Google’s new Pixel-branded smartphones have proven to be a little too popular. Already, Google stated that pre-order demands had exceeded the company’s expectations, and now the company is trying to make up for shipping delays by offering affected customers $50 Play Store credits … | Continue reading
Amid all its turmoil – layoffs, failed attempts at finding an acquirer, the closure of Vine – the company is still futzing around with its product in an attempt to make it easier to use. The latest odd test involves Twitter’s iOS app launching web links in Safari with the Reader … | Continue reading
Around the world, drones have been delivering life-saving drugs and blood to clinics, and contrarily tasty treats like burritos, pizza, and Slurpees to homes or campuses. Civilian drones have also conducted countless surveys of farms, construction sites, and surveillance around v … | Continue reading
Sleep deprivation is a public health problem that our gadgets — with their glowing screens and buzzing notifications — generally make worse.Apple recently introduced a new feature to iOS that's designed to help, but it's possible you missed it. The default Clock app on iOS 10 con … | Continue reading
Fisker Inc., the new electric car company founded by Henrik Fisker (not to be confused with his previous venture, now Karma) has revealed the design and specifications of its first vehicle, the luxury sport sedan all-electric EMotion (see what they did there). The car will boast … | Continue reading
Data shows that having a black-sounding name in the United States could prove problematic. Recent studies reveal the difficulties faced by African-Americans — or those with African-American-sounding names — when searching for jobs, attending class, or trying to rent an Airbnb. No … | Continue reading
The Blizzard-run World Championships for Hearthstone are going on right now, but you can help get a future, independent tournament get funded right now. Jason “Amaz” Chan, a popular broadcaster and player of the market-leading digital card game, announced a second season of the A … | Continue reading
Things just keep getting better and better in our bitcoin price trading. We noted this morning that we would love to see a continuation of the volatility that carried us through the 700 resistance level over the weekend, and that if we did, we would likely be able to pull a decen … | Continue reading
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that shut down much of America’s internet recently was reportedly the largest ever. Dyn, a company that controls much of the internet’s domain name system infrastructure, came under sustained attack for most of Oct. 21, bringing down … | Continue reading
Nike’s been getting all the glory for its self-lacing sneakers – and understandably so. You can’t really beat the built-in promotion of Back to the Future pre-product placement and world class shoe model that is Michael J. Fox. But while the MAG only just launched and the HyperAd … | Continue reading
Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff has been one of the biggest hits in mobile gaming, maintaining its rankings in the top-grossing games charts since its launch in 2014. So it’s not surprising to see multiple companies get together to create a special limited-time Halloween event fo … | Continue reading
On Members Only, Jessica Frick shares her knowledge and insight on creating live events for membership communities to help you extend your authority. | Continue reading
How effective is your B2B social media marketing? Social Media can be many things so you need to ensure you are clear about what your marketing goals are. | Continue reading
Insurance app Back Me Up will launch the UK's first Stolen Goods Shop, which aims to expose some of the most frequently stolen items. | Continue reading
Every week, I swing for the fences with one massive theory about the future of Westworld. Am I wrong? Am I right? We probably won’t know for sure for years, so why not enjoy the present?As we hit the midpoint of Westworld’s first season, it’s worth acknowledging just how far the … | Continue reading
Aus Japan stammt dieses praktische Gadget, das Baseball-Kappe und Kamerahalterung in einem ist. Für Leute, die immer alles Erlebte auf Video festhalten wollen. Smabow nennt sich die Kappe und verträgt sich mit GoPro, aber auch den meisten Smartphones... | Continue reading
The plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed after the collapse of Cryptsy are moving to settle with one of its defendants.Source | Continue reading
Edtech giant Coursera has launched a monthly subscription payment option in the hope that learners on its platform can be enticed into ongoing educational activity, rather than a more piecemeal pay-per-course-bundle option. Read More | Continue reading
Microsoft has over-reached with its big-brother policies that inflict the worst parts of Windows Update on every Windows 10 user -- like it or not. Here's how it could fix that.The post Windows Update is a mess: 3 things Microsoft should do to fix it appeared first on ExtremeTech … | Continue reading
The European countries have a mixed reaction towards Bitcoin. The rate of Bitcoin adoption varies among countries in the continent. The same can be said about the governments and the respective central banks’ stance towards the digital currency. Ukraine is among one of the few na … | Continue reading
Another day, another iPhone rumor. Starting with its next generation of smartphones, Apple might finally be leaving behind the standard LCD screen in the iPhone in favor of a new and improved OLED display, Japanese news outlet Nikkei reports. The news comes from Sharp CEO Jeng-wu … | Continue reading
Forget bomb-sniffing dogs, we can now use spinach to detect explosives. Scientists have implanted the leafy greens with tiny tubes that let them sense when an explosive is nearby and even alert someone by email. This is all part of the field of “plant nanobionics,” which is about … | Continue reading
Microsoft today open sourced its next-gen hyperscale cloud hardware design and contributed it to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Microsoft joined the OCP, which also includes Facebook, Google, Intel, IBM, Rackspace and many other cloud vendors, back in 2014. Over the last two yea … | Continue reading
