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
If you’ve ever dreamed of having your very own USS Enterprise or Defiant on your bookshelf, you’re in luck. It’s now possible to buy your own full-color, 3D printed Star Trek starships direct from Eucl3d. Founded by three UC Berkeley grads, Eucl3d wants to make it easier to turn … | Continue reading
PlayStation Network isn’t up and running for a lot of gamers right now. Sony’s online gaming service is experiencing an intermittent outage again. PlayStation-console owners on social media are complaining about connectivity issues and errors that are preventing them from logging … | Continue reading
GUEST: People are more into texting than talking. About 65 percent of us would prefer to have a long and painful conversation via Whatsapp than to have one-minute phone call or face-to-face meeting. We text while driving, even though we know it’s extremely dangerous. Families may … | Continue reading
Pinterest said it has hired Li Fan, the former head of image search at Google, as the company’s new head of engineering. Much of Pinterest’s most promising technology involves searching for objects within photos and then using that technology to rank and display the most relevant … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama told reporters at the G-20 summit in China that he has been in discussions with other world leaders, including Russian president Vladimir Putin, about creating a set of standards for cyber warfare. The debate over how and when to hack another nation has als … | Continue reading
Oracle today said that it has acquired LogFire, a company that provides cloud service companies can use to manage their product inventory. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The LogFire service will remain available for now. The team will join Oracle’s supply chain management c … | Continue reading
MIT Media Lab's first director of digital currency is transitioning out of his role to focus on academic work and a new book. | Continue reading
Xbox Live is going to make it easier to find new friends. Microsoft announced today that new features will enter testing soon for Preview members on Xbox One and the Xbox app on Windows 10. Specifically, Clubs and Looking for Group will help Xbox fans find others to play with and … | Continue reading
Microsoft is starting to preview its upcoming October Xbox One update today. While the summer update was primarily focused on bringing universal apps and Cortana to Xbox One, the October update includes some highly requested gaming features. Xbox Live Clubs and Looking for Group … | Continue reading
Facebook and Apple recently declared that there’s no wage gap between men and women at their respective companies. That’s cool, I guess, but that type of men-versus-women analysis is far too simplistic. There’s still a major wage gap that affects transgender and gender non-confor … | Continue reading
If you read enough tech news, you’re sure to see upcoming gadgets and features get leaked through regulatory filings, patent applications, and trademarks well ahead of their intended announcement. No company is immune to this, but Apple has largely avoided it — maybe until now.Tr … | Continue reading
Ignite Visibility began working with Fix Auto USA in October of 2014. Throughout the entire life of the campaign, Ignite Visibility has been able to consistently increase SEO traffic and keyword rankings for the client. By writing a large amount of content, adding keyword strateg … | Continue reading
Pinterest announced that it has hired Li Fan as its new head of engineering where it’s likely that she’ll utilize her experience in image search, infrastructure, and data analysis to improve ranking and discoverability of pins across the service. Prior to joining the company, Fan … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has always been pseudonymous at best. By design, the transparent nature of blockchain enables anyone to access transaction details using block explorers. However, tracking the entire transaction history of any Bitcoin token is a cumbersome task at the moment. A tool curre … | Continue reading
Former One Direction member Zayn Malik is teaming up with Law & Order creator and executive producer Dick Wolf to make a TV show about a boy band.The show, called Boys, will focus on the thrills and insane pressures of being young and getting "catapulted into fame at a dizzying s … | Continue reading
Located in West Hollywood, this modern dream house is a single-family home recently completed by Los Angeles-based Prime Five Homes. | Continue reading
CD Pool House is a elegant space designed by Belgian designer Marc Merckx. The structure’s defining feature is its sleek, dark façade. | Continue reading
Chelsea 25th Street loft was entirely custom designed, with products all manufactured in Italy. This 2,500 sqf Chelsea loft went through a ... | Continue reading
This sustainable terrace house was designed by Benjamin Garcia Saxe in Santa Teresa Beach, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica | Continue reading
The Hall of Fame on Tuesday released the lineup of presenters for Friday night’s Hall of Fame ceremony in Springfield, Mass., a group with the kind of star power to attract a separate spotlight despite having no role other than standing a few feet away while the members of the Cl … | Continue reading
Volkswagen announced a major partnership with an Illinois-based trucking company called Navistar, a sign that the automaker is eager to move passed its emissions scandal and focus on expanding its operations. Navistar also owns International Trucks, which encompasses a variety of … | Continue reading
How can the 707-horsepower Dodge SRT Hellcat get even better? Easy, give it a wide-body option.Just last month, Dodge revealed two new variants of its Challenger and Charger muscle cars, the Daytona and the A/T. For as exciting as those were, it turns out they're just the tip of … | Continue reading
The Phone 7 rumors out there are now fairly well known, but Apple always hides one trick up its sleeve, and I've got a guess at what it might be: the Apple Pencil coming to the iPhone 7. SEE ALSO: 'Stranger Things' iconic poster created on Apple's iPad ProAll signs point to such … | Continue reading
Blog about breakfasts. Recipes of delicious food for everyday mornings and for special occasions. | Continue reading
Stealing passwords isn’t hard: just set up a fake login page and ask people to sign in. It’s called phishing, and its big business in the cybercrime world. Big enough that some “entrepreneurs” in Russia are offering phishing as a freemium service. It’s called “Fake-Game,” and sec … | Continue reading
September’s Android Security update is now rolling out to Nexus devices, and we’ve got access to the Factory Images and OTA Files. | Continue reading
Boosting its plans to work with top game studios, Cheetah Mobile has published the hit mobile game Badland 2 on Android. The game launch follows its successful debut on iOS in December 2015. Developed by Finnish game studio Frogmind, the title is a sequel to the 2013 hit game Bad … | Continue reading
Microsoft is taking Slack head on, and reportedly doing it under the Skype umbrella. According to MSPowerUser, the software giant is developing new messaging software that closely mirrors Slack functionality. The new effort is called Skype Teams, and it promises to cater to the t … | Continue reading
We’re hearing from sources that Postmates, which is among a few companies that are seen as operating in the difficult on-demand space, is raising at least $100 million in a round led by Founders Fund. Sources stressed that the round has not closed, and that things may change over … | Continue reading
WebRTC, a relatively new web standard that allows you to make audio and video calls from your browser without plugins, is becoming increasingly popular. But as more companies and products adopt it, the need for getting better insights into how these calls perform (or when they dr … | Continue reading
With the sale of marijuana either for recreational or medicinal purposes becoming legal in more and more states, new and existing retailers are struggling to find ways to keep track of inventory while remaining compliant with various state and federal laws.Former Outright co-foun … | Continue reading
Marketers are beginning to prepare email campaigns for the all-important holiday shopping season. “While it may be difficult to turn our attention away from summer vacations, now is the perfect time to start planning for the holiday season,” states the Q2 2016 Email Benchmark Rep … | Continue reading
Amazon is expanding the universal search feature of its Fire TV and Fire Stick streaming devices with a software update that’s being released today. The update adds big names like Netflix and HBO Go, bringing the number of search compatible apps or channels to 75. Amazon says tha … | Continue reading
GUEST: We at Dashbot.io recently surpassed 32 million messages processed! Given three months worth of data processed, we wanted to highlight some interesting findings. (The stats below are based on Facebook Messenger bots only.) 1. Sessions The average messages per session and ti … | Continue reading
This is the ultimate guide to how Facebook chooses what to show in your News Feed, and how you can get your content seen by more people.Understanding how the News Feed works is tough because the algorithm is always changing. So TechCrunch launched this research project for today’ … | Continue reading
Sony is having a PlayStation event tomorrow in New York, where it plans to provide an update on its PlayStation business and PS4. Most people agree that means it’s going to show us a couple of PlayStation hardware updates, including a previously announced more powerful PlayStatio … | Continue reading