Focus On How To Be Social, Not On How To Do Social

In my Weekend Update Newsletter I share great content I found this past week. | Continue reading


@schneiderb.com | 8 years ago

Microsoft teases new Live Tiles for Windows 10

Microsoft has been working on making its signature Live Tiles much more interactive and capable for a couple of years now. While the software maker has tweaked the Live Tiles UI several times since Windows 8's original introduction, the fundamental way you interact with Windows 1 … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Hacking reciprocity

We're wired to return the favor. When someone opens a door for us, our instinct is to hold the next door for them. This generous response has led some marketers to aggressively take advantage. They do a favor for someone... | Continue reading


@sethgodin.typepad.com | 8 years ago

Sharp and Foxconn ready to sign $4 billion takeover agreement

(Reuters) – Sharp and Taiwan’s Foxconn are set to sign a takeover deal next week after repeated delays, with the two sides set to agree on a smaller bailout than originally planned for the troubled Japanese electronics maker, Japanese media said on Saturday. The two companies wil … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Amazon plant Zwei-Stunden-Lieferung in Berlin

„Amazon Prime Now"-Kunden sollen in Berlin künftig schon zwei Stunden nach Bestellung ihr Paket in den Händen halten. Das berichtet die Zeitung Die Welt heute morgen. Die Zustellaufträge wolle das Internetkaufhaus vorerst an fr... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 8 years ago

The 10 biggest European tech stories this week

This week, Tech.eu tracked 47 funding deals and 13 M&A transactions in Europe and Israel. Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, along with interesting news regarding fledgling European startups, tech investors old and new, a number of … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Lakers' D'Angelo Russell carried off with sprained ankle

Lakers rookie guard D'Angelo Russell was carried off the court Friday night after spraining his right ankle. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 8 years ago

Ex-Warrior David Lee gets championship ring

David Lee got one last loud ovation from the Golden State crowd. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 8 years ago

Uber recruiting engineers by randomly sending a coding game to play during rides

Microsoft engineer Joshua Debner was taking an Uber in Seattle to meet a friend when the new notification popped up on the screen. Uber wanted to play a game called Code on the Road. Uber confirmed to Business Insider that it’s found a new way to lure engineers to work for the fa … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Getting Your Startup “On the Map” – Content Marketing Tips

Content marketing is an ever-evolving and challenging endeavor for a business. Using these 9 strategies, however, will get your startup launched and noticed by those who will become your customers. You have to commit to content marketing as a daily responsibility and understand t … | Continue reading


@digitalinformationworld.com | 8 years ago

We're Streaming iOS Games Live on Mobcrush [RPGs On Saturday Mornings With Shaun!]

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


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

What marketers can learn from the economy of convenience

If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let’s just say the idea that I can hold this thing, this little cloth rectangle of varying denomination, and exchange it for tangible goods and service … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Emissary of Humankind

Comparative Communist Political Systems was one of the more desultory courses I took in college. The reading list was brutal, and I h... | Continue reading


@blog.themightycopywriter.com | 8 years ago

Master the JavaScript Interview: What is a Pure Function?

Pure functions are essential for a variety of purposes, including functional programming, reliable concurrency, and React+Redux apps. But…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

Nowitzki expects to opt in, retire as a Maverick unless…

When Dirk Nowitzki climbed higher one night earlier this season on the NBA’s all-time scoring list – the one that doesn’t count points from the old American Basketball Association, and thus pushes Julius Erving and Moses Malone farther down in the pecking order – a reporter remar … | Continue reading


@nba.com | 8 years ago

VR Sports, Ninja Trainer reveal VR’s potential for destruction

I hit a man last week. Actually, I hit him three times. Now, these were not deliberate acts of violence. No — they were accidental moments of virtual reality havoc. If you remember the early days of Nintendo’s Wii motion-controller console, you can probably recall people breaking … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Who can hack an iPhone for the FBI? Clues point to Cellebrite in Israel.

The FBI has been trying to hack into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter for months. But this week, when the Justice Department suddenly announced that a mysterious "outside party" was helping investigators access the data, security experts wondered who might be capable … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge vs Nexus 6P

The Samsung Galaxy S7 hype is calming down and it is time to make a more sensible decision. Will you go for the Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, or is the Nexus 6P still the better bet for your needs? | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

The TouchArcade Show - 250 - Nobody Got Sick!

We kick off this week's podcast with a quick health check, and it'd appear that miraculously no one got sick at GDC. Mike regales us with a tale of meeting "young people," and then we dive deep into talking about games. Those discussed include Thomas Was Alone [$1.99], Basketball … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

DARPA kicks off $2m Grand Challenge focused on intelligently splitting up radio spectrum

DARPA has a new Grand Challenge underway, but it’s not an automation moonshot like the self-driving car challenges of the early 2000s or the recent Robotics Challenge. The Defense Department’s R&D wing wants to revolutionize something with a bit less sex appeal, but plenty of rea … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Live is having a moment

Twitter, which turned 10 this week, has apparently made Live its entire organizing principle. At an all-hands meeting last month, Mark Zuckerberg declared live video a top priority for Facebook. Clearly, Zuck’s directing his fight toward Twitter’s Periscope, a mobile live streami … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Verizon says security breach leads to customer data leak

(Reuters) – Verizon said an attacker had exploited a security vulnerability on its enterprise client portal to steal contact information of a number of customers. The company said the attacker however did not gain access to Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) or other … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

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@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Winning in The Subscription Economy

