During pregnancy, soon to be first-time parents will often devour manuals like “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” to get clued into all the changes taking place in mom’s body along with details on the baby’s development. But after the baby arrives, it’s often fly-by-the-seat … | Continue reading
The first uterus transplants from living donors have been attempted in the US, Time reports. Of the four transplant surgeries performed last month at Baylor University Medical Center, only one looks to be successful. But once doctors figure out a way around the complications, the … | Continue reading
Bitcoin's Lightning Network has passed another key milestone.Source | Continue reading
Known as an “Airbnb for dogs,” Santa Monica-based DogVacay has spent almost five years building up a robust dog-sitting business. Betting that owners were looking for better solutions for boarding their pets, DogVacay created a platform that made it easier to find and book afford … | Continue reading
It’s been just over a year since Adobe launched its Adobe Stock photography service, with deep integration into the company’s Creative Cloud suite. Today, it expands the number of photos available with the EyeEm Collection, a hand-picked selection of the best images EyeEm’s custo … | Continue reading
Yahoo issued a statement this morning on Tuesday’s report that the company built a custom software tool to allow U.S. intelligence agencies to scan incoming email for all Yahoo users for certain selectors, calling the report “misleading” but not outright false.“The article is mis … | Continue reading
The former team behind the popular Runescape game has created a new startup PlayFusion and a new game Lightseekers that it hopes will represent the next generation of toys-to-life video games. In a challenge to Activision’s $3 billion Skylanders business, Lightseekers is a connec … | Continue reading
There are, of course, lots of smartlocks in the world. August, Ring, Kwikset. The list, as you’re likely well aware goes on and on. Designed by a pair of former Google Glass engineers, the forthcoming Gate aims to set itself apart from the ever-growing ranks of connected security … | Continue reading
Skylanders, Amiibo, Disney Infinity – the toys-to-life category got big, fast, but most of the action in the space following Skylanders tended to be mostly derivative, without really pushing the category forward when it comes to the breadth of available technologies. Lightseekers … | Continue reading
A new video posted by YouTube technology reviewer JerryRigEverything calls into question Apple's use of pure sapphire crystal in the camera lens of its iPhone. SEE ALSO: This man embarked on an insane international quest for the new iPhoneEver since it debuted the iPhone 5S in 20 … | Continue reading
The entire automotive industry is racing to build autonomous driving technology, but few teams have been working on the problem longer than the company now known as Alphabet. Seven and a half years into the project, Alphabet’s X division said today that its cars have now driven 2 … | Continue reading
First Contact Entertainment has raised $5 million to make high-end virtual reality games. The Los Angeles company has recruited a team of developers from game companies like Starbreeze, Blizzard, Treyarch and Infinity Ward. The financing will fuel the company’s ambitions to creat … | Continue reading
I’ve recently seen a few examples of services that ask customers to type in their online banking usernames and passwords so the service can access their bank accounts on their behalf. The applications are fairly broad and definitely useful — making payments, ID verification and a … | Continue reading
September is a busy month for winemakers as it is grape harvest time ! While some wineries work behind closed doors, others welcome visitors interested in seeing the winemaking process. Every year Movimento Turismo del Vino [http://www. ... | Continue reading
The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is set to be released in November, according to CNET. The smartphone is more widely known as the first device to run Tango, Google's augmented reality technology. Google's head of VR Clay Bavor confirmed the release of the device, which was supposed to be re … | Continue reading
Google today released a new statistic about the use of Chromebooks — specifically in the context of education. Now more than 20 million students use Chromebooks, “to create, collaborate and communicate,” Rajen Sheth, senior director of product management for Android and Chrome fo … | Continue reading
Blockchain technology is growing beyond mainstream banking and financial sectors. As forecasted, the distributed ledger technology is now being adopted by the governments as well. Leading the initiative is the Government of United Arab Emirates, particularly Dubai. According to r … | Continue reading
Despite expectations of fiery explosions, Blue Origin successfully landed its New Shepard rocket after launching the vehicle for the fifth time today. The landing was a delightful surprise for the company, since it fully expected that rocket to either break up or slam into the fl … | Continue reading
Das Designlabor PARTY aus New York hat einen Helm ausgetüftelt, mit dem Huckepack reitenden Kinder Papa/Mama nicht mehr nur einfach auf der Schultern hocken, sondern den tragenden Elternteil wie ein Fahrzeug steuern können: Der Piggyback Driver... | Continue reading
The United Arab Emirates city of Dubai has announced plans to move all of its government documents to a blockchain by 2020.Source | Continue reading
Revelations that Facebook for years vastly overestimated a key video metric have raised calls for third-party reviews of metrics reports by social media networks. The scandal, dubbed “Overstate-gate,” also underscores the challenges marketers and advertisers face when comparing s … | Continue reading
