Today, Microsoft Research is publicly releasing its effort to tackle just one of the problems plaguing natural language understanding — knowledge. The company believes that background knowledge is one of the key separators between the way humans and machines understand language. … | Continue reading
Zcash traded at twice the price of bitcoin on 1st November, as the market for this newly listed digital currency moved closer to equilibrium. Source | Continue reading
In a rare move, Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Ribbit Capital, investors in a number of Silicon Valley’s fintech startups, have backed the bank enabling many of their investments to lurch forward. Cross River Bank, the obscure financial institution that seemingly every … | Continue reading
Facebook has announced that Gameroom — its new PC gaming platform that looks like Steam for casual games — will soon accept uploads from Unity developers. The app, launched last month, will let game makers using the upcoming Unity 5.6 game engine export their creations directly t … | Continue reading
Vivo has posted a new teaser for its upcoming X9 and X9 Plus smartphones, stating that they will have dual 20MP and 8MP front-facing cameras. | Continue reading
The Wii U’s pulse is getting slower and slower. With Nintendo ending production of its sixth major home console as it ramps up the hype for its next system, the Switch, it’s now time to ponder where the Wii U will belong in the pages of gaming history. Will we only remember it as … | Continue reading
In its continued effort to become the internet, or at least the parts of the internet you want to visit, Facebook is now diving into the gaming world… for realsies this time. We’re not talking ‘Candy Crush’ and ‘Farmville’ here, either. We first learned of Facebook’s plans in the … | Continue reading
We’re not even a full day into November, but somehow the Black Friday festivities (or whatever you’d call this madness) are already getting started. Amazon kicked off some sales this morning, and now, Sam’s Club’s deals for Black Friday proper have leaked online.Here are the high … | Continue reading
Wii U, the bastard stepchild of Nintendo products is set to meets its maker this week. Teaming with potential, Nintendo’s regrettable predecessor to the popular Wii, never quite found a home with gamers. A console with a touch screen and cumbersome gamepad, it seems is just too d … | Continue reading
We’re all kind of dreaming about a bezel-less phone. Even if you aren’t, I know you still kind of are. Be honest with yourself. I’m definitely dreaming about Sharp’s Corner R phone and also Xiaomi’s Mi Mix. I love thinking about a massive screen with no distracting bezels and amp … | Continue reading
XKX Projects' model of Star Wars' Millennium Falcon greeted visitors to the Ultra Con 2016 cinematic experience event. | Continue reading
After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC with today’s developer launch of its Gameroom Windows desktop gaming platform. After months of name changes, beta tests, and dev solicitation, Facebook opened up the beta build for all … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is one of the of the leading Bitcoin Casinos. The site offers a wide variety of exotic casino games in a 3D virtual world where players will also have the chance to role-play. One of the many games you can find in Dragons Tale is the Dragon Statue. Dragon Statue is … | Continue reading
There’s a clear disconnect between what Facebook’s leadership team says about diversity and inclusion and how it plays out in the office. The most recent example is the presence of a series of posters that describe the average characteristics of software engineers, product design … | Continue reading
Google's Tango 3D depth camera team is working alongside its Daydream team as both are now working under the Google VR division. | Continue reading
I did a writing exercise using a random Wikipedia page. And puns. | Continue reading
We are starting November with fresh Moto M images and leaked specs coming from Steve Hemmerstoffer. | Continue reading
Journey, Flower and flOw developer thatgamecompany has revealed the following first image of its upcoming game:Details on it are slim, but thatgamecompany co-founder Jenova Chen noted on the studio's blog that it's "a game about giving" and offered a couple of other images noting … | Continue reading
With its hacked emails, Russian server pings and daily drip of Podesta email leaks, the current presidential election has effectively turned the promise of technology as an agent of political progress into a nightmare.Eight years ago, we marveled at a young Illinois senator’s can … | Continue reading
Twitter’s former VP of product Michael Sippey seemed to be building a service that might challenge his former employer: his Talkshow app allowed anyone to exchange text messages in front of audience; the idea was to get other people talking. Now it’s gone quiet. In a letter to us … | Continue reading
Roku’s rolling out an update to its TV streaming operating system that brings a pair of important updates to its entire line of streaming players and TVs. Most notable for Roku OS 7.5 is the long-awaited addition of live TV pausing. So long as a Roku TV is connected to an antenna … | Continue reading
Everyday internet wisdom tells us that if you can dream it, it exists online. I’ve used this technique with great success to find everything from knickknacks for my apartment to deeply unfortunate photos.Speaking of which! In light of recent news that we may be getting a Sonic th … | Continue reading
Even if self-driving cars aren’t part of our daily lives yet, vehicles are becoming internet-connected at a rapid pace. Gartner predicts that one fifth of all autos on the road, and great majority of new vehicles being produced worldwide will have wireless network connectivity by … | Continue reading
Zcash has been giving investors some relatively mixed signals, making crypto-enthusiasts a little unsure of where they stand. Following the digital currency’s recent launch, trading on Poloniex shot to explosive records, and the price of Zcash reached approximately $2 million per … | Continue reading
