Some people consider dolls creepy enough, but what if that deceptively cute toy was listening to everything you said and, worse yet, letting creeps speak through it?According to The Center for Digital Democracy, a pair of smart toys designed to engage with children in new and ent … | Continue reading
Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that its new Canada region of data centers is now available for people to use. Computing, storage, database, and other services are online out of the region, which is known as Canada (Central) and loca … | Continue reading
The New York Times has produced a special VR-based video package as part of its annual Great Performers series. In addition to showcasing stellar performances from the likes of Ruth Negga, Don Cheadle, and Trevante Rhodes, it has a greater gift to bear. You, too, can know what it … | Continue reading
OK then. Here goes. Our final look at the bitcoin price for the day, and the penultimate day of the week. It’s not been an overly exciting week by any stretch of the imagination, but we’ve had plenty of opportunities to get in and out of the markets and drawn a few –albeit small … | Continue reading
Another year, another lame review video. I’ll admit it, I check my Facebook first thing in the morning. It usually leads to quite a few interesting tidbits I’ve missed while sleeping. Today however, I was greeted with a very sad year in review video. At first, I thought I was bei … | Continue reading
In our quest to image exoplanets, we have to contend with one major inconvenience: the blinding light from their host stars. The post New telescope chip enables clearer view of alien worlds appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
The education world has been transformed thanks to the power of technology. But not all communities have been privy to the benefits; low-income students are still shut out of the edtech revolution. The digital divide is no longer just about connectivity. Many edtech startups are … | Continue reading
As promised last month, developer Firi Games have released a huge version 2.0 update to their fantastic vertical shooter Phoenix II [Free]. The biggest change in this update is a new League system which will move players up and down in various levels of leagues based on how they … | Continue reading
The mystery of why “time flies when we’re having fun” is a little closer to being solved thanks to scientists who manipulated mice brains using light. In a study published today in the journal Science, researchers at Portugal’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown stimulated certa … | Continue reading
Google Home is about to get a lot more useful.The company is opening its voice-enabled Assistant to developers who can start creating "actions" for the device. Early partners will include media companies like NBC News, Buzzfeed and NPR, as well as consumer apps like Quora, Genius … | Continue reading
Just as Twitter has struggled to find the right business model to grow faster and make profits, so, it seems, have some of the business ideas that have been built on the platform. Today NBC said that, effective December 31, it would be closing down Breaking News, a social media n … | Continue reading
Amazon is launching a new Amazon Web Services Region today, its first in Canada, in Montreal. The AWS Canada (Central) Region will offer two Availability Zones as of its launch today, which basically means there are two separate physical data center spots separated by enough dist … | Continue reading
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Referral Foundation hopes to achieve the rare feat of advancing an age old practice with the help of a new technology. The London-based cryptocurrency group aims to educate the referral marketing industry about the potential of digital currency and blockchain technology in creat … | Continue reading
French startup Molotov launched five months ago, but a key feature had yet to go live. Molotov users can now bookmark TV shows and movies in the cloud so that they can watch them later. That’s not all, the startup has also raised $23.3 million (€22 million). I’ve already written … | Continue reading
Today, Google has announced that it's allowing developers to write third-party apps for the Assistant on Google Home. | Continue reading
Nationally, bars today lose billions of dollars from improperly managed alcohol inventory. These losses add up quickly a result of oversized pours, spills and even theft. Nectar, a stealth connected device startup operating out of a Palo Alto dentists office (of all places), just … | Continue reading
This past June we wrote about an upcoming game called Golem Rage, which started life way back in 2012 as an asynchronous board game RPG and since morphed into a side-scrolling beat 'em up with a unique focus on rushing through levels as fast as possible. I don't know what you'd c … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: It’s said, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Oh really? In today’s mobile-marketing world, it’s more like, “The more things change, the more you need to be ready to change with them.” Join our panel featuring crack marketers from Match, Wayfair, Veri … | Continue reading
Hulu today is launching a new feature that will make its service more appealing to those who share their account with other family members: user profiles. Starting today, the TV streaming service will begin to roll out the option to enable profiles to its over 12 million subscrib … | Continue reading
Vida Health, a two-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based subscription-based app that pairs patients with health coaches, has raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Nokia Growth and earlier backers Aspect Ventures and Khosla Ventures.What’s … | Continue reading
Comments on Facebook posts can get quite chatty, so Facebook is trying a new way to help you keep up. Some users now see comment reels appearing as persistently visible chat windows that pop up on their desktop versions of the site, just like traditional message threads. TechCru … | Continue reading
A new video app from Hyper wants to help you catch up on the latest news during your commute. What’s interesting about Hyper News, compared with apps from traditional news publishers, is that it has been specifically designed so you can watch its videos even when there is no inte … | Continue reading
