Soaking for four days in pure, unadulterated fandom can take a lot out of you. But if you care enough, it’s worth it. That’s the feeling I got watching the doors close at the Convention Center on the last day of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. This annual epicenter of fan cultur … | Continue reading
If you love the iPad, MacBook Air or iMac, you're probably going to love the Apple Car.Senior Apple executive Bob Mansfield, the man who led the engineering development for those wildly popular products, has been tapped to lead the tech giant's car-making efforts, according to th … | Continue reading
Bernie Sanders is pleading with supporters not to disrupt the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia tonight. "I ask you as a personal courtesy to me to not engage in any kind of protest on the floor. It's of utmost important you explain this to your de … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has already earned one official record — most downloads on the App Store in a launch week ever. But it’s going to break a lot more records still: app analytics firm Sensor Tower estimates that it hit 50 million downloads on Google Play alone over the weekend, another r … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is so popular in Japan that some players are also diving into the studio’s other game as well. Ingress, the GPS-powered location-based predecessor to Pokémon Go from developer Niantic, is the No. 6 most downloaded game in Japan, according to market-intelligence firm Se … | Continue reading
This past Friday, a Sonic The Hedgehog bombshell was dropped at an event at San Diego Comic-Con that was celebrating the blue hedgehog's 25th anniversary. Sega, in collaboration with Pagodawest Games, Christian Whitehead, and Simon "Stealth" Thomley, have announced a brand new So … | Continue reading
Blogging seems easy on the face of it. After all, we can all write to some extent, and many blogs are written from an opinion standpoint, so it seems like something you just need sit down and donate an hour or so to doing. This, as many people discover the hard way, is not an... | Continue reading
Following a months-long bidding process, Verizon announced this morning that it’s acquiring Yahoo’s core business for $4.83 billion. The goal, it seems, is to merge Yahoo with AOL (which Verizon acquired last year) to form a single organization that can compete with digital media … | Continue reading
Leaders of the Democratic National Committee are issuing a formal apology after hacked emails showed members of the committee mocking Bernie Sanders' campaign for president. Continue reading… | Continue reading
GUEST: Bots are a raging success. Brands such as Kayak, NBA, Fandango, Sephora, Barclay, and CNN collectively brought hundreds of bots into the world, spanning many different industries, from travel and entertainment to shopping and banking. Suddenly, bots capable of rudimentary … | Continue reading
Oculus Home was updated this past week to include support for up to four trackers on the Rift and Touch. This added functionality is likely a direct appeal to Steam game developers who haven't yet been able to develop motion-controlled games for the Oculus Rift, as the company pr … | Continue reading
It has been 16 months since Solar Impulse 2 took off from Abu Dhabi and started its ambitious around-the-world voyage. Now, it's on the verge of completing the circle. With just one leg left from Egypt to the United Arab Emirates for the solar-powered plane and its pilot, Bertran … | Continue reading
You may have seen some chatter here and there about the “decentralized web,” but there isn’t a really clear definition of what the term means — and really, considering its nature, it would be surprising if there were. There are, therefore, a variety of opinions, as Syracuse Unive … | Continue reading
Just as Incense can be used to attract rare Pokemon in the wild, so too can PokeMatch be used to attract a potential soul mate. | Continue reading
Interested in the OnePlus 3 but put off by the boring graphite? The wait is over, with OnePlus confirming a new Soft Gold OnePlus 3 will launch on July 26. | Continue reading
Nvidia announced today the Quadro P6000 graphics card for workstations, using the “world’s fastest GPU,” or graphics processing unit. The graphics card is targeted at designers who have to create complex simulations for everything from engineering models to virtual reality games. … | Continue reading
Zsolt Felföldi, developer of the Geth implementation of Ethereum, weighs in on Ethereum Classic. | Continue reading
A Miami judge has dismissed charges against a Florida-based bitcoin seller after he was indicted on money transmission and money laundering charges. | Continue reading
We've been keeping an eye on the upcoming Legend of Skyfish by Crescent Moon and Mgaia Studios for a few months now, and the game is finally getting closer to release. According to a recent tweet, the game is going to be submitted to the App Store soon, which hopefully means the … | Continue reading
The recent judgement by the Miami-Dade Circuit Court declares that the popular digital currency, Bitcoin can’t be considered as money. The decision made by Judge Teresa Mary Pooler exonerates Michell Espinoza from the charges of illegally selling virtual currency and money launde … | Continue reading
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has created movie screen technology that lets you watch 3D movies without the stupid glasses. Better yet, the technology actually makes the picture more crisp. Dubbed Cinema 3D, the technology also makes the on-screen … | Continue reading
The same combination of radios used to plot your position on Google Maps or tell your favorite apps exactly where you are located will now be used to help first responders more accurately pinpoint your location when you place an emergency call. | Continue reading
Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest player in NBA history and currently the owner of the Charlotte Hornets, is putting his money where others’ mouths are. After staying out of any political fray for most of his active playing career and taking a low-profile role in supporting c … | Continue reading
A man with a steamroller, a camera, a YouTube account, and 17 LCD monitors did what any person in his situation would do: slowly mashed the displays into a gritty pancake of glass, plastic, and presumably toxic fumes.The Road Roller video is titled "Road Roller crush 17 LCD SCREE … | Continue reading
