The team behind a "reimagined" version of classic cyberpunk shooter System Shock has launched a $900,000 crowdfunding campaign for the project. As we’ve heard before, Night Dive Studios — which re-released the original System Shock last year — has promised a totally revamped vers … | Continue reading
Twitter recently hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli to run its fledgling efforts in augmented reality and virtual reality, the company confirmed to me today. As first noted by Upload VR, Sabatelli was previously the CEO of IXOMOXI, a small startup whose first produc … | Continue reading
Doom's first post-launch update is due this Thursday, 30th June, and it adds the new Photo Mode feature for capturing classier screenshots. This will be available from the pause menu once you're loaded into a game map.The new update will also add the ability to alter your weapon … | Continue reading
If you're looking for a encrypted, portable OS that can be securely loaded on any computer, Secure-K may be the answer. Also if you're afraid of hackers wearing hoodies in darkened rooms and find joy in a British man repeatedly saying "privacy" in an excited tone, you'll enjoy th … | Continue reading
Coffee brand Lavazza has been serving cups of coffee with selfies and messages on the foam, entertaining people queuing for tickets to The Championships, Wimbledon. | Continue reading
Porsche unveiled the new Panamera today. That's cool, but like many product unveilings across many industries, the introduction was preceded by an on-stage hypefest that was only loosely connected with reality. (See: Samsung's Zoll, Qualcomm at CES 2013, the list goes on.) So let … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's upcoming Descent DLC Pack adds dragons. Really.Due on PS4 12th July, the upcoming expansion adds the new Zombies chapter, Gorod Krovi, in which the CoDBlops gang face off against the undead along with "giant mechanised soldiers and ferocious dragons." … | Continue reading
Fallen Tree Games is set to introduce the latest in their popular series of Quell games, with Quell Zen. A followup to 2015's Quell Memento [$2.99], this game where you slide a ball around puzzle mazes, using walls and endless looping walls to help solve the tricky puzzles ahead … | Continue reading
Publisher Electronic Arts has finally found the key to stopping an offensive assault by former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown: you pay him money. EA has settled a lawsuit with National Football League hall of famer Jim Brown for $600,000, according to Brown’s attorney, R … | Continue reading
Microsoft is killing Xbox Fitness -- without refunding any of the money people spent on the application, or providing any compensation for the loss of purchased content. | Continue reading
The AiraWear hoodie comes with detachable massagers and posture-correctors, and was funded over 200% on Kickstarter. Read more: http://on.mash.to/295uGvX Read more...More about Massage, Hoodie, Wearables, Tech, and Gadgets | Continue reading
This week is the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Las Vegas, and Google researchers have several accomplishments to present. They’ve taught computer vision systems to detect the most important person in a scene, to pick out and track individual body parts, an … | Continue reading
Theranos did have a spokesperson, as in use to have one person handling all public relations efforts outwardly. We’ve confirmed Brooke Buchanan, VP of communications, left her position within the company on Friday. Buchanan could not be reached for comment on the departure but th … | Continue reading
Next Spring, the US Food and Drug Administration will put a new regulations into effect that would force restaurants to post nutrition information for their food menu on the Web. And in a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pennsylvania, the move could h … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is currently standing in front of a wall of garbage. If you hadn’t heard already, I’ll assume you have a healthy distance from social media.Donald Trump knows that good press and bad press, at least for him, are simply competing tributaries feeding into his river of … | Continue reading
Twitter is beginning to devote resources towards building out a dedicated VR/AR-focused team. The social media company has hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli to lead the initiative as Twitter’s Director of VR and AR, Will Mason over at UploadVR reports.Sabatelli spe … | Continue reading
Visiongain, an analysis firm based in the UK, released a report this month listing the top 20 connected car companies, which includes all the usual suspects, such as Volvo, Ford, and Honda. Tesla and Toyota were also among the top 10 automotive manufacturers in the connected car … | Continue reading
The list of things Amazon's Alexa can do for you, from shopping to delivering news information, continues to increase almost every month. The latest addition to its skill set is the ability to order a Lyft ride via voiceSEE ALSO: Lyft driver Shaquille O'Neal confuses unsuspecting … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Google announced that it upgraded the satellite imagery on Google Maps and Google Earth with data collected from Landsat 8. With finer detail, more accurate colors, and a faster rate of capture, these new images from the US government make Google's consumer-fac … | Continue reading
Quirk Ford of Quincy, Massachusetts yesterday sent out an advertisement with art that’s similar to a blatant rip-off of the popular Steam game ‘Firewatch.’ Sidebar: We’ve played the game, it’s awesome. The artwork is truly spectacular, and apparently worthy of stealing, as Quirk … | Continue reading
Viking strategy sequel The Banner Saga 2 wasn't going to launch on consoles until 26th July, but porting team Shiny Shoe was remarkably ahead of schedule so we're now getting it in the next few days.The Xbox One version will arrive as early as this Friday, where it will be free f … | Continue reading
So, you're reasonably wealthy, but your DINK days are behind you. You've got a kid or two. They have places to be.If you're looking at Porsches, you've been able to choose between a couple SUVs and the Panamera to meet your sporty-but-practical needs — but let's be honest, a Pana … | Continue reading
Android 6.0 Marshmallow is on its way to Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo devices all across Europe, bringing Doze, Google Now On Tap, and granular permissions. | Continue reading
