Avoid the startup graveyard

The startup world moves at breakneck speed — what’s hot one minute is old news the next, and it can feel like the rules of the game change every day. For successful startups, rapid growth often attracts the attention of incubators and accelerators. However, there are other option … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Is the Novel Dead? Part One

In this edition of The Writer Files, two writers join Kelton to opine the death of one of the most influential forms in the history of the written word. | Continue reading


@copyblogger.com | 8 years ago

Facebook At Work is launching next month

Facebook is ready to make work as addictive as socializing. The company plans to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network Facebook At Work in the next few weeks on a per seat pricing model, The Information first reported and a source close to Facebook confirm … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Twitter introduces Periscope VIP program to incentivize broadcasters

Twitter-owned Periscope on Tuesday introduced a VIP program aimed at supporting the most ardent broadcasters of its livestreaming platform. Through continued usage and engagement, the company promises additional resources to creators that’ll help increase the quality of their con … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

SpaceX unveils the Interplanetary Transport System, a spaceship and rocket to colonize Mars

Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released a video that details its long-awaited "Interplanetary Transport System." The video was published less than an hour before CEO Elon Musk was scheduled to detail the system at the International Astronautical Conference in Guadalajara, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

SpaceX shows off its Interplanetary Transport System in new video

SpaceX has released a new video showing a CG concept of its Interplanetary Transport System, the rocket and spacecraft combo it plans to use to colonize Mars. The video depicts a reusable rocket that can get the interplanetary spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and a craft that use … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

This website turns your photographic genius into crayon wall art

Much like one of our favorite applications, Prisma, ColorWorks is meant to create unique masterpieces out of your digital work. While Prisma takes a digital approach through use of really amazing artificial intelligence and filters, ColorWorks’ approach is decidedly more analog — … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Mavic Pro, DJI's first foldable drone, is the size of a water bottle

NEW YORK CITY — Even as the world of available public drone fly space shrinks, DJI continues to innovate, hoping to find new ways to attract drone customers and encourage them to fly — even indoors.The small, smart, foldable Mavic Pro, which DJI unveiled on Tuesday, is the compan … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Edward Snowden's favorite messaging app is now on desktop

The ultra-secure messaging app favored by Edward Snowden and many security analysts has finally landed on desktop. Signal, the app made by the same organization that powers the encryption in WhatsApp and other services, now has a dedicated desktop experience for its iPhone users. … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Facebook ordered to stop harvesting data on WhatsApp users in Germany

Facebook has been ordered to stop harvesting the data of WhatsApp users in Germany. The move follows the latter’s shock announcement last month that it would start sharing user data from its messaging platform with parent company, Facebook, including users’ phone numbers and last … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Nissan’s autonomous chair is your line waiting buddy

Nissan”s ProPILOT tech might mostly be used to help provide its cars with autonomous driving features, but a new project puts it into a chair. Yes, a chair. The chair propels itself, detecting the chair ahead of it and keeping a fixed distance between itself and its neighbor, as … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Weihnachten: Ohne 3D-Drucker fürs Kinderzimmer

Eigentlich wollte Mattel zu Weihnachten einen kindgerechten 3D-Drucker bringen, den ThingMaker 3D, der per Smartphone gesteuert bunte Plastikfigürchen ins Kinderzimmer zaubern sollte - bei einem angepeilten Preis von 300 Dollar beileibe kein Schnäppchen,... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 8 years ago

Popular dungeon crawler Looty Dungeon finally comes to Android

Thanks to Crossy Road publisher Yodo1, Looty Dungeon has finally made its way to Android! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

#7 Przepisy na jedną rękę: zupa dyniowa potrójnie kokosowa (+ wersja dla najmłodszych)

Jesień bez szarego swetra to nie jesień.Jesień bez kasztanów w kieszeni to nie jesień.Jesień bez zupy dyniowej to nie jesień.W tym roku króluje u mnie pikantna zupa z mocnym akcentem kokosa. Kokos uderza tu trzy razy: zaczynam od oleju, potem dolewam mleko kokosowe, a na końcu po … | Continue reading


@strawberriesfrompoland.blogspot.de | 8 years ago

Kick-off meeting in Spoleto

Last 7th and 8th of September 2016 the kick-off meeting of the project was held in Spoleto (Italy). The meeting was attended by representatives of the Italian and Slovenian partners. … | Continue reading