Google Maps has a new verification option, case studies show conflicting results(?), and another validates what you’ve always believed about backlinks. | Continue reading
At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016, TechCrunch introduced a new networking tool called CrunchMatch that helped 19 investors and 65 startups make a total of 88 connection meetings at Disrupt. At Disrupt SF 2016, TechCrunch is looking to take those connections to a whole new … | Continue reading
Making Sydney second to Melbourne — an act some might say is unforgivable — UberEats has just launched in the harbour city.Beginning operations in Sydney on Tuesday, the food delivery service will serve up snacks from more than 100 restaurants including Three Blue Ducks, Chur Bur … | Continue reading
There’s a lot that today’s VR systems can do to really make you feel like the virtual world you’re in is as close as possible to the world you inhabit. Together, the high-resolution screens, head tracking, room-mapping cameras, and motion controllers on high-end systems such as t … | Continue reading
Bereits im Frühjahr 2015 testete DHL gemeinsam mit Amazon und dem Auto-Hersteller Audi die Paketzustellung direkt in den Kofferraum. Richtig gehört: keine Packstation, kein Wunschnachbar und schon gar keine Benachrichtigung im Briefkasten.... | Continue reading
It’s been a busy week for the Google Maps team. As we reported earlier today, the Google Maps apps are getting a WiFi-only mode and the team is also bringing more crowdsourcing tools to the mobile apps as well. The company kept the biggest announcement for today, though: Google M … | Continue reading
Ethereum Classic may have started as a protest currency against the hard fork, but it is gaining more services. | Continue reading
As has been the case with so many industries, the pendulum of VR will eventually swing back from dedicated apps towards web-based systems — and when that happens, Google will be ready. It published details of a new method for delivering serious surround sound over the web, a syst … | Continue reading
A month after updating its satellite imagery with higher resolution photos, Google Maps is now cleaning up its standard road view to make its maps a bit easier to digest. The company says its goal was to balance information without overcrowding maps, so its removing elements “tha … | Continue reading
Norway has an ambitious plan to ease the congestion of local ferries by building a series of underwater tunnels that allow travelers to cross the nations bodies of water. The “submerged floating bridges” would consist of large tubes suspended by pontoon-like support structures 10 … | Continue reading
First VR experiences seem to bring about a pretty wide variety of emotional reactions from the people who try it, but right now there aren’t too many ways to actually convey how you’re feeling inside virtual reality. Veeso is aiming to become one of the first VR headsets to captu … | Continue reading
Internet Company Yahoo finally found a buyer after many layoffs and long bidding process. Verizon Agrees to buy Yahoo For $4.83 billion - Merge it with AOL. | Continue reading
A new startup called Scale, officially launching today, wants to make it easier for businesses to outsource their core processes and tasks that require people, not algorithms, to handle. This could include anything from appointment scheduling to more complicated matters like cont … | Continue reading
Zenefits has been under fire for skirting regulation, resulting in the ouster of its previous CEO Parker Conrad and a heavy-duty overhaul underway of the company. The results of that effort are now seemingly starting to emerge, starting first with a resolution in Tennessee which … | Continue reading
Cybersecurity experts are constantly trying to keep pace with changes in the volatile landscape of IT security. Despite sophisticated tools and solutions, every IT security officer knows that data breaches eventually happen — and they usually go undetected for a long time. What i … | Continue reading
Launched just 18 months after Kickstarter itself, the original Glif was an early beacon of what was to come for the crowdfunding platform, with an innovative tripod mount for smartphones unlike any other. Studio Neat has taken its sweet time to launch the sequel, but it was worth … | Continue reading
Sony's streaming TV service just became a lot more attractive with the addition of NFL Network and NFL RedZone channels, both of which will arrive on PlayStation Vue in time for the 2016 season opener in September. So Vue subscribers will now have direct channel access to games a … | Continue reading
Razer might be best known for their cutting-edge gaming peripherals. From their keyboards with glowy LED lights, to gaming mice with lots of buttons and glowy LED lights, to their very green headsets. But the company also seems to find itself doing some unexpected things. Like ma … | Continue reading
Uber was banned from using information gathered by a secretive, CIA-linked research firm on the plaintiff who brought a price-fixing lawsuit, after a judge in the case reprimanded the firm for behavior that could “arguably” be called criminal conduct, according to Reuters.Last De … | Continue reading
Remember when hackers just wanted your money? Now they’re power-brokers.Like a perfectly executed back somersault, Russian hackers allegedly broke into the Democratic National Committee servers, scooped up thousands of emails and then deposited them in the hands of the whistleblo … | Continue reading
HeyHuman's Aoife McGuinness discusses three of the promo and activation winners at this year's Cannes Lions. | Continue reading
Sen. Bernie Sanders elicited boos in a speech to delegates in Philadelphia on Monday about the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the importance of beating Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by electing Hillary Clinton. | Continue reading
Google has begun testing a new feature in its Maps app that would only allow data to be downloaded via a Wi-Fi connection, according to TechCrunch. The feature is meant to help users with limited data plans.Select users can find the mode in the Maps settings menu in place of the … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has been one of the few positives of an otherwise grim July. Perhaps because of its status as the rare untainted beacon of joy, the smartphone game has pervaded popular culture, from the design of a neighborhood lemonade stand to the floor of the Republican Nation Conv … | Continue reading