At Google’s hardware event this week, the new version of the Android operating system, Android 7.1 (Nougat 7.1), was barely mentioned. As it turns out, there was a reason for that: some of the new Pixel smartphones‘ best features won’t be arriving in the new OS. This includes fea … | Continue reading
Ubisoft doesn’t want to split all of its revenues with retailers. The French publisher announced today that it has relaunched the Uplay Store. This makeover gives the site a new design, but it also provides a new home for exclusive collector’s editions of Ubisoft games. For examp … | Continue reading
Say you’d like to make a few extra bucks by driving for ride hailing services Lyft and Uber or on-demand delivery services like Postmates, but your old car won’t pass muster with these companies. Or maybe you don’t want to put the miles on your personal car. Or maybe you don’t ev … | Continue reading
French artisan spirit Sauvelle is hosting a pop-up dedicated to pairing limited edition trainers with tipples. | Continue reading
Just in time for New York Comic Con, Madefire is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding. Madefire co-founder and CEO Ben Wolstenholme said the funding — which was led by Santa Monica-based Plus Capital — will help his company build more connections with th … | Continue reading
Zenefits announced this week, it was making a licensing compliance app it created in-house to ensure its sales people are properly licensed to sell insurance in a given state, available for free to anyone to download from the Salesforce App Exchange. Last winter Zenefits was sail … | Continue reading
Sue Architekten has transformed an old outbuilding into a comfortable retreat in Wienerwald, Eichgraben, Austria. | Continue reading
The James River House was designed as a place for three young boys. Located near Scottsville, Virginia, this family weekend and vacation home | Continue reading
Rolf.fr made a design for a sculptural object inside the old coach house. Near the historic centre of Utrecht stands an old coach house. | Continue reading
The government of the state of Washington isn’t down with gamers gambling virtual items, and it has asked one of the primary companies enabling this practice to do everything it can to stop it. The Washington State Gambling Commission is telling Valve, the owner and operator of t … | Continue reading
With less than a month to go before its launch, momentum is continuing to build around the anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash.Source | Continue reading
The presentation and video recordings of the webinars organised by the PREFORMA project throughout September are now available online. The webinars introduced the PREFORMA project, updated participants on the current status of the conformance checkers, demonstrated the software, … | Continue reading
Though Sonos and Apple’s design ethos seem like they could go hand in hand, so far, you haven’t been able to purchase Sonos speakers from Apple Stores. That’s now changing. Starting today, you can buy the Sonos Play:1 and Play:5 at 468 of Apple’s retail locations. It’s a good mov … | Continue reading
A month ago, Bethesda announced that it was abandoning plans to add mod support to the PS4 versions of Fallout 4 and the upcoming remastered version of Skyrim. Today, however, the developer says that both games will be getting support for mods on Sony’s console.Previously, Bethes … | Continue reading
At one of the largest hardware events in Google’s history Tuesday, all software announcements made were around its Google Assistant, the new way to complete tasks and chat with the Google search engine. For now, Google Assistant is the only bot on Google Home or Pixel and Pixel X … | Continue reading
If you’re an executive at an industrial company, you’ve likely been grappling with the industrial Internet of Things (IoT). The rapid development of technologies that connect every part of our lives has moved from our smart phone to the jet engine. IoT’s emergence is causing lead … | Continue reading
WSJ "Middle Seat" columnist Scott McCartney reveals the results of his annual study of hotel rewards programs. He and Lunch Break host Tanya Rivero discuss the most generous programs and the vast differences among numerous hotel companies. Photo: Wyndham Hotel Group | Continue reading
If the control method for all your smart home technology has to be constantly charged or plugged in, it's going to limit your flexibility when it comes to setting things up. Panasonic, however, is looking to improve on that with its new wireless and batteryless switch technology … | Continue reading
Yesterday, a very aggressive and very secret surveillance operation was abruptly made public. According to an exclusive Reuters report, Yahoo complied with a government order last year asking the company to scan all incoming emails for a specific string of characters — effectivel … | Continue reading
Gavin Wood, founder of Ethcore, maintainers of Parity, Ethereum’s second most used client, has called for a hardfork stating that it would instantly fix “the underlying flaws that the attacker is exploiting.” For more than two weeks Ethereum has been undergoing a number of Dos at … | Continue reading
Those following my reviews will probably know that I really like the Football Manager franchise and most of its mobile versions. Last year's Football Manager Touch 2016 was probably my sports game of the year and a game I probably spent too much time playing. It's no wonder, then … | Continue reading
It isn’t quite as lovable as the spherical droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but this robot from Carnegie Mellon University has the benefit of being more than a special effect (however cool). And believe it or not, it basically has no moving parts. Read More | Continue reading
Happy Fall From MediaArea! What’s new in MediaConch 16.09, the latest release of the conformance checker for audiovisual files now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, the next appointments where you can meet MediaArea.net team (among which IPRES 2016 and the … | Continue reading
A year after it was acquired by Google, Pixate announced that it will be shuttering its mobile app development products on October 31. The team said it believes it can have a larger impact if it moved “beyond its scope.” While all of its products will be no longer supported, the … | Continue reading
