NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden made history when he exposed government surveillance programs. Now, he has shed light on another need: Twitter product changes. On Twitter’s live streaming app Periscope Tuesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asked Snowden, “What would you like to see u … | Continue reading
Some of the most beautiful products are the simplest. Take Radio.Garden, for example. This project by Golo Föllmer at Martin-Luther University Halle displays a photorealistic globe full of green dots. Swing your mouse over one of the dots – in Iran, Estonia, or the Faroe Islands … | Continue reading
Apple today is rolling out an update to macOS Sierra that addresses several issues with MacBook Pro computers, including the graphics problems on late 2016 MacBook Pro computers. Plus, in response to reported battery life concerns on these devices, Apple will now remove the “time … | Continue reading
Searching for the future of content marketing? Look no further than the potential of interactive media. | Continue reading
Analytics are an essential element of effective marketing and public relations. Analytics provide organizations data and insights needed to improve tactics, plan strategies, measure performance, and link data to key business outcomes like sales and revenue. Unfortunately, many PR … | Continue reading
Google today released Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 4, which focuses on adding new APIs that help developers build more powerful standalone apps. New features include OAuth API for Android Wear, in-app billing, new APIs for cross-device promotion, and the return of swipe-to- … | Continue reading
Facebook’s Oculus VR division is expanding its efforts to do both mobile and PC virtual reality systems. And the company is searching for a new CEO to replace Brendan Iribe, who is stepping down from the top position to run the PC VR division. Iribe, the current CEO of Oculus VR, … | Continue reading
Google first announced Android Wear 2.0 at its I/O developer conference in May, with a promise to roll it out to all users later this year. It has now delayed those release plans in favor of more developer previews and today, it launched the fourth of these. Just like before, the … | Continue reading
Udacity is positioned perfectly to benefit from the rush on talent in a number of growing areas of interest among tech companies and startups. The online education platform has added 14 new hiring partners across its Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Self-Driving Car Engineer and … | Continue reading
Hollywood’s love affair with VR continues.VR game maker Survios announced today that it has raised $50 million over a pair of funding rounds, a good chunk of which comes from MGM who led one of the two rounds with Lux Capital leading the other. Shasta Ventures, Danhua Capital, Sh … | Continue reading
Interest in smartwatches may have cooled quite a bit, but Google is plugging away on its Android Wear 2.0 platform, due to be released to the public early next year. Today, it is releasing a new developer preview of Android Wear 2.0 that adds a number of new features and restores … | Continue reading
On Copyblogger FM, Sonia Simone introduces creative writing exercises to help you create excellent content -- and create enough of it to make an impact. | Continue reading
When Apple showed off its new MacBook Pro in October, one of the major applications it highlighted for the Touch Bar was Adobe Photoshop. Today Adobe announced that an update for Photoshop that enables Touch Bar support is now available. Once you've updated, there are … | Continue reading
Google will no longer be making a self-driving car. But Waymo will. Basically, the self-driving unit at Google X, previously codenamed Chauffeur, has now spun out into its own independent company under the Alphabet umbrella. New Waymo CEO Jon Krafcik made the announcement today a … | Continue reading
Snow in December? That’s as mad as a kangaroo’s meat-axe, mate. Microsoft and developer Playground Games are bringing winter weather to their excellent Forza Horizon 3 racing game for Xbox One and Windows 10 today. The Blizzard Mountain expansion introduces more than 50 new event … | Continue reading
The FS9100 name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but then, no one really chooses fingerprint scanners for their flashy name. The latest technology from Synaptics could, however, very well alter the way smartphone manufacturers approach biometric unlocking, making it possible … | Continue reading
We have seen a lot of self-driving concept cars before...but this one has its own garden. Of course it also comes with a ton of other super cool bells and whistles. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Cars, Tech, Real Time Video, and Real Time | Continue reading
San Francisco-based digital currency exchange has acquired wallet funding service Glidera.Source | Continue reading
Slack, the workplace collaboration platform with 1.25 million paying users and 4 million overall, is adding one more key feature to its artillery of tools for people to communicate with each other, and it’s one that could help it pick up even more users away from other services l … | Continue reading
The cliché used to be that you can tell a lot about how a person’s mind by looking at her desktop. If that’s true, it’s probably even more true of the desktops of your mobile devices and PCs. Old bills, receipts and documents stack up and demand attention. But what about all the … | Continue reading
Chrevrolet has delivered its first three Bolt EVs to customers, making its success in delivering a long-range all-electric car available at a decent price official. The company’s first three customers are based in California, and all took delivery in the Bay area. Chevrolet had s … | Continue reading
The first Chevy Bolt will be delivered to a customer today and, perhaps coincidentally, it’s going to a customer who lives in Tesla’s backyard. The Bolt is Chevy’s 238-mile electric car. It’s the first “affordable” EV that can travel more than 200 miles on a charge, and starts at … | Continue reading
BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite are now backwards compatible on Xbox One.This brings the backwards compatibility library up to an impressive 300 titles.It's worth noting that just this September 2K released BioShock: The Collection, an anthology containing every title … | Continue reading
