After slowly testing the waters with non-game related content, Twitch is officially opening its doors to vloggers. The company today is debuting a new content category on its site called “IRL,” which is where Twitch creators can broadcast anything about their life, communicate wi … | Continue reading
There’s unrest in the Mushroom Kingdom once again. It’s a familiar story… Princess Peach just trying to live her life. Baking cakes, throwing parties. She sends an invite over to her old friend Mario, a friend and confident and sometime savior, only to be once again menaced by an … | Continue reading
On-demand startup Postmates just launched virtual gift cards, which you can purchase in amounts of $25, $50, $100 or $200. There’s no expiration date, and they can be used at any store on Postmates, which is pretty cool for the recipient because it means they can buy just about a … | Continue reading
Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth”. It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake … | Continue reading
Twitch is continuing to expand its scope beyond gaming today with the launch of a new streaming category called IRL. IRL is meant to be a place for users to share their, erm, real life experiences.“What we’ve heard repeatedly from [Twitch’s creators] is that they are interested i … | Continue reading
Facebook today began rolling out new tools designed to prevent the spread of misinformation, weeks after the US presidential election results raised new questions about how viral hoaxes may have contributed to Donald Trump’s victory. Facebook is introducing tools designed to make … | Continue reading
Oftentimes Super Mario Run, the first smartphone game created by Nintendo, feels like a compromised version of the classic games. To work comfortably on a touchscreen held in one hand, Nintendo has had to change its proven formula. This isn’t new for Nintendo, a company that, par … | Continue reading
Facebook is finally starting to make good on its promise to fight fake news with technology.The company introduced a series of updates on Thursday that are aimed at preventing the spread of hoaxes as well as false and misleading news. The changes are part of what Facebook says ar … | Continue reading
Unity is making a huge bet on VR and is aiming to ensure that developers have plenty of reasons to build their virtual reality titles on the company’s game engine. Today, the company has released a preview build of its EditorVR tool which allows game designers to dive into their … | Continue reading
Comparably, a company and workplace culture review platform, is expanding its tools and offerings to employers that want to have a better understanding of how they can improve their workplaces for employees. Comparably’s culture analytics dashboard for employers lets companies ea … | Continue reading
Here in our HQ, we don't tend to focus on what's good about Web Summit. Since starting up as a little event in Dublin six years ago, attended by just 400 Irish people, we've grown to a 50,000+ conference that welcomed people from 166 countries to Lisbon, Portugal this November. A … | Continue reading
In July of this year Verizon agreed to acquire Yahoo for $4.8 billion. But in the months since, Yahoo has come forward to disclose not one, but two massive data breaches. In September Yahoo confirmed that 500 million accounts had been compromised, leaking names, emails, telephone … | Continue reading
Super Mario Run, Mario's first foray onto mobile, is now live on the App Store.An Android version is expected to follow shortly.This £7.99 platformer sees Nintendo's portly plumber autorunning left to right while collecting coins, performing wall-jumps, consuming mushrooms and th … | Continue reading
As its name clearly implies, Super Mario Run is all about forward momentum. It’s a simple matter of physics — you can’t stop a Mario brother, you can only hope to temporary contain him with a well-placed pause block. As such, it should come as no surprise that the portly plumber … | Continue reading
Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves was first released in 1993, but it’s coming to theaters in the US for the first time this month. As The Creator’s Project points out, the movie was originally made for TV, but has been restored in 4K for its theatrical release.The film, adapted from a … | Continue reading
I spent the day at Mercedes Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA) in Sunnyvale, California getting a full briefing on the state of the company’s EV, machine learning/AI and autonomous work. More on that soon. By the time I arrived home later that evening, thank you … | Continue reading
It's finally here: Nintendo's first proper mobile game has launched on both iPhone and iPad. First announced back at Apple's iPhone event in September, Super Mario Run is a game that looks and feels like a side-scrolling Mario adventure, but makes a number of small-but-important … | Continue reading
Da sag' nochmal jemand, die Leute würden kein smart Zuhause wollen: Slide, ein Aufrüst-Set für dumme Vorhänge, geht gerade auf Kickstarter steil, jedenfalls relativ (864 Unterstützer haben 100.000 Dollar zusammengebracht). Mit... | Continue reading
Super Mario Run is now live on the App Store — buy it yourself for $9.99. The much-anticipated game is Nintendo’s first real attempt to puts its storied back catalogue of video game characters to use in the mobile world. Super Mario Run is a take on the endless runner type of gam … | Continue reading
Part of the reason so-called ‘fake news’ videos can spread so virally is that there is very rarely any supporting information attached to the video. Further links and verified sources just don’t get attached, either because there is no way of adding that to the video or the maker … | Continue reading
A recently published Nintendo patent shows how virtual reality could work on the company’s upcoming Switch console, despite Nintendo’s overall ambivalence toward VR. The patent, spotted by a NeoGAF member, describes a head-mounted display that would hold the Nintendo Switch table … | Continue reading
The Federal Reserve yesterday raised its benchmark interest rate to a range of 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent, up from 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent. People in the business of venture-backed startups were paying attention, too, and not because of the new range, which is still super lo … | Continue reading
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In that case, Facebook Messenger just flattered the heck out of Snapchat. It’s no secret that Facebook has been settings its sites on its oh-so-yellow rival, but today’s update to Messenger is the greatest shot across the bow … | Continue reading