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@jeffkorhan.com | 8 years ago

2020 is set to be the biggest year yet for Mars exploration

2020 is set to be a good year for Mars exploration. The United States, China, the United Arab Emirates, Europe, and Russia all have planned Mars missions that are scheduled to launch, or likely to launch, in that year. There have been over 40 missions to Mars throughout history. … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

TouchArcade Game of the Week: 'King Rabbit'

The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Lawmakers pushing to make owning an unregistered prepaid phone illegal

If this bill passes, anyone who purchases a prepaid cell phone will be forced to register their identity with their device. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Bitcoin Prices Steady As Subsidy Halving Inches Closer

Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global digital currency markets, and the technology's use case as an asset class. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

Writing A Ray Tracer in Go - Part 2

This is part 2 of my journey to try and write a ray/path tracer in Go. Checkout part 1 here.I’m roughly following the e-book Ray Tracing in One Weekend, but translating all of the code into Go.In the previous post we covered how a path tracer works and got an image to display on … | Continue reading


@markphelps.me | 8 years ago

Microsoft’s giant Surface whiteboard is finally shipping after numerous delays

After a whole series of delays, Microsoft is finally ready to release its up to $22,000 Surface Hub to the businesses. If  you’re not familiar, the Surface Hub is giant all-in-one touchscreen PC designed for conference rooms and teams. It supports dual pen input (the pens are mor … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Amazon reveals how to build an Echo speaker with the Raspberry Pi

Amazon wants to push its Alexa voice assistant as far and wide as possible, so much so that one of the company's employees has released a step-by-step guide to building an Alexa-powered speaker yourself with a Raspberry Pi. The do-it-yourself Echo can be made with a $40 Raspberry … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Prison Break Action Platformer 'Prison Run and Gun' Hits the App Store March 30th

Back in January we told you about Prison Run and Gun, an action platformer shooter that was a mobile spinoff of the desktop action platformer shooter Hot Guns that's currently on Steam Early Access. While both games look pretty similar, Hot Guns is actually designed around 2-4 pl … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Report: Snapchat users spend roughly 30 minutes daily in-app

In an attempt to look good in front of advertisers, Snapchat is touting its ability to hypnotize its fervent teen base into consuming content. According to a report from Business Insider, citing a source familiar with the matter, Snapchat is now saying that its users spend betwee … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Third Resident Evil CGI film announced

A third CGI Resident Evil film has been announced. This one's called Resident Evil: Vendetta. Animation studio Marza Animation Planet (Harlo… | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

The FAA logged more than 500 drone incidents in six months

Airplanes and helicopters no longer have the skies to themselves. A new report from the FAA lists 583 separate drone incidents reported from August 2015 through January 2016. The majority of the incidents are minor, with pilots or bystanders reporting drones that are flying in re … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Do not blame Google Maps when you tear down the wrong house

I think it's a good thing to give people second chances, and often even third and fourth chances, and to be accepting of people's mistakes, because mistakes happen and everyone makes them and often life goes on. But if you are tearing down someone's house, please take the time to … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Wander the Batcave with Google Maps

Google Maps hasteamed up with Batman v Superman to create a 360-degree tour of Bruce Wayne’s home and the Batcave. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund

Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of Paypal, will remain at the helm, with partners Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nola … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

This is your next jam: Baauer, Whitney, and more

Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I’m excited to get back to your regularly scheduled jamming after spending last week in Austin for SXSW. Of course, half of the artists featured this week had some kind of SXSW presence to … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Microsoft apologizes for hijacked chatbot Tay’s ‘wildly inappropriate’ tweets

The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft’s Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true that Hitler did nothing wrong? After a day of silence (and presumably of penance), the company … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Wolves owner Taylor plans to keep Newton as GM for now

Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor says he plans to keep general manager Milt Newton on through the draft and free agency to fully evaluate him. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 8 years ago

Focus on Social Media – Weekly Roundup

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@jacksonmarketingservices.com | 8 years ago

'Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP' Just Turned 5, Play or Revisit This Classic

One of the best and most important games in iOS history, Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery EP [$1.99], just turned 5 today. It's an utter classic, and if you haven't played it, then you really, really should – it's a stunning artistic achievement, features amazing sound and music, … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

What Came First, Bitcoin or Ransomware?

In a ransomware attack, our assumptions that the hackers prefer the ransom paid in bitcoin due to the anonymous nature of its transactions may not be true | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Doom details its four playable demons

Id Software's Doom reboot will be the first game in the long-running series to let you play as a demon and publisher Bethesda has outlined how hoofing it as a baddie will work.As it turns out, there are four demons you can transform into by snagging a demon rune in multiplayer.Th … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Microsoft apologizes for ‘offensive and hurtful tweets’ from its AI bot

Microsoft today published an apology for its Twitter chatbot Tay, saying in a blog post that a subset of human users exploited a flaw in the program to transform it into a hate speech-spewing Hitler apologist. Author Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Casio Android Wear watch hits the market at $500

Casio has just launched their inelegantly named but elegantly designed Smart Outdoor Watch WSD-F10 on the Google Play Store, Amazon, REI, and the Casio store. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

'Final Fantasy Record Keeper' Gets Rewards and Special Dungeons for its First Anniversary

DeNA and Square Enix's Final Fantasy Record Keeper [Free] is celebrating its first birthday as a worldwide game. There was a time when several TA staffers were deep in the thrall of this game, and I'm pretty sure a certain unnamed RPG expert on staff has sunk triple-digit hours i … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago