Adding hashtags to Instagram just got way easier. Right now, deciding on and typing out more than one or two hashtags is a pain. There are handful of apps that try to make life easier for you with suggested hastags, but you’ve got to constantly switch back and forth to copy them … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has been banned in Iran due to "security concerns".As reported by the BBC, Iran's High Council of Virtual Spaces, an official body governing online activity, made the ruling.Allegedly the Iranian government was hoping Pokémon Go developer Niantic would negotiate some n … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is no stranger to being called a scam artist. Shoddy products (Trump University), bad investments (Mexico), and his inability to stop getting sued long enough to trick the populace into believing he’s a viable presidential candidate, it seems, were just the beginning … | Continue reading
Previously known as the starting point of the Pony Express and the place where Jesse James died and Eminem was born, St. Joseph, Missouri now has a new claim to fame, as the home the future of fast food. It’s a future that apparently includes lots of touchscreens and, for a limit … | Continue reading
Google’s self-driving car project is losing Chris Urmson, who served as the unit’s CTO and lead technical resource after going the company from Carnegie Mellon. Urmson has considerable status among roboticist in the world of autonomous vehicles, but said in a Medium post announci … | Continue reading
Punk Labs, the fine folks behind Skeletomb [Free], are back at it with a new game called Kerflux set to release on Friday, August 12th. The concept is a bit tough to grab on to just by looking at t, but the idea is that you have to manipulate different waveforms in order to make | Continue reading
One of these days we’re going to see aircraft go electric, just as cars are — but not for a while. In the meantime, we can’t slack off when it comes to the research that will make it possible. NASA has announced five research projects that may help make planes more efficient and … | Continue reading
Sometimes, based on the recommendation of the lovely Touch Arcade community, you get to go into a project completely blind. I had never heard of the source material for Eden: The Game [Free], which is apparently based on a UK reality television show where a group of people live i … | Continue reading
For the LG V20, Gordon-Levitt's production company hitRECord is encouraging fans to go out into their everyday worlds and do something spectacular. | Continue reading
Search trees are everywhere: In databases, in file systems, in board game algorithms,… This post explores the probably most basic form of a tree: a binary search tree. | Continue reading
After a long absence, Harry Potter is back. The script for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out in bookstores earlier this week, and it’s a welcome return to familiar magical stomping grounds. What’s most rewarding about this story however, is that it’s grown … | Continue reading
Showing its serious about improving its virtual assistant, as well as the company’s online storefronts, Apple purchased Seattle-based AI/machine learning startup Turi today for a reported $200 million. Details are still hard to come but so far we know that the Turi team plans to … | Continue reading
Apple has acquired the machine learning startup Turi, according to GeekWire. As usual with an Apple acquisition, it's picking up a small company whose products will likely make their way into the fabric of other Apple services. In this case, Turi offers tools that are meant to le … | Continue reading
I’ve never been a big motorcycle guy. I have the hand/eye coordination of a sleepy toddler, and I’m pretty sure I’d hurt myself within about two minutes of firing up the engine. This bike wants me to give it a try anyway. Built by Wisconsin-based machining/customization shop Vint … | Continue reading
If you're looking to optimize your content, you need to be able to identify what makes for bad content. Here are the signs and your solutions. | Continue reading
AMD has made it clear that it wants the low end of the graphics card market, and now it’s time to see how committed it is to that strategy. In July, the company revealed the Radeon RX 470 and 460 chips that are meant to fill out its latest video-card offerings. The 480, on the [… … | Continue reading
Toronto-based B corporation Komodo OpenLab thought Pokémon Go using its Tecla product, an assistive hardware device designed to make it easier to use smartphones, tablets and users for people who might not generally be able to interact with these gadgets, including, for example, … | Continue reading
The Washington Post has a big team of journalists covering the Rio Olympics.Also covering the games for the paper: Robots.The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items wi … | Continue reading
The team from a startup called Eyegroove, a “musical selfie” app, has joined Facebook. According to a message on the company’s website, most of the small team who worked on the app will now be focused on building new experiences for Facebook users that will help them to “create, … | Continue reading
Incipio just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Shortly after after announcing that it had acquired up budget headphone maker Skullcandy, the Irvine-based accessories conglomerate has picked up Griffin for an undisclosed amount. The Nashville mobile peripheral manufacturer will joi … | Continue reading
Back in early June, we told you about Kobojo Games' plan to combine Candy Crush-like match-3 with Hearthstone-like deck building and sprinkle in a dash of real-time strategy in their upcoming game Primal Legends, and while that sounds like an awful lot of genre-mashing, I was rea … | Continue reading
A Philips Hue motion detector may soon be a reality, according to a new FCC filing spotted by Dave Zatz. Instead of having to deal with a second smart home system like SmartThings to get a proper motion sensor, Philips Hue owners may soon be able to easily integrate a sensor desi … | Continue reading
A new paper from Deloitte re-imagines the sports stadium concept in light of a number of developing technologies. Notably, Deloitte gives the example of a fantasy sports-style interaction — a "game within the game" — where bets are placed using bitcoin "on in-game events, or use … | Continue reading
The lesson of almost every big cyber security story of the last year from Ukraine, to the Democratic National Committee to the South China Sea is that everything can be hacked. “Owning an election is gold; being able to influence it is silver; knowing the outcome in advance is br … | Continue reading
