Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links, and perform other tedious tasks set by their human masters. But even these automated helpers come into conflict, reverting and re-reverting each other on the same topic — sometimes for years. Read M … | Continue reading
Tom Cruise, the guy known for running in lots of movies — and other stuff, I’m sure — now has his own online mini-game to do just that: run. The running gag about Cruise running in movies has led to memes, video compilations and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of GIFs on the subject. I … | Continue reading
Cloud Engines, the company behind the Pogoplug line of data backup hardware, remote device access software, and cloud file syncing and sharing services, will be shutting down its Pogoplug Cloud premium unlimited storage tier on September 28. The change is abrupt, as it was announ … | Continue reading
Experiential events to check out this weekend include Goose Island's Block Party, The Philharmonia Orchestra VR experience and South African Tourism's #FindYourWild pop-up. | Continue reading
One interesting feature of Allo is that you can send messages to your friends even if they don't have the app installed. The solution? Text messaging. | Continue reading
Waze’s engaged community is definitely its most powerful asset, and now the company wants to broaden its community to include tunnel operators who want to fill in the current gaps in wireless navigation tech. These roadways have typically been frustrating to all manner of wireles … | Continue reading
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is already on the way for its February theatrical debut, but the people behind the film are also working on a companion TV series. Entertainment Weekly reports that, for King’s 69th birthday, production company MRC and Sony Pictures have revealed tha … | Continue reading
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to “unlock human potential and promote equality,” announced its latest project today: a $3 billion “Chan Zuckerberg Science” program created with the goal of curing, preventing, or managing “a … | Continue reading
The philanthropic initiative founded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will spend $3 billion over the next decade in an effort to cure and manage all human diseases. The Chan Zuckerberg's latest effort will begin with a $600 million investment in a … | Continue reading
In a Wednesday press conference, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said that Keith Lamont Scott had a gun and was posing a threat to police officers when he was shot and killed. Community leaders responded with questions on the use of force and called for an economic … | Continue reading
Battle.net is going away. Don’t worry! Your loot boxes are safe. The technology behind the service is staying, but the name is on the way out. Blizzard, the publisher responsible for online megahits like World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and Overwatch, revealed today that it is dum … | Continue reading
Virtual reality needs content if it’s ever going to take off in a meaningful way. And while thus far that’s largely been focused on gaming, we’re finally starting to see studios make a major push into the space. What shape that content will ultimately take is another question ent … | Continue reading
Unfortunately with today's Allo release, Google is abandoning one of the key security features the company first talked about at launch. | Continue reading
As influencer marketing grows in importance as a marketing strategy, more brands recognize the value of written agreements with social media influencers. Contracts help ensure that the relationship benefits both the brand and influencer and help avoid future complications. Writte … | Continue reading
Google is holding an event on October 4th where it's widely expected to unveil its latest smartphones. Somewhat unusually for the company, it's also engaging in a bit of guerilla marketing — we've seen more than one building-sized advert trailing the event, as well as pictures of … | Continue reading
Apple is rumored to be in talks to acquire McLaren, but that’s not all. While the New York Times was digging on the McLaren story, they also found out that Apple is also talking with Lit Motors for a potential acquisition. Now you might be thinking “Lit who?” While Lit Motors is … | Continue reading
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced a new program to help cure disease. “We want to dramatically improve every life in Max’s generation and make sure we don’t miss a single soul” Priscilla Chan said on stage at an event in San Francisco.The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative wa … | Continue reading
Disrupt SF had an amazing lineup of speakers from Marc Andereessen to Steph Curry. Weren’t able to catch every second? The TechCrunch social team has compiled the 25 best quotes from the event. Read More | Continue reading
Jerod Morris chats with Jeff Korhan on the importance of audience engagement and what an "audience of one" means for content marketers. | Continue reading
Yahoo View, the company’s recently launched gambit to go after cord cutters by offering free video content from Hulu, is now available on mobile. Yahoo has just debuted an iOS version of the mobile TV service, which will soon be followed by launches on Android and the mobile web, … | Continue reading
According to two newspaper reports, Apple is interested in buying McLaren. McLaren flatly denied that any talks were underway, but it’s worth a look at why Apple could be interested in the small British carmaker.An acquisition would give Apple a small but significant carmaker tha … | Continue reading
Several folks started noticing self-driving Uber cars in downtown San Francisco yesterday, fueling speculation the ridesharing company could soon be deploying autonomous vehicles for commercial use right where it all started in the Bay Area. Mattermark managing editor Alex Wilhel … | Continue reading
Tinder today launched a new app, ‘Stacks,’ that brings the power of the swipe to Apple’s mobile devices. Tinder Stacks allows you to use the familiar swipe left/right interaction to poll your friends on what photo should be your new profile picture, or what outfit to wear on toni … | Continue reading
What defines Tom Cruise as an actor? Is it the boyish smile and the hint of sociopathic calculation behind that smile? The ongoing defense of Scientology? The massive wealth and success? Or is it just the running? It's probably just the running. Tom Cruise running is such a perve … | Continue reading
