Google has confirmed that the Nexus 6 will get the Android 7.1.1 Nougat over-the-air update sometime in early January. | Continue reading
What could be inferred from Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s recent Twitter Q&A with people is that Bitcoin functionality tops the list of requested improvement to Airbnb. It was the number one requested improvement, even topping a loyalty scheme. The speculations about Airbnb adding Bi … | Continue reading
It’s also the time of year we start looking forward — making resolutions and plans for the new year. Today the Brand Newsroom team gazes into the crystal ball to see what 2017 might hold in the marketing and communications industry. Here are some key take-outs: It’s time to get y … | Continue reading
Every week, The Wall Street Journal publishes “My Ride,” a column that shines a spotlight on a love affair between a human being and their vehicle. Here are some of our favorites from 2016. Photo: Della Moyer | Continue reading
Tesla and Panasonic will build solar panels in SolarCity’s Buffalo, New York facility, Tesla announced today. Back in October, the two companies said they would build the panels if Tesla’s SolarCity acquisition was successful. The project won’t initially include the solar roof pr … | Continue reading
Some cracking games came out in 2016 - this year we've spent hours screaming about onions in Overcooked, contesting the payload in Overwatch and, of course, going on overwatch in XCOM 2. For all the great games we saw this year, however, there were many others that slipped quiet … | Continue reading
Portuguese studio Fala Atelier has completed the rehabilitation of a small windowless garage into a home. Garage House is located in Lisbon. | Continue reading
Michigan Lake House is a weekend retreat completed in 2016 by Desai Chia Architecture in collaboration with Environment Architects. | Continue reading
This Little Venice Apartment was designed by Shanade McAllister-Fisher Interior Design, a fresh and innovative London based design studio | Continue reading
Inside Outside house was designed by Sydney-based Amber Road Design. Blurring boundaries between the inside and out was essential. | Continue reading
Gain key statistics and insights from our content marketing fact sheet including research from IDC, Gartner and Forrester, among others. | Continue reading
Today, the world lost a brilliant actress, sharp wit, talented writer, champion for mental health, and cultural icon. Carrie Fisher was a legend, and if you need a reminder of why, look no further than her roasting Star Wars creator George Lucas. In 2005, The American Film Instit … | Continue reading
Gigabyte’s Brix brand has been around for a while, and now the company is launching another member of the Brix series, the BRIX-GZ1DTi7. And with the strange green mesh, oval cross section, and glowing LED lights, it’s another gaming PC that has me wondering why we can’t simply m … | Continue reading
Though Carrie Fisher will be most widely remembered for her iconic role as Star Wars’ Princess Leia, her career spanned five decades and half a dozen disciplines — she was a voice actor, screenwriter, live theatre performer, memoirist, novelist, and a fervent activist who spoke o … | Continue reading
Carrie Fisher, the beloved actress who played Princess Leia Organa Solo across four films and nearly 40 years of Star Wars has died today, at the age of 60. The post Carrie Fisher, iconic film heroine, has died at the age of 60 appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
As 2016 comes to a close, bitcoin development remains at a crossroads. Take the long-anticipated scaling solution, the Lightning Network. An open-source project that aims to boost bitcoin's capacity to millions of transactions per second (and by extension the technology's value), … | Continue reading
We have circled the sun once again. That means it's time to round up the best new Android apps that were released in 2016. It was a good year for apps. | Continue reading
SPOILERS FOR ROGUE ONE FOLLOWRogue One, the recently released Star Wars prequel, has tons of ties to the original films in the form of returning characters. Some, such as Mon Mothma or General Dodonn, were simply replaced by lookalikes. Others — like the brief cameos from Bail Or … | Continue reading
GUEST: The past few months were full of exciting announcements around two key topics: artificial intelligence and mobile messaging. Both have made significant leaps in progress, and together will make a very exciting year ahead for businesses. This year, Google announced Click-to … | Continue reading
Bitfury, the Bitcoin mining company has declined an offer from investors to purchase mined cryptocurrency in bulk. Read more... | Continue reading
We made hundreds of videos in 2016 — and we’re proud of all of them. But some videos just take on a life of their own; whether they’re deeply nostalgic or impossibly cutting edge, there’s some special witches’ brew of hard-to-replicate factors that leads certain videos to take of … | Continue reading
Rescue workers recovered the flight-data recorder, on Tuesday, from the Russian military plane that crashed on Sunday killing all 92 people on board. Photo: Rossiya One TV Channel photo via AP | Continue reading
Is your workspace filthy? WSJ's Michael Hsu has three simple fixes give your monitor, keyboard and mouse a quick but deep cleaning. Photo/Video: Carly Marsh/The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Guess what – Amazon sold a whole bunch of Echoes this holiday. Nine times as many as last year, according to its count. Of course, the company’s never been inclined to give specific numbers when it comes to this sort of thing, only revealing in a press release this morning that i … | Continue reading
Smartphone cameras are now shipping with manual modes to help you take better photographs. Here's how to make the mode of the extra settings. | Continue reading
