Arguably the best-looking Android Wear smartwatch, the Huawei Watch is officially gone from the Play Store, only to be replaced by a gaudy Michael Kors smartwatch. | Continue reading
Facebook’s board was sued earlier this year, with investors alleging that their interests were not adequately represented when Zuckerberg was permitted to sell most of his shares and still retain voting control of the company. And now court filings uncovered by Bloomberg show tha … | Continue reading
In February, the Federal Communications Commission voted to reclassify the internet as a Title II communications service. The Open Internet Rule, which we all started to refer to as net neutrality, gave the commission authority to impose rules designed to keep the internet a free … | Continue reading
Want to play a game with a giant friendly beast and you don't have a PS4 for The Last Guardian? You may be in luck as third-person shooter / MOBA hybrid Gigantic, which features fighting alongside a colossal beast that will terrorise your opposition once adequately charged, has l … | Continue reading
People who have looked into the code of the most recent version of Pokémon Go may have found what will be included in the next update due on Dec. 12. | Continue reading
So you bought a Nintendo 3DS to play some Pokemon Sun… but now your Pokedex is complete and you’ve explored every inch of Alola. Now what? If you’ve got a technical background, you might consider poking around the 3DS itself. There might just be a big ol’ stack of cash in it for … | Continue reading
Sixteen years after launching Joel on Software, it’s now running on WordPress. | Continue reading
For the first time, the feathered tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found preserved in amber. That would be plenty exciting, but there’s more: this dinosaur had feathers.The tiny feathered dino was no bigger than a sparrowThe 1.4-inch tail, described in a paper publ … | Continue reading
Because 2016 needed yet another change, Uber up and switched its app icon for the second time in 10 months. The rideshare giant first overhauled the design in February.SEE ALSO: Uber's artificial intelligence ambitions just got biggerBack then, some mocked it. Others turned the s … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it’s changing the names of its services for pushing Android apps in enterprises. Google Play for Work, a tool that organizations could use to distribute public and private Android apps to employees’ devices, will now be called just Google Play. Android … | Continue reading
Skylanders developer Vicarious Visions is going to be working on Destiny in a joint effort with Bungie. "Vicarious Visions is excited to announce that we are partnering with Bungie to further expand the Award-Winning Destiny Universe", Bungie said on Twitter.This is amid various … | Continue reading
The California Department of Motor Vehicles posts a list of all the companies and entities cleared to test self-driving vehicles on public roads in the state, and that list has a new member: Nvidia. The graphics card-maker also builds processing units for use in autonomous drivin … | Continue reading
When you think about it, Super Mario Run is the perfect entry point for Nintendo's leap into mobile gaming.Without the Mario games there would be no endless runners, the genre first popularized on Apple's earliest iPhonesRun spices things up with distinctly Mario flavors — collec … | Continue reading
Magic Leap’s allegedly revolutionary augmented reality technology may in fact be years away from completion and, as it stands now, is noticeably inferior to Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, according to a report from The Information. The report, which incorporates an interview with … | Continue reading
One of biggest studios in the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) space is now establishing itself as a force in the shooter category. Paladins, a team-based shooter with fantasy elements (that competes with games like Overwatch), has reached 5 million players worldwide, accor … | Continue reading
Gameloft’s Disney Magic Kingdoms [Free] has seen a steady stream of content updates, with the most recent one being the (pretty awesome) Halloween Nightmare Before Christmas event. Now, the freemium kingdom-builder is back at it again with a new seasonal event based on one of the … | Continue reading
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Open source laptops – ones not running any commercial software whatsoever – have been the holy grail for free software fans for years. Now, with the introduction of libreboot, a truly open source boot firmware, the dream is close to fruition. The $730 laptop is a bog standard pie … | Continue reading
On December 15, Samsung may release an update to Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the US that would stop the phones' batteries from charging. | Continue reading
The thought of a Spotify and SoundCloud marriage filled us with butterflies when we first reported it back in September. The two were said to be in “advanced talks” over an acquisition. Since then, we’ve met with radio silence. According to a TechCrunch source, it seems the relat … | Continue reading
Droughts, climate change, and deforestation are putting forests at risk worldwide, so studying these ecosystems closely is more important than ever — but it’s a hell of a lot of work to climb every tree in the Sierra Nevada. Drones and advanced imaging, however, present an increa … | Continue reading
Rocketcat Games has updated Wayward Souls [$6.99] with a couple of bug fixes that will prevent the game from crashing. But that's not the news here: Rocketcat says they're aiming for the long-awaited Paladin update to hit mobile in the first quarter of 2017. The PC version of Way … | Continue reading
If you’ve been taking your sensitive phone calls at 30,000 feet, well, it’s time to stop. Apparently, the NSA knows about your extremely elaborate privacy workaround—putting your iPhone in the freezer is so 2013—and can hear your calls at cruising altitude just the same. Accordin … | Continue reading
Researchers have created a small jumping robot nicknamed "Salto" that's inspired by the bush baby’s jumping abilities. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Research, Robotics, Technology, and Animals | Continue reading
Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that virally took over college campuses back in 2014, is planning to lay off a “significant” number of employees, according to The Verge. The company is said to be retaining mostly engineers as it notified its team … | Continue reading
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In 2009, Britain’s GCHQ spying agency was actively targeting the CEO of one of Europe’s largest cloud hosting. A new report published by Le Monde (in partnership with The Intercept) found OVH CEO Octave Klaba’s name on a list of “interesting names” used as part of a metadata test … | Continue reading
One more meetup in Poland! I’ll see you all tomorrow in Wroclaw and it’s going to be a hoot! Tomorrow’s meetup is after the In-Ference conference on Friday, December 9 and it’s part of the IN-FERENCE conference. We’ll be talking medtech, biotech, and anything non-fintech related. … | Continue reading
We've seen plenty of birds-eye views of the humongous new Apple Campus 2 as it nears completion near its current headquarters in Cupertino, California.SEE ALSO: Apple's 'spaceship' campus looks like a futuristic, solar-powered fortress in new drone videoIn March, Mashable brought … | Continue reading
If you like your mobile games with a digital comic book on the side, then Dark Horse has just the thing for you. Dark Horse has partnered up with Deep Silver FISHLABS and have perfectly timed the release of the digital comic Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore: Glowing Embers to coincid … | Continue reading
Last month Sea of Thieves developer Rare launched an Insider Programme allowing excited fans the chance to partake in early alpha and beta tests for the in-development pirate game. Now Rare has confirmed that the first "Technical Alpha" will go live from 16th-18th December.Only a … | Continue reading
President-elect Donald Trump picked CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder to head the Department of Labor. Puzder, who runs restaurant chains Hardee's and Carl's Jr., could influence issues surrounding minimum wage and overtime pay. WSJ's Shelby Holliday reports. Photo: Jack Plunkett/A … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton has called for Congress and Silicon Valley to counter an “epidemic” of fake online news, after a conspiracy theorist fired a gun inside a Washington, DC pizza parlor he believed was part of a child sex trafficking ring linked to Clinton. Clinton raised the subject … | Continue reading
Three tables based on popular Bethesda games have just been added to Zen Pinball [Free]. As has been teased for a few weeks, Fallout, Doom, and Skyrim tables are now available for the pinballing. The Fallout table has some cool elements to it, such as a "character creator" when y … | Continue reading
Zen Studios has launched Bethesda Pinball, featuring tables based on the Doom, Fallout and Skyrim game franchises from Bethesda Softworks. | Continue reading
After four months of the Xbox One outselling Sony’s console, the PlayStation 4 is back on top. The PS4 was the best-selling home gaming system in the United States in November, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Sony Interactive Entertainment’s box got a boost fro … | Continue reading
Sometimes Facebook comment threads can grow to be so long, they’re basically their own chat rooms. It turns out Facebook is testing a change to basically turn them into exactly that. Back in November, our Content Direct, Matt Navarra, noticed an odd change. Facebook had begun to … | Continue reading
Today, Tinder is launching a new M&A branch of the company called Swipe Ventures, which will be led by Sean Rad.As part of the launch, Rad will step down as Tinder CEO and become Chairman of both Tinder and Swipe Ventures, with Match CEO and Chairman Greg Blatt swapping out as Ti … | Continue reading
Samsung appears to be planning to permanently disable Galaxy Note 7 units in the US with an update that would prevent the recalled phone from charging.According to an image obtained by The Verge, an alert went out to at least one Note 7 owner on US Cellular today stating that, “A … | Continue reading
YouTube’s most popular channel, PewDiePie, hit a new milestone today, crossing 50 million subscribers. Earlier this week, in a rant about how changes to the service were costing him views, PewDiePie promised to delete his channel when he hit this milestone. In a tweet today, he s … | Continue reading
What does President-Elect Donald Trump want from the tech community and what does that community want from him? We’re about to get some answers to those two very pressing questions.On December 14, somewhere inside New York City's gold-laden Trump Tower, Trump adviser, venture cap … | Continue reading
Nothing gets my motor humming quite like a pitch perfect parody of Street Fighter II, and being a fan of blackjack as well, the announcement of Super Blackjack Battle II Turbo Edition couldn't be any more up my alley. Coming from Headup Games and Stage Clear Studios, Super Blackj … | Continue reading
the Internet provides a wealth of do-follow and no-follow backlink strategy opportunities. Here are some of the best of them. | Continue reading
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Memphis Grizzlies have signed general manager Chris Wallace and a pair of executive vice presidents in the front office to multi-year extensions. | Continue reading
Tough week for Breitbart, losing advertisers, left right and centre. A nightmare scenario for retargeters whose ads aren't blacklisting. But so, it's that time of year for wraps, trends and looking ahead to 2017. This week we have IAB members predictions for the year ahead. Keep … | Continue reading
YouTube has revealed its top ten trending videos of 2016, and Facebook has, for the first time, revealed its top global Live videos of the year. | Continue reading
I often find myself into a bit of a bind when I review a game that's well done in terms of design but also has major technical issues. How do you separate the plot and design ideas in the first episode of BATMAN - The Telltale Series [$4.99] from the engine's obvious shortcomings … | Continue reading