Google is announcing today that it’s ready to let developers create “conversation actions,” little bots that you’ll be able to interact with using the Google Home speaker. Though the company wouldn’t say when Home and the Google Assistant would be fully open to third-party develo … | Continue reading
Hardware kits, internet-connected toys and robots that teach kids to code are now commonplace. But Osmo, an early entrant in IoT toys, is pulling ahead of the pack with funding and partnerships with top names in the field. Specifically, Osmo has raised $24 million in new venture … | Continue reading
Recently, I purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro 4. I’d been looking for a lightweight, powerful computer that could go with me everywhere, and despite its year-old age and lack of current processors or forward-looking things like USB Type-C, the Surface Pro 4 beat out the other opt … | Continue reading
The recently-passed Investigatory Powers Bill will become law in the UK in early 2017, and it’s got xHamster moaning, groaning, and sweating profusely in anger. At least, I think it’s anger. The bill (also known as the IP Bill, or the more apt Snooper’s Charter) is a particularly … | Continue reading
Johnson & Johnson, of Band-Aids and Tylenol (and about half the inventory at your local drugstore) fame, is teaming up with Shenzhen-based accelerator and hardware investor HAX to put some weight behind health startups.Johnson & Johnson innovation, the forward-thinking wing of th … | Continue reading
Le Forum des Halles, once home to the wholesale food market of Paris, has been undergoing a makeover. Explore the newly chic neighborhood that writer Emile Zola dubbed "the belly of Paris." Photo: Alex Cretey Systermans for The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Lifting a spoon to your mouth may seem like a simple, daily act that doesn't take much thought or effort. But it's an out-of-reach luxury for many people with mobility-related disabilities.Now, a new line of eating utensils helps people with limited mobility regain mealtime indep … | Continue reading
The literary world of gaming tie-ins is wide and varied. There’s some spectacular books out there, written by hugely notable authors. There are also some that aren’t, written for to fill a certain story gap or to otherwise keep fans engaged. The Mass Effect universe has had its s … | Continue reading
Fitbit cofounder and CEO James Park talked about his company’s plans to delve into healthcare at a San Francisco event hosted by Quartz yesterday. This followed an earlier announcement that Fitbit has entered into a partnership agreement with Medtronic, the California-based medic … | Continue reading
Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends, and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network. Estimote, a beacon company, has given us the last thing by creating a small mesh network of wireless beacons that they pro … | Continue reading
Great news for everyone trying to live a more wireless life: Bluetooth just got an impressive upgrade. There are benefits all kinds of devices, but smart-home gadgets in particular will get a lot more versatile.The association that sets the wireless tech standard, the Bluetooth S … | Continue reading
DIE ZEIT: Hamburg (ots) - Carsten Spohr, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Deutschen Lufthansa AG, spricht beim 8. Deutschen Wirtschaftsforum in der Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main über die aktuelle Lage des Unternehmens. Er sei zuversichtlich, dass es zwischen den ... | Continue reading
Fake news stories show no sign of abating and are afflicting businesses as many had feared. PR pros may now need to add attacks in fake news to their PR crisis plans. Fake news became increasingly common during the 2016 Presidential campaign as unscrupulous publishers learned the … | Continue reading
Google’s Daydream virtual reality headset is getting a new slate of games and apps. Today, seven more titles are padding out the library, putting Google closer to the 50 Daydream apps it’s promised by the end of the year. Two of these are video services: there’s NextVR, known for … | Continue reading
Two connected toys — the My Friend Cayla doll and i-Que Intelligent Robot — allegedly violated kids’ privacy protections by recording their conversations without parental consent, according to a complaint sent to the FTC this week. Both connected toys, from manufacturer Genesis T … | Continue reading
Look, I know we’re approaching peak Star Wars, what with Rogue One coming out in just a week. But this video, first picked up by Sploid, is just too awesome to even fathom. YouTuber devinsupertramp (who we’ve highlighted before) managed to turn a fleet of Jetovators, or water-pow … | Continue reading
In the battle of the virtual assistants, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft’s Cortana, the latter hasn’t had much success off the Windows 10 platform – its iOS app is ranked #1,295 on the top charts, for example. In an effort to give its assistant broader appeal, Micros … | Continue reading
Dagegen ist Mikado ein Spiel für pubertierende Elefanten im Porzellanladen: Der japanische Twitter-Nutzer @thumb_tani hat das Stapeln von Kleingeld zu einer ganz eigenen Kunst entwickelt, mit der er dann aus Münzen und anderen Kleinteilen... | Continue reading
Japan’s plans to drop an 8% sales tax on bitcoin purchases could begin as early as July 2017.Source | Continue reading
The classic Playstation 2 title 'Bully' has finally received a mobile release on both Android and iOS to celebrate its tenth anniversary. | Continue reading
Figma, the powerful design app with real-time collaboration prowess, is adding a new tool to its arsenal today. It’s called Components, and the idea is to make it much easier to replicate and modify design elements. Creating a Component is just like any other object, but when you … | Continue reading
An official The Last of Us poster teased the game's sequel back in September, fans have now realised.The artwork, created by famed designer Mondo, was released for The Last of Us' annual "Outbreak Day" celebrations on 26th September.It depicts someone (we presumed Ellie) holding … | Continue reading
Westworld’s first season is over. Whether you fall into the shocked and delighted camp, or you saw every twist coming like the rest of us tinfoil hat Cassandras at The Verge, there is common ground to unite us: the show’s music was fantastic, and now it’s available online in its … | Continue reading
