Samsung officially put its limited edition coral blue Galaxy S7 Edge on sale in Taiwan and Singapore this week. The color might look familiar because it was previously available for the doomed Galaxy Note 7. Sad. I love a good limited edition color. Color releases keep things fre … | Continue reading
RIP Vine. The short-form video service that gave us stars like singer Shawn Mendes will be shutting down after three years of existence. | Continue reading
Vine, the short-form video service that gave us stars like singer Shawn Mendes and comedian King Bach, will be shutting down after three years of existence. Vine and its parent company, Twitter, told users that...read moreThe post R.I.P. Vine: Twitter Kills Its Video-Sharing App … | Continue reading
Nintendo is not holding back on the Switch due to supply constraints. Instead, the company doesn’t want systems sitting unsold in warehouses and on shelves. Tatsumi Kimishima, Nintendo president and chief executive, said during a conference with investors that the company could r … | Continue reading
This week is a special episode of The Vergecast. After attending the Apple event, Nilay and Dieter sit down in San Francisco together and talk about the newest product announcements from Cupertino. Let us not forget, Microsoft also announced new computers this week! We invited an … | Continue reading
2016 has been quite a ride for the players in AI, NLP and ML technologies. From the famous advent of Microsoft Tay at the end of Q1 to the numerous acquisitions of AI and chatbot companies during the latter half of this year, artificial intelligence has been in the headlines ever … | Continue reading
Facebook rolled out a new feature today that gives users a full voter guide, from the presidential candidates to the down-ballot propositions and local politicians, in an effort to “encourage civic participation.” The feature allows users to “favorite” their chosen candidates and … | Continue reading
Too busy working to forge a startup from the ground up to think about a costume for Halloween? No worries, TechCrunch has your back. Here are six timely last-minute ideas for the tech obsessed. Read More | Continue reading
A new Twitter campaign is impersonating American teens, and using their likenesses to spread right-wing propaganda. The pattern was identified by Nicole Flotteron, who analyzes Twitter activity at Mercury LLC, after a friend fell victim to the scheme. But while Flotteron is used … | Continue reading
In a surprise development, FBI Director James Comey wrote in a letter today that the agency has discovered new emails that may be relevant to its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Smartphones aren't specifically made to take high-quality pictures — at least, most of them aren't — but the majority of us still rely on them for capturing the bulk of our memories. Achieving professional-level photography without professional-level equipment is just not going … | Continue reading
What happens when you tell two smart computers to talk to each other in secret and task another AI with breaking that conversation? You get one of the coolest experiments in cryptography I’ve seen in a while.In short, Google Brain researchers have discovered that the AI, when pro … | Continue reading
I rarely laugh out loud while scrolling through Twitter anymore. When I do, it’s almost always at a promoted tweet. Promoted tweets, which are written by social media managers or marketing people for brands, are sometimes very boring. Sometimes they are just coupon codes for Nike … | Continue reading
The game-changing nature of virtualization in the server world has led many in IT to assume it would automatically translate to networking. The idea inspired the network functions virtualization architecture that has gripped some circles of the industry with great exuberance. But … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we got a better look at the Nintendo Switch thanks to an 3D model, Minecraft is coming to Apple TV, and the PlayStation 4 is getitng some new, fancy controllers from third parties. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of … | Continue reading
A new app called Needed, now officially launching, wants to upgrade your mobile shopping list. Instead of turning to a simple note-taking app or to-do list, Needed aims to help you save on groceries by automatically searching for deals and sales that match the items on your list. … | Continue reading
Mashable hat einfach mal den Test gemacht, ob man mit einer Drohne nicht vielleicht auch ein Auto waschen kann. Und siehe da: es geht. Und sogar trocknen lässt es sich, wenn man lange genug die Rotoren über die Motorhaube kreisen lässt.... | Continue reading
I love role playing games, but playing one is a huge commitment, and increasingly I’m finding myself without the time or energy to power through epics that span dozens of hours. Unless it’s a major release like a new Fallout or Final Fantasy, it’s hard to fit a big RPG into my li … | Continue reading
This week Microsoft and Apple went head to head in an epic battle to win the hearts of technology buffs everywhere.Microsoft announced it would be holding an event on Wednesday, and naturally, its competitive frenemy, Apple, chose to host its MacBook event the following day.Drama … | Continue reading
If you were traumatized by the dongle you needed in order to use headphones with the new iPhone 7, I have bad news for you. SEE ALSO: Admit it: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than AppleApple's new line of MacBook Pros also requires some serious investment in a … | Continue reading
This week: more updates are coming, Google uses “a bunch” of algorithms to check for duplicate content, and Amp results in organic search. | Continue reading
In a livestream today, Zcash CEO Zooko Wilcox announced that the software was finally ready to download.Source | Continue reading
People love a Greek tragedy. Icarus has flown too close to the sun and tumbled to Earth. Apple has forgotten its core users and been eclipsed by Microsoft. The Touch Bar is a compromise between adding a touch screen on a MacBook and ignoring touch entirely. These narratives are e … | Continue reading
The thing about Vine becoming the internet’s premiere tool for making short-form videos is that it happened almost completely by accident. Its founders had envisioned their tool for making 6-second clips as a way to help people capture casual moments in their lives and share them … | Continue reading
