Over the last half hour or so, reports have started pouring in from Facebook users that the social network has suddenly “memorialized” their pages, strongly suggesting that they are dead to everyone who stops by.Take the above profile of our own Darrell Etherington — who is very … | Continue reading
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has published a new white paper on distributed ledger tech.Source | Continue reading
Many living Facebook users were "memorialized" Friday afternoon, meaning the social network claimed they were dead.You just can't make this stuff up.SEE ALSO: Facebook pledges to clear News Feed of misinformation, againIt's unclear why this happened, but the issue affected a vari … | Continue reading
Facebook is capping one of the longest weeks in American history by telling everyone that they are dead. Log on to your profile and there’s a good chance it will have a memorial banner sitting on top of it, urging your friends and family members to remember you. “We hope people w … | Continue reading
November 11 — the date of the 11/11 shopping bonanza — is generally a day when Alibaba creates the headlines. While the e-commerce giant broke records again this year, selling a colossal $17.79 billion of goods inside 24 hours, its rival Tencent grabbed a share of the attention a … | Continue reading
A bug appears to have caused Facebook.com to trigger memorial alerts on at least some users‘ timelines. Facebook, I know the election was bad, but we’re not all dead yet. The alert reads “Remembering [name]. We hope people who love [name] will find comfort in the things others sh … | Continue reading
Today, Facebook decided to give race-based targeting the boot after many (myself included) raised issue with its possibility for misuse. But wait, let’s back up a second. As a Facebook representative explained to me ever-so-patiently back in March, you can’t target by race on Fac … | Continue reading
In a very interesting interview, Niantic's chief marketing officer, Mike Quigley, talked about how the summer felt both great and awful for Pokemon GO [Free] and about how he sees the game's future. He first talked about how overwhelmed they were by the way the game took off and … | Continue reading
Timing is everything. And for DJI, the timing for the Mavik Pro, the stars seemed to align perfectly. A couple of weeks after GoPro’s big unveil, the company had a folding drone of its own that was smaller and more feature packed that the Karma. And, in spite of being late to the … | Continue reading
I have a love-hate relationship with hoverboards. They make me happy when I ride them but they suck to fall off of lol. The other day I saw a guy carrying his newborn baby while riding a hoverboard and I started having a minor anxiety attack. EPIKGO sent me their hoverboard to tr … | Continue reading
When Snap, Inc. announced earlier this year that it had created a pair of video-recording sunglasses called Spectacles, it was a little hard to get a handle on just what the end result would be. Snap was new to the hardware game, and more ambitious wearables like Google Glass had … | Continue reading
In a statement released today, Donald Trump named Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel to the executive committee of his presidential transition team.The news was broken early last night by Dan Primack. Continue reading… | Continue reading
This is a little flat in the heart of the industrial part of Poble Nou district of Barcelona that was in very bad conditions and now is a ... | Continue reading
Inspired by traditional Chilean architecture, Casa La Quimera is a wooden house designed by architect Carlos Torres Alcalde. | Continue reading
31/44 Architects have completed Wenslauer House, a new spacious family home on a constrained site in central Amsterdam. | Continue reading
Scientific papers come out with such frequency that keeping up with the literature is practically a full-time job for anyone at the cutting edge of a major field. Semantic Scholar is a search engine that reads the literature on its own, establishing patterns and influences, ranki … | Continue reading
Apple on Thursday released a new Apple TV application called iBooks StoryTime that brings children’s books to the TV’s big screen. Kids can flip through the pages of the books on their own, or switch on Read-Aloud narration which will sync the audio to the on-screen text and flip … | Continue reading
Free or paid, there are more tools available than ever to help with search engine optimization. Find out which ones offer the functionality you need. | Continue reading
Kemco has released Astral Frontier, a turn-based RPG with retro style graphics, in the Google Play Store in free and premium versions. | Continue reading
So you just bought Sony’s new PlayStation 4 Pro. Maybe you, like me, were itching to get a new console with a 1TB hard drive and thought, “Why not?” Or perhaps you’re genuinely excited about the prospects of 4K HDR gaming, and have the right living room hardware to make it a real … | Continue reading
This morning, the United Launch Alliance sent an Atlas 5 401 rocket loaded with Digital Globe’s WorldView 4 satellite into space. The satellite will create a new pipeline for sending high quality satellite imagery back to earth. DigitalGlobe worked with Lockheed Martin to build a … | Continue reading
PlayOn has long offered media server software that allows cord cutters to record from streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Hulu and others, in order to watch on any device – without ads – even when offline. Now, it’s taking this “cloud DVR” functionality to mobile throug … | Continue reading
Sony announced today that the new update rolling out to Xperia X Performance users should address the accelerometer issues. | Continue reading
Earlier this year we brought you an in-depth exposé of how, for 12 days in February and March, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ran the world’s largest child porn site, Playpen. According to newly unsealed documents, Playpen wasn’t the only site containing child pornogra … | Continue reading
