A slimmer PlayStation 4 wasn’t enough to slow down Microsoft’s momentum. Xbox One was the top-selling home console in the United States September, according to data from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. This marks the third straight month that Microsoft’s gaming system has b … | Continue reading
During a special fan event for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling pulled the equivalent of Steve Jobs’ "One more thing," and dropped some hints about what the future of the franchise might look like: she’s planning a total of five films, rat … | Continue reading
Samsung’s public relations response to its faulty and fiery Galaxy Note 7 caused more serious problems that the defective device itself. Following confirmed reports since August that the batteries in the device caught fire, the company recalled and replaced the faulty phones, say … | Continue reading
“Index… ring… pinky… index… middle…”Nathan Copeland is telling a researcher which of his fingers he feels a touch on. But the researcher is touching a robotic hand, not Copeland’s, whose hand hasn’t felt a thing in over a decade. Read More | Continue reading
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton revealed her stance on the GIF debate today during a San Francisco fundraiser. Yes, in a country divided in practically every imaginable way, the pronunciation of an acronym will please one group of people, and perturb another.Refer … | Continue reading
Hillary says Trump “makes you just want to look at cat GIFs”, and she even pronounced it correctly.* Today Hillary Clinton appealed to the tech crowd of San Francisco at a campaign event, discussing technology in more depth than her or Trump has in weeks. Clinton said that becau … | Continue reading
A risk assessment agency within the UK government recently published comments on blockchain technology.Source | Continue reading
GUEST: Gartner predicts that by 2018, 20 percent of business content will be authored by machines. This figure is set to continue to rise as chatbots become increasingly useful and the users increasingly accepting. The main attention on chatbots up until now has been on how they … | Continue reading
Cyber security is playing an starring role in the drama surrounding the question of who will be the next president of the United States. “The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough,” Republican nominee for president Donald Trump said, when asked about securing American secr … | Continue reading
Bern, 5 October 2016 The PREFORMA team organised a workshop at iPRES to dive into the larger narrative of the project, show the three different tools in development, detail the standardisation strands and get a conversation started between potential users of the tools with the pe … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Pathbreaker Ventures has closed its first venture capital fund to invest $12.9 million in early stage companies in emerging technologies. Ryan Gembala, general partner of Pathbreaker, is looking to fund companies developing technologies such as virtual reality, augment … | Continue reading
In 2008 the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the UNESCO – Clearing House for Literary Translation launched the first World Directory of Children’s Book Translators dedicated to all professionals in.. | Continue reading
Everyone agrees that the cryptocurrency technology is still in its nascent stages. At this stage, it is necessary for the digital currency industry to have a conducive atmosphere to further innovation. And such an atmosphere is feasible only if there is an understanding between t … | Continue reading
This is pretty sick.While in Pittsburgh on Thursday to attend the White House Frontiers Conference, President Barack Obama fist-bumped Nathan Copeland, the first man to have his sense of touch restored via a mind-controlled robotic hand. SEE ALSO: Watch Michelle Obama's entire sp … | Continue reading
Lisäsin tekstiin kuvan, koska ilman sitä blogiin johtava linkki ei saa yhtään klikkausta. Kuvassa on kissa (tiedätte kyllä miksi) ja d... | Continue reading
At a press conference in San Francisco today, VMware is announcing a major deal with public cloud market leader (AWS) to enable companies to use VMware virtualization software to deploy and manage applications on top of AWS. This marks a shift in direction for VMware; VMware laun … | Continue reading
In this episode we catch up with the founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, and dive into its implications in the world of cryptocurrency. Ethereum is considered the most exciting innovation using blockchain technology, as its use cases go beyond that of bitcoin and could eventual … | Continue reading
Located in Auckland, Elizabeth House is a contemporary family home designed by Dorrington Atcheson Architects. | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is the place where you can role-play and gamble at the same time. It was the first Bitcoin Casino that started to offer a completely new way of gambling for those who are tired of playing the same old casino games. Dragon’s Tale lets players go around finding a lot … | Continue reading
Located in Jurmala, Latvia, Open AD has designed this summer apartment for a young couple. A flat near the seaside which the owner only ... | Continue reading
It looks like those Yahoo 500 million hacked accounts may affect its sale to Verizon (TechCrunch’s parent). At a company public policy roundtable in DC this afternoon, Verizon general counsel Craig Silliman said: “I think we have a reasonable basis to believe right now that the i … | Continue reading
Located in Gulgong, New South Wales, Mayne Street Residence is an expansion project completed in 2016 by Cameron Anderson Architects. | Continue reading
This compact loft apartment designed by Sigmar is an ideal living space for a professional woman in West London, England. | Continue reading
The Hover Camera Passport is an autonomous flying camera that uses facial and body recognition to follow its subjects around and take stunning photo and video. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Photography, Video, 4k Video, and Selfie Drone | Continue reading