Senso is an experimental glove peripheral that tracks individual fingers for virtual reality hand controls, while offering haptic feedback that includes vibration and temperature fluctuation. If you want the technical details, you should check out Road to VR’s solid and appropria … | Continue reading
AMD's Ryzen / Zen core is looking good in leaked benchmarks. For the first time in five years, an AMD-built CPU looks to be capable of competing against its Intel counterpart, even if Chipzilla maintains an overall advantage. The post New leaked benchmarks show AMD’s Ryzen going … | Continue reading
Every year, Christmas week brings in the highest number of new device activations and app installs. 2016 also had Hanukkah to help, but the main result was the same: Apple dominated the results. Just under half of device activations (44 percent) were for an Apple device this Chri … | Continue reading
It’s been a banner year for Alexa, Amazon’s AI assistant. Millions of Alexa-enabled devices were sold this holiday season, according to an announcement made by Amazon. And an estimate stated that more than 5 million Alexa-enabled devices were sold before the start of the holiday … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Market comparison tool Price.com announced today that it closed a $2 million investment to launch a “one-stop shop for finding savings and discovering the best deals online, on a mobile device, or in-store.” Price.com works in the background of ecommerce sites to show … | Continue reading
The 'Smart Remote' from 'Sevenhugs' adapts to whatever you point atusing Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and infrared command. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Kickstarter, Gadgets, Home Life, and Technology | Continue reading
A new, unconfirmed report claims that HMD Global plans to launch as many as four Nokia-branded Android phones in the second and third quarters of 2017. | Continue reading
They say that news is what happens to a writer on his way to the bathroom and I’ve recently discovered something fascinating. Alexa – and, to a degree, Siri and Google’s OK Google solution – have become indispensable additions to our home. The kids tell Alexa to turn on the light … | Continue reading
CLEVELAND (AP) -- LeBron James was jolted forward when the massive crowd swelled from the sidewalks and into Cleveland's streets, surrounding the convertible that he and his family were riding in | Continue reading
In 2016, we finally got high-end virtual reality headsets from Oculus, HTC, and Sony, but it was a yellow-electric rat and the adult-film industry that made the most noise when it comes to the next generation of computing platforms. Since most of the people who normally generate … | Continue reading
There's confusion surrounding President-elect Donald Trump's tax plan even before he takes office, namely the major differences that exist compared to the House GOP's plan. WSJ tax guru Richard Rubin puts it all in simple terms on Lunch Break. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Police in Bentonville, Arkansas are turning to Amazon to help prosecute a suspected murderer. The case, which was first spotted by The Information and goes back to 2015, shines a light on how smart home devices might start playing a larger role in future criminal investigations. … | Continue reading
A new rumor claims that the still unannounced BlackBerry Mercury Android phone, with its QWERTY hardware keyboard, will be sold by Verizon. | Continue reading
The holidays have come and gone and — as usual — Fitbit got a bit of a lifeline. Once again, everyone is buying Fitbits for gifts. We won’t know exactly how many, but if you just take a quick look at the download charts, Fitbit hit the top off the App Store (even in the presence … | Continue reading
MIAMI (AP) -- Josh McRoberts of the Miami Heat has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left foot, and the team says the oft-injured forward will be sidelined indefinitely. | Continue reading
[…]The post Microsoft Announces Availability of R3’s Corda Blockchain Platform on Azure appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia Organa in the Star Wars series, has died at age 60. Fisher suffered a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on Friday, according to TMZ. An EMT on board administered CPR until the flight landed, and she was rus … | Continue reading
Star Citizen has been ported to a new engine and will use Amazon's Lumberyard going forward. While engine ports usually substantially delay game development, there are specific issues in play that make that less likely here. The post Star Citizen developer Chris Roberts clarifies … | Continue reading
In 2017, tech companies will have to adapt to a new reality. President Trump and his cabinet of billionaires will shape government regulation for companies across the tech industry. And while pre-election, many thought markets would collapse with a Trump win, and post-election, m … | Continue reading
Twitter-Nutzer Darren Cauthon berichtet von einem genauso kuriosen wie ärgerlichen Erlebnis aus dem wunderbaren Internet der Dinge: Demnach legt eine bösartige Android-Malware die Familienglotze dauerhaft lahm, auf dem Bildschirm ist ein... | Continue reading
Jurassic World is one of the most successful movies in history, but what did it contribute to popular culture? You could make a case for Chris Pratt’s pithy one-liners and Bryce Dallas Howard’s superhuman sprint in heels as moments that nudged the industry yardsticks a few feet b … | Continue reading
Making excuse for breaking New Year’s resolutions used to be a hell of a lot simpler. Now that we’ve got social media for every life choice and are wearing our fitness levels on our wrists, there’s really no reason not to keep up. Which isn’t to say, of course, that we all couldn … | Continue reading
Sorry, Pillar of Autumn. This is a real starship. Halo 5’s Forge mode allows players to make their own levels, and some fans have gotten pretty creative. As a big Star Trek fan, I especially enjoy this creation by the YouTube channel Starship Forge of the Enterprise D from The Ne … | Continue reading