A notable blockchain industry investor was hacked today.Source | Continue reading
(By Andrew Chung, Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its American rival for copying key iPhone … | Continue reading
The average lawn mower does nothing but keep your lawn trimmed and bouncy. But researchers at the University of Tokyo think they can take the lawn mower to the next level, by which I mean they created a mower that’ll leave designs on your lawn. It’s called the Grassffiti. A custo … | Continue reading
State of Play Games has soft-launched a sequel to their hit puzzler Kami [$2.99] in New Zealand and Australia, appropriately enough called Kami 2. The gameplay has a similar core style, where you're solving puzzles by essentially using a paint fill tool with the various colors in … | Continue reading
After about a month in public beta, Sonos and Spotify are releasing an update today allowing Spotify to directly play to Sonos speakers to all users. The update essentially makes any Sonos device into a Spotify Connect speaker, with the added bonus of Sonos' signature multi-room … | Continue reading
Google Wifi is now available for purchase from the Google Store, Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart for $129. | Continue reading
The days of having to enter your cable account login details into every individual TV app on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV are coming to an end — maybe. Depending on who you get your cable from. As MacRumors notes, today Apple rolled out its single sign-on feature for iOS, which let … | Continue reading
Most of today's flagship smartphones can be described as beautiful, but fragile. Materials like glass and metal also make smartphones more prone to slipping out of our hands than the plastic models of previous generations. Not to mention big phablets are nearly impossible to use … | Continue reading
The 2017 Chevy Bolt is coming to California and Oregon before the end of 2016, and along with it comes its very own official charger from AeroVironment. The company’s EVSE-RS charger has been available for some time, and AeroVironment is not new to the EV charging game. The compa … | Continue reading
Video offers a veritable buffet for content marketers to choose from. Let your marketing goals lead the way in your decision. | Continue reading
Donald Trump is mad at Boeing, but what else is new? On Tuesday, the president-elect tweeted that he was considering canceling the Chicago-based aerospace company’s contract to build the new Air Force One because it was too expensive. Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force … | Continue reading
Apple, the most the secretive member of the technology industry, is starting to break down its walls. Russ Salakhutdinov, the company’s director of artificial intelligence research, says Apple will start letting its AI researchers publish papers and engage with the greater AI com … | Continue reading
The year is basically over now that the last handful of games are hitting retailers, and we’ve got a podcast all about ’em. GamesBeat Decides turns its attention this week to new VR controllers, HD remasters of games that never came out, and big events. Your host, Jeffrey Grubb, … | Continue reading
When people think of fairies, they think of delicate little creatures, but the upcoming Go Go Fairy Gals will make you rethink your views. The upcoming shooter game takes place in a magical world (of course) where everyone divine and not co-exists in harmony. Every century, the K … | Continue reading
Leaner than a space telescope, better than a publicity stunt, SOFIA is NASA's long-haul flying telescope. Check it out!The post Take a look inside SOFIA, NASA’s flying telescope appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
The Samsung Gear S3 is an excellent smartwatch just a few ticks short of perfection. With built-in LTE and GPS it’s more connected than rivals, but noticeably thicker as well.The device gets off on the right foot by looking and feeling like a watch. Whatever you think of wearable … | Continue reading
[…]The post A U.S. State Prosecutor’s Office Paid $1,400 in Bitcoin to Ransomware Extortionists appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
GoDaddy is on a shopping spree. Yesterday we reported that the domain and hosting company had bought WP Curve, a WordPress services startup to expand its WordPress support team. And today the company has just announced a much bigger deal. GoDaddy has acquired European rival Host … | Continue reading
Today, Ruvento is announcing a new $25 million seed fund for hardware startups in need of capital from Singapore, China and the U.S. The fund, managed by Slava Solonitsyn and Alex Toh, will write 70 percent of its checks between $100k and $500k. The rest of the capital will be re … | Continue reading
If you're a Real Madrid fan, a Cristiano Ronaldo fan, or just like football (soccer for some of you) games, keep an eye out for the upcoming football game under development by Hugo Games. The game will of course feature all Real Madrid players and the Santiago Bernabeu stadium (a … | Continue reading
The Indian fintech sector has lately been in the news a lot. In yet another milestone achievement, one of the leading banking institution — ICICI has partnered with Stellar blockchain platform. In the latest release, Stellar has announced partnerships with not one but four differ … | Continue reading
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son made a surprise appearance at Trump Tower today where he appears to have worked out a deal with the president-elect to invest $50 billion in the US over the next four years and create 50,000 new jobs.Details of the planned investment are basically nonex … | Continue reading
Huawei will officially reveal a new concept smartphone, which will use the Honor branding, sometime on Wednesday, December 7. | Continue reading
Based in Brooklyn and Hong Kong, Looking Glass Factory is a company working on some really cool displays. They recently showed Mashable how they are able to port popular games like 'Super Mario Kart' and 'Quake' on their personal displays. Read more...More about Mashable Video, H … | Continue reading
GUEST: In a recent study by Gartner Reports, the analyst estimated that by 2020 the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their spouse. The report failed to clarify if this was attributed solely to increasing dependence on AI technology, or if deteriorat … | Continue reading
