While the IPO window might be quite a little more narrow these days and there’s plenty of uncertainty, it doesn’t necessary mean the end of the venture capital world — at least, not yet. Instead, it would seem that a lot of the VC world is in a holding pattern while they wait for … | Continue reading
You’re probably still reeling from last night’s Westworld finale. (Unless you haven’t watched the episode, in which case: spoilers ahead!) We saw robot uprisings! The death of Ford! Mysterious programmers controlling Maeve’s every move! Samurai World! But one of the most anticipa … | Continue reading
Months after Microsoft’s disastrous Tay bot launch on Twitter, the company is giving chatbots another go. This time, it’s testing a bot on Kik. The bot, which was first spotted by Twitter user Tom Hounsell and later written up by MSPoweruser, is called Zo and is essentially an En … | Continue reading
What is Boston Dynamics? The easy answer for that: a company that makes crazy advanced robots that can walk — be it on two feet or four — better than just about any other robot in the world. We’ve seen this in countless YouTube videos of the company’s robots stomping its way acro … | Continue reading
Section 32, the new healthcare-focused venture fund reportedly being launched by Bill Maris, was apparently named in homage to Section 31, an intelligence agency from the Star Trek universe. If that’s not a bit of pre-emptive nerd cred, I don’t know what is.According to a report … | Continue reading
Volkswagen announced this morning the launch of a spinoff company focused on “new mobility solutions” such as ride-hailing and on-demand autonomous vehicles. The German car giant says it hopes to generate “a significant share” of its sale revenue from these new services by 2025. … | Continue reading
Station F (formerly known as la Halle Freyssinet) is quite an ambitious project and is bound to change the face of the tech ecosystem in Paris. Financed by Xavier Niel and directed by Roxanne Varza, Station F is going be the world’s biggest startup campus with companies like Face … | Continue reading
Malta’s stock exchange is in the early stages of experimenting with blockchain-based trading.Source | Continue reading
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We have discovered the purpose of the mysterious "dummy finger" in the Resident Evil 7 demo.Unearthed by Eurogamer after the recent Resident Evil 7 demo update, there's a multitude of cryptic steps one must initiate before the dummy finger arrives at its destiny. For the full pla … | Continue reading
It still feels strange to contemplate, but The Last Guardian is actually a real, finished thing - the reviews have gone live and everything. What felt stran… | Continue reading
AMC’s The Walking Dead has an uncanny knack for manipulating its audience, but this year’s hyper-violent season premiere went too far. So far that we canceled our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club, and co-author Bryan Bishop swore off the show entirely. Now, Nick Sta … | Continue reading
When companies are looking to secure the information they have in their databases, it’s a pretty big challenge no matter how you slice it. Unless you have a large security budget that can manage permissions and figure out who is doing what, you are probably cobbling together what … | Continue reading
Environmental technology company Earth Networks has spent two decades building sensors to monitor weather, lightning, and greenhouse gases. In order to amass more data (perhaps like SETI) while also helping consumers be better global stewards, the company has launched a home ener … | Continue reading
Hello everyone and welcome to another Touchstone Tavern, our weekly roundup of everything that happened in the world of Hearthstone [Free]. This past week, the topic that dominated was - of course - the new expansion, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. The expansion, which arrived with a … | Continue reading
It looks like the Google Pixel and Pixel XL on Verizon may be receiving December's Android security patch today. | Continue reading
If you’ve played games designed by Fumito Ueda before, then you’ll feel right at home in The Last Guardian, the new release published by Sony for PS4, and developed by genDESIGN and SIE Japan Studio. The world feels like a natural extension of the worlds created for both 2001’s I … | Continue reading
Imagine trying to climb a mountain without using your hands. That's what it's been like using an Oculus Rift since the category-defining virtual reality headset landed in March. The Touch controllers, available Dec. 6, change all of that.SEE ALSO: Here’s how a VR kitchen could tr … | Continue reading
Let’s say you want to know where one of your digital marketing campaigns is getting the most traction: Twitter or Facebook. You might need to check several dashboards across your social accounts and Google analytics to compile the data — and even if you conclude that one platform … | Continue reading
Auf sehr zeitgemäße Art und Weise konnte die Polizei in Seattle einen Autodieb überführen. Die Geschichte im Kurzen: Ein Besitzer eines BMW 550i leiht am Tag nach seiner Hochzeit sein Auto einem Kumpel. Der ist offenbar nicht so... | Continue reading
Amazon has announced Amazon Go, a new grocery store in which customers can pay for goods without visiting the checkout. Instead, they simply walk out the door. | Continue reading
Panasonic announced last week that it has developed a new kind of IPS LCD display with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, making it competitive with far most expensive OLED technologies. As HDGuru reports, the new technology offers a massive improvement over most of today's LCD displa … | Continue reading