During the live broadcast of today’s New Shepard flight test, one of the hosts let slip some enticing info for anyone interested in flying with Blue Origin in the future. Apparently, the passengers who fly on the New Shepard will get first dibs on tickets for the New Glenn, the h … | Continue reading
Here we go again.Just when it seemed like things were finally calming down and Samsung's Galaxy Note7 recall was going well, a new doomsday scenario popped up. A Baltimore-bound Southwest Airlines plane was evacuated while it was on the ground at the Louisville International Airp … | Continue reading
Samsung’s exploding battery woes aren’t over. According to initial reports from The Verge, a Southwest Airlines flight was grounded and evacuated this morning when a Galaxy Note 7 began smoking in a passenger’s pocket. The Note 7 issues are widely-known, and left Samsung footing … | Continue reading
Signing free agent Ish Smith as a backup point guard behind starter Reggie Jackson generated some buzz among the Detroit Pistons and their fan base. | Continue reading
There are a number of ways to save links from the web for later access, whether that’s marking articles to read later via apps like Instapaper or Pocket, pinning shopping inspiration to Pinterest, creating playlists on YouTube, or even just using a browser’s bookmarking feature. … | Continue reading
Studies have revealed that there’s a good reason why so marketers and brands are flocking to influencers. Find out how influencer marketing impacts performance. | Continue reading
Another Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught fire on airplane, and this time it was one of the replaced units Samsung has been shipping since late September. | Continue reading
Following the Brexit vote in June, there has been a significant drop in venture capital funding in London, prompting some to think that the city could lose its position as the FinTech capital. According to a report from the Financial Times, new figures released show that funding … | Continue reading
CRISPR, the gene-editing technology revolutionizing the biotech industry, has failed to take home the Nobel prize in chemistry for the second year in a row. Instead, the award went to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa – three men who developed the wo … | Continue reading
John Carmack is enough of a rock star in virtual reality circles to fill a room at a conference, even if all he is doing is just staring into a VR headset and criticizing apps. Carmack, an Oculus technologist who helped design a lot of the technology in the Samsung Gear VR, has b … | Continue reading
Brafton's picks of the best sessions for content marketers to have on their radars for ad:tech 2016. | Continue reading
Competition breeds progress, so it’s a bit thrilling to hear Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg say that he’s going to beat SpaceX to Mars in terms of delivering real humans to the surface of the red planet.Muilenburg said that he’s “convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will … | Continue reading
Virtual Reality is pretty convincing when you’re all jacked in and wired up — but even the best headsets today aren’t particularly sharp. Sharp, taking notice of this, has produced a display specifically for VR that’s double the resolution of what’s out there right now. Read More | Continue reading
People who used Fitbits cost their employer nearly 25 percent less in health care costs, according to a new study from Fitbit. At first blush this appears to be a tantalizing result for companies looking to save money, but a closer look shows that gains aren’t as dramatic as they … | Continue reading
Microsoft pushed a flawed update for Windows 10 last week that traps some systems in an endless boot loop. The company is already working on a fix, but Windows Insiders had reported the problem before the patch went live. | Continue reading
A National Security Agency contractor was arrested in August for the theft of classified material, which reportedly contained hacking codes for government systems in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. The charges against Harold Martin III, a 51-year-old contractor for Booz All … | Continue reading
At CES this year, T-Mobile’s outspoken CEO John Legere said people beings on Mars would ‘go insane trying to understand the stupid, broken, arrogant wireless industry.’ Seems he’s now trying to send someone there to explain it. After hitting the three million follower milestone o … | Continue reading
There are a lot of short films out there based on Stephen King's short stories, largely because of King's "dollar babies" program, which permits film students to pay a buck for the rights to make a non-commercial adaptation of one of King's short stories. But short films based on … | Continue reading
A site that doesn't work properly is a conversion killer. Conducting quality assurance (QA) means catching issues and finding friction before it's too late. | Continue reading
Chicken, peas, beef, sweet potatoes, and blueberries, the stuff of $40 meals in places like Hayes Valley and Greenwich Village — and starting today, also the stuff of dog food. Ollie, a new startup founded by Alex Douzet, Gabby Slome and Randy Jimenez is aimed squarely at disrupt … | Continue reading
With food technology and startups becoming a greater focus for an increasing number of investors, AccelFoods, the investment fund focused on new food brands, has announced its latest cohort of companies. Brami: is a New York-based company that has repurposed an ancient Roman sn … | Continue reading
CLEVELAND -- Former Cavaliers coach David Blatt has accepted a championship ring from the team despite being fired last season. | Continue reading
Google today said that it’s open-sourced Cartographer, a library for mapping movement in space in both 2D and 3D. the technology works with the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS), which makes the software easier to deploy in software systems for robots, self-driving cars, a … | Continue reading
Southwest Airlines has confirmed with TechCrunch that a flight from Louisville to Baltimore was evacuated while still at the gate after a device began to emit smoke. “All customers and crew deplaned safely via the main cabin door,” a representative explained. “Customers will be a … | Continue reading