The humble Happy Meal box will see perhaps its largest ever innovation go live this week – it can now be folded in seconds into a pair of VR ‘Happy Goggles.’ Don’t all rush at once, though, because they’re only available in a pretty limited pilot across seven McDonald’s stores in … | Continue reading
Fallout Shelter has received what publisher Bethesda is calling its "biggest update yet". The free community managment game's 1.4 update add… | Continue reading
Uber has taken a lot of flack from some of its drivers since it lowered fares in January, but the ride-hail company argues that the cheaper rides are having the desired effect. In New York City, for example, where fares were cut 15 percent on January 28th, demand for uberX rides … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: CRO (conversion rate optimization) offers tremendous gains in engagement, often at a fraction of the cost of other marketing tools. Join our free webinar and learn from the experts exactly how to leverage the power of CRO — and the best tools they’re using to do it. R … | Continue reading
Bethesda's Fallout Shelter [Free] has had a odd lifecycle for a mobile game. It was revealed (then subsequently released) during a massive E3 press conference, and it really seemed like the game was positioned as one of those lightweight companion adver-game sort of things like t … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s augmented reality development kit costs $3,000, and that’s because it shares some components that you’d normally find in spacecraft, guided missiles, and drones. HoloLens, the head-mounted display that mixes digital imagery with the real world, starts shipping to deve … | Continue reading
Fund February: A flurry of VC funds launch in Israel. Read More | Continue reading
Roc Nation's newest member is DJ Khaled. Khaled just signed a management-only deal with Jay Z's company, which lands him in a roster the includes the likes of Big Sean, DJ Mustard, Kanye West, and Rihanna. According to an announcement from Roc Nation, Jay Z himself will be Khaled … | Continue reading
Right on schedule, HTC has opened up pre-orders for its Vive virtual reality headset and controllers on its website. The Vive will cost $799 in the U.S., £689 in the UK and €899 in Europe.The HTC Vive will ship on April 5, mere days after its closest competitor, the $599 Oculus R … | Continue reading
Snapchat debuted its web player just in time for the Oscars on Sunday night, giving everyone a nice behind-the-scenes look at the red carpet and the actual show.Snapchat.com is featuring a curated Live Story — the same one you can watch in its app — from Snapchat reporters, start … | Continue reading
Apple is giving developers a bit more control of Swift, and you don’t even need to work in Cupertino. Writing that its new Continuous Integration is now “established and proven,” Apple intends to give some of its more ardent contributors commit access on GitHub. If you’d like to … | Continue reading
MongoLab has long been the de facto service for deploying and managing MongoDB databases, but now that the company has cornered this market, it’s looking to expand into new areas. Before launching any new products, though, the company decided to change its name and because of thi … | Continue reading
Der dänische Programmierer Søren Louv-Jansen hat ein interessantes Tool entwickelt, das mit Hilfe von Aktivitäten beim Facebook Messenger herausfinden kann, wer seiner Kontakte wann ins Bett geht und wieder aufsteht. Da die meist... | Continue reading
Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today that better positions the app to challenge competitors like PayPal and Venmo: the ability to maintain a cash balance. That is, users can now choose … | Continue reading
Forget about finding your son. Fallout Shelter has some new tools in its important quest for user retention. The mobile hit released a new update today, developer Bethesda announced, that adds crafting. Fallout Shelter has been a hit for Bethesda, managing to earn 12 million down … | Continue reading
Whether it's pushing speed and performance boundaries or redefining expectations of luxury and technological advancement, the cars of the Geneva Motor Show are invariably leaders in their class. All the big companies prioritize this one week in March as a time to show off their v … | Continue reading
Last year, Popslate brought its first E ink iPhone case to market, giving users a second screen to display information on. This year, the company is back with the Popslate 2, which features a larger screen, notifications, and a built-in battery to charge your iPhone.Although the … | Continue reading
This is a guest repost by Bryan Helmig , Co-founder & CTO at Zapier , who makes it ea... | Continue reading
There are many absurd facts about the Bugatti Chiron that was just introduced today ahead of the Geneva Motor Show. Its top speed is electronically limited — limited! — to 261 miles per hour. It can reach 125 miles per hour in 6.5 seconds, which may very well be faster than the t … | Continue reading
Facebook has received a pretty manageable €100,000 admin fine in Germany for failing to properly inform users about its ownership of their images and videos – but the country’s consumer watchdog had some pretty harsh words for the company. “Facebook tried very persistently to cir … | Continue reading
HTC’s $799 Vive virtual reality headset opened for pre-orders this morning. The headset will begin shipping April 5 in the US, just a week or so after the consumer launch of the the Oculus Rift, which launches March 28.Pre-orders can be placed on the HTC site today for shipment t … | Continue reading
After the Oscars last night, Jimmy Kimmel invited Ben Affleck on to his show to reveal a brand-new clip from Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Here, the two superheroes are in the middle of their battle when Superman drags the Dark Knight through a building (presumably the Got … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: The modern web browsing experience is increasingly being rendered in higher and higher definition -- Youtube started supporting 4K Ultra HD video in 2014. Now, high definition audio is finally catching up to video – and audience expectations -- with Dolby Digital Plus. | Continue reading
