The 'Kin' coin-sorting wallet is an ingenious solution to the frustration of loose change. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Change, Coins, Kickstarter, and Inventions | Continue reading
For the past few years, “Come for the tool, stay for the network” has been in vogue as a theory of consumer startup product development. Chris Dixon’s January 2015 post popularized the idea*, and it’s frequently cited in industry discussions and by investors.Why does this idea ha … | Continue reading
There I was on a comfy gray couch, surrounded by pillows and being handed an eye mask in a reserved office space in downtown San Francisco when, next thing I knew, Michael Acton Smith, co-founder of Calm was tucking me in and spraying a relaxing mist over my body. “Sweet dreams,” … | Continue reading
In this blog series, we shed some light on our marketing approach at The Next Web through Web analytics, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), social media, and more. During MeasureCamp London a few months ago I shared parts of our set up and promi … | Continue reading
Fear not, glasses wearers. Prescription lenses for Spectacles, Snap's video-camera glasses, have arrived.Rochester Optical, a lens manufacturer based in Rochester, New York, is now cutting and selling prescription lenses for Spectacles, the company announced Thursday. SEE ALSO: P … | Continue reading
While Twitter tested a replacement for its storytelling/tweet curation tool “Moments”, it looks like the feature is here to stay…and it’s expanding. Yesterday, Twitter announced that mobile users now have the ability to create their...read moreThe post Now You Can Make Your Own T … | Continue reading
Mobile Twitter users can now create their own "tweet stories" with the "Moments" feature. Here's how Twitter users and brands can use the Moments tool. | Continue reading
Samorost 3, the PC click-and-point adventure game from developer Amanita Design, is now available for Android in the Google Play Store for $4.99. | Continue reading
CBS and the National Football League have reached an agreement to let subscribers of the network's $6-per-month All Access service stream live NFL games. The multiyear deal goes into effect on Sunday, so this week's games on CBS will be the first that All Access customers get to … | Continue reading
When you least expect it, the internet will provide. Today it has done so in the form of a “Gyllenhall” — a never-ending hallway covered in photos of Jake Gyllenhaal, down which the Brokeback Mountain line “I wish I knew how to quit you,” echoes for all eternity. The included pho … | Continue reading
Minecraft: Pocket Edition came out five years ago, but it is actually only about to turn 1.0. Mojang is preparing to roll out the Ender Update to Pocket Edition, which will finally complete the full-game loop that players on PC and console have had for years now. This 1.0 patch w … | Continue reading
At its re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas today, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of AWS Batch, a service for automating the deployment of batch processing jobs. In the past decade or so, people have relied on the Hadoop open … | Continue reading
If you've been holding out for the Crimson or Snow color options of Google's Daydream View headset, you can now pre-order them for $79. | Continue reading
The robots will serve you now: Greenwich, London residents have officially begun receiving deliveries from autonomous, six-wheeled rolling cooler bots, which are handling the “last mile” of food delivery from nearby takeout restaurants. Engadget notes that the robots are now in “ … | Continue reading
At a time when the major studios have glutted the market with superhero movies, it’s hard to find smaller projects that can compete with the hype. Sleight manages to rise above the crowd. The trailer makes it look like a promising antidote to the usual Marvel and DC epics.The mov … | Continue reading
There’s something strangely comforting in watching Boston Dynamics’ 330-pound bipedal humanoid robot cautiously attempt to navigate a field of uneven surfaces. Something…humanizing, if that’s the right world, as the faceless ‘bot gingerly tests its footholds, slowly and with an a … | Continue reading
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao is still a Reddit user, and she just took her successor down a couple notches with pretty much the sickest burn I have ever seen on the site. Reddit co-founder and current CEO Steve Huffman recently “fucked up” (his own words) by editing comments on th … | Continue reading
Some hopeful news for those who can’t remember new people’s names: stimulating the brain with a magnetic pulse can bring back forgotten short-term memories, as long as we know that we’ll need that information later. Scientists used to think that we had to keep consciously thinkin … | Continue reading
With its EC2 Container Service (ECS), Amazon has long offered support for software containers on its AWS cloud computing platform. Today, at its re:Invent developer conference, the company announced a number of updates to how it supports containers, which are quickly becoming the … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever had to have a logo designed, you probably know that a lot of love, care, taste, years of training, tons of experience and buckets of knowledge goes into the process. Logojoy pulls the plug on all of that and goes barreling down a different alleyway, unlocking the p … | Continue reading
Amazon announced Amazon Glue today at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The tool has been designed to help developers process data, whether the source is in the cloud or on prem. This is sometimes known as extract, transform, load (ETL) of data, and it’s generally considered … | Continue reading
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the original Rocky film, and yes, that makes me feel old. To celebrate this milestone, MGM Interactive and developer Tapinator are releasing Rocky, a new mobile game featuring the biggest of Rocky's rivals from the film. That includes Apoll … | Continue reading
Today, Amazon said it was rolling out a tool called Lambda@Edge, that allows developers to execute Lambda functions at edge locations on a content delivery network, cutting down the time needed to make a process. With Lambda@Edge, developers can do processing at the edge location … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's Mean Street of Gadgetzan expansion just launched today, but there's a problem: cards packs are dishing out a disproportionate number of duplicate cards. "We are currently aware of reports of players having a higher chance of opening tri-class cards in MSOG packs and … | Continue reading
