GUEST: 37 percent of edtech funding deals, representing $1.07 billion, were made in China-based edtech companies in 2015, up from 18 percentin 2014. These are companies teaching software development and other technology disciplines. Assuming the trend from 2013 to 2015 remains st … | Continue reading
Microsoft has decided to add Xbox controller support to the Samsung Gear VR headset. The first game to support Microsoft's gamepad will be Minecraft: Gear VR Edition. | Continue reading
British Police have arrested the 35-year-old man alleged to have hacked into an iPhone belonging to Pippa Middleton, the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge. The news of the arrest was reported by the BBC.Earlier today, The Sun reported that it had been approached through WhatsApp … | Continue reading
Disney gave up on its Infinity games earlier this year, but Warner Bros. is forging ahead in the battle for the toys-to-life market with Lego Dimensions, which combines Lego toys with big entertainment brands and funny Lego video games. In a war with market leader Skylanders and … | Continue reading
Sources claim Google will also announce a few other products for the home. Among these are Google Wifi, Google Home and the Google Chromecast Ultra. | Continue reading
GUEST: Words are the new UI/UX. That means the same diligence and attention to detail that was once poured over every pixel of a website or app will now have to be applied to each word of a bot interaction. The problem is that most people were only too cognizant of their lack of … | Continue reading
Most people are well aware of how Rule 41 will be a major problem for anyone looking to obtain privacy on the Internet. The US government has proposed several changes, although there is lots of opposition as well. While Congress has no plans to intervene, the Tor project is takin … | Continue reading
South Korean TV network YTN reports continued issues with exchanged Galaxy Note 5 smartphones. And these problems are still related to the battery! | Continue reading
As TechCrunch has previously reported, there’s been an exodus of talent from the Rothenberg “ecosystem,” amid claims of a significant breach of fiduciary responsibilities and other unconventional behavior by the venture firm’s founder, Mike Rothenberg. This week, we have learned … | Continue reading
GUEST: It seems like the bifurcation between adtech and martech is finally getting the attention it deserves, and like so many complicated and nuanced topics, it is being grossly oversimplified in the press. In the relatively (for this industry) mainstream Wall Street Journal, an … | Continue reading
The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 23, 2016. With two days until the First Debate, the waiting’s almost over and the voting begins on all available channels. Cast your ballot now! + G3 with M … | Continue reading
GUEST: Consumers want to interact with businesses on their terms in the channels they choose. The built-in audience and familiarity with Messenger makes it the ideal place to engage customers with new offerings and to leverage the investment businesses have already made to build … | Continue reading
Our society is going through some very difficult economic times right now. Banks and financial institutions are axing jobs left and right. Goldman Sachs will cut nearly 30% of their Asian investment jobs over the next few years. Slow growth, and the emergence of alternative finan … | Continue reading
Eclectic House is a 50 sqm dwelling for two designed by KC Design Studio in Taipei, Taiwan. The 2 users work for graphic design and fashion .. | Continue reading
This concrete painting studio was designed by Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido as an extension of a house. The studio is located in Chile. | Continue reading
With an area of 47 square meters, this two room apartment was designed for a young man by Russian studio Ruetemple. | Continue reading
After months of rumors, we now know the Snapchat glasses are real. The company has officially introduced Spectacles, its Snapchat-connected wearable, that is set to go on sale later this year. The good news for Snapchat fans, though, is that the glasses will be surprisingly affor … | Continue reading
A bully is a bully and a troll is a troll, no matter where you go online. For as long as online mass communication has existed, online bullying has existed. To effectively address the issue of cyberbullying, one must not only question the environments that yield such behaviors, b … | Continue reading
When driving is a thing of the past Continue reading… | Continue reading
Snapchat is the only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you wear on your face. Can Snapchat show off the masterful marketing and smooth execution required to produce a produc … | Continue reading
We are not sure if this was a mistake or a very discrete release, but it seems a few Xiaomi Mi Box devices have managed to make it to an unknown Walmart location's shelves. | Continue reading
The company formerly known as Snapchat surprised the world last night by unveiling Spectacles, its first hardware product. The sunglasses, which record videos in 10-second increments, are expected to be available for sale sometime "soon." Snap Inc., as the company is now called, … | Continue reading
GUEST: This coming week, the largest big data conference, O’Reilly Strata event, will gather close to 10,000 attendees in one of NYC’s largest conference hall – the Javits Center. I had the pleasure of presenting at the very first editions of this show, almost a decade ago, when … | Continue reading
The art of the lip sync has had a profound impact on the state of our…ok no, but dammit is lip synching fun. For those of you locked in a Faraday cage, pretending to sing has become all the rage these days. You have Michelle Obama doing it for Carpool Karaoke, Tim Cook using it t … | Continue reading
The potential use of blockchain technology is virtually unlimited. Synereo, a blockchain company based out of Tel Aviv, Israel has recently announced a great progress in the development of a distributed storage protocol. The company is responsible for creating the first scalable, … | Continue reading
