‘Digle’ wants to gamify search for uber-specific queries

As user-friendly as Google is, sometimes complex searches are best left to the experts. UK startup ‘Digle’ wants to change the way we search for hyper-specific queries. Rather than digging in and sorting through pages of un-optimized sites, Digle gives you the option to hand the … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Court upholds warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens under Section 702

The U.S. federal appeals court has ruled in United States v. Mohamud, a case that began with a 2010 holiday bomb plot and will end with unique implications for the private digital communications of American citizens.Digital privacy advocates had hoped that the appeals case might … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Microsoft researchers sound off on the next decade in tech

It’s Computer Science Education Week, in case you didn’t know, and in honor of this hallowed period Microsoft is publishing the thoughts of a few of its scientists and engineers on what will change in the tech world over the next decade. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Intel to act as corporate guinea pig for its 5G wireless tests in bid to catch Qualcomm

Intel has been testing its 5G wireless gear internally and with a few partners this year, but it’s about to take on a new role in an Austin office. Hooking up network equipment from Ericsson and AT&T, Intel will act as a corporate guinea pig for a trial using the upcoming, unfini … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Oh look, a new site!

I’ve moved to WordPress. There may be some bugs! | Continue reading


@joelonsoftware.com | 7 years ago

Facebook begins asking users to rate articles’ use of ‘misleading language’

A survey asking users about “misleading language” in posts is the latest indication that Facebook is facing up to what many see as its responsibility to get a handle on the fake news situation. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Pelicans face Grizzlies without Jrue Holiday, E'Twaun Moore

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans Pelicans guards Jrue Holiday and E'Twaun Moore both are sitting out Monday night against Memphis because of toe injuries. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Nougat OTA update for unlocked HTC One M9 begins rolling out tonight

HTC has confirmed that the Android 7.0 Nougat update for the unlocked HTC One M9 will begin rolling out to owners later tonight. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Creepy uncle Uber is tracking passengers after being dropped off

As of its latest update, Uber is now tracking users for five minutes after exiting their ride. It’s not exactly CIA-level spying, but users aren’t exactly digging the update. new #uber update w/ 5min post-trip tracking is worrisome to me, a woman who has 2x now given a fake desti … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Al-Farouq Aminu active for Blazers vs. Bulls

CHICAGO (AP) -- Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu is active for their game against the Chicago Bulls after being sidelined by a left calf injury. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Magic Johnson returns to ESPN for Saturday pregame show

NEW YORK (AP) -- Magic Johnson is returning to ESPN to work on the pregame studio show for ABC's NBA Saturday night games. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Will Bitcoin Soon Be Legal in Vietnam?

Vietnam has had a particularly rocky relationship with bitcoin. Just a few months ago, the country was shattered by an alleged Ponzi scheme surrounding bitcoin activity. Promises were made that ultimately weren’t kept, and several people lost money that could have otherwise gone … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Blizzard releases Ragnaros on Heroes of the Storm’s test server

After announcing plans to release a new character during its fan gathering in Anaheim last month, Blizzard is finally giving players a chance to try out Ragnaros in Heroes of the Storm. Ragnaros, the lord of the fire elementals in World of Warcraft’s Azeroth, is now playable on t … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

GoDaddy buys WordPress services startup WP Curve

Web hosting firm GoDaddy is beefing up its services after it acquired WP Curve, a startup offering services and support for WordPress websites. The deal is undisclosed, but it will see NYSE-listed GoDaddy pick up WPCurve’s customer base, assets and “a few dozen” of its 39-person … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Rajon Rondo suspended one game by Bulls

CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Bulls suspended Rajon Rondo for Monday's game against the Portland Trail Blazers for conduct detrimental to the team, adding another disciplinary measure to the point guard's lengthy resume. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Snapchat might be trying to bring video games to your Story

If a flurry of 3D-centric job postings is any indication, your Snap Stories will probably be getting a lot more animated and interactive in the not-so-distant future. SEE ALSO: Sextacles: How Snapchat's new Spectacles are being used in the sackBusiness Insider noticed the influx … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

