The Weather Channel unveiled its Facebook Messenger bot today. The bot provides five-day forecasts, daily forecasts, severe weather alerts, or creates custom weather alerts. The Weather Channel bot can speak 39 languages and can be found on The Weather Channel Facebook page. Weat … | Continue reading
Online education platform Udacity has partnered with IBM Watson to launch a new artificial intelligence (AI) Nanodegree program. Costing $1,600 for the full two-term, 26-week course, the AI Nanodegree covers a myriad of topics including logic and planning, probabilistic inference … | Continue reading
Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes says digital television has made the Time Warner AT&T deal necessary. He speaks with WSJ's Rebecca Blumenstein at the WSJDLive conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. | Continue reading
If you’ve rented an apartment in New York you know how much of a hassle the process is. First you need to find somewhere, then you need to meet the building or landlord’s strict approval process. But in New York (and a few other major cities) the approval threshold is so high tha … | Continue reading
Wireless speakers are great for a vast number of reasons, but the most obvious one is that they make it super easy to play music or other audio in your home without having to plug into to anything. But while most wireless speakers, whether they use Wi-Fi, such as Sonos and Google … | Continue reading
It’s February in New York City, and I’m at a basement music venue in Brooklyn. I’m waiting to see Chumped, one of my favorite young punk bands, play one of their final shows. An opening act is playing pretty, slow indie music — which I’m fine with, but it feels a bit like the wro … | Continue reading
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson defended the AT&T-Time Warner deal as a vertical integration. Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said the deal will increase competition. They spoke with WSJ's Rebecca Blumenstein at the WSJDLive conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. | Continue reading
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is doing an awful lot of teasing lately, and now the digital card game leader is using a Facebook Messenger chatbot to stir up even more speculation. On Monday, the game’s Facebook page posted an image that said “Welcome to Gadgetzan.” Many specula … | Continue reading
Slack took workplace conversation by storm, and after Facebook just released its take on the concept, now Microsoft is looking to for its own piece of the market. A report by MSPoweruser suggests that the company is set to unveil “Microsoft Teams” next week. We’ve known it was co … | Continue reading
Europe and Russia’s ExoMars lander may have suffered a computer glitch during its descent to Mars last week, ultimately causing it to crash-land into the planet’s surface, Nature reports. As the lander fell, the mysterious software bug may have caused the vehicle to think it was … | Continue reading
Duet Display is one of the most useful apps to come along in a while, letting users turn their iPad into a second screen for their Mac with virtually no latency via wired Lightning cable connection. Now, the app is getting an update and a Pro mode that lets it act as a fully pres … | Continue reading
When I woke up on Monday morning, I was sad. The only thing I can think to compare it to is taking an amazing vacation in a warm sunny spot, and getting back home to blistery weather and cloudy skies. I had just spent a week with some of my amazing team members at the Disneyland … | Continue reading
Online retail giant Overstock will soon begin trading blockchain-based shares of its stock.Source | Continue reading
AT&T announced it will offer a special $35 per month content package to celebrate the announcement it was hitching up with Time Warner. AT&T announced this last weekend it wants to buy Time Warner for $85 billion. The deal, announced on stage at the Wall Street Journal Live confe … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. This build adds new features to the Mail app and gives the Narrator app some context awareness. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, this means Wi … | Continue reading
DDoS — distributed denial of service — is an unsophisticated form of attack that overwhelms sites with spam traffic so legitimate users can’t get through. DDoS is a war of economics: whoever has the most computing power, defender or attacker, usually wins. This makes DDoS a usefu … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One, one of the more promising private companies trying to make Elon Musk’s concept of a high-speed, tube-based transit system a reality, is looking to raise as much as $250 million in an upcoming funding round, according to new documents unearthed by Forbes. The new fu … | Continue reading
AT&T’s effort to build a cable alternative for cord cutters now has a price. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said today that DirectTV Now will launch next month for $35 a month with access to more than 100 channels, including channels from Disney and Time Warner. It competes with sim … | Continue reading
ARM’s partners shipped more than 15 billion in 2015, generating $50 billion in chip sales. But Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, and new owner of ARM after September’s $31 billion acquisition deal, said in a keynote speech at the annual ARM developers conference that you haven’t se … | Continue reading
Living in space can take its toll on an astronaut’s back, causing the muscles within the spine to weaken over time, a new study confirms. In microgravity, these muscles are prone to atrophy, and that causes the bones in the spine to stiffen and straighten out. Such body changes c … | Continue reading
On The Writer Files, Blake Crouch, bestselling sci-fi/thriller novelist and screenwriter, shares his experiences adapting his work for film and TV. | Continue reading
It’s unfair to critique anything outside its purpose. You can’t judge a poem using essay criteria; you can’t pit the latest album from Leonard Cohen against Beyonce. So you have to ask, even in reviewing a car, what its purpose is and does it succeed. The 2016 Lexus GS-F is meant … | Continue reading
Halloween is a fun time of the year when brands can get truly creative in their marketing strategies. Whether it’s through traditional advertising or content marketing, late October presents a great opportunity to reposition a brand’s messaging in a fun, creative and even slightl … | Continue reading
