According to a 2014 study by Google, 74 percent of leisure travelers relied on the internet for travel planning. That same study found that 77 percent of business travelers also started their journey online. Yet in many companies, booking travel still involves emailing or calling … | Continue reading
On Thursday, a Chinese navel vessel seized an underwater drone from a US Navy oceanographic research ship, which prompted a quick call from the Department of Defense to return the vehicle. After “direct engagement” between the two countries, China will return the vehicle to the U … | Continue reading
Gatebox AI is a departure from typical digital assistants. While the Google’s and Apple’s of the world scrutinize the minutiae for outside-the-box solutions to humanize their offerings, Gatebox said ‘fuck the box’ — perhaps literally — and shoved a blue-haired teen anime girl ins … | Continue reading
Sweden’s Stillfront Group, maker of games such as Call of War, has acquired Dubai-based Babil Games for $17 million. The deal shows that the Middle East and North African games market is becoming a significant market on the global stage of gaming. Babil was founded in 2012 and it … | Continue reading
When Niantic first showed a Pokemon Go app for Apple Watch back in September, the only sort of launch date the company would give was by “the end of the year.”As December 31st quickly approaches, PoGo fans are starting to wonder if Niantic will ship things in 2016 after all. With … | Continue reading
With the news of Groups coming to Snapchat, and Tinder coming to Apple TV, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week's list includes a darkroom-inspired photo app, an app that lets you dow … | Continue reading
South End Residence by Peter Braithwaite Studio is a bungalow house located in the historic South End of Halifax, Nova Scotia | Continue reading
Fyren House is a private residence designed by Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architect. The home is a beacon high atop the hillside | Continue reading
Bitcoin Transaction Fees have increased by more than 1,000% in USD terms this year according to Jameson Lopp, engineer at BitGo. | Continue reading
The year 2016 has been filled with multiple banks getting hacked. One of those intrusions has gone by virtually unnoticed. Turkey’s AKbank, one of the largest institutions in the country, may find themselves liable for up to $4m in damages. The bank suffered a major attack on the … | Continue reading
Waluigi is a strange fellow. Nintendo created him simply because Wario (the rude, evil counterpart of Mario) needed a tennis partner. He’s a lanky, maniacal stereotype of dastardliness. And we love him for it. But he’s probably not the first video game character you’d think of wh … | Continue reading
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has a pretty good sense of humor, but sometimes we can't tell when he's just joking or mulling his next big idea. For example, on Saturday Musk took to Twitter to say out loud what every traffic-plagued Los Angeles resident is silently screaming … | Continue reading
April Simpson has been living in the Queensbridge Houses, a public housing development in Queens, New York, her whole life. “From day one. I was born here,” she says, proudly.When she walks among the iconic six-story, red-brick buildings, passersby say hi to her and kiss her on t … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Cortana-powered Harman Kardon speaker may look a lot like the Amazon Echo, but Microsoft looks to have a few secret weapons up its sleeve. | Continue reading
Maingear and HP collaboration, the OMEN X is a good example of how far a consumer computer manufacturer will go to try and cater to a hard to please niche like PC gamers. Recently the latter has been doing a great job of appealing to different user needs with their Spectre line, … | Continue reading
Untuk memutihkan kulit, ada salah datu cara yang sudah biasa digunakan namun memiliki dampak yang luar biasa pada kulit. Ya, memutihkan kulit dengan lulur. Mengapa menggunakan lulur sebagai Cara alami memutihkan kulit? Karena lulu merupakan sarana yang praktis digunakan untuk mem … | Continue reading
The Bitcoin scalability debate has been going on for over a year new. Each time the topic arises, it ends in a stalemate. The Bitcoin community is currently divided between whether to use a hard fork or soft fork. While the Bitcoin Core developers are hell-bent on SegWit, not eve … | Continue reading
GUEST: Google first made waves in the hardware market when it purchased Motorola in 2011 for $12.5 billion. A company on the scale of Google getting involved in hardware put some established manufacturers on edge, though anxiety abated when Google later sold Motorola to Lenovo fo … | Continue reading
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is almost here, and there’s a lot of pressure riding on the film, as the first Star Wars universe spinoff movie that could either launch or kill the fledging “Star War Story” brand. But that hasn’t stopped fans from theorizing what the future spinoffs … | Continue reading
Germany isn’t confident Facebook can self-regulate its fake news problem. After announcing it was partnering with third-party fact-checkers earlier this week, Facebook now faces the possibility of massive fines for each piece of misinformation. The proposed legislation would levy … | Continue reading
When Apple's head of design speaks, Apple fans and design pros alike listen closely. Which is why a video promoting Apple's new book and starring Jony Ive is getting more attention than a normal product spot. SEE ALSO: An Apple fan just saved you $300 (Apple Book not included)Sin … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has already been recognized as the best performing currency of 2016. The digital currency’s price has been exhibiting a positive trend over the year. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin makes it immune to conventional market forces, which in turn makes it the best alterna … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, President-elect Trump met with some of the top leaders of American tech companies. Some of these leaders are trying to find common ground after being on the receiving end of some of his sharp-worded tweets.Like many of my friends in the tech community, I’m face … | Continue reading
