US-based owners of Volkswagen vehicles affected by the manufacturer's infamous emissions scandal will now be able to sell their cars back to dealerships, after the company was granted final approval on its proposed $14.7 billion compensation deal. US district judge Charles Breyer … | Continue reading
If you’re planning to take your business to the next level, then introducing it into the world wide web is the most sensible step you need to take. To do that here is an infographic from WP Shrug that covers all the basic steps on how you can build your own WordPress site today. | Continue reading
Sorry, LA, Dallas, and San Jose. Your Google Fiber hopes have been put on hold...perhaps forever. Google announced Tuesday that it was freezing any plans to expand into eight "potential cities," with the other metropolitan areas on the list being Jacksonville, Florida; Oklahoma C … | Continue reading
GUEST: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, recently announced a $3 billion effort to cure all disease during the lifetime of their daughter, Max. Earlier this year, Silicon Valley billionaire Sean Parker donated $250 million to increase collaboration amongst researchers … | Continue reading
GUEST: What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often, innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyo … | Continue reading
The spookiest pocket monsters are out haunting your streets right now. Pokémon Go’s Halloween event has started around the world. The location-based app that puts monsters in the real world with you using your smartphone’s augmented-reality features will give trainers more opport … | Continue reading
Stop procrastinating and nominate your favorite startup, founder or investor for a Crunchie. Nominations will close on Thursday, November 3, 2016. That’s just two weeks before the nominations close. We’re looking for the input of the tech community. Who was the hottest new startu … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: In his first 10 months at the helm of what is arguably the world’s most potent corporate vc arm, Intel Capital’s Wendell Brooks has weathered wrack after wrack. First, there was the sharp decline in venture activity at the outset of 2016; then, a rather public tumult a … | Continue reading
Microsoft will roll out a new set of updates to the mobile version of Skype over the next several weeks to improve the way users make video and VoIP calls. | Continue reading
Last Thursday, Nintendo finally introduced its next dedicated gaming system. On Friday, the company’s stock price took a plunge. But the market’s response to the Nintendo Switch, a hybrid home/portable console that will ship in March, is not due to a lack of excitement from consu … | Continue reading
LAGUNA BEACH, California — Facebook just gave an early look into an experimental camera app that uses artificial intelligence to make live video look like art.Speaking Tuesday at the Wall Street Journal's WSJD Live conference, Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox demoed the a … | Continue reading
Follow live from New York City[View the story "The Microsoft event: Windows, Surface, HoloLens" on Storify]The Microsoft event: Windows, Surface, HoloLensStorified by Mashable· Tue, Oct 25 2016 16:43:32 Oct 25, 2016 12:19 PM EDT Share this story Share Tweet Tech teamPete Pa … | Continue reading
Okay, this is actually pretty cool. I’ve only been playing around with it a bit, but I can definitely see it becoming addicting — particularly if the service’s creators can bring more musicians on board. As it stands right now, 8Stem’s collection of remix-able music is fairly lim … | Continue reading
Access, the Alphabet internet division formerly known as Google Fiber, will lay off employees and replace its CEO as it looks for cheaper ways to deliver internet service to new cities.Current Access CEO Craig Barratt made the announcement in a blog post this evening, saying that … | Continue reading
The concept smartphone from Xiaomi and colorful French designer Philippe Starck, revealed on Tuesday, has won praise for its minimalist form and bezel-less screen. And while Starck is world-renowned for his design prowess, many smartphone users may not realize just how big a deal … | Continue reading
Google today announced plans to temporarily cut back on plans to roll out Google Fiber gigabit internet in 11 U.S. cities. Also Craig Barrett, chief executive of Access, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet that includes the Fiber initiative, is stepping down. Barrett a … | Continue reading
Who wants to read up on candidates’ policies, attend rallies or even watch a debate? You just want to jump into the bed of democracy with the one who turns you on politically, right? Who would bother to vote in the future if a set of sophisticated algorithms just identified, by t … | Continue reading
A team of computer scientists and legal professionals have created artificial intelligence with the ability to accurately predict the outcome of 79 percent of cases decided upon by the European Court of Human Rights. The performance of the artificial intelligence was published Mo … | Continue reading
Wait, wait, wait! Before your eyes glaze over at the word “slideshow,” stay with me for a moment. Yes, we’re all bored to tears with slideslows, but Sharalike’s brand new VR app has been rubbing its medical paddles together to try to jolt some life into your old 2D photos by tele … | Continue reading
The Bird of Prey claims to be aerodynamic, eliminate strain on the back, and improve stability because it positions the rider on his or her stomach Read more...More about Mashable Video, Transportation, Invention, Cycling, and Bicycle Racer | Continue reading
When Samsung launched its mobile payment service last year, it entered a market where it went head-to-head with Apple and Google. The idea behind Samsung Pay was simple: to offer a secure and easy-to-use mobile payment service that lets consumers make purchases practically anywhe … | Continue reading
Apple is working to match the demand for the iPhone 7 Plus as best as it can, but it might not meet all the demand by the end of the year, CEO Tim Cook said on the investor call discussing its fourth-quarter earnings.“It’s hard to say,” Cook said in response to an investor questi … | Continue reading
Many Americans learned through Lending Club that they can refinance their credit card debt online; now, the lending marketplace Lending Club is hoping they’ll discover that it’s possible to refinance their credit card debt online, too. Though automotive lending is a massive marke … | Continue reading
Executive changes are coming to Google Access, including the possible departure of CEO Craig Barratt, according to sources. The company is holding a town hall-style meeting sometime soon to announce these potential changes, these sources say.Access operates as its own entity unde … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: How are the top-grossing app developers growing and acquiring high-quality users at scale? What channels and formats are the best fit? And how do you net 700 million downloads like Ketchapp? Join our latest VB Live event for insight into the metrics and strategies the ma … | Continue reading
Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive and and industrial designer Marc Newson are designing a new, exclusive project in time for the holidays: a Christmas tree.The tree is part of London hotel Claridge’s seasonal celebration, the hotel announced on its website. Since 2009, differ … | Continue reading
Y Combinator’s ambitious New Cities project has a new leader today as Ben Huh, former CEO of The Cheezburger Network, joins the effort. The initiative, previously announced back in June, aims to take a fresh, entrepreneurial approach, to city building. Details have been hard to c … | Continue reading
The education platform focused on helping workers gain skills they need for great careers in tech, Udacity, has partnered with IBM Watson, Didi Chuxing and Amazon Alexa to offer a new nanodegree in artificial intelligence, the companies announced today. IBM Watson is co-developin … | Continue reading
New York City startup IrisVR is announcing that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The company has built virtual reality tools for the architecture and design industries. Iris Prospect allows customers to take their 3D plans and blueprints and turn them into VR experie … | Continue reading
Kingston’s HyperX division isn’t goofing around. It wants to win over a mainstream audience, and its latest product should do just that. The HyperX Cloud and HyperX Cloud II headsets are already among the best gaming-specific earphones on the market under $100, but now the compan … | Continue reading
During its earnings call today, Apple CEO Tim Cook put the focus on the company's Services division, which contains Apple Music, iTunes, Apple Pay, and the App Store, and grew 24 percent year-over-year in an otherwise down year for the company. Services has become Apple's second … | Continue reading
Facebook is working on new camera technology that overlays famous works of art on what you’re seeing. This feature was demonstrated on stage at the WSJD Live conference, but it’s not something that will released in the foreseeable future. Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product offic … | Continue reading
Bobby Lee and the staff of BTCC have brought about the new Mobi Wallet, which was announced at this year's Money 20/20 event. | Continue reading
Eero, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based maker of a smart wireless routing system, is asking employees to help one of their colleagues after his special-needs son was burned in a fire set by some of his same-age peers. According to a report in Fox News, the 10-year-old was place … | Continue reading
Much has been said about Apple’s fledgling automative efforts, with reports of its Project Titan car division shifting its focus away from building a vehicle and toward automation and software. Today on an earnings call, CEO Tim Cook offered perhaps the most definitive recognitio … | Continue reading
If you liked Prisma, you’re going to enjoy what Facebook’s cooking up. Today on stage at WSJDLive, Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox demoed an unlaunched prototype of Live video filters that make your footage look like it was painted by a famous fine artist like Vincent Va … | Continue reading
Civic previewed a new use case for its decentralized identity service today at Money2020 in Las Vegas.Source | Continue reading
Acclaimed Doom modder Sergeant_Mark_IV, the person behind popular mod Brutal Doom, is releasing their upgraded version of Doom 64, Brutal Doom 64, next week on 30th October.This PC mod will outfit Doom 64 with new special effects, particles, lightning, gore, sounds, weapon animat … | Continue reading
Apple just reported its fourth quarter earnings for 2016, showing a decline in iPhone sales for the third consecutive quarter and the first full-year drop in revenue since 2001. iPad sales were down as well, both year over year (-6 percent) and from the third quarter of this year … | Continue reading
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg discusses the growing pains that come with expanding from technology platform to media company. She sits down with Facebook's Chris Cox and WSJ's Christina Passariello at WSJDLive in Laguna Beach, Calif. | Continue reading
Wire, the sleek messaging app with some security chops, is getting a new feature today: timed, or ‘ephemeral’ messaging. Basically, it’s like the timers in Snapchat; you can make a message self-destruct after a certain amount of time. Google introduced a similar feature with Allo … | Continue reading
Australian demographer Bernard Salt caused outrage recently when he suggested millennials could afford to buy houses if they stopped spending money on smashed avocado on toast. Brands jumped on it, leveraging the publicity for their own business. Today, the Brand Newsroom team ta … | Continue reading
For the first time since 2001, Apple's annual revenue has declined year over year, falling from $233.7 billion in 2015 to $217 billion in the 2016 fiscal year. That 9 percent decline marks the first annual revenue drop since 2001, largely due to the continued decline in iPhone sa … | Continue reading
GUEST: Around this time last year, chatbots weren’t on our radar, generally speaking. Sure, AI-powered conversations with brands, a la Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, have been around for some time. But it was Facebook’s rollout of its chatbot API platform for Messenger in April … | Continue reading
More details about Apple’s software team for its not-so-secret car project are emerging. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple has hired quite a few engineers in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata. The company also opened an office over there and could be developing its car op … | Continue reading
Apple is still selling a lot of iPhones, but the numbers are continuing to slide from 2015 numbers. The company reported Q4 2016 iPhones sales of 45.51 million units. This compares to 48 million units sold in the same quarter of last year. These numbers are largely in keeping, if … | Continue reading
Die neuen MacBook Pros werden mit einem Fingerabdrucksensor Apple Pay unterstützen, das ist seit dem Update auf macOS Sierra 10.12.1, gestern, klar. Nun hat MacRumors als erste die Bilder entdeckt, um das zu belegen - als Hilfe für Nutzer,... | Continue reading
Tesla was featured for the first time in Consumer Reports’ annual survey of vehicle reliability, but not in a good way. The upstart electric car company was ranked near the bottom, 25 out of 29, with the publication knocking the Model X SUV for "abundant problems, including frequ … | Continue reading