Pokémon GO is a free-to-play game for iPhones and Android devices, so as you might expect it includes are plenty of ways for you to spend money.Your main resource is Pokéballs for catching your critters, which sell at 100 Pokécoins (79p) for 20, up to 800 coins (about a fiver) fo … | Continue reading
Firefly Studios, the game company behind PC classic Stronghold, has entered the mobile gaming space with Wonky Tower, a fun physics-based building puzzler. | Continue reading
Snapchat is ditching its ephemeral nature — well, kind of. A new feature named ‘Memories’ will let you save “personal moments” forever for sharing beyond the stream. Memories will live just under the camera button. All you have to do is swipe upwards to view your saved pics and v … | Continue reading
Google’s Now on Tap service is adding translation to its ever-growing list of options. After the latest update, Android users will be able to translate any screen of foreign text — in both apps and web pages, including pages with multiple languages — into their native language. W … | Continue reading
The police in Australia’s Northern Territory have a message for the surge of new Pokémon Go players: be careful, look both ways when crossing the street, and please don’t enter a police station while trying to catch a Sandshrew.Released today, Pokémon Go is a mobile game that enc … | Continue reading
Like it or not, sitting ståtionåry in your chåir for 8 motionless hours of your work dåy will probåbly kill you. Thåt's whåt the "måinstreåm" mediå likes to tell me, ånywåy!Å lot of my coworkers work on stånding desks, much to my jeålousy. I wånted to request one for myself, but … | Continue reading
Agriculture tech startup KisanHub is on a mission to make farming more ‘connected’ to help farmers “grow more and use less,” says co-founder and CEO Sachin Shende. Read More | Continue reading
Chelsea Manning has been hospitalized at Fort Leavenworth, in what multiple outlets are describing as a possible suicide attempt. Manning was taken from her cell on Tuesday and is currently being monitored, according to independent reports from CNN and TMZ.Reached by The Daily Do … | Continue reading
This morning, we noted that in response to the pretty flat action seen in the bitcoin price over the last few days (which in turn is a response to the low volume based around US Independence Day), we’d tighten things up and go after a five-minute analysis, rather than our standar … | Continue reading
The long-awaited inquiry into the U.K.’s role in the Iraq war has delivered a scathing account of the decision by Tony Blair’s government to join the invasion. Mark Kelly reports. Image: Getty | Continue reading
The base-price iPhone 7, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, will have an amount of storage that will make it usable. Not great, not amazing, not best in class, but usable. How exciting is that?Well, it depends on your expectations. SEE ALSO: Leak shows iPhon … | Continue reading
Nintendos Beziehung zum Smartphone war die längste Zeit keine leichte und so richtig herzlich ist sie wohl immer noch nicht, aber das könnte sich ändern, wie Shinya Takahashi, bei Nintendo für Planung und Entwicklung neuer Entertainment-Produkte... | Continue reading
It’s like Twitter, but for the stock market. The inventor of the “cash tag,” StockTwits, is announcing some big changes.Armed with an additional $2 million in funding led by Social Leverage, Ian Rosen, co-founder of Even Financial and former general manager at MarketWatch, will b … | Continue reading
You can now post old content to your Snapchat Story. That’s just one of the sweeping consequences of Snapchat’s new feature “Memories”. It creates a smart camera roll alternative in Snapchat where you can import your existing Snaps with search by caption or recognized objects, c … | Continue reading
McKinsey & Company reports on how insurance companies might be able to capitalize on blockchain. | Continue reading
At a time when its social networking rivals are racing to promote more real-time sharing, Snapchat is turning its attention to the past. The company today introduced Memories, a way of saving and sharing old snaps in a private archive inside the main app. It’s a living, social ca … | Continue reading
Last year Starmaid games released the experimental coming-of-age drama Cibele, a quasi-autobiographical game by developer Nina Freeman. Now, two of Starmaid's ranks (Nina Freeman and Emmett Butler) have joined forces with a couple of other devs (Diego Garcia and Maxo) to make yet … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is simmering just above $670 as the market waits for the Bitcoin network starter gun. Where to and what may happen in the chart before the block reward actually halves? This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a m … | Continue reading
Now on Tap was one of the marquee features of Android Marshmallow when Google first announced this update to its mobile operating system last year (which is now already being eclipsed by the next version: Android Nougat). It allows you to quickly find more relevant information an … | Continue reading
If Google were created from scratch today, much of it would be learned, not coded. Around 10... | Continue reading
If you’re like me and have a hard time finding the right gifts for the people you love, you must have hated it when Svpply closed down two years ago. Companies left in the wake – like Canopy and Very Goods – worked great, if not better, than the original. But today, a new contend … | Continue reading
Twitter on Wednesday rolled out a new live video product that shows tweets alongside live video.From what we can tell, the feature is first being used by the official Wimbledon account. As noted by Twitter investor Chris Sacca, the view shows live video (which includes play-by-pl … | Continue reading
Daisy Ridley — whose Instagram is one of the internet's rare founts of undiluted happiness — has posted another of her inspiring workout videos, but this time, with a twist!The twist is that she ran to the gym between shoots for Star Wars: Episode VIII, and therefore was obligate … | Continue reading