Apple has acquired Turi, a machine learning software startup. The startup formerly went by the names GraphLab and Dato. Apple provided no information other than its standard boilerplate message for confirming acquisitions. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to tim … | Continue reading
Ah, college football season. It's the best. Sure, the sport is run by a corrupt cartel exploiting young men's bodies for minimal compensation while everyone else gets rich, not to mention that the culture around programs is often morally reprehensible, where the players are often … | Continue reading
Word just started going around the rumormill that Apple has acquired Turi, a company that describes itself as a “machine learning platform for developers and data scientists” We reached out to Apple for confirmation, and sure enough — we got the standard reply they give when they … | Continue reading
Google has revealed that it will be shutting down the Together watch face feature in Android Wear on September 30th. As first reported by Android Police, the latest version of the Android Wear app informs users of the coming shutdown when they attempt to configure Together. Googl … | Continue reading
An extensive list of free online design tools for DIY graphic design you can use to crank up your visual marketing efforts. | Continue reading
In its bid to become more like Snapchat, Facebook is finally putting its MSQRD acquisition to good use.The social network is testing a new feature that puts a Snapchat-like camera at the top of News Feed, allowing users to add filters and animations to their selfies. The test is … | Continue reading
The Bitfinex hack appears to be forcing the exchange to consider unconventional measures as part of a bid to relaunch. | Continue reading
Just when you thought there would be no Song of the Summer for Summer '16, a savior descends.And that savior is my teammate in social media management, The Verge's Dami Lee. She found this little diddy on YouTube called "Can I Get a Box?" You really need to listen to it to unders … | Continue reading
Instagram released a new feature called Instagram Stories. The update allows for photos and videos to be uploaded that disappear in 24 hours... sound familiar? | Continue reading
He’s won a couple of Oscars, he’s worked with some of the best directors in the biz, and he’s even played a Bond villain. So, where does Christop Waltz go from here? Phone commercials, obviously. The acclaimed Inglourious Basterds actor has signed on with Samsung for a silly new … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe that we're coming up on two years since XperimentalZ Games launched Pixel Boat Rush [Free] on the App Store, but here we are, and despite that lengthy chunk of time the developers have just released a meaty new update for the game. This update introduces 16 n … | Continue reading
Tumbled glass has a definite appeal: It’s eye-catching, has a pleasant variety of colours, and feels nice in the hand. And making it just takes time, and repetitive motion – throw some glass in a rock tumbler for about a week and voila – what comes out is better than what came in … | Continue reading
Stock images don’t always make sense. Case in point, this one. At first glance it looks like two friends, relatives, or lovers enjoying a game of ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ on Sony’s PlayStation 2. For the clueless, I’m talking about the original one, not the current remake … | Continue reading
New drone footage shows Apple's Campus 2 under major development in Cupertino, California. Viewers can really see the immensity of it all, with everything from a 100,000-square-foot fitness center, a 2 million-square-foot parking garage and quite a few different research and deve … | Continue reading
Aside from a couple distinctive designs, most electric vehicles (EV) from the long-established automaker set have been pretty tame. By that I mean they've been based on the traditional car layout: four doors, four in-line wheels, four seats and a steering wheel off to one side.Th … | Continue reading
Amazon’s plucky little voice assistant already has a fairly broad skill set – but gaming has never really been Alexa’s strong suit. Granted, the AI is no Xbox, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some potential for a little gaming fun. A few developers have already created titles … | Continue reading
Three weeks of Olympic competition begin tomorrow in Rio, and there has never been more ways to tune in. That's a good thing, because NBC will be broadcasting 6,755 hours of the games. It all starts with the opening ceremony tonight — which, mind you, is going to be broadcast on … | Continue reading
The pass came in the left corner and it was a simple 17-foot jumper that looked like so many others. Except for the time and the place. When Abdul Qadir Jeelani made the bucket on Oct. 11, 1980, it was the first basket scored in the history of the Dallas Mavericks expansion franc … | Continue reading
YouTube filmmaker and DIY-engineer Thomas Kin harnessed the power of water to charge his iPhone. Meanwhile, my iPhone battery is dead because the outlet is just out of reach from my bed and ugh. If we competed against one another in some sort of survivalist contest, my only hope … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever had to wait hours for a delayed flight you’re fully aware of the difference between slumming it with hundreds of other frustrated travelers, or grabbing a nap, shower or just a nice drink from a first class lounge. Even if you’ve never experienced the latter, the d … | Continue reading
This week tech companies worked their angles for the Rio Olympics, Uber China gave into Didi Chuxing and Instagram cloned Snapchat with an ephemeral new feature. Here are this week’s top stories in tech. You can receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox every Saturday, if that’s y … | Continue reading
Spotify just added a new feature that's going to make it a lot easier to find new music.The company introduced a new type of playlist called "Release Radar" that automatically curates weekly playlists of new music based on a user's tastes. The playlist will be available to all Sp … | Continue reading
Magic Cube Games, who you probably know as the developers of the Infect Them All and Call of Snakes series, among many other games, have announced their latest project, a game called Infinity Duels. The concept of Infinity Duels is pretty simple. It takes the left/right tapping g … | Continue reading
Playbuzz has been offering publishers tools to create interactive/social media-friendly content like galleries, lists and polls. Now it’s giving them new ways to track the effectiveness of those tools. The company is announcing the launch of its analytics product, Impact — which … | Continue reading