Every once in a while someone in Silicon Valley brings up the possibility of living forever, or at least a really long time, but first we’re going to need to figure out a way to enjoy all those extra years. Unity Biotechnology is a startup focusing on medicines to help us do that … | Continue reading
Apple and Microsoft both announced new laptops aimed at professionals this week.Apple's got its new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros with their fancy new Touch Bars and Touch ID sensors, and Microsoft got its supercharged Surface Book i7.SEE ALSO: MacBook Pro's crazy Touch Bar puts e … | Continue reading
Apple made the MacBook Pro's new Touch Bar the star of Thursday's event. The company devoted much of the 82-minute keynote showing it off and demoing how it can be used with an array of third-party apps.But while emoji and photo filters and Dj apps all looked neat, there's one as … | Continue reading
GUEST: At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2016, Facebook’s VP of messaging products, David Marcus, admitted that chatbots got “overhyped very quickly.” And around the same time, something else very quickly changed: Chatbot pessimism became en vogue. The sudden chang … | Continue reading
One of the biggest games of the year is embracing seasonal events to get players excited all over again. Pokémon Go is back on top of the iPhone top-grossing charts in the United States after falling as low No. 10 last week, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Dev … | Continue reading
It's been brewing for a while, but the Mac vs. PC war is back. Apple and Microsoft have shared various battles over many years, in an ongoing rift over the direction of computing, but this week has marked a switch in both of their war strategies. Microsoft is now going after Appl … | Continue reading
LinkedIn ($LNKD) released the results of its third quarter financial earnings today with revenue of $960 million, an annual increase of 23 percent, and an earnings per share of $1.18. Wall Street analysts expected the company to generate $959.35 million in revenue and an EPS of $ … | Continue reading
Lenovo announced that its Phab 2 Pro would be the first phone to ship with Google Tango. And now, following early estimates of a November release window after a delay from the original summer date, we know exactly when that day will be: November 1st. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Apple just unveiled new MacBook Pros and a new "TV" app for Apple TV on Thursday at the event in Cupertino.The highly anticipated MacBook Pro is thinner, sleeker and more powerful than previous models. It also comes in space gray. And the much-rumored Touch Bar, which replaces th … | Continue reading
Alphabet, the holding company formed around Google, reported its third quarter earnings today. The company grew its revenue 20 percent over the same period last year, to $22.45 billion. Its profit also improved, climbing 27 percent over the same period last year to $5 billion. Th … | Continue reading
Amazon, once a company with a volatile profit capacity, has started stabilizing its money-making activity in recent years. It’s shown investors that it can turn out huge gains when it wants to, due to its more capable logistics network, Prime subscription service, cloud computing … | Continue reading
It’s been one whole year since Google first reported earnings as Alphabet, its new-ish parent company. Today the umbrella company announced $22.45 billion in revenue (including traffic acquisition costs) and $9.06 earnings per share (non-GAAP) for its third 2016 quarter. Analysts … | Continue reading
Spanish studio 05 AM Arquitectura has renovated Mas Nou House, a coastal residence located in El Masnou, Catalonia, Spain. Project description: The intervention in this… Continue reading | Continue reading
Microsoft expects to close its $26.2 billion acquisition by the end of this year — pending some final regulatory approvals — and so in light of that, today LinkedIn posted a very basic earnings report for Q3. It’s also skipping the customary analyst call and is no longer providin … | Continue reading
Apple just introduced a shiny, super thin new MacBook Pro. But for what was birthed, a lot of widely-held standards had to die.Today, Apple removed the MagSafe 2 charging port type, they stripped away the HDMI port, they ripped out the SD card slot, they shuddered the Thunderbolt … | Continue reading
WebMoney, the Moscow-based Russian online payment solution platform has announced support for Bitcoin. The new feature enables merchants to accept Bitcoin payments from customers who are not signed up on WebMoney. The latest addition, which was launched by the company earlier thi … | Continue reading
Pushbullet can now be used to both see and reply to messages sent via the recently launched Google Allo smartphone app on a PC. | Continue reading
Nachdem Apple bei seinem heutigen Event mit Bildern historischer PowerBooks des öfteren an die eigene Geschichte erinnerte und gleichzeitig eher mal weniger neue Hardware als allgemein erwartet auf die Bühne brachte, gibt's ein Filmchen von... | Continue reading
Dori Interior Design has completed the project Netanya Penthouse, a private residence located in Netanya, Israel. This urban project is a 146 m2 penthouse apartment… Continue reading | Continue reading
Geny House is a contemporary residence designed by N45 Architecture in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The 650 sf, eight foot wide infill is located on a… Continue reading | Continue reading
Parisian architecture studio Septembre, presents the Kabinett apartment, a beautiful family home with white, wood and glass elements, multifunctional furniture and inside windows. The conversion… Continue reading | Continue reading
Stranger Things is absolutely a sci-fi horror series indebted to Stephen King, Stephen Spielberg, and a whole host of stories from the 1970s and ‘80s. But at the heart of the show and so many of its forebears is the anxiety and absurdity that comes with living in a seemingly ordi … | Continue reading
It’s a good day for consumers, and the advertisers are tearing their hair: the FCC today voted to adopt new privacy rules that severely restrict what data ISPs can collect from you without your consent. The Association of National Advertisers called the rules “unprecedented, misg … | Continue reading
Amazon ($AMZN) announced the results of its third quarter financial earnings on Thursday, in which it generated $32.7 billion in revenue. By all accounts, Wall Street analysts expected the online retail marketplace to pull in $32.69 billion in revenue. The company’s sales figure … | Continue reading