You don’t have to be a designer to appreciate good typography – just check out this student-made device that can detect and name fonts just by looking at it. Called Spector, the prototype is used to snap a photo of the text to determine the letters’ shape, symbols, and weight. Th … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday that 8,400 troops will remain in Afghanistan at the end of the year, reacting to the continued threat from the Taliban. Obama previously planned to draw down to 5,500 troops. Photo: Reuters | Continue reading
It's approaching midnight when the last customer finally scurries out of the door and into the crisp London night. The shop doesn't normally keep such late hours, but tonight is a special occasion.The customer stands in the dim light outside of the storefront, giddily looking thr … | Continue reading
Blu has released a new smartphone called the Energy XL, which the company says will last three full days on a single charge. The Energy XL is fitted with a truly massive 5,020mAh battery which Blu says is rated for 72 hours of standard usage and over 30 days of standby. In compar … | Continue reading
A word of warning for anyone trying Pokémon GO today - beware how much battery it gobbles up.Early reports from those with the app have shown how much it munches through your power reserves. But this is a "known issue", developer Niantic has said."Heavy battery use" is listed amo … | Continue reading
If you've shied away from content discovery platforms in the past, you might want to reconsider. Learn how these tools can boost your website traffic. | Continue reading
By now, the social RPG genre has found a pretty comfortable groove. Take some kind of battle mechanic, staple the now-standard collect, fuse, evolve leveling system onto it, and make sure you have an ever-expanding line-up of desirable goodies for players to chase after. The reci … | Continue reading
With Civil War II now off to the races, Marvel is gearing up for its next big shake-up. Time reports that, by the end of the event, Tony Stark will pass the mantle of Iron Man to 15-year-old Riri Williams, a young genius, former MIT student, and the first black woman to don the a … | Continue reading
In Cannes, wo das jährliche Lions-Werbefilmfestival stattfindet, hat man ja so seine Erfahrungen mit Möwen, aber die Sonnencreme-scheißende Vogel-Drohne brachte Werbelegende und Jurypräsident Sir John Hegarty ernsthaft aus dem Konzept:... | Continue reading
IBM’s Cloud Video division is releasing the results of a new survey looking at the behavior of subscribers to video-on-demand services like Netflix and Hulu. Perhaps the most interesting answers were about how many people canceled their subscriptions and why. According to IBM, 31 … | Continue reading
Milos "Sholim" Rajkovic is the artist in the age of Tumblr. His custom GIFs have appeared at museum exhibitions in Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, New York, and of course, Cleveland. Presented via projection, the looped animations critique culture, the military, religion, capitalism … | Continue reading
Come on and slam, and welcome to the mobile jam. Electronic Arts announced today that it has launched NBA Live Mobile for iOS and Android, a free-to-play basketball game. The mobile business is worth $36.9 billion, and traditional publishers like EA are eager to get a piece of th … | Continue reading
Farmers are adopting smart-sensor technologies and connected farm equipment more quickly than ever, stretching each season to eke out greater yield from finite acreage. This rise in so-called precision agriculture has precipitated a massive influx in unstructured “bushels to byte … | Continue reading
Not all businesses are meant for venture capital. To be more precise, according to our latest interview with Ann Miura Ko, “roughly 25 companies per year exit for $500 million-plus.” Floodgate and Miura Ko describe these companies as ‘thunderlizards’, and they enumerate four requ … | Continue reading
Our “measure everything” age has engendered a new form of marketing myopia , says Todd Ebert in Convince & Convert . "While marketers ... | Continue reading
ZeroLemon has announced the world's largest battery case for the Nexus 6P. At 8,500 mAh it will almost triple the Nexus 6P's battery life. | Continue reading
Analyzing data from inbound marketing identifies valuable deliverables and tactics to help make important decisions about where to spend marketing dollars. | Continue reading
What creates advantage in the 'Social Era'? A well-managed online community. Here are 5 key takeaways for developing your business' Internet community. | Continue reading
A well-managed online community can be a business advantage. That’s not just something I dreamed up, it’s the conclusion of a study entitled, “What Creates Advantage in the ‘Social Era’?” In this 2015 study, authors Tim Kastelle, Nilofer Merchant, and Martie Verreynne set out to … | Continue reading
There are a lot of smartwatches in the world, and most are differentiated by their features, like sleep tracking and UV sensors. There’s also just the straight-up cheap options. The "U8 Smartwatch with Bluetooth Answer and Dial the Phone Passometer Altitude Meter Burglar Alarm Fu … | Continue reading
Before you start blogging, be aware of these 12 predictable pitfalls and plan for how to survive them. | Continue reading
iPhone rumor season is upon us, the latest tidbit has to do with internal storage. According to the WSJ, the next-generation iPhone will start at 32GB of internal storage opposed to the 16GB entry-level option. If true, this is actually rather surprising. From a user perspective, … | Continue reading
When the Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter earlier this week, it carried with it three tiny passengers: Lego figurines of the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei.The three figurines were installed on the spacecraft as part of the Bricks in Sp … | Continue reading
Service Partner One is a Berlin-headquartered startup that is bringing the booking and management of various office management services online, via its website and/or iPad and iPad app combo. Read More | Continue reading
Facing harsh criticism from a scathing report released on Wednesday by the Iraq War Inquiry, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said going to war was the most "agonizing decision" he ever made. Photo: Getty Images. | Continue reading