Google has released a new video that offers a quick but detailed look at the features it has included in Android 7.1 Nougat. | Continue reading
Instagram has confirmed that it’s working on adding a live video feature to its app. CEO Kevin Systrom discussed the company’s live video ambitions in an interview with the Financial Times today. This comes just a few weeks after we got our first glimpse of the feature being test … | Continue reading
Google has now filed its official response to the EU’s antitrust charges against its Android mobile OS. The company had previously been granted a deadline extension by the European Commission, which kicked off a formal investigation into Android back in April. Read More | Continue reading
Three out of four capital markets participants believe distributed ledger tech will see widespread use within the next six years.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn sparked a range of product revisions and expansions – including some that PR and marketing may enjoy. LinkedIn added Sponsored InMail to its self-serve products available through its Campaign Manager. Although effectiveness will vary depending on … | Continue reading
Pinterest, the startup behind the eponymous app that lets users pin photos and other content to boards, is announcing today the launch of a new feature in pins that lets users specify whether they’ve tried what’s shown in a pin — for example, a pair of running shoes, or a recipe … | Continue reading
Pinterest has historically been more an idea board – a place to dream about ideas you want to try or products you want to buy. Today, however, the company is rolling out a new feature aimed at encouraging people to track and share the things they’ve actually done, too. With a new … | Continue reading
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Blazing hot and vaguely dangerous rhythm game Thumper just received a new update that adds an even harder difficulty, Play+ mode.In Play+ mode, you play as a golden beetle that gains more points and moves much faster. But if you die once it's game over.Play+ mode will unlock once … | Continue reading
Over the years, I've done a lot of interviews with business leaders and teams to help them build strong brands, connect with customers, create amazing experiences, and transform their company. When we make the time to do them well, interviews are a powerful learning tool. Here at … | Continue reading
Periscope today announced three entirely new ways to engage with your live audience — Superfans, groups, and logging in to Periscope.tv. The first, Superfans, unearths your most engaged followers and provides each with a special icon. The icon ranks each of them from one to 10, a … | Continue reading
The latest beta version of the WhatsApp messaging app has finally added two-step verification features for better security. | Continue reading
Creative agency Sense and toy and board game company Hasbro Gaming is staging a Bop It tour across UK shopping centres to showcase the latest version of the game. | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Deadline revealed that New Line Cinema would be revisiting the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. Rather than adapting one of his many novels or stories, director James Strong will be helming a film about the author himself, which has the potential to give viewers an en … | Continue reading
This excerpt from Tim Frick's book "Designing for Sustainability" addresses more sustainable search by making your content easier to find. | Continue reading
WhatsApp is getting ready to toughen up security with two-step verification. The latest beta version of the app on Android includes the feature, and there’s no reason to believe it won’t make it to the stable version soon. Basically, it adds a 6-digit passcode to your account as … | Continue reading
Nikon hat der D5500 ein Update verpasst. Die neue D5600 kostet ab 820 Euro aufwärts und soll Ende November in Deutschland erhältlich sein.Große Neuerungen sucht man bei der D5600 jedoch vergeblich. Dank NFC und Bluetooth wird der Datenaustausch... | Continue reading
Many of the polls forecasted an easy win for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, but we now know their prediction models were flawed. While data scientists are scrambling to figure out what went wrong, a number of social media analytics firms are … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is going to be the 45th President of the United States. For better or for worse, this is a reality that we now have to live with. Amidst the anger and fear, people are looking for someone to blame. Is it Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, who supposedly siphoned off votes … | Continue reading
WhatsApp users are beginning to see an option for two-factor authentication their account settings folder. According to Android Police, the feature is live in the most recent betas of the app (2.16.341 and above), and has also been spotted in the Windows Phone beta. Once activate … | Continue reading
Mit den neuen BE-Monitoren richtet sich Acer vor allem an diejenigen Anwender, bei denen es besonders auf Farbgenauigkeit ankommt: Grafiker, Fotografen und Webdesigner sind die vornehmliche Zielgruppe der drei neuen Modelle, die bei Interessenten mit... | Continue reading
After this week's unexpected election of Donald Trump to the presidency, some have pointed to Facebook's enabling of misinformation as one source that fed his success. Now, Facebook is admitting it must try harder to fight the problem.In a statement first provided to TechCrunch, … | Continue reading
Snap’s spectacles are starting to hit the streets, and eBay. I’ve been able to glean some details about the way they work from early users. The images above and below come from the auction listing, which has already hit $553 as I write this. Read More | Continue reading
UPDATED: Nov. 10, 2016, 12:09 p.m. EST Snap's rollout of its new Spectacles from cute little vending machines didn't come without hiccups.The sole vending machine, located in Venice, California, was broken and not dispensing Snap's new camera glasses, but is now reportedly back o … | Continue reading
