With all the chatter and hype that surround bots, artificial intelligence and conversational commerce, it can be hard to remember that very little percolating today on chat platforms with billions of users didn’t exist a year ago. Since CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook … | Continue reading
Community Builds are one way for OnePlus to test and get feedback on new features, and today we are seeing update 3.5.1 becoming available. | Continue reading
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While $600 headsets like the Oculus Rift are trying to take gaming toward a VR future, 4K displays are looming on the horizon as the logical next step for high-end PC gaming. For Acer, that future is right now. The company has a new $1,200 32-inch Predator XB1 XB321HK gaming moni … | Continue reading
I did it. On my sixth day of playing World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Legion, I’ve hit the level cap of 110. Despite it taking over 10 hours, the journey felt brisk thanks to the quality of the zones and quests. Of course, the game isn’t over now. In fact, I have more to do … | Continue reading
Q: If you were to pick one and only one single biggest factor that determines a startup’s success, what would it be? Why? Some say it is product-market fit (Marc Andreesen), others hold that it’s timing (Bill Gross) and yet more believe it is the team. Asked another way, what do … | Continue reading
This year’s inaugural Dragon Awards were handed out today at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia. The winners show a remarkable contrast to the recipients of this year’s Hugo Award winners, one of the major awards in science fiction and fantasy literature.The Dragon Awards were instit … | Continue reading
You can’t swing a lightly inebriated jaguar by its tail without hitting half a dozen crowdfunding campaigns these days. Looking at some campaigns, it seems like it could be the ultimate get rich quick scheme. Running a successful Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign is a lot more co … | Continue reading
GUEST: If you’ve ordered a pair of pants via bot on Facebook Messenger, or “read” the news for more than a few minutes on the Quartz app (and don’t get me wrong, Quartz — your content is unparalleled), you know virtual conversations can be even more tedious than your seatmate on … | Continue reading
GUEST: If you have been in the tech industry for a while, you have experienced various forms of the three main types of late-stage capital raises or exits: late-stage rounds, IPOs, and strategic M&A. Late-stage rounds. For the last several years, late-stage capital for private co … | Continue reading
OnePlus has decided to bring its software teams together in order to achieve a single, optimal user interface. Mostly to improve update times. | Continue reading
David Haase, a former employee of the beleaguered San Francisco-based firm Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. (RVM), is suing the firm and its founder, Mike Rothenberg, saying he was asked to run up $109,352.20 in business expenses on an American Express at the direction of Rothe … | Continue reading
The real estate rental market is a highly localized, relationship-based industry driven largely by individuals living and working in their own cities, causing many to acknowledge the longstanding difficulty of streamlining disruption to this market. In recent years, however, that … | Continue reading
EnvyUs is the best team in the world in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. After four days of competition at The Forum arena in Inglewood, California, EnvyUs won annual Call of Duty Championship at Activision’s fan event for the franchise. They defeated Splyce 3-1 in a best-of-5 series … | Continue reading
Want in on the latest S Note features? You can now sign up for the beta program on the Google Play Store! Click through to learn more. | Continue reading
Russia’s stance towards Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has taken a U-turn. Last week, the country’s finance ministry stated that it is not in a hurry to introduce the Bitcoin draft law. The ministry is planning to review the draft once again. Alexei Moiseev, the Deputy Financ … | Continue reading
Last night, Drake released a new, 12-minute music video for his song Child’s Play in which he incurs the wrath of a very angry Tyra Banks. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Kedem house was designed to blend in with the architectural characteristics of the other homes, all built using modern architectural values. | Continue reading
High Lounge is a loft apartment designed by ArchObraz architectural studio founded by architect Alex Obraztsov. The stylish loft won ... | Continue reading
Located in San Antonio, Texas, the Olmos Park Residence was designed by Lake/Flato Architects. The Olmos Park Residence sits on a heavily ... | Continue reading
FEATURE: The first project from the Holospark VR studio The Impossible Travel Agency, which both aptly describes the experience while encapsulating the promise of the medium. VR can take you to places you could never go, and when you’re standing on a mountaintop as a manta ray-li … | Continue reading
Designed by Vienna-based Destilat Architecture + Design, Lingenhel Store is located in one of Vienna’s best shopping areas in the 3rd District | Continue reading
SpaceX may be on the hook to compensate Space Communication Ltd. for the satellite that was destroyed during the explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket — either with a free trip or $50 million, according to Reuters.The construction, launch preparation and operation of the AMOS-6 satellit … | Continue reading
GUEST: It may be hard to believe all the hype out there about chatbots – if only because there’s just so darn much of it out there right now to believe. But I’m here to attest that bots are not just a fad. Based on the early returns we’ve witnessed since developing one to use wit … | Continue reading
When you think about crowdsourced work, you probably think about Mechanical Turk and, maybe, Uber. On the one hand, an anonymous platform where people feel like mechanical parts. On the other hand, a face-to-face platform where people are rapidly obsolescing and doomed to be repl … | Continue reading
