Windows Phones mostly achieved feature parity with iOS and Android with Windows 10, but the lack of NFC payments has been a glaring omission. That’s starting to change today. Windows Insiders running builds 14360 or higher can run an updated Microsoft Wallet app to make mobile pa … | Continue reading
A couple weeks back, Reddit announced that it would be providing its own image hosting solution to a handful of subreddits. The experiment appears to have been a success, because the site announced today that the feature is rolling out to any SFW subreddit that wants to take adva … | Continue reading
Leeser Architecture was enlisted to transform an industrial building into a three level collaborative work share facility for Coworkrs. | Continue reading
A matchup between the Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers, owners of the first and second overall picks, respectively, in NBA Draft 2016 presented by State Farm, highlights the 67-game schedule at Samsung NBA Summer League 2016. The 11-day showcase of top young NBA talent … | Continue reading
In 2013, Ticketmaster lost a class action lawsuit over its shady processing fees. This week, those of us who purchased tickets between October 1999 and February 2013 reap the rewards of the court case in the form of free ticket vouchers applicable to a limited set of shows pre-se … | Continue reading
Nissan confirms its 200-mile EV: the 2018 Nissan Leaf. It arrives late this year with a 60-kWh battery. Cost-conscious buyers should be able to get 100-mile Leafs with small battery packs. | Continue reading
Three years after a court first ruled that Apple was liable for conspiring to fix ebook prices, consumers are finally getting their money back for buying overpriced books. Starting today, booksellers are beginning to refund customers by placing store credit into the accounts they … | Continue reading
This year’s E3, the gaming world’s annual marquee show, was virtual reality’s chance to shine. Two high-end headsets — the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive — are on sale already, although they serve only a small market. We’re four months from the launch of PlayStation VR, which will open … | Continue reading
Yahoo this morning launched a new travel guide for iOS it’s calling Yahoo Radar. While the app will offer traditional travel companion type features like restaurant recommendations and details on popular attractions, landmarks, and other sights in a given city, the app will be mo … | Continue reading
Aiming for the highest-possible ROI? You're probably losing revenue. Try balancing ROI and audience growth, instead. See what happens. | Continue reading
Another day, another rumor that Apple is going to ditch the headphone jack on the next iPhone in favor of sending out audio over Lightning. Or another phone beats Apple to the punch by ditching the headphone jack in favor of passing out audio over USB-C. What exciting times for p … | Continue reading
Brigade, the political advocacy platform backed by Sean Parker and made from the early team of Causes, has come a longer way in the last six months. Originally unveiled as a really simple way to agree or disagree with political positions, Brigade has evolved into a more robust si … | Continue reading
The Grand X Max 2 is ZTE's latest budget phone but is this Cricket Wireless handset one that you should consider buying? Here's our full review! | Continue reading
At one end of the spectrum you have iterative testing and at the other, you have innovative testing. What's the difference? When do you use each one? | Continue reading
The 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles last week marked Sony’s biggest virtual reality push yet, and one of the company’s competitors likes what he sees. Palmer Luckey, who invented the Oculus Rift and cofounded Oculus VR, revealed on social media yester … | Continue reading
The Disney film Frozen, which I have admittedly only watched once in its entirety and that was in a minivan, is a constant burden to me. It has murdered so many things that I care deeply about and today it has done so for the 14th time.To recap, here are the first 13 things Froze … | Continue reading
VLC, the venerable and widely used multi-platform video player, received a major update on Android today, adding a number of highly requested features while managing to actually reduce the number of permissions it needs. That seems like an infallible sign of a trustworthy develop … | Continue reading
Austin architect Tim Cuppett recently designed the Hillside house in South Austin that conquered the problem of the two homeowners’ divergent | Continue reading
Epson unveiled two new projectors this week, which it says are the first "WirelessHD projectors with 4K content support." That's cool, but what's really special about these projectors is that they’re both priced below $3,500. The Home Cinema 5040UB and the Home Cinema 5040UBe are … | Continue reading
Designed by A69 Architectural Studio, this DIY prototype of a family house is built in a former granite quarry in Posázaví, Czech Republic. | Continue reading
Whether it's in the form of a car, a space ship, a balloon, or a shell, these incredibly cool beds have us wishing we were children again. | Continue reading
A 3 kilometer long walkway was created as The Floating Piers extend across the water of Lake Iseo. Floating Piers - Christo and Jeanne-Claude | Continue reading
At its developer conference in Seattle, Docker today announced the private beta of the Docker Store, a new marketplace for trusted and validated dockerized software.The idea behind the store is to create a self-service portal for Docker’s ecosystem partners to publish and distrib … | Continue reading
The Incredibles hit the Disney Parks in the latest Magic Kingdoms event. | Continue reading
Today, Microsoft released a big update to its mobile wallet app with NFC tap-to-pay features. That puts Microsoft Wallet on par with Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay. Like those other digital wallets, Microsoft's only works on the company's own software. You'll also need a … | Continue reading
