How do you write mind-blowing content about deodorant? Very carefully. In this post, I walk through my ideation process, and where I get my content ideas. | Continue reading
A federal judge in New York has ruled that bitcoin constitutes a form of money.Source | Continue reading
GUEST: Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origins have grabbed the headlines in the space race, both of them building rockets and spacecraft. But there is fascinating backstory on how this race and the private space industry came into existence. It is the tale of a … | Continue reading
After finding out details on pricing and spotting the phone in a Nest ad, Android Police completed the trifecta today by snagging some actual photos of the devices themselves. The images show the phones in an aluminum finish with the fingerprint sensor in the top right of the rea … | Continue reading
ARM is beefing up its safety technology for the ARM Cortex-R52, a processor designed for self-driving vehicles. The Cambridge, England-based company was recently acquired by Japan’s SoftBank for $31 billion. And now it is expanding its chip designs to include a processor with the … | Continue reading
When Apple launched its iBeacon protocol at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in 2013 it laid the foundation for an entire new industry — the proximity industry. Three years later, close to 500 proximity companies operate globally, and between 6 and 7 million beacons are … | Continue reading
It was announced on the second day of the month, and, well, here it is: The wireless version of Bower & Wilkins’ P7 headphones. Well, how are they? As great as I’d hoped, but there are some changes that were made that seem out of place. But rest assured: Despite being tailored to … | Continue reading
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is blaming poor immigrant screening for a trio of recent attacks in the U.S over the weekend. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Google has just disclosed that it has snatched up the team behind API.AI. API.AI provides tools to developers to help them build conversational, Siri-esque bots. As humans, we’re pretty good at communication. If someone says “the girl saw a man with the binoculars,” we can genera … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-EEB-2016-2017Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016Latest information: The submission session is now available for: EEB-05-2017(IA), EEB-06-2017(RIA), EEB-07-2017(IA … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SC1-2016-2017Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016Latest information: The submission session is now available for: SC1-PM-15-2017(RIA), SC1-HCO-17-2017(CSA) | Continue reading
Olympus’ flagship E-M1 series is getting a refresh with the new Mark II model. While Olympus has made strides towards proving mirrorless cameras as professional tools, they still generally lagged behind DSLR’s in overall capture rates and assertive focus. So speed is the name of … | Continue reading
First released in April, Apple’s iconic paper bag is already beloved by millions throughout the world. But now, the bag is coming under fire.Apple’s patent application for its (really very good!) bag was published earlier this week and is already drawing hurtful and unwarranted m … | Continue reading
It’s not just gigantic search engines that are looking to acquire tech and talent around emerging areas like speech recognition. Even design and craft marketplaces can use a little machine learning and artificial intelligence to make their wheels turn a little better. Today, the … | Continue reading
Maybe there have been times you’ve thought about how fun it’d be to own a robot that can scale fences, climb stairs, and open doors. This thought probably would have come to you while watching a Boston Dynamics video, like the one with the robot giraffe. Or the one involving the … | Continue reading
Men dominate Japanese game development, but at least one publisher is getting proactive about altering that stereotype. Street Fighter publisher Capcom released an annual report about the state of its business this month, and the company took a moment in that document to discuss … | Continue reading
Although far from being plagued with issues, OnePlus 3 owners have been frustrated with a slew of smaller bugs. This OxygenOS fixes a bucketload of them. | Continue reading
Why We Ended Our Twitter Chat #AtomicChat | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: RealtyShares, a leading online marketplace for real estate investing, today announced that it has raised more than $200 million in capital from its network of investors for residential and commercial real estate projects across the ... | Continue reading
If you’re a seasoned content marketer, no doubt you will understand the importance of including high quality video content in your content marketing strategy. But does your brand have a strategy for where to host your video, as well as what your video should be? The two big play … | Continue reading
How does Garmin's jack-of-all-trades fitness watch hold up against the competition? Find out in our full Garmin vívoactive HR review! | Continue reading
Another day, another machine learning acquisition. Today Etsy announced it’s buying Blackbird Technologies, a startup that developed search and recommendation tech for ecommerce companies using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Reached by VentureBeat, an Etsy spokespe … | Continue reading
If you use off-brand ink in your HP printer, you might have started having some issues last week. That's because a firmware update appears to have added DRM that disables third-party ink cartridges in some HP printers. According to Ars Technica, HP claimed that the update was mea … | Continue reading
If you keep adding to your collection of half-read books, Google Play Books' new Discover feature might help you find titles that better suit your fancy. | Continue reading
