Google spend a healthy chunk of time at its Pixel smartphone event on Tuesday touting the new device’s camera, with product VP Brian Rakowski going so far as to call it "the best smartphone camera anyone has ever made," with a DxOMark score of 89. To back up that bold claim, came … | Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward fractured a finger on his left hand during practice Friday, the team said. | Continue reading
If Samsung doesn't officially cancel the Galaxy Note 7's release, US carriers might try and do it themselves. AT&T is considering ending all further sales of the plagued Note 7, according to a report from Bloomberg tonight. An official decision could come as soon as later this ev … | Continue reading
GUEST: Dashbot.io, a tool for analyzing bots, recently surpassed 70 million messages processed. One of the questions that comes up often for developers is buttons. What performs better: free-form text input or button-driven interfaces? We took a look at the data across Facebook b … | Continue reading
LeEco, the Chinese technology company that purchased TV maker Vizio for $2 billion in July, may have just spoiled its eventful debut in the US market. The company is set to unveil new products on October 19th, but Android Police discovered numerous listings on LeEco’s own website … | Continue reading
Nextbit, the startup behind the Android-based Robin smartphone that sync apps and photos online to prevent users from running out of storage, told VentureBeat in an email today that it views the Google Pixel phones’ promised unlimited storage of photos and videos in Google Photos … | Continue reading
The opaque, confusing and highly volatile practice of valuing a private SaaS business is frustrating for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Furthermore, the lack of transparency adds a tremendous amount of friction to a capital raise or the sale of a company. The reality is, it’s … | Continue reading
The Jazz used the last few seasons and especially last summer to fortify the team and add depth. Well, that will be tested right away. | Continue reading
Garbage in, garbage out — that’s always been a rule of computing, and machine learning systems are no exception. These elementary AIs only know what we tell them, and if that data carries a bias of any kind, so too will the system trained on it. Google is looking to avoid such aw … | Continue reading
If you use Snapchat fairly regularly, chances are you’ve had days where getting through all your friends’ stories seemingly takes forever. But now Snapchat is introducing a couple of changes today in a bid to help reduce the clutter. First off, Snapchat is killing automatic back … | Continue reading
Netflix announced a new theater distribution deal with iPic Entertainment, a theater chain with 15 locations throughout the country. The deal will put 10 Netflix original films (a substantial portion of Netflix’s original films this year) in iPic’s New York and Los Angeles theate … | Continue reading
The teenage brain is a double-edged sword: sure, teens can be reckless and more susceptible to addictive behaviors than adults are, but those same brain pathways may also help them learn better than adults do, a new study suggests. So teachers and parents might just have to take … | Continue reading
In an interview on the podcast Nerdist, Sarah Jessica Parker revealed that she always suspected that the three non-Carrie Bradshaw Sex and the City ladies were just figures of Carrie's imagination.She suggested Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha might have been "just for [Carrie's] … | Continue reading
John Carmack talked to his faithful followers about the technical edge of virtual reality and the technical improvements on the way for the Samsung Gear VR mobile virtual reality headset. While other Oculus and Facebook speakers have pushed the high-end Oculus Rift headset on the … | Continue reading
CLEVELAND (AP) -- LeBron James made his public pitch for the Indians. Wearing a blue throwback Cleveland uniform from the 1970s and a red cap, the NBA star addressed the crowd at Progressive | Continue reading
Snap Inc., the recently formed company behind messaging app Snapchat, today said that it’s beginning to remove the Auto Advance feature that automatically plays stories. The feature arrived in Snapchat in March and was quickly criticized, as you couldn’t avoid seeing stories from … | Continue reading
The DHS and DNI have released a joint statement blaming Russia for the leak of thousands of emails and donor information earlier this year. | Continue reading
GUEST: Let’s be honest. Chatbots, in their current state, aren’t that great. They’re basically nothing more than glorified IVR systems. A viable chatbot solution without shortcomings doesn’t exist today, and the chatbots that exist are far from self-sufficient. The various soluti … | Continue reading
Recently, comics writer Greg Rucka made headlines when he said in an Comicosity interview that in his approach to writing Wonder Woman, she's unequivocally a queer character. "Are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women? As [artist Nicola Scott] an … | Continue reading
It's been a long time coming. Penguin 4.0 is here, and we've got 3 tips to help you avoid penalties. | Continue reading
Snapchat is fighting back against Instagram Stories, which rocketed to 100 million daily users by spotlighting the cloned feature atop the feed. To make Snapchat more “friends first”, it’s moving friends’ Stories above Discover where they used to be to make sure you don’t miss pe … | Continue reading
Snapchat is rolling out a series of important changes to the Stories feed today that brings updates from your friends back to the top — and take a first step toward reducing clutter in the feed today by letting you create a playlist of friends’ stories to watch. Continue rea … | Continue reading
Snapchat is changing up its Stories page once again.The app is reversing two previous changes it made: Stories will no longer auto-advance and Discover content will appear farther down in the Stories page. SEE ALSO: Snapchat is just 'Snap' nowThe change is starting to roll out no … | Continue reading
After analyzing data on human longevity for years, US researchers have concluded that hopes science extend life span by hundreds of years is probably fruitless. While we’ve made strides for decades at improving average life expectancy, life span is an entirely different ballgame. … | Continue reading
