New photos, along with a hands-on video, have been posted that reportedly show off the unannounced 2017 edition of the Samsung Galaxy A5. | Continue reading
No one becomes a champion by accident. OK, so there was that Steven Bradbury guy at the 2002 Winter Olympics, but how often do we really win in life because all our competitors have stacked it onto the ice? People only become champions in their field because they’ve found somethi … | Continue reading
GUEST: VR is hot! But is it permanent? Those of us who are old enough to have seen the rise of virtual reality in the ‘90s and then the fall and then another rise in mid 2000 and then another fall, know that the present hype about virtual reality may not be sustainable. That said … | Continue reading
A smartphone camera was used for the first time in Sports Illustrated's history to take the picture of its magazine cover, with the Moto Z Hasselblad mod. | Continue reading
It all started with a toaster. When Army Corporal Neftali Delgado awoke one day as a child only to find that the family toaster had stopped working, he decided to take it apart and see what was wrong. Cpl. Delgado turned his passion and interest in fixing various devices into a … | Continue reading
This afternoon, Norwest Venture Partners announced that it led a massive $210 million Series D investment round in OpenDoor. The startup is looking to expand the usage of its marketplace platform for buying and selling real estate to 10 cities with the new capital. OpenDoor is un … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has earned a reputation for being very volatile, but it is also very volatile, and offers a number of lessons for us to appreciate. | Continue reading
Sponsorships are the biggest source of revenue for the growing esports market, and that includes mobile gaming tournaments. Skillz has launched brand-sponsored tournaments, which enables marketers to fund competitions for any games that run the company’s esports platform. This pr … | Continue reading
Millions of people suffer from strokes every year worldwide, and severe ones can require long-term care — but as with other rehabilitation regimens, it can be hard for doctors to track the everyday activities of their patients. A high-tech suit created by a Dutch grad student may … | Continue reading
BMW introduced art car number 19 at Miami Art Basel on Wednesday night, an M6 GT3 by legendary Los Angeles-based artist John Baldessari. The BMW art cars are priceless works of automotive art. Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, and Jeff Koons have made cars for the collection.It’s an … | Continue reading
Amazon just added the artificial intelligence behind its Echo speakers to the list of services it offers to businesses. The company introduced a new service Wednesday called Lex, which allows developers and businesses to tap into the AI smarts that power Alexa for their own bots. … | Continue reading
Hatch, a new company spun off from Angry Birds developer Rovio, plans to launch an Android-based game streaming service in 2017. | Continue reading
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has not only issued a formal apology on the social media platform for editing comments made about him on the site by Donald Trump supporters, but he's announced a big change to the site as well. SEE ALSO: Reddit's Trump trolls are freaking out—and they're … | Continue reading
Yesterday (30 November) several brands with stores in Fitzrovia, central London, welcomed guests inside for food, drink and discounts. | Continue reading
Lego has launched its first VR app, dubbed Brickheadz, for smartphones compatible with Google's Daydream View headset. | Continue reading
Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition is a gift from the gaming gods, but it’s marred by one explicable flaw: the controller cable is too short, forcing you to sit extremely close to your TV. The solution was to get an aftermarket extension cable or alternate controller, but why not jus … | Continue reading
Tesla has won the right to open and operate its own dealership in Virginia, after the state Department of Motor Vehicles commissioner reversed a ruling from September denying it a license. In his decision, the commissioner cited overwhelming public support, as well as unique sale … | Continue reading
Slowly but surely the Moto Z is getting an ecosystem. The promising handset launched with some solid specs and a handful of add-ons that made it the most fully-formed modular handset to date — which, granted, isn’t say a whole heck of a lot.And Motorola’s been working to add to t … | Continue reading
If you want to take a trip to Hades (sorry, couldn't resist), check out the upcoming Hades' Star, a persistent space MMO looking for Alpha testers in our Upcoming Games forum. The game is still in very early development, but if you want to be one of the first to travel the unchar … | Continue reading
It has only been three weeks since Donald Trump won the election, but in that time, harassment and hate-related incidents across the country have increased. To fight the outbreak of violence and intimidation, some organizations are turning to digital maps. The wave of horrible ac … | Continue reading
Game tech startup Skillz today launched a service that allows brands to easily sponsor and host mobile e-sports tournaments for any game titles that they like, as long as they are already part of the Skillz platform. As we’ve previously reported, Skillz enables developers to turn … | Continue reading
A child pornography site called Giftbox has been attacking its users with a newly discovered exploit in the Tor Browser, according to an exclusive report from Motherboard. According to one user, the exploit was present on the main page, giving attackers a clear way to plant malwa … | Continue reading
McDonald's Big Mac was seen as a revolutionary idea when Jim Delligatti invented it in 1965, and the burger became the chain's flagship menu item. Delligatti died Monday at age 98. Photo: McDonald's | Continue reading
A fabulous piece of photographic history just sold at auction for $406,000, more than twice the estimated haul. This Nikon One was the third production camera — as in the third actual camera it built — from the now-famous company, and it’s the oldest one known to still be around … | Continue reading
Motorola CEO Aymar de Lencquesaing said today the Moto Z is "likely" to get a Moto Mod that will add Google's Tango 3D camera technology to the smartphone. | Continue reading
It’s been 75 days since Apple first announced the iPhone 7. That’s 75 days where customers were promised the solution to all of our headphone jack-less iPhone’s would soon come to an end. 75 days where iPhone owners were required to either purchase a third-party solution or use a … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-CS2-CFP05-2016-03Pillar: Societal ChallengesPlanned Opening Date: Deadline: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
Introducing PHP-SDS, a library for scientific computations on PHP. | Continue reading
It only took 17 years, but Lando Calrissian himself will finally get his chance to play Two-Face — but in Lego form. (Good enough!) During an exchange with a fan on Twitter, director Chris McKay revealed that Billy Dee Williams is voicing Harvey Dent in the upcoming The Lego Batm … | Continue reading
If you're a drone pilot who wants to fly a drone somewhere you shouldn't, there isn't a whole lot anyone can do right now to stop you, due to a variety of legal complications that govern drones in flight and jamming equipment. But that hasn't stopped an industry of potential anti … | Continue reading
Brand experience agency Sense has announced the launch of a new agency in the USA, following a client win with The Economist's North America Business. | Continue reading
Are you upset your team isn’t playing in a championship game this weekend and need a reason to watch? Well here’s a reason to watch at least one game on Saturday: Referees will wear hats with built-in GoPros during this weekend’s NCAA Football Big Ten Championship Game between Pe … | Continue reading
Here are some inbound marketing efforts you should expect to focus on in 2017. | Continue reading
Writer Rahawa Haile’s new Tumblr Gilmore Blacks spotlights every black person who appears in Netflix’s massively hyped Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. One of them is a secretary who gets fired moments after she first appears on-screen, others are deep in the background of a gi … | Continue reading
If you use iCal and have noticed a weird, sudden influx of calendar invites suggesting you buy bootleg purse knockoffs… you’re not alone.Just before Black Friday, spammers started tapping a relatively new technique: sending spam as event invites to iCloud email addresses, rather … | Continue reading
Your Google accounts could have been compromised if you own a Android phone, thanks to a new malware variant known as "Gooligan."The malware has infected more than 1 million accounts, according to research released Wednesday from cyber security company Check Point, and that figur … | Continue reading
If you’ve been a fan of SurveyMonkey Intelligence, then you’ll be disappointed to know that the company is shuttering its mobile app insight service on January 31, 2017. No specific reason for the closure as given, but SurveyMonkey will provide insights and data until the end of … | Continue reading
The IRS can serve bitcoin and ether exchange startup Coinbase with a summons for information about its users, a federal judge has ordered.Source | Continue reading
A few months in, my Bluechilli business advisor, Brett, said, “oh, by the way, we’re thinking of planning a founders trip to San Francisco. Would you want to come along?” | Continue reading
Not long ago I came across the very first article I wrote for publication, far too many years ago. The article was entitled “Wearing Jack’s Hat,” though I don’t remember if that title made it through to publication. At the time I was writing on a floppy-disk computer and printing … | Continue reading
Don't Grind [Free] is a silly game, but silly in the positive sense of the word. We really like it here at TouchArcade towers, and it's no accident it was our Game of the Week. Something about trying to keep those poor vegetables, sweets, or whatever from dying at the blades of t … | Continue reading
Online anonymity can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can give people a voice when they’d otherwise be afraid to speak up – whether that’s because of fear of government surveillance, discussing a topic that’s known to provoke cyberbullying, or because the topic itself … | Continue reading
Founder Collective, the seven-year-old, Cambridge, Ma.-based seed-stage venture fund, has closed its third fund with $75 million in capital from a small group of limited partners whose so-called anchor investors are the the firm’s three partners: David Frankel, Micah Rosenbloom, … | Continue reading
We’ve got machine learning systems captioning images, synthesizing speech, and translating between languages, but it seems we’ve been neglecting their cultural development. Would you believe the future rulers of this planet are largely ignorant of classical music? A new project l … | Continue reading
We’ve all had a lot of fun playing around with image recognition machine learning AIs from the likes of Google and Microsoft. Today, Amazon’s getting in the game with the launch of its own tool, Amazon Rekognition, which aims to provide deep-learning services to developers.While … | Continue reading
It all started with a toaster. When Army Corporal Neftali Delgado awoke one day as a child only to find that the family toaster had stopped working, he decided to take it apart and see what was wrong. Cpl. Delgado turned his passion and interest in fixing various devices into a … | Continue reading
With retail and shopping front of mind in December in the run-up to Christmas, Event looks at retail spaces available for events. | Continue reading