The Minnesota Timberwolves have finalized the addition of the first Chinese minority owner in NBA history. | Continue reading
Meet Alvin, a Silicon Valley executive in his late-30s. Alvin has accounts with three banks, an online brokerage account and has borrowed from no less than nine lenders in the past five years. In today’s world, why wouldn’t he? Financially literate, technologically savvy and affl … | Continue reading
Plenty of businesses throw a ridiculous amount of catering into the garbage every day, often as people go hungry on the streets outside their office buildings. What if there was a push-button way of matching the surplus with the demand? What if an app could actually be useful in … | Continue reading
Wuzhen, China (ots/PRNewswire) - - Das berühmte Wasserdorf Wuzhen hat in diesem Sommer sein neustes Projekt, Wucun, lanciert, im Rahmen dessen Reisende als Dorfbewohner die... | Continue reading
The lingo of personal finance is rapidly changing. Mint has replaced our nagging parents and significant others who think our spending is out of control. Wealthfront and Betterment took away our personal wealth managers. Heck, we don’t even have to go to a bank anymore to get a l … | Continue reading
Facebook is bringing sharing and saving into the modern era by introducing two new Chrome plugins that get the job done in just a couple of clicks. | Continue reading
VR technologies are going to be requiring a shit ton of capital as they look to make the crossover from R&D phases to mass market adoption. HTC is certainly looking to do its part to make sure that the headset technologies it is building have a broader ecosystem to fall into. Tod … | Continue reading
Dubbed “the world’s first robot lawyer” by its 19-year-old creator, Joshua Browder, DoNotPay has now successfully contested over 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York. The program attempts to glean information from a simple survey to determine whether an appeal is possib … | Continue reading
At least one non-authorized person obtained sensitive information following the leak of global counter-terrorism database World-Check, owned by Thomson Reuters.Chris Vickery, a security researcher at the software company MacKeeper, posted on Reddit that a copy of the World-Check … | Continue reading
Stop-motion animation has been used in onscreen for over a century, but it's an art form that's alive and well in the video storytelling community. | Continue reading
Want to teach your kids or yourself how to code without gluing yourself to a computer screen? Google's new project Bloks might just be the answer. Bloks is a series of high-tech building blocks that will teach you or your kids the fundamentals of coding. Read more...More about S … | Continue reading
Have you ever played with a laser pointer? Those usually cap out at around 0.005 watts. This guy built a “laser bazooka” that, at 200 watts, comes in at about forty thousand times stronger than that. While Youtuber styropyro built his bazooka out of materials torn from a bunch of … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton’s campaign advisers sought to explain the student debt deferment portion of her tech agenda on a call with reporters today, after the item generated criticism that the plan would provide financial benefit to wealthy members of the tech sector. Read More | Continue reading
An accelerator that backed for-profit, for-good ventures, Impact Engine, is abandoning the bootcamp approach and shifting its focus to investing in these startups as a seed fund, according to CEO and Partner Jessica Droste Yagan. Based in Chicago’s 1871 startup hub, Impact Engine … | Continue reading
Google’s $300 million trans-pacific ‘FASTER’ cable is ready to use. The cable, first announced about one year ago, brings up to 60Tbps (Terabits per second) Internet speed between Japan and the US. The cable will surface in Oregon and two posts in Japan: Chiba and Mie prefectures … | Continue reading
Turtle Beach sent out a press release saying it made a breakthrough, and glass-based speakers may be the future of your home audio. as strange as that may sound, the video is slightly more convincing. The speakers, which Turtle Beach is calling HyperSound Glass, are comprised of … | Continue reading
Back in late January, developer Kenny Sun released Circa Infinity [$2.99] to the App Store, describing it as a "brain-melting circular platformer." Well, seeing as actually describing in detail what it is you do in Circa Infinity is nearly impossible, "brain-melting circular plat … | Continue reading
Google started making investments in a number of undersea cables back in 2008, but one of its largest investments was the $300 million it invested in the FASTER cable between Japan and the U.S. West Coast. Back in 2014, Google announced that it was joining a consortium of six com … | Continue reading
Last week we heard that Sony's television streaming service PlayStation Vue would be arriving on Android, and now it has hit the Play Store. | Continue reading
ProducePay has raised $2.5 million to solve what CEO Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck said is a major issue for farmers — getting paid in a timely manner for their crops.Borquez Schwarzbeck explained that farmers usually have to cover the cost of not just growing the produce, but also s … | Continue reading
Google Keep, the company's note-taking and to-do list mobile app, is getting much smarter today with a new organizational feature. Now, Google Keep will categorize your notes by topic — like food, books, and quotes — and allow you to search for those musings later by keyword. The … | Continue reading
In a not-so-subtle homage to Willy Wonka, Tesla has sent twelve "Golden Tickets" — really, that’s what they’re called — to holders of Model 3 reservations inviting them to attend the Gigafactory grand opening in Reno, Nevada on July 29th. The tickets don’t involve a great glass e … | Continue reading
While AMD is impressing gamers with its new Radeon RX 480 graphics card, the hardware company is investing more in its software side to improve the playing experience on its hardware. AMD revealed today that it has acquired 3D-gaming tool developer HiAlgo for an undisclosed amoun … | Continue reading
Nine years ago today, Apple launched the very first iPhone. But the foundation for its success had actually been laid a year earlier. Ten years ago, in the summer of 2006, Apple had just successfully transformed the Mac, completing a transition from using PowerPC chips to Intel c … | Continue reading
