AT&T just announced that starting August 19th, it will offer family plans to its prepaid customers with the all new multiline discount. | Continue reading
Gareth Edwards' Rogue One finally has a new trailer, and it features the biggest villain in the history of Star Wars: Darth Vader himself. The clip, which features the first teasing glimpse audiences have had of the character since 2005's Revenge of the Sith, follows in the foots … | Continue reading
Pay-per-article journalism startup Blendle, which aggregates the written work of different publishers onto a single, ad-free platform where readers can pick and choose which stories to consume, paying a few cents per article, is touting passing one million registered users. Read … | Continue reading
Hannah Kovacs (@hkovs) from Post Beyond joined #ContentChat to share her tips for encouraging employee brand advocacy. | Continue reading
Earlier this month the ride-sharing world faced its first major shakeup when Uber announced that it would sell its China business to primary competitor Didi for an ownership stake of 18% in the combined China entity, valued at $35 billion, with Didi also buying a $1 billion stake … | Continue reading
By using technology and finding the right collaborations, companies can disrupt new markets, solve customer pain points and distribute value across the chain. Here are the top four marketing principles of today’s disruptors. Read More | Continue reading
During every U.S. presidential election season, at least one candidate vows to repeal carried interest deductions. Meanwhile, venture capitalists do their part and argue against it. The issue is near and dear to their hearts because carried interest treats investment partners’ sa … | Continue reading
Reddit is coming back online after an outage that lasted more than an hour. The issues began around 3:26 p.m. PT, according to the site's status page, following "a slight issue with a routine software upgrade."SEE ALSO: Reddit's Olympic subreddit should be your homepageThough the … | Continue reading
Although Xiaomi already has a heavy presence in India, the Chinese smartphone maker announced that they're planning to drastically increase their footprint. | Continue reading
Update: and just like that it’s back. Goodbye productivity, hello r/birdswitharms I’ve gotten so much work done in the past 90 minutes or so that Reddit has been down. Like it’s almost hard to believe. I returned some calls, responded to a bunch of emails and worked on writing ou … | Continue reading
The Perseid meteor shower, which comes around every year at this time, will peak tonight and early tomorrow. This year’s event is particularly special because astronomers are predicting an outburst of shooting stars at twice the normal rate. The best time to watch the show is bet … | Continue reading
We’ve come a long way since the days of selecting a CPU player for the other Pong paddle, tank, or hand-to-hand combatant. Now the computers are taking it to us, in meatspace, and seemingly nothing no tabletop activity is safe from their depredations. The latest to succumb to com … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Building community can no longer be a secondary goal. Join gaming pros from Outpost, FreshPlanet, Google, and VB’s own Dean Takahashi to learn how to create a thriving game community and turn it into your biggest, and most lucrative, asset. Register here for free. Wright … | Continue reading
Today, Microsoft announced its plans to acquire live streaming service Beam, a Seattle-based company that lets users influence and interact with a video game being streamed by another player. Beam launched in January to compete against well-established game streaming services fro … | Continue reading
Alert the media, Reddit is down. While it’s been a while since we’ve seen the last significant outage, the site has currently been down for about an hour now. I’m sure there are more than a few people at work panicking right now and wondering how to fill their time without their … | Continue reading
BREAKING NEWS: @KingJames announces on UNINTERRUPTED he will sign a new deal with the @Cavs.https://t.co/CXZ5qFK5o6 — UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) August 11, 2016 What do you give the player who has everything? Well, money is always welcome. And if anything, LeBron James certai … | Continue reading
Microsoft has a new version of its Xbox One out this month, but the old model had a strong performance in July. Xbox One was the top-selling console in the United States last month, according to data-tracking firm The NPD Group. Microsoft launched the revamped Xbox One S on Augus … | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
Today’s AdBlock Plus workaround to Facebook’s adblock bypass ham-handedly removes posts from friends and Pages, not just ads, according to a statement provided by Facebook to TechCrunch. “We’re disappointed that ad blocking companies are punishing people on Facebook as these new … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the release of a new Windows 10 build for PCs for people participating in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program — the first new build since the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was released on August 2. Build 14901 — which follows version 1607 and be … | Continue reading
The last decade-plus hasn’t been great for SGI. The company formerly known as Silicon Graphics declared Chapter 11 in 2009. That same year, it was sold to Rackable for a song, with that company somewhat confusingly changing its own name to SGI (short for Silicon Graphics Internat … | Continue reading
The spa industry is in need of a technology makeover and Zenoti thinks it can help. The Seattle-based startup is raising $15 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners to help salons run their businesses. A cloud-based management platform, Zenoti helps spa chains with eve … | Continue reading
Raid Masters is a surprisingly complex RPG, turn-based dungeon crawler that puts you in command of over fifty major characters. Assemble your team! | Continue reading
