From the moment the first details on Tap My Katamari [Free]were released, the overwhelming sentiment seemed to be that this game shouldn't be. The original Katamari Damacy was a small, creative, sincere game that somehow managed to become a big hit even though such qualities don' … | Continue reading
While most fifth graders are naturally focused on straight chillin', one is already on track to change the world.Ten-year-old roboticist Eva is the youngest person to receive Five by Five's Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship.SEE ALSO: Young comedian makes 'America's Got Talent' g … | Continue reading
If there was any doubt that Amazon's Alexa voice assistant is a Trojan horse designed to get people to buy more things from Amazon, let those doubts be dispelled.The online retail giant announced on Friday that Alexa, which is supported by the Echo, Echo Dot, Tap and Fire TV, wil … | Continue reading
Tired of the same old recruitment techniques? With the digital age on your side, you can find top talent in new and inventive ways. | Continue reading
Following yesterday’s news of the NHTSA’s investigation into a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S, Mobileye, the Israeli technology company helping power the carmaker’s Autopilot feature, has sent a statement to TechCrunch regarding the incident. “We have read the account of w … | Continue reading
BlackBerry isn’t ready to give up on Android. The company is reportedly planning to release three new Android phones this year, which will come out one per quarter for the next three quarters, according to VentureBeat. That’s a lot of Android on BlackBerry, especially considerin … | Continue reading
Users around the Web are reporting problems with Snapchat. Indeed, we aren’t able to send raunchy images to any of our friends either. When Snapchat is broken pic.twitter.com/z7bU9LYusK — Michelle♥ (@readysetglamour) July 1, 2016 whenever snapchat isn't working i go straight … | Continue reading
Another movie-based mobile game is reaching for the lowest of the hanging fruit. Developer Reliance Games has released a mobile game today to go along with the launch of the new Steven Spielberg and Disney movie The BFG, based on the book of the same name. So, how do you make a m … | Continue reading
Aspiring programmers can build an essential skill foundation with a deep-dive tutorial series in C++. For the uninitiated: it’s an extension of the C language, and a versatile and powerful general purpose programming language. For a limited time, the comprehensive 8-course tutori … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is being adapted into a short film by animation studio Ember Lab and the teaser is very pretty indeed.The short's music is composed by Theophany, an artist who already released an album of Zelda cover tunes called Time's End: Majora's Mask Remix … | Continue reading
Former London Mayor and leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson was interviewed by reporters and heckled by passersby as he left his home early Friday morning. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
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Facebook is announcing today that it’s giving some users the ability to automatically translate their posts into two or more languages and to freely edit those translations if they so choose, as part of a new experiment. Facebook rolled out this capability for Pages earlier this … | Continue reading
Call extensions are a powerful tool to help improve the quality of your search ads. They are an especially good idea for any local business trying to drive calls or get people in the door. Learn how to set them up in your account. | Continue reading
You'll soon be able to post on Facebook in multiple languages using a new automatic translation feature, the company said today. The "multilingual composer," as the feature is called, allows you to write a post in one language and then choose additional languages in which you wou … | Continue reading
You don't need to be bilingual to post in other languages on Facebook.The social network is testing a new AI-powered tool that allows people to simultaneously post updates in multiple languages. Facebook previously made this tool available to page owners earlier this year but is … | Continue reading
To help its users reach a more global audience, Facebook is rolling out a tool that lets you distribute posts in different languages. According to Facebook, about 50 percent of its community speaks a language other than English — and most don’t speak each other’s native language. … | Continue reading
Keine Woche ohne neue Gerüchte über das neue iPhone 7. Zwar gibt es noch keine offiziellen Designs aus Cupertino, aber angeblich arbeitet Apple an einer pechschwarzen Version des Smartphones und der Designer und 3D-Künstler Martin Hajek,... | Continue reading
If you're a Sprint or Verizon customer that is looking for a new on-contract phone, Best Buy has your back with its new 4th of July sale that sees the Galaxy S7 for just $50 with two-year agreement. | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: If you can't explain it with Legos then you don't really unders... | Continue reading
Out now on Android, CSR Racing 2 brings graphics that approach console quality, a slew of customization options, and entire garages of faithfully reproduced licensed vehicles. | Continue reading
A group of Russian banks and financial services companies have formed a private-sector consortium focused on blockchain applications. | Continue reading
A 69-year-old retired airplane pilot named Peter Browne has created the most lovable mechanical contraption this side of Short Circuit. Built with pal Mervyn Huggett, who I have to imagine was birthed whole cloth for an abandoned J.K. Rowling novel, the machine prepares the thre … | Continue reading
We've been enjoying Mi-Clos Studio's Out There [$4.99] - and all its sequels/expansions - over at TouchArcade tower, so we are always glad to hear there's more coming out of the French studio. A few months back, we wrote about Out There Chronicles, an upcoming interactive fiction … | Continue reading
The Z mouse will bring you to another dimension, mannnn. But not actually. What it’ll do is let you use your mouse in unconventional ways. Like: Swiftpoint You can tilt it to different angles to control when you crouch or lean during a game without having to hold … | Continue reading