Despite Facebook's best efforts, some internet content continues to be created and consumed outside of the company's walled garden. To address this misbehavior, the company today introduced new Chrome extensions for sharing and saving articles. "Sharing and saving great content a … | Continue reading
Say you want to talk to a bot. It's a reasonable thing to want. You've heard they're cool and even though a lot of the early ones haven't been that good, you want to give it a shot. Cool. But in,... | Continue reading
Cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle recently returned to the crypto community to advocate for the spread of what he calls "DAO democracy". | Continue reading
Casa Caldera is almost entirely custom built. The scoria walls, steel windows, doors, hardware, leather pulls, wood siding, millwork,... | Continue reading
If you’re looking for a way to kill time, Tetris is always there for you. Electronic Arts today released Tetris Blitz: 2016 Edition, a free-to-play game for iOS and Android based on the popular puzzle series. The mobile industry is worth $36.9 billion worldwide, and EA has had a … | Continue reading
Designed for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase, Pacific Heights Attelier is the refuge of a man who spends his leisure hours restoring ... | Continue reading
Scientists have successfully infected a group of rhesus macaque monkeys with Zika, marking the first time that non-human primates have been shown to be susceptible to the mosquito-borne virus. That’s good news for researchers, as it potentially opens up a new animal model to stud … | Continue reading
Mandeville Loft was completed by Neil Davies Architects studio in Battersea, London, UK. An existing 1,400-square-foot office on the top ... | Continue reading
Dunn & Hill Architects have designed Dogtrot House in New South Wales, Australia for a family of committed campers. | Continue reading
Twitter is giving businesses a nod today with a new Dashboard app for the Web and iOS. From there, businesses can see what people are saying about them, schedule tweets, or view audience insights. It’s for businesses what Engage is for influencers. First up, businesses can create … | Continue reading
Scientists are using facial recognition technology and 360-degree underwater photos to examine the effects of coral bleaching in a speedy and innovative way. New software building on the two can examine thousands of images over weeks, rather than years. It's 900 times faster than … | Continue reading
Twitter – hot on the heels of the launch of its app for influencers, Twitter Engage – has today released yet another standalone application, Twitter Dashboard. The new service, available on both web and mobile, is aimed at businesses who want to use Twitter to connect with their … | Continue reading
Przepis na tę tartę przygotowałam na warsztaty. A z warsztatami mam taką przypadłość, że jak wracam po nich do domu, to zaraz przypominam sobie o tym, co tam piekłyśmy i… zaczynam piec w domu to samo, zwykle jeszcze tego samego dnia. Może to mix zapachów, które przynoszę ze sobą … | Continue reading
It's no secret that the Kinect has been a colossal failure on Xbox One with very few developers implementing the motion-tracking peripheral in any notable way. That's about to change on 13th July with puzzle/platformer Fru, an Xbox One Kinect-exclusive that requires players to co … | Continue reading
German engineering giant Siemens plans to invest in blockchain startups and projects through a newly created business unit backed by $1.1b in capital. | Continue reading
Pinterest has created a way to let you shop across websites via its platform — but check out with a single transaction. Once a place where people pinned items they thought were cool, Pinterest has slowly morphed into a powerful shopping engine. A new ‘shopping bag’ feature lets y … | Continue reading
Starship — the company behind the adorable, six-wheeled delivery robot we met this year at Mobile World Congress — has received approval from the Washington, DC Department of Transportation to start testing a delivery program as early as this September. The Estonia-based company … | Continue reading
Evernote is an indispensible tool for many, and the company is always working on making it more so — “but that requires a significant investment of energy, time, and money,” it writes in a new blog post. You know what that means: price hikes. Read More | Continue reading
Remember Avatar? That movie with the weird jungle planet filled with blue skinned humanoids getting rampaged by humans that for some reason did obscenely well at the box office? Well, they're not only making four more sequels (WTF) but they've also teamed up with Kabam to make a … | Continue reading
Ride sharing just got a bit easier. ‘Alexa, ask Lyft to call a Line to work’ is now all you need to do to get a ride to anywhere using Amazon’s assistant, Alexa. “We’re thrilled to be working with Lyft on the launch of their new Alexa skill. On-the-go Alexa customers can now ask … | Continue reading
Today, NASA successfully completed a full-duration qualification ground test of the booster that is designed to lift the most powerful rocket in the world. This particular test was a cold motor test used to provide data on how the rocket motor operates at the colder end of its ac … | Continue reading
Windows 10 is one the smartest, most consistent and well-thought-out Windows updates in a decade and it pains me to see people rejecting an operating system that would likely improve their digital lives.But there's also a thing called free will and people have a right to just say … | Continue reading
Chinese smartphone maker Nubia has announced the Z11, a smartphone with an edge-to-edge display and the sequel to last year's bezel-free flagship Z9. The Z11 comes with a 5.5-inch 1008p display, which isn't that great in 2016 but largely makes up for it with a strong lineup of sp … | Continue reading
Pinterest announced a collection of new tools on Tuesday that aim to make shopping on the site easier, including a visual search tech that lets you shop online for products you discovered offline with the help of your camera.The company announced the new suite of tools, dubbed “S … | Continue reading
Netflix's newest series, Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, is getting split in two for its first season. Polygon reports that the streaming network will release the first six episodes of the show on August 12th, while the remaining six episodes will air at some point in 2017. While th … | Continue reading