If you're looking for something a little different than your standard battery pack, you should check out the Bump -- it's an odd little orb that acts as a wall outlet, battery pack and cable holder. | Continue reading
by Ginger Conlon, Editor in Chief, DMNews (excerpt) Time for change During his presentation at the Summit, Brian Solis (left), a principal analyst at Altimeter Group, also asserted that “the future of brand is experience.” Like Rencher, Solis pointed out that there’s a great deal … | Continue reading
Most people in business and finance (and most people, frankly) think that the new economy (of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines) is like the old economy: satisfying customers’ needs for products and services. But, the real heart of the new economy will be about help … | Continue reading
MedStar Health was forced offline this week after hackers took over its computer systems. An unconfirmed virus reportedly strangled the network and rendered it completely useless. Because of the attack, the healthcare operator’s 30,000 staff members and 3,000 affiliated physician … | Continue reading
2 for 1 tickets are being sold this Thursday: here's everything you need to know.The post How to redeem your 2 for 1 ticket this Thursday appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
The main purpose of this revised Bitcoin regulation is determining whether or not Bitcoin transactions would be subject to taxes. | Continue reading
Robocopp ist eine kleine Alarmanlage, die am Rucksack oder Gürtel befestigt werden kann. 120 Dezibel wird die sogenannten Soundgranate laut, wenn der Nippel oben gezogen wird und soll den Träger in Grenzsituationen helfen. Das kann in der... | Continue reading
Fallout 4's extra hard Survival Mode enters beta today on Steam and Bethesda has provided a full breakdown of everything this new challenge mode changes.… | Continue reading
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Microsoft isn’t doing so hot in mobile. That’s been its unfortunate story for years, as it’s played catch-up to Google and Apple ever since Windows Phone 7 launched in 2010. There’s plenty to blame: entering the game late, featuring underpowered hardware, missing features and a l … | Continue reading
The FBI has “successfully accessed the data” stored on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone without the help of Apple. | Continue reading
Tinder may soon let you do a lot more than swipe right.The company is acquiring Humin, the San Francisco startup behind the contact-management app of the same name. Humin is also behind Knock Knock, an app for connecting with people nearbySee also: These jobs get you the most rig … | Continue reading
Tim Attia, co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, said there’s “a ticking time bomb” threatening the on-demand economy — namely, insurance and liability. Attia’s tackling that problem with Slice, which will offer insurance for on-demand workers and providers, starting with rideshare d … | Continue reading
Dropcam co-founder and former CEO Greg Duffy has bitten back at Nest’s Tony Fadell, after Fadell claimed in an article published in the Information last week that “a lot of the [Dropcam] employees were not as good as we’d hoped…” and “unfortunately it wasn’t a very experienced te … | Continue reading
Hopper, the makers of a handy travel application that tells you the best time to fly in order to find the best deals, has now raised additional capital to continue to grow its business. It has also scored a partnership with American Airlines which allows it to sell AA’s tickets t … | Continue reading
Screen sizes on smartphones are getting bigger and bigger, but battery tech is lagging behind. As a heavy user of your smartphone, you’ll know that dreaded feeling of your battery marching towards extinction. The most common solution to the problem is to carry a charger or an USB … | Continue reading
Snapchat is making sure its addicted teens have absolutely every tool in their arsenal to communicate with each other, as a new update released today finally makes good on longstanding rumors of improving the app’s chat functions. The company outlined the details in a blog post: … | Continue reading
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It was a sunny afternoon in Manhattan and I needed a ride from Rockefeller Center to The Verge's office on West 40th Street. So, like thousands of people do everyday, I pulled out a smartphone, tapped an app, and requested a ride. Minutes later, a black GMC Yukon pulled up to the … | Continue reading
Vine, the six-second, looping video platform from Twitter, has just hired Hannah Donovan as the new general manager.Donovan has built her career in product and design leadership. Her most recent position was product lead at Drip, which was recently acquired by Kickstarter. Some e … | Continue reading
Years after its release, I thought I'd seen everything you could do in SNES classic Super Mario World.But now, someone has programmed Super Mario World from within the game - while playing it - so it transforms into a completely different and entirely functioning other game, Flap … | Continue reading
It didn’t quite add up when Fortune broke the news last week that Snapchat would spend a $100 million to acquire Bitstrips, the maker of personalized avatar stickers called Bitmoji. Snapchat didn’t have anywhere to put them. But today, Snapchat launched “Chat 2.0”, a huge product … | Continue reading
Google Photos just introduced a clever new feature that will let you edit photos without the risk of irreversibly altering the original. While previously users had to rely on duplicates to avoid making permanent changes to pictures, Google Photos now offers a nifty ‘Undo Edits’ b … | Continue reading
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Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate information into one contact app. Terms were undisclosed by TechCrunch understands from multiple sources that this roughly equat … | Continue reading
