Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently, fueled by the 11 million people who contacted the Telecom Regulatory Authority of … | Continue reading
Now that the HTC Vive is out in the wild, and the in-depth reviews are coming in, the question becomes: What can you really do with it? One of the answers is that you can use the Tilt Brush app to paint in virtual reality, and now Google, the owner of Tilt Brush, has rolled out s … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Q1 research from VentureBeat Insight shows that the venture capital landscape for martech shows no sign of slowing down. Join Ravi Belani, partner at Alchemist Accelerator, Adam J. Plotkin, partner at ff Venture Capital, and VB analyst Jon Cifuentes to learn about the … | Continue reading
I discovered the feature I use most on Inbox is a link to Gmail.Related posts:The Google reader makes me feel illiterate (or, Why can’t Rex read?) Twitter joins the email address as universal-identifier club Google vs. Microsoft vs. Intuit vs. Yahoo! for small businesses update | Continue reading
Most publishers have stopped making premium-priced massively multiplayer online games, but the industry still has a number of consumers who want to pay for that content. Korean developer Daum Games has sold more than 400,000 copies of its Black Desert Online MMO role-playing game … | Continue reading
Everybody likes a good fitness tracker, but nobody is thinking about the children. The poor dears are being left out of the wearable revolution — looks like it’s up to Adidas to put a gadget on every wrist and a smile on every PE teacher’s face. Read More | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that it’s releasing a 64-bit (x64) version of Windows 10 IoT Core Pro, a special flavor of the edition of Windows 10 designed for small Internet-connected devices that’s exclusively available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM). “This will enable O … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
As Microsoft’s mobile platform continues to bob aimlessly in an ocean of iOS and Android, the company may be delaying its rumored Surface Phone devices until 2017.At least, that’s what a report from Windows Central’s Daniel Rubino suggests. Citing “sources close to Microsoft’s pl … | Continue reading
Youtuber Dr. Moddnstein didn't want to see this 1978 TV go into the trash, so he turned it into a portable Chromecast set. | Continue reading
Nest today responded to a torrent of criticism over its decision to deactivate Revolv smart home hubs. Following a viral Medium post from a displeased Revolv owner, Nest now says it's working with customers to find a better solution. In lieu of reversing the decision, the company … | Continue reading
Massachusetts General Hospital is buying into deep learning artificial intelligence, and it will use Nvidia’s new DGX-1 deep-learning supercomputer that was announced today. Nvidia is partnering with the MGH Clinical Data Science Center, which wants to advance health care with AI … | Continue reading
Collaborative Fund is launching a new fund today. Called the Collab+Consumer fund, it’s part of Collaborative Fund’s third $70 million fund that’s geared toward finding companies that make consumer goods — like food and clothing. To be sure, the space is heating up. There are eme … | Continue reading
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One of the biggest organizations representing game developers had some strong words for Nintendo’s recent actions. Today, International Game Developers Association executive director Kate Edwards issued a statement about Nintendo’s dismissal of Treehouse marketing employee Alison … | Continue reading
Remember Eisenhorn: Xenos? Pixel Hero Games' action game set in the Warhammer universe based on the Eisenhorn books? Well, the good news is that the game is still kicking, as the developers have released a new trailer today, and a release date for the PC version is set for May 19 … | Continue reading
Just like you, Apple News is now using Twitter to share articles curated by its US-based editorial team. The account currently has around 6,800 followers. Unfortunately, we can’t tell if that’s because News readers simply haven’t found it or because there aren’t many Apple News r … | Continue reading
How would you feel if a robot asked you to touch its butt? Maybe it sounds like a silly question (actually, there’s no maybe about it), but as robots proliferate and anthropomorphize, it’s actually something that needs to be considered. So scientists at Stanford considered it. Re … | Continue reading
Samsung has introduced a bonus for Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge owners with a game pack featuring 16 freemium games through its Galaxy Apps store. | Continue reading
Amazon filed a long note to its investors this afternoon reviewing the state of its current businesses and explaining how it thinks about developing new products and services. As part of the letter, company CEO Jeff Bezos took time to comment on Amazon's corporate culture, provid … | Continue reading
GUEST: In the midst of the Apple-FBI dispute over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, countless tech companies took the rare step of publicizing views in “friends of the court” briefs, statements, and interviews. The sheer number, nearly 40, filing amicus briefs — Facebook, Goog … | Continue reading
The autonomous race cars in the upcoming Roborace driverless racing series will use Nvidia's Drive PX 2 supercomputer as a brain.The PX 2, which was announced back at CES in January, uses 12 CPU cores to produce eight teraflops of computing power and 24 trillion operations a seco … | Continue reading
Card combat game and third-person action brawler hybrid Hand of Fate is getting a sequel next year for PC, Mac and Linux.Like the first Hand of Fate, players will compete against an ominous dealer through a mix of card-based combat and third-person real-time fisticuffs. Storywise … | Continue reading
WALT is a tool that lets developers measure audio and touch latency on android devices, and Google is giving the source code away for free. | Continue reading
A short time ago, on a wind-swept plain not that far away, there sat a thing of beauty: a life-size replica of the All Terrain Scout Transport from Return of the Jedi. Made of timber, plastic, and bits of scrap metal, the scout walker stands at a little over 27 feet tall, seats t … | Continue reading
