London-based FX studio The Mill released a video this week showing off its latest creation: the Blackbird, an adjustable car rig that can mimic any model vehicle for advertisers. With the appearance of a murdered-out dune buggy, the Blackbird uses 360-degree cameras and an adjust … | Continue reading
Independence Day: Resurgence has been labeled by the broad critic community as an abomination. It’s been called lazy, nonsensical, and joyless. I voluntarily saw the sequel, 20 years in the making, last night, and none of the words match what I saw.The movie certainly isn’t lazy. … | Continue reading
The Sony Xperia X Performance is now available from Bell in Canada, and is coming soon to Rogers as well. | Continue reading
Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue got a unique championship ring - from the White House. | Continue reading
Industrial content marketing can be very effective in solving two common problems that manufacturers and distributors face with slow sales | Continue reading
Samsung has already made a Batman edition of its Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, so it should come as no surprise that the company is working on an Olympic edition of its flagship device, according to SamMobile. The site reports that the device is currently under development, which we've … | Continue reading
Along with news that it’s preparing to introduce live streaming support in its main mobile application, YouTube also this week announced a series of new features for its creator community. The details, which include a new Creators Hub, better support, a benefits program, and othe … | Continue reading
Plant Prefab wants to make it easier for people to build homes within urban neighborhoods and cities, and it has raised $3 million to do just that. The investment, led by Obvious Ventures, will go some way toward helping the company scale, bring on more talent, and improve existi … | Continue reading
Es galt für Netflix eigentlich immer der Grundsatz: Offline machen wir nicht. So langsam - wir schätzen, nicht zuletzt auch aufgrund der Konkurrenz, für die das ein normales Feature ist - scheint sich aber eine Änderung doch durchzusetzen.... | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss how the TV industry and the companies that advertise on TV are interconnected, and how they will rise and fall together. Links Ben Thompson: TV Advertising’s Surprising Strength — and Inevitable Fall — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Cord Cutting Fantasy — Str … | Continue reading
You may soon be able to download some of your favorite shows and movies from Netflix if rumors swirling around the streaming service are true.SEE ALSO: Netflix has tons of hidden categories — here's how to see themNetflix users have long wanted to have the ability to save titles … | Continue reading
It’s time for another edition of “What TNW is reading.” If you’re not familiar with them, take a moment and enjoy the previous edition about the US election. This week we’re featuring Cecil Kleine, our Product Lead and warm-hearted, proud Curaçaoan. After having first been coloni … | Continue reading
Many people who share posts on social media don’t read what they share. According to a new study by Columbia University and the French National Institute, 59% of links shared on social media were never clicked on and opened. The analysis of 2.8 million shares, 75 billion potentia … | Continue reading
Attention, budget-conscious tech enthusiasts. Today is the last day to get Disrupt SF tickets at the deeply discounted extra early-bird price point of $1,795 apiece, $1,200 off the full ticket price and $200 cheaper than they’ll be tomorrow. Read More | Continue reading
Despite its distance from the sun, there may still be a liquid ocean beneath Pluto's icy surface. | Continue reading
The Panorama festival is happening in about a month, but it won't just be a place to see Kendrick Lamar and LCD Soundsystem without switching venues — it'll also be something of an interactive art gallery, where festivalgoers are encouraged not only to look at art, but to touch i … | Continue reading
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is about to fade into memory but not before I let everybody know what my favorite games were. We had a team of six writers scouring E3 for the best games, and we had to occasionally elbow some of the 50,300 people who attended the Los Angele … | Continue reading
Watching the promo video above, you'd think that Andbot — a vaguely anthropomorphic "robot butler" on wheels — was the second coming of RoboJesus. Burning your breakfast? Andbot will tell you. Raising your children? Andbot can take care of it! Dying from the ravages of age? Not t … | Continue reading
Two of the most well-known commodity brands are about to come together, because Incipio just announced that it's buying Skullcandy. Incipio LLC says it will pay $5.75 per share for all of Skullcandy Inc., resulting in a cash deal worth $177 million.The deal is just the latest in … | Continue reading
Leaders can learn a lot from FDR . A champ in many ways, he was at his most masterful where bad news was concerned—and there was a storm ... | Continue reading
The dominating topic for the day has been the British referendum, and the ensuing decoupling of the UK from its European Union counterparts. Chances are that this topic will dominate global economic news (and in turn, equities and other financial asset market sentiment) for the n … | Continue reading
There are some men who want to watch the the world burn and others who want to offer it easily-customizable embedded calculators. Mateusz Mucha belongs to the latter camp. Mucha is a sociologist by training who has built multiple small startups. His latest project, Omni Calculato … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Classic IVF automation already reduces customer service call costs by more than 90 percent—imagine what sophisticated A.I. can do. Join bot technology experts and A.I. scientists as they explore this and many other business implications of a world where bots join the con … | Continue reading
BNP Paribas Securities Services has announced a new innovation lab that will focus on big data and distributed ledger tech. | Continue reading
Es scheint als würde Xiaomi mit dem Mi5 Nachfolger nicht allzu lange auf sich warten lassen. Laut der chinesischen Webseite Mydrivers wird es wohl massive Updates für die S-Version im Herbst geben. Im Gespräch sind sowohl drucksensitives... | Continue reading
From the very beginning of Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, the protagonist, Jesse (Elle Fanning) is willing to sell herself to whoever’s buying. “I’m pretty, and I can make money off pretty,” she says baldly. Underage, on her own, fresh out of small-town America, and fixat … | Continue reading
YouTube, sounding a little miffed that House representatives were live streaming their sit-in using Periscope and Facebook Live, reminded its community that it has been offering live streaming on its site since 2011, “before it was cool,” the company snarked in a series of announ … | Continue reading
Perhaps Playdek took the Cold War theme of its game a bit too seriously when it decided to stealthily unleash its port of the classic board game Twilight Struggle [$7.99 (HD)] onto the App Store. Twilight Struggle, the award-winning, card-driven board game that simulates the Cold … | Continue reading
Acer’s Chromebook 14 is a two-sided story. For one, it shows the remarkable progress that we’ve made around what a $300 laptop can and should be. It’s made of aluminum, has a fantastic keyboard / trackpad combo, and a crisp 1080p display. And it does Chromebook things (web browsi … | Continue reading
The U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union wreaked havoc on the markets. WSJ’s Riva Gold reports on how its impact was felt across the world. Photo: Getty Images | Continue reading
A brand-new episode of Vergecast is here! This week, Paul Miller and Ashley Carman, part of our Circuit Breaker team, join Nilay and Dieter to discuss trends they've noticed while blogging for the site. Also, fan favorite Nicola Fumo stops by the show to tell us what she's been u … | Continue reading
Russian researchers have scaled yet another long-ballyhooed wall for quantum science, letting us measure distance more precisely than ever before. | Continue reading
Writing isn’t a day’s job especially when it comes to writing for the blog. We often struggle with writing in a way to communicate our thoughts clearly to our readers. While many businesses depend on blogging today, the real question is – how to write the content that will go vir … | Continue reading
As usual, my girlfriend and I were looking for a Keira Knightley period piece the other week when we learned, to immense disappointment, that Pride & Prejudice is no longer on Netflix. So we looked around for something else and found Far from the Madding Crowd on HBO. It seemed t … | Continue reading
Samsung has begun to roll-out Marshmallow to the Galaxy A5 (2016) but the details are similar to yesterday's A7 (2016): unlocked models in Russia only. | Continue reading
We’d like to introduce you to the world’s first home security robot, the iCamPRO FHD Home Security Camera. Far more than just a home security camera, the iCamPRO is a magic 8 ball-shaped security robot designed with built-in artificial intelligence to see, hear and track intruder … | Continue reading
If you’re a photography nerd at all, then you’ve probably already heard about Hasselblad’s new X1D, the first ever mirrorless camera with a digital medium format sensor. I was lucky enough to spend a bit of quality time with it after it’s announcement. Head on over to our origin … | Continue reading
Virtual reality is all the buzz nowadays. And why wouldn’t it be when analysts like Goldman Sachs make estimates that the industry is poised to surpass the TV market in annual revenue by 2025. That would make virtual reality bigger than TV in less than 10 years. These estimates a … | Continue reading
Social Media - New apps and ad capabilities this week: Yubl, the latest under-25 messaging platform that brands are scrambling onto; Twitter's new standalone app for power users; Tumblr's foray into live video ... | Continue reading
General Management - Are you tired of being asked for sales content or collateral that you've already sent? Don't assume the problem is where the content is kept or how it's organized. What ... | Continue reading
Als offizieller Partner der Olympischen Spiele lässt es sich Samsung wohl nicht nehmen, eine Sonder-Edition für die Großveranstaltung zu produzieren.Ein erster Leak von Evan Blass (@evleaks) zeigt jetzt auch, wie die aussehen sollen.... | Continue reading
General Management - Building a business is not easy, but thanks to ever-developing technology you have access to useful and effective tools that can simplify your work. Make yourself and your business more ... | Continue reading
Key selection criteria for the winners was the business potential of the idea, or product, or service proposed in the chosen projects. One of the key objectives of Europeana Space is to help creative industries to leverage on digital cultural content for creating new products and … | Continue reading
Whore of the Orient, that mysterious game by Team Bondi (LA Noire), sounds like it is dead and buried - and has been for a while. When asked in a Gamehugs podcast (via finder) whether we'd ever see Whore of the Orient, a former producer for the project answered "I don't think so … | Continue reading
Civilization V is coming to the classroom. Publisher Take-Two Interactive announced that a modified version of the historical strategy game Civilization V is in the works, and is expected to be available for high school classes in North America starting next fall. Called Civiliza … | Continue reading
BioWare didn't show much of Mass Effect Andromeda at E3 2016, but one thing it did reveal was Ryder, the game's protagonist.Or, to be exact, the female version of Ryder. Like many BioWare games, Andromeda will let you play as a character based on either gender. Unlike many BioWar … | Continue reading
The UK’s tech community has reacted to today’s Brexit vote.The results, announced early this morning, saw 48.1% of voters asking to remain in the European Union (EU), whilst the remaining 51.9% voted for a Brexit. The news comes after various surveys conducted across the industry … | Continue reading
Almost three months after the Mi 5 officially debuted in India, Xiaomi is finally making the black and gold versions of the device available. | Continue reading