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Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry is not starting and not expected to play against the Celtics as he rests a sore right elbow. | Continue reading
It looks like livestreaming is becoming a thing again. In the wake of Twitter’s desire to build out Periscope and Facebook’s eagerness to push Live Videos to the masses, it seems Google does not want to be left behind. According to a report from VentureBeat, which cited a source, … | Continue reading
Shyp announced today that it has laid off 8 percent of its “teammates” in an effort to propel the on-demand shipping and courier service towards profitability this year. It declined to provide specific numbers about the departures, instead referring VentureBeat to chief executive … | Continue reading
Sony's PlayStation VR headset doesn't start shipping until October, but preorders for the virtual reality headset are already going fast. Amazon's stock quickly sold out after its page went live on Tuesday, but those who missed the first round will have an opportunity to plunk do … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Google has quietly been building a new live streaming app called YouTube Connect, VentureBeat has learned. This service highlights the company’s efforts to double down on live video while also placing it in a position to compete directly against Twitter’s Periscope and … | Continue reading
The 2016 New York International Auto Show was less intense than previous years. With no jaw dropping reveals, it felt as if Mazda captured a bulk of the spotlight with the debut of it's beautiful little Miata MX-5RF sports carThere is more than enough eye candy to keep the show i … | Continue reading
The most curious waiting game in the league right now involves the Heat and Chris Bosh and whether the team and player can realistically see him on the floor again this season. So far, it’s still inconclusive. A Wednesday report in the Miami Herald hits that there’s some medical … | Continue reading
BMW was among the first auto manufacturers to introduce integration with iPhones in 2011. Now, five years later, the company has at last announced at the New York International Auto Show that BMW Apps will integrate with Android devices. The first three apps to work with the iDri … | Continue reading
GUEST: There are many reasons to found a startup — and many reasons to work at a startup. But there’s only one reason your company got funded: Liquidity. The good news To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. But startups require money upfront for product developme … | Continue reading
Smartphone cameras have become a crucial part of our daily existence as they aimed (and succeeded) in superseding our need to carry a dedicated camera. Most succeed to varying degrees of success, but some are more reliable than others at those special occasions where you want to … | Continue reading
If traveling first class is just a teensy bit too plebeian for you, JetSmarter has you covered. The company lets you book a private jet from your smartphone, and announced today it is expanding into Europe, with scheduled routes between London, Nice, Paris, Geneva and Moscow. Jet … | Continue reading
Paul G. Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, has donated $100 million to launch The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group. This new program is meant to push the boundaries of science through grants to centers and individual researchers.The group has established two centers so far, one at Sta … | Continue reading
Netflix.om is not the same as Netflix.com.While it's common for hackers to lure unsuspecting web users to sites with URLs that include commonly typed typos, more typosquatters are using Oman's ".om" country suffix because an ".om" looks a lot like a ".com." In fact, there's been … | Continue reading
What was your March 22nd, 2016 like? If you're Martha Stewart, it was a totally chill day of dune-bashing and camel riding in the deserts of Doha, Qatar.Just finished dune bashing in the desert Scary,fun and camel riding the dunes is equally exciting if less predictable— Martha S … | Continue reading
Fresh off more than $3m in funding, Chronicled CEO Ryan Orr talks about his startup and its go-market strategy. | Continue reading
Hyundai's upstart luxury brand Genesis — think Lexus to Toyota or Acura to Honda — has unveiled its next car. It's a sports sedan called the New York Concept and, refreshingly, it actually looks rather special.It's not special in the sense that it's unlike anything else on the ma … | Continue reading
Apple Pay is finally ready to move beyond apps.Apple has been telling potential partners that its payment service, which lets shoppers complete a purchase on mobile apps with their fingerprint rather than by entering credit card details, is expanding to websites later this year, … | Continue reading
Back in 2013, Zack Snyder's cinematic Superman reboot Man Of Steel stirred up plenty of controversy with its dour take on a beloved icon. The film's version of the man from Krypton, as played by Henry Cavill, is noble and powerful, but removed from the people he's protecting. He … | Continue reading
Curb, the app formerly known as Taxi Magic, is getting a fresh coat of paint and some unique features. The relaunch comes under its new owner, Verifone Systems, a public company based in San Jose that operates the entertainment and payment systems in about half of New York City's … | Continue reading
Jasná, Slovakia, 14-16 March 2016 Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator of PREFORMA, presented the project at the 19th edition of the ILIDE Conference. The presentation focused in particular on the open source approach and on the forthcoming testing phase, showing how the confor … | Continue reading
Foursaken Media originally began teasing their upcoming fixed-shooter-with-the-soul-of-an-idle-clicker War Tortoise back in late February, and we were able to go hands-on with the game at GDC just last week. Now Foursaken has released an official trailer for War Tortoise along wi … | Continue reading
The other day one of my colleagues had cause to email Jason Miller, group manager of content marketing at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. He wasn’t in, so she got an automated out-of-office reply. Here’s what it said: Add personality and content Notice what he did there? As markete … | Continue reading
