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Mobile dating app Bumble is now also a professional networking app. A new section called BumbleBizz, announced today, will connect people interested in building business connections when it launches this fall. While it uses the same swiping system as Bumble (or similar apps like … | Continue reading
In case you weren’t online for the past few days, the highly-anticipated Pokemon Go was finally released on the wild Web and people are already having a blast finding Pokemon in the weirdest places. But before they even got there, many paused at the intro screen. Typically, start … | Continue reading
Now you have a place to store all of those Hello Kitty costumes. En Masse Entertainment announced today that its free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Tera has received a new update, Aces Wild. It adds quality-of-life improvements to the action-based role-playing game, i … | Continue reading
Omval House is an extension project completed by Jeroen de Nijs in Alkmaar, Netherlands. The surroundings of the ‘Omval’ is recognizable ... | Continue reading
Two slim semi-detached dwellings squeezed into a narrow lot originally occupied by a single family home. By Architects Luc Bouliane Studio | Continue reading
The Spanish architecture practice Barea+Partners has been selected to create the image of an Italian restaurant in downtown Madrid. | Continue reading
Inside Out House was completed recently by Terra e Tuma studio in Sao Paulo. This house represents a very common situation in São Paulo | Continue reading
The renovation of the Minchenden Crescent involved repurposing the existing floor plans in order to incorporate a large open kitchen. | Continue reading
Yahoo is up for grabs, and there are some big hitters trying to get the former champion of search. In an odd twist of fate, the biggest winner in all of this may actually be Mozilla, who stand to reap a billion dollar payday. Recode has discovered a clause in Mozilla’s contract w … | Continue reading
Gigabyte has spent the past few years trying to catch up to Razer and its flagship gaming laptop, the Blade. Razer practically invented the thin-and-light gaming laptop category with the Blade in 2013, and since then it’s slowly evolved into a great laptop for both productivity a … | Continue reading
Lara Croft is returning to theaters: Variety is reporting that the reboot of the video game adaptation will debut on March 16th, 2018, with Ex Machina star Alicia Vikander taking on the title role.Vikander signed on to play the character in April, with Norwegian director Roar Uth … | Continue reading
Android co-founder Rich Miner is leaving GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to start an education project within Google Inc., the investor announced today. Miner will be running his mysterious new edtech initiative from Cambridge, Mass. with the bulk of his team in Silicon Va … | Continue reading
The WaterIsLife charity discovered a Venmo loophole, enabling it to blast its message to a thousand unsuspecting people earlier this week. By sending $0.01 to folks who were appearing in the Venmo feed, it was able to advertise the charity to hundreds of people. Their shitty mark … | Continue reading
A recent survey of journalists sought to test traditional PR assumptions about media relations. According to the conventional PR playbook, publishing a book substantially enhances a source’s reputation as a recognized expert, issuing press releases gains the media’s attention, an … | Continue reading
There was a laptop found in the Tesla Model S involved in the deadly May 7 crash using Autopilot, Florida investigators confirmed with CNBC on Thursday. Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Kim Montes told the news outlet that a laptop and DVD player were recovered amongst the crash wreck … | Continue reading
There is, to be sure, nothing new under the horological sun. However, by putting all of the old pieces together in new ways you end up with a watch that is both interesting and unique. Art Mécanique is a Swiss company that is crowdfunding a watch with a face made of concentric ci … | Continue reading
Privacy concerns would appear to be at an all-time high, but when it comes to actually forking over cash for privacy, both consumers and businesses balk. | Continue reading
A Nissan dealer in Spain just sold a car over Twitter — a first for an automotive brand in Europe, Nissan said this week. Twitter user Raul Escolano used the hashtag #compraruncocheportwitter ("Buy a car on Twitter") to challenge automakers across Spain to sell him a car solely u … | Continue reading
The UK government’s Department of Work and Pensions is spearheading an experiment in which a blockchain system is used to distribute welfare payments. | Continue reading
The International Literacy Association's new identity required defining a branding strategy that could guide them through the entire process. | Continue reading
This is a good day for Android gamers who enjoy premium games. After Titan Quest, which released earlier today, Android just got the port of a legendary game, Final Fantasy VII. While for most of you I could just stop here, those who either haven't played the game or don't know t … | Continue reading
Cracking encryption is a topic of perpetual fascination. Congress has made several efforts to legislate it. The FBI tried to force Apple to do it. New messaging apps constantly debut with claims about strong encryption, and controversy bubbles when they neglect it. Read More | Continue reading
Prey for the Gods looks a lot like a wintry Shadow of the Colossus with a grappling hook. If you ask me, that's a good thing to look like.Now on Kickstarter, this indie effort looks shockingly accomplished for a team of three industry vets at the fledgling No Matter Studios. Prey … | Continue reading
Überraschend früh hat Apple den öffentlichen Beta-Test für iOS 10 und macOS Sierra gestartet. Zwar war der für den Juli angekündigt, die zweite Beta-Version (nur für registrierte Entwickler verfügbar) ist jedoch... | Continue reading
Nextbit hopped on Periscope and Facebook Live a few minutes ago to announce the beta of its web interface for photo backups. That's a cool new feature, but perhaps the most interesting part of the broadcasts was hidden in the background: Continue reading… | Continue reading