Being synonymous with a particular product category is a mixed blessing. Mophie is undoubtedly the best known name in the battery case business, but the company has been keen to distance itself from the space a bit – or at the very least, let it be known that it’s got more to off … | Continue reading
Tesla’s founder and chief executive Elon Musk revealed on Friday that the company’s autopilot mode has driven 222 million miles since its launch nearly a year ago. Announced last October, this capability allowed owners of supported Tesla vehicles to have a computer guide them fro … | Continue reading
Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard delivered a major speech on blockchain today.Source | Continue reading
The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed today what cybersecurity companies have asserted since emails from Democratic National Committee employees leaked online over the summer — state-sponsored Russian hackers are res … | Continue reading
All of the major carriers are now offering to exchange replaced Galaxy Note 7's after a high-profile fire on an aircraft earlier this week. Is it time for Samsung to kill the device? | Continue reading
When you're faced with a crisis, it's important to stay calm. It's what Samsung has been doing while recalling up to 2.5 million defective Galaxy Note7 phones prone to catching on fire.But it's time for Samsung to fess up — nerdy technical details and all — on what exactly was w … | Continue reading
New Lab, which co-founder David Belt described as “a collaborative workspace” for companies in fields like robotics and artificial intelligence, officially opened last month. The facility is located in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, in a building that was once used to housed assemble ship … | Continue reading
Italian luxury automaker Maserati — a division of Fiat Chrysler (FCA) — plans to build an electric car by 2020. This would be the second EV from the parent company aside from the limited-availability Fiat 500e, which is more of a compliance car than a volume nameplate.The news ab … | Continue reading
In an official statement today, the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Homeland Security officially blamed Russia for stealing and publishing archived emails from the Democratic National Committee this summer. “The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Serious human rights concerns have been raised by a Reuters report that Yahoo had scanned the emails of hundreds of millions of users at the request of a U.S. intelligence service, a United Nations’ human rights advocate said on Friday. “Government monitoring of digit … | Continue reading
When the Supreme Court decided Alice v. CLS Bank in 2014, it marked a new era in software patent law. By ruling that abstract ideas could not be patented simply because they were executed on a computer, the Alice decision significantly narrowed down the possible universe of softw … | Continue reading
Opinions on Twitter are currency. As you’re probably well aware, this currency isn’t accepted everywhere, or by everyone. As such, anyone that uses the platform with some regularity has been the victim of a drive-by asshole. These are the accounts that offer no value to a convers … | Continue reading
Self-driving car testing in California is becoming a badge of progress for companies working in the space. Only 17 companies in total have the honor, including two just added to the list: Wheego Electric Cars, and Valeo North America. The Wall Street Journal reports that both the … | Continue reading
REVIEW: A gaming laptop didn’t make a lot of sense around this time last year. But thanks to some major breakthroughs from graphics chip maker Nvidia, they are a lot more reasonable. The MSI GS43VR Phantom Pro gaming laptop is a compact powerhouse that is light enough to use as a … | Continue reading
New York Comic Con is currently in full swing, and day two brought us the "Inside the Upside Down" panel with Stranger Things stars Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) and David Harbour (Chief Hopper). The two talked to Vulture moderator Matt Zoller Seitz about everything from '80s nosta … | Continue reading
We’re hearing from several sources that a secondary financing round is in the works for GitHub, following its last $250 million financing round that valued it at $2 billion in July last year. However, there’s a little bit of interesting chatter beyond that they’re raising a secon … | Continue reading
At Oculus Connect conference yesterday, we got a glimpse of what Facebook was after when it got into virtual reality: a VR environment where you can feel like you’re hanging out in the same physical space as your friends, complete with realistic body language and emotional respon … | Continue reading
This week, Google revealed new hardware, Facebook outlined its plans for the company’s future in VR and we paid our respects to Meerkat. Read More | Continue reading
For the last month, a Twitter bot named "Liz," with the handle @arguetron, has been quietly engaging with the internet’s seediest subculture.Well-versed in internet bigotry of all stripes, the bot makes simple statements (five or six per hour) designed to rile up 4chan commenters … | Continue reading
GUEST: Today, we are just beginning to scratch the surface of what is possible with artificial intelligence (A.I.) and how individuals will interact with its various forms. Every single aspect of our society — from cars to houses to products to services — will be reimagined and r … | Continue reading
Google's ad copy claims that the Pixel and Pixel XL are "exclusive" at Verizon, but it's not true -- and buying the device from Verizon is a mistake. If you want prompt updates to the latest version of Android, buy the device elsewhere. | Continue reading
By Nora Wendel Stock photos save time. And time is money! Stock photography is made specifically for the purpose of providing you with images that you can use commercially for marketing. It can be unrealistic and really expensive getting professional photo shoots done every time … | Continue reading
There are certain kinds of photos users of dating apps tend to loathe, and the suggestive mirror selfie tends to be at the top of that list, somewhere near photos of guys holding a fish and gym selfies. That’s why today, the dating app Bumble has taken action to ban selfies of us … | Continue reading
Tennis star Maria Sharapova, the highest paid female athlete in the world, has mounted a PR come back. The International Tennis Association (ITA) had banned the Russian tennis player from the sport for two years after she tested positive for meldonium, also known by its brand nam … | Continue reading