Photo-editing app Infltr is best known for giving Instagram a run for its money with an app that lets you choose from an infinite number of photo filters – well, technically, it’s just over 7 million. The idea is that you can use color combinations to give your photo a unique loo … | Continue reading
The Indian cryptocurrency and fintech ecosystem has garnered a lot of interest since the “Demonetization” drive was set in motion. The increased demand for Bitcoin in the country is now complemented by the launch of a Blockchain incubator. According to reports on Indian news medi … | Continue reading
Twitter polls, which debuted last year, have yet to become a widespread marketing and PR tactic. Businesses may be missing its potential benefits. Twitter Polls can be a valuable way to gain feedback and increase exposure. Like other types of online surveys to produce publicity, … | Continue reading
This hypnotizing chandelier design by 'Harvey & John' was inspired by the murmuration of starlings. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Birds, Starling, Sculpture, and Home Decor | Continue reading
Amazon's splashy video for Amazon Go — an all-seeing, all-knowing store where customers can grab items, toss 'em in a bag or pocket and just walk out without ever waiting in line — has obvious appeal. So obvious, in fact, that another tech company proposed the exact same concept … | Continue reading
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SPONSORED: Presented by Phunware A recent article in Marketing Land cited two different studies (from InMarket and Euclid) to establish two pertinent facts: More than half of consumers use smartphones as part of their in-store shopping experience, but few of them are using the re … | Continue reading
More than two months after the launch of ill-fated Note7, we still don't know what caused the batteries in some of the devices to overheat and, in some cases, explode. A new report by Instrumental, a company that helps tech companies fix manufacturing issues, suggests that the re … | Continue reading
Bluescape is launching new features for its visual collaboration software that make it easier for business people to hold meetings within a virtual workspace. The San Carlos, Calif.-based company has a new release of its software that supports more file types and file-sharing ser … | Continue reading
Im Mai 2017 wird der Nachfolger des Marvel-Films Guardians of the Galaxy in die Kinos kommen und nun gibt es einen brandneuen Trailer des Blockbusters mit unter anderem Chris Pratt und Zoe Soldana in den Hauptrollen. Star des Trailers ist ohne Frage... | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Thankfully, things picked up a little last week, so we've got a pretty healthy list of updates to look at. The Christmas and holiday updates are start … | Continue reading
Stand in front of an audience and focus on a group of about 50, to the audience, you’re talking directly to them. Walk up to a group of four people, shake hands and have a quick chat with one, and the whole group feels like they spoke with you. Send a personal email daily to just … | Continue reading
After BLU discovered that the shady Chinese company Adups had installed spyware on their phones, the company implemented auxiliary security measures. | Continue reading
Westbrook still triple-double torrid | Letting Draymond be Draymond? | Pacers' high means Clippers' low | Homecoming but no heroics for Hield | Continue reading
Marketing innovative B2B technology is hard. Marketing it when you're also selling the incumbent tech is harder. Here's a look at why it's difficult and what to do about it. | Continue reading
Google is making it easier for your close friends and family to keep track of you with its new Trusted Contacts app for Android. The idea is simple: assign some of your contacts as “trusted” and they’ll be able to request your location and see your current activity status. If you … | Continue reading
Hubble has been in space for over a quarter century. Here are the coolest things it has seen in that time. The post The 25 best Hubble Space Telescope images appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Google has just unveiled its Trusted Contacts app to help keep us all a little safer, by sharing location data with close contacts in an emergency. | Continue reading
Uber just announced the launch of Uber AI Labs, a new research group focused on improving everything from the route of your food delivery to the way your self-driving Uber car navigates the roads. The lab will be staffed by members of a startup called Geometric Intelligence, whic … | Continue reading
There’s a term used to describe people who walk into a store, help themselves to a sandwich or a cupcake, and then promptly walk out: Shoplifters. But maybe not for much longer. Amazon just lifted the lid on its new Amazon Go technology, which looks to fundamentally transform th … | Continue reading
Wer noch ein altes Smartphone mit einem betagten OS hat und fleißig WhatsApp benutzt, dürfte spätestens ab dem nächsten Jahr seine Probleme bekommen. WhatsApp stellt nämlich die Unterstützung für Android (früher... | Continue reading
NEW YORK -- (Aug, 19, 2016) New Orleans has been selected to host NBA All-Star 2017, the NBA announced today. The 66th NBA All-Star Game will be played on Sunday, Feb. 19, at Smoothie King Center -- home of the New Orleans Pelicans. The game was previously scheduled to be held in … | Continue reading
Making the right decision when hiring a digital agency can be difficult. It’s hard to know who is going to … | Continue reading
Accompany, an app that Amy Chang bets will be able to replace the chief-of-staff or personal assistant of an executive, launched just a few months ago. The app had been in the works for a while, and now that it’s finally out the door, it’s time to step on the gas — so it’s launch … | Continue reading