Amazon would like us all not to get too carried away envisioning its plans for those futuristic, cashier-free grocery stores unveiled on Monday.Though a report from The Wall Street Journal indicated that Amazon eventually hopes to open 2,000 such stores, Amazon denied that this w … | Continue reading
The holiday season is a great opportunity to spend quality time with family and friends. It's also one of the best opportunities to spend some quality time with a special friend (or friends — no judgment here if you have it like that).SEE ALSO: Everything you need to know about N … | Continue reading
The nonsensical but utterly magical trend of major broadcast networks producing expensive and messy live musicals continued last night with NBC’s production of Hairspray. Thank goodness! This production was based on the 2002 Broadway musical, which is based on the 1988 John Water … | Continue reading
If you’re the owner of a Google Daydream View headset, there’s about to be a lot more content to watch in your little headset.Today, Google announced that HBO’s standalone subscription app, HBO NOW, is arriving on the company’s Daydream mobile VR platform. The company also announ … | Continue reading
The primary weakness of Google’s Daydream VR is still a lack of a content, but the young platform got a bunch of new software today, including a sizeable list of new games. I tried out a bunch, and here’s a look at what I thought of a few and which ones might help further popular … | Continue reading
Google today is showing off seven new apps that can be used with its Daydream high-end mobile virtual reality (VR) system for devices that work with Daydream, including Google’s Pixel smartphones and Lenovo’s Moto Z and Moto Z Force phones. After taking the Daydream for a spin la … | Continue reading
A recent study by Demand Gen Report shows 73 percent of B2B buyers have less time to devote to research than they did a year ago. Considering the breakneck pace of the business world, it’s...read moreThe post 5 Social Media Marketing Tricks to Finally Reach B2B Buyers appeared fi … | Continue reading
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Remember Casey Neistat? YouTube’s favorite vlogger gave up on his craft on November 16, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop watching him. His daily vlog experiment started over a year ago, and since then he has produced a ridiculous amount of footage. Two days, eleven hours and … | Continue reading
The Pokemon Go/Starbucks promotion is official: 7,800 locations will be transformed into PokéStops or Gyms and there's a new Pokemon Go Frappuccino too. | Continue reading
Norwest Venture Partners, the 56-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm that counts banking giant Wells Fargo as its single institutional investor, has just brought aboard Parker Barrile as a partner. Barrile most recently was chief product officer at the fintech marketplace … | Continue reading
Ever since Pokémon Go launched this summer, businesses have recognized the potential that the game represents for foot traffic, especially if they’re located near a gym. Today, Starbucks has announced that a number of its US stores will be turned into pokétops or gyms, and will s … | Continue reading
Evidence that the brain may operate on a simple mathematical logic discovered by neuroscientists at Augusta University.The post Scientists discover nature’s algorithm for intelligence appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Vor dem Hintergrund der Note-7-Schlappe brodelt die Gerüchteküche munter in Sachen Galaxy S8, schließlich soll das nächste Flaggschiff Samsung aus der Smartphone-Misere führen. Stand der Dinge ist dabei: als CPU/SoC sollen... | Continue reading
There has been so much Pokemon GO [Free] news in the past week that it feels like Summer 2016 all over again, and despite the fact that a lot of the recent developments feel anachronistic and likely should have happened a few months ago, it's still great to see the game develop a … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by Simplaex What if you could go to the movies for free, but every 15 minutes the film would stop for a commercial break? A few very cost-conscious people might tolerate it, but I reckon most would refuse to ruin their cinema experience that way. Similarly, t … | Continue reading
Facebook can't escape criticism about its role in distributing "fake news." Confronted with what you might call a gentle probing on The Today Show on Thursday, a top exec said the company is "working on it." "We've been working on this for a long time, and we've taken important s … | Continue reading
Walt’s column this week discusses the balance between design and functionality in tech today. This week on Ctrl-Walt-Delete, Walt and Nilay discuss the products and companies where the balance may be wrong, with more in favor of design. The duo also bring up the state of gadgets … | Continue reading
The fans asked for it, and now they have it. After what felt like years of teases and cameos, Crash Bandicoot is back. Kind of. Vicarious Visions, developers of countless Skylanders games, is remastering the first three games in Naughty Dog's series in The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane … | Continue reading
Director Zack Snyder seems to have been given the key to the kingdom when it comes to the DC Extended Universe films: he's directed Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the upcoming Justice League, along with serving in a production role on every other upcoming D … | Continue reading
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) gave the green light to Bluetooth 5 this week, a new spec that promises some pretty radicular performance enhancements over its predecessor, according to the organization. The latest version of the ubiquitous wireless technology is said … | Continue reading
A week ahead of the release Nintendo’s first true smartphone game, Super Mario Run, we had a chance to spend a half-hour with the portable platformer. How does it feel? Surprisingly like a classic Mario game.Super Mario Run strips the core of a Mario game to its very basics. Unli … | Continue reading
After debuting Super Mario's first iPhone game, the eagerly anticipated Super Mario Run, a super-elated Jimmy Fallon tested out the Nintendo Switch for the very first time. We're all pretty used to Fallon having a geek attack every time he gets to play a game on his show — but th … | Continue reading
Now you can get some caffeine with your Pikachu. Pokémon Go developer Niantic announced a new partnership with coffee store chain Starbucks today, turning thousands of locations into either Pokéstops (which give players items like Pokéballs and potions) or gyms (where you can fig … | Continue reading