Intel is making some weird naming changes to its processors this year that are certain to confuse people about what they’re buying. As spotted by Laptop Mag, the Core m name is largely going away in favor of Core i, which means it’s going to be much harder to tell exactly how pow … | Continue reading
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed its first flyby around Jupiter with its instruments switched on — and it sent us back the very first up close images of the gas giant’s north pole. The high-resolution photos are stunning, and are already revealing storms and weather activity … | Continue reading
Sandbox games have become all the rage as of late, because as consoles - and indeed smartphones - become more powerful over time, it has become easier for developers to create an open-ended experience that lets you play at your own leisure. This has led to a variety of open-world … | Continue reading
Until I played the open beta for Battlefield 1 this week, I thought I was done with the series. And that was a pretty disappointing feeling, since I've played every game in it from 1942 all the way to Battlefield 4 — all in, I'm talking about thousands of hours spent capturing Wa … | Continue reading
Although we heard rumors that Samsung might start selling refurbished devices come 2017, it looks like they've moved up their timeline! | Continue reading
Some Call of Duty fans have their doubts about Infinite Warfare and the game’s hard sci-fi setting, but developer Infinity Ward knows how to win you over. The next Call of Duty game will give anyone who preorders a chance to join a beta test that begins October 14 on PlayStation … | Continue reading
The UK government has agreed to ban the sale of microbeads in beauty products, The Guardian reports. The tiny plastic beads, usually found in soaps and lotions, pose a threat to marine life once they end up in the water supply. Although some companies have already removed microbe … | Continue reading
When I arrived at Qihan’s IFA booth, a rainbow colored trio of Sanbots were performing choreographed moves to some unrecognizable pop song. Because, well, when you want to get people to stop at your both in the middle of a giant show full of gadgety distractions, you pull out all … | Continue reading
For its next big feature update, Pokémon Go will let you become best buds with your favorite pocket monster. Called simply "Buddy Pokémon," the features lets you choose which pokémon from your collection you like best, and you’ll then reap a variety of benefits from your virtual … | Continue reading
Between one Trump tweet after another and inquests into Hillary Clinton’s emails, there’s been little attention paid to either party’s environmental policies. Yet, with devastating flooding in Louisiana and wildfires tearing apart the West, both parties’ environmental platforms d … | Continue reading
Let’s splat some Call of Duty bros with paint. Activision is giving you control of a paintball gun at its Call of Duty XP 2016 fan event. If you go to the Twitch Plays Nuketown livestreaming video channel today, you can input commands for a chaingun filled with paintballs. You ca … | Continue reading
The US Food and Drug Administration has banned 19 active ingredients in antibacterial soaps — including the hotly debated chemicals triclosan and triclocarban. The rule is meant to help curb antibiotic-resistance and some other effects of the chemicals, including hormonal interfe … | Continue reading
The Call of Duty: Jackal Assault virtual reality experience is on display at the Call of Duty XP event in Los Angeles. And Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, just announced that Jackal Assault will be available for free on the Sony PlayStation VR headset that debuts in … | Continue reading
The world of edtech is strange and full of apparent contradictions. Venture capital investment has exploded since 2010, hitting an all-time high of $3.1 billion in 2015, with private equity and strategic acquisitions pushing this number even higher.Dozens of startups, if not more … | Continue reading
Conducting user interviews is both a science and an art. Done well, user interviews can lead to innovative product, site design and A/B test ideas. | Continue reading
Alcatel announced at IFA this week that it’s going to be releasing a VR headset called Vision that won’t require a phone. Engadget reports that everything, including an eight-core CPU, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and sensors, like an accelerometer, gyroscope, and proximity senso … | Continue reading
Facebook adds Instant Video to its Messenger chatting client, allowing you to display a quick real-time video feed on top of the text conversation. | Continue reading
Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, destroying its entire payload. Part of that payload was a satellite that would have provided a crucial data link for Facebooks’ Internet.org project. Experts are still sorting through what caused th … | Continue reading
The TRIANGLE Project has opened the application process for the first open calls. Do you have a product that is focused on or oriented towards 5G? The TRIANGLE test bed is ready to help you testing and improving your products, and | Continue reading
Kris Helgen, the star mammalogist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) accused of research misconduct during an expedition in Kenya last year, will keep his job, despite a recommendation from his supervisor that he be fired. But he has been s … | Continue reading
Adobe has treated its Photoshop Express application for Android to a fresh update via the Play Store. The upgrade brings a much-needed makeover to the app, in addition to a handful of exciting new features. Included is the option for users to save photographs to their Creative Cl … | Continue reading
One of the best things to come out of the whole EpiPen debacle is EpiPen Tycoon, a game that lets you jack up the prices of the lifesaving allergy treatment as much as possible before the angry Twitter mobs take over. Now we can all be greedy CEOs."You are Heather Bresch, the CEO … | Continue reading
Activision isn’t going to skimp on its update of one of the most influential games of all time. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered is getting all 16 maps from the original game. At the Call of Duty XP event in Los Angeles today, Activision confirmed for the first time that … | Continue reading
