Al Jazeera English is launching a mobile game about the Syrian cyberwar. The company is debuting an interactive mobile app experience, dubbed #Hacked: Syria’s Electronic Armies, which takes the network’s investigative journalism and puts it into the format of a game. In #Hacked, … | Continue reading
NewsThe European Union and South Africa are strengthening their scientific collaboration in order to better understand and protect marine ecosystems and the link between oceans and climate.Date: 04/10/2016 - 02:00Rapid Press Release: Do Not Publish as Rapid Press ReleaseRead full … | Continue reading
Eighteen years after its initial launch, Google's influence over our everyday lives is so powerful that it's almost easy to forget what life was like pre-Google, or how we first stumbled upon it (more likely face-planted into it, like the Internet toddlers we were in the late 199 … | Continue reading
Google has announced that some of the cards grandfathered in from Google Wallet will stop working on Android Pay as of October 14th. | Continue reading
WhatsApp will soon look more like Snapchat.The messaging app introduced a set of new camera features Monday that allow you to add Snapchat-like doodles, emoji and text to your photos and videos.SEE ALSO: 5 Snapchat settings you should change right nowThe update is starting to rol … | Continue reading
Venture capitalist Mike Rothenberg and his firm are facing a lawsuit brought forth by the investor’s former chief of staff who alleges Rothenberg engaged in a “systematic and clandestine scheme” to properly pay wages to his employees. The plaintiff, Katie Fanelli, believes that t … | Continue reading
The infamous message board 4chan is struggling to stay afloat and will have to make changes to reduce costs, the site’s owner wrote in a post on Sunday. "4chan can't afford infrastructure costs, network fee, servers cost, CDN and etc, now," writes Hiroyuki Nisimura, who bought th … | Continue reading
Amazon updated its community guidelines today to prohibit so-called "incentivized reviews," which are customer reviews of a product that was received for free or at a discount in exchange for an online write-up. The company says these types of reviews make up a tiny fraction of o … | Continue reading
Google’s biggest hardware event of the year kicks offs at 9 a.m. Pacific (12 p.m. Eastern) on October 4 in San Francisco. Rumor has it Google will unveil as many as six new products at the event — from “Pixel” smartphones to a full-fledged Amazon Echo competitor. We may even see … | Continue reading
MIAMI (AP) Wayne Ellington is standing in a room filled with hundreds of high school students, all of them silent and hanging on every word that the new Miami Heat guard is saying. | Continue reading
Multiple sources are reporting that Google's answer to Gear VR, Daydream, will see its first headset unveiled tomorrow with a price of $79. | Continue reading
Some gamers are encountering issues trying to connect to Sony’s gaming service today. PlayStation Network is down for some, according to complaints from gamers on social media and internet forums. This is not a widespread outage, but it is causing connection and matchmaking issue … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SC6-REV-INEQUAL-2016-2017Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016Latest information: The submission session is now available for: REV-INEQUAL-09-2017(CSA), REV-INEQUAL-12- … | Continue reading
Facebook properties copying Snapchat features is nothing new. Instagram and Messenger copied Snapchat’s ‘Stories’ feature, so it only seems appropriate that Facebook-owned WhatsApp would completely snag its photo interface. The new features allow users to add emoji, drawn on imag … | Continue reading
WhatsApp has brought its new image doodling feature from the beta version of its chat app to the pubic Android release, with iOS support coming soon. The feature, which lets you perform Snapchat-style drawing on top of images and videos you send in WhatsApp, was first introduced … | Continue reading
Last month, we reported that Rover was closing a $40 million round. Looks like the deal has closed — the pet-sitting startup announced today that it has raised, yep, $40 million in Series E in funding.The round was led by Foundry Group and Menlo Ventures, with participation from … | Continue reading
The island of Jersey is a pleasant, tranquil place known for its rocky beaches, soothing waves, and oh yeah… It’s loose tax regulations and growing Fintech arena. Over the past two years, arrays of financial and tech-related companies have looked to Jersey as a potential home tha … | Continue reading
The FAA released some staggering numbers as it welcomed Part 107, otherwise known as the rules governing the commercial drone industry in the U.S.: Within one year, they estimate 600,000 drones will be active in commerce in the U.S. But where are the pilots coming from, and what … | Continue reading
A study from Cambridge University documents an immense drop in complaints against police officers when their departments began using body cameras. But even more surprising is that the data suggests everyone is on their best behavior whether the cameras are present or not. Read Mo … | Continue reading
Since Google was founded in 1998, the company has done a great deal for the world of technology.But while there have been some clear successes like Chromecast and Chromebooks, the company has made several attempts to blow our minds that have straight up failed.In hopes of a brigh … | Continue reading
Streaming devices — boxes, dongles and more — are everywhere, now in more than half of American households. From Apple to Google to Amazon, virtually all the major tech companies offer a device for streaming video to a TV.Now add to that list Xiaomi, China's fast-rising smartphon … | Continue reading
Amazon reviews are bullshit. Many of the star-ratings are legitimate and should be taken for what they are — honest reviews from independent buyers. Others, however, use pay-for-play techniques that see sellers incentivizing reviewers with free or reduced-cost merchandise in exch … | Continue reading
Let’s face it. Our country is not the land of equal opportunity, and the so-called American Dream — that everyone can succeed with hard work and determination — is a myth. The existence of systemic racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and anti- … | Continue reading
