September 6, 2016 Curacao – Could you imagine winning 100 bitcoins in a day? You would bank close to $60,000 USD. It’s possible, and a player at mBit Casino scored this win just a few days ago. Playing the game Geisha and a 4 of a Kings, with bets between 0.12 and 0.012 BTC, a pl … | Continue reading
If you can't buy them, compete with them.That seems to be Microsoft's motto, since recent reports from MSPowerUser speculate that the company is working on creating a Slack competitor — with the help of Skype, of course.SEE ALSO: HipChat beats Slack to the punch of providing its … | Continue reading
Each week we bring you bots we think are interesting for one reason or another and are worth the time to try out. Last week we looked at a DJ’s bot and a Shakespeare bot that insults people. This week we take a look at a bot that teaches languages, one that helps you write on Med … | Continue reading
Josh takes the LG V20 for a spin in the great city of Berlin to see how the latest flagship offering from LG fairs as a vlogging camera. | Continue reading
KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo dropped a ton of iPhone 7 information over the weekend, and he's back with a new nugget on the eve of Apple's big event. It's well established by now that the iPhone 7 won't feature a headphone jack, and while Kuo believes the new phone will be … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever been lost in the midst of all the 3D printing technologies, you know how hard it is to get a grip on the different machinery, applications and companies involved. Many “new technologies” — actually trademarks — are presented as revolutionary, when they are in fact … | Continue reading
What’s the difference between pitching a story to a commercial broadcaster and a public one? Today Nic Hayes plays mediator between two experienced broadcasters — one from the publicly-owned ABC (our own James Lush) and the other fresh from a long and distinguished career with co … | Continue reading
A day after IFA and Labor Day and mere hours before Apple takes the stage in the same city — LG really doesn’t have a knack for timing. It’s unfortunate to say the least. Here in the States, the company has been hovering around third place in smartphone market share. Globally, th … | Continue reading
LG is today unveiling its latest flagship, the V20, with the hopes it will remove some of the sour taste left by the G5 from earlier this year. It’s a powerful 5.7-inch device that – like the previous V10 – is packed to the brim with features aimed at specifically and mobile vide … | Continue reading
The LG V20 has been advertised with MIL-STD-810G transit drop compliance, so we put it through the AA drop test to see what it takes to break the LG V20. | Continue reading
LG's V20 is here, offering a very different look and feel from its predecessor. Join us as we go hands on to give you a closer look. | Continue reading
LG just announced the V20, a successor to last year's V10 smartphone. In 2015, the V10 stood out for its unique, sturdy design, a great camera, and audiophile-grade music playback. LG has retained two of those strengths and introduced others for the sequel. And as we already know … | Continue reading
Like Samsung, LG releases its flagship line of phones in the spring and a weirder, but still high-end, phone in the fall. The second model acts as a kind of testing ground for more cutting-edge tech.Last year, LG set up this pattern with the V10. That phone had a signature featur … | Continue reading
The LG V20 is now official. We're here to bring you a full rundown of the LG V20 specs, features, price, and availability. Got any LG V20 questions? Ask away in the comments. | Continue reading
Just when I think I’m out, I get pulled back in. In my previous journal for my time with World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Legion, I was growing frustrated with the long amounts of waiting I had to do. Luckily, I had just unlocked world quests, which gives me something meanin … | Continue reading
LG today is unveiling its V20 smartphone, which follows up on the V10 that LG introduced last year. The new version of this large 5.7-inch handset has a newer chip, more sophisticated dual rear cameras, more battery capacity, and a more elegant feel. Oh — and it’s the first phone … | Continue reading
LG took the wraps off the V20, its latest Android flagship, at an event in San Francisco this evening. The phone, a successor to last year's V10, is the first to ship with Google's latest Android 7.0 Nougat. Like it's predecessor. the V20 contains a dual-camera system and a secon … | Continue reading
Car aficinados, AI geeks — your new favorite toy has arrivedHot Wheels has unveiled its AI Intelligent Race System, available for preorder as of Tuesday for $99.99. As you'd expect from Hot Wheels, the car designs are super sleek, though the tech side might be a little disappoint … | Continue reading
T-Mobile says that Verizon's recent LTE-A rollout is 2014 technology that they've already had in place, and a 2x boost is coming to their networks soon. | Continue reading
If you use WordPress as a CMS for your real estate website, you may be wondering what you can do to improve your online marketing results. Since almost all agents now have websites, they can really benefit from using SEO. Since we work with many real estate agents at Ozio Media,… … | Continue reading
Synereo has been around for a little while, and raised the equivalent of $126,000 in their initial AMP crowdsale last year. Since then, they’ve been relatively quiet, and I was surprised to hear they plan to have another one. Their team has been hard at work, however, and while t … | Continue reading
Joshua Vergara is joined by Nicole Scott, Jaime Rivera and Juan Carlos Bagnell in Berlin to talk IFA 2016. Announcements, smartwatches, tight pants and other gender generalizations abound. Enjoy our IFA 2016 special edition podcast. | Continue reading
GUEST: Uber recently launched two pilot programs in several American cities. One garnered a lot of press; the other one not so much. But it’s the second program that is ultimately going to resolve Uber’s $2.4 billion burn problem. You probably know about the first launch. Right n … | Continue reading
Star Treks’ original series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager all have one actor in common: Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry). She voiced the iconic computer for all those series, letting captains know what various atmospheres … | Continue reading
It really sucks to be Samsung right now.Just when the company launches its Galaxy Note7, its best smartphone ever — one that I called the best smartphone on the planet — reports of devices exploding have forced the company to halt production and provide an unofficial recall throu … | Continue reading
Last week, the unfinished dinosaur survival sim Ark: Survival Evolved got its first expansion, and that led to a backlash from people who think it’s wrong for a studio to sell new content while the base game is still incomplete in its Early Access state. Now, the developer is res … | Continue reading
REVIEW: By refreshing its Apple Music music-streaming app in time for the launch of iOS 10, Apple has improved the overall design, as well as the experience It’s a matter of taste, but I prefer the bold typeface that’s now prevalent in the title pages of the new app, instead of t … | Continue reading
While Square continues to take small steps into Europe, a would-be homegrown rival has made its first acquisition to expand from mobile payments into a wider set of commerce solutions. iZettle — the Swedish mobile payments startup backed by the likes of Intel, American Express an … | Continue reading
GUEST: My recent bot manifesto warned that bots better smarten up fast, admonishing our current bot generation for being not only dull but also dumb. I said they are lacking both personality and basic natural language processing skills. However, this is clearly a more nuanced pro … | Continue reading
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Following a major milestone for the domestic drone industry last week, industry insiders are expecting a big uptick in dollars invested in U.S. drone tech companies— just maybe not an immediate one.As we previously reported, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal A … | Continue reading
DriveTribe, the vertical online community for motoring fans to be launched by former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, has now secured $6.5 million (£4.9 million) from 21st Century Fox. The move comes less than three weeks after the announcement … | Continue reading
Nolan Fine brought a relaxed approach to his job as an NBA referee, his close friend and colleague Joe Forte said Tuesday, and it served him well in his 16 seasons officiating in the league. So did his sense of humor. Forte recalled a game in Sacramento about 25 years ago, back i … | Continue reading
Buddha believed in data. Every time he tried something new, he paid attention. He collected evidence. He figured out what worked and what didn’t. And if something didn’t work, he rejected it and moved on. A good scientist knows when to quit. Read More | Continue reading
On Wednesday, Apple is set to release its new stable of products — including the iPhone 7 — at an event in San Francisco, CaliforniaAs expected we have no idea what actually to expect at the event. There have been a lot of rumors. Most notably the removal of the 3.5 mm headphone … | Continue reading
Two members of the group that awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have been asked to resign over their involvement in a scandal over the work of an Italian transplant surgeon. Board members at the Karolinska Institute who have not yet … | Continue reading
While cycling apps are thick on the ground, a full gadget ecosystem is hard to come by. Seattle startup Coros is looking to change that with the Linx, a helmet-app combo (with handlebar controller) that lets you listen to music, take calls, get turn-by turn directions, and track … | Continue reading
The Girls in Tech nonprofit group’s recent poll found that 66 percent of tech-employed women plan to vote for Hillary Clinton, while 3 percent plan to vote for Trump. A surprising large number — 30 percent — don’t plan to vote for either one of the U.S. presidential candidates. T … | Continue reading
Squire, a company that launched last week at Y Combinator’s Summer ’16 Demo Day, makes software for barbershops. Not salons or beauty parlors or wherever else you get your hair cut…just barbershops. So what makes a barbershop so unique that it warrants its own software platform? … | Continue reading
The first question you might have when learning that Jaguar Land Rover has its technology headquarters in Portland, OR, is, “Why?” There’s an easy answer for that question, said Rupert Poole, Senior Collaborations Manager of Future Technology at the facility in Portland. JLR, as … | Continue reading
When PlayStation VR buyers plug in their headsets next month, Sony wants them to get their footing with a real, physical demo disc. As explained in a blog post earlier today, PlayStation VR will ship with a free sample of eight games: Continue reading… | Continue reading
DJI is reportedly working on a new quadrocopter called the Mavic that’ll fold up for easy transport. Heliguy reports that photos of the drone leaked this past week along with some specs. The drone will supposedly come with a 4K camera and two-axis gimbal, up to 300 meter Wi-Fi, a … | Continue reading
The rapid growth of streaming is taking the globe by storm, but no country seems to have the market potential for OTT video streaming quite like China. While the United States OTT market is beginning to show signs of saturation, it is not a surprise that more than 720 million Chi … | Continue reading
Blizzard isn’t afraid to make sweeping changes to its games, and Overwatch is a continuing example of why this approach works. The publisher released an update for its class-based shooter last week, and it introduced a revamped competitive mode that fixes many of the problems wit … | Continue reading
Meizu unveils a larger M3 variant called the M3 Max. It increases the display to 6" and battery up to 4,100 mAh, with the same premium metal body. | Continue reading
Michael Kors is jumping into the Android Wear game and their first watches are being released today. Let's see what these fashion-focused products have to offer! | Continue reading
More than $5m worth of digital currency associated with the attack on The DAO is on the move. | Continue reading
Advanced Micro Devices said today it plans to raise $1.02 billion in common stock and debt as part of its plan to restructure its debt. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD, which is the No. 2 maker of PC microprocessors, said it plans to raise $600 million in common stock from the public … | Continue reading