On the heels of Wednesday's Microsoft keynote in New York, Apple unveiled its own new products at an event Thursday at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California. SEE ALSO: Apple doesn't need to build a car to get what it really wantsIf you missed the live stream, here's … | Continue reading
Alphabet’s strategy of trying to stuff the difference between declining mobile advertising value with additional clicks appears to still be paying off as the company once again showed Wall Street that it can make a ton of money and continue to grow. Alphabet (we’re just gonna cal … | Continue reading
Ecommerce company Amazon.com today said that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud computing infrastructure division generated $3.23 billion in revenue in the third quarter of the year. That means revenue was up 54.9 percent year over year. AWS produced $861 million in opera … | Continue reading
Amazon significantly disappointed investors when it posted third quarter earnings after the bell Thursday. With an adjusted earnings per share of 52 cents, this was well beneath the expected 78 cents. The stock quickly fell at least 6% in after-hours trading. Revenue of $32.7 bi … | Continue reading
One of Apple’s greatest strengths has always been its obsessive attention to detail. Whether it’s almost-mythical stories about Steve Jobs picking fonts, or Apple’s demand for hardware free of unsightly seams, it’s often these little things that add up to make its customers feel … | Continue reading
Want the new MacBook Pro? Not so fast. Microsoft is hoping to sway you towards a Surface Pro or Surface Book instead. Mere hours after Apple’s keynote announcement, Microsoft made its own announcement: Anyone in the U.S. can trade in their MacBook Air or MacBook Pro at the Micros … | Continue reading
Faraday Future, the California-based electric car company that wants to compete with Tesla, just released a short, 15-second clip of its first production car in action. And unlike the bonkers, 1,000-horsepower concept racecar it showed off at CES earlier this year, this one looks … | Continue reading
Apple announced three new MacBook Pros today — two with the new Touch Bar, one with normal function keys — and a slightly updated 13-inch MacBook Air. But plenty of other Macs were left out of Apple’s rather sparse October 27 event, despite rumors suggesting otherwise. Let us cou … | Continue reading
Mozilla has been hard at work rolling out Electrolysis to bring the benefits of a multiprocess architecture to Firefox users for quite some time. Though Mozilla has put a large amount of its resources into the development of Electrolysis, the company has remained consistent about … | Continue reading
Mobile network provider Giffgaff is hosting a one-day Halloween hair and make up salon in London. | Continue reading
Apple hosted its fourth event of the year today in Cupertino, California to feed some computer updates to its loyal followers. The world’s most valuable company had one tough act to follow after Microsoft introduced Surface Studio yesterday; however, it managed to pull through. “ … | Continue reading
Apple’s keynote today focused on the Mac and the company's vision idea for the future of TV. New MacBook Pros are coming, including one that’s thinner than the Macbook Air, as is a new feature called the Touch Bar. The Touch Bar replaces the function keys and adjusts to the softw … | Continue reading
Mobile game development at a big publisher has as much turnover and volatility as traditional gaming. King, which is now a subsidiary of Activision, has closed down Singapore-based developer Nonstop Games. King acquired the studio in 2014 following the success of the Warcraft-lik … | Continue reading
It’s October 27th, 2016, and Vine is being given its last rites. Twitter made the announcement today that it would be shutting down the video platform’s mobile app in the coming months, although its website will remain online. The news triggered an impromptu memorial service on T … | Continue reading
That record scratch you just heard came from thousands of designers and R&D specialists who suddenly have to remake 3D models of laptops, phones, and desktops. That sigh is coming from hundreds of programmers stepping up their new interfaces and that ripping noise is myriad press … | Continue reading
Apple just announced a lineup of three new MacBook Pro laptops, each of which is decked out with four (four!) USB Type-C ports. And as is the case with all things Apple these days, you know what that means — you’re going to need more dongles. More specifically, you now need purch … | Continue reading
Apple has unveiled the new MacBook Pro and the most interesting part of it by far is the Touch Bar — a strip of touch-sensitive, context-aware display that replaces the function keys above the keyboard. Buttons on the Touch Bar change depending on the software you're using, so th … | Continue reading
I just got a chance to play with Apple’s new TV app on the Apple TV, which is... just called TV. It’s more of a second homescreen than an app, really — when you open it up you see a bunch of shows and movies that you can watch based on the video services you’ve subscribed to eith … | Continue reading
Google today announced it is ending support for its Google Drive desktop app for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003 on January 1, 2017. If you’re still on one of these platforms and want to keep using “Google Drive for Mac/PC,” the company recommends upgrading you … | Continue reading
At first glance, it looks an awful lot like the same MacBook Pro we’ve become accustom to seeing over the last several years. The TrackPad is the first indication that something’s different here. It’s huge. Twice as big as the last version, and thankfully now carrying the Force T … | Continue reading
The 11.6-inch MacBook Air, once priced at $899, is no more. After unveiling new MacBook Pros at an event in Cupertino, California today, Apple trimmed its MacBook Air line. Going forward, the company will only sell its existing 13.3-inch MacBook Air, with a slight change: All 13. … | Continue reading
The MacBook Pro sorely needed an upgrade, but so did the MacBook Air, Apple’s original ultra-thin laptop, which never ever got the Retina screen treatment. Well, it was not meant to be. At today’s “Hello World” event, Apple’s Phil Schiller essentially killed off the Air by showi … | Continue reading
GUEST: I was shocked to read today that IBM and Slack are partnering so that Slack can use Watson to improve their Slackbot’s cognitive capabilities. It seemed like Slack may be outsourcing the one thing that could become their most valuable strength. Except as I thought about it … | Continue reading