Nintendo plans to release its new system with a format many of us thought was dead — the cartridge. Ultimately abandoned after the Nintendo 64, the cartridge was long feared dead until chip-based cartridges started garnering new attention. Flash memory can pack a ton of data onto … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Call of Duty’s Super Bowl is finally here. After almost a year of exciting battles in online qualifiers and major tournaments, 32 professional teams from around the world are in The Forum arena in Inglewood, California for the annual Call of Duty Championship (taking pla … | Continue reading
Samsung’s glorious Galaxy Note7 mission has just imploded, almost as spectacularly as SpaceX’s Facebook satellite-carrying rocket did on the launch pad just hours before.SpaceX will mop up and launch again. Samsung's Galaxy Note7 might not be so lucky.The 5.7-inch Galaxy Note7 is … | Continue reading
From penny loafers and tassels to leather, suede and velvet, loafers are making a comeback. WSJ Style reporter Ray Smith joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero to answer the pivotal question; socks or no socks? Photo: Brooks Brothers | Continue reading
BERLIN — Mom always taught me never to kick any appliances, but Dyson actually encouraged me to kick the crap out of its new vacuums at IFA 2016 and try to make them fall over.I tried and failed. SEE ALSO: This Poké Ball phone battery is perfect for hardcore 'Pokémon Go' playersD … | Continue reading
Wie bekomme ich HDMI aus einem neueren Smartphone oder Rechner mit USB Typ-C? Kabelsalat? Möglicherweise. HDMI Licensing hat jetzt eine neue Methode bekannt gegeben, die es einem ermöglicht, das mit einem Kabel zu tun. Alt Mode unterstützt... | Continue reading
When I first covered Fleex, it was a neat little video player that let you learn English using your favorite movies or TV shows. Since then, Reverso has acqu-hired the team behind Fleex and now plans to relaunch the language learning platform with a new killer feature — Netflix s … | Continue reading
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 151,000 but the unemployment rate remained unchanged from July at 4.9%. WSJ Chief Economics Commentator Gregory Ip joins Lunch Break to discuss what this means for the next Federal meeting. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) is close to releasing new instances — physical slices of virtual machines — backed by Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs), VentureBeat has learned. The new instances will launch in the next few weeks, one sourc … | Continue reading
While Google hasn't gotten a lot right, not everything it has tried has actually ended in success. With that in mind, we’re going to take a moment to reflect on some of Google’s biggest blunders. | Continue reading
Google’s A.I. technology may be capable of putting on a trippy art show, thanks to its neural network-powered DeepDream computer vision program. But when Google turned its machine learning technology to the world of fashion via its new experiment “Project Muse,” the results were … | Continue reading
To the thousands, nay, millions who were holding out for a Windows 10 fridge before upgrading, we’ve got some pretty great news straight from the IFA show floor. Granted, it’s still just a prototype with no firm release date, but here you go. LG put a fully functioning Windows 10 … | Continue reading
This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: John Taschek, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording starts at 9:45am.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’s Facebook page HEREG3’s archive on ustre … | Continue reading
BERLIN — We’ve seen TV walls of all shapes and sizes, but LG this year at IFA built an entire tunnel out of OLED, high-resolution TVs, and it’s one of the most stunning displays we’ve ever seen. The TV tunnel plays a looping, space-themed video that’s just about a minute long, b … | Continue reading
A web conference this week found a notable selection of industry thought leaders exploring lesser-publicized solutions for bitcoin scaling. | Continue reading
Activision is kicking off its Call of Duty XP fan event in Los Angeles with a keynote speech at 10 am Pacific time. You can watch it here. | Continue reading
Es gibt Walkman und es gibt andere Audio-Player will Sony uns vermutlich mit ihrer "Signature Series" Audiogeräte rings um die neuen Walkman NW-WM1Z und NW-WM1A sagen. Schließlich haben sie das Genre erfunden, auch wenn heutzutage die meisten... | Continue reading
“Oh lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz with Exchange support” doesn’t quite have the same ring as the original, but that hasn’t stopped the iconic German car manufacturer and Microsoft. They’re currently working on a new project called “In Car Office”, which will allow you to … | Continue reading
At 11:20 pm Wednesday night, 40 minutes before California’s state legislative session was scheduled to adjourn for the year, lawmakers approved an obscure bill that, if signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, could spell serious trouble for the state’s nascent self-driving car i … | Continue reading
If you have a Galaxy Note7 and haven't heard about its big problem yet – put the possibly explosive device down.Samsung halted new shipments of the device Friday and may recall Note7s that are already in customers' hands.SEE ALSO: Samsung Galaxy Note7 shipments delayed amid repor … | Continue reading
2016 has been a terrible year for information security. We’ve seen high-profile leaks from a number of big-name websites like DropBox and business social network LinkedIn. Now, last.fm has been hit, with 43 million user records having been splashed on the Internet. The dump was a … | Continue reading
Board members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) recently took part in a discussion on blockchain technology. | Continue reading
Our big feature this week was "Welcome to Uberville," a deep look by freelance journalist Spencer Woodman into what happens when a small town turns to Uber to meet its public transportation needs. We sent Woodman down to Altamonte Springs, Florida, and the story he came back with … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Amazon debuted its Dash buttons in the UK, Germany and Austria for instant product reorders, and now it is gearing up for yet another new launch in Europe — one that could be a biggie: the launch of Echo, its voice-controlled speaker and smart home hub, for the … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we’ve been doing a daily journal of our experiences with World of Warcraft’s new expansion, Legion. Also, Nintendo announced Super Mario Maker and Pikmin for the 3DS, and esports revenues are on pace to grow. Happy reading, … | Continue reading