AUSTIN, Texas — Samsung's latest virtual reality accessory makes VR way more realistic. The company is showing off new headphones at South by Southwest that tricks your brain into feeling like your moving, even when your standing completely still.It's called the Entrim 4D headset … | Continue reading
Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard has announced a free-to-play spin-off entitled Ark: Survival of the Fittest.Launching today on Steam Early Access, this new game will focus on the competitive multiplayer aspects that blossomed from mods of Survival Evolved. It will … | Continue reading
Tesla just sent invitations to media for its expected March 31st event at its Hawthorne, California facility where it will unveil the Model 3, the company's first mass-market vehicle. CEO Elon Musk had previously said that he hadn't decided how much of the car to show at the even … | Continue reading
Josh leads Joe and Jonathan through a maze of random talk about Amazon and apps before getting to Android N. Enjoy episode number 055 of the Android Authority Podcast. | Continue reading
Google's remained quiet since announcing its plans to remake its Mountain View, California headquarters, other than saying it wants to build giant glass canopies instead of a traditional roof. Now, we're getting a clearer idea of what the company is imagining.Mountain View's plan … | Continue reading
While runners with a color changing mechanic aren't really anything that new, Noodlecake's upcoming Chameleon Run is another one that seems to do everything right. There's a surprising amount of depth in the game which slowly shows itself through multiple replays of individual le … | Continue reading
Faraday Future has its first U.S. patent in hand for a smaller, more powerful inverter. So it’s definitely not as sexy as the Batmobile-like concept car the company brought to its splashy debut at CES 2016, but it is arguably more useful. Read More | Continue reading
Sony held a speedy press conference at GDC 2016 to reveal details of PlayStation's virtual reality headset, including its price and the first games we can expect to see for it. Follow along here for everything announced. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Noodlecake was teasing Super Stickman Golf 3, and today we got a brief look at the future of the Super Stickman Golf-iverse. Two big things that were revealed today includes a new card system for power-ups, and the ability to put spin on the ball. Subscribe to the TouchArcade You … | Continue reading
Apple today responded to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys’ reply to Apple’s motion to vacate an order to help the FBI unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone. “This case arises in a difficult context after a terrible tragedy. But it is in just such … | Continue reading
In a filing entered today in Central California district court, Apple says the government is seeking "an all-powerful magic wand" to force the company into assisting law enforcement. The argument comes in response to FBI demands for Apple to break security on an iPhone linked to … | Continue reading
In 2014, Bitcoin faced one of the worst disasters that turned the clock back on the whole ecosystem. That disaster was none other than the collapse of Mt Gox, a major bitcoin exchange at that time. The Japanese bitcoin exchange collapsed following a series of alleged hacking inci … | Continue reading
I think one of the best things Flappy Bird ever did for the App Store was bring about the trend of super-quick retries. The upcoming Endless Wave takes that idea and runs with it, as you're (obviously) surfing on an endless wave, which in itself is cool- But if you die, you just … | Continue reading
Instagram is announcing a subtle but important tweak to its platform today: photos will no longer be sorted in purely chronological order. Basically, the app will now behave a bit more like parent company Facebook, organizing your feed based on an algorithm that decides what’s mo … | Continue reading
D'Angelo Russell's LA story is in the infant stages, the ink is barely dry on the first page. If things go according to his plan, few people will remember his humbling start. And that's exactly the way Russell wants it, now that he's spread his rookie wings and gotten more comfor … | Continue reading
Instagram is testing a more personalized feed for its users, the company said today. The reorganized feed relies on an algorithm to sort images and videos based on what users are likely to be most interested in. The social media platform currently organizes posts from newest to o … | Continue reading
You might have noticed that the display showing Sony's final PlayStation VR setup included the PlayStation camera, which has been around since PS4's launch. That is indeed a required accessory, and it is indeed... sold separately. A Sony spokesperson noted that many people alread … | Continue reading
I feel like we're on the verge of describing way too many games as being MOBA-like, but it still feels vaguely appropriate here when it comes to Kiloo's upcoming title, Spellbinders. In the game, you play as different characters, commanding various unique forces on a battlefield … | Continue reading
Apple has been fairly guarded about its News app, to the point it won’t even reveal to publishers how many readers see content there. Now, it’s opening the platform up to just about everyone. With an update to its publishing protocols, Apple will let anyone push content to News, … | Continue reading
Kiloo is on fire lately with all their various successes on the App Store and their latest likely hit, Tesla Tubes is hitting the App Store this Thursday. It has a basic puzzle mechanic involving connecting two points, like quite a few other games on the App Store, but where Kilo … | Continue reading
Many financial services executives say blockchain technology is low on their corporate priority list, according to a new survey. | Continue reading
The average Instagram user misses 70 percent of what’s in their feed, including great photos with tons of Likes and posts by their best friends. So today Instagram announced it will start rearranging the order of posts in its feed. Rather than strictly reverse chronological, Inst … | Continue reading
Instagram users, you might want to sit downInstagram may soon be messing with your timeline, showing photos not based on chronological order, but based on popularity and other social signals.In other words, your Instagram could soon be curated in a way similar to Facebook's News … | Continue reading
Sales and marketing are meant to be on the same team, so why are they so often at war? One level, it’s completely understandable. The two departments have different goals and missions. Sales is tasked with closing business — getting people in and getting them to sign on the dott … | Continue reading
