This week, Tesla announced plans to buy SolarCity, Twilio IPOed, the NY State senate passed an anti-Airbnb bill and we discovered the world’s largest Nerf gun. Read on for a recap of the biggest tech stories of the week. Read More | Continue reading
LeBron James has all the gold he needs this summer. | Continue reading
According to one report, Huawei is developing its own in-house smartphone operating system as a Plan B to Google's Android. | Continue reading
Apple is discontinuing sales of the Thunderbolt Display, a much-loved, though rarely updated monitor. Although it's still available in the Apple store (for the not super low price of $999), once current inventory is sold out, that'll be the end of Apple producing standalone displ … | Continue reading
As counting gets under way in Britain's historic referendum, a YouGov opinion poll has given the campaign to stay in the European Union a narrow lead over those hoping to leave. Image: Reuters | Continue reading
Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to Macbooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate. This is very likely to fuel speculation (which has been ongoing) that Apple will soon launch a 4k or 5k v … | Continue reading
Windows 10 is unequivocally Microsoft's best operating system release in years. That's not saying much since Windows 8 was a huge mess, and Windows 10 is basically an open admission that jettisoning the Start menu and de-emphasizing the desktop was a huge mistake.But that's OK, b … | Continue reading
As Apple races to add to the number of third-party apps that Siri can search through on Apple TV, Google is today checking off an overdue one over on Android TV. The company has announced that shows and movies from Netflix now appear when you use Android TV's universal search fun … | Continue reading
Join us for a quick beginner's tutorial - this is how you use Android Beam, a tool that uses NFC to share between Android devices - a decent addition to our Android customization series. | Continue reading
Last month, developer SuperHippo announced their upcoming auto-running platformer Don't Be Squared on our forums, and then at the beginning of this month they soft-launched it in select territories. Yesterday, they again took to our forums to announce that Don't Be Squared finall … | Continue reading
Nextbit has announced that they are going to innovate in the field of battery life, they just haven't explained how. | Continue reading
Lausanne, a small town in the Western part of Switzerland has emerged as a surprising melting pot of innovative technology, and the latest feather in the town’s tech nest will be hosting the first Swiss chapter of MassChallenge. A large Boston-based accelerator program that is ra … | Continue reading
PartyNextDoor's "Come and See Me" music video debuted on the Snapchat Discover page today. In it, Kylie Jenner, his rumored girlfriend, checks her Snapchat to see what he's up to. Turns out, he's at the club, which is kind of a bummer because Kylie wishes they were making out! Gi … | Continue reading
Want to track whether or not the UK will leave the EU, but don’t want to check Twitter or a Website every few minutes (we know you obsess!)? Politico has you covered — if you use an iPhone. After filling out a simple online information form, you’ll be able to add a pass to your i … | Continue reading
When Apple unveiled its own version of the stylus in 2015, the Apple Pencil, it wasn't the most exciting development to come from the company. After all, we've all seen styluses before.Now it looks like Apple could be experimenting with giving the tried-and-true styles a technolo … | Continue reading
No more pop-ups asking you to agree to those murky “2.1x” (or some other “x” amount) surge fares on the Uber app. Soon Uber will just tell you the price of your ride up front. Uber told TechCrunch in May it was not doing away with surge pricing and denied an NPR report mentioning … | Continue reading
The mobile game market is saturated, and user acquisition costs are out of reach for many small developers. But a new avenue of marketing is emerging with influencers, according to a new report from Chartboost, one of the companies that is making this new tactic easier to pull of … | Continue reading
Surge pricing has long been Uber’s Achilles’ heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone. Drivers love it, often waiting to sign-on to the platform until surge pricing k … | Continue reading
Like the rest of us, Siri is obsessed with Game of Thrones. In the lead-up to the season 6 GoT finale, Siri is offering some fun comments you can enjoy whether you're a denizen of Westeros or someplace else.SEE ALSO: The 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 finale looks set to be an epic o … | Continue reading
Event has spoken to a snapshot of readers regarding a leave result with a number of companies believing that the industry will be negatively affected. | Continue reading
We’re all a bit worried about the terrifying surveillance state that becomes possible when you cross omnipresent cameras with reliable facial recognition — but a new study suggests that some of the best algorithms are far from infallible when it comes to sorting through a million … | Continue reading
Semi trucks are a fixture on the world's highways, transporting a significant portion of the world's cargo — and that's leading to a rash of innovation in the space that mirrors what's happening in the automotive world. Self-driving trucks, electric powertrains; you name it, some … | Continue reading
Sega mascot and Mario arch-frenemy Sonic the Hedgehog has turned 25 today.The famous blue hedgehog made his debut in the game of his namesake on Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis on 23rd June 1991 in North America.He's since gone on to star in over 30 titles of varying quality. His … | Continue reading
What do you get when you combine Escape the Room with a vehicle test drive? It turns out, a lot of fun.If you’re not familiar, Escape the Room is a real-world puzzle game where teams of users have to follow clues to (surprise) escape a room. It’s fantastic.This weekend, Ford has … | Continue reading
