Bitmovin bags $10.3 million for fixing 360-degree video streaming

360-degree videos could be incredible in VR when viewed with no bottlenecks between the camera and headset. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case today. The way video comes to your headset basically means any time you see a panoramic video in VR it isn’t anywhere near the original c … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Hillary Clinton coughed a bunch and now Twitter thinks she’s dying

One of my biggest public speaking fears is that I’ll have a coughing fit while I’m trying to make a point. So watching today’s Hilary Clinton speech, which kicked off with a lot of coughing and water sipping, is gut-wrenching. The incident is also lighter fluid dumped onto the si … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

John McAfee takes Intel to task (and court) for blocking usage of his own name

Six years after Intel purchased McAfee antivirus for $7.68 billion, its founder is now in court fighting for the right to use his own name. Bloomberg reports that John McAfee has filed paperwork to sue Intel, who’s attempting to block McAfee from using his name in a new business … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

The first chatbot arrest, but what are the implications?

GUEST: Imagine the police arresting a bot and releasing it after months of custody and investigation. This is not a scenario from a futurist’s blog — it actually happened in Switzerland last year. What were the charges against the globe-trotting Swiss bot and its owners? Its name … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Dragon’s Tale – Match the Ming Vases and win the Jackpot

Dragon’s Tale is the most exotic Bitcoin Casino and probably the oldest in the Bitcoin gambling industry. It was the first Casino in the Bitcoin to | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Has Huawei built a tablet for Google to be released in 2016?

According to prolific mobile leaker Evan Blass, we should expect to see a shiny new 7-inch tablet from Google by the end of 2016 built by Huawei. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Megaverse’s anti-gravity iPhone case is a modular solution to… everything

If I’m being honest, I never really thought about the benefits of sticking my iPhone to walls. Now, I can’t imagine not being able to. Reading recipes while cooking, watching YouTube while doing the dishes or just slapping your phone on the wall outside to have a centralized poin … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Apple’s new iPhones, and the implications of playing it safe

ANALYSIS: Apple is nothing if not predictable. Every two years, in early September, it introduces a newly designed iPhone at a meticulously staged event in and around San Francisco. In the in-between years, it also introduces new iPhones, but they are visually indistinct from the … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Pizza Hut’s new ‘Blockbuster Box’ box is the perfect movie night companion

In a moment that I’m imagining featured at least one stoned executive, Pizza Hut came up with a genius marketing gimmick idea for a dual-purpose pizza box that could keep your food warm (and in one piece) all while moonlighting as a smartphone-powered projector. According to The … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 explosion, Proxima b and SETI: Listen to TCBC Episode 3 with Emily Calandrelli

On this week’s episode of TCBC, the podcast where TechCrunch’s writers go in-depth about the beats they love and obsess over, we talk to Emily Calandrelli, our resident space reporter and the host of Xploration Outer Space – season 3 of which premieres this coming Saturday on FOX … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Exclusive: Jammerbund to leave British Fashion Council

Josef Jammerbund, head of events at the British Fashion Council (BFC) is set to leave his position at the end of the year. | Continue reading


@eventmagazine.co.uk | 8 years ago

Disney’s shutdown of Marvel Avengers Alliance games shows the difficulties of mobile

If Disney can’t succeed with a mobile game, then you know that the $36 billion mobile game market is truly difficult. Late last week, the company shut down its Marvel Avengers Alliance and Marvel Avengers Alliance 2 games. The first one was a big hit of the Facebook games era whe … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

15 best VR games for Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard is an excellent entrant into the VR gaming world. If you have one laying around, here are a list of the best VR games for Google Cardboard! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Will tech IPOs come back to life in the fall?

GUEST: After a slow start for initial public stock offerings this year, there are some promising signs that the IPO market may come to life in the weeks after Labor Day. Yet even if the IPO pipeline starts flowing again, this year will likely disappoint investors who are yearning … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Me and my internship: Olivia Hardy, FreemanXP

Olivia Hardy, an intern at FreemanXP, explains what it means to be an associate strategist and why no two days are the same. | Continue reading


@eventmagazine.co.uk | 8 years ago

A 7-inch Google tablet built by Huawei could be on the way

Here’s something you might not have been expecting: alongside two new phones, it possible that Google will also announce a new 7-inch Android tablet very soon. According to Evan Blass, it will be released “before the end of the year,” sport 4GB of RAM, and be made by Huawei.There … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

