Soon you'll be able to message anyone with your favorite messaging app and prompt them to download the app for themselves thanks to App Preview Messaging. | Continue reading
Google is preparing to announce a new home router product called Google Wifi, according to a report from Android Police today. It's expected to debut at the company's October 4th event alongside new Pixel smartphones, a release date for the Google Home speaker, and a 4K-capable C … | Continue reading
Skateboarders make great startup investors, according to Rob Dyrdek and Tony Hawk. The legendary skaters spoke to us about a mindset that helps them be on the lookout for the next big thing.“The skater mentality is you’re always looking at what’s next,” said Dyrdek. He also spoke … | Continue reading
PriestmanGoode, the design shop behind the new London Tube and this insane luxury space capsule, has released a pair of adjustable seat designs that aim to tackle overcrowding on commuter trains. The seats are adjustable to accommodate 15–30 percent more passengers, depending on … | Continue reading
GUEST: Humans have been interested in building intelligent computer systems since the beginning of computing technology. There’s something both interesting and strange about mimicking the function of a human brain that we feel the need to explore — how crazy is it to build a mach … | Continue reading
Uber is rolling out a new selfie security measure which will eventually cover the entire U.S. It’s a selfie system for drivers designed to help prevent driver fraud, so that you can more reliably count on the person who picks you up being the one whose picture you see in your app … | Continue reading
Update: Blizzard has noted on its Twitter account that the attacks are over. Blizzard can’t shake these cyberattacks. The developer noted inside its Battle.net game client, which serves as a portal for games like World of Warcraft, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and Overwatch, … | Continue reading
Meet Henri, the middle malshi (a maltese/shih-tzu mix, apparently) who shares a Manhattan apartment with our Senior Video Producer, Veanne. Being the urbane, city dwelling sort, Henri agreed to test out the latest offering from mattress-maker/podcast funder, Casper. Some backgrou … | Continue reading
Beyoncé is shifting from the stage to the CEO chair. WSJ's Neil Shah joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and explains how the pop megastar is morphing into an investor, reshuffling her management team and signing new acts. Photo: AP | Continue reading
At its hardware event on October 4, Google will launch a first-party Wi-Fi router that can be deployed in groups to create a mesh network, according to a new report. The product will simply be called Google Wifi and will cost $129 each, according to Android Police. Last year Goog … | Continue reading
Mira Nair’s inspirational chess drama Queen of Katwe is remarkable in the simplest but most profound way: it’s an American film about Africa that doesn’t feel like it was made by tourists. The film, based on the life of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, was partially shot in t … | Continue reading
Oculus founder Luckey Palmer has admitted to funding a group dedicated to spreading pro-Trump, alt-right memes and self-described "shitposts." This is not the kind of publicity Facebook is likely to want for its Oculus Rift VR platform. | Continue reading
Ruby Kavanaugh — remember that name. The eight-year-old golf sensation has a swing that rivals PGA professionals, and recently put it on display for a drone photographer in Australia. Kavanaugh lines up her tee shot and crushes a beauty headed straight for the center of the fairw … | Continue reading
Facebook only recently gave users the power to activate the social network’s Safety Check feature, and this week people turned it on during the protests in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the first time the feature was used during a protest, Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News. … | Continue reading
Screening for language disorders is best done early and often, but it’s not always easy to get the equipment and staff to every kid in a timely fashion. At least a basic level of screening, however, may soon be able to be automated or done at home, if research out of MIT proves r … | Continue reading
Google’s OnHub router was met with decent reception (heh), but a new report by Android Police indicates the company is looking to announce a new router alongside its upcoming probably-called-Pixel phones on October 4. It will simply be called Google Wi-Fi. The router will almost … | Continue reading
Google has released their latest TensorFlow model, and through its Inception V3 image modeling system, it can describe images with astounding accuracy. | Continue reading
SpaceX has a few answers about what might have caused the explosion of one of its Falcon 9 explosion on September 1. The rocket blew up while going through pre-launch prep on a landing pad, and no one was injured, but SpaceX has had some difficulty figuring out the cause, and sha … | Continue reading
Ripple joins with Bank of America, Santander, the Royal Bank of Canada and more to build a global blockchain steering group.Source | Continue reading
The latest episode of Pokémon Generations is now on YouTube, continuing the multimedia, $45 billion franchise’s celebration of its 20th anniversary. Generations is an animated show created for YouTube that shows highlights from the series’ main games. The latest episode features … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Blizzard suffers from more DDoS attacks, and we reviewed World of Warcraft’s excellent new expansion, Legion. We also went behind the wheel for Forza Horizon 3, the new racer for Xbox One. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pi … | Continue reading
SpaceX’s recent Falcon 9 explosion seems to have been caused by a break in the "cryogenic helium system" of the vehicle's upper oxygen tank. The company says the accident is not connected to last year's Falcon 9 explosion, in which a rocket disintegrated en route to the Internati … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Can you imagine going to a restaurant that made it increasingly harder to get through each course of a meal?Sure, you can have your appetizers, but to eat your entrée you’ll have to cross the street to another location. And don’t forget to bring your spoon with you -- … | Continue reading
