Did you torrent ‘Expendables 3’ instead of — well, spending money on a terrible movie? If you did, three of the larger sites that distributed it have been ordered to pay $450,000 for their troubles. In California, a Judge has ordered defendants from three sites — Muhammed Ashraf … | Continue reading
Spurred by Ethereum’s recent high-profile write up in the New York Times, Chris DeRose, Community Director at the Counterparty Foundation took to Twitter to vent his disbelief that Ethereum will amount to all its hype. On DeRose’s personal Twitter page, he sent a tweet to Bitcoin … | Continue reading
As the Oculus Rift begins to reach the hands of the masses today, the VR company said today in a blog post that its devs will have the opportunity to deliver their games on other platforms that support VR. Detailed in the blog post, Oculus gives a pretty flexible deal to its deve … | Continue reading
As anyone who has watched recent seasons of The Walking Dead is more than happy to tell you, Michonne is a total bad-ass. You could make a strong argument that she's the most bad-ass, but, all that's going to do is start an argument with Daryl fans. Anyway, The Walking Dead: Mich … | Continue reading
Sony’s rumored Playstation 4.5 is a step closer to being reality. According to the Wall Street Journal’s sources, the more powerful brother of the PS4 could be coming as soon as the third quarter — ahead of the planned October release of Sony’s virtual reality headset, PlayStatio … | Continue reading
An Oxford University event for computing professionals will explore applications for blockchain tech in cloud computing. | Continue reading
Facebook’s Oculus Rift began delivering Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets today to customers in more than 20 countries and regions. The first units are going out to the fans who backed the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that raised $10 million for the startup back in 2012, … | Continue reading
Prominent bitcoin platform CoinKite which has provided the Bitcoin community with secure and robust multi-sig wallets, merchant tools and developer API has announced today that the company will terminate its bitcoin web wallet service and developer API. Coinkite emphasizes that t … | Continue reading
We’ve all have the opportunity to make an important mindset shift, to give ourselves the gift of a reinvented life. You can do it too. Start today. | Continue reading
Today, the future became the present with the launch of the Oculus Rift. The reviews are in, but uncertainly hangs overhead with HTC and PlayStation’s VR headsets still on the way.Here are the tough questions that will determine what you should buy, the distribution of power betw … | Continue reading
We originally posted about Risky Lab's Warbits way back in April of 2014, and now nearly two years later to the day and Warbits is finally set to hit the App Store in a couple of weeks, on April 14th. For a refresher course, Warbits is a turn-based strategy game that's an homage … | Continue reading
For the past three years, Samsung has built an elements-resistant version of its annual Galaxy S flagship, and the first official evidence of a Galaxy S7 Active just appeared in a Google Play Store app listing. The purported handset is listed as a compatible device in the latest … | Continue reading
This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As a journalist, I often interview people about their perspectives on the game industry, and I keep my own views in the background. As a blogger, I’ve been able to blend … | Continue reading
Coinkite has announced it is winding down its web wallet in an effort to focus on enterprise hardware products. | Continue reading
Wie wichtig ist smartes Experience-Design? Das aktuelle Buch von Brian Solis gibt Antworten. (Grafik: altimetergroup.com) Brian Solis zu Experience-Design: „Unternehmen haben sich immer weiter vom Kunden entfernt“ via t3n Brian Solis ist Digital-Analyst, Keynote-Sprecher und erfo … | Continue reading
A brand's credibility is more important to consumers than ever before. Is your brand establishing the credibility it needs to succeed? | Continue reading
by Mark Johnson, Loyalty360, excerpt If you ask 100 executives what customer experience means to them, you would likely get 100 different answers. The need to define CX is compounded by the fact that modern customers expect the very best customer experience from their favorite br … | Continue reading
We're all familiar with binge-watching shows on Netflix, only to be rudely interrupted by the prompt that asks ... "Are you still watching?"Of course, we're still watching. We're always watching, Netflix.See also: Netflix has tons of hidden categories — here's how to see themBut … | Continue reading
Popular OS X and Linux BitTorrent client Transmission is coming to Windows. It’s not quite ready for prime time, but gHacks spotted the first Windows build on the official repository. But it’s already better than any other Windows BitTorrent client out there. Read More | Continue reading
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Seeing as the first teaser trailer for The Lego Batman Movie did so well last week, Warner Bros. saw fit to release another. In this new spot (which actually played before Batman v Superman in theaters) we see Bruce (Will Arnett) brooding over his dead parents. After Alfred arriv … | Continue reading
We’ve recently added video streaming service to Mail.Ru Cloud . Development started w... | Continue reading
Because everything is “smart” these days, wine bottles are getting an Internet connection, too. Meet Kuvée, a refillable case that keeps wine fresh for up to 30 days. Announcing $6 million in funding from General Catalyst, Founder Collective and others, Kuvée aims to impress your … | Continue reading
I believe the universe tries to speak to us, but to hear it we must choose to listen. This morning, I awoke to the inexplicable news that Batman v Superman, a movie broadly loathed by the critics, broke a number of box office records, raking in $416 million in global box office r … | Continue reading
