Slither.io is not new, but it is crazy popular. The game has been sitting at number one on the iOS gaming charts for some time now. Slither.io has been available for just over three months now and, according to the most recent ranking, the game still holds the number one game, ac … | Continue reading
When Apple released a preview version of iOS 10 at its annual developers conference last week, the company slipped in a surprise for security researchers — it left the core of its operating system, the kernel, unencrypted.“The kernel cache doesn’t contain any user info, and by un … | Continue reading
Equity crowdfunding continues to be a hot topic around the world, with a number of players new and old re-doubling their efforts to capture the wallets of investors everywhere. The most recent example is Invesdor, a platform focusing on Scandinavia, who used its own platform to r … | Continue reading
Meritus Hotels & Resorts: Singapur (ots/PRNewswire) - Meritus Hotels & Resorts hat Melvin Lim zum Geschäftsführer des international angesehenen Marina Mandarin Singapore ernannt -- ein Luxushotel für Geschäftsreisende mit 575 Zimmern in ausgezeichneter Lage im Herzen des ... | Continue reading
In the last few months, a Singaporean University hired Nadine as a secretary, a Boston Dynamics employee pushed over his colleague Atlas who was moving boxes at a factory and Tally, a San Francisco Target employee, began checking to make sure all the products in Aisle 3 are fully … | Continue reading
Earlier today, Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives voiced their protest over not being able to vote on gun control legislation. Presiding Congressman Ted Poe (R-Texas) quickly called for a recess and ordered video cameras in the chamber to be turned off in t … | Continue reading
Your next laptop will most likely be thinner than the one you have now. That’s because some Windows PC makers like HP aren’t keen with the thinness of even their own offerings. So, their designers and execs have gone all-out to design (with some compromise) an ultrabook so thin, … | Continue reading
Word games and mobile go together like peanut butter and jam, and like that classic combo, you don't have to look very far to find an example. You get to a point where you have to wonder what more can be done with the genre beyond dressing it up in different themes. AlphaPit [Fre … | Continue reading
Webpass, a high-speed Internet service provider with operations in 10 cities around the U.S., today announced that it has been acquired by Google. The move means that Google will be providing Internet service to more people, expanding beyond the existing reach of Google Fiber. “J … | Continue reading
To celebrate 2016’s Week of Making (don’t tell me you forgot!), the National Science Foundation has awarded a total of $1.5 million to five small projects looking to get kids involved with STEM topics, creative play and generally making stuff. Read More | Continue reading
French startup Sevenhugs closed a $14.6 million Series A today led by Xerys on a quest to better integrate smart home technology. Sevenhugs has already developed a sleep tracker and is nearing completion on development of a universal smart-remote. Sevenhugs joins Misfit, Hello, a … | Continue reading
Lenovo had it right from the start — and Samsung wants a piece of the action.For years now, Lenovo's Yoga 2-in-1 laptops have attracted customers with screens that can flipped all the way back to become a tablet (and in between for tent and stand modes). Samsung's latest Windows … | Continue reading
Google Fiber is acquiring San Francisco-based internet service provider Webpass. The news, announced in a press release this afternoon, means Google's own fiber internet service now has a well-established commercial provider of gigabit internet to aid its continued expansion. Web … | Continue reading
Twilio today said it would price its initial public offering at $15 per share, which would value the company at around $1.23 billion. That would value Twilio above its previous $1 billion valuation from its last financing round. With the pricing, the company expects to raise arou … | Continue reading
Former Apple designer Abigail Brody has been brought aboard the Huawei team to bring the company's software interface into the 21st century. | Continue reading
First the good news. The United States senate rejected a proposal today that would have given the FBI increased surveillance powers, including the ability to search our internet browsing history without a warrant. Now for the bad; it was barely rejected and we could see a modifie … | Continue reading
Blockchain-based social payments app Circle has raised $60m in new funding as it expands to China. | Continue reading
Since buying the virtual reality company Oculus, maker of the Oculus Rift, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it very clear that the acquisition wasn't simply an experiment, but an investment in the company's future.On Wednesday, Facebook doubled down on that sentiment by enha … | Continue reading
The price of ether, the native digital asset powering the ethereum network, has fluctuated wildly over the last few days, as its developers struggled to determine how to resolve the loss of investor funds at one of the platform’s signature projects. At issue is the loss of roughl … | Continue reading
Less than 24 hours before its initial public offering, Twilio has provided more details about its public debut. In a release, the cloud communications company expects to price its shares at $15, which is just slightly above its projected range issued previously. At this price, it … | Continue reading
Today, Facebook-owned Oculus announced the launch of 360-degree video reactions for the Gear VR headset. So now, when watching Facebook videos using Samsung's virtual reality goggles, you'll be able to choose between the social network's standard series of reactions, including th … | Continue reading
There are plenty of reasons to keep an eye on Twilio‘s initial public offering, like whether or not it will open the door for more tech IPOs. Here’s a small-but-fun one: The company has organized a live coding event from the New York Stock Exchange. So tomorrow morning, Twilio wi … | Continue reading
Here’s a neat little add-on for folks looking to get a little more out of their GoPro. The Vitrim is a big metal add-on created by Chicago-based startup Fantem that brings 3D video capture to the action camera.The device features a plastic GoPro case affixed to a big lens with mi … | Continue reading
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number's level editor is now available on Steam. "Thank you so much for your patience and help over the extended development of… | Continue reading