Instagram isn’t just an outlet for the selfie-obsessed. The photo-sharing site is now a bona fide social media juggernaut — with recent statistics revealing that Instagram now has more than 500 million users. Some 300 million of those log in daily. What’s more, 80 per cent of Ins … | Continue reading
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Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe led the successful opposition to the peace treaty signed by his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, and the Marxist guerilla group FARC. Now Mr. Uribe is set to play a central role in shaping what will happen next. Photo: John Vizcaino/REUTERS | Continue reading
The Nature of Business program focuses on what leaders can learn from our biosphere and how we can apply that learning to better run our businesses. | Continue reading
Every member of the Facebook family of apps is pushing to bring copies of Snapchat’s best features to international audiences before Snapchat blows up abroad. There was the Facebook Camera Feed, Instagram Stories and Messenger Day — and now WhatsApp is cloning Snapchat’s creative … | Continue reading
While the audience for live broadcast television programming has been steadily shrinking over the last few years, there was one bastion of strength that had consistently bucked this trend: the NFL. For the last 10 years, viewership of NFL games continued to grow and grow — until … | Continue reading
GUEST: The shift in the startup world from apps to A.I. is, in essence, moving from making tools to making people. An app enabled a user to perform a function; at its heart it is DIY. Therefore, apps can be judged by their utility. Does the app help the user solve their problem? … | Continue reading
While it may be something of an unknown quality to some of the younger readers here, the 194x series by Capcom is beloved by many for being home of some classic 80s shoot-em-up titles. However, its reputation on iOS is far from stellar - even those with the strongest rose-tinted … | Continue reading
Salesforce has made yet another acquisition, once again to build out its footprint in marketing and ad tech. The company has just confirmed that it is buying Krux, a company that tracks traffic (“data signatures”) across multiple devices –desktop, mobile, tablet, set-top — and ch … | Continue reading
Stu McLaren, an expert on the membership-based business model, joins us to answer questions about launching, marketing, and managing a membership site. | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton mocked rival Donald Trump’s business acumen Monday and said he was getting a free ride on the backs of tax-paying working people, as she addressed the weekend leak of his tax documents for the first time. Photo: Reuters | Continue reading
Today, food and agriculture entrepreneurs took the stage at the White House lawn for SXSL 2016 to discuss the potential and limits of technology to feed a burgeoning world population. According to the most recent available estimates from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Or … | Continue reading
Not feeling well? Exhibiting some specific symptoms? Think you’ve got the Zika virus?The Gyant health bot wants to diagnose your illness and based on your answers give a percentage of likelihood that you have an ulcer, the Zika virus, or a fever. Here are the five most popular bo … | Continue reading
Tinhouse is located on the northwestern tip of the Isle of Skye, on a steeply sloping site overlooking The Minch, the body of water .... | Continue reading
Landskrona Townhouse is a contemporary nordic home designed by Swedish architect Elding Oscarson. The narrow site is sandwiched between ... | Continue reading
Mews House Notting Hill is a renovation project completed by Louise Holt Interior Design in collaboration with James Lambert Architects. | Continue reading
WhatsApp is jumping on the Messenger, Instagram, and Snapchat bandwagon with the launch of new camera features that lets you further personalize your photos and videos. Users can now write, draw, and even add emojis to their media, not to mention take selfies after WhatsApp added … | Continue reading
Faraday Future, the well-funded electric vehicle startup, is partnering with LG for the lithium-ion battery cells in its upcoming EVs. LG makes batteries for a number of electric vehicles including the 60kWh pack in the Chevy Bolt, which should hit dealers late this year.LG and F … | Continue reading
A dramatic triangular wood-beam ceiling gives this Venice bungalow the feel of a fancy attic. Outside, the home takes on an artsy vibe. | Continue reading
Contemporary barn conversion located in a beautiful and scenic five acre plot nestled within the Wiltshire countryside, South West England. | Continue reading
In an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde spoke with economics editor Sudeep Reddy about the impact technology and automation could have on the global economy and jobs. | Continue reading
Microsoft search engine Bing has new functionality for esports. Users can get information about specific tournaments through the site. This is another example of the world trying to take advantage of a growing competitive gaming market, which intelligence firm Newzoo projects wil … | Continue reading
As the banks and financial institutions from across the world shows interest in Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology, one particular bank, UBS has gone extra lengths to make the distributed ledger technology work for banking operations. The global investment bank based out … | Continue reading
A newly formed coalition of over 50 prominent lawyers in the United States will help digital currency users – individuals – who are unable to afford legal services, with pro bono attorney referrals. A new coalition, called the Digital Currency and Ledger Defense Coalition (DCLDC … | Continue reading
As we reported in September, iTunes has today launched a new section called “Spoken Editions,” which will feature narrated content from a number of online publishers in the form of audio-only podcasts. These Spoken Editions are available both in the iTunes storefront, as well as … | Continue reading