Elysium Health markets a pill formulated with ingredients it says will keep you feeling young and, according to a source close to the matter and documents obtained by TechCrunch, the startup has closed on $20 million in Series B financing at what we’re told is a $157 million pre- … | Continue reading
Overstock is lending a hand to broker-dealers as it inches closer to its blockchain-powered stock issuance.Source | Continue reading
Cybersecurity startup Secdo has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by RDC and Check Point cofounder and chairman Marius Nacht, with participation from the founders of Anobit, a startup acquired by Apple back in 2011. Founded out of Israel in 2014, Secdo promises to help s … | Continue reading
Google Wifi is an easy-to-use home networking system using mesh technology to blanket your house in a strong Wi-Fi signal. Here is our full review. | Continue reading
Virtual reality is a revolution with a lot of moving parts. Sure, it’s a renaissance for PC component manufacturers that once again need to push the limits on hardware, but it’s also pushing ISPs to better serve users with better download speeds so that they can enjoy VR content. … | Continue reading
Fog Creek Software, responsible for the births of Trello and Stack Overflow, is today launching Gomix, a platform that wants to democratize app building. Gomix gives people working apps they can remix and modify, and then host and deploy for free. At a high level, Gomix is design … | Continue reading
Outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, among a series of nondescript warehouses off Route 69, lies a Google campus. Beyond its peculiar location — about 2,000 miles from the company's Mountain View, California headquarters — the site has all the standard hallmarks. There are polka-dotted emplo … | Continue reading
It’s funny to think that the most interesting tech products of 2016 have been routers. The router has transformed from a utilitarian computer hardware with antennas sticking out of it to multiple, sleekly designed pods that are placed throughout your home. This method of using mo … | Continue reading
Wargaming’s six-year-old "World of Tanks" franchise pulled in more than $550 million in revenue in 2015. The game is based on the freemium model, meaning it’s free to play but makes its money from premium features, as Mark Kelly reports. Image: Wargaming | Continue reading
I think we can all agree that Wi-Fi routers aren't sexy devices. Nobody really gets excited over a router, unless maybe if you work in IT. And yet, Wi-Fi routers are kind of the rage right now. You see, we all want fast and reliable Wi-Fi in every corner of our home. But networki … | Continue reading
TechCrunch, in partnership with some of the UK’s best known entrepreneurs and VC’s, announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt London a set of key recommendations for government about its approach to the tech startup industry in a ‘post-Brexit’ Britain. The panel of nine key figures h … | Continue reading
Meizu’s another in a long list of Chinese phone makers with a strong foothold that has yet to make a dent in the US market. But the company growing pretty rapidly, selling 20 million phones last year alone, and with such growth comes diversification – which means, naturally, wear … | Continue reading
Data center giant Equinix has revealed plans to buy 24 data center sites and their associated operations from Verizon in a $3.6 billion all-cash deal. Founded in 1998, Equinix already offered more than 150 data centers to companies and cloud-service providers in 40 markets, and c … | Continue reading
Aftermarket heads-up driving accessory maker Navdy is teaming up with Harman, one of the leading suppliers of connected car systems and other components for automobiles. Harman, recently acquired by Samsung, has made a strategic investment in Navdy, and will also co-brand a new “ … | Continue reading
Thompson makes history | DeRozan as the next Kobe Bryant | Bulls downplay Rondo suspension | Hawks make a lineup change | Continue reading
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with dongles, but using 2-4 of them on a machine supposedly engineered for svelte lines and simple user experiences doesn't sit well with many users.The post This multi-port accessory adds back everything Apple removed from the latest MacBook P … | Continue reading
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Whether you want it or not, the next Transformers movie, Transformers: The Last Knight, is well on its way, and we just got our first trailer. Here, Sir Anthony Hopkins, now free from his duties on Westworld, introduces us to the idea that the race of sentient robots has been com … | Continue reading
Der Regisseur Michael Bay hat in den letzten Jahren ohne Zweifel ein ganz eigenes Genre des Blockbusters mitdefiniert. Wer braucht gute Dialoge, Punchlines und tolles Storytelling, wenn man mit modernster Computertechnik die Welt auseinander nehmen kann.... | Continue reading
Snow and ice caused a pileup in Montreal, Canada, on Monday. Several cars including a police vehicle, two buses, a truck, and a snow plow were involved in the crash. | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016Latest information: The submission session is now available for: MSCA-RISE-2017(MSCA-RISE) | Continue reading
For the first time since Fog Creek Software was founded more than sixteen years ago, we have a new CEO, Anil Dash. | Continue reading
The impact of regulations targeting cryptocurrencies is being felt again in the United States. This time it is the State of Washington which seems to be at the receiving end after Bitstamp announced that it won’t be providing services in the “Evergreen State”. The platform’s mail … | Continue reading
According to the Norwegian consumer counsil Forbrukerrådet, some high-tech toys created by U.S.-based manufacturer Genesis Toys are hazardous to children’s privacy, and warranted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission and the European Union. The toys in question are My Frien … | Continue reading
