Picture this: over happy hour suds in a generic Irish pub, a man wants a cheap laugh to endear himself to his colleagues. He unholsters his iPhone, opens LinkedIn, and types a two-word prompt. The app thinks for a moment, then uploads an ordinary profile page belonging to a midd … | Continue reading
We’re happy to announce the GamesBeat 2016 developer contest. We’re going to pick five developers who will demo their games at our annual GamesBeat conference, August 1 to August 3 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles. The submissions can be for any type o … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Refind, a new take on social bookmarking. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Refind? Refind is the home for the best links on the web. It lets you save great links that will come in handy in the … | Continue reading
When Mark Zuckerberg recently posted a photo with his computer in the background, it revealed his paranoia about hackers tapping into not only his webcam, but his microphone, too.SEE ALSO: NFL Twitter account hacked soon after Drake's, Twitter 'checking' into leaksThe photo shows … | Continue reading
You might like to think you can make yourself smarter, and that's the basis of the $1 billion brain training industry. It's looking like it's all nonsense, though. | Continue reading
Recap of the June 20 #ContentChat twitter chat on best practices for editorial workflow management. Participants shared how they've implemented editorial calendars as a key way to keep their content on-topic and on-schedule. | Continue reading
Yesterday, the Japanese business world was rocked when it was announced that would-be successor to Masayoshi Son, Nikesh Arora, would not be taking over the top spot at Softbank and is instead leaving the company. Arora's tweetstorm about the matter aside, there were many questio … | Continue reading
We’re far enough out from Caracal, the LP Disclosure released last September, to call it an unequivocal disappointment. It was bloated and gloomy, full of tracks that overstayed their welcome and squandered their talented guest vocalists. It wasted all of the momentum the Lawrenc … | Continue reading
Google today announced the launch of AdSense Labs, a new part of AdSense where users can explore experimental features for the website advertising system. Google has populated the new section of AdSense, which is under the Optimization tab, with two features to start — although i … | Continue reading
One of the most important games in shooter history is celebrating a big birthday. Quake came out for DOS PCs on June 22, 1996, making the historic first-person shooter 20 years old. Quake came from Id Software, the company that pretty much invented the first-person shooter. Befor … | Continue reading
If you happen to own a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ on AT&T, you'll be happy to hear that your Android 6.0 Marshmallow update is on its way. | Continue reading
As the human race prepares to shed the tissue and fluids of its bodily form in exchange for oneness with the metaverse, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is promising that Net Neutrality will apply to online VR worlds like it does to the rest of the internet. But FCC cha … | Continue reading
Designed by the studio of Japanese, Vietnam-based architect Shunri Nishizawa, Thong house is a reinterpretation of the local architectural ... | Continue reading
Shearers Quarters House was designed by John Wardle Architects in Bruny Island, Tasmania. This beguiling shearers quarters sits as a companion building to an existing historic cottage on a working sheep farm. Located on the site of the old shearing shed that was destroyed by fire … | Continue reading
House at Big Hill is a vacation home designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects. Our most recent project near Victoria’s Great Ocean Road is ... | Continue reading
The Chicago Department of Transportation led the construction of the Chicago Riverwalk, completing portions of the system that include .... | Continue reading
The renovation and interior transformation works in a 1920ies manor house in Luxembourg City proved to be a challenge for everyone involved .. | Continue reading
When you first start doing conversion optimization, you think that the biggest hurdles are technical things: running a test the right way, collecting data correctly, QA’ing tests. These things are all important, of course. But the solutions are fairly straightforward, and when yo … | Continue reading
Sernik na zimno z jagodami. Słodki, kremowy, z mniejszymi i większymi kawałeczkami jagód. Na spodzie z kruchych kokosowych ciastek, z polewą z białej czekolady. Owocowy, dekadencki deser na lato! | Continue reading
When Adult Swim Games launched Pocket Mortys [Free] at the beginning of the year, I figured it would be a cute Pokemon-alike dripping with Rick and Mortys fan service that would be a fun way to pass the time for a few weeks, and then it would fade away like dust in the wind. This | Continue reading
HBO's Vinyl, the high-profile rock drama executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, has been canceled. Deadline reports that HBO had opted to ax the series after a disappointing first season, even though the show had already been renewed in February."After careful con … | Continue reading
As headphones go, Bose guaranteed itself a hit earlier this month when the company unveiled the Quiet Comfort 35s. These new $350 headphones feature Bose’s best-in-class noise cancelation and are capable of hushing busy streets and packed flights down to a whisper that vanishes c … | Continue reading
A team of 30 students have built the fastest-accelerating electric car in the world. Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) published a video today that shows "grimsel," its electric race car, accelerating from 0–60 miles per hour in just 1.513 seconds on a runway at Dübendorf Ai … | Continue reading
Just like halftime is a critical point in a football game, the business equivalent of halftime is equally important to your 2016 business outcomes. | Continue reading
Is a meme still a meme when someone tries to sell it? I’ve been grappling with that question in this post-#tealizard world. Today, The Atlantic staff writer David A. Graham tweeted an image of buttons that he claims are being sold by venders at a Hillary Clinton rally in Raleigh, … | Continue reading
