Draymond Green believes lower-tier NBA players deserve more

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Draymond Green is speaking up for all the backups and role players of the NBA world. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Cavaliers lose reserve center Chris Andersen to torn ACL

Cleveland Cavaliers center Chris Andersen suffered a non-contact right knee injury today during practice at Cleveland Clinic Courts. After undergoing evaluation at the facility, an MRI administered at Cleveland Clinic Sports Health by team physician Dr. Richard Parker confirmed t … | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Tesla introduces fee for lazy owners who leave their cars at Supercharger stations

There’s nothing like driving your nearly-empty Tesla up to a Supercharger station for a top-up and finding every spot taken by other cars — probably all charged up and ready to go. Where are their drivers? How dare they? Tesla shares your anger and will soothe it by giving those … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Washington Post launches Chrome plug-in to fact-check Trump on Twitter

Proving even traditional media is capable of having fun, The Washington Post today released a plugin designed to fact-check our President-elect. ‘RealDonaldContext’ is a Chrome plugin that scours Trump’s tweets and adds fact-check summaries beneath them. As for what’s deemed inac … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

4k drone footage shows just how far Apple’s new ‘Spaceship’ campus has come

Apple’s Spaceship campus is still a long way from complete, but this amazing time lapse shows just how far it’s come — especially when you compare it to a similar one from 2014. After breaking ground at the end of 2013, we’re now at the end of its third year of construction with … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Weekly Roundup: Trump meets with tech leaders, Yahoo suffers another massive hack

This week, one could play Super Mario Run on iOS in a self-driving Uber if you lived in San Francisco. You could have also broadcast it live on Instagram or Snapchatted it to a group for the first time. These are the top stories in tech from this week, all in one place. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The creator of Mr. Robot is adapting sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis as a miniseries

Sam Esmail, the celebrated auteur behind the cybersecurity drama Mr. Robot, is working to adapt the 1927 Fritz Lang film Metropolis as a miniseries, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. The project is in the very early stages of development, the report says, and it’ … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Ecco the Dolphin creator settles lawsuit with Sega, possibly paving way for series’ rebirth

Ed Annunziata has settled a lawsuit with video game publisher Sega over the ownership of the Ecco the Dolphin series. That’s an interesting development that could pave the way for the rebirth of the franchise, which Sega brought to its game consoles starting in 1992. Annunziata f … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Tesla owners who leave cars at Superchargers after charging will pay $0.40/minute

Tesla will begin charging owners who leave their cars at Supercharger stations after they have completed charging, the company announced today. The new fee is an attempt to increase turnover at the charging stations, which have become increasingly congested as more Teslas are sol … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Watch us play Oculus Touch games like VR Sports Challenge and I Expect You to Die

I’m still digging the Oculus Touch controllers that Facebook’s VR subsidiary launched earlier this month, and that’s not only because they make me feel like a football player. I broadcasted some Oculus Touch gameplay recently, and I want to share it with you. In the video below, … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Lenovo planning another Tango-enabled device for 2017

Lenovo is planning on launching another Project Tango capable device in 2017, securing a strategic place in the new augmented reality space. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Blizzard apologises for Mei's divisive winter wardrobe

Overwatch's new Winter Wonderland event sought to highlight fan-favourite climatologist Mei by giving the character her own Snowball Offensive mode, but Blizzard's good intentions backfired as the developer saddled her seasonal content with a disappointingly lackluster Legendary … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Google Maps now notes if a location is wheelchair accessible

“Can I get in the building?” It might not be a question you find yourself asking regularly — but for the 3 million+ wheelchair users in the U.S., it’s a question that has to be considered. And starting now, it’s one that Google Maps is trying to help answer. “Wheelchair accessibl … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Uber continues self-driving vehicle testing in SF in defiance of DMV

Uber won’t stop operating self-driving vehicles in San Francisco, despite an order from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to do just that. The DMV says Uber needs a permit to test its autonomous vehicles, but Uber argues that its vehicles aren’t autonomous at all and th … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Uber is stubbornly refusing to apply for a $150 permit for its self-driving cars

Uber is sticking to its guns in refusing to apply for a $150 permit that the California Department of Motor Vehicles says it needs to operate self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco. In a conference call with reporters convened late Friday afternoon, Anthony , VP of Ub … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Airbnb authorizes $153 million more funding