MIT researchers have developed a method for printing electronic inks neatly and reliably on the nanoscale, on rigid or flexible substrates. They expect it will be used in turn to develop transparent, sensor-rich panels, stickers, and packaging.The post Nanotubes rear their tiny h … | Continue reading
There are plenty of apps out there that purport to keep you ‘safe’. Apps that immediately phone your main contacts when you are threatened or attacked. Apps that allow you to share your location with key contacts. But for modern women, especially in big urban cities like New York … | Continue reading
European startup studio eFounders is raising an additional $5.3 million (€5 million) from entrepreneurs and family offices. eFounders has been behind some very promising software-as-a-service startups, providing capital and financial resources for the first year or so before the … | Continue reading
Hulu announced today that users can now create multiple profiles through the company’s website. More devices will support profiles over the next couple of weeks, but for now, it’s limited to Hulu.com. Each account can maintain up to six individual profiles that will remember ever … | Continue reading
Microsoft is finally bringing its popular diagramming and graphic application Visio to iOS and the web. Visio was first brought to market in the early 1990s by a company called Shapeware, with the company changing its name to match the software in 1995. Visio was bought by Micros … | Continue reading
One of the many frustrations of both free-to-play and fully priced games in 2016 is the prevalence of loot boxes, with titles such as Call of Duty and Overwatch locking weapons, skins and abilities within in-game chests or crates whose contents are randomly selected. This encoura … | Continue reading
Facebook is launching a series of new features to help people customize their photos and videos, in the social network’s continuing battle with Snapchat, an app that put the camera, photos and video at the front-and-center of social interactions. Today, Facebook is unveiling a ne … | Continue reading
Stop me if you've heard this one: Facebook is adding a feature that looks like it was lifted straight from Snapchat.Facebook "location frames" are its answer to Snapchat's geofilters. But don't expect them to appear in your Facebook app before Christmas — they're coming to the ex … | Continue reading
This week, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter announced a new database for images and videos that promote terrorism. The database, which is hosted by Facebook, is designed as a defense against propaganda videos and imagery by terrorist groups — a tactic ISIS has aggressivel … | Continue reading
Ducati North America CEO Jason Chinnock discusses the state of the motorcycle industry on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and reveals the company's new $80,000 Superleggera, the fastest twin-cylinder motorcycle in history. Photo: Ducati | Continue reading
A blockchain voting project netted $10,000 in a recent contest organized by cybersecurity firm Kapersky Labs.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft will roll out an update this week for the Android version of its Cortana digital assistant, with a refreshed look. It will also launch in the UK. | Continue reading
Due to scheduling delays, one of SpaceX’s customers has decided to go with a different rocket. British satellite maker Inmarsat announced today that it will launch one of its satellites on a European Ariane 5 rocket, instead of on one of SpaceX’s vehicles like it had originally p … | Continue reading
Japan's indie game development scene has always been quite lively in its home market, but has gone mostly unknown overseas. With more opportunities opening up for small developers on console, mobile, and computers, we're finally starting to see many of these unsung devs putting o … | Continue reading
Musik spielt in allen Nintendo-Hits eine große Rolle - in Zelda Ocarina of Time natürlich gleich doppelt: Als Spielmechanik und atmosphärische Untermalung. Wer den Soundtrack noch einmal frisch erleben will, kann ja iam8bits Angebot... | Continue reading
If you buy into the current hype around this year’s Academy Awards, Casey Affleck is the current front-runner for Best Actor. He’s already won preliminary accolades from critics’ associations and major film festivals, and his publicity firm, ID PR, is doing a full-court-press cam … | Continue reading
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EXCLUSIVE: Gupshup today announced that it has partnered with Google to help build the first voice-activated Actions for Google Assistant on Google Home. Bot builders can now use Gupshup’s tools to create voice-activated bots — called Actions. Among the initial Google Actions fro … | Continue reading
The digital music marriage that many wanted to happen, isn’t happening after all. Spotify has given up on its latest effort to buy SoundCloud following months of talks between the two, according to a source at Spotify who is familiar with discussions. Read More | Continue reading
Google today announced that all developers (and not just those in its private preview program), can start bringing their applications and services to the Google Assistant, starting with what the company calls “conversation actions” on Google Home. This allows developers to create … | Continue reading
Osmo has made its mark with award-winning augmented reality iPad games for children, and now it is teaming up with some big kids brands and announcing it has raised $24 million in a new round of funding. It’s a big validation for a new kind of game and toy company that grew up in … | Continue reading
Developers can now create actions for Google Home using the Actions on Google platform, the company announced today. Like an Alexa Skill, Actions are the controls that power a voice-enabled Google Assistant. There are two kinds of interactions with Google Assistant: Conversation … | Continue reading
Google is announcing today that it’s ready to let developers create “conversation actions,” little bots that you’ll be able to interact with using the Google Home speaker. Though the company wouldn’t say when Home and the Google Assistant would be fully open to third-party develo … | Continue reading
Hardware kits, internet-connected toys and robots that teach kids to code are now commonplace. But Osmo, an early entrant in IoT toys, is pulling ahead of the pack with funding and partnerships with top names in the field. Specifically, Osmo has raised $24 million in new venture … | Continue reading