The hot story this week is Facebook's public stance on blocking ad blockers, launching a unblockable format... only to be re-blocked by AdBlock Plus days later… I think we're only seeing the beginning of this story. -Ben Campaign of the Week: The Secret Life of a Long Island Mili … | Continue reading
Billy West, who voiced Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, and Dr. Zoidberg and a bunch of other characters on Futurama, has begun recording himself parroting Donald Trump’s words as the cartoon’s egomaniacal space captain, Zapp Brannigan. West has uploading the clips on Twitter … | Continue reading
Square Enix Montreal's Deus Ex GO – which isn't an augmented-reality version of Deus Ex, it's a puzzle game from the studio that was using "GO" as a suffix well before Pokemon GO [Free] ever was – finally has a release date. It's next Thursday, August 18th, releasing on both iOS … | Continue reading
Here’s the list of questions asked at Stump 360 in 2015. If you’re not familiar with Stump 360, see my other post that describes it more fullyIn general, Stump 360 questions can cover Anything iOS or Apple related Especially anything covered in a 360iDev talk. Keep in mind the a … | Continue reading
Later this month I’m hosting Stump 360 III: The Search for Stump, the third annual Stump 360. It’s part of 360iDev in Denver. It’s on August 23, 4:45pm - 6:00pm.In case you’re not familiar with Stump 360, here’s some possibly interesting information.Stump is sort of approximately … | Continue reading
If you’re not using Simplenote, you’re missing out. This… well, simple note app has been a standby and lifesaver for me for years, though occasionally I have worried about its future: will it survive if Automattic, which bought it back in 2013, goes under or gets bought itself? W … | Continue reading
Half of the battle in managing ourselves is about deciding how we place value on our activities. When it comes to quantifying one activity in comparison with another, knowledge work suffers from a metrics black hole. As Peter Drucker says in The Effective Executive: The Definitiv … | Continue reading
A combination of motorized exoskeletons and virtual reality could help paraplegics regain some control of paralyzed limbs, according to a new study. New research published today in the journal Scientific Reports looked at how this therapy affected eight patients — all but one of … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: I Google search, therefore I bot. Since Facebook announced a bot developer framework and distribution platform in April, the media has been hyperventilating over its impact. I know we’re a big part of this, and I don’t apologize. Bots, as a new (or revisited) paradigm f … | Continue reading
Rocko's Modern Life, one of the most beloved and bizarre Nickelodeon cartoons of the '90s, is coming back to the kid's network with a one-hour special, Nickelodeon announced today. Creator Joe Murray says he will return as executive producer and director of the special, which is … | Continue reading
For the last 10 years, fans of one of the Nintendo 64’s most popular games have worked on updating it for modern audiences. Now they’re about to release the latest version. GoldenEye: Source is getting an update to version 5.0 on Friday, August 12, and you can preload it on your … | Continue reading
A few quick questions before we start: Do you read the newspaper in print or online? Do you watch reruns of your favorite movies and shows on DVD, or do you opt for Netflix instead? Do you refuse to abandon print books, or do you adore the convenience of your e-reader? As a consu … | Continue reading
Verizon aims to improve customer service by developing a new FlexFlow system that reduces store transaction times, and addressing call center efficiency. | Continue reading
When I look at the sky, I don’t see a sun. I see an opportunity — a chance at making solar power, and then harnessing that solar power to charge my phone. When a breeze brushes my face, I don’t think about how nice it feels. No, I think about how I can take that wind and turn it … | Continue reading
Intrepid explorers, No Man's Sky launches tomorrow on PC, but not until 6pm in the UK.That's 10am for West Coast US folks and 1pm for their East Coast brethren.Furthermore, pre-loading will be unavailable, so you'll have to wait however long it takes to download 10GB.Read more… | Continue reading
After clearing over $160 million in revenue in less than a month, Pokémon Go is on the tip of everyone’s collective tongues these days. And “everyone,” now includes Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri. Although semi-finicky with when she’ll respond to questions without just opening t … | Continue reading
Foxes are nature's greatest gift to us — not only are they cuter than dogs, they don't demand that we feed them and pay for their rabies shots. They are wild, but in a cool way. They probably won't eat your young child, like some other wild animals would. They are smart, and have … | Continue reading
Just days after Deliveroo, a popular on-demand restaurant food delivery startup in Europe, announced that it had raised another $275 million in funding, a number of the startup’s self-employed couriers in London have been holding a protest over possible changes to the way they ar … | Continue reading
Songster and perpetual master of subtlety Morrissey has teamed up with pals at PETA to produce This Beautiful Creature Must Die, a mobile and desktop browser-based app that turns saving cuddly 8-bit farm animals from a gruesome death into a fun, Tetris-like puzzle game. Morrissey … | Continue reading
It’s been almost a week since Frank Ocean opted out of releasing Boys Don’t Cry, a new LP with an impending arrival date that was reported by The New York Times and prefaced with hour after hour of meditative, Apple-sponsored woodworking. Fans around the world held their breath a … | Continue reading
Disney has teamed up with Google to create a Pete's Dragon themed app that recognizes objects in your home and lets Elliot the dragon interact with them. | Continue reading
The Kickstarter campaign for the Doohan EV3 iTank three-wheeled scooter began this week. It’s brought to you by Kartik Ram, the same guy behind the Zeitgeist electric bike that debuted this spring. Before we get into the question of whether a three-wheeled scooter really is the f … | Continue reading