Long before he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien served in the British Army during the First World War. Upon his return to England he resumed writing, laying down the foundations of what would become Middle-Earth — an epic story that includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the … | Continue reading
There are lots of ways to learn a language, and if you go looking for one, Google will point you to a crowd favorite — Rosetta Stone (remember the mall kiosks?), Babbel, or Duolingo. These services have one thing in common: They deal in software (like A.I) and rigid lesson plans … | Continue reading
You can now play Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal on Xbox One, via Valve's excellent Orange Box collection. The Xbox 360 game is now playable on Xbox One via backwards compatibility.Joe Danger 2: The Movie and Galaga Legions are also available to play on Xbox One via back- … | Continue reading
As with most reveal trailers from Rockstar Games, the first teaser for Red Dead Redemption 2 focuses on tone over gameplay. Considering the developer’s reputation for creating violent open worlds full of cynical troublemakers, the footage is notably absent of a singe gun being fi … | Continue reading
Osmo has made its mark with award-winning augmented reality iPad games for children, and now it’s launching another one: Osmo Pizza Co., where kids learn how to run a pizza shop and develop entrepreneurial skills. It’s another magical way to teach kids how to run a business, make … | Continue reading
With its latest title, educational game-maker Osmo is tackling a subject that’s close to CEO Pramod Sharma’s heart — entrepreneurship. Co-founded by Sharma and Jérôme Scholler (both former Googlers), Osmo makes iPad games that combine touchscreen gameplay with real-world objects … | Continue reading
Automatic went for a more expensive, but more full-featured offering with the 3G-enabled Automatic Pro earlier this year, but the new Automatic Lite delivers a more affordable connected car device with Bluetooth connectivity, at a lower price point than any previous hardware they … | Continue reading
How exactly does marijuana make us high? We’re a little closer to knowing now that scientists have figured out the structure of the brain receptor that interacts with the drug. The discovery will help us understand how to better use marijuana for medical purposes — and solve the … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, former Braintree founder Bryan Johnson publicly announced his plans to forge Kernel, a company with the sole purpose of building hardware and software to augment human intelligence. Today, Johnson is investing $100 million of his own money into the concept, loo … | Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch — known before its announcement as the NX — is one of the weirdest and most interesting pieces of major gaming hardware we’ve seen for a while. It’s a modular device that can be used as a portable console or placed in a dock for living room gaming. But Nintend … | Continue reading
Sequoia Capital has brought aboard Jess Lee as its eleventh investing partner in the U.S., becoming the firm’s first senior female U.S. investor in its 44-year-old history. Lee was a former Google product manager turned CEO of the fashion site Polyvore, which was acquired for $23 … | Continue reading
The first teaser trailer for Red Dead Redemption’s sequel has finally arrived – and while short, it’s oddly mysterious and ridiculously captivating. The footage gives out scarce clues and hints as to where the game will be set, who the protagonists will be or what the story will … | Continue reading
Origin PC is bringing Nvidia’s latest GTX 1060 GPU to its new EVO15-S laptop. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Does your ghost need more “Oooooo?” Does your zombie need a foot scraping against a dirty floor? Do you need some ambient sounds to cover up the screams of the damned? Sample Focus has what you need for free. The interface is simple: you look for a sound – baby, drumbeat, cricket … | Continue reading
Nintendo erlaubt uns einen ersten Blick auf seine kommende Konsole, die unter dem Codenamen NX entwickelt wurde und nächstes Jahr als Switch auf den Markt kommen soll. Besonders mitteilsam ist Nintendo zwar noch nicht, aber klar ist schon mal,... | Continue reading
All signs point to Apple refreshing its Mac lineup next Thursday. As we've detailed, all Macs except the 12-inch MacBook are in desperate need of internal updates.The most important product announcement expected pertains to the MacBook ProRumors suggest Apple will redesign its mo … | Continue reading
Drones and pilots legally permitted to fly them are here in spades. So American businesses are scrambling to figure out how to use drones to gain a competitive advantage. Recent examples saw Travelers Insurance using drones to inspect properties after Hurricane Matthew, and Hahn … | Continue reading
We first learned that Nintendo was working on a new console (codenamed “NX”) over a year and a half ago. Since then, though, they’ve said pretty much nothing Nintendo broke their silence this morning with a 3 minute preview trailer packed with details. In 3 minutes, we went from … | Continue reading
The Anita Borg Institute, the organization responsible for the annual Grace Hopper Women in Computing Celebration taking place right now in Houston, has a problem with racial diversity and not practicing what it preaches, according to several current and former employees. These c … | Continue reading
Xiaomi has an event next week to unveil the Mi Note 2, but thanks to Weibo you don't have to wait that long to see the company's next flagship device. According to a leaked slide spotted by Phone Arena, the Mi Note 2 will be pretty stacked, with a Snapdragon 821 SoC, up to 6GB of … | Continue reading
Nintendo just unveiled a new console called Switch, and it’s powered by a custom Tegra processor from Nvidia. The chip has a checkered history of failure and success — it’s mostly been an impressive machine for graphics demos — but Nintendo choosing it for a major console release … | Continue reading
It was pretty easy to lose sight of the bottom line in all of the hype and neon lights and childhood wish fulfillment. But at the end of the day, the extremely limited number of self-lacing Mag sneakers Nike was raffling off were supporting a really great cause The shoe giant is … | Continue reading
The Ethereum charts are looking strong.The post Ethereum is Looking Strong Post-Fork appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
A developer has found a hidden gem inside the iOS code base, by hacking the iOS Simulator: a one-handed iPhone keyboard. Designed to improve reachability – something that’s often an issue on larger-screened phones – the keyboard is activated by either left-swiping or right-swipin … | Continue reading
