1000000 was an amazing puzzle game that absorbed months of my life, so when we heard there was a sequel coming, I was unbelievably stoked. You Must Build a Boat | Continue reading
Thanks to a $300k deal with Netflix, the latest season of House of Cards sees OnePlus products featured on several occasions. | Continue reading
Die Betreiberfirma 4DX will dann mit dem Superheldensuperdrama Batman v Superman ihr 4D-Kino einer größeren Zuschauergruppe vorstellen, wenn der Streifen in einem entsprechend aufgerüsteten Lichtspielhaus am Union Square zu sehen se... | Continue reading
Financing startup Wunder announced today that it snagged a $3.6 million investment to help fund solar-energy technology projects. Wunder, which graduated in 2014 from Techstars‘ accelerator, says it offers “two solar investment opportunities; the Wunder Income Fund and the Wunder … | Continue reading
When it comes to planning a trip, it’s hard not to go to the same places over and over again and sometimes you just need some inspiration. I often type “everywhere” when I’m searching for flights just to see if anything out of the ordinary will pop up. Now Google Flights has take … | Continue reading
Google likes maps. To make better maps, the company bought Skybox Imaging back in 2014, which helped to keep Google’s satellite imagery up-to-date, with nearly 100,000 images since the launch of the company’s first satellite. Now Skybox Imaging wants to venture further that just … | Continue reading
Pinterest, a visual-centric social media platform, has seen explosive recent growth. It reached 100 million active users last year, becoming one of the most important social media channels after giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The average Pinterest user is a woman … | Continue reading
The day of the super SUV has arrived. Ballers will soon be able to buy an SUV in a variety of bombastic flavors, including Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Aston Martin, and Lamborghini. The first entree into this super-premium segment comes from Bentley. It is the Bentayga and it starts a … | Continue reading
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced a bunch of upgrades for New York City's bus system today (the state is responsible for the MTA, not the city), and it's actually pretty cool: 2,042 new buses will be added to the fleet by 2020 at a cost of $1.3 billion, offering on-board W … | Continue reading
The upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics will be partially filmed in 8K "Super-Hi Vision," and anyone wealthy enough to actually own an 8K TV in Japan will be able to watch around 130 hours of it. That'll include the opening and closing ceremonies, plus some of the more popular sports like … | Continue reading
Google's social networking endeavors may have stumbled in recent years, but the company has no intention of giving up, with the latest attempt coming in the form of a new feature called Google PostsThe feature is currently only available to presidential candidates and will allow … | Continue reading
As part of HTC's Hot Deals promotion, for today only, you can purchase an unlocked HTC One A9 for just $399 ($100 off). | Continue reading
Gears of War 4 is set 25 years after the events of Gears of War 3 and features three new playable characters, one of whom is Marcus Fenix's son.Microsoft snapped up the latest Game Informer cover reveal and the US magazine has first dibs on a raft of details.Marcus Fenix's son is … | Continue reading
Yik Yak is making anonymity optional. Users can now create handles, and will have the option of attaching posts to those screen-names. Like a Twitter username, a handle can be whatever you like, and are unique to each user. If you’ve got a particularly snappy handle in mind, Yik … | Continue reading
Telecoms brand Three is to launch an experiential tour to promote its Blackspot Banisher campaign on Saturday (12 March). | Continue reading
The Brooklyn Nets have hired Trajan Langdon as assistant general manager. | Continue reading
Vor fünf Jahren wurde Sony von nach wie vor unbekannten Hackern bis auf die Datenunterhose ausgeraubt. Dabei kamen nicht nur brisante Details aus der Firma ans Tageslicht, sondern wurden auch Millionen von Sony-Kunden gefährdet.Zur Ents... | Continue reading
Emoji have taken the marketing world by storm. Or to use another analogy, a tsunami of emoji has hit digital marketing. Emoji offer several important marketing advantages. They can pass through ad-blocking software. Ad-adverse millennials love them. Because they are visual, they … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Six years after launch, Skype has quietly announced it will cease support for its TV app. Panasonic was among the first companies to introduce a version of Skype to its smart TV lineup back in 2010, and a myriad of manufacturers have followed since. So what’s changed in … | Continue reading
Huawei is on the cusp of greatness, but nothing is set in stone just yet. Will Huawei have another great year? Can this Chinese company establish itself in the West? What challenges await it in 2016? | Continue reading
Yik Yak, the app known for its anonymous sharing on college campuses, is now taking a small step back from total anonymity.The app is introducing handles, which allows the app's users to share messages and post comments using individual usernames. The feature, which is optional, … | Continue reading
Blake Patterson’s review of the original Train Conductor [$2.99] on Touch Arcade remarked that it was “like Flight Control [R.I.P.] on rails”. That’s certainly the feeling I got from playing the latest game in the series as well. Train Conductor World [Free] truly feels like a bl … | Continue reading
The Satoshi Roundtable Conference held recently opened a can of worms. The Bitcoin community clearly showcased their differences of opinion in terms of Bitcoin scalability and the approaches to attain it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and they rightfully displayed it in a … | Continue reading
It's been just over a year since Digit launched its powerful automated savings plan, which painlessly saves a few dollars at a time from your checking account to help you pay down debt or save for major purchases. Aside from adding interest payments, the service hasn't changed mu … | Continue reading