You’re driving along, whistling a merry tune while guided by a GPS-powered contraption plastered to your windscreen, when all of a sudden darkness descends as you enter a tunnel and you kiss goodbye to your satellite navigation smarts. This common conundrum is one that Google-own … | Continue reading
Eine zumindest auf den ersten Blick skurrile Geschichte macht derzeit die Runde. Apple wolle, so berichtet die Financial Times unter der üblichen Berufung auf nicht näher genannte Quellen, den britischen Autobauer McLaren übernehmen oder... | Continue reading
YouTube has a new plan to start turning around its famously bad comments: get the community involved in moderating them. It launched a new program this week called YouTube Heroes, which rewards people for reporting bad comments, writing accurate subtitles, and answering forum que … | Continue reading
We take a look at some of the common problems that plague ZTE Axon 7 owners, and offer potential solutions on how to fix them! | Continue reading
At a glance 6-12 month battery (without solar panel) Two-way audio Infrared LEDs for night vision Pros Easy to install, with most tools included Wireless design means more mounting options Cons No way to schedule quiet hours Cloud recording will cost you an extra $30/year Stick U … | Continue reading
When Google first announced Allo, its newest chat app, there was some controversy around why the service didn’t use end-to-end encryption by default and only in its Incognito mode. The reason for this, Google has always said, was that it needed access to your messages in order to … | Continue reading
Apple’s search for partners with experience making cars is heating up. The Financial Times first reported that the Silicon Valley giant has been negotiating with McLaren and now The New York Times confirmed that it’s also in talks with Lit Motors, a Bay Area startup that manufact … | Continue reading
Another school year is now in full swing, which for many kids means reconnecting with friends and learning. It also means a start of another data collection cycle that is neither visible nor truly optional for the majority of the students. Over a third of US middle and high schoo … | Continue reading
Formula E is going to race in Brooklyn next summer. The all-electric series will wrap up its third season with races on back-to-back days in July of 2017. Series CEO Alejandro Agag made the announcement today alongside city officials at the Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal in the Re … | Continue reading
LeEco has now announced the Le Pro 3, its new Qualcomm Snapdragon 821-powered flagship darling. | Continue reading
Forget about Overwatch. Today has suddenly become a good time to play the original Half-Life. YouTube Channel Valve News Network has restored a lost mod created by Valve itself for Half-Life, the monumental first-person shooter from 1998. It’s called Threewave, an updated version … | Continue reading
Surprise! You thought you were done with iOS 10 beta for a while? Apple already released the iOS 10.1 beta 1 for developers. This beta has one new feature in particular — the portrait mode that takes advantage of both cameras in the iPhone 7 Plus. If you remember Apple’s press co … | Continue reading
Tinder today is launching a new application for social polling. The company announced the debut of “Tinder Stacks,” an app for iMessage users that will let you use the “swipe to like” gesture the dating app popularized for anything you want – whether that’s polling your friends w … | Continue reading
To mark the occasion of his new Super PAC, Save the Day, Joss Whedon enlisted about a zillion of his celebrity buddies to help him make a pro-voter registration / anti-Trump PSA.Unlike most celebrity PSAs, this one involves all of the celebrities acknowledging the cliche of celeb … | Continue reading
Since 2009, Atlas Obscura has been one of my favorite internet rabbit holes. I sometimes spend hours on the site, which collects curiosities from across the globe, bouncing from enchanted forests to Russian space-age monuments. Now, the site’s founders have turned their website’s … | Continue reading
It’s a software feature that used the two lenses of the iPhone 7 Plus to create the look and feel of an image shot with portrait settings on a camera with a telephoto lens. Simply put: a pleasing blur that separates the foreground (person) from the background (other junk). I’m go … | Continue reading
As any Etsy seller will tell you, photography is up there with the top most important parts of your sales listing. And yet, there’s a load of sellers who are great at making doo-dahs, but who post photos that are, frankly, embarrassing. Orangemonkie fixes that with smart and easy … | Continue reading
Until now, there were few details about Apple’s secretive project to power its Mesa data center, a facility Apple announced would run entirely on solar power. Today, Salt River Project (SRP) — an Arizona-based water and electricity provider — spilled the beans. The 300-acre solar … | Continue reading
Some 24 hours before Google Assistant launched as part of Allo last night, Google updated the beta version of its Google app. The big change? Almost all Google Now branding has been removed or replaced. Android and Google blogs collectively lost it, quickly declaring that Google … | Continue reading
Enough nations have committed to the Paris climate accord that it will go into effect this year, The New York Times reports. That means that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won’t be able to pull out if elected.The Paris accords, approved by the United Nations last … | Continue reading
As the debate over kids and screen time rages on, Amazon offers up a happy medium of sorts. The online retail giant is selling a bundled version of its Kindle focused specifically on young readers.The package features the latest version of the company’s base-level e-reader, coupl … | Continue reading
McLaren says there is no truth to the rumors that it is in acquisition or investment talks with Apple, and that there are no plans to sell the company or form a partnership. The talks were first reported by the Financial Times, and then confirmed by The New York Times."We can con … | Continue reading
This episode of Members Only goes in-depth on the ideas and strategies that make a significant impact in your online marketing efforts through exclusivity. | Continue reading
Agriculture tech startup BrightFarms has raised $30.1 million in Series C funding to bring its high-tech greenhouses, and fresh produce, across the U.S. The company is on a mission to make all fresh fruit and vegetables locally, rather than require them to be hauled from long dis … | Continue reading