Hier kommt das erste Flaggschiff der BlackBerry-nach-BlackBerry-Ära: Das DTEK60 genannte Gerät ist das zweite vom Produktionspartner TCL und teilt mit seinem Vorgänger nicht nur die unambitionierte Namensgebung sondern auch das Design,... | Continue reading
Accela, the nearly two decade old gov tech startup dreaming of finding new life as a problem solver for the sharing economy, brought in a new CEO to replace Maury Blackman who served as the company’s anchor since 2007. During Blackman’s tenure, the SaaS company brought a number o … | Continue reading
To przepis na pizzę, do którego powracam chyba najczęściej ze względu na szybkość przygotowania. Choć bardzo lubię pizzę z ciasta wyrastającego w lodówce (link) to domowe realia są często takie, że pizza ma być "na już". Myślę, że wiecie o czym mówię ;-) Warto zatem przypomnieć t … | Continue reading
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Chairman and CEO of HBO Richard Plepler discusses the company's deal with AT&T. He speaks with WSJ Editor in Chief Gerard Baker at the WSJDLive conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. | Continue reading
William Santana Li, the Chairman and CEO of Knightscope, shows off his company's crime-fighting robot at the WSJDLive conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. | Continue reading
Why is it important for designers to understand how and why to use grid systems? | Continue reading
Serial entrepreneur Ben Huh has been tapped by Y Combinator to lead its New Cities project. As a member of the startup program’s YC Research team, he’s its first “explorer” and for the next six months will be tasked with examining new ways to build new and better cities. The foun … | Continue reading
Lyft launched an aggressive marketing campaign in Spring that seems to be paying off. The rideshare company says it delivered 17 million rides this month (so far), more than 2.4x’s the amount the company did at the same time last year. Data from research firm 7Park also shows Lyf … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment, a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. The founders include Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy. Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. H … | Continue reading
When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The first game which debuted in 2013 was a bug success, selling more than 10 million copies. But it was a somber tale of a hacker’s revenge. With Watch Do … | Continue reading
SaaS entrepreneurs are bombarded with blog posts with an array of metrics and variables on which they need to focus in order to build their companies. There are so many metrics that are touted: gross churn, net churn, logo churn, renewal rates, NPS score, etc. To better understan … | Continue reading
Jason Gui has a fun little trick he likes to play, sitting down and talking about his startup’s new wearable, never letting on that he’s got a pair on his face until time comes for the big reveal. Of course, in its current form, it’s clear that the Vue aren’t a normal pair of eye … | Continue reading
Vue are prescription, crowdfunded glasses that launched on Kickstarter today and function as a fitness tracker, bone conduction headphones, and a Bluetooth mic for phone calls. The glasses pair with phones through a companion iOS / Android app, so wearers can also track their gla … | Continue reading
Joanna Wiebe joins Sonia Simone on Copyblogger FM. Joanna is a conversion expert, the creator of Copy Hackers, and she's launching a new tool for writers. | Continue reading
When Charlie Brooker was looking for directors for the third season of his future-horror series Black Mirror, Dan Trachtenberg must have seemed like a natural for “Playtest,” the season’s second episode. Brooker’s script has a down-and-out American trying to earn some fast cash i … | Continue reading
In der Sekunde als Apple offiziell seine kabellosen AirPods vorgestellt hat, war klar: Das kann nicht gut gehen. Die kann man nur verlieren. Also haben viele Zubehörhersteller an Lösungen gearbeitet, die allerdings verdächtig nach 2005... | Continue reading
What’s missing from N26? The company has been slowly but surely building a new bank account from the ground up. This time, the company is trying to recreate the insurance product that you typically get with a Visa Premier or MasterCard Gold. So N26 is launching the N26 Black card … | Continue reading
One of Japan’s largest banks is working with IBM on a series of blockchain trials.Source | Continue reading
Lost in all of the hype surrounding the reveal of the stunningly beautiful Mi Mix, Xiaomi also took the wraps off its newest virtual reality headset, the Mi VR. The new headset, which is designed to work with the latest generation of Xiaomi smartphones including the Mi 5 and Mi N … | Continue reading
This week, Travis and Stewart talk with Ray Beharry, who is not only the CEO of Pollfish — a mobile survey solution — but an adjunct instructor at NYU. In other words, he’s a very smart man, and he delivers takeaway after takeaway to help you win in today’s mobile-driven market. … | Continue reading
Google is moving into office hardware today with Jamboard, a new 4K digital whiteboard. Just like Microsoft's Surface Hub, Google's Jamboard is a 55-inch 4K touchscreen, but Google is using Android and a new whiteboard app to power its giant display. It's a direct move for Google … | Continue reading
Tuesday is now pretty much over from a European perspective, and things have been a little slow today. We were hoping to get a couple of opportunities to get in to our intraday strategy rules, and continue our run of profit taking that kicked off on Monday and played through unti … | Continue reading
At the start of its big developer conference, ARM unveiled two secure processors for the Internet of Things, or making everyday objects smart and connected. The Cambridge, U.K. chip design company — which was acquired last month for $31 billion by Japan’s SoftBank — believes that … | Continue reading
WhatsApp’s impending support for video calling appears to be closer to launch. According to new reports, the feature is now functional in some of the beta builds of the Android application, following its recent arrival in the Windows Phone version of the Facebook-owned messaging … | Continue reading