People keeping a close eye on the Ethereum price may have noticed things are heading south. In fact, Augur’s REP token is following a similar trend. As it turns out, someone has – allegedly – hacked one of both currency’s “whales” and is dumping all associated coins. An excellent … | Continue reading
BNY Mellon’s treasury unit has organized a new innovation group aimed at investigating and testing new technologies like blockchain.Source | Continue reading
For romantics among us, one of 2017’s most enticing storylines will be witnessing the return of the Nokia brand to the world of smartphones. Nokia is the company that defined the mobile phone for most of us in Europe (even if its US presence was never that large), and its revival … | Continue reading
Coca Cola South Pacific is kicking off one of its largest sampling programmes to date in Australia, with the aim of promoting its Glaceau smartwater brand. | Continue reading
Glispa, the mobile performance marketing and ad tech company, grew rapidly in 2016, as mobile ad spending overtook desktop spending for the first time. During 2016, Glispa added more than 300 advertisers, doubled its employees to 280, and made a major investment in new technology … | Continue reading
Oculus has launched its motion controllers, and the device has impressed me so far. To show off what these hand-tracking joypads are capable of, I’ve decided to record some gameplay. For this video, I boot up the spray-painting simulator Kingspray and slow-motion ninja simulator … | Continue reading
Samsung may be postponing its yearly executive reshuffle until February while the company is investigated for sending 20 billion won to bogus organizations. | Continue reading
Last month, Apple launched a recall program for a number of iPhone 6S models that have been shutting down unexpectedly. Now, the company has also offered an explanation for what went wrong, saying that during the phones’ assembly their batteries were exposed to what Apple is call … | Continue reading
Step aside, Tesla. Honda has announced plans to demonstrate a concept for an AI-powered electric car that is also capable of “generating its own emotions” – and now we know how it might look like. Today, Honda shared the first image from its upcoming smart car on its website alon … | Continue reading
Auch Meizu kann Fitness. Das gleichnamige Band erscheint dieser Tage im heimischen China und tritt damit gegen die direkte Konkurrenz von Xiaomi an, die die Kategorie des preisgünstigen Fitness-Armbands seit geraumer Zeit sehr erfolgreich besetzten,... | Continue reading
French VC firm Partech Ventures announced that they closed their seed fund of $107 million (€100 million) for early stage startups. Partech Entrepreneur II is focusing on seed rounds, and the firm plans to invest in 80 different startups. The firm already announced the creation o … | Continue reading
Things were pretty simple when I first learned to code, almost ten years ago. I started by building simple websites. Once I figured out how to set up a LAMP server, I started hacking away, guided by free online tutorials and blog posts. When I later learned to build desktop appli … | Continue reading
Two wrongs don't make a right, but a few hundred might make a right credit card number. The post Researchers use ‘guessing attack’ to hack credit card in 6 seconds appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Visbit has raised $3.2 million for a new virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree video streaming service for mobile devices. The seed money comes from Presence Capital, ZhenFund, Colopl Next, Amino Capital, and Eversunny. The company has also announced the closed beta version of the … | Continue reading
How many of your favorite songs can you name off the top of your head? Not if you had a pad of paper and an hour to think about it, but if you had to name, like, 20 songs right this second. It’s not something I’ve ever had to think about before. I mean, why would you need to know … | Continue reading
Back when Britannia ruled the waves her beautiful lighthouses were wonders to behold. Many a sailor found solace in the pale light cast out over the ocean and now the Schofield Watch Company is celebrating these by releasing a watch that glows like a radioactive trash fire and is … | Continue reading
'Consumer' is a concept vehicle designed by Joey Ruiter that is basically everything a conventional car is not. It's got a two-sided mirror grill featuring LED lights with 54,000 lumens. It also has no roof or doors. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Transport, Cars, Design, … | Continue reading
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Technology company Apple and creative photography brand VSCO have teamed up to stage a photography masterclass. | Continue reading
News58 small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) from 16 countries have been selected for funding in the latest round of the Horizon2020 SME Instrument Phase 2. In this phase of the instrument, each project will receive up to €2.5 million (€5 million for health projects) to finance … | Continue reading
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft are teaming up to combat terrorist content on their services, the companies said on Monday. To do that, they will create a shared database with the unique digital fingerprints—called “hashes”—of terrorism images and videos that violate th … | Continue reading
Students in Singapore are the world’s top performers in math, science, and reading, according to an international education survey released today, as teenagers in many East Asian countries continue to out-perform those in other parts of the world. US students performed at average … | Continue reading
It’s hard to know if the Apple Watch is a hit or a miss. The company doesn’t disclose sales numbers directly, but Tim Cook wanted to react to IDC’s report on wearables, saying that sales are doing just fine. According to the report, Apple is only the fourth wearable company now b … | Continue reading
Three weeks ago eight-year-old Olivia was waiting in a corridor at dance class where she was preparing for a big Christmas show. In the corridor was a wheelie table with a hot water urn on. Two girls sat on the table - and it collapsed. The urn tumbled, spilling scalding water ov … | Continue reading