Bitcoin price made a large gap down, possibly indicating profit-taking off the recent highs heading up to the Holy Week holidays. | Continue reading
T-Mobile has made an enormous investment in wireless spectrum in a very expensive bid to put its LTE network on par with Verizon’s and AT&T’s.The carrier is spending almost $8 billion to acquire more than 1,500 wireless licenses that span across the United States. The licenses ar … | Continue reading
Developer State of Play Games and publisher Noodlecake Studios have launched the Android version of the unique hand-crafted game Lumino City. | Continue reading
If you haven’t managed to get your hands on Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition, you may be out of luck: the company has discontinued the plug-and-play console in North America, as first reported by IGN. The company released the following statement to The Verge:Throughout April, [Nint … | Continue reading
With Tesla gearing up production on its highly anticipated Model 3, CEO Elon Musk just made it clear his company is more than capable of multitasking. SEE ALSO: Tesla owners drop serious cash on their cars only to wait months to get them repairedMusk tweeted on Thursday the compa … | Continue reading
Honda’s new plug-in hybrid, the Clarity, will go an estimated 42 miles on electric power, giving it the second-best range of any plug-in behind only the Chevy Volt.A plug-in hybrid includes both a large battery and a gasoline-powered engine. It plugs in to charge like an all-elec … | Continue reading
NASA held a press conference on Thursday to reveal some exciting new discoveries about ocean worlds within our solar system: It has found evidence that suggest a type of chemical energy that can support life exists on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 62 confirmed moons. The new eviden … | Continue reading
Earlier today, the annual Star Wars Celebration fan gathering kicked off with a huge panel called 40 Years of Star Wars. Moderated by Star Wars film series regular Warwick Davis, the event came with plenty of surprises: George Lucas showed up to talk about the origins of the fran … | Continue reading
While there have been enough "pragmatic optimizations" (as Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive calls them) — like the iPhone 6's protruding camera bump and ugly antenna bands, and the iPhone 7's "courageous" lack of a headphone jack — Apple's never really built an ugly iPhone. Th … | Continue reading
When it comes to home surveillance cams there are two kinds of cams – low-end, highly-motorized, wireless IP cams that are (typically) fairly insecure and higher-end cloud service systems like Dropcam that offer secure but more expensive cameras. SpotCam seems to land squarely i … | Continue reading
In the summer of 1986, Thomas Kaufman was waiting in the lunch line at a research conference devoted to Drosophila—more commonly known as fruit flies. A fellow biologist informed him that the California Institute of Technology was interested in getting rid of its huge inventory o … | Continue reading
Easter is just around the corner and Pokémon GO is celebrating with a limited-time Eggstravaganza.No, you don't get any free eggs, but between April 13 to April 20 there will be double XP as well as some generous egg-related bonuses. Throughout the week, your 2 km eggs will have … | Continue reading
Exscudo, the blockchain-based financial ecosystem, finds a legal partner in the person of PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal OU, member of one of the most prestigious consulting and audit companies in the world. The new partnership is aimed at licensing Exscudo as an alternative paymen … | Continue reading
New rumors today have pegged Hulu’s upcoming live TV service to be $39.99 a month, according to a report from TechCrunch. That monthly price is said to include ads as well as access to Hulu’s existing on-demand offerings, although the company itself hasn’t offered an official com … | Continue reading
If there’s one chart that sums up the state of the energy economy in Barack Obama’s last year in office—that captures the progress of the last few years and the pain of what’s to come—it might be this one:U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions by SectorData is independently collected by t … | Continue reading
Skype for Xbox One is getting an all-new app with the Xbox One Creators Update that brings the Universal Windows Platform version of Skype to Microsoft’s gaming console. The app is now built on the same base as the PC and mobile versions, but offers its own unique visual style to … | Continue reading
Think only heavyweights like Samsung and LG can create smartphones with nearly no bezel? A new Chinese company called Maze Mobile is set to challenge that notion, with an upcoming smartphone that's pretty much all screen on the front. All that's officially known about the Maze Al … | Continue reading
Tesla is making a big-ol’ semi truck. Elon Musk has been hinting at this for some time, but it looks like the project if nearly ready for an unveiling, according to Musk himself: Tesla Semi truck unveil set for September. Team has done an amazing job. Seriously next level. — Elon … | Continue reading
Tesla plans to show off an electric pickup truck sometime within the next two years, the company’s CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter today. The pickup was teased originally when Musk revealed the second part of his “master plan” for Tesla, which began with selling expensive vehicles … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said today that the company will unveil the final Tesla Model 3 in July. It is likely that final pricing, options, as well as the vehicle’s range will all be shown off, along with a look at the interior and steering wheel, which Musk has previously likened to … | Continue reading
“I don’t know if I’m allowed to say…”In an interview about his thoughts on the next big things in tech, Golden State Warriors small forward Andre Iguodala gushed on augmented reality and undoubtedly skated the lines of violating his Magic Leap NDA as he described his demo with t … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s biannual transparency report was just released and, like many other major tech companies who’ve been putting out their reports recently, the company has revealed its first National Security Letter. The FBI uses NSLs to secretly obtain investigative information from t … | Continue reading
A two-person team is about to launch a gorgeous game that shows off the power of Nvidia’s development tools. Reset is an atmospheric exploration-puzzler from developer Theory Interactive, and it’s launching for PC this summer. The studio has launched a new 13-minute gameplay vide … | Continue reading
