Upvotes! What are they good for? Soon, they might get your very, very early stage company into Y Combinator. The incubator is experimenting with using the Hacker News community to pick startups for its Fellowship program. Read More | Continue reading
According to some pages from the “book” that Yahoo bankers have given out to prospective buyers, the financial situation at the Silicon Valley Internet giant is becoming increasingly dire.While I cannot show the documents I have obtained, Recode has gotten access to them. The boo … | Continue reading
Today, GIFs have become a popular way communicate sentiment online and in mobile messaging, where written text doesn’t always do the job. More expressive than an emoji, these looping images let you share a specific thought or feeling with little effort. But today, a new app is la … | Continue reading
Reddit is looking to shape itself a bit more around the needs of the individual user in order to make the community more accepting as a whole. Reddit users will soon be able to block and mute other users on the site so they can customize their experience, the New York Times repor … | Continue reading
We are in a world where high-end consumer virtual reality devices are shipping to people around the globe, but Microsoft is already preparing for the next era of computing. HoloLens is one of Microsoft’s new key products, and the company has a lot to say about what it means for t … | Continue reading
Y Combinator wants to see if crowdsourcing can help it find worthwhile startups to join its next batch of Fellowship startups. The organization’s latest experiment relies on the Hacker News community for help in choosing at least two startups to participate in its early-stage sta … | Continue reading
Nvidia is clearly pinning a large part of its future growth on the autonomous vehicle market -- both its development and delivery. It's even part of the DIY market for scale model versions. | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft are locked in a high-stakes battle for market share. But new data suggests that Lyft still has an uphill climb in its quest to compete on a level playing field with its larger, richer rival.About three-fourths of Lyft users also hail rides with Uber, but only a litt … | Continue reading
NVIDIA has released a new state-of-the-art chip that pushes the limits of machine learning. The Tesla P100 GPU, which CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed yesterday at NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference, can perform deep learning neural network tasks 12 times faster than NVIDIA's p … | Continue reading
The Intel Basis Peak launched in 2014 as a high-end fitness and sleep tracker. I’ve used it as my favorite wearable ever since. Now the Intel division is launching an update that allows you to control the music playing through your smartphone from the smartwatch. And it lets you … | Continue reading
Last month the Metal Gear Solid fan remake, Shadow Moses Project, was unceremoniously shut down, ostensibly due to legal pressure from Konami. But now the folks behind that, the Fan Legacy Team, have started a new MGS-related project with another person spurned by Konami: the ori … | Continue reading
The team behind Monstro is launching a new microfund called Monstro Ventures according to co-founder David Prager. For the unfamiliar, Monstro is an ad agency with headquarters in Oakland and another office in Los Angeles, that specializes in video creative, including videos that … | Continue reading
In a move to battle harassment on the site, Reddit today released a new tool for blocking users. The expanded blocking option, the company announced, will hide a user's content but not inform the user that they've been blocked. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Huawei unveiled its latest flagship smartphone this morning, the P9, and the big story here is its camera — or really, its camera system, since there are two of them. In the past, dual-camera systems have been used for 3D or focus-changing gimmicks, but Huawei has taken a differe … | Continue reading
Segment helps developers manage all the analytics data their apps and services generate. Besides fanning out this information to analytics services like Google Analytics and Mixpanel, or marketing tools like Marketo, all this data lands in a data warehouse. At best, though, all t … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Core, the volunteer community that develops the open-source bitcoin software, has announced a new sponsorship program. | Continue reading
The R3 consortium of financial institutions working on a blockchain-based solution to improve the financial services infrastructure has released an update on its initiative, which it calls “Corda.” Since the R3 consortium has continuously drawn more members among major institutio … | Continue reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook is joining the board of directors of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonprofit organization founded by the Kennedy family. Cook has been an outspoken CEO, personally defending equality and civil rights. In December 2015, Cook already received the Ripple of Ho … | Continue reading
Bringing us one step closer to the day when computers compete directly with humans in the arts, a new painting has been created using software to mimic the style of a masterThe painting, titled "The Next Rembrandt" (below), is the result of a team of developers who, with the tech … | Continue reading
A working group commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration has released a set of recommendations for how small drones should be regulated, opening a path for commercial drone flight over populated cities, and even creating a special class of drones that would be allowed … | Continue reading
Developer Joint Custody have announced their new project Scéal, a narrative-driven adventure for desktop and mobile, and it's one of the most unique looking games I've seen in a long time. Scéal (pronounced Shkeal for those playing at home) is about a girl who has died and return … | Continue reading
Today, Reddit has implemented a tool discussed earlier this week to help users curb harassment. The tool, described by the New York Times, is a new step in automating the regulation of the website’s more unruly sectors while keeping users safe. It’s also about a decade too late. … | Continue reading
The mobile fight for India continues with Samsung battling Apple in the luxury range with Chinese providers like Xiaomi competing below. | Continue reading
Schools in the U.S. may soon be testing a new fitness tracker from Adidas in kindergarten through high school gym classes to keep track of the health of its students. Back in 2015, Adidas announced it was working on an initiative to keep students active, but the company is finall … | Continue reading