I was confused when I first saw the Vensmile K8. It looks like another flexible keyboard, and those have been around as a fun gimmick from novelty technology stores for years. Continue reading… | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Everspin Technologies, Inc. today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $8.00 per share, for total gross proceeds of $40 million before the underwriting... | Continue reading
No, it's not magic. This cloud — from Richard Clarkson Studio and Crealev, which specializes in levitating products — hovers 1 to 2 inches over an oval surface using magnetic components. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Bluetooth Speakers, Speaker, Real Time, and Real Tim … | Continue reading
pple’s retail footprint today spans nearly 500 Apple Stores globally and serves as an important public touchstone for the company, its products and aesthetic vision. Now, the very first store it ever opened in Europe, on London’s iconic Regent Street, is about to unveil a refurbi … | Continue reading
Not to be outdone by its Twitter sibling Periscope, Vine on Thursday launched the ability for creators to remix sound from other videos. Available just for iOS users, just record a vine and in the screen where you add captions, edit the post, and more, there’ll be a soundwave ico … | Continue reading
Dwyane Wade eventually made it back to his hometown of Chicago. But it could have happened six years earlier with LeBron James in tow. Wade told reporters on Thursday that, back in 2010, he and James were looking at Chicago as the place to team up. But the Bulls couldn't create t … | Continue reading
Apple is rumored to bring its OLED touch strip to MacBooks this fall, but it’s also reportedly interested in bringing Sonder Design’s dynamic keyboard technology to future models. Granted, Sonder hasn’t confirmed a deal is in place. It did, however, affirm to Engadget that talks … | Continue reading
Yo-Kai is going Hollywood, but only for a day. Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie will play at theaters around the United States on Saturday, October 15 as part of a special engagement through movie-event company Fathom. This comes after Yo-Kai Watch 2, the role-playing game about capturing … | Continue reading
APIs – the things that let you pull information from one app to another – are the backbone of the software you use on a daily basis. But there’s no API for live data from satellites. Axelspace is trying to create just that. The Japanese company has big dreams, and I talked to fou … | Continue reading
ISIS reportedly carried out its first successful drone attack this week, using a commercially available drone to deliver explosives and kill two Kurdish fighters. It’s an effort that has been a long time coming: a Facebook group dedicated to supporting Kurdish forces reported tha … | Continue reading
VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We include news stories by VentureBeat staff, guest articles fro … | Continue reading
Samsung has announced a $100 rebate program for Note 7 owners if they buy a new Samsung device, but can any of the company's existing phones cleanly replace the Note 7? | Continue reading
Today, Pinterest said it hit 150 million monthly active users, up from the 100 million it announced in September 2015. However, as TechCrunch previously reported, Pinterest in 2015 was targeting that it would hit 151 million monthly active users by the end of 2015. We reported th … | Continue reading
Big Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft news is coming. Blizzard has released the schedule for its yearly fan event, Blizzcon, which takes place November 4 and November 5 in Anaheim, California. Of special interest to Hearthstone fans, Blizzard is holding a “What’s Next” panel on Bli … | Continue reading
It’s been an open secret that Amazon’s AWS division and VMware were going to announce a partnership at a press conference in San Francisco later today. Thanks to VMware mistakenly posting its announcement early, we don’t have to wait for the afternoon to know what the two compani … | Continue reading
For a few days now, WikLeaks has been publishing select emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta — and the leaks are starting to cause serious damage. Most likely obtained from a hacked archive file, the latest dump contains all sorts of sensitive info on Podesta with n … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One is working on a transportation technology that can make trains go as fast as 760 miles per hour. And today, the company said it has raised $50 million from the port of Dubai and others to explore building a high-speed transportation system to move cargo. The deal co … | Continue reading
A chatbot works best when it seems to act as a human assistant, a “person” who understands what you want and delivers a sound answer. Recently, I tested out the And Chill chatbot, which runs within Facebook Messenger, to see if was up to a serious challenge: helping me find lesse … | Continue reading
Los Angeles is famous for two things: entertainment and traffic. Back in the 1950s, any association with “stars” and “cars” would be the envy of any modern city. But today, that’s sometimes overshadowed by images of aggressive paparazzi and gridlocked freeways. But when it comes … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One is getting even cozier with its partners in the United Arab Emirates. The futuristic transportation system that aims to ship things and people faster than a speeding plane just pulled in $50 million in strategic investment led by DP World Group of Dubai, bringing up … | Continue reading
Brent Callinicos has a reputation as one of the smartest financial minds in Silicon Valley. He helped spearhead Uber’s fastest years of growth as the ride-hailing startup’s chief financial officer, and served similar roles at Google and Microsoft. Now he’s heading to Hyperloop O … | Continue reading
Google is making it easier for you to find information about the upcoming election. The company is updating its search so that information about polling places and who is on your ballot will appear directly within search results.SEE ALSO: Court upholds right to take selfies in th … | Continue reading
Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today announced that it has appointed Aditya Agarwal as its new chief technology officer. Agarwal is taking the place of Arash Ferdowsi, who founded Dropbox in 2007 with CEO Drew Houston. Agarwal arrived at Dropbox in 2012 w … | Continue reading