Yik Yak, the anonymous social network popular on college campuses, is asking users to create user names. Starting today, users will be asked to create "handles" that they can optionally attach to their posts. The handles, which do not have to include users' real names, will be tu … | Continue reading
The thing I love about SMS-based money-saving app Digit is that it steals pieces of my paycheck without my knowledge and squirrels it away as a fund I can tap into on a rainy day. For those who are more anxious about the when and where their money is moving, the startup has relea … | Continue reading
The future of Ruffian's Hollowpoint looks troubled as the studio's partnership with publisher Paradox has fallen apart.Ruffian, developer of Crackdown 2, announced Hollowpoint in 2014 as part of Sony's Gamescom conference. It was billed as a co-op tactical action game that rekind … | Continue reading
Hi, I'm Manu Mahajan and I'm a software engineer with Keen IO's Platform team. Over the past year... | Continue reading
How you design a survey or a form will affect the answers you get. This includes the language you use, the order of the questions, and of course the default values and ranges you use. This article will focus on response scales. This could be in a survey (1-5 vs 1-10 scale, etc) o … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it is renaming Skybox Imaging, the satellite startup it acquired in 2014, to Terra Bella. More than just a name change, though, the company says this switch is also about showing that Skybox Imaging Terra Bella is not only about putting small imaging s … | Continue reading
The technology that drives your contact center and specifically the software that you are deploying for call centers needs a complete overhaul if you want to stay relevant today. | Continue reading
In January, office rents in San Francisco eclipsed those of New York to become the most expensive in the country. Two months later, there are signs the San Francisco may not maintain its dubious position for long. The biggest indicator? There’s suddenly 1.7 million square feet of … | Continue reading
My mom has only one story about robots – and it’s that back in the 50s when she was tiny, kids were promised that in the future, you’d basically all have a robot butler. Alas, mother, the prediction was actually a little off, because you can now pre-order a robot that would kill … | Continue reading
Today, the activity tracking service Human released a cool visualization that shows all the physical activity of its users in a few major cities around the world for a 24 hour period. Whether or not you’re interested in being motivated to get a few more steps in each day or not, … | Continue reading
Japan ist ja hartnäckig Vorreiter in Sachen hochauflösender TV-Inhalte und um diese Position zu behaupten, werden bereits dieses Jahr Teile der Olympische Sommerspiele in Brasilien in 8K gefilmt und übertragen - allerdings nur fü... | Continue reading
Amazon Instant Video already offers streaming movies and TVs on demand, but it could also include virtual reality content in the future.A new job listing posted to Glassdoor, first spotted by virtual and augmented reality blog Upload VR, has revealed Amazon is looking for a senio … | Continue reading
How to mobilize your wellness clinic blogging team to produce a thriving blog that attracts new clients and showcases your unique expertise. | Continue reading
Google today announced it is rebranding satellite startup Skybox Imaging as Terra Bella. The name comes with a new vision: “As Google revolutionized search for the online world, we have set our eyes on pioneering the search for patterns of change in the physical world.” Google ac … | Continue reading
Vessel, the video subscription startup headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announced today that it’s moving in a new direction in terms of the advertising displayed on its service. In a move that recalls YouTube’s venture into ad-free viewing with the debut of YouTube Red, Ves … | Continue reading
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered comes out on PlayStation 4 on 17th May, Sega has announced.The remake of the much-loved PS3 turn-based strategy RPG includes… | Continue reading
Mizuho has announced that it recently completed a test involving bitcoin that focused on cross-border securities settlement. | Continue reading
Whether you just picked up a brand new Galaxy S7 or S7 edge, or are simply looking to expand the space on your existing handset, now is the perfect time to pick up a microSD card on the cheap with all microSD cards from Samsung on sale via Amazon. | Continue reading
In this series of blog posts, I’ve enjoyed shedding some light onto how we approach marketing at The Next Web through Web analytics, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), social media and more. This piece focuses on what data we use from Google Sea … | Continue reading
Matcherino has figured out a way to get spectators and pro gamers alike more engaged in esports. It has created a platform where fans can nominate players for show matches and then does everything to make that match happen. It essentially formalizes the process of staging grudge … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: For a tech-savvy person like you, dear VentureBeat reader, the magnifying glass icon suggests the presence of a search feature when viewing a mobile website. But it appears that you are in the minority when it comes to knowing what to do when you see that most Sherlock … | Continue reading
Four years ago, Highlight debuted at South by Southwest’s interactive conference during a time when location-based meetup services were enjoying a surge of interest. Today, it has launched its second app, called Shorts, which is based on the same concept but with a twist: iI is n … | Continue reading
No one else ever sees most of your camera roll. But if you’re brave enough, your close friends might enjoy peeking at every photo, video, and screenshot, not just the best ones. So call it creepy or the next frontier in social media, but that’s what Shorts does. It’s the new iOS … | Continue reading
Are you a real gamer? Are you a real hardcore gamer? Do you like games that will punish you and leave you begging for mercy? Congratulations, Lost Socks: Naughty Brothers [$4.99] is the game for you. This auto-run-and-gun game boasts fantastic art, well-done gameplay, and tough d … | Continue reading