Publishers are continuously looking for new ways to expand their reach. One sure bet? Video.Even Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recognizes this. Discussing the company’s performance last year, he told media how video remains central on the News Feed of its users. “We’re ente … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs. This is the first build released since Build 2016, where the company announced the the Windows 10 Anniversary Update coming this summer. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still buil … | Continue reading
On Monday, the Associated Press got early access to a report commissioned by the FAA on how drones flying over or near people should be categorized and restricted. Today, that report was officially released, with all the juicy (and boring) details you’ve come to expect from gover … | Continue reading
If your smartphone and mobile network support voice over LTE (VoLTE) calls, you're probably aware of how much better and clearer they sound than regular old phone calls. More and more devices now support VoLTE, though it's by no means a certainty that every call you place will ut … | Continue reading
Astronomers may have found an explanation for the origins of a strange, radioactive material found deep inside Earth’s oceanic crusts. Much of the material, called iron-60, seems to come from two supernovae explosions that occurred millions of years ago, according to a new study … | Continue reading
Ever had services like Yelp and Pinterest mercilessly boot you off their mobile site and force you to download a native app whether you want it or not? Pinterest’s product lead for growth, Casey Winters, can tell you why that happens because he’s “the asshole that makes Pinterest … | Continue reading
Google recently changed the layout of its AdWords ads in the search engine results pages, which will affect digital advertising strategies for many. | Continue reading
Microsoft is releasing a new test build of Windows 10 today, just a week after the company announced some new features for the OS. The biggest addition is running native Bash on Ubuntu in Windows 10, and testers will have access to test this feature today. Windows 10 build 14316 … | Continue reading
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Microsoft’s first big update to Windows 10 was the biggest news to come out of its Build event last week. Now it’s finally ready to be tested by the public – Microsoft has released the first preview for the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to its Insider beta-testing program. There … | Continue reading
Apparently setting up accounts for your cute pets on Instagram and Vine is a thing. It’s also a thing that people follow said accounts. To complete the trifecta, brands pay big money for sponsored content from four-legged Insta-celebs. In fact, many of these pets make significant … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (By Mari Saito, Reuters) – In a letter sent to shareholders on Tuesday, Amazon.com Inc’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, defended the online retailer’s corporate culture, which was the subject of a critical report by The New York Times last year. Bezos note … | Continue reading
Gal Gadot's portrayal of Wonder Woman was one of the few highlights of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and now her standalone movie will be coming out sooner than originally anticipated. Variety reports that Warner Bros. has moved up the release date of Wonder Woman to June 2 … | Continue reading
You may have innocently filled out a Google poll before accessing an article on the Web. Or you may have already downloaded Google’s polling app that gets you to answer questions in exchange for credits for the Play store. You may not have done either. Either way, Google is in th … | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of 360 cameras on the market these days. If you have a desire to shoot immersive video and a ton of disposable income there’s nothing stopping you! The issue is what happens to that content after its captured. I’d say 90% of the photos I take on my DSLR never … | Continue reading
We bring this to you with a huge heaping bowl of salt, especially in a world where elaborate fakes can be created in a world of 3D printing and Photoshop. But a YouTube user uploaded a video of their recently-updated PlayStation app [Free] having a Remote Play feature in the app, … | Continue reading
Die notorischen Zeitlupenfilmer The Slow Mo Guys schaffen es dann doch immer wieder gut und interessant zu unterhalten, ob mit simplen Farbspritzern, einschlagenden Taser-Pfeilen oder der Zunge in der Mausefalle (warum auch immer), in ihrem neusten... | Continue reading
Taco Bell is riding the bot wave in a big way: the fast food chain today announced a new integration with workplace messaging company Slack to offer an artificial-intelligence-powered ordering service. Aptly named TacoBot, the software will make use of AI advancements like natura … | Continue reading
This week, the world has been attempting to make sense of the 11.5 million documents stolen from a law firm in Panama that has been allegedly been helping the rich and famous hide their money from the world’s tax men. In little over 48 hours, it has already had its first major po … | Continue reading
Vivaldi has launched its new desktop browser today after months of beta testing, and it’s hoping to give users an alternative to market leaders, such as Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari. Rather than slimming down the desktop browser, making it possible to add extensions, Vivald … | Continue reading
iOS users may no longer have to hide stock apps that they don’t want or use inside unnamed folders on their home screens. Apple quietly added new keys to iTunes’ metadata recently that suggest some apps might soon be hideable. The keys say "isFirstParty" and "isFirstPartyHideable … | Continue reading
Pizza chain, and unashamed Hatsune Miku fan club, Domino's has announced its latest innovation in food ordering: an app that orders a pizza with "zero clicks."The process isn't quite hassle-free. To order a pizza with "zero clicks," a customer must first download the app, connect … | Continue reading
At the start of Catastrophe’s second season, Rob (Rob Delaney) and Sharon (Sharon Horgan) are idly lying in bed. The first thing we notice is that Sharon is pregnant, which is startling — the previous season ended with Sharon giving birth to the child she and Rob had conceived du … | Continue reading
Those iOS apps you don’t use — you know, the ones you’ve tucked away in a folder on your third or fourth home screen — may soon be completely out of the way, according to some iTunes metadata. First spotted by AppAdvice, Apple seems to have added some keys for ‘isFirstParty’ and … | Continue reading