PC makers have been trying to replicate the MacBook Air for years with little success.Alternatives — including 2-in-1 convertibles, transformers and touchscreens — have intrigued customers, but none have been as popular Apple's laptop. So HP decided on another strategy to compete … | Continue reading
Surprise, Nitrome's got a new game out now, called Redungeon [Free]. They're describing this as kind of being the Platform Panic [Free] of top-down dungeon crawlers, in that you collect coins and have multiple characters that you can upgrade. This one has you moving from tile to … | Continue reading
It's true that it's fairly difficult to get the back cover off the OnePlus 3, but after that the components are well-organized for removal and replacement. | Continue reading
BMW i joins Tesla and Mercedes-Benz in bringing energy storage home with its new system, which has yet to be given a catchy name. The system uses new or used batteries from the BMW i3 electric car to store power from solar panels for later use. It integrates with the charging sta … | Continue reading
During the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University today the AngelList, the equity fundraising platform, and activist Shiza Shahid announced plans to create a new venture firm, called NOW Ventures, to back what they’re calling “mission-driven” startups. That’s the l … | Continue reading
Despite reports that say millennials believe "phone calls can be burdensome," users of the very popular messaging service WhatsApp are making over 100 million voice calls every day, taking that oh-so-heavy burden head on. With over 1 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the biggest … | Continue reading
Stanford University researchers are testing software that is meant to help autistic children with social cues. The Google Glass software reads the emotions on people's faces, then tells the user what those emotions are. Early research is yielding positive results. Read more...Mo … | Continue reading
Employers that outsource jobs to a third party that relies on foreign workers must make sure the contractor is not engaging in citizenship discrimination, a federal official said. | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: An Honest History of Hacking Source: Wall Street Journal Why we like it: An Honest History of Hacking, brought to you by WSJ & BitDefender takes users through the build up to the pressing cyber crime issues of today. A perfect lead in for BitDefender and rel … | Continue reading
Apparently this is the week for color-based shooters! Not long after we posted about Star Crew from Oh BiBi, our old constantly-making-games pals Foursaken Media took to our forums to announce their own color-based shooter called Color Bots. The concepts are definitely similar. I … | Continue reading
Designed by Andrew Simpson of WireDog Architecture, the Island Bay House is set on a sloping quarter-acre lot in New Zealand. | Continue reading
Facebook is making a few changes to its live video initiatives, including letting users stream from the MSQRD app. When you broadcast from MSQRD, you’ll be able to try out different masks and effects live — and even swap them on the fly. You can also select the audience you want … | Continue reading
A new survey estimates that finance companies will invest as much as $1bn on blockchain initiatives related to capital markets in 2016. | Continue reading
Facebook has grand plans to continue expanding and improving its live video platform this year, starting with support for face-swapping app MSQRD. In the coming weeks, you can go live on Facebook from the MSQRD app and utilize its many different Snapchat-like masks and filters wh … | Continue reading
It was on June 23, 1996 that the Nintendo 64 made its debut — in Japan, that is. We wouldn’t see it on this side of the Pacific for another three months. But today is its proper birthday, and 20 years is a significant enough anniversary that we should probably just take a moment … | Continue reading
The MULTI-TIER SHELF system has shelves that rest on vertical slanting legs without any hardware connections. | Continue reading
Volkswagen will pay between $1,000 and $7,000, and in some cases as much as $10,000, to owners of cars that were affected by the diesel emissions scandal, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. The reports state that the payouts will vary depending on fa … | Continue reading
Microsoft has a new Windows 10 feature in the works -- one that'll tie your license and product key information to your Microsoft account. In theory, this could make swapping hardware or reinstalling the OS simpler. | Continue reading
Look! It's Kit Harington, aka Jon Snow, aka Admiral Salen Kotch, the villain of the upcoming Call of Duty game!Kit has been doing motion capture in London for the last week, according to a press release. Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie directed the shoot, but I don't know wh … | Continue reading
Today at VidCon Facebook pre-announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live, their live-streaming platform built into Facebook. The platform will soon let you do two-person remote broadcasts, pre-schedule your streams and create a virtual waiting room for viewers, and … | Continue reading
Creating ideal reader personas will inform your content creation and help you increase your own blog’s visibility. | Continue reading
Financial dudes like strong musical endings. Arcade games players, not so much. Those are a few of the findings of AdColony’s new study on app install ads. The video-heavy mobile advertising network categorized 11,000 different video ad creatives and then studied their efficacy i … | Continue reading
Car audio is almost never very good. It's usually too loud in one corner, too quiet in another. The bass is weak or uncomfortably rumbly, the treble is clipped or doesn't exist.Enter Nelson Hidalgo, an inventive man from Queens who seems to have solved the problem of poor car aud … | Continue reading