As the number of cord cutters in the U.S. continues to grow, The CW is doubling down on its own, subscription-free, over-the-top streaming service, which will now become the only way to watch in-season episodes of the network’s shows. The service will also expand across platforms … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is pumping up our expectations again: The Tesla CEO and founder said that he’s planning an October 28, Bay area unveiling of Tesla and SolarCity’s new solar roof product, which will be directly integrated with version 2.0 of the Tesla’s PowerWall solar storage battery f … | Continue reading
Is a man not entitled to the goals of his car? No, says the man at FIFA. “It belongs to Sepp Blatter and his insider cronies.” Well, developer Psyonix has rejected those answers, and it has built a new vehicular-soccer utopia where each man is his own striker. Rocket League is ge … | Continue reading
When conducting a UX review, you need to focus on actionable insights.An audit is not an just a laundry list of usability issues. Triage, prioritize, and deliver clear next steps to our stakeholders and clients. Beyond fixing glaring issues, you also want to reveal new opportunit … | Continue reading
The United Launch Alliance is throwing shade at rival SpaceX in the wake of the company’s latest rocket failure, suggesting that ULA’s vehicles are more reliable for launching Air Force satellites. ULA is making its feelings known as it’s expected to compete with SpaceX for a con … | Continue reading
PoliciesHorizon 2020, with a budget of €77bn from 2014 – 2020, is the biggest EU research and innovation programme ever and one of the largest worldwide. Horizon 2020 promotes Europe’s scientific and technological excellence to extend the frontiers of human knowledge, boost the E … | Continue reading
After failing to get their startup Udemy off the ground in their native Turkey, Eren Bali and Oktay Cağlar headed to the U.S. in 2009. Both knew that in the U.S., specifically Silicon Valley, they could gain the support and traction Udemy needed. Yet Udemy was not enough to get t … | Continue reading
Facebook sees 30 million updates to profiles each day, but it can’t build every tool to keep your photos and videos interesting. So today it’s globally rolling out its Profile Expression Kit to all developers. This makes it easy to add media like Vine videos, Boomerang GIFs, Beau … | Continue reading
Google today is announcing that it has open-sourced Show and Tell, a model for automatically generating captions for images. Google first published a paper on the model in 2014 and released an update in 2015 to document a newer and more accurate version of the model. Google has i … | Continue reading
Yes, there's a company that's actually trying to sell you an MP3 player in 2016.The Mighty, as you may recall, was originally launched as a Kickstarter earlier this year. Although it resembles an iPod shuffle, it's not like a traditional MP3 player. It's the first of its kind to … | Continue reading
In this episode of Members Only, Sean Jackson and Jessica Frick provide practical examples of how to improve the most important page on your website. | Continue reading
LinkedIn, the social network for the working world that now has some 450 million members and is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion, today took the wraps off its newest efforts to expand its site beyond job hunting and recruitment, LinkedIn’s two big b … | Continue reading
In the latest round of a long-standing feud, bitcoin investor Roger Ver is suing bitcoin exchange OkCoin for $570,000.Source | Continue reading
More White House staffer emails have been leaked, Politico reports, this time from the compromised private Gmail account of an employee who seemed to handle travel and other day-to-day scheduling and logistics tasks. The dump, which was posted to DCLeaks, includes what looks like … | Continue reading
It turns out the Nextbit Robin isn't the only phone seeing pretty solid price slashing over at Amazon. From the LG G5 to the OnePlus 3 and more -- there's plenty of discounts from as little as $30 to as much as $200. | Continue reading
A comprehensive roadmap to save you frustration, tears and cool cash. This is a long read: It’s two and a half year of learnings from being part of starting more than 11 companies with my great colleagues at Founders. I’ve distilled all this into seven principles, a 16 minute rea … | Continue reading
With Lyft, Gett, and Uber and others, New York City might just be the world’s most saturated ride-hailing market. Uber’s users will be happy to know that starting today, you can book rides up to 30 days in advance through the app. When you book a car, you get timely reminders t … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger is getting a neat update today on Andriod and iOS, according to TechCrunch: you can now poll your friends. The feature only works for group chats (because polling a two people is silly), and works just like you’d expect: type in a question and some possible res … | Continue reading
Damit liefern die Effekt-Komiker Niko Pueringer und Sam Gorski aka Corridor Digital dann ihr vorläufiges Meisterwerk in Sachen Game-bezogenen Filmchen ab: Super Mario Galaxy in einer Real-Life-Version, die sich auf Little Planets abspielt. Um Mario... | Continue reading
Death and taxes may be the only two certainties in life (according to Ben Franklin), but tax compliance software provider Avalara has raised $96 million with a pitch to make one a lot less painful. The company’s whopping new round of growth capital will be used to buy out some un … | Continue reading
Call of Duty 3 is now available on Xbox One's backwards compatible library.This was Treyarch's first stab at the Call of Duty franchise before becoming one of its main stewards with the Black Ops series under its belt, along with 2008's CoD: World at War.Call of Duty 3 also marke … | Continue reading
I’m glad I have work as an excuse to play a game about princesses. Disney has released a new mobile game today, Disney Princess: Charmed Adventures. The free-to-play app is available for iOS and Android. It includes interactive activities (aka minigames) with themes focused on ea … | Continue reading
As we hurtle noiselessly into a dystopian future, headphone makers have already started offering Lightning-only earbuds, something that should give early adopters some solace but might be a hard sell for folks with a shoebox full of tangled traditional earbuds. But the future is … | Continue reading