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel may have been trying to drum up more support for Republican candidate Donald Trump this morning at the National Press Club in Washington. But a 15-minute long speech he delivered sounded more like a plea to Americans to understand what’s so wrong … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s Surface PCs are known for their hinges. From the first, launched alongside Windows 8, to the new Surface Studio, each device has a hinge system that has evolved over time. That’s no accident, as the designers behind the scenes have been tweaking the Surface formula fo … | Continue reading
Justin Kan, YC Partner, serial entrepreneur and one of the internet’s most-loved reality stars, has started another venture in the form of Whale, a video Q&A app. Whale lets users post questions and enter into a one-to-one video conversation with an influencer or expert who can o … | Continue reading
The tablet market has now been in decline for eight quarters in a row. Q3 2016 saw a 14.7 percent year-over-year decline: 43 million units shipped worldwide, compared to 50.5 million units in the same quarter last year. The estimates are provided by IDC, which counts both slate a … | Continue reading
Honda has a new AI research center, which will begin operation early next year and centralize its R&D efforts in the field. The new center will bring together Honda’s AI teams distributed across Silicon Valley, Europe and Japan in a single location in downtown Tokyo, according to … | Continue reading
Das Unternehmen Red Bull betreibt seit einiger Zeit auch eine eigene internationale Rallycross-Meisterschaft. Der Red Bull Global Rallycross wird laut einer Pressemitteilung 2018 eine neue E-Auto-Klasse bekommen. Ganz auf Benziner will man offenbar nicht... | Continue reading
A comic-inspired indie horror game, Jazon and the Dead, is getting a Fig crowdfunding campaign just in time for Halloween. The title is the latest to debut on Fig, which has emerged as an alternative source to Kickstarter for funding games. Indie game developer 2nd Studio hopes t … | Continue reading
Whether you're in B2B or B2C marketing, here are three ways to hand over the keys and unlock the tremendous power of employee influence. | Continue reading
Content marketing can be leveraged by businesses, big or small, in any industry, even if it's a boring one. | Continue reading
Giphy, the NY-based search engine and platform for GIFs, has raised $72 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital. This brings Giphy’s total funding to just short of $151 million, according to Crunchbase, with a valu … | Continue reading
Samsung is bringing six of its Korean mobile accessories to the rest of the world next month. Among the first products Samsung plans to sell will be a "Wireless Speaker Bottle." The speaker looks sort of like a water canteen and is motion controlled. If someone puts it in a "pour … | Continue reading
Happy Halloween, content marketers! Some of us prefer to dress in full costume and hit the town while others like to stay in and binge-watch our favorite horror flicks. Preferences aside, it’s our favorite spooky day of the year. Of course, we’ll be indulging in the usual Hallowe … | Continue reading
Last week our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club came to an end, with the show’s season premiere going so far that club co-founder Bryan Bishop swore off the series entirely. Starting this week, Nick Statt tries to bring him back.Dear Bryan,I have to admit, last week … | Continue reading
Brave, the new web browser company co-founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, has launched a do-over on Android. The earlier version of the ad-blocking browser utilized an odd user interface involving floating link bubbles, which didn’t sit well with all users. The design mad … | Continue reading
Assuming the MTA can actually make good on its promise that the Second Avenue Subway (or portions of it, at least) will be up and running by the end of December, we’re now just about two months from service finally beginning on the long-delayed line. Continue reading… | Continue reading
The latest bitcoin update features code that could potentially activate a long-anticipated scaling solution.Source | Continue reading
D.light, a for-profit social enterprise that manufactures and distributes solar-powered products aimed at ‘off-grid’ communities, has raised $7.5 million in a debt financing round from investment management company Developing World Markets. Founded in 2007, D.light makes a myriad … | Continue reading
LG’s V20 is an Android phone I’d recommend to people who insist on having one of the device’s four cornerstone features: a replaceable battery, elaborate manual video camera controls, excellent audio recording capabilities, or a hi-fi headphone listening experience. If you don’t … | Continue reading
Die NASA hat einen neuen Film produziert, der Freunde des HiRes und der Astronomie Freudentränen bringen könnte. Mit der Produktionsfirma Harmonic gibt es hier eine 18-minütige Tour durch die ISS. In 4K und in Fischaugenoptik. Wenn also... | Continue reading
Oldenburg (ots) - Ein Kohloquium an der Grünkohl-Akademie, ein Kohltour-Knigge für Anfänger, Grünkohlforschung oder doch lieber ein Plattdüütsch-Kurs mit der höchstcharmanten... | Continue reading
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. — Warren Buffett Bundled tips. Distilled solutions. Condensed books. ... | Continue reading
The first time I met my friend Robert Joe was at a picnic on a little island on the Han River in Seoul. He had brought Dubu, his beloved Samoyed, and three tubs of Baskin Robbins ice cream to share. The ice cream went uneaten, because the crowd’s attention was on Dubu.Dubu, meani … | Continue reading
Lost among all the talk streamlined ports, missing function keys and MagSafeless power, was mention of the fact that the company has also quietly ditched one of the more iconic pieces of the Apple ecosystem for the new MacBook Pro. The F-sharp chime that has greeted users on star … | Continue reading
Ballantine's, the Scotch whisky, has unveiled a new global music platform called True Music, which will work with leading music artists. | Continue reading
SPONSORED: I outran a ferocious dog once. The memory is still very fresh for me, despite the fact that it happened 30 years ago. What should be most impressive about this story is that I ran up fourteen flights of stairs, without stopping. | Continue reading