When Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon in 1969, I doubt he gave much thought to the dank memes that would one day come of it. I also doubt he knew what ‘dank’ or ‘meme’ meant, but it really doesn’t matter; I’m painting a picture here. NASA already taps … | Continue reading
As 2016 is about to end, developing a whole new marketing plan for the new year is a must. In case you’re wondering what should be included in the plan, we’ve picked 4 trends that we think are the most important to include in your... | Continue reading
There’s something about the Microsoft Surface Book that has always caught my attention whenever I see one in public. Its design is weird, but unique; it’s portable, but still has the power to outperform most 2-in-1s in this category. We’ve already covered the basics of how the la … | Continue reading
With Google’s entering the smartphone game for real with its Pixel phones, it seems Android manufacturers have been scrambling to get software updates to their devices more quickly than ever. ZTE is the latest, with a beta update to Nougat available for those who sign up via its … | Continue reading
Nilay, Dieter, Lauren, and Ashley are back! This week on Vergecast, we talk about Fitbit buying Pebble, the status of the gadget universe, and Microsoft bringing Windows desktop apps to mobile ARM processors. Lots of tech, lots of jokes, here we go.01:34 - Fitbit / Pebble / weara … | Continue reading
One of the best Android wearables just got better but with smartwatches floundering, is the ASUS ZenWatch 3 the saviour and a must-have? Here's our review. | Continue reading
Peter Fabiano has worked at Capcom for nine years, helping the company to grow its external development in places like Canada, where the Japanese game publisher has a big studio that just made Dead Rising 4. Capcom has a lot of talented developers, programmers and artists in its … | Continue reading
President Obama has directed US intelligence agencies to produce a report on attempts to influence the 2016 election through hacking, according to an Obama homeland security adviser.Report may not be publicly releasedAdviser Lisa Monaco told reporters that the country may have “c … | Continue reading
Samsung has revealed that the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge will jump from Marshmallow straight to Android 7.1.1 Nougat when the official update arrives. | Continue reading
The trailer for the third film in the modern Planet of the Apes reboot, War for the Planet of the Apes, was released earlier this morning, and based on this admittedly early impression, the story will build on the rapidly escalating conflict between the apes and humans from the f … | Continue reading
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With the holidays fast approaching, countless people worldwide are starting to dread spending time with annoying, distant relatives. Could be worse though - you could be spending them with one of these spectacularly dysfunctional families instead.Join us below as we look at some … | Continue reading
During Microsoft’s Build Conference earlier this year, CEO Satya Nadella delivered the three-hour keynote address, in which he highlighted his belief that the future of technology lies in human language. In this new wave of technology, conversation is the new interface, and “bots … | Continue reading
The promises of the cloud era have been many, but when it comes to hardware most people have preferred to keep their personal PCs on-hand or on-location.SIXA is aiming to free the PC and move computing to the cloud with its low-latency virtual machines geared towards developers. … | Continue reading
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder visited the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, MI, which honors the automotive past, to sign a bill that aims to enable the automotive future. The law creates regulations for testing, using, and selling autonomous vehicles in the state and clarifie … | Continue reading
A hedge fund that specializes in the trading of blockchain-based assets has raised $10m from a notable cast of VCs.Source | Continue reading
Early this morning Samsung announced plans to finally extinguish the on-going fire that is the Note 7 once and for all here in the States by way of a software update that won’t allow the troubled phone to charge at all. Apparently not everyone involved is on-board with the move. … | Continue reading
If you think catching a flight in the New York City area is a nightmare today — out-of-this-world traffic jams, never ending tarmac delays, impossibly long security lines — just wait another 30 years. I promise you, it’s going to get much worse. Why, you ask? Climate change. Thos … | Continue reading
Last week I was invited to Slush in Helsinki, where I gave a keynote called “Developers are Writing the Script for the Future.” Here’s a 20 minute video of that talk. | Continue reading
The eighth installment in the popular franchise The Fast and the Furious is officially called The Fate of the Furious. The title raises heavy questions about choice. Was Brian O’Conner assigned by a divine force to investigate this particular Los Angeles street racing family? Did … | Continue reading
Verizon Wireless has issued a statement saying that it will not be rolling out Samsung's announced update to shut down the Galaxy Note 7. | Continue reading
It was supposed to be a dream vacation. And it really was, until he came back home. When Adam left Poland and returned to New York, his life had become a nightmare. While exploring the streets of Warsaw, he wasn’t only focused on the sights. His eyes were open and his senses shar … | Continue reading
Verizon will not be releasing a just-announced Galaxy Note 7 software update designed to stop the recalled smartphone from charging. In a statement, the leading US mobile carrier attributed the decision to concerns over safety for customers who might not have another mobile phone … | Continue reading
There hasn't been a whole lot of competition in 2016, however Goat Simulator [$4.99] is still by far the best simulation of everyone's favourite horned mammal (don't write in, Rhinoceros fans) currently on the App Store. While the game doesn't strive for a realistic representatio … | Continue reading
Moments after announcing an upcoming software update that will brick remaining Note 7s in the United States by permanently stopping them from charging, Samsung revealed it’s taking a slightly different strategy for customers in Europe. An update planned for release on December 15 … | Continue reading
Jason Citron, who previously founded and sold the early mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, returned to gaming startups with the launch of Discord in May 2015. This voice and text chat app for gamers – a challenger to incumbents like Skype and Teamspeak – has since grown to 2 … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Quercus Assets Selection, which specialises in renewable infrastructure investments announces that it has reached its first close of €150 million, led by its Co-Founder and CEO, Diego Biasi. The three new funds are targeting... | Continue reading
The latest list of supported devices to get CM 14.1 Nightlies based on Android 7.1 Nougat have arrived, including OPPO, Moto, Samsung, HTC and Xiaomi devices. | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we review The Last Guardian, look at Japan’s arcade industry, and PewDiePie is threatening to delete his giant YouTube channel. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Opinions and pieces of flair The DeanBeat: Epic graphics guru T … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: Here's a 1 TB hard drive in 1937. Twenty workers operate... | Continue reading
It a bit of news that will surely shift the value proposition of Mario’s long-awaited iPhone debut for legions of underground commuters, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed this week that Super Mario Run will only work on a device with a constant internet connection. The legendary game cr … | Continue reading
YouTube’s most popular creator, Swedish sensation PewDiePie, followed through on his promise and deleted his channel after reaching 50 million subscribers. Not his main channel of course, that’s how he makes a living, but a second channel he started back in October. Gotcha! PewDi … | Continue reading
Developers had a busy year. Though some tried to claim that 2016 was the year apps were dying, the App Store saw some of its biggest changes — and its biggest hits — yet. From Pokémon Go to chatbots and all the apps that helped us take better selfies, the app world showed it coul … | Continue reading
Samsung has announced plans to obliterate all remaining Galaxy Note7 devices in the wild with a software update that prevents the device from working altogether. The fire-catching Galaxy Note7 calamity has caused untold damage to the Korean tech titan’s brand and bottom line, and … | Continue reading
Mobile VR is an Android game but as more and more rumors flourish about the next iPhone some companies are looking to get developers ready to bring iOS users into the world of VR. Occipital announced today that is launching a mixed reality platform built upon its depth-sensing te … | Continue reading
As the prolonged garbage fire that is 2016 draws to a close, Samsung seems to finally be putting the final nails in the coffin of the Note 7 saga. Admittedly, the last couple of months have mostly been a few isolated death rattles, but believe it or not there are still some devic … | Continue reading
While production and sale of new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices stopped back in October, some users have been slow to give up their ticking timebombs defective handsets.Now the fiery saga of the Note 7 is coming to a final end.Samsung has announced that, beginning Dec. 19, it will … | Continue reading
Pickle brand Branston has launched its 'Leftovers Day' campaign with the aim of getting consumers to liven up their Christmas leftovers this Boxing Day. | Continue reading
Workplace by Facebook has been in general release for just two months now, but it’s clear that Facebook has big plans for its enterprise social product. Just this week, at TechCrunch Disrupt in London, the company announced a new platform to integrate enterprise applications with … | Continue reading
Tim Sweeney stitched together an interesting vision of the future in a talk this week at the VRX virtual reality conference in San Francisco. He wants to build the Metaverse, the virtual world envisioned by Neal Stephenson in the novel Snow Crash in 1992. That novel’s vision of a … | Continue reading
A few days ago I played fetch with a robot. I threw a ball, and the robot — named Bridget — zoomed around one of our meeting rooms trying to retrieve it, along the way dodging a table, a box, and a chair. When the game was over, I took off the headset I was wearing and endured a … | Continue reading
Samsung will render remaining Galaxy Note 7s in the United States useless and inoperable with its next and final update for the recalled smartphone. Today the company confirmed that it plans to release an update on December 19th — to be distributed across all major carriers withi … | Continue reading
This was supposed to be the year of virtual reality. It kinda was, but it mostly wasn't, if you judge by how much it actually penetrated the mainstream.VR still has plenty of obstacles to overcome, one of them being that it's difficult to get a decent VR experience on the world's … | Continue reading
Jim Kim, who most recently cofounded the venture firm Formation 8, is launching a brand-new venture firm called Builders that looks to be raising a $200 million fund, judging by a recent SEC filing. His cofounder is Paul Lee, who left the Chicago venture firm Lightbank in 2014 an … | Continue reading
Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As TechCrunch reported last month, Yahoo’s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now – a move that indicated Yahoo’s plans to bring its desktop Q&A site to the App Store. However, at the time, t … | Continue reading
U.S. owners of the ZTE Axon 7 are now eligible to apply for access to the Android Nougat preview program. Details inside. | Continue reading
Tinder gets a new CEO — again. The popular dating apps said on Thursday that Sean Rad, the company’s co-founder, is stepping down as chief executive. He will trade jobs with Tinder’s current chairman, Gregg Blatt, who is also CEO and chairman of Tinder’s parent company, Match Gro … | Continue reading