Pinterest today said it was acquiring the team behind tote, a shopping app that highlights products that are suggested by fashion influencers and friends. The tote founders are joining Pinterest’s growth and monetization team. This isn’t the only talent acquisition Pinterest has … | Continue reading
Amazon is giving its cheapest kindle a spec boost and a mild redesign. First off, you can get it in white, should you want your kindle to match your fake pages, and it’s a little bit thinner. It’s also a little rounder, which amazon says should make it easier to hold in one hand … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the proposed acquisition of SolarCity could eventually push the electric car maker's valuation to $1 trillion, but investors were skeptical. | Continue reading
The Australian Stock Exchange is boosting its stake in New York blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings. | Continue reading
If you needed further proof that we are indeed living in the future, KFC has just introduced a box for its 5-in-1 meal that features USB, micro-USB and Lightning connections — and even includes the cables — to charge your mobile devices. Currently, the box is only available in Mu … | Continue reading
Pinterest announced today that it has made another acqui-hire, picking up the team behind the mobile commerce app Tote. While the visual search engine hasn’t released any financial details of the deal, we’re told that both cofounders Mike Bidgoli and Langtian Lang will be joining … | Continue reading
Samsung sure is taking its sweet time to launch its ball-shaped Gear 360 camera in the U.S.The Korean electronics giant launched the 360 camera in South Korea and Singapore in late April and has been slow to release it elsewhere. Samsung's finally going to sell it in the U.S. — b … | Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk announced that Tesla, a company he founded and currently runs, was offering to buy Solar City, another company he founded, and where he is currently chairman of the board. In a conference call with investors this morning, Musk rationalized the rough … | Continue reading
Grow your company of brand advocates by transforming loyal customers into people who sing the praises of your business. Then, watch it grow. | Continue reading
A coworker just walked into the office and made fun of me for wearing the Ropes. Sure, he probably would have zeroed in on something else had I not put them on this morning, but they’re a pretty easy target. Which is to say, while I admire Roam for taking a novel approach to Blue … | Continue reading
You’ve got a great workspace set up and the best gear for getting things done, so why do you feel your favorite coffee shop calling to you? Because you’re craving a chance to drop the stress of your usual desk, your computer, and the people around you. Because you’ve created a ha … | Continue reading
Online education company Udacity has partnered with Google to introduce a new course covering the basics of Android programming. The aptly titled Android Basics Nanodegree is aimed at those with little or no programming experience and provides entry points into Java, web APIs, us … | Continue reading
In February, scientists at the LIGO observatory made history when they announced the first ever detection of gravitational waves. These ripples in the fabric of space-time came from two black holes that spun around each other several times per second before merging in a violent, … | Continue reading
Even dormant black holes warp space and time, scientists now say. The discovery came from a supermassive black hole that’s a few million Solar masses and is located at the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away.Black holes are so incredibly dense that nothing — not even … | Continue reading
Google wants more people to learn to program — especially for its Android platform. While the company already offered a few programming courses, they were typically geared toward students with at least some rudimentary programming experience.Starting today, the Google Android Bas … | Continue reading
Fabric, Twitter’s developer suite, is adding a new tool in Branch. Branch is a marketing analytics tool, which uses some deep linking capabilities to analyze things like retention regardless of which marketing channels you utilize. More to the point, it lets you compare and contr … | Continue reading
Google and Udacity are teaming up again, this time for an Android Basics course that will earn you a Nanodegree. The two companies have partnered before for Android Nanodegree programs, but this one is meant for those who are starting from absolute scratch: no coding experience r … | Continue reading
Following three major developers’ conferences in recent months, we heard and saw some very different visions for the role that apps may play. There was Facebook talking up chatbots as a way to move to a post-app world. There was Google, unveiling a suite of apps of its own with d … | Continue reading
Android manufacturers and even Apple are expected to release more dual camera smartphones soon. Here are some of the features you might see in future smartphones with dual cameras. | Continue reading
As far as dumb food-related made-up holidays are concerned, I'd say that today's National Onion Rings Day might be one of the most delicious. To celebrate it fully, I'd recommend going to a place like Red Robin that goes above and beyond when it comes to the presentation of onion … | Continue reading
SoundCloud has started rolling out a new way for people to discover music and audio files on its service. Called Suggested Tracks, this feature analyzes your listening activity to surface the tracks and artists you may not have heard before. As the war among music services contin … | Continue reading
Who needs the sun? Many Silicon Valley startups pride themselves on long, grueling work hours, toiling from the crack of dawn till late into the night. But that work pride has a toll – they likely suffer from a serious lack of vitamin D.Most U.S. office workers do these days and … | Continue reading
Customer Experience Exchange for Travel & Hospitality: London (ots/PRNewswire) - Mit dem Sommer vor der Haustür denkt die gesamte Welt an ihre lange erwarteten Reisepläne, sei es ein Jet-Set-Trip nach Bali, mit dem Zug nach Schottland oder mit dem Schiff auf dem Atlantik: die Bra … | Continue reading