Overwatch's highly anticipated new character Sombra is now live on PS4, Xbox One and PC.Sombra is a hacker capable of shutting down other characters' abilities. She can also turn invisible, teleport, and release an EMP (her ultimate ability) that discharges all shields, barriers, … | Continue reading
Perhaps you missed the news about Google’s new router. Wouldn’t have been hard. The company announced the thing at the same event it debuted the Pixel and its Daydream headset, so no one spent all that much time talking about the new new home networking hardware. If you weren’t p … | Continue reading
Snapchat appears to be moving forward in its plans to go public early next year with the company filing confidentially for its IPO, according to a report from Reuters. In recent years, companies have begun filing confidentially for their initial public offerings well ahead of rev … | Continue reading
Hale House is a project of renovation and modernization of a four-room apartment located in an old building in London. | Continue reading
Casa Merello is a single-family house designed by W|M|R Arquitectos, located in Pichilemu, Chile. Built for a Chilean professional surfer,... | Continue reading
Kona Coast Retreat is set on a lava field poised at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. This unique residence reimagines a Hawaiian sanctuary. | Continue reading
Lambeth Marsh House is a family home renovated by Fraher Architects. Lambeth Marsh House had been left unoccupied for over ten years | Continue reading
Seagate announced today that its popular Backup Plus Portable line of external hard drives now comes in a massive 5TB size. The company is claiming that the new 5TB capacity option is the world’s highest capacity portable hard drive, and I can’t find any evidence that it’s wrong. … | Continue reading
Devialet’s Phantom speakers made waves earlier this year due to their innovative, compact design that could throw out ridiculously low bass without muddying up the higher end of the audio spectrum. At $2,000 though, the speakers aren’t exactly cheap, so only lucky audiophiles wit … | Continue reading
Mozilla today launched Firefox 50 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version, which was delayed by a week to improve startup times, also includes download protection for more executable file types and new keyboard shortcuts. Firefox 50 for the desktop is available for … | Continue reading
Another day done in our bitcoin price trading operations, and it’s been a pretty interesting one. This morning we noted that we hadn’t seen too much volatility early week, and that in the absence of this volatility, getting in and out of the markets has been a little tough. We al … | Continue reading
These are things we know to be true:Facebook is increasingly a leading news source for many Americans.There is a crap-ton of fake and biased news on Facebook.Here’s what people are getting wrong:Facebook deserves all the blame.It’s Facebook’s fault that Donald Trump is now Presid … | Continue reading
In a keynote speech during the LA Auto Show today, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said his company will spend $250 million over the next two years toward the development of autonomous vehicles. It’s a significant sum of money and a clear sign that the computer chip manufacturer is seri … | Continue reading
Two years ago, I was chatting with a very smart venture capitalist about an investment he was making in the drone industry. The hardware side of the drone business would be quickly commodified, he told me, and the real value would be collected by the software makers who built pla … | Continue reading
If you managed to catch the BBC’s highly-acclaimed nature tour-de-force, you were probably smitten by the narration as much as the imagery. Richard Kiley, Sir David Attenborough and Sigourney Weaver (US version) were all excellent choices to explain the stunning imagery and magic … | Continue reading
As part of Google’s slew of artificial intelligence announcements today, the company is releasing a number of AI web experiments powered by its cloud services that anyone can go and play with. One — called Quick, Draw! — gives you a prompt to draw an image of a written word or p … | Continue reading
The boys are back. GamesBeat Decides is starting to find its footing, and it only took us three episodes to get to that point. This week should have the best audio version yet, which you can listen to below or by subscribing to our new RSS feed. The show should hit iTunes, Google … | Continue reading
Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology is making inroads into every industry sector possible. The energy sector is one such industry which may soon see a widespread adoption. According to reports, a survey conducted by the Deutsche Energie- Agentur (German Energy Agency) and … | Continue reading
The Google WiFi routers that were first announced over a month ago are now finally available for pre-order, with prices starting at $129. | Continue reading
Along with the debut of two drones at what we assume will be DJI’s last big news of the year, the company showed off a new display add-on for its controller, aimed to take the place of a smartphone. The CrystalSky is a comes in 5.5 (920×1080) or 7.85-inch( 2048 x 1536) configurat … | Continue reading
Microsoft launched its Azure Bot Services today to give bot creators the option to move their bots into the cloud and let Microsoft handle server and storage issues, the company announced today. Alexa Web Service is cloud-based, but until today, none of the big three cloud provid … | Continue reading
Watch Dogs 2 is rated M for Mature, but it still decided to remove some adult-themed material. Ubisoft has confirmed to GamesBeat that it is removing a texture that explicitly depicts a woman’s vagina in Watch Dogs 2. Up until this point, the open-world hacking game featured at l … | Continue reading
GUEST: Having a Siri-like bot for your business will be less and less impressive as time goes on. Leading brands are now investing in bots to solve real customer issues rather than offering simple answers. Building a conversational bot is a challenge, but it is the right thing to … | Continue reading
RareSloth has announced the latest update for King Rabbit [Free] is releasing this Thursday, November 17th. The Winter Expansion – which is technically releasing in the fall – features 64 new levels, all featuring a winter theme. You'll have to deal with icy floors and walls, pis … | Continue reading