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Augmented reality startup Occipital first burst on the scene in 2013 with a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Structure Sensor — a strip of cameras and sensors you strap to your iPad that can... | Continue reading
Reliable Wi-Fi is what a lot of us have come to expect in today’s world of hyper-connectivity. I don’t know about you, but my roommates and I just went with whatever router Comcast gave us. That was a rookie move because it only reliably works in one room (the room with the route … | Continue reading
From 360 video to 3D emoji, there's a big movement from Microsoft and others to make 3D imagery accessible to everyone. However, the act of scanning a real-word environment — a room and everything in it, for example — remains an expensive chore, involving hours of manual measurem … | Continue reading
Apple initially planned to release its flashy new AirPods in “late October,” but ultimately opted to delay shipping for “a little more time” to make sure the wireless earbuds are ready for consumers. While the AirPods have remained listed as ‘currently unavailable’ on the company … | Continue reading
Armed with only Google Maps and McDonald's wi-fi, this man wiretapped the federal government and now he wants to teach others to do the same. | Continue reading
Nintendo's NES Classic officially goes on sale tomorrow, November 11th, in the United States. And after this week’s election, the timing of this glorious distraction machine really couldn’t be any better. The mini-console includes 30 retro games and will be available from retaile … | Continue reading
ITV is staging an experience in London King's Cross to celebrate the new series of 'I'm a Celebrity...Get me Out of Here', which airs on 13 November at 9pm. | Continue reading
Double the brave, double the fun. The Japanese mobile role-playing game Brave Frontier is celebrating its third anniversary with a special crossover event with Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius, another mobile JRPG. Brave Exvius was itself a Square Enix project that came about with the … | Continue reading
Work on bitcoin sidechains – long thought to be one of the best ways to improve the functionality of the network – is advancing. Here's how.Source | Continue reading
Google has filed its formal response to the European Commission's Android antitrust probe, arguing that the OS actually offers more consumer choices. | Continue reading
Maybe this is just how billionaires do business. One threatens “such problems” and the other offers to shoot him into space. But now that one of the greatest upsets in presidential history has run its course, Jeff Bezos is apparently looking to play nice.Congratulations to @realD … | Continue reading
According to reports from Korea, Samsung is gearing up to release its own fingerprint scanner components in early 2017, which could end its dependence on Synaptics. | Continue reading
“A gang of secessionist rebels go to war with their paternal superpower” is the narrative backbone within two of this fall’s biggest video games: Titanfall 2 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. It’s also a rather on-the-nose metaphor for a long and troubled relationship between b … | Continue reading
53,056 people from 166 countries joined us in Lisbon for Web Summit. We are pleased to say that our Women in Tech initiative has meant that the female/male gender ratio at Web Summit 2016 is 42% to 58%. The post Why did Terrell Owens smash an iPhone? The Web Summit figures you pr … | Continue reading
The first thing you’ll notice about the Yale Real Living Assure Lock is that it has no keyhole. There is no backup key, no physical keypad, and it looks like something that you’d mount on the outside of the Enterprise so Chekov can get back in after attaching a “Shatner/Nimoy ’74 … | Continue reading
Microsoft unveiled its Surface Studio PC last month, alongside a crazy-looking Surface Dial puck. The new accessory is, perhaps, the most surprising and unique part of the Surface Studio. It's a big puck that is designed to be placed on the Studio's screen to produce radial menus … | Continue reading
Though the Surface Studio was the most exciting product from Microsoft’s Windows 10 event, there was more to like. If you’ve been waiting to buy the new, more powerful Surface Book or try out Microsoft’s fancy new Surface Dial after Microsoft’s event last month, they’ve both gone … | Continue reading
Facebook has responded to widespread criticism of how its Newsfeed algorithm disseminates and amplifies misinformation in the wake of the Trump victory in the US presidential election yesterday. Read More | Continue reading
Like many times before, I’m analyzing the international digital humanities conference, this time the 2017 conference in Montréal. The data I collect is available to any conference peer review… | Continue reading
User 92062b07f7 won a whopping 16.57 BTC at games.bitcoin.com on October 12th. This is the biggest win yet at this pure bitcoin casino and it highlights all the amazing advantages that playing Bitcoin can give you! If you read stories about wins at other casinos, you will general … | Continue reading
Among science fiction films, Luc Besson’s 1997 epic The Fifth Element enjoys special status as a classic that’s unique among others in the category, with an indulgent, artistic flair and beautiful set pieces that differ dramatically from the more drab and worn environs of movies … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Nasty Gal, the retailer founded 10 years ago when Sophia Amorusa began by selling vintage fashion items on eBay, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Central District of California. The move is designed to enable the L.A.-based company to “address our imme … | Continue reading
Remember when Instagram Stories launched, and everyone thought it was pretty much just like Snapchat? Well, that’s about to change. It might have started off as a straight up clone of that other ephemeral social network, but today it’s getting an update that turns it into someth … | Continue reading