A recent study detailed some rather perplexing problems for autonomous car manufacturers. When polled, people wanted the self-driving car’s programming to minimize casualties during a crash — even if it meant killing the passengers inside the car. But here’s the rub, although thi … | Continue reading
As Democrats began a sit-in Wednesday morning to protest the lack of action on gun control legislation, the House of Representatives went into recess. Recess means no TV cameras allowed in the chamber, which in turn meant no cable news coverage of the historic sit-in still occurr … | Continue reading
Awkward Black Girl star Issa Rae has spent the last few years working on a new comedy for HBO, and it's just around the corner after suffering through its fair share of development hell. Insecure's eight-episode first season is premiering this fall, and the network released its f … | Continue reading
The use of Periscope to document the House sit-in has captured the hearts and minds of internetgoers, who proclaim the live-streaming app a necessity for liberty. Mark Zuckerberg would like to point out, though, that some people are using Facebook Live, too. Read More | Continue reading
When I get a pitch about a new gadget, my first reaction is typically skepticism coupled with severe doubt that the product actually does what it promises. My skepticism is amplified even further when that gadget is considered an Internet of Things device. Now, with that in mind, … | Continue reading
A new feature is rolling out to the Instagram app that lets you translate text in a tap. | Continue reading
How do you celebrate an IPO? If you’re Twilio, you build apps in real-time on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. During trading, two Twilio engineers and one stock trader built apps as excited investors rushed to snap up stock in the company. The trader, a 35-year veteran … | Continue reading
The notion of materiality helps to reinforce those traits by classifying economic information’s usefulness to its customers.It Will Get Done – I don’t forget being so frustrated when a partner I worked with would tell me to just keep calm, it would all function out. In the course … | Continue reading
Happy birthday, Nintendo 64! Nintendo’s third home console released in Japan on June 23, 1996. It was a pioneer in 3D gaming and had some of the greatest titles ever released for it. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, GamesBeat reporter Jeff Grubb and community manager Mike Minot … | Continue reading
Even though printing out photos is no longer is the only means of viewing and sharing them with others, people still often want to do something more meaningful with these images – especially those of their family and children – than simply sharing them via ephemeral social media … | Continue reading
They say the best investors know how an event in one corner of the market impacts a company in another. New mining laws in Colorado require thousands of workers to wear a certain type of hardhat, and suddenly a plastics company in Norway quadruples its business to meet the increa … | Continue reading
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a brand-new blemish on the surface of Neptune. New images from the spacecraft reveal that a "dark vortex" has popped up in the planet’s atmosphere. No, this has nothing to do with the Guardians of the Galaxy, nor has a spell been cast on Ne … | Continue reading
Back in November, TechCrunch took a look at former Startup Battlefield competitor Satago, a U.K. fintech startup that was looking to help freelancers and other small business owners get paid on time. Satago started an automated database that lets users see how well (or poorly) co … | Continue reading
Located in Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand, the Kinsfolk House is bright, comfy & cool! Designed by a local architect the house is ... | Continue reading
BGB offices was originally located at 99 Hudson Street in Tribeca, in a space that was congested and lacked collaboration space. | Continue reading
Xbox One has added eight new titles to its library of backwards compatible games.The big one this time is Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian's beloved take on the post-apocalyptic gangster city.We've also got Ubisoft's own take on post-apocalyptic survival with I am Alive, Twisted Pixe … | Continue reading
Chef Condo - Renovation is an interior design project completed in 2015 by Thai studio Fattstudio. The 1980s condominium is on Charoen-Krung | Continue reading
The business adage “the soft stuff is the hard stuff” rings true for HR professionals trying to initiate culture change in their organizations. | Continue reading
It was history and I was struggling to find a place to see it unfold. The U.S. House of Representative's Democrats were staging a sit-in—the first of its kind in this video-driven digital age— trying to force House Republicans to vote on a pair of gun control bills.SEE ALSO: Up P … | Continue reading
Columbus, Ohio, is the winner of the US Department of Transportation’s “Smart City” challenge, a competition for mid-sized cities to rethink urban transportation using technology like self-driving cars and smart street lights. Columbus edged out six other finalists, which were wi … | Continue reading
Oh BiBi Socialtainment, makers of the popular casual sim Motor World: Car Factory [Free] and the monster collecting/battling game Monster & Commander [Free], have just unveiled their latest upcoming mobile project, a vertical shooter called Star Crew. What stuck out to me about S … | Continue reading
Are you familiar with the highly influential piece for programmers by Herb Sutter called "The Free Lunch Is Over"? He wrote it in 2004, just when CPU clock speeds were at a zenith. Back in those days, software developers could count on Moore's Law double the speed of their softwa … | Continue reading
Nintendo has found itself in another controversy, but the company is claiming innocence. During the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week, Nintendo streamed gameplay demos and more via its Treehouse: Live shows. The steam’s name comes Nintendo’s Treehouse group, … | Continue reading
Right now Oculus is offering 20% to 50% off on select Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR titles. | Continue reading
Mr. Robot's second season is getting a two-episode extension, bringing it from 10 episodes to 12, USA announced today. That's great news for fans of the Sam Esmail drama that's become of the most daring and frenetic TV shows about modern technology to date. Mr. Robot's mix of bel … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of a new Windows 10 build for PCs for people participating in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. Build 14371 for PCs (and phones as well) is rolling out one week after Microsoft released build 14367. The new build is shipping with a … | Continue reading
A Los Angeles jury has ruled that Led Zeppelin didn't copy a riff from Spirit's 1968 instrumental "Taurus" for their own 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven," according to The Hollywood Reporter. While the jury agreed that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (the song's co-writers) had heard "T … | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision in a case challenging President Barack Obama’s proposed immigration programs effectively blocks nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants residing in the United States from being granted work authorization. | Continue reading
HANG TIME, N.J. — Good news for the Boston Celtics: The Brooklyn Nets are trading one of the only legit NBA players they have left on their roster. The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports Thursday afternoon that the Nets and Indiana Pacers have reached a deal on a trade that wo … | Continue reading
Steam's annual Summer Sale is now live, offering plenty of sales and daily deals between now and 4th July at 6pm UK time.Some current highlights include:There's hundreds, maybe thousands, of other deals on offer. What, if anything, are you picking up?Read more… | Continue reading
Imagine this scenario: You’re driving down the road when suddenly, out of nowhere, a lone pedestrian jumps into your path. The road is narrow and walled in by a barrier on either side, so your options are limited. You can either keep driving straight ahead and hit the pedestrian, … | Continue reading
Vancouver, B.C. — Professional services firm Vanbex Group is expanding operations to blockchain-based products, according to company founder Lisa Cheng and CEO Kevin Hobbs. The Vancouver company operating in the digital currency and blockchain technology space will launch two pr … | Continue reading
How do you teach a car when to self-destruct? As engineers develop and refine the algorithms of autonomous vehicles that are coming in the not-so-distant future, an ethical debate is brewing on what happens in extreme situations — situations where a crash and injury or death are … | Continue reading
If you have a device like the Samsung Galaxy S7, which has a 3,000 mAh battery, how much capacity do you need in an external battery pack? 3,000 mAh, right? Wrong! Let me explain. | Continue reading
In an old-school approach to adult education, senior citizens in northeastern Thailand don the kind of uniforms they wore back in high school to attend weekly life-skills classes. Photo: Wilawan Watcharasakwet/The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
The American Kennel Club introduced the 190th dog breed this week: a whimsical, hard-working herding pooch called the Pumi.The Pumi comes to us all the way from Hungary, and will be eligible to compete at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show next February.Just look at this floppy … | Continue reading
Here’s a fun biological fact: men pass on less DNA to their children than women do. The reason for this has been a long-standing mystery, though a study published today leads us closer to understanding.When humans reproduce, women are the only ones who pass on a type of DNA calle … | Continue reading
A senior official for the central bank of The Netherlands recently presented the results of two internal cryptocurrency tests. | Continue reading
EventsThe Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school addresses students and researchers involved in research at the interface between brains and technology. The 2016 edition is supported by the FET Proactive project socSMCs (Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies).Da … | Continue reading
I'm really glad that fighting games are still alive and well. They're a classic old school genre that has withstood the test of time, and many franchises that were started so long ago in arcades are still with us. Although it's not nearly as old as Street Fighter, Arc System Work … | Continue reading
Don’t blink, because there’s another new pair of earbuds promising the dream of true wireless on the market: the Motorola VerveOnes. Debuted at Mobile World Congress and on sale this month, they start at $200, and they skip things like heart rate monitoring and fitness tracking. … | Continue reading
Part of its ‘Road to Tomorrow Initiative,’ Missouri’s Department of Transportation is teaming with Solar Roadways, an Idaho-based startup (seriously, what’s going on in Idaho?) to cover an undetermined length of Historic Route 66 with road-ready solar panels. “We expect them to b … | Continue reading
On June 23rd, 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog made its debut on the Sega Genesis. A blaze of speed and attitude, Sonic proved to be just what Sega needed in order to keep pace with Nintendo in the earliest iteration of the game console wars. But 25 years later, Sonic’s legacy is mixed a … | Continue reading
With the Columbus Dispatch (and many possible runner-up cities) reporting two days ago that Columbus was the winner of the Smart City Challenge, official word was silent until this afternoon. Today in Columbus, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx was present to official … | Continue reading
President Obama expressed his frustration over a 4-4 Supreme Court tie Thursday blocking his plan to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, and blamed Republicans for failing to hold hearings on justice nominee Merrick Garland. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Feminism's greatest ally, Fall Out Boy, has released a rerecording of the Ghostbusters theme song specifically designed to make you realize what could actually retroactively ruin a 30-year-old movie. Are you happy?This is what America deserves, if I'm honest.Do you remember Fall … | Continue reading
Since Apple insists on continuing to sell a 16GB iPhone in 2016 like its totally okay, mobile storage will continue to be an issue for millions of people for some time. SanDisk is trying to alleviate that problem with its iXpand Memory Case, an iPhone case with flash storage buil … | Continue reading
American Express today unveiled plans to introduce an Amex bot to Facebook Messenger that would let customers receive real-time purchase alerts and key information about benefits related to their purchases. The finance giant was at the Cannes-Lions Innovation festival in France t … | Continue reading