Battlefield 1 running on PlayStation 4 Pro offers a tangible performance advantage over standard PS4 owners, potentially offering a gameplay advantage to owners of Sony's upgraded console hardware. In our tests, there's anything up to a 47 per cent frame-rate advantage in scenari … | Continue reading
The FBI has publicly disclosed its intent to get at the “mission critical” Twitter firehose through third party monitoring service Dataminr. But Twitter, which has a 5 percent stake in Dataminr and of course has sovereign control over the firehose, recently told the company to st … | Continue reading
As Apple’s new MacBook Pros continue to make their way out into the world, people are coming to grips with the new port situation in different ways. Some have chosen dongles. Others are relying on docks. Now, we have yet another option, the Line Dock.The Line Dock is an Indiegogo … | Continue reading
Grow and enhance your small business' presence on social media with these tips. | Continue reading
Are you a freelance blogger that wants to become more productive? Follow this guide to double your productivity. | Continue reading
Google’s Cloud Machine Learning service launched earlier this year and, already, the company is calling it one of its “fastest growing product areas.” Today, the company is announcing a number of new features for Cloud Machine Learning users and developers who want to run their o … | Continue reading
Google today said that it’s improving translations that are available through its Google Translate service for nine languages by using neural machine translation, a method that was recently implemented for translations from Chinese to English. The improvements work for English, S … | Continue reading
Today, Google Cloud chief Diane Greene announced the company’s new push in machine learning and artificial intelligence. There’s now a new group in Greene’s division that will unify some of the disparate teams that had previously been doing machine learning work across Google’s c … | Continue reading
Supercell has outstanding mobile games, but it’s also known for killing off the projects that don’t work. The Helsinki, Finland-based company is known for games such as Clash Royale, Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, and Helsinki. These games have generated more than 100 million daily … | Continue reading
In 2015, New York City launched a municipal identification program with the goal of giving some of the city’s most vulnerable residents access to services that require an ID. Mayor Bill de Blasio gave the plan vocal support, saying the card represented “who we are: New Yorkers wh … | Continue reading
DJI has just launched two new, professional-grade drones, and to show just what these bad boys can do, the company has released a short film shot entirely with its new hardware.Shot on the Inspire 2 by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Claudio Morandi (best known for his work … | Continue reading
Shuffle Cats [Free], King's latest game, is all about virtual cats, but now it wants to add some actual cats to the mix, and your cat might be it. The game is an update version of Rummy and is quite entertaining with charming art, especially if you like cats. Today, King has anno … | Continue reading
Google has launched PhotoScan, an app that digitizes old print images, while also adding new features for the Google Photos app. | Continue reading
DJI’s been keeping busy in these waning days of 2016. Hot on the heels on its Mavic Pro announcement back in late September, the drone maker announced an upgrade to its giant Matrice 600 last week. Today the company held a relatively intimate event in Los Angeles to debut yet ano … | Continue reading
The Chinese drone maker DJI already has a commanding position in the market for both consumer and commercial drones, but the company isn’t slowing down. In fact, it seems to be pushing out new product faster than ever, putting its foot on the throat of competitors already struggl … | Continue reading
DJI has a chokehold on the consumer drone market, and it’s leveraging that dominance to try and establish itself as the clear leader for commercial drones used by professionals as well. When it introduced the Inspire 1 back in November of 2014, the company said it was trying to b … | Continue reading
Drones have always been flying robots, but all those smarts haven't stopped them from flying backwards into trees, walls and people.The new DJI Phantom 4 Pro won't do that. This is DJI's first drone with 360-degree awareness thanks to six collision-avoidance systems arrayed aroun … | Continue reading
The Inspire wasn’t the only DJI line to get a refresh at today’s intimate event in Los Angeles. The company’s Phantom line is also getting a bump, with the addition of the Phantom 4 Pro. Like the Inspire 2, the refreshed prosumer model features improved obstacle avoidance, courte … | Continue reading
IBM and Nvidia have collaborated to develop a new software suite for Power microprocessors and Nvidia GPUs. Dubbed PowerAI, it's meant to allow for much faster deep learning and faster problem solving. The post IBM, Nvidia release new PowerAI software suite for deep learning pro … | Continue reading
This week, Travis and Stewart were in Lisbon for Web Summit, where 53,056 people ate over 97,000 custard pastries, and the world’s best minds came together to drop knowledge bombs across 17 stages. We reveal who we interviewed for our special VB Engage: Web Summit episodes and di … | Continue reading
Preorders are now open for Google’s new Wifi routers, along with an expected release date of December 6th, as noted by Droid Life. Google is selling the Wifi in two options, either as a single $129 device or a $299 bundle of three for use in a mesh network setup.Similar to Eero’s … | Continue reading
For the first time ever, Chinese scientists have injected a person with cells that have been tweaked by the genome-editing technique CRISPR, Nature reports. The procedure was part of a clinical trial led by oncologist Lu You at the West China Hospital in Chengdu; it involved edit … | Continue reading
Automobility LA, once billed as the Los Angeles Auto Show press days, kicks off this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This year the auto show has rebranded itself as all about the future — but what kind of future that will be after the unexpected outcome of the presiden … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it will launch virtual machine (VM) instances that are backed by graphics processing units (GPUs) early in 2017 through its Google Cloud Platform public cloud. Competitors Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM SoftLayer, and Microsoft Azure have launched GPU- … | Continue reading