A new Delaware filing for Airbnb, identified by CB Insights, suggests that the travel service has authorized another $153 million in Series F shares. This implies that they might be raising an extension to their financing $555 million round from a few months back. The filing pric … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Gusto launches survey tool to help companies measure employee happiness

At its core, Gusto wants to be a people platform, service businesses will want to rely on for anything relating to their employees. The company once known as ZenPayroll once centered on processing payroll, but has since expanded into managing health benefits and human resources. … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Apple, Google, and Uber join list of tech companies refusing to build Muslim registry

Apple, Google, and Uber have all broken their respective silences on whether they would participate in helping build a Muslim registry for the incoming Trump administration, BuzzFeed reports. In a statement issued today, an Apple spokesperson said, “We think people should be trea … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Vine app will be paired down and relaunched as Vine Camera in January

Twitter's Vine app won't shut down completely after all. Instead, the six-second video app will be relaunched as a pared down Vine Camera app in January | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

The relevance of media-streaming startups

Times have changed, but public demand for innovative new access to entertainment hasn’t. Internet access and social networks have given consumers more options. Consumers, in turn, have started to play a bigger role in shaping the market. Now that we’re at a point where the entert … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

R.I.P., Bulbulicious

Borjomi “Bulbulicious” † April 2007 – 16 December 2016 She was the closest to a daughter that I shall have in this lifetime, and indeed I proudly state that she was undeniably a daughter of mine. She liked to stay up at night and sleep late. She was into everything. She dabbled i … | Continue reading


@finchwench.wordpress.com | 7 years ago

This psychedelic NASA video shows how CO2 spreads in the atmosphere

NASA used satellite measurements of carbon dioxide to create a startling new 3D video that shows how the greenhouse gas moves through Earth’s atmosphere. In a little over a minute, you can see CO2... | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Super Mario Runs past Pokémon GO's download record

After its iOS launch yesterday Super Mario Run is doing the business on the App Store, where it's on track to smash Pokémon GO's record of 5.6m downloads in… | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Overstock Just Closed its First Day of Blockchain Stock Trading

Overstock's CEO marks the end of the first ever day of blockchain trading with an unusual offer to the SEC.Source | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 7 years ago

Self-driving Chevy Bolts will hit Michigan streets soon

In light of the recent passage of the most lax autonomous car laws in the U.S., the streets of Michigan will likely soon be the among the most common places to test self-driving cars. First up: GM, which announced that it will immediately begin testing its line of autonomous Chev … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

AWS launches enterprise tier of its QuickSight business intelligence tool

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the availability of an enterprise tier of its Amazon QuickSight cloud software for business intelligence (BI). AWS launched QuickSight out of preview last month after introducing it a year ago. The new … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

FBI backs up CIA: Russia intervened to help Trump win 2016 election

FBI Director James Comey today threw his weight behind a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election. According to CIA Director John Brennan: Earlier this week, I met separately with (Director) FBI James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is strong consensus amon … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Tickle experiments prove rats’ ears look different when they’re happy

Rats can’t talk, but researchers say there is one easy way to tell if they’re happy: look at their ears. A group of Swiss scientists tickled rats to make them happy for science, in a delightful study published recently in the journal PLoS One. The researchers took photos of the h … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Motorola’s hackathon-winning Moto Mods include a gamepad and skin-care monitor

You’ve got to hand it to Motorola, the smartphone maker does appear committed to its nascent modular smartphone offering. The company launched the Moto Z back in July, alongside four magnetic backings — a projector, a set of JBL speakers, a battery pack and protective casing. Sin … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

3 Reasons Why Your Calls to Action Could be Hearing Crickets

Why is it important to have a call to action (CTA) in every step of the inbound sales funnel? | Continue reading


@sproutcontent.com | 7 years ago

‘Rogue One’ transports viewers to a bigger Star Wars universe

For months, I insisted that I wasn’t going to see Rogue One. I was kind of a whiner about it: Yes, I did see The Force Awakens, and yes, I mostly liked it, but I kept telling friends that I didn’t need to buy a ticket to a new Star Wars movie every year for the rest of my life. I … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Rogue lawyers made $6 million shaking down porn pirates, Feds say

The copyright violation notice is every pirate’s worst nightmare, a clear legal sign that a major copyright holder knows what you’ve been torrenting and is ready to make you pay for your crimes. But according to an indictment filed today in Minnesota federal court, that system ha … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Have you considered a pocket-sized PC as a stocking stuffer?

