E-commerce company Shopify is doubling down on its mobile product ambitions with today’s acquisition of digital product studio Tiny Hearts. The studio has released a number of mobile apps, games and bots over the past several years, including popular consumer-facing apps like Qui … | Continue reading
While this year undeniably saw the entrance of quite a few major hardware initiatives from the major players (Google, Oculus, HTC, Samsung and Sony to name a few), 2016 still had quite a tough time grappling with some of the virtual reality industry’s most burning questions.Makin … | Continue reading
US officials to discuss using blockchain for copyright management. Source | Continue reading
REVIEW: Oculus Rift should’ve launched with the Touch. It completes the VR system and gives it input parity with the competitions from HTC and Sony. But Oculus VR, a subsidiary of Facebook, is showing up fashionably late to this party because its motion-tracked hand controllers h … | Continue reading
Drones are fairly off-the-shelf affairs for most people; there’s a wide range of companies making them for both commercial and consumer uses, but ultimately these are all remarkably similar. They tend to favor a quadcopter structure, and are often configured with photography in m … | Continue reading
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REVIEW: In 2005, development studio Team Ico released Shadow of the Colossus for the PlayStation 2. More than 11 years later, Team Ico has finally released its next game. The Last Guardian is here. After announcing the game for PlayStation 3 in 2009, you can play it tomorrow on y … | Continue reading
After nine years, The Last Guardian is finally complete. It's a game we can all now experience for ourselves, after many no-shows at trade-events, and reported issues during development. Created by Sony Interactive Entertainment's Japan Studio and Gen Design, the game has had a n … | Continue reading
Oculus may be late with VR motion controls, but its new $200 pair of controllers is the best yet. Nathan Olivarez-Giles explains why Touch gets a thumbs up. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
The worst moments are sometimes the greatest moments. For 20 minutes last Wednesday I stood by an expanse of cold water, in an ancient hall that had become home to a vast, lapping pool, and I tried to get my companion, a three-storey motley of house cat, pigeon, and other assorte … | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - This B2B positioning health-check will tell you how effective your positioning really is. And it'll help you overcome preconceived notions about positioning effectiveness and give you a proven way to ... | Continue reading
Metrics & ROI - Although diverse and complex data holds the promise of robust insights, its sheer volume and variety can create bottlenecks as data analysis becomes increasingly labor-intensive. Which is why data must ... | Continue reading
The straight-forwardly named “Just Walk Out” technology ought to give you a pretty good idea of what Amazon Go is all about. Launching in beta this year to Amazon employees at a single 1,800 square foot location in its native Seattle, Go is a “new kind of store with no checkout r … | Continue reading
Seeds unveiled its drag-and-drop SDK for developers to integrate social good contributions directly into their apps today at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2016. Seeds also announced a partnership with Amazon app store, in which Amazon markets Seeds directly to its roughly 600,000 app … | Continue reading
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Ever bought something online with your credit card, and thought you were safe? Think again, because it appears it’s never been easier for crooks to nip your bank credentials. According to research from the University of Newcastle, there’s a gaping hole in credit card security tha … | Continue reading
Companies have been gunning to make the best pair of wireless earbuds for a few years now, and now some of them have moved on to trying to become the smartest. Doppler Labs is working on earbuds that augment the sounds of the world around you, while Apple is clearly hoping to bri … | Continue reading
The upcoming LG G6 may feature water-resistant properties as LG could drop the modular accessories feature of its last flagship, the LG G5. | Continue reading
When Google discontinued Latitude in 2013, it never truly made a replacement for its version of iOS’s Find My Friend. With Trusted Contacts, Google’s bringing location tracking back so you can communicate with and locate loved ones in cases of emergency.Trusted Contacts lets you … | Continue reading
Most startups have a pitch. The team behind Iris AI has two: right now they’ve created an AI-powered science assistant that functions like a search tool, helping researchers track down relevant journal papers without having to know the right keywords for their search. But in futu … | Continue reading
Capcom's excellent Resident Evil 7 demo will at last get a PC launch - two weeks today on 19th December.A post on the game's Steam blog has detailed some of the many, many graphical options included in the demo - such as resolution, refresh rate, field of view, frame rate, V-sync … | Continue reading
Contactless payments are hugely popular in the UK. The technology allows people to quickly pay for low-value items simply by tapping an RFID-enabled debit or credit card, or a smartphone against a special reader. With almost four percent of card purchases now made using the techn … | Continue reading
With the coming destruction of Pebble and the announcement by Motorola that it doesn’t “see enough pull in the market to put [a new smartwatch] out at this time,” you would be excused for thinking the smartwatch world is contracting. This is correct, but this is not the end of fo … | Continue reading
