently delayed the 2.0 update of the software until sometime next year, and major hardware partners like LG, Lenovo, and Huawei are all planning on sitting out on any new hardware releases this fall. Continue read … | Continue reading
Digital entrepreneur Kayla Hollatz aims to create one-on-one relationships with her customers by utilizing Twitter to personally connect with them. | Continue reading
Users of the popular music-identification app Shazam can now look up songs within iMessage without leaving their conversation. Today, the London-based company announced the launch of Shazam for iMessage, where you can send song names and previews to those you're messaging.This is … | Continue reading
One of the several things that makes brain surgery so difficult is that the brain isn’t transparent. So if you want to get at something deep inside, you either have to peel off a few layers or make an educated guess based on other imagery. But augmented reality may offer a third … | Continue reading
Facebook’s latest trick to earn more revenue without drowning the News Feed is to serve ads to the 1 billion users of its Groups feature. After people reported seeing notices that “We’re testing ads in Groups”, TechCrunch inquired and Facebook confirmed that mobile and desktop ve … | Continue reading
A 2,500-year-old stash of whole marijuana plants have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northwest China. This discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that ancient people used marijuana for its psychoactive properties, and incorporated it into their rituals. The plants w … | Continue reading
Now that you can get a VR-capable desktop PC for $499 you might find yourself wondering, "How can PC manufacturers possibly keep margins alive?" Samsung found a way. Its new ArtPC Pulse cylindrical PC / speaker is $1,199.99 to preorder on Amazon right now. I suppose a lower-end S … | Continue reading
The election is near, and for many of us it just can’t come soon enough. With nearly a third of voters casting a ballot for ‘the lesser of two evils,’ the 2016 election is certainly one to forget. Unfortunately, there’s really no hole deep enough to hide from election news, and u … | Continue reading
Here, the mapping business, announced today that it was teaming up with Iowa’s Department of Transportation to transform a nearly 30-mile stretch of Interstate-380 into a special corridor for self-driving cars and trucks. Here says it will use its open location platform, which in … | Continue reading
I’ve encountered a number of frustrating situations in which the PlayStation VR loses its tracking. That either breaks the illusion of virtual reality or, at worst, it makes me feel nauseous. Now, Sony has come out to address growing consumer concerns about its headset technology … | Continue reading
Oculus is now taking pre-orders for their Touch motion controllers that bring your hands and body into VR on their Rift headset. The company announced details regarding the controllers, including the $199 price and December 6 ship date, at their Oculus Connect developers conferen … | Continue reading
Germany's Senate voted in favor of no internal combustion engines. The EU decides for Europe, but often follows Germany's lead on automotive matters. | Continue reading
Following Yahoo’s September announcement of a data breach affecting 500 million user accounts, the company has made it more difficult for Yahoo Mail users to transition to another email service. At the beginning of October, Yahoo disabled an email forwarding feature, which would … | Continue reading
Last year Apttus, which provides pricing, quoting and contract building on the Salesforce platform was growing at a crazy rate. It appeared to be headed to IPO or a Salesforce purchase when it got a punch to the gut. Salesforce bought Steelbrick instead.Sources say, Apttus might … | Continue reading
Preorders are now open for Oculus Touch, ahead of the controller bundle's launch on December 6th. For $199, people who preorder the bundle will get two Touch controllers, as well as an additional tracking camera, a connector for Rock Band VR, and two games that use the new device … | Continue reading
Cadbury Milk Tray launched its new TV advert at a secret immersive experience in London last week. | Continue reading
GUEST: 56. I have 56 apps installed on my phone. I have just counted them. Even I, someone who is convinced that apps are dying and has intimate knowledge of the concept of app fatigue, am surprised at how high that number is. In 2015, a data research company called Millard Brown … | Continue reading
Google’s new Assistant is getting a bit of a personality, courtesy of writers from the Onion and Pixar. Google current voice capabilities are right up there with Siri, Cortana, and Alexa in terms of usefulness, but it can be a little… robotic. It doesn’t answer silly questions in … | Continue reading
On StudioPress FM, you'll hear from Cory Miller, an entrepreneur who believes in finding and maintaining work happiness that aligns with your purpose. | Continue reading
Here's a look at what we are focusing on in the bitcoin price this evening. | Continue reading
Cyanogen — the company that builds custom versions of Android (including Microsoft software) for manufactures — is shaking itself up. It announced today that it has a new CEO, Lior Tal, and a new strategy. It’s a weird one: instead of trying to get OEMs to license its entire OS, … | Continue reading
A new study from Germany’s Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) found that the autopilot feature of the Tesla Model S constitutes a “considerable traffic hazard,” according to a report in Der Spiegel.Unsurprisingly, Tesla CEO Elon Musk doesn’t agree and today said in a tweet … | Continue reading
There is no shortage of ideas about how to meet the bitcoin scaling challenge. More importantly, however, is the willingness of the community to share its ideas and work on ways to bring them to fruition. This much was obvious from this weekend’s Scaling Bitcoin “Retarget” confer … | Continue reading
Here's how Dow Water approaches consultative selling, stays relevant with a growing user base, and is working to help solve water issues around the globe. | Continue reading
Today, my loyal readers, you have a choice. You can spend a little time meeting Snehal Desai and getting to know his career path; from college to becoming the Global Business Director for Dow Water...read moreThe post How Dow Water Embraces Consultative Selling appeared first on … | Continue reading
Your obsession with catching ’em all could keep you alive longer. Highly engaged Pokémon Go players are getting an average of 26 percent more physical activity than they were before playing the mobile game, according to a study from Stanford University and Microsoft Research avai … | Continue reading
Intel announced a major new Altera product today. The Stratix 10 FPGA family can offer up to 2x the performance of its predecessor, with dramatically reduced power consumption. | Continue reading
LlabTooFeR, a dedicated ROM developer and HTC leakster, has leaked the alleged official Pixel and Pixel XL system images. | Continue reading
The Barnacle is a new way for parking patrols to immobilize vehicles. Instead of using a boot to keep a wheel from moving, officers can slap a Barnacle across the windshield, suction it to the glass, and arm it with a keypad. The Barnacle is a bright yellow 20-pound piece of plas … | Continue reading
Venture capitalists and their financial backers may be feeling a skip in their step this week, following the recently successful IPOs of several tech companies, including the cloud software companies Nutanix, Apptio and Coupa Software. Snapchat is reportedly eyeing an IPO, too, w … | Continue reading
In this episode of The Showrunner, Jerod and Jon talk to those who run a podcast and might want to start a second one -- or maybe even a third or fourth. | Continue reading
Why was the patriot pig wearing tap shoes? Because it was in the pen dance day. That’s a bad joke. Even by smart home assistant standards it’s a bad joke. It’s one that Alexa told me last week while I was reviewing the new Echo Dot. That’s the thing — however intelligent your AI … | Continue reading
I’m not observant enough to have spotted this. Apparently, Apple’s product images for both the iPhone and iPad always feature the device displaying the time at 9:41. After catching a Business Insider video, and then checking out other posts from as far back as 2014, it checks out … | Continue reading