Still torn about the iPhone 7 not having a headphone jack? Make your own. As TechRax shows us, it works.All you need for this DIY is a drill with a 3.5mm bit, a vice to hold your device in place, and a very steady hand. And maybe a forgiving wallet if you mess it up.Introducing B … | Continue reading
GUEST: I am a Uber power user, meaning I use Uber as my primary means of transport. In the morning I use UberPool to get from home to office and in the evening from office to home. I do this six days a week. Here is what my trip-booking experience looks like: Wait for the app to … | Continue reading
Don’t settle for acceptable performance from your Android device. Get exceptional performance by taking full advantage of your Android’s RAM and processing power with some of the optimization methods we’ve compiled for you. | Continue reading
Done. Deal.Walmart announced on Monday that its monster $3.3 billion acquisition of e-commerce startup Jet.com is official. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon broke the news with a photo posted to Instagram on Monday. Startup-y!In a blog post, McMillon explained the deal by saying, “Walma … | Continue reading
Chat bots were meh. Sure, they’ll get better. But the upcoming innovation in chat is about being more human, not less. With the proliferation of adequate speech recognition, AI assistants, and wireless headphones, the tech is ready to unlock the potential of our most basic form o … | Continue reading
The awards ceremony that wraps up the Toronto International Film Festival can feel like a weird grab-bag event. Toronto doesn't hand out the Best Actor / Actress / Director-type awards that dominate so many film awards ceremonies. Most of its individual awards are narrowly focuse … | Continue reading
Google today said that it’s acquired API.ai, a startup with tools for speech recognition and natural language understanding. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. In addition to its developers tools, Api.ai offers a conversational assistant app with more than 20 million users. Goo … | Continue reading
Rhode Island startup Drive Time Metrics announced today that it took in a $2.1 million seed investment to further develop its technology, which helps monetize connected car data. The funding includes a $250,000 commitment from the Slater Technology Fund, followed by angel investm … | Continue reading
When it comes to hiding porn, the computer has revolutionized the game. Gone are the days of stashing magazines and VHS tapes under a mattress, or in that box in the closet. Now, we can easily encrypt entire drives, folders or files containing all our ‘for your eyes only’ materia … | Continue reading
Of all the products I’ve seen this year none are more worthy of our time and attention than the Ripple Rug. Created by Fred and Natasha Ruckel, the Ripple Rug is a rug with holes and lumps in it. Your cat can climb inside, stick its paws out, and generally get all up inside that … | Continue reading
A replica of a 2,000-year-old Roman arch that was destroyed by ISIS in Syria last year was unveiled in New York City today. The triumphal arch, a two-thirds scale of the original, was first showcased in Trafalgar Square in London this past April. Now, it will stay in City Hall Pa … | Continue reading
I’d like to tip my imaginary hat off to Jessica O. Matthews, the black female founder and CEO of renewable energy tech startup Uncharted Play. Her company just closed a $7 million Series A round led by the NIC Fund with participation from Kapor Capital, Magic Johnson Enterprises, … | Continue reading
Last year, the United Nations added a new tool to its fundraising arsenal: virtual reality. With the help of studio Vrse.works, it released Clouds Over Sidra, a mini-documentary following a 12-year-old Syrian refugee. Since then, it’s been increasingly accepted that VR can boost … | Continue reading
We're really starting to love Taskbar, the app that makes the most of Nougat's multi-window support, and now you can easily set it as your default launcher. | Continue reading
A recap of the thought process that behind revamping and repurposing one of our best performing eBooks. | Continue reading
The Ethereum community had a small scare yesterday after a bug was discovered on the platform. The bug affecting geth nodes built on Go Programming Language was reported as a security alert of high severity on Ethereum blog earlier yesterday. The bug in Ethereum protocol resulte … | Continue reading
Architect Flavio Castro of FCstudio worked to update the Ibirapuera apartment, a modern flat overlooking São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park. | Continue reading
Ecological House Herzliya is a single-family home designed by Neuman Hayner Architects, located in Herzliya, Israel. | Continue reading
at26 studio has completed the interior design for Panta Rhei & Café Dias, a bookstore and cafe in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. | Continue reading
Designer Pietro Russo restored this beautiful Art Nouveau style apartment in Milan for his brother Adrian, his wife Silvia and their baby. | Continue reading
Set atop of a hill in San Salvador, the environmentally conscious homeowners of La Piscucha wanted a home that felt like a vacation home | Continue reading
Gamers spent plenty of time testing the digital combat prowess of vikings, knights, and samurai. Ubisoft has released some numbers for the recently ended closed alpha of For Honor, the upcoming melee combat-focused game coming out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on February 1 … | Continue reading
There’s something intriguing about low-fi solutions to high-tech problems and the Glance Clock is no exception. In today’s world, a missed Uber can be the difference between a confidence-inducing 5.0 rider rating and a clearly shameful 4.8. Glance Clock, a smart clock that looks … | Continue reading
For seven seasons of the late NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, the mustachioed-character Ron Swanson behaved like a Mark Twain character dropped inexplicably into modern-day Indiana. The whiskey-swilling, woodworking, meat-loving Libertarian could have become a forgettable straig … | Continue reading