Google’s $300 million trans-pacific ‘FASTER’ cable is ready to use. The cable, first announced about one year ago, brings up to 60Tbps (Terabits per second) Internet speed between Japan and the US. The cable will surface in Oregon and two posts in Japan: Chiba and Mie prefectures … | Continue reading
Turtle Beach sent out a press release saying it made a breakthrough, and glass-based speakers may be the future of your home audio. as strange as that may sound, the video is slightly more convincing. The speakers, which Turtle Beach is calling HyperSound Glass, are comprised of … | Continue reading
Back in late January, developer Kenny Sun released Circa Infinity [$2.99] to the App Store, describing it as a "brain-melting circular platformer." Well, seeing as actually describing in detail what it is you do in Circa Infinity is nearly impossible, "brain-melting circular plat … | Continue reading
Google started making investments in a number of undersea cables back in 2008, but one of its largest investments was the $300 million it invested in the FASTER cable between Japan and the U.S. West Coast. Back in 2014, Google announced that it was joining a consortium of six com … | Continue reading
Last week we heard that Sony's television streaming service PlayStation Vue would be arriving on Android, and now it has hit the Play Store. | Continue reading
ProducePay has raised $2.5 million to solve what CEO Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck said is a major issue for farmers — getting paid in a timely manner for their crops.Borquez Schwarzbeck explained that farmers usually have to cover the cost of not just growing the produce, but also s … | Continue reading
Google Keep, the company's note-taking and to-do list mobile app, is getting much smarter today with a new organizational feature. Now, Google Keep will categorize your notes by topic — like food, books, and quotes — and allow you to search for those musings later by keyword. The … | Continue reading
In a not-so-subtle homage to Willy Wonka, Tesla has sent twelve "Golden Tickets" — really, that’s what they’re called — to holders of Model 3 reservations inviting them to attend the Gigafactory grand opening in Reno, Nevada on July 29th. The tickets don’t involve a great glass e … | Continue reading
While AMD is impressing gamers with its new Radeon RX 480 graphics card, the hardware company is investing more in its software side to improve the playing experience on its hardware. AMD revealed today that it has acquired 3D-gaming tool developer HiAlgo for an undisclosed amoun … | Continue reading
Nine years ago today, Apple launched the very first iPhone. But the foundation for its success had actually been laid a year earlier. Ten years ago, in the summer of 2006, Apple had just successfully transformed the Mac, completing a transition from using PowerPC chips to Intel c … | Continue reading
Some closure (literally and figuratively) for Move Loot, the furniture resale marketplace that we wrote earlier this month was up for sale. The startup — backed by nearly $22 million in funding from a list of top investors that included Y Combinator, GV, Index, Metamorphic and Sh … | Continue reading
If paparazzi have a right to take photos (they do) and newspapers are allowed to print photos taken by paparazzi (they do), it stands to reason that those in the brief spotlight of an eager photographer’s flash have a right to fight back, too (they do). Anti-paparazzi clothing ha … | Continue reading
When news broke that Facebook was at least temporarily using users physical location to suggest real world connections, a strategy that has been employed by the NSA, the backlash was sharp. It wasn’t difficult to imagine scenarios when identities could be inadvertently and uncom … | Continue reading
Maybe it's been a rough day. Maybe you're frazzled. Maybe you love your job, and everything's going great, but something just feels off. Have you tried watching a robot arm slowly, painstakingly solve Tower of Hanoi?In case you need a refresher on Hanoi, it's pretty simple (aka I … | Continue reading
Is your Facebook page dead in the water? Your page probably still has a place in your marketing mix if your audience values what you share. | Continue reading
Im Video namens How much do you love your phone? heiratet ein Mann namens Aaron Chervenak sein Smartphone und zwar in Las Vegas, mit Smoking, Hochzeitskapelle und allem, was sonst noch dazugehört, weil:Wenn wir ehrlich sind, sind wir unseren... | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is a Bitcoin-based online casino like no other. Its originality has introduced a completely new gambling genre in the whole Bitcoin gambling Industry. Dragon’s Tale has been around since 2012 and is also one of the oldest Bitcoin casinos in the digital currency ecos … | Continue reading
With the pound taking a pounding, OnePlus may have to increase the price of the OnePlus 3 in Europe sometime in the near future to stay profitable. | Continue reading
Go is a statically compiled language. No dynamic libraries can be loaded at runtime, nor does the runtime support compiling Go on the fly. Still, there is a number of ways of creating and using plugins in Go. | Continue reading
A new undersea internet cable funded in part by Google and connecting Japan with the US is slated to go online starting June 30th. The joint announcement, made today in a press release from NEC Corporation, says construction and testing on the trans-pacific cable, dubbed "Faster, … | Continue reading
Trippy rhythm game Thumper will be a launch title on PlayStation VR upon its 13th October release, developer Drool has confirmed.It will simultaneously launch on Steam.We covered Thumper upon its announcement back in March. At the time I described it as "a more aggressive version … | Continue reading
If you’re keeping up with your Game of Thrones theories, you likely know about ‘R+L = J,’ which is not a screwy math problem. At least as the TV show goes, it’s been confirmed by HBO’s ‘Making Game of Thrones’ blog. If you’re not sure what R+L = J is, it’s surprisingly simple (fo … | Continue reading
The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is no longer attempting to list on Nasdaq, according to an SEC document filed today. | Continue reading
You put a lot of effort into video production, and if you miss the mark on the music, all your work could go to waste. Here's how to do it right. | Continue reading
