Airbnb will soon make it a lot easier for neighbors to provide feedback – AKA, complain – about how guests behave while staying at a host’s home. Bloomberg reports that Airbnb made the announcement in Japan, where the company has seen huge growth recently. That surge means a lot … | Continue reading
There are many benefits to being featured in local media. Blogging is one of many ways to build relationships with local media professionals. | Continue reading
Ten pigeons with tiny backpacks are flying over London for the next two days monitoring the city’s pollution levels. Pigeon Patrol, as they’re called by the companies behind the project, are live tweeting the pollution data at their account @PigeonAir. Meet the squad.Good day Lon … | Continue reading
Niko Pueringer und Sam Gorski von der Firma Corridor Digital haben ein absurden Kurzfilm produziert, in dem der Halo-Charakter Master Chief mächtig aus der Egoshooter-Rolle fällt und sich nach einem tödlichen Treffer (Plasma-Granate... | Continue reading
Do video game geeks want to watch classic cooking shows? A new experiment on the Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch is looking to answer that question, as the company today announced the debut of a full-time Food Channel which will include all 201 episodes of Julia … | Continue reading
After years of unofficial demos and fan projects, you can finally use an actual, Lucasfilm-approved lightsaber in virtual reality — just not for very long.Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine is billed as “a cinematic virtual reality experiment” from Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab, where members o … | Continue reading
"I'm here to tell you a story."George Hotz welcomed a packed room at SXSW yesterday for his panel "I Built a Better Self-Driving Car Than Tesla" with an intro as buzzy as the event's title. Hotz introduced his company, comma.ai, saying "We are a company! I did that whole song and … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is drawing sideways above $410. With plenty of volume – both on the buy and the sell side – we can expect that the market will soon choose a direction. Clear support and resistance close to the area of price will give an early indication of trend. This analysis is p … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Braava jet is Roomba’s second, affordable actIn the 14 years since iRobot first introduced its Roomba robot home vacuum, the price and size of the super-intelligent home appliance has ballooned to almost unwieldy proportions and a near $900 price tagToday, iRobot … | Continue reading
For the last several years, Groupon has been expanding its business beyond the daily deal to position itself as the platform for local commerce. Some of those efforts have proven to be more challenging than others, however. And so, as Groupon now downsizes in less profitable area … | Continue reading
SpoonRocket has just informed its investors it’s shutting down its on-demand pre-made meal delivery service, after failing to raise the necessary capital to go on, according to a source familiar with the letter to investors. The company had actually reached contribution margin po … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Instagram had an impressive 2015, full of new developments and new revenue streams. It also courted a little controversy. Today, the results of a new study from Quintly reveal Instagram’s current state, how businesses are using it, and what’s happening to both follower … | Continue reading
One of the many reasons women are under represented in “tech-sector” engineering disciplines such as software, mechanical, electrical, computer and mechatronics engineering is because we’ve done a terrible job conveying how engineers contribute to society in meaningful ways. Many … | Continue reading
Here maps has been a strong part of Microsoft's Windows Phone offering for years, but that's coming to an end later this month. Here is announcing today that it plans to pull its mapping apps for Windows 10 on March 29th, and "will limit the development of the apps for Windows Ph … | Continue reading
With over 100 million gamers streaming on Twitch every month, the platform is already a go-to in the industry. However, it’s widening its focus today with the launch of a new food channel that has nothing at all to do with games. So, kicking off at 2pm (PT) today, the channel wil … | Continue reading
Every trailer for Daredevil's second season makes it look like Matt Murdock has stepped into The Matrix to fight off villains skilled in martial arts and sword fighting while bathed in darkness and yellow-green light, and this final trailer only helps to cement how fantastic all … | Continue reading
You’ve seen Wolf of Wall Street, you’re handy with some code, you know you can beat the market, but you don’t have the money to invest? What could possibly go wrong. Quantiacs has the platform for you to experiment and try out strategies, and the money to back your bets, too. Qua … | Continue reading
Twitter Bootstrap is great. In fact, I did a coding course last year and I know it’s a super-easy way to create nice looking, mobile-ready websites in a flash. Trouble is, everyone else knows that too, and now dev Jeremy Karbowski has made a Twitter Bootstrap website about it. Bo … | Continue reading
If you're a longtime reader of The Verge, Engadget, or any of a dozen other publications that have been following consumer tech for the past few years, you're likely familiar with Gene Munster, a research analyst with investment bank Piper Jaffray. Hoo boy, are you ever familiar … | Continue reading
Contrary to popular belief, the most effective salespeople score halfway between the poles of extreme extroversion and extreme introversion in personality tests. Adam Grant, associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania conducted resear … | Continue reading
More than 100 million Americans have a criminal history, according to a Department of Justice survey. Catherine Hoke of Defy Ventures believes that through training, these individuals can become successful entrepreneurs, high performing employees, engaged parents, and committed r … | Continue reading