PewDiePie threatens to quit YouTube over claims of sabotage

Video star PewDiePie said in a bizarre rant that he believes YouTube is sabotaging his channel. The Swedish YouTuber also said that he will going to delete his YouTube account because Google’s video service has been penalizing him in some way, leading to a dip in popularity. In a … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Slumping Hawks bench Kyle Korver; Thabo Sefolosha gets start

ATLANTA (AP) -- The slumping Atlanta Hawks have benched guard Kyle Korver. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

SMG Brings 'One More Jump: Big Screen Edition' to Apple TV

If you've got an Apple TV and have wanted to check out SMG's One More Jump [appprice url="asdf"] on it, then good news: One More Jump: Big Screen Edition is now available on Apple TV, as a one-time purchase similar to the Apple TV version of Thumb Drift. No IAP because of the App … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Review: Fluance’s ginormous Bluetooth speakers have the sound to match

Colloquially speaking, Bluetooth speakers are synonymous with portable speakers. But audio company Fluance doesn’t give a darn about your preconceptions. Fluance’s Fi70 are pretty much the biggest Bluetooth speakers you can buy. It’s an all-in-one sound system is almost comically … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube collaborate to remove ‘terrorist content’ from their services

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube today announced they would cooperate on a plan to help limit the spread of terrorist content online. The companies said that together they will create a shared industry database that will be used to identify this content, including what th … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

HackerNews calls for “political detox,” critics cry censorship

Can social media even exist without political debate? What about trolls? HackerNews, the social news site run by Y Combinator, is trying to find out.The head of the HackerNews community since 2014, Daniel Gackle (whose HN handle is “dang”) on Monday initiated a site-wide “Politic … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Brave bird wears goggles and flies through a laser for science

To the brave bird willing to wear goggles and fly through a laser sheet: we salute you. Thanks to you, we know a little more about how you and your kind fly.When birds lift off, their wings generate tiny, circular currents of air called wingtip vortices. Think of them like tiny t … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Classical Music Rythm Game 'Pianista' Now Available

A few days ago, I wrote about the upcoming Pianista [Free], the Guitar Hero-like rhythm game that has you playing classical music instead of rock. Well, the game is now available worldwide, so if classical music is your thing, jump on it. Pianista can be played with two thumbs - … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Use This Content Marketing Checklist to Skyrocket Your Productivity

Download your free, editable content marketing productivity checklist and incorporate it into your routine to optimize your content creation process. | Continue reading


@copyblogger.com | 7 years ago

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube are creating a database of 'terrorist content'

The United States’ biggest social networks are working together to build a database of photos and videos used to recruit people into terrorism, the companies said. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube will create a shared database that identifies images via a unique … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Fitbit’s up and Apple’s down in IDC’s latest wearable market numbers

IDC’s latest world wide wearable numbers are in, and everything looks to be coming up Fitbit. As smartwatch numbers declined, the larger wearable space is up overall, thanks in no small part to the Charge manufacturer. According to IDC’s numbers, Fitbit commanded nearly a quarter … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The clever, absurd RokBlok rides your vinyl’s grooves like a hipster race car

Sometimes you see a gadget and think simultaneously, “that’s insanely clever,” but also just “that’s insane.” The RokBlok was one of those situations for me: Who but a mad genius would have thought of a record player that propels itself along the groove like a little remote contr … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Russian politicians are pissed over FIFA 17’s ‘gay propaganda’ problem

A group of Russian MPs (members of parliament) want to ban a video game for what it’s calling ‘gay propaganda.’ Soccer simulation ‘FIFA 17’ is one of game developer EA’s most popular titles. The studio recently sparked the ire of Russian MPs by offering — gasp — rainbow-colored k … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

'Retro Winter Sports 1986' Pays Homage to the Clunky Winter Sports Games of Yore

Do you remember the old days of those Olympics-style games on old PCs and consoles? The ones with a bunch of games with arcane controls and objectives that if you mastered, you were truly the master of gaming? Or did you ever play Justin Smith's Realistic Summer Sports Simulator … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Microsoft has a new AI chatbot and it doesn't want to talk about Tay

Microsoft is experimenting with a new, tamer chatbot. Months after the company's first chatbot Tay went viral for all the wrong reasons, Microsoft quietly rolled out a new bot that looks to be far less controversial than its predecessor.SEE ALSO: Microsoft's CEO wants bots and AI … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Here are the three things Android Wear needs to succeed