The Ockel Sirius B is a fully fledged PC computer that runs Windows 10... but it's small enough to fit in your pocket. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Bitcoin Prices Fluctuate Around $780

Bitcoin prices repeatedly surpassed $780 on 16th December, fluctuating within a very close range of this price for several hours. Source | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 7 years ago

Obama: Trump Should Deal Cautiously With China

President Obama said while it's good for a new president to look at foreign policy with "fresh eyes," he cautioned President-elect Donald Trump to know all of the consequences before upending policy on China and Taiwan. Photo: Getty | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 7 years ago

10 Things I Thought About in 2016 that Will Still Matter in 2017

  Today I was thinking about a website that I go to, from time to time called Quotes on Design. What’s cool is that you can constantly refresh the page for a new quote on design. That th… | Continue reading


@directmarketingobservations.com | 7 years ago

Someone tweeted a seizure-inducing animation at a Vanity Fair editor with epilepsy

Yesterday, an anonymous Twitter user targeted Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald with a tweet meant to trigger a seizure, the writer revealed this morning. Eichenwald has epilepsy, and the tweeted strobe successfully caused him to seize. Now, he’ll be coordinating wi … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Trivago closes up 8% in public debut

Hotel search site Trivago went public on Friday, after separating from Expedia. The company priced its shares at $11 and closed the day at $11.85, up 7.73 percent.But this was after pricing at $11 per share, below the $13 to $15 range that had been forecast. The company raised $2 … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Good news: Vine will survive, but it wont be the same

The internet shed a collective tear when Vine announced it is shutting down, but all hope is not lost. Vine will survive, but only as a camera app, not a social network. The company took to its Medium blog today to announce that in January, the app will be transitioned to a “pare … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

4chan trolls want to ‘quell’ anti-Trump dissent by shutting down DIY venues and art spaces

4chan users on the “Politically Incorrect” /pol/ board are attempting to shut down DIY venues and art spaces in the wake of Oakland’s Ghost Ship fire, Vice’s Thump reports.Thump quotes one 4chan user who, in a thread that has since expired, asked others to report spaces like Ghos … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google is giving out Pixel holiday sweaters at their NYC pop-up

Google is creating custom holiday sweaters for anyone that shows up to their New York City popup with a Pixel or Pixel XL. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

If Yahoo deal fails, Verizon might want to buy Twitter or Yelp

With Verizon’s $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo in danger of being cancelled after two major hacking incidents, analysts are starting to look at what else the telecom giant could do to bolster its digital advertising strategy. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is trying to build an onli … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Newegg is offering a heck of a deal on AMD’s Fury X

If you're a gamer looking for a new GPU, there's a hard-to-beat sale on the Fury X over at Newegg. It may be a previous-gen card, but the price makes it extremely attractive. The post Newegg is offering a heck of a deal on AMD’s Fury X appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

Microsoft gives away 100,000 questions and answers to advance virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana

Ask Google Assistant or Cortana something like “What’s 4 +4?” today and you’re likely to hear “8.” Ask a more difficult question, like “What did the ancient Greeks eat?” and chances are, instead of answering the question directly, you will likely get pointed toward a website for … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling

We might finally get to stop asking, “Wait, what’s your Skype name?” thanks to a test of new Facebook group audio calling on desktop. Facebook launched group voice calls on its mobile Messenger app in April, and now it’s working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

What's next after VR porn? Hologram porn, apparently.

The porn industry has never shied away from experimenting with new technologies to, um, tell its "stories."So what's next after VR porn? Hologram porn, apparently.SEE ALSO: What watching VR porn is like: 'They are REALLY right there!'The adult entertainment company CamSoda plans … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Pinterest misses, then lowers, goal for hiring women in engineering roles

Last year, Pinterest set a series of public goals for its diversity hiring. It announced its intention to hire women for at least 30 percent of the full-time engineering roles that were available in 2016. This week the company announced it missed that target — women only made up … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Managed By Q lands $30 million in Series C funding

Managed By Q, a service that automates office management, has raised $30 million in Series C funding, according to SEC filings.Managed By Q started off as a NY-based platform that let office administrators more efficiently deal with the tedious housekeeping of an office, from cle … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago