Square Enix implemented its president and CEO Yosuke Matsuda as a special lvl.99 boss for its Final Fantasy 15 promotional livestream.While not in the actual retail game, a recent presentation of Final Fantasy 15 included the publisher's executive as part of a "mystery disc" uniq … | Continue reading
The adoption rate of Bitcoin leaves a lot to be desired. The slow rate of adoption is attributed to limited spending options when it comes to making payments for regular, everyday needs. Uphold, the cryptocurrency platform has made spending digital currency a bit easier by introd … | Continue reading
If you've been watching Westworld recently or just like your westerns, you should check out Colt Express [$6.99], the digital adaptation of the award-winning board game with the same name. Colt Express is a turn-based strategy game where you plot your actions using cards that hav … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley has largely been averse to Donald Trump, but a venture capitalist with close ties to Peter Thiel will now be helping the president-elect. Trae Stephens, a principal at Thiel's Founders Fund firm, has been tapped to join the Trump transition team. Continue read … | Continue reading
ZTE has started a new contest to name its upcoming eye-tracking and self-adhesive phone, which was the winner of its recent Project CSX design contest. | Continue reading
The original Facetune app made it easy and fast to make your selfies look next-level awesome. Lightricks just released a fully revamped version 2 of Facetune, complete with automatic 3D meshing built in, which makes it possible to have another level of editing prowess at your fin … | Continue reading
After 12 years of touring the Saturn system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about to enter a new orbit — one that will take the probe up close to the planet’s famous rings. These Ring-Grazing Orbits, as NASA is calling them, will bring Cassini within nearly 5,000 miles of Saturn’s … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that it has updated its Skype for Business app for iOS such that the app now takes advantage of optional improvements for third-party VoIP calls that Apple introduced in iOS 10 earlier this year. Formerly known as Lync 2013, Skype for Business lets peopl … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky just received a colossal Foundation Update, drastically expanding the space exploration game's feature list, and developer Hello Games has promised much more to come. While it's been cagey on the details of what that entails, recent signs suggest that the sci-fi game … | Continue reading
When a robot goes to sleep, what does it dream about? Atari games, apparently. In humans, nocturnal sleep (or even daytime naps) helps to consolidate memory, shifting short-term memory to long-term storage. Through three distinct processes — stabilization, enhancement, and integr … | Continue reading
Walmart is promoting its Cyber Monday deals today with a QVC-style, four-hour stream. If you missed its live run from 9AM to 1PM ET today, good news! It’s looping all day. Yes, you too can partake in this bizarre collection of corny jokes, caroling, holiday beats, and sales onlin … | Continue reading
LeEco may have had some high-profile setbacks in recent weeks, with news coming from the company that it had overextended itself financially in some areas, but the Chinese electronics maker and service provider is still doing ambitious things in retail, starting with a new flagsh … | Continue reading
Germany’s central bank has built a new blockchain prototype focused on securities trading and settlement.Source | Continue reading
Over the past several years, the popularity of “sharing economy” models has skyrocketed. The key to success has been finding a category with high demand but low capacity utilization, then relentlessly focusing on the customer experience. Although vehicles are among the most expen … | Continue reading
When we look back at the history of mobile games and pinpoint the titles that helped define the platform, Andreas Illiger's Tiny Wings [$0.99] will most certainly be near the top of the list. It took the world by storm following its release in early 2011, and continued the tradit … | Continue reading
Charge, an Oxford-based electric vehicle company in the UK, is testing its prototypes in the most time-honored way: at the races. Since the dawn of the automotive age, inventors and manufacturers have taken their cars to the track to test their capabilities. These trucks aren’t r … | Continue reading
Every week, Chris Plante swings for the fences with one massive theory about the future of Westworld. But he’s out with food poisoning — we’re going to try to take that as proof that he isn’t secretly a bot — and we only have one episode left in season 1, so it’s time to air all … | Continue reading
With all the great Black Friday deals that went on, we want to know - did you buy anything this Black Friday? Be sure to cast your vote in our latest Poll of the Week! | Continue reading
A suspect was shot and killed after a Monday morning attack at Ohio State University in Columbus that left at least nine people injured, according to the university. Photo: AP | Continue reading
With advances in information technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence developing at a rapid rate, workforce dislocations are happening now and are here to stay. As existing trends accelerate and irreversibly change the workforce as we know it, the question to be answered … | Continue reading
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with Will Sherlin of 3PillarGlobal about my latest book Charting Change on The Innovation Engine podcast. In this conversation we focused on how to make change efforts stick … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Uber riders may find the availability of rides in short supply on Monday as “hundreds” of drivers in two dozen U.S. cities go on strike. The action is intended to raise awareness of a desire by not only Uber drivers, but fast-food cooks, airport baggage handlers, home care worker … | Continue reading
Blizzard is moving on to the fourth expansion for its popular digital card game, and now we know when you can expect it. The Mean Streets of Gadgetzan will debut December 1, which should make it easy for me to figure out what to get GamesBeat editor Jason Wilson and writer Mike M … | Continue reading
Welcome to the 2016 TechCrunch Holiday Gift Guide! We’ll be rolling out a bunch of guides leading up to Christmas, hopefully making your holiday shopping a little easier. Looking for gifts for others on your list? Check out our full 2016 Gift Guide Hub. Cars are okay on their own … | Continue reading
After years of anticipation, Netflix has produced and released six new hours of Gilmore Girls. These new episodes should be enjoyable to watch, if only because they let us all revisit beloved characters and familiar settings. But they’re also six terrible hours of television. The … | Continue reading
On this week's episode of The Showrunner, Jerod and Jonny discuss one of the more recent and more popular articles aimed at today's Showrunner. | Continue reading
Best Buy is currently selling the Verizon prepaid version of the Moto G4 Play for just $34.99, with no service required from the carrier. | Continue reading
San Francisco’s public transit riders were greeted with an unusual message at ticket kiosks over the weekend: “You hacked.” The city’s light rail system, MUNI, was compromised in what appears to be a non-targeted ransomware attack, and riders were given free transit on Saturday u … | Continue reading
With the boon in drone sales, the likelihood that they’ll be used to commit criminal acts rises. ISIS has even begun using them to shuttle explosive devices around war-torn Iraq. There’s no shortage of devices built to take down drones. But current technology requires the gadget … | Continue reading
Action in the bitcoin price today has been relatively lackluster, once again. We managed to get in a little earlier on a breakout scalp trade, but apart from that, things have been pretty flat. We’re heading into this evening’s session with some degree of optimism, however, based … | Continue reading
The death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has put the spotlight on President-elect Donald Trump, who promised to reverse recent economic openings by President Barack Obama. WSJ's John Bussey explains on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Certain strategies will not only help you combat writer’s block, but also ensure your posts are up to snuff where search engine optimization is concerned. | Continue reading
Ready or not, CES 2017 is coming.As always, the Mashable tech team will be in Las Vegas to bring you the definitive guide to all of best tech products and services announced at the show, which starts on Jan. 5 and runs through Jan. 8.SEE ALSO: The best tech of CES 2016It's easy t … | Continue reading
You probably know filmmaker Wes Anderson from his meticulous, quirky, and outrageously charming movies like Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. What you may not know is that he’s also brought his unmistakeable style to the world of commercials for years, an … | Continue reading
Hello once more and welcome to another Touchstone Tavern, our weekly column that covers everything that happened in the world of Hearthstone [Free] this past week. As you can probably guess, the world of Hearthstone currently revolves around the upcoming expansion, Mean Streets o … | Continue reading
REVIEW: Logitech launched one of the best wireless gaming headsets last year with its G933 Artemis Spectrum. A year on, the company is updating that device with a new color while competitors introduce a number of improvements. Logitech G933 Artemis Spectrum Snow Pricing: $200 Av … | Continue reading
What better way to celebrate the passage of a decade or so spent waiting for the new installment of a popular video game franchise than with a commemorative Sony Walkman? A fitting homage to a series that dates back to the late-80s. Sony’s marking tomorrow’s long awaited release … | Continue reading
People are networks of desires, needs, outlooks, and experience. We all have stories of where we came from, and ideas of where we're going. Sometimes we talk about our dreams, sometimes we make plans, and sometimes we just show up. Rob Lawless is interested in learning where peop … | Continue reading
People are deeply worried that Instagram is tattling on them whenever they take a screenshot. See this inflammatory tweet as an example:Instagram sends alerts when you take screenshots now: https://t.co/ZGnSEzcPil pic.twitter.com/n13nuc6uSF— Esquire (@esquire) November 28, 2016Th … | Continue reading
On this episode of StudioPress FM, Brian Gardner and Lauren Mancke discuss their favorite moments and guests from Season One of the show. | Continue reading
No matter the forum, choose your words wisely. That's the advice of 17th century Jesuit Balthasar Gracian in The Art of Worldly Wisd... | Continue reading
If you’re using iCloud to sync your calendar across your devices, chances are you just received a bunch of spammy invites over the last few days. Many users are reporting fake events about Black Friday “deals” coming from Chinese users. If you’re looking for cheap Ray-Ban or Loui … | Continue reading
Canadian self-driving vehicle tests are about to kick off on Ontario public roads, with three groups approved to take part in a pilot licensing program that allows autonomous testing with a safety driver behind the wheel. BlackBerry is one of the three, along with the University … | Continue reading
The Pixel has "Phone by Google" engraved on it, which is something new! So lets take a look at the tech, the geeky stuff, that Google built into it. | Continue reading
Google's navigation app Waze now has a way to access driving directions from the hosts of Amazon's latest TV series The Grand Tour. | Continue reading
A Japanese insurance firm is reportedly planning to launch a new policy line aimed at bitcoin exchanges.Source | Continue reading
When I first heard about Eggggg [$2.99], I couldn't help but agree with the developer's own assessment that the title was 'ridiculous' and 'crazy'. After all, Eggggg is a game where you literally propel your protagonist around a variety of colorful environments with their own vom … | Continue reading
UPDATE 28/11/2016 9.24pm: The Inside demo is available on PS4 as well, where it's also on sale for £7.39. The Xbox One version is likewise on sale for… | Continue reading