The four public policy questions every startup should ask

As a necessary function of a product launch, startups are myopic — they’re frenzied, they’re broke and they’re not remotely cognizant of the serious public policy hurdles to which they’re racing. That’s the problem. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Four reasons you really shouldn’t miss Disrupt SF, kicking off one week from today

Disrupt SF starts a week from today. There’s still time to get on board, and here are a few reasons why you might be sad if you don’t. You can still get a ticket here. #1 Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Diane Greene, Reid Hoffman, Sebastian Thrun.  If those names got your attentio … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Woman shot while “playing Pokémon Go” didn’t have a phone

Ask anyone who gets their news from local TV: Pokémon Go is dangerous. You can’t let your kids play that game, because they might get hurt. It’s like stranger-danger, but with adorable creatures to catch. Well, last night a shooting victim in Greshem, Oregon, just outside Portlan … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Armada Collective Strikes Again; Demanding 1 BTC ransom?

Armada Collective, a mysterious group of cybercriminals seem to be back again! The group known to disrupt websites by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may have sent emails demanding Bitcoin ransom from website owners. According to reports, many internet user … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Palkovice House by Qarta Architecture

Palkovice House is a single-family house designed by Praha-based Qarta Architecture. The house is situated in the periphery of Palkovice. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Orange Dental Clinic by RIGI Design / Tianjin, China

Located in the port city of Tianjin in northeastern China, Orange Dental Clinic was completed in November 2015 by RIGI Design. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Journey House by Nic Owen Architects

Journey House is a project and extension and renovation completed by Nic Owen Architects in Melbourne's Bayside suburb of Hampton. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Itoman Gyomin Shokudo – A Restaurant Covered with Coral Limestone

Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop of Tokyo designed the Itoman Gyomin Shokudo Restaurant using Ryukyu limestone and coral limestone. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Tickr makes your Apple Watch sound mechanical…for some reason

Wish your Apple Watch was constantly making sounds, and had worse battery life? Tickr is an upcoming Apple Watch app that runs constantly in the background and plays the sound of famous mechanical watches. The idea: the ticking and tocking will help sooth you to sleep, reassure y … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Playing Pokémon Go in church could send this Russian YouTuber to prison for years

A Russian YouTube star has been detained for two months and could face up to five years of prison time, reports the Guardian and many other outlets. His crime? Playing Pokémon Go in a church earlier this month. He was arrested under Article 282 of the Russian Federation Criminal … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Smartphone apps consumed half of all online attention in July

The dream of the open Web is dead. In July smartphone apps took up 50 percent of online attention in the USA, more than every other kind of internet access combined. Combine smartphone browsers, all tablet usage, and all desktop usage. Smartphone app usage alone takes up more of … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Chatbots are revolutionizing customer support

GUEST: Customer support is one the most resource-intensive departments in a company. Staff spend their day answering queries, on the telephone with customers, communicating with other departments, and much more. It is also a part of the operation that is hard to link to an ROI. A … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Apple, Google and Amazon file briefs to support Microsoft in privacy battle with DOJ

Amazon, Apple, Google and Mozilla have all filed an amicus brief to support Microsoft in its battle against the US government over the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The document, also known as a friend-of-the-court brief is designed to act as a legal show of suppo … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Bitcoin Price Watch; Tonight’s Scalp Trading

In this morning’s analysis, we set up against the action seen over the weekend in the bitcoin price, and looked to get in on any volatility. We noted that the labor day momentum would probably be a little weak based on the volume limiting Labor day, and that this could limit our … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Sony’s Signature Walkman and headphones are $5,500 of ridiculous

Like a grand old dinosaur that’s being left behind by the evolution of the tech industry, Sony is in desperate recovery mode here at IFA. The company has new phones, a rather nice pair of noise-canceling headphones, the imminent PS VR, and... a truly outlandish combo of music … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 recall has a 22-year-old precedent

Although some are viewing Samsung's recall of the Galaxy Note 7 as an unprecedented move, Samsung actually has a long history with mass recalls. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Apple ramps up production of the iPhone 7 following recall of Samsung’s exploding phones

It appears that Apple is feeling pretty confident that its next-generation iPhone is going to be a huge success as it has reportedly increased orders of the components needed to manufacture the handset by 10 percent. Unfortunately, the exact reason for the surge in demand remains … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Apple’s ‘Genius Bar’ once denied a job to one of the company’s top engineers