The next version of Android Wear won't officially launch until the first quarter of 2017, and we think Google needs to do three things for it to succeed. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Steam is where you should build your VR game library — even if you own an Oculus Rift

I don’t know which company is going to make the best next-generation virtual reality headset, but I do know that chances are good that it will work with the apps you buy on the Steam PC gaming platform. Oculus releases its Touch motion controllers this week (December 6), and they … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

House passes bill to create special curved coins for Apollo 11 Moon landing anniversary

The US may be getting some new legal tender soon that will showcase the most famous space event in history. The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint special commemorative coins to celebrate the 50th anniversary of th … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Facebook is asking users to judge the truthfulness of news headlines

Facebook is apparently asking users to rate the quality of news stories on its service, after facing criticism for allowing fake or misleading news. At least three people on Twitter have posted surveys that ask whether a headline “uses misleading language” or “withholds key detai … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

'Clash of Clans' Series 'Clash-A-Rama' Premiering this Friday

As we wrote a few days ago, Supercell is getting ready to launch an animated series based on Clash of Clans [Free] and Clash Royale called Clash-A-Rama, and now we finally know that the animated series is launching Friday, December 9th. The series is based on the shorts released … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Why education should become more like artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is all around us. It’s in our cars, our homes and our pockets. With all this information, this intelligence, at our fingertips and lips, shouldn’t our educational system catch up? Teaching not rote facts and figures, but instead teaching students the paths … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Amazon reportedly hopes to open a massive chain of 2,000 grocery stores

Amazon’s ambitious physical retail plans extend well beyond its new cashier-less convenience store unveiled earlier today. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Amazon hopes to ultimately operate more than 2,000 grocery and convenience stores across the US in a numb … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Please don’t drain actual swamps — where else would the crocodiles live?

Why would you want to “drain the swamp” when it’s home to crocodiles, snapping turtles, and other wonderful wildlife? That’s what a number of biologists are wondering, after the catchphrase from President-elect Donald Trump took on a life of its own.And so the scientists have rus … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google Docs adds a quick citation button just in time for finals season

The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas can be an emotional roller coaster for a college student: first, you get to go home, feast, see your hometown friends; then you head back to school only to realize there are still finals and papers in the way before the extended Christ … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

The latest Android Nougat update brings a piece of Pixel to Nexus phones

Android 7.1.1 starts going live today as an over-the-air update – a roll out that will continue through the next several weeks to a select number of Google approved devices, including the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mob … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

How Tom Cruise's The Mummy will launch a Marvel-like reboot of the Universal Monsters

In the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, every studio wants a behemoth self-referential franchise to call its own. Last night, we got a look at Universal’s effort: a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters films, beginning with The Mummy. The lurching bandaged corpse of the … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

'Dropa' is a Circular 'Tetris'-Esque Puzzler Hitting the App Store on December 8th

Midnight Tea Studio has announced their puzzler Dropa is releasing on the App Store on December 8th. The core idea is somewhat like Tetris in that your goal is to is to put down pieces to complete lines to continuously clear the board, and the game ending once you run out of piec … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Android Nougat hits 0.4% adoption after 3 months

Google today released new statistics about adoption of different versions of its Android mobile operating system. They show that Android 7.0 Nougat, which was first released in September, is now running on 0.4 percent of Android devices. The percentage is certainly small, but the … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

LG V20 officially launches in India

Unveiled in September this year, the LG V20 was the first smartphone with Android Nougat out-of-the-box. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Netflix becomes the Top Grossing iPhone app for the first time

Netflix’s decision to introduce an in-app subscription option in its iOS app over a year ago has helped the streaming service steadily gain more subscribers, and surge up the Top Grossing charts in the Apple App Store. Back in November of last year, the app hit the Top Grossing c … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Mastering Technical Communication Leadership

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@thecontentwrangler.com | 7 years ago

Tumblr trends for 2016: at least the teens had a nice year

If you ask Tumblr, 2016 is the year of the caterpillar. Specifically, it is the year of Chicken Nugget, a caterpillar who eventually metamorphosed into a butterfly named Chicken Wing. Chicken Wing née Chicken Nugget was the platform’s biggest celebrity of the year, and the story … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago