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
Saying that the internet can be a negative place sometimes is a bit of an understatement. And in that vein, if you look at the landscape of some of the biggest movie-related YouTube channels — Red Letter Media, Honest Trailers, Cinema Sins, How It Should Have Ended, Your Movie Su … | Continue reading
Poor user experience design is a surefire way to drive away website visitors and diminish SEO. Follow these UX examples instead. | Continue reading
On February 20, 1962 John Glenn had a problem. Glenn, the first American in orbit, was inside his capsule, the Friendship 7. Mission Control wanted him to test the capsule’s manual controls. During the effort the automatic systems failed leaving him in full control of one of the … | Continue reading
Tim Jones, creative director at RPM, discusses the importance of playful creativity when it comes to success within the events industry. | Continue reading
Kaum ein Device hat dieses Jahr Kritiker derart auf die Palme steigen lassen wie das neue MacBook Pro, das im Oktober von Apple präsentiert wurde. Gerade Kreative sind von den Neuerungen nicht überzeugt, waren aber gerade die doch jene, die... | Continue reading
Are you working on your content creation budget for 2017? Here are three key questions to ask yourself to ensure you're making the right investments. | Continue reading
Build a simple RSS reader in easy to follow steps, using AsyncTask to fetch feeds, and XmlPullParser to parse the returned XML. Complete source code included. | Continue reading
Facebook today announced it’s correcting a few more issues with its metrics in areas like audience estimation for ads, live video reaction counts, and its Like and Share buttons. Though the fixes are referencing several of Facebook’s more high-profile products, the issues being a … | Continue reading
If you were hoping to play the upcoming Super Mario Run [Free] in a tunnel, in a nuclear bunker, somewhere in the Amazon forest, in a fridge next to Harrison Ford, in the middle of Death Valley, after the world ends, or simply wanted to play it without using Wi-Fi or data, then I … | Continue reading
Sprinklr has introduced a new product, called Audiences, that lets brands be more efficient when advertising across social channels. The objective is to sync the conversational data Sprinklr gathers across Twitter, Facebook, websites, and other sources with marketing opportunitie … | Continue reading
Keeping your audience engaged is key for successful content marketing. Our Creative Spotlight reviews content strategies to help... | Continue reading
Healer Tech has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Flexr, a connected sensor that attaches to a muscle and gamifies rehabilitation and exercise. The device is a confluence of trends such as the Internet of Things, gamification, and the quantified self — all drivin … | Continue reading
Content - Digital asset management software can put an end to many day-to-day frustrationsfrom not finding files, to not being unable to send them because they're too large, to mistakenly using outdated ... | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - To many midmarket retailers today, Amazon.com seems unstoppable. It's not. An underdog, however, doesn't win by beating a giant at its own gamebut by outwitting, outmaneuvering, and out-strategizing it. | Continue reading
Marketing and sales teams work together to increase sales performance. Closed-loop reporting is the use of CRM and marketing software in a winning partnership. | Continue reading
Social Media - Facebook takes on fake news and Snapchat; Google makes itself searchable via emojis... on Twitter; regulators OK Microsoft's LinkedIn acquisition; Twitter Moments now on mobile; conferences you shouldn't miss in ... | Continue reading
In Dawn of Titans, you can make hundreds of tiny soldiers do your bidding with a tap of your finger. They fire arrows, swing swords, and toss fiery bombs, while a giant titan fights alongside them. All you need to do is tell them where to go. In a lot of ways it’s a strategy game … | Continue reading