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
The iPhone 7 is about to drop, which means Apple will finally put the many rumors surrounding the phone to rest.Apple's launch event — which will be held on Sept. 7 in San Francisco — will introduce the much anticipated new iPhone, along with potential other updated Apple product … | Continue reading
The Huawei Honor 8 is now available for purchase in the US, but you may want to wait for more color choices. You'll mainly only see the white right now. | Continue reading
Des Moine, Washington has assembled a city-commissioned committee that is attempting to get Pokemon Go banned from the region. | Continue reading
BrainDead is a show on CBS made by Robert and Michelle King — who originally produced The Good Wife — staring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Tony Shalhoub, and Aaron Tveit. It's about government gridlock and also an invasion of space bugs that are controlling people’s brains. The space … | Continue reading
Making a profession in taxation will be one in all your career dreams however you will need to decide what stream and course to decide on. The US Occupational Outlook Handbook predicts that the necessity for accounting professionals will improve almost sixteen over the next ten … | Continue reading
Sumo wrestling features two gigantic humans sweating, grunting and trying to push each other out of a small-ish circle. The traditional Japanese sport is amazing to watch, but it’s a hard sell when trying to describe. Add the traditional attire, the ‘mawashi,’ which is essentiall … | Continue reading
These content marketing examples from Disney, John Deere and LEGO demonstrate the power of brand storytelling to connect with consumers and encourage sales. | Continue reading
Ridiculous gaming computers are nothing new. After all, half the fun of building a small supercomputer that can simulate entire universes is decking it out in glowing lights and swooping chrome accents. The R1 Razer Edition is a recently announced desktop team-up between Razer an … | Continue reading
Sony has some secrets it’s getting ready to tell the world about … OK. I’m sorry. I can’t write that with a straight face. “Sony” and “secrets” look funny in the same sentence. Regardless, the publisher is finally going to detail its new PlayStation 4 consoles tomorrow. You shoul … | Continue reading
Like any nerd worth a damn, I like to plan for the zombie apocalypse. I know whose house I’ll go to (he has guns and edged weapons). I know what vehicles I’ll take (bicycles, duh). I know my weapon of choice (a shovel – perfect for the spearing brain smash). But I have a new… Rea … | Continue reading
Google is launching a new advertising program called Shop the Look that will let you search for specific outfits and receive photos and purchase links right from the results page. The company is starting out by partnering with sites like Polyvore and LiketoKnow.it, which are Pint … | Continue reading