Attention startup hopefuls, it’s time to stop procrastinating and apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF. Startups from across the US and around the world have until 12pm PT on July 5th to get your application in front of the selection team. Apply now! For those who aren … | Continue reading
If you thought the clothes at Nordstrom were expensive, just wait until see how much the electric cars are going for.SEE ALSO: BMW plans to turn old i3 EV batteries into home energy storage systemsTesla has been waging a war to sell cars outside the dealership system across the U … | Continue reading
Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies’ on-premises data centers. Rather than simply drop the news in a blog post, today Mark Rus … | Continue reading
Docker is hosting its developer conference in Seattle this week and showcasing the quickly growing ecosystem that has grown up around its container tools. One of the companies on stage today was Microsoft, which announced that it is great expanding its support for Docker containe … | Continue reading
Here’s a bit of unexpected news: Apple is doing away with the traditional two-year iPhone cycle, according to the Wall Street Journal. In other words, don’t expect anything special from this year’s model. The good news is that 2017’s should be just as awesome as 2016’s will be du … | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal is today backing up rumors that Apple's iPhone 7 will bear a close resemblance to its two most recent predecessors, the iPhone 6 and 6S. The device, due this fall, will see "subtle changes" and you've already heard about the biggest one: the headphone jack … | Continue reading
Dass Mark Zuckerberg Popstar-Status genießt, ist wohl keine Frage, aber diese eigentlich wohl zwangsläufige Begleiterscheinung verblüfft irgendwie trotzdem: Rustikales Digitalkunsthandwerk, mit dem der Facebook-Chef ungelenk, verkitscht... | Continue reading
Michelle Obama, probably the coolest First Lady of all time, has just joined Snapchat. According to The Verge, Mrs. Obama will use the account to post snaps from the White House and give followers a behind-the-scenes view of her daily life and events with the president throughout … | Continue reading
Every OEM does it differently, but we want to know which way you prefer. What do you think is the best location for a fingerprint sensor? | Continue reading
Love it or hate it, Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest movie, The Neon Demon, is hard to forget. The film premiered at Cannes in May 2016 to divided reviews and the festival’s increasingly famous chorus of audience boos. On June 24th, it heads to American theaters, where viewers can j … | Continue reading
Slack, the communication and collaboration platform for coworkers, now offers instant integrations with 500 other apps, letting people chat to each other while calling in projects and other content from elsewhere with simple short codes. And from today it’s significantly stepping … | Continue reading
Trends toward automation have never resulted in the employment doomsday many have feared, but is the coming invasion of robots going to be different? | Continue reading
Slack is on a mission to make it easier for us to get things done, supported by the launch of new message buttons — interactive elements that enable better interactions with some of the 500 apps in Slack’s marketplace. Among the early launch partners include Trello, Kayak, and Ri … | Continue reading
Workplace chat service Slack will now let users interact with third-party services without ever having to leave the app. The new feature, called message buttons, lets companies create interactive Slack apps for performing tasks from within the chat window, like approving expense … | Continue reading
Ever since marketers discovered that SEO alone wasn’t enough to meaningfully engage consumers, they’ve been working round the clock to make their content better. It’s no longer just about ranking on search engines. Today’s marketers are more worried about the usefulness of their … | Continue reading
Instagram has announced it now has 500 million users, 300 million of whom use the social media platform every single day. | Continue reading
Sony has made its internet TV service PlayStation Vue available on Roku TVs and set-top boxes, the company announced today. The service, which offers a pretty robust lineup of channels including ESPN and a cloud DVR starting at $29.99 a month has been expanding its availability o … | Continue reading
My favorite game was, weirdly, the Pegasus. It’s amazing how willing your mind is to believe that you’re a winged horse for a few glorious moments while riding an exercise bike in a Los Angeles hotel suite. Toss in a floor fan and the effect would pretty much be complete. I’m wil … | Continue reading
The first lady now has her very own Snapchat account. Starting today, Michelle Obama will begin posting Snaps from the White House, giving her followers a behind-the-scenes look at her daily activities, as well as the official events she and the president attend throughout the ye … | Continue reading
An economic development firm owned by a Finnish city has been awarded €2.4 million to build blockchain-powered smart shipping containers. | Continue reading
Microsoft announced this morning the launch of a new mobile app for SharePoint customers aimed at bringing a company’s SharePoint-powered intranet portal and its content to users’ smartphones and tablets. The app is initially available on iOS – meaning it will work on iPhone and … | Continue reading
Streaming’s nice and all, but when you need to watch a good-old local file, VLC is one of the most popular choices around. The Android app was just updated to version 2.0, with a few features make power-users giddy. Perhaps most notably, you can now watch videos in a pop up windo … | Continue reading
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said considerable uncertainties remain for the economic outlook, including the so-called Brexit vote in the European Union, set for Thursday. Photo: Getty | Continue reading