When I first reported on Slim Pack, I said it may be the perfect backpack. Slimfold, the company behind Slim Pack, asked me to test my theory — and I wasn’t disappointed. Construction Slim Pack is made up (almost entirely) of a lightweight, water resistant material. It’s exceedin … | Continue reading
There is no escape from the blockchain revolution. Banks and mainstream IT companies have realized it and they are making preparations to face the new wave. According to reports, companies have stepped up the recruitment process for blockchain technology related job positions. On … | Continue reading
GUEST: No matter where you stand politically, there is no doubt that the 2016 election is different from the rest. Never before have we seen two candidates this polarizing and levels of national frustration and discontent this high. As the cofounder and CEO of a tech unicorn, Apt … | Continue reading
Stop-motion animation has been a mainstay in cinematic special effects for almost as long as movies have been around. Filmmaker Vugar Efendi recently posted a video that charts the history of the technique, and shows just how far it has come since it was first introduced over a c … | Continue reading
Google is killing Project Ara, it’s modular smartphone concept that aimed to let you ‘upgrade’ your phone piece by piece. In theory, it sounds pretty amazing. In practice, it would have been terrible. Google was trying to gamify upgrades As-is, the smartphone upgrade process typi … | Continue reading
And this is why it’s called a beta test. Electronic Arts said on its Battlefield Twitter account that the Battlefield 1 open beta is current experiencing server outages. No doubt it has something to do with Activision pulling the cables out of a server farm during the Call of Dut … | Continue reading
Today concludes my fourth IFA. Or maybe my fifth. These tech conferences tend to blend together after a while. The first time I attended the show, I hadn’t really heard of the thing, to be honest. Even this year, a number of my colleagues still hadn’t. In the U.S., IFA hasn’t ris … | Continue reading
In Berlin, it means “world.” There’s probably something to be read into that, but I’ve been here covering IFA for several days now and quite frankly, I’m coming up short. The gadget made its debut back in CES in January and now it’s kind of, sort of ready for prime-time. Along wi … | Continue reading
IMAX VR experiences are coming, and it looks like they’re going to be here a lot sooner than you might think. The company has announced that it is planning to open its first location-based VR centers in the fourth quarter of this year. That news comes from IMAX chief B.D. officer … | Continue reading
The former Young Astronaut in me jumped at General Motors’ offer to play with the RoboGlove. Who would pass up a chance to flex space-aged superhuman strength? I traveled to GM’s Warren, Michigan Technical Center, where its robotics program lives. I didn’t know that one of the fa … | Continue reading
The most exciting part of Samsung’s IFA booth is also its most understated. Somewhere toward the middle of the huge, brightly lit hall are a series of tables, showing off non-Samsung products, a perfect microcosm of the ways in which large electronics corporations are reaching be … | Continue reading
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to be tidy. That’s not to say my apartment is an ode to cleanliness, but I hate clutter. It’s probably why these pics delight me so much. As some may have guessed by my inclusion of velcro ties in our holiday gift guide (my col … | Continue reading
Recently, rumors have popped up that Apple would be introducing new 5K monitors this Fall to replace the now-defunct Thunderbolt display. At IFA this week, LG announced new displays, one with USB-C functionality. First, here’s a snippet about the USB-C capable from LG’s press rel … | Continue reading
Viktor Marchenko is a particularly nasty boss in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. He’s built like a tank, and he’s a bullet sponge. No matter how many times you shoot him with a sniper rifle in the head, he comes back. But you have to take him down if you want to get to the ending […] | Continue reading
BERLIN — Coming to Berlin for the 2016 IFA electronics trade show, we expected wearables, smart everything and virtual reality devices, and that's pretty much exactly what we got. Still, seeing all the "smart" and "connected" home appliances in one place gave me a sense of how mu … | Continue reading
Jaxx, the multi-cryptocurrency wallet application provider may soon withdraw Dash support from its iOS offering. Within weeks of including a new cryptocurrency to its platform, Apple has raised objections by dictating terms as it always does. According to Apple, applications sup … | Continue reading
Last year artist Truck Torrence, who also goes by the pen name 100% Soft, kicked off a new series of illustrations called "Mass Hysteria." The goal was to take some of the wildest, most crowded scenes in film history — from the news channel gang war of Anchorman to Beatrix Kiddo’ … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price was drawing close to its 4hr candle chart 200-period moving average (200MA). A surpise break above this level opened advance yesterday. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price An … | Continue reading
Activision has a lot riding on Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The big game publisher has bet the billion-dollar business on the new over the familiar, as it has taken the franchise from modern war into science fiction. To ease that transition, Infinity Ward desig … | Continue reading
As drones increasingly fly through our cities in the coming years — delivering our latest order from Amazon or other on-demand retailers — the regulation of our airspace and the environment in which we co-exist with flying robots becomes more and more present and real. Read More | Continue reading
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. Gary... | Continue reading