ANALYSIS: This week’s “cat and mouse” game between Facebook and ad blocking software is being framed as a battle over the best interests of Facebook users. But caught in the crossfire are publishers, and by extension their readers. And when it’s over, publishers will be little mo … | Continue reading
It’s Friday afternoon in August. Some inexplicably over productive colleague has scheduled you to join a meeting you don’t really need to be in. You need to pay attention, but if you took ten seconds here or two minutes there to zone out, that would be okay. You, my friend, shoul … | Continue reading
Sate your curiosity with Mars: Mars, a platforming game that puts you in the shoes of an astronaut exploring the red planet. | Continue reading
These 8 Key Tools of Productivity, according to Charles Duhigg, will help you spend your hours wisely, so that you can work smart instead of hard. | Continue reading
Human brains and machine brains are different. Human brains are really good at critical analysis. Machine brains are really good at working with lots of data. Human brains are power efficient. Machine brains need 100 million times more power than human brains to perform similar c … | Continue reading
This post is not for the faint-hearted. A man named Jesse Newton has a Roomba. He also has a dog named Evie. For apparently the first time ever, Evie pooped in the living room. At 1:30 AM, the Roomba started its house-wide cleaning cycle. You can see where this is going: not only … | Continue reading
Close partners GM and Lyft were apparently nearly even closer: The Information reports and TechCrunch has separately confirmed that the carmaker expressed its interest in purchasing Lyft, going so far as to specify a price it would’ve been wiling to pay. Lyft apparently explored … | Continue reading
From online gamers solving genetic puzzles that have stumped the worlds greatest super computers to the mind-reading potential of the most refined MRIs, these are a few of the innovations that most impressed director Werner Herzog as he explored the potential of the Internet in h … | Continue reading
Upon the unveiling of the brand new 1120 sq.ft space housing the Elephant Grounds Coffee flagship in Hong Kong’s chic Star Street Precinct, the project,… Continue reading | Continue reading
DTR studio architects have designed a single family house for a painter in Gaucín, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Spain. Description by DTR studio architects: This… Continue reading | Continue reading
Sega 3D Classics Collection will come to Europe on 4th November exclusively on 3DS.This anthology will includes the following nine games:This will mark the European debut of Maze Walker and Power Drift.Read more… | Continue reading
Kubis is a collection of lamps designed by Ukrainian studio Levantin Design. Kubis Collection of lamps is our shaping attempt in terms of searching the… Continue reading | Continue reading
The new restaurant GASTROPORT, opened in Perm, Russian Federation. Above its design worked Saranin designer Artemy of ALLARTSDESIGN studio, together with Boris Kulinskiy restaurateur. The… Continue reading | Continue reading
“Stop calling Pokémon Go AR,” say the purists. But who cares what you call something that is so successful? Just be glad it happened, and let’s figure out what it means for the AR/VR industry. Read More | Continue reading
If you’re horrified by the idea of actually displaying your $299 (minimum) smartwatch, this genius has a solution — wear two watches, on the same wrist, at the same time. At first glance it seems like an asinine solution to a problem that could be fixed by just choosing a single … | Continue reading
GoldenEye 007, the beloved N64 first-person shooter, has been recreated in high-definition glory by a team of dedicated fans over the course of 10 years. The mod, known as GoldenEye: Source, is free to download starting today and it features 25 recreated maps, 10 different multip … | Continue reading
We were really excited when we learned that the soundtrack to Stranger Things was officially being released. What’s even more exciting is the fact that it’s being released in two parts, and you can pick up the first one today. For now, the only place to get the first volume is on … | Continue reading
The PC version of No Man’s Sky was released today, and this version of the game already seems a bit disappointing.The good news is that the game supports a variety of resolutions, from 640 by 480 all the way up to 4K, and a good number of other graphical options and settings. Be … | Continue reading
Facebook can’t build everything. For a decade, its strategy has been to provide the canvas, then let developers paint it however they want. That’s because there’ll always be another game. Another app. Another…selfie filter? Read More | Continue reading
“It was exactly as if someone had farted right in my face.” If you’ve ever seen a sizzle real for a virtual reality headset or, really, any modern piece of tech, you’ll get a laugh at this new video for South Park: The Fractured But Whole, the upcoming role-playing game based on … | Continue reading
We may have just gotten our first real look at the Asus ZenWatch 3, and it kind of seems like a thicker version of the Motorola Moto 360. | Continue reading
No Man's Sky's PC launch has been highly anticipated as patient players have waited an extra couple of days to play what would likely be the definitive version of the procedurally-generated space epic. After all, the PC version promised loads of customisation options missing from … | Continue reading
Growing up, I can remember spending a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to be frozen in carbonite, the way Han Solo was after being betrayed by Lando on Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back. I never imagined it might fell like you were a fridge, but a new video on Ada … | Continue reading