In a weekend Op-Ed about ageism in the workplace, The New York Times retells the story of JK Scheinberg — a legendary Apple engineer — being denied a job at a Genius Bar. Scheinberg, an esteemed engineer that helped get Mac OS running on Intel processors, got a little restless af … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

A tech-lover’s guide to fitness: Why you need to go wireless

After moving to Amsterdam and becoming a tech editor at TNW, it was more than my wallet and quality of life that began growing. I thought biking to work would be a great way to stay fit, but with all the tram-dodging my host-city brings, there’s also the glorious side effects of … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Czekoladowy chlebek cukiniowy

Dzień dobry, Dziś przedstawiam Ci kolejny pomysł na nadmiar cukinii (po pysznej zupie serowo-cukiniowej). Tym razem redukuję (nad) urodzaj cukinii na słodko. Chlebek cukiniowy... | Continue reading


@klaudynahebda.pl | 8 years ago

Blowing up on Kickstarter, Hello brings video conferencing and security to any TV

The $6.7 billion telepresence and video communication category hasn’t evolved much since we were introduced to Cisco and Polycom. At the same time Smart TVs are making video conferencing easier. But it’s still not that easy. Hello is a new startup addressing this space — created … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Lytro’s Immerge VR demo shows the promise of lightfield video

FEATURE: An astronaut steps out from the lunar lander in front of me, beginning the familiar “one small step for man” line before a voice shouts “cut!” from behind me. The lights cut on and the scene opens up to a full studio — I’m on the set of the famed urban legend of Kubrick … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Why the advertising industry needs to embrace AdBlock

The advertising industry is wringing its hands and shaking its fist at the use and growth of ad-block technology, but I am not above temptation. I installed it. I love it and probably won’t ever fully abandon it. So instead of excoriating people for using them, it’s time we refle … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Bragi’s new wireless earbuds are simpler and a lot cheaper

One of the first companies to venture into the world of making truly wireless earbuds has revealed a second generation product. Bragi, the company that turned $3.3 million of Kickstarter funding into the Dash, just announced a new pair of wireless earbuds simply called the Headph … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

How hackathons can help drive the VR and AR industries to dry land

Developers can be a finicky tribe when approached by companies. They can be particularly allergic to the presence of recruiters. So events designed as hackathons are literally one of those blissful ‘hacks’ to networking with the developer community that consistently pays off. Hac … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Startup Fundraising 101 revisited

GUEST: Time flies when you are having fun and going through the roller coaster ride of startup life. It’s been seven years since I wrote my “Startup Fundraising 101” article here at VentureBeat, and I still get emails on it, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit and upd … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

YouTuber might land in prison after playing Pokémon Go in church

Russia takes religion very seriously. Popular YouTuber Ruslan Sokolovsky learned this the hard way when local authorities detained him for two months after he posted a video of himself playing Pokémon Go in church. The vlogger was subsequently charged with “inciting hatred” and “ … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

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@nos.twnsnd.co | 8 years ago

Renewed Chinese Interested in Bitcoin Influenced by Ongoing G-20 Summit

The Bitcoin community had a reason to rejoice this weekend as the digital currency broke the impasse to cross $610. The popular cryptocurrency has been hovering at around $570 since the past one month after falling from an all-time high of $750 since the Mt Gox incident. Like man … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

7 Ways to Boost Your CTR With AdWords Expanded Text Ads

Late last month, Google AdWords began rolling out expanded text ads (ETAs). Now, it’s up to you as a marketer to capitalize on the new ad format. If you’re unfamiliar with ETAs, they offer almost 50% more ad text that you can use to reach people in your target market. Unsurprisin … | Continue reading


@alltop | 8 years ago

The European Space Agency has found its missing Philae comet lander

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has finally found its Philae lander, nearly two years after the vehicle became the first ever to land on a comet. The mission team has struggled to locate the lander since that historic touchdown, and communications with Philae have bee … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Schwefelsäure zündet Streichholz

Man lernt nie aus: Wenn zwar Streichholzer aber keine Schachtel mit Anreißfläche zur Hand ist, tun es laut YouTuber NurdRage auch einige Tropfen Schwefelsäure: Die reagiert nämlich prompt mit dem roten Zündholzkopf, wobei Chlorsäure... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 8 years ago