Next month, Airbnb will unveil a new tool to allow neighbors of unruly renters to complain directly to the home-sharing company. Airbnb won't say whether the comments will be made public, nor how it will affect the status of those rentals that are subject to numerous complaints. … | Continue reading
Writer’s studio and coach house - UK studio Intervention Architecture have designed and project managed the complete refurbishment and ... | Continue reading
Am Ende war der letzte Satzgewinn des südkoreanischen Go-Großmeisters Lee Sedol zum 3:1 wohl nur ein Aufbäumen. In der vergangenen Nacht hat Googles AI AlphaGo Lee in einem der aufsehenerregendsten Go-Duelle aller Zeiten endgül... | Continue reading
UberEATS, the newer, standalone app for Uber’s restaurant food-delivery business, is today launching in its first U.S. markets: Chicago, Houston, L.A., and San Francisco. The U.S. expansion was announced earlier this year, when the app made its initial debut in Toronto. Uber says … | Continue reading
Google’s been working away on bringing Material Design to Chrome for months, but the company is rapidly nearing completion of the visual overhaul as work speeds up on the company’s Chromium repositories. Chrome Canary 51 provides glimpses of the new browser design, which is almos … | Continue reading
Here are some tips that will get you out of your head to ensure you're not taking major changes to heart during a rewrite: | Continue reading
The need for heart transplants will always exceed the number of donor hearts available for transplant. Thanks to research just out from Massachusetts General Hospital, though, this may not continue to be a problem for much longer. | Continue reading
Following an initial pilot run which saw select USAA employees and members view their Coinbase accounts via the website and the mobile application, the USAA is now expanding bitcoin integration via Coinbase for all member accounts. In a post yesterday, USAA announced that all acc … | Continue reading
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost, our early-stage growth program at The Next Web Conference. With the eleventh edition of our flagship Amsterdam conference coming up in M … | Continue reading
Well, that was short-lived. It was only in October that I outed the then stealthy Valk Fleet, a new food delivery and logistics startup from European online take-out behemoth Delivery Hero. However, the short-lived company has announced that it is closing down as part of a reorga … | Continue reading
Blockchain consortium startup R3CEV is now accepting applications for new partners. | Continue reading
From wireless chargers to cases to VR headsets, here are some of the best Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge accessories on the market. | Continue reading
For gamers worried about exclusive Oculus titles and the diverging future of content support on virtual reality, OSVR is making a bid to take over the platform and ensure that content is available across all hardware. The ecosystem just received a major vote of confidence today f … | Continue reading
Jeżeli poszukujecie przepisu na ciasto mocno czekoladowe i jednocześnie wilgotne, to dobrze że odwiedziliście moją stronę :-) Tak właśnie jest z tym ciastem, które najlepiej smakuje schłodzone w lodówce, dzień po upieczeniu. Przepis nie jest skomplikowany, ważne żeby się go trzym … | Continue reading
Discover how you can supercharge your content strategy by including interactives in your marketing mix. | Continue reading
Two years ago at GDC, Sony first unveiled its VR initiative, then called Project Morpheus. Today, the company is holding a press event all about PlayStation VR — and while it isn't entirely clear what will be announced, given Oculus and Vive's rapidly approaching launch dates, … | Continue reading
Sales - Crafting successful lead-capture strategies can be difficult and overwhelming. This infographic, however, can make unlocking the secrets of lead capturing easier. | Continue reading
Brand Management - Marketers are obsessed with the verbing of their product names. But choosing a name in the hope that it (like Google and Roller Blade) becomes a verb? That's a bad ... | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - Does your small business have marketing and branding needs but not enough money to hire an agency or a consultant? Don't fret, you have many options to ensure you get ... | Continue reading
You could be forgiven for missing it in the noise, but yesterday Google quietly announced that it’s added experimental support for a next-generation Web standard to Chrome: WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a binary format for the Web that’s poised to change the type of applications de … | Continue reading
If you are still waiting for Android Marshmallow to arrive for your Samsung phone, the TouchWiz 6.0 theme from the Theme Store might help tide you over. | Continue reading
Fishwrap , according to Urban Dictionary , refers to "any printed journalistic medium with such low credibility and standards in accepta... | Continue reading
Bereits im Dezember 2015 erklärten die Hacktivisten von Anonymous, den Milliardär und Präsidentschaftskandidaten der Republikaner Donald Trump auf dem Schirm zu haben. Nun wurde ein neues Video veröffentlicht, in dem mittlerweil... | Continue reading
How Link-Building Services Boost Your SEO — ANIMATED Infographic! | Continue reading
Letterboxd, for lack of better way to explain, is IMDB, but actually good. Built in Auckland, New Zealand, the company’s website is a social network for movies that lets you track which films you’ve seen, the ones you want to see and what your friends are watching. I’ve been usin … | Continue reading
Microsoft is today announcing updates to its Azure Government public cloud, which is tailored to the needs of government agencies. The most interesting bit of news is that Microsoft will be opening up two new Azure data center regions that are specifically intended for the U.S. D … | Continue reading
Late last year, Microsoft announced that it would start hosting its Azure cloud computing platform and some of its other cloud-based services out of local data centers in both Germany and Canada. Both of these new regions, Azure Canada and Azure Germany are now officially in prev … | Continue reading