Well then. Elon Musk’s next big unveiling will apparently be an electric semi-trailer truck, Musk announced today on Twitter. The idea had been teased before by the Tesla CEO, however the truck is apparently not just some idea — like drilling tunnels underneath Los Angeles. It’s … | Continue reading
CRISPR is already known for its power as a gene-editing tool that could one day transform how we fight cancer and other life-threatening diseases. But CRISPR’s potential is broader than that — and a new study using the technology has shown it can diagnose infections as well.Resea … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence picks up racial and gender biases when learning language from text, researchers say. Without any supervision, a machine learning algorithm learns to associate female names more with family words than career words, and black names as being more unpleasant t … | Continue reading
Saturn's icy white moon Enceladus has given NASA scientists another clue that it could have the right conditions for life. They found that hydrogen molecules are spewing from the moon, which suggests hot spots on the world’s hidden ocean.The hydrogen has been found in icy water t … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Sarah Hörst, a planetary scientist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, realized the lecture she planned to give her to students on Thursday would be out of date about a half hour after they sat down.Hörst’s class on the introduction to the solar system w … | Continue reading
When it premiered last summer, Baz Luhrmann’s early-days-of-hip-hop Netflix extravaganza The Get Down was as hyped as any streaming show has ever been. A big-name movie director given hundreds of millions of dollars to craft a musical epic about recent history necessarily generat … | Continue reading
Elon Musk just let us know when we’ll get a look at the electric semi truck that he’s teased in the past: The Tesla transport vehicle will be revealed in September, the CEO said on Twitter on Thursday, noting that the team has “done an amazing job” and that the vehicle is “serio … | Continue reading
If you haven’t being paying attention, private equity firms love them some technology companies. According to new Pitchbook data, one-fifth of all U.S. private equity deals in the first quarter of this year centered on companies in the IT sector. That’s up from the 10 to 15 perc … | Continue reading
All right, startup guys and gals. Time is almost up.Disrupt NY 2017 is literally right around the corner. Soon, thousands of tech enthusiasts, investors and entrepreneurs will descend on Manhattan’s Pier 36 for the best startup show in the Big Apple.Will you be among them?If so, … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company will unveil its electric tractor-trailer truck this September, calling the vehicle “seriously next level” and praising the Tesla team for doing “an amazing job.”He also revealed that Tesla will show off an electric pickup truck in “18 to 24 mo … | Continue reading
Remember last year when Google released an AI-powered web tool that played Pictionary with your doodles? Well, surprise! Those doodles you drew have now been used to teach Google’s AI how to draw. The resulting program is called Sketch-RNN and, frankly, it draws about as well as … | Continue reading
Many people who pre-ordered the Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus directly from Samsung are getting a free speaker dock ahead of the phone's launch. | Continue reading
I’ve always wondered why brands create sponsored geofilters on Snapchat. Do people use them? If they do, does the brand messaging actually seep into our brains? It looks like Snap is now giving advertisers a better idea of how effective their ads are at getting people to visit a … | Continue reading
Here's a look at what we are focusing on in the bitcoin price this evening. | Continue reading
Christopher Ward is a relative newcomer to the watch scene and has long produced simpler, less expensive pieces for the fashion set. Now, after a bit of a rebirth, the British company is finally releasing pieces a techie would love.Take the euphoniously-named C60 Trident Chronog … | Continue reading
Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is moving to expand the scope of its blockchain-powered charity project.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft is reportedly experimenting with allowing customers to request self-service refunds for digitally downloaded games on Xbox One and Windows 10, according to Reddit user gaymerRaver, as first spotted by Engadget.The feature is in a limited alpha for selected members of th … | Continue reading
An investigation by The Times has landed Facebook in hot water after the social media giant failed to remove flagged and potentially illegal content. A Times reporter set up a fake profile and flagged a number of posts containing (to put it mildly) unpleasant content. Some depict … | Continue reading
This week, Christians around the world celebrate Holy Week and Easter, commemorating the final days of Jesus Christ—his return to Jerusalem, his crucifixion, and his resurrection. Families attend church services, hooded penitents take part in processions, and artists and families … | Continue reading
Honda has turned its Silicon Valley Lab into a new company officially called Honda R&D Innovations, Inc., but known colloquially as Honda Innovations. The company will pursue research and product development beyond just cars, and will also look to partner with startups and other … | Continue reading
It’s time to introduce new speakers. We’ll delve into China’s accelerating expansion in the global game ecosystem with a panel moderated by Lisa Cosmas Hanson of Niko Partners at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. This session … | Continue reading
In 1927, the year before my grandmother was born, James Weldon Johnson published a book of poems with the intent of preserving the oral tradition of old-time black preachers. Johnson wrote that he wanted to capture the “tempo of the preacher” without using black dialect––the resu … | Continue reading
So it continues. In February, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decided in favor of the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has been battling for years with the University of California over patents for the gene-editing technology CR … | Continue reading
Dell's 4K OLED UP3017Q was originally shown at CES 2016, but it's had a rough journey since then. According to reports from CES 2017, Dell was having trouble with manufacturing and chose to cancel the $4,999 display. So imagine my delight in learning today that Dell's finally rea … | Continue reading
BHIM Aadhaar is the merchant interface of the BHIM app that was launched in December last year to enable fast and secure cashless payments through one’s smartphone. | Continue reading