Microsoft hat eine Reihe neuer Werbespots für Windows 10 veröffentlicht, die vor allem gegen die Konkurrenz stichelt. Aber das Spiel kennt man ja bereits seit Jahren ("I'm a Mac"). Protagonistinnen dieser Clips sind die sogenannten Bug C... | Continue reading
As if 1,500 horsepower, a $2.6 million price tag, and two metric tons of carbon fiber, aluminum, titanium, glass, and leather weren't enough to set the Bugatti Chiron apart, this new supercar also comes with speaker tweeters made out of diamonds. Each of the four tweeters in the … | Continue reading
Ransomware has become a real plague for Internet users all over the world. There is nothing more annoying than using a computer only to have the end user completely locked out due to a piece of malware encrypting all of the necessary files. Various German hospitals have fallen vi … | Continue reading
Okay, Blizzard, we are all ready. Now, where's Standard Format? Everyone - including me- is patiently waiting for the new formats to hit, but at least this past week had enough Hearthstone [Free] news to keep us all busy reading (and maybe reading to forget that the meta continue … | Continue reading
There's more to Uncharted 4 than a gritty story, Troy Baker and some Assassin's Creed concept art - oh yes. Naughty Dog has once again put together a multip… | Continue reading
Tomorrow, Apple will make its case before Congress, as General Counsel Bruce Sewell gives testimony to the House Judiciary Committee at 1PM ET. It's Apple's first appearance before Congress since the company received an order to break security measures on a phone linked to the Sa … | Continue reading
Innocent finished a three city tour with its travelling supermarket last Friday (26 February), in a bid to promote its super smoothies range. | Continue reading
You've probably seen the picture: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walking down the aisle with a huge satisfied smile on his face as a sea of seated people wearing Samsung Gear VR headsets are completely unaware of his appearance.Many felt the photo was disturbingly Orwellian and a d … | Continue reading
Tickets for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice are now on sale one month ahead of the film's debut. Fans can head over to Fandango for a chance to pick up tickets in their home cities. The initial screenings are scheduled to start at 6PM ET on March 24th.As the premiere for Batm … | Continue reading
Optical computing could be the future of processing -- so why is it taking so long to replace electricity with light? | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO – February 29, 2016 – BitFury Group, the world’s leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, announced today that it has made an investment in the company BitPesa. BitPesa is a universal bitcoin payment and trading platform … | Continue reading
FEATURE: “Pika. Pika pi, pikachu. Pi ka chu.” OK, maybe writing this story in Pika-ese isn’t a great idea. Still, it does remind us of an important point: one of the most popular video game characters ever created can’t say any words besides his own name. Pikachu was one of the 1 … | Continue reading
Property management is one of those industries that typically lags behind the rest of the U.S economy in terms of technology, customer service, and transparency. Castle, part of YC’s Winter 2016 class, is trying to bring the industry up to date with its automated property managem … | Continue reading
Gogo has announced it will upgrade its satellite modem that’s used with its 2Ku and Ku satellite technologies to increase the throughput from satellites to Internet users on its planes in the U.S. The news comes after American Airlines dropped its litigation against Gogo over its … | Continue reading
We go hands on with LG's latest mid-range offering featuring a stylus experience, in this quick look at the LG Stylus 2! | Continue reading
Some of last night's most entertaining Oscars coverage was on Snapchat, but this year you didn't have to be inside Snapchat's app to see it: you could watch it all on the web. Snapchat quietly updated its website last night with a way to view the Oscars' Live Story online. This i … | Continue reading
You might think the super-wealthy have it pretty easy, what with their private islands, private jets and the ability to buy just about anything. But there's been one thing they've not been able to buy in awhile: an all-new Bugatti.In fact, it's been more than 11 years since the V … | Continue reading
Virtual reality has been around for ages, but it has only recently gotten big and exciting, with every major player on the planet either working on a VR project or rumored to be doing so. It begs the question: Why? And how far it will go this time around? Read More | Continue reading
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If you stayed up extra-late flipping through Twitter after last night’s Oscars telecast, your commitment to the social conversation was rewarded with one of the greatest clapbacks in recent Oscar memory. "Hey @SamSmithWorld, if you have no idea who I am, it may be time to stop te … | Continue reading
Two new photos of the successor to the Huawei P8 have been caught in the wild, but rather than lock down previous leaks, they seem to contradict one another, further deepening the mystery surrounding Huawei's 2016 flagship. | Continue reading
The Korea Exchange, South Korea’s lone securities exchange, is reportedly moving to create an over-the-counter trading platform using blockchain. | Continue reading
Current and former Snapchat employees had their identities compromised last week after one of their colleagues fell for a phishing email. The attacker pretended to be CEO Evan Spiegel while asking for employees’ payroll information, according to a company blog post. The payroll s … | Continue reading
For most of us, a password manager is a perfectly acceptable way of keeping all your access codes in one-safe place. But for the people behind Vaulteq, this just isn’t secure enough. That’s why they’ve come up with the world’s first plug n’ play password manager. In other words, … | Continue reading