Can we save the world through empathy? For the past year, that idea has been a source of public debate as people try to figure out who deserves empathy, who doesn’t, and how to cultivate more of it to solve our problems. Technology has been a key part of this conversation. Virtua … | Continue reading
Netflix knows how difficult it is to actually find something you want to watch in its massive streaming catalog. To that end, the company is adding a long-awaited feature to its TV apps: video previews.The previews will show up while you’re browsing through Netflix’s content, all … | Continue reading
Over the last few years, robotics and every other field have come to inform and improve each other, and robots have begun to infiltrate and affect our lives in countless ways. So the only surprise in the news that the prestigious journal group Science has established a discrete R … | Continue reading
We've been hearing rumors of more Pokemon and more Pokemon GO [Free] features coming our way, so add the following story to that list. Apparently, Starbucks employees have spotted a new Pokemon GO promo that points to new Pokemon coming as well as some other promotions. According … | Continue reading
Researchers are looking to the natural world for inspiration that will one day help them design life-saving robots. Salto is a monopedal and somewhat skeletal 10.2-inch-tall robot that can jump higher and more quickly than most other robots in the world today. A team of researche … | Continue reading
Walt Disney World’s Epcot — the park-within-a-park that encourages children to appreciate the fact that there are literally hundreds of cultures in the world besides the American one — is a good place. There are not so many cool rides, especially now that Norway’s Maelstrom has b … | Continue reading
This post contains minor plot spoilers for the beginning 30 minutes of Rogue One. Standing before a crowd of journalists in a private movie theater at Skywalker Ranch this past weekend, Gareth Edwards made an appeal to the hardcore fans. “I feel like I’m standing on sacred ground … | Continue reading
Smartphone case company Mous is proving the strength of its newest product by testing its 'Airo Shock' material in some unconventional ways. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Iphone, Iphone Case, Indiegogo, and Invention | Continue reading
Google Play Movies users can now officially access over 125 UHD 4K films, which can be streamed to a 4K TV with a Chromecast Ultra dongle. | Continue reading
Sonos and Spotify partnered earlier this year to solve a problem that has frustrated Sonos and Spotify fans alike: Sonos’ app isn’t very good, but it’s the only one that works with the company’s otherwise great connected speakers. This changes today for “Premium” Spotify users — … | Continue reading
When a fake story claiming DC pizzeria Comet Ping Pong was a front for a child sex ring led by Hillary Clinton, most of us immediately wrote it off as nonsense. Others didn’t. The story spread like wildfire on social media, eventually leading to over a million shares — including … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: You can capture more data than ever before — but do you know how to use it? Big players like Match are using sophisticated strategies to pull ahead in the fixed-pie world of ad buying. Join this VB Live event for insight into the sophisticated data strategies you need to … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of excitement about Amazon Go, the company’s new kind of grocery store that lets customers take what they need and leave without ever waiting in line, but there weren’t a whole lot of specifics on how this system works. An Amazon patent filed in 2014 gives us a glim … | Continue reading
Happymagenta are one of my favorite mobile developers, as their relatively simple experiences are always incredibly well done, and perfectly suited to gaming on the go. Tomb of the Mask [Free] is a particular highlight, as its mix of Pac Man and The Last Rocket [$1.99] was imposs … | Continue reading
Are you so much of a Twitter diehard that you can’t even bear to leave the site to perform a Google search? Do you speak in emoji? Then Google has some news for you: you can now tweet emoji directly to @Google and get search results. Say you want to eat sushi. Just tweet Sushi @G … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley giants have found themselves in legal hot water in India. India’s top court has expressed concern over illegal activities and cyber abuse that occur on Facebook as well as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines. SEE ALSO: Indian court asks YouTube to share use … | Continue reading
Our rapidly warming planet has melted a chunk of sea ice the size of India, according to climate scientists. What’s more, the sea ice near Antarctica has started melting, too, after years of expanding despite global warming. Climate skeptics once loved to argue that the growing A … | Continue reading
Who knew air could be such a big deal?The post Apple says iPhone 6s battery failures are caused by ‘ambient air’ exposure appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
NASA has just commissioned a new type of spacecraft that will be able to refuel satellites while they’re still in orbit around Earth. Dubbed the Restore-L Spacecraft Bus, the vehicle will act like a traveling gas station, by meeting up with probes in orbit and filling up the sate … | Continue reading
Docker, the startup that pushes open source software for packaging up code into containers that can be deployed on many machines, today announced its latest acquisition: file transfer app Infinit. Yes, that’s right, Docker bought a company with a consumer-friendly app. It lets yo … | Continue reading
Google has a new trick up its sleeve on Twitter — it can now understand emoji you tweet at it. Simply tweet an emoji @Google and the company's Twitter account will respond with a fun GIF and a handy link to for local search results. We speak emoji. Let’s talk. #KnowNearby pic … | Continue reading
So that’s another day done out of Europe, and it’s time to take the second of our twice daily looks at the bitcoin price this evening. A look at the session for today reveals one thing: it’s been a bit dull. Some days, action is flat and we don’t manage to get in to any … Continu … | Continue reading