If you reside in the Sates, it’s probably best not to get your hopes up when it comes to Sony handsets. Availability has been, at best, spotty. That’s one of the reasons the two new phones announced at IFA a few weeks back managed to make waves stateside – the company clearly app … | Continue reading
Microsoft today launched TypeScript 2.0, adding new features, aligning further with ECMAScript‘s evolution, and widening support for JavaScript libraries. You can download TypeScript 2.0 now for Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3 required), for Visual Studio Code, grab it with NuGet, o … | Continue reading
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Facebook is rolling out two new features for its popular Messaging app, giving users in-chat polling and also testing out an intelligent way to detect when you want to send money. The latest changes will be available on both iOS and Android starting this week, but they’re limited … | Continue reading
Taxi startup Flywheel is officially making its move into New York City, with the aim to better equip old-school taxis to take on Uber and Lyft. Flywheel recently received approval from the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission to operate TaxiOS, its smartphone-based taxi meter that c … | Continue reading
Facebook’s chat app wants to help you and your friends decide where to go for dinner or what movie to see, then use machine learning to remind you to pay them back. Today Messenger users on iOS and Android in the US get two new features which could roll out to other countries if … | Continue reading
Flybrix is piggybacking on a toy-making giant to let kids build drones using Lego bricks. Now you don’t need to use your imagination to see your Lego creations fly. Aimed at kids ages 14 and older, the drone is “crash-friendly” and rebuildable because the parts are made of Legos. … | Continue reading
Facebook is testing a new feature on its Messenger app starting today that’ll use machine learning to prompt you to pay back your friends. It relies on a new service called "chat assist" that recognizes certain words and the actions they reference when they come up in conversatio … | Continue reading
Flywheel, a Bay Area-based e-hail app company, announced Thursday that its “TaxiOS” technology was approved by New York City regulators for use in the city’s iconic yellow taxis. Flywheel offers two main products: an e-hail app for riders, and a smartphone-based operating syst … | Continue reading
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A company called Flybrix is putting legos on the wing. The San Francisco startup today began selling build-a-drone kits for kids age 14 and up comprised of: LEGO bricks, boom arms and motors that don’t require soldering, and other off the shelf and Flybrix-designed parts. Once as … | Continue reading
Der schwedische LKW-Hersteller Scania hat sich einen bestimmt beeindruckenden, aber irgendwie auch leicht irreführenden Marketing-Stunt ausgedacht, um die Zuverlässigkeit seiner Laster zu demonstrieren: 14 Lastwagen, die sich 24 Stunden im... | Continue reading
Fresh from raising $750 million in new financing this week, Uber rival in Southeast Asia Grab is now making a move into the self-driving car space after it agreed to a partnership with NuTonomy, the MIT spin-out that is developing autonomous vehicles. Read More | Continue reading
Tesla has filed suit with the Western District Court of Michigan over its ability to sell its cars directly to consumers in the state, Electrek reports, as well as its ability to service vehicles owned by state residents. The lawsuit follows the rejection of an application for a … | Continue reading
Recess could soon become a lot kids’ second-favorite subject at school. Developer Mojang announced that Minecraft: Education Edition hits November 1 for computers running Windows 10 or OS X El Capitan. Minecraft has sold over 106 million copies across all of its platforms, with m … | Continue reading
The tech news of the past few weeks still lingers, so this week on Ctrl-Walt-Delete Walt and Nilay tackle a few topics.Samsung is still trying to remove all Note 7s affected with battery malfunction from circulation, but as Walt notes, some customers are going through obstacles t … | Continue reading
Did you know there’s a nifty little trick that will let you pack over 2,000 games in just one oldschool Nintendo cartridge? In his latest video, Zach from Howchoo explains how you can hack your useless old Nintendo cartridge and turn it into a retro gaming powerhouse – and it’d c … | Continue reading
A new report may have mutual fund investors beaming right now — and traditional venture investors sniggering.According to new research from the data company Pitchbook, Fidelity Investments has assembled stakes in 24 “unicorn” startups. That’s more than any venture firm. Fidelity’ … | Continue reading
GIPHY lives and breathes reaction GIFs so it was only a matter of time before we decided to create and star in some of our own. There are too many to list, so here are 15 of our favorites. If you want to see all 150 of them just head over to our GIPHY Originals channel and choose … | Continue reading
New projectsThe EU-funded GETUI project is developing ways to assess how gestures fit into the communication skill set needed for collaborative problem solving.Date: 22/09/2016 - 17:10Collaborative problem solving has become a major feature within today’s workplaces. Increasingly … | Continue reading
I have 6,569 photographs stored on my iPhone. The majority of these images are all of the same subject — my dog. They document his journey from a puppy to a fully grown four-year-old Tibetan Terrier. Unfortunately, my family has grown tiresome of the hordes of pictures I post in … | Continue reading
The full version of Minecraft: Education Edition is finally arriving on November 1, following an extended testing and free trial period that began this summer. The version of Minecraft aimed at educators and schools came out of Microsoft’s acquisition of learning game MinecraftEd … | Continue reading
Take a look at how Brafton’s social media team created a holistic social media marketing strategy and got results fast. | Continue reading
Valve was once working on a Half-Life-related game with Three in the title. No, not Half-Life 3. Threewave.Threewave began life as a Capture the Flag mod for the original Quake that went on to enjoy huge popularity among the PC first-person shooter community.As revealed by a new … | Continue reading
“Rise of Iron” is Destiny’s fourth major expansion, and it plans for the game’s future with new weapons, armor, missions, and multiplayer modes. It’s as good an excuse as “The Taken King” was to jump back into developer Bungie’s world: the loot is plentiful, the levels are easy t … | Continue reading