Es soll Leute geben, die haben jetzt schon die Nase voll davon, überall im Internet nur Fotos vom nächsten US-Präsidenten Donald Trump zu sehen. Dabei hat er sein Amt noch nicht mal angetreten. Wie soll es erst die nächsten vier Jahre... | Continue reading
It’s easy to forget when you’re not immersed in eSports, but the audience represented in the competitive gaming space is massive (predicted to reach nearly 292 million this year). With so many available eyeballs, streamers aim to reflect their personalities in the most animated w … | Continue reading
Google is spinning out its self-driving car unit as a separate company called Waymo, the company announced today. The name is derived from its mission of finding “a new way forward in mobility.” “We’re now an independent company within the Alphabet umbrella,” Waymo CEO Jon Krafci … | Continue reading
Boom.tv is announcing today it has raised $3.5 million to build its 3D livestreaming platform for esports. The platform is intended to make it much easier to watch esports events from any point of view that the spectator wants. The Redwood City, California-based startup lets view … | Continue reading
Today, Google announced that it would be spinning off its six-year-old self-driving project into a standalone business called Waymo, which stands for “a new way forward in mobility,” according to John Krafcik, the CEO of the new company. But more importantly, the tech giant said … | Continue reading
Teenagers are doing fewer drugs than ever before except for marijuana, according to results from a nationally representative survey that has been running for 42 years. Numbers from this year’s Monitoring the Future survey show the lowest levels of use of heroin, meth, cocaine, ec … | Continue reading
Starting today, Rogers customers using Google's Messenger app will be able to take advantage of RCS features like group chat, high-res photo sharing, read receipts and typing indicators. | Continue reading
Apple is delaying the release of its Beat X wireless earbuds until February, a full five months after the company first announced them. Apple confirmed the timeline on its website listing for the $149.95 earbuds, but even with this update we still don’t have a specific release da … | Continue reading
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Today’s high-end virtual reality rigs are really good at tracking the movement of your body, allowing you to play and socialize in a way that feels natural. But so far the big players in VR hardware haven’t come up with a way to capture your face with the same kind of fidelity. A … | Continue reading
Google today announced Android Things, its new comprehensive IoT platform for building smart devices on top of Android APIs and Google’s own services. Android Things is now available as a developer preview.Essentially, this is Android for IoT. It combines Google’s earlier efforts … | Continue reading
Virtual reality is often a technology that can lead to some deep existential questions related to who we are and what makes us human. These questions are especially poignant as startups grapple with how humans are going to represent themselves online in VR worlds. Loom.ai is aimi … | Continue reading
Loom.ai has raised $1.35 million in seed funding, and it has also unveiled its platform for automatically creating 3D avatars of your face from a single selfie. San Francisco-based Loom.ai has its roots in founders who worked on visual effects for DreamWorks and LucasFilm. You’ll … | Continue reading
Google today is announcing the availability of a developer preview of Android Things, an operating system for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that comes with tools familiar to Android developers: the Android software development kit (SDK), Android Studio integrated development e … | Continue reading
Portal, the company that promises to fix your Wi-Fi congestion problems with its unique band-hopping technology, is adding mesh functionality to its system today. The Portal’s mesh system will allow owners to place multiple Portal routers in their homes to expand coverage. It is … | Continue reading
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Google wants to put Android in the next wave of smart devices that’ll be vying to fill up your home. It’s launching a version of Android today called Android Things that can run on products like connected speakers, security cameras, and routers. The OS is supposed to make it easi … | Continue reading
Microsoft is putting all of its Xbox One S bundles back on sale for $50 off for the holiday season. So, if you missed out on the many Black Friday deals, now’s a good time to get in on Microsoft’s latest console.The discount runs from December 11th until December 24th and is avai … | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Mihai Rotaru , CTO of MigratoryData . Using the RESTful HTTP req... | Continue reading
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is scheduled to interview NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on Dorsey’s live video site, Periscope, at 9:05 a.m. PT today (12:05 p.m. ET). You can watch the stream here. LIVE on #Periscope: #AskSnowden Q&A hosted by @Jack https://t.co/3Q8pZ0x7yr — Pardon Sn … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Transportation wants all future cars in the U.S. to be able to talk to each other, with the aim of helping to prevent “hundreds of thousands” of accidents per year. The proposed rule would require that all new “light duty vehicles,” a category which include … | Continue reading
Has your Twitter felt a bit crowded lately? As if you’re having a pleasant conversation at a restaurant, when suddenly the guy at the table next to you decides to speak five ticks louder on the volume nob? You want to continue chatting about whatever it was, but you can’t hear yo … | Continue reading
Of all the third-party partners announced on-stage at Apple’s big MacBook Pro unveil back in October, Adobe was almost certainly the most enticing. In the two months since the Touch Bar was shown off, Apple’s mostly relied on its own proprietary software to demonstrate the appeal … | Continue reading
If you’re lucky enough to have an NES Classic Edition but still have troubles with its short controller cord, Nyko has a solution. The gaming accessories creator has released two new products for Nintendo’s retro system. The NES Classic Edition is becoming one of the holidays’ ho … | Continue reading
Die Site Radio Garden erlaubt es per Weltkarte eine überwältigende Zahl von Radiostationen aus aller Welt zu hören/entdecken/durchzuzappen, wobei die Auswahl schlicht über den Standort des Senders erfolgt, der auf dem Globus als... | Continue reading