An der Tokyoter Universität arbeitet seit einiger Zeit ein Forschungsteam an einer völlig neuartigen Form der Projektion. DynaFlash nennt sich dieser Beamer, der mit 1.000 Bildern pro Sekunde arbeitet und so in der Lage ist, selbst auf beweglichen... | Continue reading
Hello Games, the indie studio behind sci-fi sim No Man’s Sky, appears to have been hacked by disgruntled fans. Earlier today, a since-deleted tweet appeared stating that “No Man’s Sky was a mistake.” The tweet came after months of quiet following the controversial launch of the g … | Continue reading
A seismic shift in privacy policy by messaging app WhatsApp this summer, when it said it would begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook including for ad targeting, has now attracted the attention of European’s data protection watchdog group, the Article 29 Working Par … | Continue reading
Third-party USB-C hubs are notoriously a disaster. They overheat, are missing crucial ports, or the ports they have are underpowered, and on many of the ones we’ve tested, the SD card readers consistently fail to work.. If you can't tell, I own a 12-inch MacBook, and I, along wit … | Continue reading
Will Rosellini was once a minor league baseball player. But he found he couldn’t do what other pitchers could do. He retired from the sport, and began searching for answers. It had to do with his nervous system, and that set him on a 15-year journey to marry neuroscience and tech … | Continue reading
Good things come in pairs, and the same goes for inbound marketing, where content and design make a powerful partnership. | Continue reading
Gfycat, the startup that recently raised a whopping $10 million for its user-generated content platform that lets you creating silent, looping animations and videos, has now launched its first mobile app. Designed for iMessage, Gfycat lets you search for, send and create your own … | Continue reading
The new Surface Book got lost in the shuffle this week. Understandably so. It did, after all, get third billing at Microsoft’s own event in New York this week, owing to the flashiness of the Surface Studio and Windows 10 Creators Update and all of the 3D content creation that bro … | Continue reading
Already, the 2016 election has been profoundly shaped by hacks. From Hillary’s vulnerable email server to Wikileaks’ string of Russia-linked email dumps, digital security has been one of the major forces driving the news. So far, all the hacks have been about information — in the … | Continue reading
Another day, another feature Facebook is borrowing from Snapchat. Following up on its announcement of virtual masks in livestreams yesterday, the company is now testing bringing new photo effects and masks into its main camera app for stills and videos. In other words, get read … | Continue reading
If This Then That (IFTTT) ist eine höchst praktische App mit der man diverseste Funktionalitäten verschiedenster Geräte und Apps über so genannte Rezepte miteinander verbinden kann. Der Google Assistant kann so auf Philips Hue Lampen... | Continue reading
There's no question the new MacBook Pros are flashy. The new Touch Bar is exciting and the Touch ID is awesome. And who's going to hate on thinner and lighter machines?I'm not jazzed over losing the MagSafe magnetic charging port, but I do like the versatility of having four Thun … | Continue reading
Uber drivers are workers rather than self-employed contractors, according to a ruling by an employment tribunal in the UK. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook’s latest seasonal experiment is Halloween-themed reaction emojis — a pumpkin replacing the usual “angry,” Frankenstein instead of “sad,” a witch for “haha,” and a ghost instead of “wow.” The new reactions appear on all posts, both public and personal, and they’re retroac … | Continue reading
The other night, I watched a movie about a selfish, devil-may-care genius who suddenly ends up injured and helpless. As a result, he discovers the importance of helping others, and becomes a flamboyant, flying superhero persona — all while aided by a powerful energy source glowin … | Continue reading
Samsung Taiwan has released some promotional pictures showing off the slick looking Blue Coral Galaxy S7 edge, ahead of the model's launch in early November. | Continue reading
The entry-level MacBook Pro is a strange sort of beast. It’s at once aspirational and transitional, a lowest financial rung into the company’s top tier of devices that carriers the form factor and many of the hardware improvements of this latest generation, while leaving behind i … | Continue reading
I was fascinated to meet Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, one of the world’s biggest tech companies, this week at the ARM TechCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Son believes in doing really big things. He bought Sprint for $21.6 billion in 2013. That didn’t work out so grea … | Continue reading
While e-mail marketers wish everyone had OCECD (Obsessive-Compulsive Email Checking Disorder), consumers indeed check their emails avidly... | Continue reading
It's October, the spookiest month of the year – and Facebook is into it.The social media platform just introduced new versions of all six reactions, called Halloween Reactions.SEE ALSO: Facebook changes Like buttons to celebrate Star Trek's 50th anniversaryHalloween Reactions are … | Continue reading
The Marketing Week in Review is our roundup of the most interesting and relevant news you need to know about … | Continue reading
Microsoft hat scheinbar eine kleine Überraschung im Promo-Video zum Windows 10 Creators Update versteckt. Es wird auch etwas für die Audio-Creators geben. Der bei der Präsentation unerwähnte "Groove Music Maker" wirkt auf den ersten... | Continue reading
The self-driving car project started by George Hotz, the first person to ever jailbreak the iPhone, has been canceled. The project involved a $999 after-market kit called “Comma One” that was capable of adding semi-autonomous capabilities to Honda Civics and some Acura cars. Hotz … | Continue reading
The Apple Watch Nike+ is loud in every way a watch can be loud. It’s got a brightly colored perforated neon band, matched perfectly by a custom face that tries to motivate wearers with quick Nike-esque slogans like “Running Today?” and “When Are We Running?” The Apple Watch Nike+ … | Continue reading