Second Life is by far the most successful virtual world ever created. And with Project Sansar, the creators of Second Life believe at Linden Lab believe they can use virtual reality to create a far more immersive experience. Just as Second Life democratized the creation of virtua … | Continue reading
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“Silicon Valley is a state of mind,” said Ambassador Pedro Borio, Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco, during a recent address at the annual BayBrazil Conference. Borio spoke of the major growth in ties and similarities between Silicon Valley and Brazil over the last dec … | Continue reading
SPOILERS for Passengers (and Titanic) belowPassengers is a creepy, disturbing movie that’s different from James Cameron’s massively popular 1997 film Titanic in a lot of ways. But here’s the big one: Titanic features two decent characters who are consensually in love. Passengers … | Continue reading
Keegan Michael Key guesses which quotes were either said by a Bond villain or by a tech billionaire. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Elon Musk, Guess, Quotes, and James Bond | Continue reading
GUEST: Throughout history, Italy has been recognized as an excellence for creativity, style, and outstanding entrepreneurship. This creativity, however, hasn’t translated to tech startups. Italy trails behind every other major European country with an abysmal share of the overall … | Continue reading
The California Department of Motor Vehicles sent Uber a notice asking it to terminate its pilot self-driving car service in San Francisco last week, but Uber has continued to operate its vehicles in spite of that order. Now, the California State Department of Justice has followed … | Continue reading
When Ross Ulbricht was found guilty for administering the darknet marketplace known as the Silk Road, it marked the beginning of a campaign by supporters to at least lessen the then 30-year-old’s life sentence. | Continue reading
Multi-CEO and future builder Elon Musk may have been so frustrated by sitting in traffic that he’s going to start yet another company – a boring one. Yes, boring – as in boring tunnels, using machine diggers to create undercut routes to alleviate surface traffic.Musk tweeted Satu … | Continue reading
AT&T is offering buy-one-get-one free deals on several smartphones including the LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7. Switchers can also score $650 in bill credits. | Continue reading
I believe that these tweets, from the CEO of two major companies, speak for themselves:Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging...— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2016It shall be called "The Boring Company"— Elon Musk (@elon … | Continue reading
Biotech has been very hot this year as one of the fastest growing tech sectors as costs have plummeted, allowing innovation to speed up and bring us exciting innovations in health. But it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for investors. The many Theranos scandals became a prim … | Continue reading
Remember that first teaser for Rogue One? It had a lot of cool shots in it: Jyn walking into the hanger bay on Yavin IV, her declaration that she rebels and that iconic shot of her in her Imperial disguise? None of those were in the final cut of the film. Spoilers ahead for Rogue … | Continue reading
Ethereum classic (ETC) made a comeback this week, enjoying a surge in both price and hashrate after successive roadblocks.Source | Continue reading
Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. In October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally put some numbers onto these on … | Continue reading
I love that Amazon has decided to specialize in seriously artsy affairs when it comes to which films it buys, but I absolutely hate how long it takes for those films to go from theaters to digital rentals to actually playing on Amazon.At long last, The Neon Demon made its way to … | Continue reading
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Artificial intelligence (AI) had a coming out party of sorts in 2016. Even though it has been in development for decades, this year, with the perfect combination of cheap computing power and access to increasing amounts of data, it seems AI’s time has come. Its first foray in bus … | Continue reading
Many hotels offer USAToday for guests. Now guests at the Wynn Las Vegas will simply say, “Alexa, read today’s USAToday headlines.” I believe the future of any brand is directly tied to the experiences they design and deliver consistently through the customer lifecycle. It’s not j … | Continue reading
As always, a crazy amount — and we really mean a ton — of devices landed on our desks this year.Looking back, there weren't many unexpected surprises, which is kind of a bummer. In a way, most of the gadgets of 2016 were kind of boring.But not boring in the sense that they were a … | Continue reading
Akin Fernandez gives a passionate overview of the cryptocurrency industry's year – 12 months that he says prove "there can be only one bitcoin".Source | Continue reading
There’s a popular trend among brands these days, one that involves setting up an office near highly dense technological parts of a city. These so-called innovation centers have become outposts from which companies can observe emerging products and technologies to help them adapt … | Continue reading
Keegan Michael Key, one of the stars of the new movie 'Why Him?', guesses which quotes were either said by a Bond villain or by a tech billionaire.Subscribe for more like this: http://on.mash.to/SubscribeWatercooler'Homeland' Season 6 trailer definitely hits a little too close to … | Continue reading
Global warming has taken yet another thing from us: reindeer. The Christmas icons are shrinking because climate change has hurt their food access, researchers say, just in time for the start of the holidays.Every year since 1994, ecologists have gone up to the Arctic to measure t … | Continue reading
Das Tokyo Institute of Technology hat einen zwanzig Meter langen Roboterarm ausgetüftelt, der sagenhaft leicht ist: Er wiegt angeblich nur 1,2 Kilogramm, weil seine Struktur aus heliumgefüllten Ballons besteht. In diesen stecken zwanzig Gelenke,... | Continue reading