Some closure (literally and figuratively) for Move Loot, the furniture resale marketplace that we wrote earlier this month was up for sale. The startup — backed by nearly $22 million in funding from a list of top investors that included Y Combinator, GV, Index, Metamorphic and Sh … | Continue reading
If paparazzi have a right to take photos (they do) and newspapers are allowed to print photos taken by paparazzi (they do), it stands to reason that those in the brief spotlight of an eager photographer’s flash have a right to fight back, too (they do). Anti-paparazzi clothing ha … | Continue reading
When news broke that Facebook was at least temporarily using users physical location to suggest real world connections, a strategy that has been employed by the NSA, the backlash was sharp. It wasn’t difficult to imagine scenarios when identities could be inadvertently and uncom … | Continue reading
Maybe it's been a rough day. Maybe you're frazzled. Maybe you love your job, and everything's going great, but something just feels off. Have you tried watching a robot arm slowly, painstakingly solve Tower of Hanoi?In case you need a refresher on Hanoi, it's pretty simple (aka I … | Continue reading
Is your Facebook page dead in the water? Your page probably still has a place in your marketing mix if your audience values what you share. | Continue reading
Im Video namens How much do you love your phone? heiratet ein Mann namens Aaron Chervenak sein Smartphone und zwar in Las Vegas, mit Smoking, Hochzeitskapelle und allem, was sonst noch dazugehört, weil:Wenn wir ehrlich sind, sind wir unseren... | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is a Bitcoin-based online casino like no other. Its originality has introduced a completely new gambling genre in the whole Bitcoin gambling Industry. Dragon’s Tale has been around since 2012 and is also one of the oldest Bitcoin casinos in the digital currency ecos … | Continue reading
With the pound taking a pounding, OnePlus may have to increase the price of the OnePlus 3 in Europe sometime in the near future to stay profitable. | Continue reading
Go is a statically compiled language. No dynamic libraries can be loaded at runtime, nor does the runtime support compiling Go on the fly. Still, there is a number of ways of creating and using plugins in Go. | Continue reading
A new undersea internet cable funded in part by Google and connecting Japan with the US is slated to go online starting June 30th. The joint announcement, made today in a press release from NEC Corporation, says construction and testing on the trans-pacific cable, dubbed "Faster, … | Continue reading
Trippy rhythm game Thumper will be a launch title on PlayStation VR upon its 13th October release, developer Drool has confirmed.It will simultaneously launch on Steam.We covered Thumper upon its announcement back in March. At the time I described it as "a more aggressive version … | Continue reading
If you’re keeping up with your Game of Thrones theories, you likely know about ‘R+L = J,’ which is not a screwy math problem. At least as the TV show goes, it’s been confirmed by HBO’s ‘Making Game of Thrones’ blog. If you’re not sure what R+L = J is, it’s surprisingly simple (fo … | Continue reading
The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is no longer attempting to list on Nasdaq, according to an SEC document filed today. | Continue reading
You put a lot of effort into video production, and if you miss the mark on the music, all your work could go to waste. Here's how to do it right. | Continue reading
A human slingshot is a bad idea.I admit that my career in extreme sports ended with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, so it’s possible, likely even, that I have been left behind by this new generation of thrill-seekers. Times have changed, I think, as I watch a human-being catapult into … | Continue reading
There are a dozen films fighting for supremacy in Warner Bros. The Legend Of Tarzan, and there’s no clear winner to the war. It’s impossible to guess how narratively and tonally divided Legend is from the trailers, which present it as a standard-issue fantasy/historical epic, or … | Continue reading
So much for losing its mojo.Despite twists and turns in recent years that have sometimes rivaled those of a telenovela, and even with its most famous member, John Doerr, no longer a general partner, Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4 billion, show newly proces … | Continue reading
Bethesda games and PlayStation consoles go together like peanut butter and toothpaste. Fallout 4 mod support was supposed to come to PlayStation 4 in June, but the game’s publisher has now confirmed it is delaying that feature. Bethesda’s mod support and Creation Kit tools have a … | Continue reading
The Ethereum Foundation has introduced a new Geth client version (1.4.9) that rolls back the changes made in the previous soft-fork-enabled software. A security alert was issued by Ethereum Foundation. In the announcement, the developer Felix Lange explained: An attack vector has … | Continue reading
Hello and welcome. The year is 2017. You’ve missed a lot over the past few months. Let me catch you up: Apple nixed the headphone jack with the iPhone 7, so throw out those earbuds. You won’t be needing them anymore. Most other phone manufacturers decided not to follow Apple’s le … | Continue reading
At the opening of the Ghostbusters: Dimension virtual reality experience in Times Square today, we got a chance to sit down with Ivan Reitman, the producer and director behind the original Ghostbusters film, and a Hollywood legend. Reitman worked with Utah startup The Void as it … | Continue reading
Last months rumours of a BioShock collection have resurfaced with new promotional art and screenshots briefly found on 2K Games' website.The images have been removed from the publisher's site, but AllGamesDelta captured them before that happened.Furthermore, a NeoGAF user found s … | Continue reading
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is writing a book about his life, Microsoft, and how technology will shape the future. Titled Hit Refresh, the book is scheduled for a fall 2017 release through Harper Business. Nadella intends to give his proceeds to Microsoft Philanthropies.This is N … | Continue reading
It’s pretty clear by this point that VR will eventually play a big role in consumer life, and HTC got a head start with its Vive headset. In order to protect that future investment, HTC is turning its Vive business into a wholly-owned subsidiary. The company provided the followin … | Continue reading