Google is rebranding the Google Cast app into Google Home to reflect new changes and functions for the device. | Continue reading
Scientists just built a memristor that mimics a synapse so closely, we could do simple classical conditioning on it. | Continue reading
On the fifth anniversary of Jobs’s death, we’ve compiled some of his D Conference highlights into the video above. (I also used the opportunity to ask Swisher and Mossberg about what it was like to host Jobs at their conference. As you might guess, he was a unique participant.) … | Continue reading
Here’s an obvious statement: The shift from film to digital changed the way we take photos and record videos. What’s less obvious about that, or at least easier to forget, is that this shift wasn’t just a one-time thing. Digital photography has given photographers, videographers, … | Continue reading
Nokia phones are indestructible, or so the legend goes. The classic meme shows how the 3310 has a reputation of being one of the strongest phones ever made. But last week, a Lumia phone got the ultimate strength test — being hit by a bullet. The following picture was shared on Tw … | Continue reading
In a significant endorsement of blockchain technology, the underlying innovation of bitcoin, the Dubai government will see of its documents on a blockchain. The government of Dubai will see all of its documents on a blockchain by the year 2020. The announcement was made via the D … | Continue reading
Hurricane Matthew — a Category 4 storm — hit Haiti yesterday, flooding thousands of homes, destroying farms and crops, and killing livestock. The Haitian government has reported that five people have been killed, one is missing, and 14,530 have been evacuated, but the toll is exp … | Continue reading
The global mobile app market will generate $44.8 billion in gross revenues in 2016, and 82 percent of that comes from mobile games, according to market researcher Newzoo. The company said in a report that global app revenue will grow to $80.6 billion by 2020, and game revenue wil … | Continue reading
Showcasing is another new wrinkle that mobile technology has brought to our culture. Retailers have to find a way to leverage it to their advantage. | Continue reading
It’s not so easy writing about nothing. — Patti Smith Last... | Continue reading
At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers’ personal data, as computing continues to accelerate away from static desktops and screens, coalescing into a cloud of connected devices with the potenti … | Continue reading
Last years, hackers broke into the UK ISP TalkTalk and stole the personal information of over 157,000 people. Among the records stolen were bank details, including sort codes and account numbers. It was Christmas for identity thieves. Today, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Of … | Continue reading
Xiaomi entered India in 2014 and since then has showed an incredible growth rate and as per IDC, it is now the third largest smartphone brand across top 30 cities in India. | Continue reading
It’s 6.4 inches, it’s got a crazy new depth-sensing camera system and it may actually arrive next month. Lenovo’s big Phab2 Pro was originally scheduled for retail release this summer, a date that eventually got pushed back to a fairly vague fall timeframe, casting some doubt on … | Continue reading
Yesterday Google unveiled its new voice-enabled Google Home smart speaker that lets you use your voice to control media and ask simple questions by uttering the magic words ‘OK Google’. While the device showed excellent responsiveness to voice commands during yesterday’s live dem … | Continue reading
Take claustrophobia to new levels with Locked In A Room - Europe's largest escape-game themed venue, which opened this week at ExCeL London, alongside the venue's meetings and training facility CentrEd at ExCeL. | Continue reading
Payoneer, a global provider of payment processing technologies, has added another $180 million to its already sizable warchest as it looks to continue to grow its payment services. Already profitable and with a solid amount of cash on the balance sheet the new money will double t … | Continue reading
Die japanische Firma ALPS brütet immer wieder erstaunliche Ideen aus, wobei haptische Stunts ihr Spezialgebiet sind, aber der virtuelle Becher ist wohl die merkwürdigste Entwicklung des ALPS-Labors - und auch eines der denkwürdigsten... | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of developer Michel Ancel suggesting Beyond Good & Evil 2 is finally in the works, Ubisoft has announced Beyond Good & Evil on PC will be free next week.As part of the Ubisoft Club promotion, Beyond Good & Evil goes free from 12th October on PC (you need a uPlay … | Continue reading
Hooks, the app that enables you to get a push notification for things that are important to you — such as news, new film releases, or just about anything — has updated its iOS app to make it social by adding live chat to each notification. Read More | Continue reading
After testing the feature on a small set of users since July, Facebook has now enabled end-to-end encryption for all Messenger users. The way it's implemented, though, not many of those users will care. SEE ALSO: You can now encrypt your Facebook Messenger chatsFirst, a word on e … | Continue reading
For just under $100 a year, Amazon Prime is a pretty good deal: free 2-day shipping, all the streaming music and video content you can consume and cloud storage for all of your photos. What's been missing, oddly, is any kind of significant book deal — until now.SEE ALSO: Bad news … | Continue reading