Uber, one of the highest-valued companies in Silicon Valley history has had a turbulent ride to the top. Since inception, the company has lived in a near-constant state of backlash for some slight, either real or perceived. In recent months, Uber has come under fire for failing t … | Continue reading
Those folks over at Umbrella Games sure are burning the midnight oil. Not only did they announce and show us two new upcoming titles at GDC last month (the blocky RPG Magic Mountain and the one-touch platformer Back To Square One), but they've just announced yet another title tha … | Continue reading
The sophisticated neural networks underlying systems like Google’s Deep Dream and all manner of interesting experiments require a great deal of computing power. Nvidia proposes to put all that horsepower in a single box, specially engineered to meet the needs of AI researchers. R … | Continue reading
R3 is building a blockchain platform designed to work without a central controller while still working with banks and regulators. | Continue reading
The Amazon Echo is an incredible device, mostly because it lets you use voice commands to do everything from playing music to calling up an Uber to controlling your lights and thermostat.Shrink the Echo in half, cut the power cord and remove the hands-free voice commands and the … | Continue reading
Valve is about to combine two of the hottest buzztrends in gaming into one: spectating and VR. Its own Dota 2 title, rivaled in popularity as a spectator esport only by Riot's League of Legends, will get a VR spectator mode.The mode is teased briefly in a supercut on Valve's Stea … | Continue reading
Amazon has hired nearly all of the people who worked at Orbeus, a small startup with technology for identifying items and people in photos and videos using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Orbeus built an app for iOS and Android that could instantly tag photos, c … | Continue reading
I enjoyed Zootopia, Disney's new non-Pixar animated feature about a world in which predators and prey live in relative harmony. But I struggled to parse what the film was commenting on. I assumed race, but who does the film view as predator, and who is prey?This 45-minute documen … | Continue reading
On-demand bookings have become de rigueur in the mobile consumer space, allowing for last minute fitness classes, hotels, blowouts, and practically anything in between. Now, the concept comes to kids with a New York-based app called Sawyer. Taking advantage of this trend, Sawyer … | Continue reading
Slack has a lot of functions, but end-to-end encryption isn’t one of them, which makes the platform a no-go for some users. Along comes ClearChat to serve the needs of the slightly more security-conscious teams, with chat, file transfer and more. ClearChat describes its service a … | Continue reading
People get turned on when they touch a robot’s private parts.Let’s digest that for a minute. It’s the conclusion many reached after Stanford University researchers published a new study on what happens to people when a robot asks them to touch its nether regions.SEE ALSO: A man b … | Continue reading
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced to the world that a new Kindle is coming next week, and today The Wall Street Journal reported on at least some of what you can expect from the company's latest e-reader. According to the report, Amazon's new Kindle will come with a case that c … | Continue reading
Car races are definitely fun to watch, but they’re certainly not very safe. So Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced today that the company is creating a self-driving race car with an Nvidia-based supercomputer. The robot race car will have a Nvidia Drive PX 2 AI superc … | Continue reading
First Global Credit, is now offering 4 Chances to win a live trading account, loaded with up to 20 BTC of stock or at least 4 BTC of futures to start. | Continue reading
You want to play virtual reality games, but you don’t want to rack up a $10,000 veterinarian bill because you stepped on the dog. That’s reasonable, and one of the headsets has a solution to this. HTC’s Vive, which it built in partnership with SteamVR creator Valve, has an outwar … | Continue reading
Blockstream has hired online security pioneer Christopher Allen as its standards and identity practice specialist. | Continue reading
In an interview with the New York Daily News' editorial board this past week, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said that he wishes Apple would "be manufacturing some of their devices, here, in the United States rather than in China." He also said he wishes "they wou … | Continue reading
Ah, building a house of cards is a classic way to kill time. I used to love building card houses when I was a kid hanging out at my grandparents' house, but I was one of those jerks who would bend a card in half in order to get started rather than balancing two cards against each … | Continue reading
While Microsoft is no longer focusing their efforts on the Windows Phone platform, sources tell Windows Central the company is still going to bring several Surface Phones to the masses in 2017. Sources claim there will be three different variants of the device to suit various pri … | Continue reading
When I was young, maybe four or five, I struggled to fall asleep in the afternoon. I was a hyper kid, and I benefited from naps, but to the chagrin of my endlessly patient parents, I would run about like a wildling if given the opportunity. I've heard people recommend drinking wa … | Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk about Twitter being on the verge of imploding of late. The “Twitter is dead” Choir started to sing in February after data emerged suggesting the social texting service had flatlined: the number of daily tweets had halved compared to 2014; the number of … | Continue reading
By Saturday, Tesla Motors had secured over 276,000 pre-orders for its new mass-market Model 3.For as shocking — and truly unprecedented — a figure as that is, perhaps even more surprising was the fact that some 115,000 of those orders were placed before the car had even been unve … | Continue reading
The internet was supposed to destroy mass media.I’m paraphrasing here, but it was an idea that was kicking around a lot through the last two decades, from people like Howard Rheingold, Douglas Rushkoff, and even Jeff Jarvis. Instead of one camera broadcasting to millions of peopl … | Continue reading