Lyden Foust was an ethnographer traveling the world on behalf of corporations, living in a city for months at a time to learn what he could, and reporting back to the people who hired him. “I realized people were telling their social media more than they would ever tell me as a r … | Continue reading
Amazon’s new AWS Batch allows engineers to execute a series of jobs automatically, in the cloud. The tool lets you run apps and container images on whatever EC2 instances are required to accomplish a given task.Amazon recognized that many of its customers were bootstrapping their … | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics, the famed manufacturer of the robots that will one day ascend past human intelligence and install themselves as our metallic overlords, released the latest version of its bipedal Atlas robot earlier this year. And now, the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Co … | Continue reading
Propel's hand-painted and hand-sized Star Wars drones are more than just your average licensed toy.The hand-sized drones, available in four designs (Millennium Falcon, X-Wing, TIE Fighter and 74-Z speeder bike), light up and shoot lasers just like in the movies. The latter isn't … | Continue reading
YayPay is focusing on an interesting yet underserved niche — collecting payments from your customers. The startup is launching the second version of its platform today and now focuses on big companies with accounts receivable teams.The company first launched on stage at Disrupt L … | Continue reading
In a bid to provide a more flexible service that can draw in customers who haven’t yet picked an on-demand streaming service, iHeartRadio is rolling out two new offerings today. The first, iHeartRadioPlus, costs $4.99 a month and lets you search, save, replay, and skip songs you … | Continue reading
The popular smartphone keyboard app, SwiftKey, has announced it will no longer charge for any of its optional themes, and has made all of them free to use. | Continue reading
It’s been over two months since Apple released its new flagship phone. That’s two months iPhone owners — for the first time in almost a decade — had to make a tough choice: buy third party headphones, or suck it up and live with another adapter. I’m always on the side of third-pa … | Continue reading
At its re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas today, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of AWS Glue, a tool for automatically running jobs for cleaning up data from multiple sources and getting it all ready for analysis in other to … | Continue reading
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has ordered insurance startup Zenefits to stop distributing its software in the state. The Commissioner issued a release detailing the order on Thursday, and explaining that the block is a result of Zenefits violating the stat … | Continue reading
Moto is releasing two new Moto Mods for its Z line of smartphones, a Mophie Juice Pack battery and a car dock from Incipio. The $79.99 Mophie is larger in capacity than the earlier Moto Mod battery packs, and packs a 3,000mAh battery that is said to provide 60 percent more batter … | Continue reading
Box has updated its Microsoft partnership with a feature enabling you to easily access files from the cloud-based file storage service onto the mobile versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This comes months after Box was named to Microsoft’s Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP … | Continue reading
As developers build apps, the hard part becomes not only attracting sufficient audience to justify the exercise, but also finding ways to keep that audience engaged and coming back to your app. Today, Amazon announced a new tool called Amazon Pinpoint designed to let developers s … | Continue reading
The new Nokia Android phones will be available in the first half of 2017 and have been made in "close partnership" with Google, Foxconn and Nokia itself. | Continue reading
Hit songs of the season ask: why can’t we make everyday a holiday?The answer is that we can. By giving loved ones a subscription-based gift that has new parcels, experiences or digital content arriving every season, we can spread the cheer across the year. Read More | Continue reading
A Redwood City, Calif. startup called Neurotrack Technologies Inc. has created a brain health app that is helping scientists unravel the mysteries of memory, and work to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. Its simple browser-based app screens users for signs of cognitive decline based o … | Continue reading
[appicon][applink url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/human-resource-machine/id1005098334?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4"]After what has felt like a horribly long and drawn out 2016, it's finally December, which brings with it a whole host of yearly traditions. Forget the holidays, advent … | Continue reading
An unintentional split of the network was the latest event to shake ethereum.Source | Continue reading
At its re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas today, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Amazon Pinpoint, a mobile analytics service. Pinpoint will help developers understand the behaviors of people using mobile apps. It lets dev … | Continue reading
EA recently said that it was committed to the Titanfall franchise, despite Respawn's sequel flopping at launch, but this brand expansion may not be what some of us had in mind as the publisher recently revealed the Asia specific Titanfall Online.As reported by Kotaku, this spin-o … | Continue reading
Just a reminder that after Disrupt in London I’ll be heading over to Wroclaw, Poland for a double dose of meet-up fun. The meetups coincided with a few events in Wroclaw and you’re welcome to come to one or both. The first meetup is part of ImpactCEE and will be held on Wednesday … | Continue reading
Autonomous-drive kits (software, hardware, sensors) go to automakers in 2019. Self-driving cars arrive in 2021, says Delphi. And Intel wants to drive the entire system with current and next-generation processors. The post Chips, ahoy: Intel joins Delphi-Mobileye self-driving coll … | Continue reading
DevOps teams will be happy to hear that Amazon is launching its own dashboard for Amazon Web Services. Personal Health Dashboard, as the company calls it, is its latest release from the stage of re:Invent 2016 to support more advanced cloud apps monitoring. The tool puts critical … | Continue reading
At its re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas today, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that it has turned on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigation technology, called AWS Shield, for all of its customers, free of charge. To help c … | Continue reading