The week has now drawn to a close, and it is time to publish our final analysis. Action throughout this week has been pretty interesting, and we have managed to get in and out of the markets on a number of occasions both long and short. Price today, unfortunately, has not been qu … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continued advancing through today and has reached a resistance layer dating back to 2013 at $680. Will the market progress beyond this strong barrier? This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now an … | Continue reading
In May, Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg announced that today would be the end of The Toast. In its three years the site was known as a haven for women online — the comments section was the nicest on the whole web; the writing was smart, funny, and kind; and everyone got paid fo … | Continue reading
If you're looking to keen to swap your flagship smartphone for a new one this year, here's a list of the handsets with the best resale value. | Continue reading
The age of the Blackberry as the go-to mobile device in Congress is finally coming to an end. Senate staffers were informed this week that BlackBerry devices won't be issued after the already-limited supplies run out. Though BlackBerry plans on supporting the devices the remainin … | Continue reading
It's been possible to use Amazon's Echo and Alexa assistant to make basic purchases - reorders of existing products, a handful of select items from Amazon - since the device launched, but today the Echo's purchasing abilities are being greatly expanded. According to the company, … | Continue reading
Happy Friday, marketers! If you’re based in the U.S., you may have already started your July 4th holiday weekend. Or, you may be tying up some loose ends and preparing for a long weekend of beers, barbecue and patriotic bliss. So we’re going to keep this week’s column short and s … | Continue reading
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has officially crossed the barrier over into Jupiter’s magnetosphere, the powerful magnetic field that extends millions of miles around the planet. Within this magnetosphere, particles move based on what’s going on inside Jupiter. NASA believes Juno entered … | Continue reading
There's a bifurcation coming. I know, because I just Googled "bifurcation" to see if I was using the right word, and I saw this huge headline:GOOGLE HAS THIS THING WHERE SOME PHONES ARE GOING TO BE COOL FOR DAYDREAM VR AND THE OTHER PHONES ARE JUST PHONES HOW BORINGWeird, right?A … | Continue reading
Esports has is a phenomenon in the game business, and big companies are planting their stakes to demonstrate that they’re ready for a world of game spectators, stadiums of people watching championship finals, and team owners and pro players becoming rich and famous. That was clea … | Continue reading
A curious gap has emerged in the early-stage investment landscape: While emerging startups are able to raise very small, sub-$500,000 rounds, seed and pre-A investors are requiring increasingly higher revenue and market traction milestones before they deploy capital to companies. … | Continue reading
Inside of The Lab at Panorama, the music festival and accompanying art show debuting in New York City next month, there'll be light projections, a trippy tunnel of mirrors, and other interactive artworks. There will also be people playing pinball.That'll be the doing of Red Paper … | Continue reading
Mel Ordway's troubles began the day he was assigned Nat Bowen's old territory. That morning, and for weeks thereafter, whenever he call... | Continue reading
One day soon we'll all be surfing the internet in virtual reality just like how graphic designers envisioned it would look like in the '90s.According to Google's François Beaufort, the Chromium team is working on a "VR shell" to let users browser the web using Google Cardboard or … | Continue reading
You’ve invited your parents to go glamping this holiday. Unfortunately, it's "bring your own snack” and they don't know an Afghan biscuit from a Scooby Snack. The OED has your back. Its authors have added those and a number of other excellent terms as new words in their June 2016 … | Continue reading
After what was thought to be a slow news week, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul bring in resident cybersecurity expert Russell Brandom to explain the cryptocurrency Ethereum and how there was a recent attack on the Decentralized Autonomous Organization which stole $53 million. Then, later … | Continue reading
Der Gründer und bisherige Vorstandsvorsitzende des weltweit größten Sportartikel-Unternehmens Nike Phil Knight tritt aus dem Vorstand ab. Der mittlerweile 78-Jährige zieht sich aus dem operativen Geschäft zurück und überlässt... | Continue reading
HANG TIME, N.J. — Before free agency officially tipped off at midnight ET on Friday morning, players and teams had to make decisions on contract options, qualifying offers, and contracts that were either partially or non-guaranteed. Here’s the low down on who’s staying and who co … | Continue reading
A Brazilian judge has ordered a block on 19.5 million real (roughly $6 million) owned by Facebook, according to a new report by O Globo’s G1 news service. It’s the latest move in an ongoing legal fight with WhatsApp, which saw days-long telecom blackouts of the service in both Ma … | Continue reading
We finally have a release date for the Minecraft movie, but it's a long way off. Excited? Well, I can understand any trepidation. Video game movies have been around for many years and, by general admission, haven't really shone at the box office. Take for example a movie like Sup … | Continue reading
Sony is preparing to add three new, cheaper models to its 4K TV lineup. The X700D, the X750D, and the X800D are the latest additions to Sony's XBR lineup, and the new sets will be available in five different configurations:XBR-49X700D, 49-inch, $999.99 MSRPXBR-55X700D, 55-inch, $ … | Continue reading
BMW is teaming up with Mobileye and Intel to work on its first fully autonomous self-driving car. The car manufacturer plans to ship this car by 2021. This confirms Bloomberg’s report.Compared to existing self-driving technology, this new generation of cars is supposed to be able … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for a premium, ultraportable laptop, there aren’t many options to be found in the Windows world. Apple’s been owning this segment of the laptop market for so long that it almost feels like other companies have given up. But they haven’t, and HP is trying its har … | Continue reading