@acrosslombardslands.eu | 8 years ago

R3, Banks, Fintech Startups Test Blockchain Platform for Syndicated Loans

A group of banks, the R3 blockchain consortium and Fintech startup Symbiont have created completed the trail of a proof of concept blockchain simulating an exchange of syndicated loans. An increasing number of financial instruments are being tested, successfully, for transfers an … | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 8 years ago

Opinion Journal: Bill McGurn’s Debate Analysis

Former White House Speechwriter and Main Street Columnist Bill McGurn evaluates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s performance at the first presidential debate. Photo credit: Getty Images. | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 8 years ago

Square Enix’s Flame x Blaze is a mobile MOBA that will take on Vainglory

I know you thought the deluge of League of Legends clones from big publishers was over, but you thought wrong. Square Enix is working on Flame x Blaze, a new multiplayer online arena battler for smartphones and tablets. It’s heading into a testing phase soon. Like popular mobile … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Record labels sue popular YouTube audio-ripping site

A group of record labels, including UMG, Sony Music, and Warner Bros., have filed a copyright infringement claim against a YouTube stream-ripping website, the BBC reports. The website, youtube-mp3.org, converts YouTube streams to mp3 audio files. The Recording Industry Associatio … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Currency Settlement Service CLS Reveals Big Blockchain Ambitions

CLS is working with IBM to build a blockchain platform for payments netting.Source | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

Udacity wants to get you a job in the nascent VR industry

Udacity – the online school started by Google X founder and self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun— is offering a new “nanodegree” online to prepare students for jobs in the still emerging industry of virtual reality.Udacity promises to give online learners with no prior progra … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation

Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts those translations about 18 million times a day. Google is also publishing an ac … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Udacity launches VR Developer nanodegree in partnership with Google, HTC, and Upload

Online education platform Udacity has teamed up with a number of key players in the virtual reality (VR) realm to launch a course specifically for budding VR developers. With the VR Developer Nanodegree, students will delve into 3D environments and learn how to make the VR experi … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

7 Powerful Content Strategies Borrowed from Advertising Masters

In this episode of Copyblogger FM, Sonia drills into specific techniques and approaches that we can swipe from our direct response brothers and sisters. | Continue reading


@copyblogger.com | 8 years ago

Twitter’s new feature makes it dead simple to register to vote

To celebrate National Voter Registration Day, Twitter has announced a new feature that makes it it easier than ever for US residents to register to vote in the presidential election. Starting today, when a Twitter user sends a Direct Message to the official @Gov account with thei … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

What do you get when you add AI to an egg timer?

The HelloEgg is a voice-activated kitchen assistant from RnD64 that looks to combine the functionality of an Amazon Echo and an egg timer in a single device. Continue reading… | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Watch this robot butler deliver cookies to an unsuspecting hotel guest

This is a future we can all believe in — friendly robots coming to your hotel room to deliver food. However, the robot has been around in prototype form for a while — since 2014, to be precise. The friendly moving bucket is the Google Ventures-backed Savioke Relay, a helper robot … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Gusto rushes to release new features ahead of rival Zenefits

In the world of HR and payment software, things are heating up this fall. In the one corner: Zenefits, the high-flying software company that admitted to having an array of compliance issues and that asked its cofounder to resign as CEO earlier this year. The company has been heav … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

How two network comedies about death teach us to live a better life

In case you haven’t heard, 2016 is the worst year ever. That certainly sounds true, as far as manifestos that can be condensed down to five words and a number go. The evidence is certainly abundant in tragedies, election updates, a peppering of celebrity divorces and deaths. In … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Messlatte: Alle iPhones im knackigen Vergleichstest

Der YouTube-Kanal Everything Apple Pro hat sich alle iPhones aus der Geschichte von 2007 bis heute zu einem ultimativen Vergleichstest vorgenommen. Starten, öffnen von Apps, Benchmarks – wie schlägt sich das allererste iPhone im Vergleich... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 8 years ago

Channel 4 to host event for series two of Humans

Broadcaster Channel 4 is staging an exclusive Humans launch party to promote the second series of its drama focusing on a world in which lifelike androids - synthetic humans, or synths exist. | Continue reading


@eventmagazine.co.uk | 8 years ago

Bitcoin Price Watch; Here Are Tonight’s Scalps

So that’s the end of another day in the bitcoin price, and it’s time to take a look at what happened today and what we are going for this evening. As we mentioned this morning, things were pretty flat overnight, and we were hoping that we might see some volatility during today’s … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Google Chrome gets Data Saver for video, a new downloads experience and more