Microsoft Flow, the company’s own take on IFTTT, is officially available to the general public after being released in beta back in April. The tool lets you connect cloud services like Slack, G Suite, Twitter, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 to create action “Flows” for the workplac … | Continue reading
Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi just launched a new mobile game called Woorld.Available for free on Tango-enabled devices, which a… | Continue reading
Award-winning Australian journalist and thought-leader Waleed Aly has warned media companies against chasing viral content, claiming it will ultimately destroy trust with their audiences. Today the Brand Newsroom team takes a close look at ‘short-termism’. Is being hungry for lik … | Continue reading
The new series “The Down Round” is a six-episode look at what many are considering the burst of the Silicon Valley bubble. While Silicon Valley has boomed for most of the past decade, funding has become harder to come by and unicorns are having trouble proving their worth. Compan … | Continue reading
If you’re like me your inbox is a mess of hundreds of promotional emails from different sites across the web – many of which I’ve only actually shopped at once or twice. But once they have your email address it’s over – you can expect to receive a weekly (or daily!) email ad infi … | Continue reading
Nomad is a company that sells ultra-rugged charging cables, made out of ballistic nylon, extra thick wire, and kevlar to make sure that your charging cable doesn’t fall apart. Its latest cable takes it a step further by adding a small integrated battery pack into the Lighting cab … | Continue reading
Uber has announced that it will be teaming up with GM’s carsharing company Maven, allowing drivers to rent GM vehicles on a weekly basis in a 90 day pilot program to see how the arrangement works. This is separate from, but similar to GM’s Express Drive program, wherein the carma … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Microsoft said on Tuesday that a hacking group previously linked to the Russian government and U.S. political hacks is behind recent cyber attacks that exploit a newly discovered flaw in its Windows operating system. Microsoft said that a patch to defend Windows users … | Continue reading
The brand experience company's partnership with the exhibitions and convention centre will see it offer bespoke stand design and build services to events hosted by the venue. | Continue reading
After an especially deadly weekend, Chicago surpassed 600 murders so far this year, a level unseen in more than a decade. WSJ's Lee Hawkins explains. | Continue reading
Samsung's upcoming Gear S3 frontier and classic are arguably the sexiest smartwatches that Samsung has ever made, and they are already sold out in the UK. | Continue reading
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In the month of October 2016, tons of new apps and games hit the Google Play Store. Here are the top trending apps and games of the month. | Continue reading
GUEST: Over the past decade, B2B marketing has undergone a massive transformation. According to Forrester Research, the entire B2B sector represents more than $1 trillion in digital commerce every year, more than double the size of the B2C economy. But what’s next? Is artificial … | Continue reading
A spot for unhappy accountants at the huge accounting firms to vent and share information about what their firms are doing behind closed doors. Click Here to uncover out what Angry Accountants is all about.Madoff was in a position to pull off his scam because the people who inves … | Continue reading
A Brooklyn blockchain startup has been awarded a patent for its work using the tech to facilitate peer-to-peer energy transfers.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft isn't completely done with mobile, but this recycled Android phone isn't going to save Windows on phones. The post Microsoft announces Windows version of Alcatel Idol 4S Android phone appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
The man versus machine dichotomy has been a staple of pop culture for decades. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Blade Runner to Terminator to The Matrix and beyond, film makers have envisioned what the world would look like if artificial intelligence took over. However, a new mindse … | Continue reading
Now the we know which new emoji are coming to our mobile devices soon, it's time to look into the future and consider what other emoji we need to add to our lives. Thankfully, there are already people working on this important issue, and the proposed emoji are just as impressive … | Continue reading
After years of digital threatening to replace physical discs in the gaming industry, it’s looking like that time is here and now. Electronic Arts generated $898 million in revenue during the second quarter of its fiscal 2017, and $566 million of that — or 63 percent — was digital … | Continue reading
I know you were wondering if Samsung’s mermaid aesthetic, aka coral blue Galaxy S7 Edge, would ever come to the US after it was announced last week. Techcrunch confirmed today that Samsung will release its coral blue phone on "major US carriers" before the end of the year. We sti … | Continue reading
Uber is partnering with General Motors’ car-sharing service, called Maven, for a 90-day car rental pilot program, the companies announced on Tuesday.Through Maven, Uber drivers in San Francisco will be able to rent a GM vehicle that qualifies to be on the platform for $179 a week … | Continue reading
Thanks to sales of FIFA and mobile games, Electronic Arts beat its earnings expectations for the second fiscal quarter ended September 30. EA reported GAAP earnings per share of 70 cents on revenue of $1.1 billion. The company benefited from continuing success of its Star Wars co … | Continue reading
Score one for the consumer against the indefatigable force of growth hacking. Ever, the photo storage app that we called out in September for spamming SMS contact lists (it rebranded from Everalbum shortly after), has found its way back into Apple’s App Store after getting tempor … | Continue reading