Research has shown that the vast majority of mobile users who are looking to download an app already have a good idea of what they want. We know this because according to Nielsen, Forrester and even those who run the store at Google, searches inside the App Store and Google Play … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: HP has made a Slack bot that lets you print documents directly inside Slack. Currently, there isn’t really an easy way to print a document within Slack. Instead, documents shared in Slack must be opened in a separate app or web browser. Of course, you can just use a ke … | Continue reading
Let’s say you’re hosting an event. Maybe it’s a marathon or a fundraiser or a concert. You want a video recapping the event, be it for promotional reasons or just for the memories. Tradition would have you hire a film crew, but film crews might not always be the best answer. They … | Continue reading
Most of us can’t wait for 2016 to end, and researchers at Microsoft are giving us good reason to think ahead. The company polled 17 women working in its research organization about the technology advances they expect to see in 2017, as well as a decade later in 2027. The research … | Continue reading
LiftIgniter is a startup that wants to banish content recommendation engines like Outbrain and Taboola, which serve up low-grade, garbage links on websites to keep users engaged, from the internet. Read More | Continue reading
Wer schon einmal versucht hat, einen Ballon auseinander zu schneiden und gerade auf die Tischplatte zu legen, weiß, dass das gar nicht so einfach ist. Eigentlich ist es sogar unmöglich. Und das gleiche Problem gilt für Landkarten. Daher... | Continue reading
It's time to stat talking about Instagram: In fact, we're going to do a lot more than talk about it. A big part of our own social media marketing plans for the upcoming year is to spend more time on our Instagram business account – and we think you should too. Here are the top 5 … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy XV is a joyful payoff for fans who followed the role-playing game through its rocky decade-long development. But is it worth visiting if you only played Final Fantasy VII? Or what if you’ve never tried Final Fantasy and the word chocobo sounds like a flavorless diet … | Continue reading
Even if we could build a Death Star, no one has the resources to power it. The post Want a Death Star? That’ll be $7.7 octillion per day appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
A look at Intel's project inspired by bitcoin's proof-of-work.Source | Continue reading
Has net promoter score become more ego booster than value metric? The key is ensuring it's just one part of the CX equation. Here's how. | Continue reading
ESC Game Theater takes experimental gaming to a New Jersey mall Continue reading… | Continue reading
“For years, signature-based antivirus detection has been only a fraction of what security companies have been offering… If someone thinks that antivirus being dead is news then we don’t know in what world they have been living in for the past five to six years,” F-Secure’s Timo L … | Continue reading
Ride-hailing requires a lot of machine smarts to maintain a competitive edge, so it’s not surprising to see Uber make a strategic acquisition in the artificial intelligence space. The company has acquired Geometric Intelligence, a startup co-founded by academic researchers with A … | Continue reading
Google has launched a new location-sharing app today, designed to let friends and family keep tabs on each other’s whereabouts. With Trusted Contacts for Android, you can assign any of your contacts as ‘trusted,’ meaning specific friends and family can see your activity status, a … | Continue reading
It’s been reported that owners of Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar are experiencing issues with their unit not delivering the all-day battery life the company promises on its website. Among other platforms, Apple’s support community and Reddit are filled with complaints fro … | Continue reading
The home WiFi network extender space sure got real crowded, real fast. Startups Eero and Luma have been battling it out for some time before Google elbowed its way in, earlier this fall. All of the devices offer different somewhat different solutions to the problem of spotty home … | Continue reading
Plume is announcing today that its Adaptive WiFi system is now available for purchase, following pre-orders earlier this summer. Plume is a mesh-based home Wi-Fi system that uses compact "pods" to provide coverage in every room of your home. The system is managed by a backend sys … | Continue reading
Struggling to drive engagement on Instagram? Get more likes and comments with these 15 actionable Instagram engagement tips. | Continue reading
Learn how "the continuum approach" uses storytelling and emotional narratives to move customers through the sales pipeline. | Continue reading
Public Relations - Do online content publishers find story pitches from public relations professionals valuable? How often do writers and editors read these pitches? | Continue reading
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Erst wurde es getauft, dann fuhr es ein bisschen auf dem Flugfeld rum, nun ging es ab in die Lüfte. Das SpaceShip Two von Virgin Galactic hat den ersten Gleitflug absolviert. Ein kurzes Vergnügen, gerade mal zehn Minuten und nicht besonders... | Continue reading
PPC management campaigns can work well. But they can also be costly if they are not getting a ROI. Do you know how well your campaigns are doing? | Continue reading
Headphone design is no stranger to invasions from other categories, whether you’re talking LED lights, belt buckles, or, um, cat-ear speakers. Usually, I snarl at those excesses, but I find myself smiling at the latest example: a fully functional VU meter integrated into the ear … | Continue reading