Part of participating in any large event is getting to walk away with an unbelievable amount of free swag (just ask anyone who’s ever been to CES.) The Olympics is no different. As an official sponsor of the 2016 Rio games, Samsung had planned to give each of the 11,200 athletes … | Continue reading
Over 28,000 people have signed a change.org petition to turn Harambe, the slain gorilla and runner-up meme of the summer, into a pokémon.Started two days ago by a man named Eric CreamyMemes, the petition asks Nintendo and The Pokémon Company to bring Harambe to life in a short bu … | Continue reading
The Google Play Store will not require you to have a Google+ account to write reviews anymore.In an email to TechCrunch, Google confirmed the news that “a G+ profile is no longer needed to post a review.” Rumors that the change was happening were first reported by Android Police, … | Continue reading
The European Banking Association is calling for greater regulatory oversight for bitcoin exchanges and custodial wallets. | Continue reading
Earlier this week, it was revealed that researchers at the University of Birmingham had cracked the (rather poor) encryption scheme used by millions of Volkswagens for their remote unlock key fobs. That’s not good. But what’s also not good is that it’s not really new, and that it … | Continue reading
In the future, your tattoos could be as functional as they are expressive. MIT, in partnership with Microsoft, created a new touch interface, DuoSkin, that allows temporary tattoos to interact with smartphones or computers, display output based on body temperature changes and eve … | Continue reading
HANG TIME BIG CITY — It’s the dog days of summer here in New York City, where the thermometer is knocking on triple-digits and the humidity ain’t far behind. In fact, it’s so muggy these days that out of the entire Hang Time Crew, I was the only one to show up for work today. […] | Continue reading
VB LIVE: As social channels and messaging become the predominant place consumers spend their online time, more and more companies are looking to reduce friction in the buying process by integrating social commerce. Join us to learn what you need to know before you start slapping … | Continue reading
If you missed out on the beta for Amused Sloth's Disco Dave, good news: you can still give it a spin and provide feedback before the game's worldwide release, as the game has soft launched in the UK, Netherlands, Romania, and Singapore. The game is set to launch worldwide soon, b … | Continue reading
We break down what Nielsen's social TV ratings means for your marketing decisions, and how social media is starting to dominate the headlines. | Continue reading
The IFA 2016 trade show is coming, and Samsung has just teased that we should expect the Gear S3 to debut on Sept. 1st. | Continue reading
While waiting for the arrival of their baby, many parents spend hours scouring the internet for the most educational toys, invest in top-of-the-line baby monitors and survey fellow parents about the best schools and daycare in the area. Every parent wants what’s best for their … | Continue reading
This week, reports hinted at what could be the most impactful MacBook Pro update in years, Walmart leveled up in the ecommerce space with its $3 billion purchase of Jet.com, and the Facebook adblocking war raged on. These are the top stories of the week. Want to receive the Weekl … | Continue reading
Blocky, creative adventure is coming to the Chinese. 360 Games, the publishing arm of the massive Chinese internet-security company that started on mobile, has picked up the rights to release Trion Worlds’ Trove. This free-to-play multiplayer action-adventure game brings gamers t … | Continue reading
1999 cult classic sci-fi RPG Outcast is getting a remake due in March for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.Entitled Outcast: Second Contact, the remake is being handled by the folks responsible for the original game at Appeal Studio.The developers teased this remake by offering the following … | Continue reading
Well, it looks like Google is under fire from South Korea over whether or not their business practices are inherently anti-competitive. | Continue reading
David Mackenzie’s terrifically tense Western Hell or High Water is set in the present, but it keeps emphasizing that in some key ways, life hasn’t changed in West Texas since pioneer days. One old-timer hitches up his horse at a gas station as if he was hitting up the local saloo … | Continue reading
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a super low-power camera designed to never shut off. The system was designed specifically as a method for waking up devices, never turning off, while running off of ambient power. In order to do so, the camera had to b … | Continue reading
Yahoo has given its sports app a refresh with a focus on livestreaming. In collaboration with Major League Baseball, Yahoo Sports will now list which games are being broadcast live online and with one tap, you’ll be able to either watch it through Yahoo’s app or another third-par … | Continue reading
Microsoft Flow, the company’s workflow management tool, has now arrived on Android. The app, a competitor of sorts of IFTTT and Zapier, offers an interface where you can mash up two or more services in order to create workflows – like getting a text when you receive an important … | Continue reading
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Friday August 12th.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’s Facebook page HEREG3’s archive on ustreamG3’s Facebook page HERE Read More | Continue reading
A summary of The Library of Babel, one of my favorite corners of the internet, reads like the log-line of a forgotten episode of The Twilight Zone: though the Library of Babel contains every book from human civilization, you will never find the story you’re looking for.Created by … | Continue reading
This week: Another link scheme gets busted, micro-moments are becoming more contextualized and downloadable PDF's can be duplicate content. | Continue reading