The latest update to the Google Photos app for Android now allows user to create animations without the need for an Internet connection. | Continue reading
More than simply focusing on our veteran hiring rate, we need to honor our veterans by making a real investment in helping their career development and professional integration. Read More | Continue reading
Paid Content ByHuaweiThe humidity in Miami hits like a freight train the second you step out of the airportFor Jill Emmer, a photographer on a city-sleuthing mission to document the city through the lens of the Huawei Honor 8 smartphone, though, the heat is more welcoming than op … | Continue reading
The European Union has now asked the US to clarify on the alleged mass espionage, amid concerns that the US may have violated the Privacy Shield agreement. | Continue reading
Uber has long been a supporter of the United States military, dating back to when they launched UberMILITARY two years ago with the goal of signing up 50,000 military veterans to be drivers.Today, on Veteran’s Day, the company is launching a new feature aimed at honoring service … | Continue reading
The free-to-play mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius has been downloaded more than 8 million times to date, according to Japanese game publisher Square Enix. And to boost the engagement, Square Enix and Gumi are announcing today an update that will have a limited-time crossove … | Continue reading
Against long odds, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to become the president-elect of the United States of America.And now people all over the world are legitimately worried about what his presidency will mean for technology. Joining me on MashTalk this week to discuss the topic … | Continue reading
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Trump has gone on the record asking for backdoors to encryption and devices, saying he supports surveillance, and is against Net Neutrality. Policies pursuant to these goals will necessarily put your data at risk.The following are privacy tips anyone can use, but they are particu … | Continue reading
Yesterday's release of Snapchat's "Spectacles" was highly anticipated by pretty much everyone. Here's what we know so far: | Continue reading
Yesterday’s release of Snapchat’s “Spectacles” was highly anticipated by pretty much everyone. Snap Inc. (formerly Snapchat Inc.) didn’t release many details about the product before its launch. However, now that it’s in the hands of...read moreThe post Snapchat Spectacles: Here’ … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 15 is actually out at the end of the month. Like, it's actually out. After all this time. Weird.Aoife and I have played a bunch of it already and ended up having loads of fun.But perhaps you remain unconvinced. Fair enough. Perhaps what you need is another demo.Read … | Continue reading
Remember that time you complained about how unfair a game is only to find out that you really didn’t try that hard in the first place? You’re not alone. Dion Anderson, a game streamer known as PaperBat, just had a rough experience in Nintendo’s Paper Mario: Color Splash game for … | Continue reading
AT&T today announced a new feature for its data plans called Stream Saver that will effectively throttle mobile video streams starting sometime next year. Touted as a “free and convenient, data-saving feature,” AT&T will cap what it says are most video streams to 480p by default. … | Continue reading
Apple will launch a trio of new iPads this spring, according to Barclays research analysts. Citing the company’s Asian supply chain, the analysts report we can expect a 10.9-inch model with a borderless design. Due to the bezel-less display, the larger iPad would occupy the same … | Continue reading
Disney's quarterly earnings were once again weighted down by income and subscriber declines at ESPN. WSJ's Shalini Ramachandran has details and explains why there may be hope for Disney investors going forward. Photo: Reuters | Continue reading
In the past months, we’ve held hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to SCALE, our early-stage growth program at TNW NYC. The applications for SCALE are now closed, and we’re proud to have 60 of the world’s hottest … | Continue reading
Bitcoin network data shows that 25 percent of nodes worldwide are signaling support for Segregated Witness.Source | Continue reading
A team of Chinese hackers found a vulnerability in the new Google Pixel phone that let them perform a remote code execution during the annual PwnFest event. | Continue reading
I’m sorry that we couldn’t tell you this sooner, but publisher Bethesda’s Dishonored 2 isn’t working that well on PC. Players across that platform are reporting issues with optimization that are preventing the stealth adventure from performing well even on powerful, modern rigs. … | Continue reading
He's tweeting again! The ever-loving President-elect Donald J. Trump is tweeting again.After winning the presidential election and — for a solid 48 hours — appearing presidential, Trump returned to his favorite social media platform.Just had a very open and successful presidentia … | Continue reading
According to Barclays Research analysts Blayne Curtis, Christopher Hemmelgarn, Thomas O’Malley and Jerry Zhang, Apple’s next-generation iPhone, which is expected to be called the iPhone 8, could ship with a larger screen and a curved, bezel-less design. Citing sources within Appl … | Continue reading
B&O Play introduced its new A2 Active Bluetooth speaker this month that builds on the success of its original Beoplay A2 from 2014. The Beoplay A2 Active isn’t much different than the original A2, but it is now splash and dust resistant. It also ditches the old DC power input and … | Continue reading
Nothing makes sense anymore. Shia LaBeouf, the actor and man who enjoys hanging out in elevators and calling it art, can rap. More precisely, he has bars. The man can spit. In a year when barely anything makes sense, Shia LaBeouf turning out to be a great freestyle rapper is comp … | Continue reading