Remember the chaos surrounding Kanye West’s release of his new album, “The Life of Pablo” last month? The artist had originally said his album would be a Tidal exclusive, which drove fans to download the streaming music app in such great numbers that it ended up at the top of the … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price broke above its narrow 4-day trading range, but may soon re-enter the horizontal layer that has been constraining market activity. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 disc … | Continue reading
The Kuvée Bottle is, without question, one of the most ridiculous Internet of Things devices I've ever seen. It's a Wi-Fi connected wine bottle with a touchscreen that needs to be constantly recharged and is only compatible with proprietary wine cartridges. In exchange for this h … | Continue reading
Facebook could be gearing up to roll out new Messenger features, like in-store payment for goods and services and new chat options. According to The Information, comments in the code of the iPhone version of Messenger suggest that Facebook’s about to make a whole lot more effort … | Continue reading
Muslim blood is cheap. It’s very easy to depict Muslims as the villains in video games these days. The depiction of Muslims in video games is slanted in a way that reflects the storytelling biases of non-Muslim Westerners. And the voices and perspectives of a minority group that … | Continue reading
Welcome to another weekly roundup of Hearthstone [Free] news, and as has been the case the last few weeks, Whispers of the Old Gods news is what's capturing all the headlines. We continue to see a trickle of cards spoiled daily, with some creating anticipation while others having … | Continue reading
Stalking on Instagram is going to change forever.Instagram is testing a new search bar that'll let you search a specific person's followers, as well as who they're following. The search bars appear under the "Followers" and "Following" section within the app.While Mashable recent … | Continue reading
Andre Swanston, CEO of Tru Optik, argued that there’s been one big obstacle to advertising on Internet-connected TVs — measurement. Naturally, Swanston is pitching Tru Optik’s technology as the solution. The company started out by measuring how video content gets shared through p … | Continue reading
The LG G5 goes on sale in the U.S. at the end of this week. Are you buying one? | Continue reading
Video network Vimeo has taken another step forward today with its efforts to better promote its original content – meaning those movies and programs available for rent or purchase on its network. Today, the company is making it possible for viewers to rent or buy films and series … | Continue reading
Tumblr users can now interact with one another more easily. Today, the blogging platform is bringing back replies and launching the redesign of its notes feature. Tumblr’s been working on overhauling the reply format since it pulled the feature in November 2015. Readers could pre … | Continue reading
They're calling it "passive immunization," and it could be the next step on the path to a cure. | Continue reading
Enjoy is expanding into its third city, bringing the technology delivery and setup service to Los Angeles with plans already set to launch next in Chicago. This expansion phase comes nearly a year after operations began in San Francisco and New York. Started by former Apple retai … | Continue reading
Tumblr is announcing a couple of updates to its platform today that should make it a much better tool for hosting online discussions, and a lot of users happy. First up, Tumblr is bringing back replies and making them much more conversational; the company had killed them off in N … | Continue reading
On Christmas Eve, 2013, Beyoncé and Jay Z hit a small SoHo boutique for a $6,000 shopping spree. Normally, this might not have been newsworthy. But the boutique in question was Babeland, an upscale sex toy shop known more for its collection of butt plugs than Balenciaga.Within da … | Continue reading
Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr this morning announced two changes to its service designed to encourage more conversations and increase engagement around posts and other content. The company is bringing back its Replies feature, removed several months ago, and it’s rolling o … | Continue reading
Earlier on today, we looked at the downward sloping channel that was forming in the bitcoin price, and suggested that – as a result of the fact the price was trading just shy of the channel’s resistance line – we may be in for some near term short side action. The European sessio … | Continue reading
No show likes to troll its audience quite like The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there’s something unique about The Walking Dead’s ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Regrettably, I've been wrestling with a humdinger of a cold for the last few days, so this week's article is going to be slightly less thorough than u … | Continue reading
Last week, Apple unveiled a new (well, a smaller version) piece of hardware, the baby iPad Pro. Ive would, from the inside of a perfect white cube, espouse the virtues of the product using phrases such as, “Good is the enemy of great,” “The memory of how we work will endure beyon … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: George Ugras has joined IBM as managing director of IBM Ventures. That’s a big job, considering how much money IBM throws into its strategic investments. Big Blue doesn’t disclose exactly how much it puts into investments. But the company did say that in 2015 it invest … | Continue reading
This weekend, Periscope celebrated its one-year anniversary by revisiting some of the broadcasts that have been on the service. And what an active 12 months it has been. Periscope has gone from being a startup to being acquired to rising to prominence within Twitter’s ranks as a … | Continue reading
On Saturday, Periscope officially turned one year old. To celebrate, it’s releasing some statistics — and they’re impressive. With over 200 million broadcasts over the course of its first year, Periscope now says we watch a whopping 110 years of video per day. For comparison, we … | Continue reading