The jugular Verizon is aiming for with this advertising punch is the disclaimer at the bottom of a map noting that the map doesn’t represent coverage. | Continue reading
The AUÁ arquitetos office at Maringá, Brazil shows itself as a showcase to the street: transparent and permeable to the sight. | Continue reading
Living in Mexico, I indulge in my fair share of tacos. What I haven’t done — at least not yet — is share one with Danny Trejo. That changes today. Thanks to Ganglebot Films, Danny Trejo’s appropriately-named LA-based taqueria, Trejo’s Tacos, and the man himself — now we can all i … | Continue reading
In a move to curb harassment on the service, Facebook is testing a tool that alerts users when their name and profile picture are being used on a new account, Mashable reports. The company says it started testing the feature in November and has since set it live for 75 percent of … | Continue reading
With Facebook users now clamoring for ways to identify with the causes they care about in their profiles, Facebook is now working on a platform that will allow Pages to build temporary profile overlays. The platform, which the social giant says is weeks from rolling out, will giv … | Continue reading
Japan gets another new cryptocurrency and that is Ethereum. The new cryptocurrency has entered the Japanese market within weeks after the Japanese government tentatively conferred bitcoin with the status of legal tender. Japan has been one of the important geographical regions fo … | Continue reading
The Internet is like Inspector Gadget. We think we’re really great at solving mysteries, but most of the time we’re stumbling around like morons while some faceless dude keeps messing with us. Today, the sleuths of the Web have come together to figure out the legitimacy of an ima … | Continue reading
Investor, entrepreneur, billionaire and Bill Gates’ other half in the founding of Microsoft Paul Allen has announced a $100 million investment in the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a fund focusing on the future of biotech research. Allen, who is worth about $15.3 billion, announc … | Continue reading
After an uber-successful theater run, ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ is just two short weeks away from Blu-ray and DVD release on April 5. But, as usual, waiting is hard, and pirating is… well… not. Pirates are off to an early start by downloading the film an estimated 250,000 ti … | Continue reading
The Banner Saga 2 will launch on PC and Mac via Steam on 19th April, developer Stoic has announced.It's usually going to go for £14.99 / $19.99, but pre-orders are 10 per cent off at £13.49 / $17.99.This tactical RPG vikings sequel will feature improved combat and choices, new ch … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Insightful app analytics are the only way to truly capitalize on users. Join us as we break down the most effective analytics platforms in market, and how best to apply them. Register here for free. Every developer knows that creating a brand new app is only step one … | Continue reading
Virtual reality porn is quickly becoming a thing.Pornhub, the largest pornography website on the Internet, is the latest company to jump on the VR porn train. The porn site has partnered up with BaDoink, a company that specializes in producing porn videos with 180- and 360-degree … | Continue reading
Degreed, a startup promising to “jailbreak the college degree,” announced today that it has acquired Gibbon. Degreed offers tools for tracking lifelong learning and earning additional credentials. Gibbon, meanwhile, is supposed to help you learn by curating and sharing playlists … | Continue reading
EE has today (24 March) unveiled Light the Arch, a new app that allows consumers to design their own light show on Wembley's iconic arch. | Continue reading
Bitcoin Video Casino is an online Casino that only accepts Bitcoin. The site offers anonymous and instant registration and features several popular casino games. The style that you will find at Bitcoin Video Casino is fully inspired by the classic Las Vegas Video Poker machines. … | Continue reading
The last chapter of the long-running hack-stealth adventure game Republique has finally arrived! | Continue reading
If it helps the driver drive more safely, it's now standard on the 2017 MDX. Adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, lane keep assist, blind spot detection, collision mitigation braking, forward collision warning. | Continue reading
Apple has signed up over 11 million subscribers for its music streaming service thus far, and its increasingly giving those customers access to more than just songs. From music videos by Drake to documentaries on Taylor Swift to a weekly show with DJ Khaled, the service has been … | Continue reading
NEW YORK — Hyundai recently split its top-end Genesis moniker off into its own premium flag-ship brand. Now, at the New York Auto Show, it's debuted a new luxury sport hybrid concept that demonstrates — along with some sexy body lines — the next-generation of human-machine interf … | Continue reading
Microsoft just introduced its latest A.I experiment and it's bizarre.It's called Tay and it's an experimental chatbot meant to embody the personality of a teenage girl. Microsoft launched Tay on Kik, GroupMe and Twitter on Wednesday with the goal of learning how millennials speak … | Continue reading
Tristan Walker is becoming, if he’s not already, a household name in Silicon Valley. He’s the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands, the startup behind the successful Bevel razor and shaving cream products for people of color. I first spoke with Walker in December 2013, when … | Continue reading
Google had plenty to announce for eager developers at its GCP Next event in San Francisco, but perhaps the most interesting was the company’s decision to create a brand new API around its speech recognition technology. Called — what else — the Google Cloud Speech API, developers … | Continue reading
Every winter I attend the Game Developers Conference where I meet as many video game creators as can be fit into a five-day itinerary. GDC isn't like E3, Tokyo Game Show, or other flashy conferences in which billion dollar publishers pulverize attendees with deafening pop remixes … | Continue reading
Nintendo has been incredibly tight-lipped about its upcoming console, codenamed NX, so naturally, we gamers are analyzing any tidbit of information to death. Needless to say, alleged leaks of a prototype controller are driving the internet crazy. A redditor by the name of perkele … | Continue reading