Like something you read here? Just highlight any line and you can tweet it automatically! Kristen Tomlan is a designer and dessert-lover turned pastry chef and entrepreneur when she founded her on… | Continue reading
As a material, paper has a lot of benefits. It's been around for thousands of years, it’s a universally understood medium, and it's cheap. But there are also downsides: paper can rip and tear, it’s heavy, and can take up a lot of space. reMarkable is a company that thinks it's ti … | Continue reading
If you have ever wondered where your online data goes, The Glass Room, a free pop-up exhibit in Nolita, is a good place to start. Passersby may mistake the gallery for an Apple Store, but the shiny interior, replete with strategically placed iPads and whitewashed walls, houses a … | Continue reading
Brafton's Promotions & Engagement team weighs in on what will make social media campaigns successful for businesses in the coming year. | Continue reading
AWS held its annual re:Invent customer conference this week — and as it revealed one new service after another, one thing became clear: the company with a marketshare lead that is by Gartner’s estimate 10 times bigger than its 14 closest competitors combined, has no plans to slow … | Continue reading
DirecTV Now got off to a rocky start this week, with many customers experiencing errors that made it difficult or impossible to use the newly launched internet TV service.Customers have been tweeting at DirecTV’s support account over the past two days about errors preventing them … | Continue reading
Facebook announced a partnership today with local community organizations near its headquarters to commit $20 million towards making affordable housing, job training, and legal services available to more people in the area. A few groups have signed up to participate, including Yo … | Continue reading
Aerial footage from Thursday shows the destruction of the wildfires that took hold of Gatlinburg, Tenn. this week. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Welcome to Vergecast Lonely Paul edition. Dieter and Nilay are out this week, so Paul enlisted some of his colleagues who would never let him down like that and made his own Vergecast that's centered around talking to people not named Dieter or Nilay. Want to learn what AT&T's ne … | Continue reading
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Star Wars’ canon is doing just fine, but one vestige of the old Extended Universe is not only active but also still growing. BioWare released Star Wars: The Old Republic’s sixth expansion today. Knights of the Eternal Throne. This expansion differs from others as it’s designed is … | Continue reading
Nokia has been searching for new businesses to break into ever since it retreated from the smartphone business. And after a few years of research, the Finnish company decided to move into virtual reality 360-degree capture cameras. The company launched its groundbreaking Ozo in M … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: A phrase you've probably heard a lot this week: AWS anno... | Continue reading
Pandora may have been pushing to reinvent itself in recent months, but reports emerged earlier today that the internet radio company is keen to sell itself. A CNBC report this morning cited “people familiar with the matter” as stating that the company was open to being acquired b … | Continue reading
Smart contracts startup Symbiont has hired cryptographer Lisa Yin as its new chief security officer.Source | Continue reading
Samsung will be updating the Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A7, Galaxy A8, Galaxy A9, and Galaxy A9 Pro to the latest version of Google's OS. | Continue reading
This week: there’s a limit increase in sitemap file sizes, an old feature has been removed from the Search Console, and you might be surprised to learn what affects your crawl budget. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google and Bing Increase Sitemap File Size Limit to 50Mb … | Continue reading
“OK Google,” the voice command that can be used with everything from Google Home to the Pixel smartphone, is finally coming to Android Auto — albeit very slowly. As reported by Endgadget, the search giant is in the process of rolling out the hands-free, hot word-based command for … | Continue reading
Fatalities on American roadways are on the rise and smartphones may be at least partially to blame, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).Deaths on American roadways increased 7.2 percent percent in 2015, according to the group, representi … | Continue reading
Emotional intelligence is a hard thing to achieve, even in humans. But it’s especially difficult in robots, and maybe even more so in chatbots, whose available tools for picking up on emotional cues are quite limited. Emotibot is a Chinese startup that’s focused on making sure pe … | Continue reading
Power Hover [$2.99] is reaching its one year anniversary on the App Store, and since its initial release, the developers have gone all-out in continuously updating their hoverboarding opus with more and more major additions that have greatly improved on the already impressive bas … | Continue reading
Today (5 December), jewellery brand Swarovski and creative agency Yello Creative are teaming up to stage immersive activity at the Fashion Awards 2016. | Continue reading
Ever since Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on London’s West End, US fans have wondered when the show would make the jump across the Atlantic. We finally know where it will run, and have a general idea of when.This morning, the Lyric Theater confirmed on Twitter and Faceb … | Continue reading
Mattress retailer Silent Night is inviting people into an interactive world of dreams at its Studio Out The Box event. | Continue reading
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“The whole year put you in the worst mood,” The Weeknd croons to kick off DJ Earworm’s annual hit extravaganza, “The United States of Pop.” True, Abel, and thank you for noticing. The mash-up features 25 of the year’s biggest hits, including Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” Sia’s … | Continue reading
Last night the Game Awards for 2016 took place in Los Angeles, and distributed a whole host of accolades across various platforms and mediums, even including fan created games and an eSports award. Despite a heavy emphasis on console gaming, there were a few mobile games nominate … | Continue reading
That's right! We've created a place for #ContentChat regulars to keep the chat conversations flowing between chats! The #ContentChat channel in the The #ContentChat channel in the Spin Sucks Community on Slack is your place to get the inside scoop... | Continue reading
If you use a mouse with your computer, you probably use a scroll wheel. Except, you’re probably using it wrong. At least, that’s what possible scroll wheel ‘inventor’ and Oculus Co-Founder Jack McCauley says in an interview with IGN: It’s not used in the way that I intended it to … | Continue reading
The nation's U.S. unemployment rate dipped to 4.6% in November, its lowest level in nine years. WSJ's Greg Ip and Lunch Break's Tanya Rivero discuss whether the upbeat data is likely to trigger an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve. Photo: AP | Continue reading
The launch of blockchain consortium R3CEV's open-source Corda platform is receiving mixed responses.Source | Continue reading
On February 20th, 2013, a group of criminals stole $40 million from ATMs across the world. The heist came in two parts: first, a quiet hack of a payment processor to raise withdrawal limits on specific cards, then a mad dash to withdraw as much cash as possible before the process … | Continue reading
Plex has rolled out support for its cloud service to Google Drive, DropBox and OneDrive, after previously relying exclusively on Amazon Drive. | Continue reading
It’s hard finding a video game for a three-year-old to play. My oldest daughter wants to play games — she can’t help it, she’s around me all the time — but the simple fact is most games just aren’t fun when you’re that age. They’re too rigid, with strict rules and frustrating obs … | Continue reading
TNW NYC was a blast (see the photos here, and watch the videos here). Not only did 12 world-class speakers share their personal make or break moments, but it was also the opportunity for 60 of the world’s hottest startups to show thousands of tech influencers the next game-change … | Continue reading
CBS this week announced a significant deal with the NFL that could bring more subscribers to its over-the-top streaming service aimed at cord cutters, CBS All Access. Starting this Sunday, viewers will be able to watch all NFL games on CBS via the service, including regular, pres … | Continue reading
Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony, Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop musical about the founding fathers, has a spinoff. So, don’t worry. Your weekend will be okay. The Hamilton Mixtape, released today, includes covers by some of the show’s inspirations (Queen Latifah, … | Continue reading
We're back! Thanksgiving is over here in the U.S. and so MashTalk returns. Yours truly, Mashable Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff and Tech Editor Pete Pachal turned to a couple of big tech stories in the digital realm, especially one involving Netflix.SEE ALSO: Everything you ne … | Continue reading
Winter 2016 has seen a lot of games which have seemingly been in development forever finally be released. The Last Guardian, the sequel to cult classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus is finally seeing the light of day on PS4 next week, and Final Fantasy XV has launched to immens … | Continue reading
Innovation is necessary in the fight toward social progress. Socially conscious inventions have a crucial impact on the world at large, but they often make the biggest difference for vulnerable communities.For people facing inequality around the globe — like those living in pover … | Continue reading
Another week complete, and unfortunately, it looks like we are going to close out the session on a bit of a damp squib. Things haven’t moved to the degree we would have liked, and we remain underneath the level I’ve been obsessing over for the past three weeks – 800 flat. The wee … | Continue reading
A third-party charger for Apple gadgets may be a lot cheaper than the ones hanging off shelves at the Apple Store, but a vast majority of those chargers aren't safe, a new study has concluded.The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), a UK association representing trading … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Ride-hailing group Uber Technologies’ [UBER.UL] European business has been indicted in Denmark on charges of assisting two drivers in violating taxi laws, the Copenhagen police’s head of public prosecutions said on Friday. The indictment of Uber BV is a test case seek … | Continue reading
After the LG G5‘s lackluster reception and Google scrapping Project Ara, Motorola’s Moto Z line seems to be the last hope for modular phones. Of course, that won’t work if you don’t have any mods to use, but Motorola says it’s hoping to deliver a relative onslaught of them next y … | Continue reading
Das Spiel Mass Effect Andromeda wird voraussichtlich März 2017 erscheinen und für viele könnte das eines der Gaming-Highlights der kommenden Saison werden. Im Rahmen der Game Awards 2016 wurde nun ein erster offizieller Gameplay-Trailer... | Continue reading
Minecraft [$6.99] has been arguably the most influential game of the past decade. Whether it's the crafting and mining mechanics, the emphasis on survival or sandbox gameplay, or even just the sheer online connectivity that Mojang's flagship title has utilised to such devastating … | Continue reading
Media server software Plex, which helps you organize your own library of movies, TV shows, photos, and music, is now making it easier to access the content you’ve saved on other cloud storage services with an expansion of its Plex Cloud service. The company has added support for … | Continue reading
As a writer, freelance loneliness may occur. Written by one of our freelance creatives, our Creative Spotlight discusses tips to help deal with these blues | Continue reading