Super Mario Run, the highly-anticipated Nintendo game that will launch exclusively on Apple’s iOS to start, will start showing up in the App Store sometime between 1PM ET and 1:30PM ET today. Apple had said earlier this fall that the game would launch on December 15th, but the ti … | Continue reading
WordPress is embracing WebVR as it begins to roll out support for 360-degree videos and photos to its network of sites. In a blog post, the company says its aim is “to make publishing VR content as simple as publishing text or photos to the web.” Currently, the 360-photo feature … | Continue reading
If there’s one thing I consistently love and can be trusted to both enjoy free or even pay money for, it’s fireplace videos. Sometimes called yule log videos, too, these are those things you see on Netflix, in the Apple TV App Store and on YouTube that just show a fireplace for a … | Continue reading
Lego’s answer to Minecraft has a price, but you can save money by buying it early. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that Lego World will cost $25 when it launches on February 21 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Lego Worlds will compete against Minecraft, … | Continue reading
Many people will be spending the holidays alone this year. Whether that’s because of logistics, finances, the cruelties of fate, or the ascension of an incompetent racist nightmare tearing your family into factions, your best friends, Marvel and Coca-Cola, would like to help. To … | Continue reading
Virtual reality (VR) is one of the big breakout trends of 2016, with countless headsets, viewers, and related shenanigans coming to the fore. So it comes as little surprise that omnipresent blogging service WordPress.com is now embracing it. WordPress (the hosted “.com” service a … | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists have observed the powerful whirlwinds shooting out of a newly formed star located about 450 light years away. The space outbursts occurred in the early stages of a new solar system's formation, when young stars are known to emanate jets of gas.A sta … | Continue reading
Hopper, an app for predicting airfare and booking flights, is now flush with cash: the six-year-old Montreal- and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company has raised a $61.2 million round led by Canadian fund CDPQ ($82M CAD). “We are selling $1 million of air a day,” Hopper CEO Fre … | Continue reading
The original idea from Alpha Audiotronics, the team behind Skybuds, was audacious and unique. The startup’s promise, when it launched its Kickstarter campaign in the fall of 2015, started with a pair of truly wireless earbuds. But instead of offering a pocket-sized carrying case … | Continue reading
Many retailers let you buy things on credit. If you want to get a new MacBook Pro, for example, but can’t stomach the eye-watering up-front costs, Apple is happy to let you pay in monthly installments. But the same isn’t true for interactions with smaller, independent shops, or w … | Continue reading
San Francisco-based bitcoin startup Wyre has raised $5.8m in new funding.Source | Continue reading
Segregated Witness or SegWit, a proposed upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol, could become the new iteration of the Bitcoin code if 95 percent of the hash power adopts the solution. | Continue reading
BlackBerry announced the major global partner in its shift toward a solely software and service company today, and no surprise, it’s TCL. The Chinese hardware maker behind the Alcatel brand has already done a lot of heavy lifting for BlackBerry, as the designer and manufacturer b … | Continue reading
Instagram has officially hit a major milestone: the 600 million monthly user mark.That's nearly twice the population of the United States posting food pics and skyline shots at least once a month, for some context.SEE ALSO: Instagram live video is hereIn a blog post this morning, … | Continue reading
It’s been a week since Fitbit announced that it was buying up the assets of smartwatch maker Pebble, and a lot of questions still exist around exactly how Pebble’s existing products will work. Today a member of Pebble’s developer team attempted to address some of those questions. … | Continue reading
Und hier kommt noch ein cleveres Kerlchen mit einer Patentlösung für unvermeidliche Haushaltspflichten: Statt den Schnee auf traditionelle Art und Weise mühsam zusammenzuschieben, stellt sich der kleine Schlaumeier aus Wisconsin auf sein... | Continue reading
Over the last seven month Ubisoft has been giving away a free PC game every month to commemorate the publisher's 30th anniversary. This weekend all seven games are back up for grabs.Between now and 18th December you can snag Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Splinter Cell, Ray … | Continue reading
Disregarding his Fifth Amendment rights, the Florida Court of Appeals has ordered a male suspect to surrender his iPhone 5 passcode to police. The decision runs counter to a Virginia court ruling in a separate case that stipulates suspects can be required to unlock a phone with t … | Continue reading
Are you an AT&T customer? Are you currently unhappy with AT&T? If you answered 'yes' to both of those questions, T-Mobile might have an enticing deal for you. | Continue reading
To answer this question, we conducted three different tests: an A/B test, a click test and an attention test. Here's what we learned about ghost buttons. | Continue reading
What do you buy for someone who has everything? Either a pink fairy armadillo or an Arduino MKRZero. I’d recommend going with the Arduino. The MKRZero is basically a really, really small microcomputer with a number of outputs and headers as well as a battery management system and … | Continue reading
A little over a month since becoming President-Elect of the United States of America, there is an almost tangible tension in the air about what life will be like under a Donald Trump regime. In some cases, there’s blind panic. News emerged yesterday that environmentalists, academ … | Continue reading
A new Skype application dubbed “Skype Mingo” has been spotted in the wild, offering Android users the ability to use Skype as the native calling app and contacts manager for their smartphone, while still being able to take advantage of Skype features like chat, file and photo sha … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by SessionM We’ve reached Peak Mobile: U.S. consumers are now spending more time with their mobile apps than catching up on The Walking Dead. They’re turning to their phones all day every day, racking up an average of 150–200 “mobile-moments.” That’s 200 oppo … | Continue reading
Instagram has just crossed another milestone, hitting 600 million monthly active users. For reference, the service hit 500 million monthly active users back in July, along with 300 million daily active users. Instagram hasn’t updated the number of daily active users, so perhaps t … | Continue reading