Today at its GDC virtual reality keynote, Sony revealed which experiences will graduate from tech demos into full-fledged PlayStation VR titles. Well, we got confirmation on some of them. We already had some sense of what this list would look like as PlayStation VR marches toward … | Continue reading
Mirroring the moves of parent company Facebook, Instagram warned users and businesses today that their photo feeds “will soon be ordered to show the moments we believe you will care about the most.” Up until now, Instagram organized its feeds in reverse-chronological order. That … | Continue reading
More Star Wars force is coming to virtual reality. At today’s PlayStation VR press event, Sony CEO Andrew House teased onstage that Playstation will be partnering with EA to bring about my (and everyone else’s) fantasy of Star Wars Battlefront in virtual reality. The PSVR employs … | Continue reading
Just minutes after Sony announced the price and release date for the PlayStation VR system, behind the stage the company unveiled a display showcasing the full PS VR system. It's not any crazier than other VR setups — camera, controllers, extra cables, etc. — but the processing u … | Continue reading
Medium is giving curation a shot. A new feature for iOS and Android named ‘Collections’ will see Medium staff and “trusted testers” push content to the forefront. The home screen will now feature popular topics like politics or technology in a menu along the top. Medium’s current … | Continue reading
At long last Sony has announced a price and release date for for its virtual reality system during its conference at the Game Developers Conference: The PlayStation VR will launch in October for $399 (£349 in the UK). That’s a fair bit cheaper than competing systems like the Ocul … | Continue reading
Sony game chief Andrew House said today that Sony is partnering with Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm to create a exclusive virtual reality version of Star Wars Battlefront for the PlayStation 4’s PlayStation VR headset. House said that Sony will launch the PlayStation VR headset fo … | Continue reading
Sony game chief Andrew House announced today that the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset will launch for $399 in October. It’s going to be a big year for VR, and the crowds at the VR sessions at the Game Developers Conference reflect that. VR is expected to be a $30 billion m … | Continue reading
Sony took to the stage today during GDC 22016 in SF to show off the consumer-ready version of its PlayStation VR headset. A good deal was already known about the company’s first foray into console virtual reality, except for a couple key ones: price and availability.Well, we now … | Continue reading
UPDATE 16/03/2016 1.31am: It looks like there's going to be a PlayStation VR / PlayStation Camera bundle, at least in North America. A Sony rep told Te… | Continue reading
Sony has finally announced the final price of the PlayStation VR. The virtual reality headset will cost $399, and it will be available in October 2016. The company announced the news this afternoon at the 2016 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA.That price could almost … | Continue reading
Washington DC's Metro, the city's subway system that is used by more than 700,000 people every day, will close for 29 hours beginning at midnight tonight — all day on Wednesday, in other words. The closure will allow the inspection of electric cables in the system following an el … | Continue reading
Sony just took the wraps off of the final consumer version of its PlayStation VR headset at its event at GDC 2016. The final version looks very similar to the headset Sony first showed off way back in 2014, but it has a slightly different lighting pattern on the outside. Sony say … | Continue reading
Twenty-five members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently sent a letter to the Academy's board of directors voicing their concerns with parts of the Oscars that perpetuated Asian stereotypes, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The jokes in question came during … | Continue reading
Accounts of racism, sexism and discrimination are unfortunately way too common in the tech industry. The latest comes from Amélie Lamont, a black woman and former employee at website creation company Squarespace, who was fired after slapping a co-worker at a bar. Lamont was a cus … | Continue reading
Secret Cinema has revealed that its nightclub concept, Secret Cinema X will return for one night on Easter Saturday (26 March). | Continue reading
Join us live from San Francisco to see the future of Sony's virtual reality efforts, and stay tuned as we get a hands-on look at new games and hardware. Continue reading… | Continue reading
I don’t like to use words like ‘brilliant’ lightly, but seriously, the Irish Startup Wake at SXSW really was that. Failure is something that has become fetishized in the startup world. At some point in the past few years ‘it’s okay to fail’ became ‘failure is cool.’ But there’s s … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: The battle for high-quality mobile users has never been more fierce. Find out how companies who are killing it in UA are achieving phenomenal success — without paying through the nose. Register here for free. Most apps fail. That’s the simple, brutal, but honest truth … | Continue reading
When you learn to ride a bike, you’re bound to encounter the cold, hard reality of gravity. But after hitting the pavement, chances are you’ll get back up and try again. And again. And again. The same principle applies to social media content, only instead of riding on the paveme … | Continue reading
Startup Peerio today announced the availability of its encrypted messaging app on both iOS and Android. They’re a long time coming; Peerio first launched in January 2015, but it’s only been available on desktop, and the alpha and beta testing for the mobile apps — which support c … | Continue reading
What's the old saying: "Sometimes you hit the bus. And sometimes the bus hits you"? I know it's something like that.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Either way, it shouldn't happen to Google's self-driving cars anymore because the tec … | Continue reading
ARM and TSMC are continuing their tradition of teaming up to bring the world a commercially viable 7nm chip. | Continue reading
Medium is quickly evolving into a powerful, feature-rich platform for publishers, but today the company is taking new steps to surface its best content for readers. With new updates to its apps for Android and iOS, Medium is switching up the home screen to highlight new "collecti … | Continue reading