E3 and WWDC came and went this week with practically nothing special shown about mobile gaming. Mobile games were invisible from E3 press conferences after only getting cursory mentions last year. E3 press conferences are all flash and spectacle, and I'll admit many mobile games … | Continue reading
It is rare that I'm compelled to seek out C-SPAN live coverage. Today was a little different. House Democrats staged a dramatic sit-in to demand action on gun control, chanting "no bill, no break." But after a recess was called, C-SPAN's live video footage was cut off by House R … | Continue reading
Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games already went above and beyond by creating the wonderful free DLC Plague of Shadows, which added an entirely new campaign where players assume the role of former baddie Plague Knight. Sure it recycled most of the levels from the original ga … | Continue reading
WowWee, the Hong Kong-based manufacturer behind that old RadioShack stalwart, RoboSapien, showed off a couple of promising high tech toys due out in the fall. COJI is one of the company’s more compelling products in a while. The little robot, which made its first public appearanc … | Continue reading
The latest Android Pay update is pretty boring, but XDA found some code that points toward the app being able to soon show you Pay-ready locations nearby. | Continue reading
Space fiends who are also couch potatoes, rejoice! NASA’s all-purpose app for finding and watching content from the cosmos has arrived on Apple TV. Read More | Continue reading
These are our robot babies. They are not pretty or intelligent and they lack skin. But they are our robot babies nonetheless. Please show them love and kindness. Do no upset the robot babies, because their knowledge and experience may one day be transferable to a larger, more pow … | Continue reading
Layered software architectures adhere to the Dependency Rule: Source code in a lower-level layer can make use of code in higher-level layers, but never vice versa. Control flow, however, goes in both directions. How is this possible, given that higher-level code must not know any … | Continue reading
A week after the mass shooting that left 49 patrons of a gay nightclub dead in Orlando, Florida, upcoming fan convention Flame Con is asking its attendees to drop the firearms from their costumes.Flame Con, in its second year, is an LGBTQ-focused geek fandom convention that will … | Continue reading
Fotograf und Künstler Bhautik Joshi hat einige, kurze Szenen des SciFi-Klassikers Blade Runner mit dem Stil des Bildes Sternennacht von Vincent van Gogh versehen - dahinter steckt dann wieder ein neuronales Netz á la Googles Deep-Dream-Software.... | Continue reading
Hasselblad picked a rather unique location — the Absolut Elyx house — in the Meatpacking District for me to meet their reps and play with the new X1D. For a quick refresher, it’s the world’s first compact medium format camera which was announced just this morning. Given that the … | Continue reading
If you’ve got more than a handful 3D printers or other devices running at a time, it’s a full time job keeping them going — removing and packaging products, tweaking settings, pushing “OK” after minor errors, that sort of thing. Why not have a robot do it for you? Read More | Continue reading
It took 52 years and a historic achievement in the NBA Finals to deliver a championship parade to downtown Cleveland. Now that he’s back as the hero in the middle of the celebration, LeBron James says he has no intention of leaving home or the Cavaliers again. “I love it here in … | Continue reading
Remember how Sony launched the PS3 with "OtherOS" support, so you could install Linux or whatever other PowerPC-compatible OS you could finagle onto your shiny new next-gen gaming system? And then remember how just a couple years later Sony discontinued support for OtherOS, with … | Continue reading
Getting a small child to brush their teeth can feel like hosting a nightly WWE wrestling match in your bathroom. But the new icon-based Octopus watch for kids ages 3 to 8 aims to help with this and other daily habits. The Octopus watch's Kickstarter campaign has raised more than … | Continue reading
It could be considered a weird quirk of English that “to dabble” means literally “in with both feet”, and yet figuratively it means the complete opposite of the phrase “jump in feet first”. I first learnt the meaning of “dabble” from Ratty in Wind and the Willows and thus wheneve … | Continue reading
Doom 2 modder Doug Keener has recreated Jerry Seinfeld's classic NBC sitcom in id Software's 1994 shooter."After over 100 hours of work, I present to you Seinfeld.wad; a replica of Jerry Seinfeld's Apartment from his hit sitcom, Seinfeld!" Keener wrote on his YouTube notes for th … | Continue reading
House Democrats are staging a sit-in today in an effort to push their Republican colleagues to vote for a gun control bill that would exclude suspected terrorists from purchasing automatic weapons. Led by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the Representatives sat down on the chamber flo … | Continue reading
In Finland, there is this thing called juhannus. A few years ago, our former colleague Hetta described it like this: Well, Midsummer – or juhannus – as it is called in Finnish, is one of the most important public holidays in our calendar. It is celebrated, as you probably guessed … | Continue reading
Legendary screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Steve Jobs) is partnering with the online education platform MasterClass to offer a course on screenwriting that's being made available later this summer. Over the course of 25 video lessons spanning five hours, Sorkin is g … | Continue reading
Hi! That new macOS X Sierra thing is almost out! There are so many new cool features. You can talk to your computer in humanish language. You can pay for stuff with your iPhone because if you have a Mac and an Android phone what are you doing with your life? There’s a thing that … | Continue reading
Fiat Chrysler says that it is moving up the schedule for updating software in around 1.1 million vehicles that use a confusing gear selector design that was first recalled in April. The design, which makes it unusually easy to accidentally place a vehicle in neutral instead of pa … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) enterprise company AppZen closed a $2.9 million seed round today. AppZen uses machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to automate and analyze expense reports for fraud. The company plans to extend into other back-office functions l … | Continue reading
Digital media company Purch has acquired Business.com — which, in addition to being a pretty great URL, offers advice and other content for small businesses and operates a marketplace for business products and services. Purch owns a number of product-focused sites, including Tom’ … | Continue reading