When you find out the enigmatic 24-year-old who built one of the first commercially viable virtual reality headsets also funds a pro-Trump political action group aimed at spreading anti-Hillary Clinton memes, you may feel like your worldview has shifted a bit.At least that was th … | Continue reading
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles design chief Ralph Gilles lives in the future, though he’s reticent to share what it looks like. Gilles and I met on a steamy Michigan August day at his spacious office in the Chrysler World Headquarters and Technology Center overlooking the company’s No … | Continue reading
Audio streaming company SoundCloud today announced a change to the experience for developers who want to build new apps that take advantage of SoundCloud’s application programming interface (API). Now developers will need to submit an application before getting an API key for eac … | Continue reading
Cuff, the smart jewelry maker that promised a line of fashion wearables capable of sending emergency alerts to trusted family and friends, shut down earlier this year leaving a number of customer orders unfilled and vendors unpaid. Now, the company is being named in a bankruptcy … | Continue reading
The original Watch Dogs game was a revenge tale and a warning about the threats that hackers pose to smart cities. Watch Dogs 2 offers the same warning about cyber security threats to the future smart city of San Francisco, but it has a different emotional feeling with its celebr … | Continue reading
Uber announced today that it’ll require drivers to snap selfies before signing on to the platform and accepting ride requests. The new feature, called Real-Time ID Check, is described as a way to prevent fraud and protects drivers’ accounts from being compromised, but some critic … | Continue reading
Do you need change your B2B lead generation marketing to attract the right leads? Discover the reasons your lead generation isn't working for you. | Continue reading
The Uncertain is a brand new post-apocalyptic adventure game exclusively for the NVIDIA Shield. | Continue reading
So that’s it, another week out of the way. As we noted in this morning’s bitcoin price analysis, things have been pretty wild this week. Price gave us plenty to go at with our intraday scalp strategy (and in turn, plenty to discuss as part of our intraday analyses) and we have ma … | Continue reading
Announced today, a new feature for Uber drivers will require a selfie photo before each shift to verify their identities. Real-Time ID Check aims to prevent fraudulent use of a driver’s account and provide customers with a greater sense of confidence in the ride-sharing company. … | Continue reading
Google is gearing up for the upcoming Oct. 4 hardware event with grand ads, building projections and even a statue showing its willingness to take on the iPhone 7 after this month's Apple event. SEE ALSO: Google's plan for modular smartphones have reportedly been abandonedEarlier … | Continue reading
Things just keep getting worse and worse for Samsung.After weeks of investigating cases of Galaxy Note7 phones catching on fire, destroying people's cars, and even injuring people, Samsung and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued an official recall f … | Continue reading
Well that was fast: Apple just released iOS 10.0.2, with the update's release notes confirming that it fixes an issue that caused Lightning headphone controls to be disabled after a period of inactivity. The bug was reported soon after the iPhone 7's launch last week as customers … | Continue reading
It’s rare that we get to peek under the helmets of the Empire’s Stormtrooper corps, but the short Star Wars fanfilm Jakku: First Wave does just that by showing the moments before one of the franchise’s biggest battles.Jakku: First Wave follows a trio of Stormtroopers deployed to … | Continue reading
Samsung can’t seem to catch a break at the moment. Three weeks ago, it was discovered that a battery defect was responsible for a number of Galaxy Note 7’s catching fire while on charge. Shortly after, the company announced that it would recall the handset and issue owners a repl … | Continue reading
HubSpot is the market leader for marketing automation software but what alternatives are available and how do these compare? | Continue reading
As we romp further into this silly and messy political season it’s come to light that Tyler Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift and the boy who was last seen floating in a tropical paradise on the cover of time magazine, was the money man behind a group of Trump supporters calling … | Continue reading
Drones might one day blanket cities dropping off Amazon goods, but in the short-term, there’s plenty of opportunity for them to help out in limited engagements, where delivery via other means would be difficult, impossible or just not quite expedient enough. UPS kicked off trials … | Continue reading
It took a small ceramic doughnut for me to realize I’m a fat piece of shit. Like most people who work from home, my lifestyle could be better. The most walking I do is when I stagger to the fridge to grab another Diet Coke. Most of the time, I’m sat on my arse writing articles, t … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Rubin worked on Call of Duty games for nearly a decade. He was in charge of Infinity Ward, the creator of games like Call of Duty: Ghosts, until early 2015. After he left, he experienced that surreal feeling of shifting from being the head of a 260-person game stu … | Continue reading
Amazon is more popular than ever. Take full advantage of the platform by promoting your products through Amazon Ads. | Continue reading
In light of yesterday’s news that over 500 million Yahoo accounts were compromised, it’s clear that we need to start seriously thinking about new security system replacements for passwords. So it’s fitting that Lenovo announced a partnership to bring FIDO fingerprint authenticati … | Continue reading
Samsung’s Galaxy On5 (2016) and Galaxy On7 (2016) mid-range smartphones have finally reached Chinese stores with upgrades on the software and hardware sides compared to the first Galaxy On series launched in India last year. | Continue reading