A human slingshot is a bad idea.I admit that my career in extreme sports ended with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, so it’s possible, likely even, that I have been left behind by this new generation of thrill-seekers. Times have changed, I think, as I watch a human-being catapult into … | Continue reading
There are a dozen films fighting for supremacy in Warner Bros. The Legend Of Tarzan, and there’s no clear winner to the war. It’s impossible to guess how narratively and tonally divided Legend is from the trailers, which present it as a standard-issue fantasy/historical epic, or … | Continue reading
So much for losing its mojo.Despite twists and turns in recent years that have sometimes rivaled those of a telenovela, and even with its most famous member, John Doerr, no longer a general partner, Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4 billion, show newly proces … | Continue reading
Bethesda games and PlayStation consoles go together like peanut butter and toothpaste. Fallout 4 mod support was supposed to come to PlayStation 4 in June, but the game’s publisher has now confirmed it is delaying that feature. Bethesda’s mod support and Creation Kit tools have a … | Continue reading
The Ethereum Foundation has introduced a new Geth client version (1.4.9) that rolls back the changes made in the previous soft-fork-enabled software. A security alert was issued by Ethereum Foundation. In the announcement, the developer Felix Lange explained: An attack vector has … | Continue reading
Hello and welcome. The year is 2017. You’ve missed a lot over the past few months. Let me catch you up: Apple nixed the headphone jack with the iPhone 7, so throw out those earbuds. You won’t be needing them anymore. Most other phone manufacturers decided not to follow Apple’s le … | Continue reading
At the opening of the Ghostbusters: Dimension virtual reality experience in Times Square today, we got a chance to sit down with Ivan Reitman, the producer and director behind the original Ghostbusters film, and a Hollywood legend. Reitman worked with Utah startup The Void as it … | Continue reading
Last months rumours of a BioShock collection have resurfaced with new promotional art and screenshots briefly found on 2K Games' website.The images have been removed from the publisher's site, but AllGamesDelta captured them before that happened.Furthermore, a NeoGAF user found s … | Continue reading
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is writing a book about his life, Microsoft, and how technology will shape the future. Titled Hit Refresh, the book is scheduled for a fall 2017 release through Harper Business. Nadella intends to give his proceeds to Microsoft Philanthropies.This is N … | Continue reading
It’s pretty clear by this point that VR will eventually play a big role in consumer life, and HTC got a head start with its Vive headset. In order to protect that future investment, HTC is turning its Vive business into a wholly-owned subsidiary. The company provided the followin … | Continue reading
Early last year, Verizon took a strong stand against carryover data even if this would cost them subscribers. Now it seems like they're coming around. | Continue reading
After making a pledge in January to improve diversity in its ranks, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its first big step today in announcing its 2016 class. A grand total of 683 invitations were sent to actors, filmmakers, executives, and behind-the-scenes tale … | Continue reading
The Italian Navy has begun recovery of a boat that sank in April 2015 while attempting to reach Italy from war-torn Libya with as many as 700 refugees and migrants aboard. Photo: Marina Militare | Continue reading
It's no secret that I'm a True Skate [$1.99] addict. It's my daily habit, and thankfully, I've been told it's a lot healthier than smoking. This little skateboarding simulator has come a long, long way since its original release in the fall of 2012, and a constant flow of updates … | Continue reading
Shasta Ventures is raising up to $300 million for a fifth fund, shows a new SEC filing that lists managing director Jason Pressman and Rob Coneybeer, who cofounded Shasta with fellow managing directors Tod Francis and Ravi Mohan in 2004. (Pressman joined the following year.) Shas … | Continue reading
GitHub today announced that it’s releasing activity data for 2.8 million open-source code repositories and making it available for people to analyze with the Google BigQuery cloud-based data warehousing tool. The data set is free to explore. (With BigQuery you get to process up t … | Continue reading
Twitter has released its newest app, Twitter Dashboard, in an effort to help small businesses connect with their audience and manage their social presence. | Continue reading
Twitter has released its newest app, Twitter Dashboard, in an effort to help small businesses connect with their audience and manage their social presence. The app joins Twitter’s two stand-alone apps, Tweetdeck for power users, and Engage for influencers. What separates Dashboar … | Continue reading
The price of ether remains volatile following the loss of investor funds by one of the blockchain platform's signature projects. | Continue reading
Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa is pretty good at answering most questions. But if you ask her if the NSA is monitoring you right now? She turns herself off.The NSA is notorious for tapping into various modes of communication, but whether the agency is actually listening to your … | Continue reading
The aptly named Ok-Google.io is the big ol’ massive list of “Ok, Google” commands that Google is too proud to build right into Android. It’s gorgeous, it’s easy to navigate, and it’s pretty much guaranteed to teach you at least one trick you didn’t know Google Now could handle. R … | Continue reading
This past week, the client strategy team and CEO, Dave Snyder traveled to Seattle, Washington to take over the SMX Advance search engine marketing conference. Equipped with a rockin’ exhibitor … | Continue reading
Australian import Ben Simmons is the new face of the Philadelphia 76ers. Sixers coach Brett Brown is the man charged with making sure Simmons lives up to every bit of his pre-Draft hype. We spend Episode 241 of The Hang Time Podcast digging down on the young man from Down Under w … | Continue reading
The Xounts Up, a speaker in the shape of a pyramid, reached its goal on Kickstarter earlier this month. I know because I received PR on it. Two hundred and twelve people backed it, allowing it to successfully raise more than $78,000. Those 212 people will walk into their homes la … | Continue reading