Ever since I upgraded to iOS 10, it’s become a lot harder to unlock my phone. Before the upgrade, it was a simple swipe and passcode — a gesture I’ve done so many times that it’s burned into my muscle memory — but iOS 10 retakes that space for a new info panel. Now, I need to hit … | Continue reading
With what looks to be an eye on Snapchat’s selfie-loving fanbase, messaging platform Telegram has beefed up its in-app photo editor in what it dubs an “entertainment-heavy update” — including an option that lets users customize selfies by adding cartoon masks that automatically a … | Continue reading
The beneficiaries of an estate are offered the statement of accounts along with a Release. If all appears fine with the accounts, the beneficiaries sign the Releases and return them to the executor. As soon as all Releases have been received, the executor pays out the distributio … | Continue reading
Winter is coming... So does it make sense to use bitcoin miners to subsidise your heating costs? CoinDesk investigates.Source | Continue reading
This week I got the chance to talk to a private hero of mine, Brian Solis. Solis is a digital analyst and speaker who talks about the future and how big brands – Coke, IBM – will interact with humans. His new book X is out now and it’s designed to help big companies survive the c … | Continue reading
In the Wild West of VR game development, designers are eager to get their projects into the hands of consumers as quickly as possible. The best way to get feedback on a piece of software is to put it into the hands of the people that will actually be using it, so the advent of [… … | Continue reading
GUEST: Mass unemployment, social displacement, political upheaval, even the end of humanity – the doom and gloom of the AI future has gotten a lot of attention recently. The prospect of human slavery to robot overlords has long been a theme in science fiction, of course – but tha … | Continue reading
Jaxx is back at it again, doing what it does the best. The blockchain wallet service provider has announced the inclusion of yet another cryptocurrency to its list of supported crypto-assets. The latest addition comes in the form of LiteCoin. The blockchain wallet application wil … | Continue reading
I’ve never seen a movie featuring either Brad Pitt or his soon-to-be ex-wife, Angelina Jolie And yet, I’m not immune to the draw of celebrity gossip. Though I have trouble telling Brad from Chris Hemsworth, I still want to know what happened with Brangelina. I’m not alone, and th … | Continue reading
It hasn’t been a great couple of days for Facebook PR. For one thing, the company admitted that, due to an error, it has been significantly inflating its reports on average video view times. For another, The Daily Beast discovered that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing the … | Continue reading
Until recently, Mike Perry assembled engines at a Volvo plant in Skovde, a medieval city in Sweden. But Perry wanted to be a famous DJ. At night he labored in a recording studio, writing and producing songs in a lush, throbbing style known as tropical house. It sounds like Jimmy … | Continue reading
Turtle Beach’s Elite Pro roster of products is all about serious gamers, and the company has packed the two marquee offerings in that range with features to make those gamers take notice. The Elite Pro Tournament Gaming Headset and Tournament Audio Controller debuted earlier this … | Continue reading
Next week, Elon Musk is slated to make a big announcement about SpaceX’s most ambitious goal to date: the colonization of Mars. Musk has never shied away from the science fictional aspects of his ventures, and it’s a very safe assumption that genre works have played some role in … | Continue reading
GUEST: I recently consulted with the US Navy on all things “transhuman.” In those conversations about how science and technology can help the human race evolve beyond its natural limits, it was clear that military is keen on replacing human soldiers with both fighting and peaceke … | Continue reading
If you got girl problems I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems and all of them are colonialism. Taken in the British protectorate Palestine in 1939. | Continue reading
Our dearest Jake is off duty, so I will be taking over the trailer round-up this week. I’ve noticed that Jake usually kicks things off with a nice little anecdote about what he’s been watching in his free time, and it’s always such a pure delight, but I’ve been in a bit of a fugu … | Continue reading
Daimler präsentiert auf dem Pariser Salon (1. bis 16. Oktober 2016) ein Elektro-Trio: Nicht nur der Smart Fortwo Coupé und der Fortwo Cabrio, sondern auch der Viersitzer Forfour rollt bald auch mit Akku auf die Straße. In Europa startet... | Continue reading
Learn the best tips in this guide, from beginner basics to expert secrets, on how to write a blog post that draws more traffic & customers to your website | Continue reading
Police are hunting for a suspected shooter after five people were killed in an attack at a mall in Washington state on Friday night. Photo: AP | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: H2O.ai, a startup that offers commercial support for open-source machine learning software, last week laid off 10 percent of its employees, mainly in sales, VentureBeat has learned. Cofounder and chief executive Sri Ambati confirmed the move — affecting nine people, in … | Continue reading
Das Surface Pro 3 hat offensichtlich nicht nur mit Simplo-, sondern auch mit LG-Akkus Probleme. Immer mehr Nutzer beklagen sich über sinkende Akkukapazität. Microsoft hat den Fehler in einem hauseigenen Forum derweil bestätigt und gleichzeitig... | Continue reading
Detroit doesn’t place burdensome regulations on automobile manufacturers, Idaho doesn’t put undue restrictions and hurdles in front of potato farmers and California takes steps to protect its farmers. These industries do more than just create jobs, tax revenue and prestige — they … | Continue reading
There have been countless renditions on the Batman story over the years, from campy comics to grim feature films. You’d think that would make it a space that’s difficult to say anything new in — but it turns out that’s not the case. Telltale Games’ new Batman series started off s … | Continue reading