Today Google has announced a number of new features making their way to Chrome that will help you save more data, download things for offline viewing, and discover personalized content. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Twitter will now help you register to vote, answer voter questions via direct message

Twitter today is the latest tech company to join the push to get more Americans registered to vote. The company is rolling out a new feature that will allow you to direct message the company’s @Gov Twitter account in order to receive voter registration assistance over private mes … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Grand Theft Auto Online’s Biker gangs roar into town October 4

You can finally start that digital motorcycle gang you always dreamed of. Developer Rockstar Games noted on its site today that the Bikers downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto Online will become available as part of an automatic update on October 4 for PlayStation 4, Xbox On … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

A.I. can cure click fraud’s $100 million problem, and it won’t steal your job

IBM Watson isn’t just about beating humans at Jeopardy or recognizing English conversational speech with a meager 6.9 percent word error rate. It is part of a new breed of A.I. solutions that could change the way we do business forever. Fresh from the stage at NASDAQ Marketsite — … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Honeywell is introducing another HomeKit-compatible smart thermostat

Honeywell introduced a new version of its Lyric smart thermostat at CES this year, and less than a year later it’s already bringing us another iteration. The new Lyric T5 Wi-Fi thermostat is similar to its CES brethren in that it’s controlled through Honeywell’s Lyric app, is com … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

E-Infrastructures

Identifier: H2020-EINFRA-2016-2017Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016Latest information: 1 proposal was submitted to call H2020-EINFRA-2016-2, which closed on 20 September 2016. | Continue reading


@ec.europa.eu | 8 years ago

Amazon could be working on in-home package deliveries

Amazon’s delivery prowess is impressive; just today, it announced free Prime same-day delivery for my home city of Toronto, and the speed and consistency with which they hit their deadlines is astounding. For Amazon’s next act, it might one-up itself by arranging to leave your pa … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Inside Google's plan to conquer India's internet users

For its next act in making its services more accessible and relevant to Indians, Google announced a fleet of improvements today that it hopes will fix two big challenges among Indians — slow internet connections and language barrier.SEE ALSO: India will have 730 million internet … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

DJI intros a pair of goggles to go along with its new drone

DJI’s little drone wasn’t its only big news from today’s Mavic Pro unveil event in New York City. The company also devoted a few moments of stage time to its new simply-titled video wearable, Goggles. The on-the-nose name offers up the basics of what you need to know about the ne … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Review: Status Audio’s budget-friendly headphones sound too good for their price

As a tech journalist, I’m lucky enough to review a lot of expensive headphones, and try out even more. I like most of what I test – it’s really hard to find bad headphones nowadays – but it’s rare that I’m truly impressed. Enter Status Audio, a small Brooklyn-based company that’s … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Enterprise chat app Slack ties up with Salesforce in a deep platform partnership

Slack — the popular enterprise chat app that now has 3 million users, 930,000 of them paying — is adding in another key integration as it continues to get more embedded with its customers. Today the company is turning on what it describes as a “deep product partnership” with Sale … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

NBA Live on mobile gets new graphics and user-interface for 2016-2017 season

Mobile basketball is going for a three-pointer. Electronic Arts announced today that it has updated its NBA Live mobile game, available as a free-to-play app for iOS and Android devices. While it gets Live ready for the upcoming 2016-2017 NBA season, the update also improves the … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Gusto adds HR features to its payroll and benefits platform after hitting 40,000 users

Gusto, the company formerly known as ZenPayroll, has come a long way in the past three and a-half years. After its early focus on simplifying the payroll process for businesses, it expanded into providing assistance with employee benefits. Today, it has announced the next step in … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

DJI unveils its first foldable drone: the $999 Mavic Pro, launching October 15

Hot off the reveal of GoPro’s first drone — the foldable Karma — DJI is revealing its own super-portable drone today: the Mavic Pro. The high-end drone company has priced the Mavic Pro, its first foldable drone, at $999. The drone features a 4.3 mile-range, 4K camera, and can be … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: ScaleArc, Spotify, Aerospike, Scalyr, Gusto, VividCortex, MemSQL, InMemory.Net, Zohocorp

Who's Hiring? Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Marketing as Worldbuilding: The Links

I know, I know. I piled on the tips and tools. It’s OK!!!! Here are the links, related content and slides from my Marketing Worldbuilding talk: 30 Tips For Better Content If you want a bunch of ideas for creating better places, check out this presentation and links Google Trends … | Continue reading


@portent.com | 8 years ago