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Snapchat just stepped up its one-on-one chat features in a major way.The company added a host of new messaging features to its app Tuesday, including voice and video calling, audio and video notes and stickers.See also: 10 hidden tricks to make Snapchat infinitely betterFirst rum … | Continue reading
Publicly traded enterprise hardware company Brocade is announcing today that it has acquired StackStorm, a startup that built software for automating data center operations. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. StackStorm launched out of stealth mode in May 2014 and announced the … | Continue reading
Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0, a massive set of new features launching today. It lets private conversations morph between mediums depending on what users want to show or tell, and whether they can speak up or m … | Continue reading
Snapchat is releasing a major update today that bolsters its chat function with a variety of new multimedia features. The long-rumored update adds more than 200 stickers featuring walruses, sloths, aliens, and Snapchat's signature ghost, and they can be searched by keyword, as on … | Continue reading
Back in 2013 I came across an intriguing startup in Berlin which had a genuinely original take on social networking (hard, even then). Sharing your mood intimately with someone had been confined largely to Snapchat. But the startup that became Taptalk wanted to mine that idea eve … | Continue reading
WhatsApp is rolling out a beta update today that adds a multitude of features to customize your messaging experience. Most noticeable is the Quick Reply feature that lets you respond straight from the notification. You can attach emoji or a voice message in the toolbar as well. T … | Continue reading
A debate on YouTubers, let's play videos, and how they affect developers has been raised by one of the developers of That Dragon, Cancer, and while I think there's cogent arguments for developers negatively affected by the current status quo, I don't think they're strong enough t … | Continue reading
Sony just announced the RX10 III, a new version of the company's flagship superzoom camera. The biggest difference between the RX10 III and its predecessor is that it has a brand new super-telephoto lens with 25x optical zoom, giving it an equivalent range of 24-600mm. That's a t … | Continue reading
The new Acer Chromebook 14 bring a more “premium” look without breaking the bank, with a price tag of just $300. | Continue reading
Like people, headphones are complex, multifaceted, and idiosyncratic. Each has its own particular version of reality, and the ones you ultimately like best are those you believe you can trust. That's where I find myself with Beyerdynamic's second-generation T5p (aka T5p.2) headph … | Continue reading
Drohnen können jetzt also auch Kunst. Das MIT hat die Drohne Flying Pantograph entwickelt, die Zeichenbewegungen von einem Tisch auf eine vertikale Leinwand überträgt. Man sollte jetzt nicht davon ausgehen, dass die Drohne hyperreal... | Continue reading
As of last night, Apple’s San Bernardino troubles are officially over. Yesterday, the FBI announced that it no longer needs Apple’s help in breaking into an iPhone linked to last year’s attacks, thanks to a new method for unlocking the phone submitted by an anonymous outside sour … | Continue reading
This Sunday the WWE will host the Super Bowl of professional wrestling. Wrestlemania will takeover the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas, which has a maximum capacity of 105,000. If things go as the WWE plans, the show will be the biggest pro wrestling event in history. That's only p … | Continue reading
Chromebooks are finally growing up this year with bigger and sharper displays, premium design materials and ultra-long battery life.Acer's new Chromebook 14 ditches the usual plastic for an all-aluminum body that's both sturdier and sleeker looking. The 14 in its name has dual me … | Continue reading
The lesson is this: we shouldn’t be focusing on hardware anymore. Perhaps instead we need to focus on what happens when hardware and software come together. Read More | Continue reading
Speed and power can be limited by hardware capabilities, but there are a few tricks that will speed up your Chrome browser. | Continue reading
Meet Stratumn, a Paris-based startup that wants to create a platform-as-a-service for developers interested in the blockchain. With Stratumn, you can build, deploy and run applications on the company’s platform, and these applications can communicate with the bitcoin blockchain. … | Continue reading
I was born in 1983 in Estonia, a country then occupied by the Soviet Union. Isolated from the outside world and tightly constrained from within, we were prisoners in all but name. Our birthplace defined our future and limited our horizons. Growing up back then, there was one thin … | Continue reading
Valve has shut down an exploit which allowed games to be released on Steam without any kind of verification. Aware of the loophole, a coder… | Continue reading
The US Government is suing Volkswagen for false advertising as a result of VW misrepresenting the cleanliness of its diesel-powered cars in numerous advertisements over the past eight years.This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California by the US … | Continue reading
Nintendo has confirmed that its first smartphone game, Miitomo, will be available in the US and Europe from March 31 following its initial release in Japan. The game will be available to download on iOS and Android and users can import their Wii U and 3DS Miis using a special QR … | Continue reading
The latest WhatsApp update includes a Quick Reply feature (but not the one we all want), multiple selection capabilities and a new solid color background option. | Continue reading