The end has come for Vyclone, an app that combines videos shot by different participants at the same event. With a message on its website – and a rather melodramatic introduction – the company announced today “with a heavy heart” that the Vyclone app will be switched off on July … | Continue reading
[appicon]If you're an Android user who's been looking for a meaty Action-RPG to spend hours on, look no further as Titan Quest has just released on Android after spending a couple of months on the iOS side of the gaming world. Titan Quest is the port of the classic PC game from b … | Continue reading
Y Combinator announced today that it has made a change in how investors can meet with startups participating in its program. In an email sent out to investors, chief operating officer Qasar Younis shared that there will be an “Investor Day” that gives venture capitalists more fac … | Continue reading
Not even the most hipster millennial can bring back the cassette player. This pre-iPod technology made music portable and played both tapes and radio. In this week's episode of Throwback Tech, we take you back to a retro classic, the original mixtape.Check back each Thursday as w … | Continue reading
Star Trek and American Horror Story actor Zachary Quinto is planning to executive produce and star in a TV series about biohackers. Deadline reports that the hour-long drama Biopunk will be based on a 2011 book of the same name by journalist Marcus Wohlsen, chronicling the work o … | Continue reading
The Tiny1 is a camera from TinyMOS billing itself as the "world’s smallest astronomy camera". It uses a proprietary noise-reduction algorithm the company says will allow for improved image quality in low-light environments, and an augmented reality star map that can be overlaid o … | Continue reading
PR measurement experts call AMEC’s new Integrated Evaluation Framework the hottest thing in measurement — a new tool that may raise PR to a new level of respect. They also point out its limitations. The framework, an interactive version of the original framework, uses digital te … | Continue reading
Maybe it’s just FOMO, but it every internet company wants to be in the car business these days, and Japan’s DeNA is no exception. The app maker’s automotive wing had a special event in Tokyo today (via Reuters) to reveal its first self-driving vehicle, a 12-person bus which will … | Continue reading
Facebook is being investigated by US tax authorities over whether the company has possibly undervalued its asset transfers to its Irish subsidiary by billions of dollars. Law.com first reported the news of the investigation.The investigation is part of an examination of Facebook' … | Continue reading
Fans of Warhammer and strategy games, rejoice. Battlefleet Gothic: Leviathan [$5.99], the turn-based strategy game based on the Battlefleet Gothic tabletop miniatures game, is out now. I've been looking for a good strategy game to play, and I think this one fits the bill just fin … | Continue reading
The killing of Alton Sterling at the hands of police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has sparked national outrage after a video showing the incident was posted online Tuesday night. That video was the result of an organized effort by local activists, who use smartphones to monitor and … | Continue reading
I'm a thirty-something father of two, so even though I signed up for Snapchat a few years back, I didn't spend much time using the app. I struggled to understand it, didn't see many friends engaging with what I posted there, and more or less resigned myself to the fact that I was … | Continue reading
Researchers just figured out how to squeeze 200 MB of data onto some strands of DNA.That's right, the same stuff that's inside all of us, the blueprints for our eye color, ear shape, height and more — all that makes you, you — also happens to be a pretty decent medium for storing … | Continue reading
A few years ago, Microsoft launched Bing Predicts, a project that aims to correctly predict sporting events and elections by combining lots of data with machine learning algorithms. Until now, though, there wasn’t really a product that made Bing Predicts available to users. Toda … | Continue reading
More than 340 light years away, a giant planet is trapped in a dance with three stars. It’s a unique world, where suns rise and set three times a day, and where one year lasts more than half a millennium. It’s so bizarre that the existence of such a place was thought to be imposs … | Continue reading
A team of scientists have developed a robot that mimics the motion of a stingray by using the cardiac muscles from a rat mounted on a stingray-shaped skeleton. The robot, detailed in a study published in the journal Science, is a wonderfully weird hybrid of biological and mechani … | Continue reading
New projectsAdvances in nanomaterials hold the promise of new, better, more competitive products. The EU-funded 2DInterFOX project is seeking new insights into their behaviour - the results could help manufacturers develop new electronic and energy-related products, potentially b … | Continue reading
AchievementsA chance conversation with a marine archaeologist friend led to Charalambos Poullis joining a dive in Cyprus. The experience revealed the difficulties faced by underwater archaeologists, and set in motion a thought process that would lead him to apply for EU research … | Continue reading
AchievementsThe AircraftFire project is helping aircraft manufacturers and regulators better plan for and prevent fires with new aircraft designs that use composite materials. The data and integrated tool for predicting the consequences of an on-board fire are already available t … | Continue reading
Barclays launched three contactless payment options for its bPay mobile payments system last year, including a NFC sticker, a wristband, and a key fob. It later eventually caved and started supporting Apple Pay nine months after it launched in the UK. It’s not done with its bPay, … | Continue reading
Arbitrage has never been simple. At first glance, it seems like a simple task—buy on one exchange, sell on another—but fees prevent the gap from completely closing, and delays in the deposit/withdrawal process can lead to losses in changing market conditions. Traditionally, trade … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. This is one of the last builds ahead of the free Windows 10 Anniversary Update, currently scheduled for release on August 2. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still build … | Continue reading