Die ohnehin schillernde und an Merk- und Denkwürdigkeiten nicht arme Welt der GTA-5-Mods ist um einen reichlich schrägen Trend reicher: Menschenmassen-Experimente. Dabei werden Gruppen mit mehr als 100 arglosen Los-Santos-Einwohnern mit mehr... | Continue reading
Red Dead Redemption 2 is real! The sequel to 2010’s open-world Western game has been hinted at since 2013. Rumors and leaks, however, have been uncommonly slim for such a big release. This trailer is our first clear look at the project, and safe to say, it has all the trappings o … | Continue reading
Reviews for the Pixel are out, including one from our very own Walt Mossberg. This week on Ctrl-Walt-Delete, Walt and Nilay talk about the phone made by Google and how it ranks up against products by Apple and Samsung. Also, now that Google is making a bunch of hardware with thei … | Continue reading
Q Fifty One is Texas-based retailer that operates two different brands: Q Clothier, a custom-suit store with 6 locations and Rye 51, a more casual luxury men’s apparel brand with a few stores in Texas. The stores have quickly become popular – with under 10 locations and no e-comm … | Continue reading
There are some hurdles to overcome, but epinephrine in pill form could be much less expensive. | Continue reading
These days, you can’t wander around the internet without running into a podcast. And yet, it takes a lot of time, energy, and equipment to make those podcasts. Enter Bumpers.fm. Bumpers is an app that lets anyone make a podcast straight from their phone, using the phone’s built-i … | Continue reading
Even with an abundant number of Android set top boxes floating around, the promise of the Remix Mini managed to capture Kickstarter’s imagination in a big way, pulling in $1.6 million in pledges when it closed in August of last year. The device’s success was due in no small part … | Continue reading
Jide, the Chinese firm behind desktop-orientated Android fork Remix OS, wants to supercharge your TV. The company has launched a Kickstarter campaign for what it's calling Remix IO — a small hardware box that runs Remix OS. Plug it into your TV, and you can use it to do anything … | Continue reading
Put on your spurs and 10-gallon hat because it’s time for a little more Red Dead. Rockstar Games is planning to launch Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2017, and it has rolled out the first new trailer for the game. The developer is promising to get the game out in the fall, and it will … | Continue reading
When Elon Musk introduced the Tesla Model X, the crowd oohed and aahed when he revealed that the car could open and close its doors automatically. But it’s not just the rear Falcon Wing doors that have this trick feature — the Model X also has “self-presenting” front doors that c … | Continue reading
One of the movies I’m most looking forward to in 2017 is Alex Garland’s film Annihilation. Based on Jeff Vandermeer’s novel by the same name, it has the potential to be a unique, cerebral science-fiction film. It looks as though Paramount Pictures feels the same way, because the … | Continue reading
Accounting involves a lot of complexities, but understanding some fundamental principles can be really valuable. This article is created to help you get a start off in understanding the accounting process.We are all distinct characters, so I never think there is universal ‘best i … | Continue reading
Last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that all of the company’s new vehicles would have “full self-driving capabilities.” But unlike its competitors in the world of driverless cars, Tesla doesn’t use those spinning, roof-mounted 360-degree sensors to map its surroundings, opt … | Continue reading
After hinting at it for months, with just one trailer, Nintendo unveiled its successor to the Wii U. The hardware — a tablet with detachable controllers that can plug into a base station for use as a home console — is launching just months after its first official trailer. Here's … | Continue reading
Frustrated with your company’s content marketing efforts? It seems you’re not alone. At Content Marketing World 2015, Joe Pulizzi announced that content … | Continue reading
The business world is witnessing a change, it is shifting towards a Digital Economy, where the reliance is more on the Internet, advanced technologies, mobile, cloud, big data and social media. The ways businesses interact or communicate with customers, conduct their operations a … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by Avalara. High growth is almost always cause for celebration, especially among company leaders and their investors. But no matter how well a business scales for expansion, some things get ignored. And those little things can quickly become big problems. Lik … | Continue reading
Nintendo just unveiled its next console, now officially known as the Nintendo Switch. The Switch features an interesting controller scheme called the "Joy-Con."As seen in the video, each Switch seems to come with a Joy-Con that consists of two halves, the Joy-Con (R) and the Joy- … | Continue reading
Nintendo finally unveiled the successor to the Wii U and 3DS — the Nintendo Switch. Interestingly, Nintendo won’t just be showing off its own games before the release. In the press release, the company announced that it has partnered with most of the big video game companies. For … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: In “bricks-and-clicks” retail, there is often a disconnect between the online and offline worlds. Sometimes that gap is systemic, in that the retailer actively keeps the two apart, but mostly it is due to a lack of cohesion across ecommerce and in-store offerings. Toda … | Continue reading
Nvidia is back in the game console race with a new chip that serves as the heart of the newly unveiled Nintendo Switch gaming device, which is a hybrid of a tablet and a home console. The device is a custom Tegra processor that goes into the tablet-like device. Since Tegra proces … | Continue reading
Some true life horror stories from an intern manager at D Custom, and tips on how to get an internship and not get included in an article like this. | Continue reading
Nintendo has always had trouble with third-party support on its consoles, but it’s promising to change that (again) with the Switch. Earlier this morning, the publisher revealed the new Switch console in a three-minute trailer. The video detailed a console that can transform from … | Continue reading
Whereas Nintendo has at times struggled in the past with third party support, for its upcoming Switch console (née NX), the company has announced dozens of publishers, developers, and middleware companies pledging to support the new platform. All the major third party publishers … | Continue reading