Microsoft today released its Microsoft Remote Desktop client for Windows 10 out of preview. You can download the new Remote Desktop app now from the Windows Store. Until now, Windows 10 users interested in Remote Desktop were stuck with the Windows Phone 8.1 app, released in Marc … | Continue reading
Cory Richards had just summited Mount Everest, without oxygen, and his attempt to share his hard won victory with the world was being scuttled by the most mundane of tech issues. He was standing more than 29,000 feet above sea level, on the world's tallest peak, and his cell phon … | Continue reading
Real-time strategy game Battleplans [] has finally escaped soft launch and gone worldwide, and it's well worth checking out. Like many mobile games, it feels like has the DNA of other titles – Clash of Clans [Free] and Tactile Wars [Free] come to mind here. You engage in short-fo … | Continue reading
Keeping things simple, Servicely is an Android customization app for rooted phones and tablets to save you battery consumption. | Continue reading
Andreas Antonopoulos takes aim at local governments with new plans for an Ethereum-based system that could be recognized across borders. | Continue reading
Delta Airlines paid for and installed a pair of "innovation lanes" at its hometown airport in Atlanta. The lanes are much better designed than the standard security checkpoints found at airports around the US, and the airline hopes it can double the throughput thanks to some clev … | Continue reading
About 22 years ago, ESPN made the fateful decision to air the later rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest on TV. In including the act of spelling difficult-to-spell words in front of an audience of mostly family members, ESPN was signaling then and there hat those c … | Continue reading
Nick Denton, founder of embattled media company Gawker, challenged his nemesis, billionaire Peter Thiel, to a debate on free speech in light of disclosures that Thiel funded a $10 million libel suit by Hulk Hogan against Gawker. This one-time sideshow is in the process of becomin … | Continue reading
The CFTChas granted registration to a trading platform that was an early entrant in the US market for financial derivatives tied to bitcoin. | Continue reading
Amsterdam is known for being particularly strict when it comes to how people use its waterways. It’s understandable – they’re more than 300 years old. So what does it take to get them to relax their rules to allow a jet ski and a wakeboard to cruise them for an entire morning? Th … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Next Lock Screen has served as a very slick and effective lock screen replacement, and it just got even better in this most recent update. | Continue reading
When Clash Royale [Free] descended into out plane of existence, it felt like the harbinger for a lot of other short-form multiplayer games. Warpship, now in soft launch, feels like it's going for that exact thing. You and another opponent face off in real time, using energy simil … | Continue reading
The world’s biggest chip maker won’t sell its Intel Capital strategic venture capital investments arm, as previously rumored. Intel was reportedly seeking $1 billion or more for its portfolio, but now it isn’t selling. Wendell Brooks, the new president of Intel Capital, said in a … | Continue reading
Today, browsers come with built-in tools that allow to inspect and debug existing web content. In this post, I’ll argue that these tools could also allow creating content and working on this content in more visual ways. Ways that offer alternatives to having to deal with code too … | Continue reading
Consider two processes that need to exchange commands and data. You want to connect them in a way that is straightforward, efficient, and reliable. How would you do that? Enter Message Queues. | Continue reading
KitSplit aims to help creative professionals rent the equipment they need, whether it’s basic video gear or something a little more high-tech, say a 360-degree camera or an Oculus Rift. The service launched last year in New York, and now it’s ready to expand, starting with its la … | Continue reading
Lenovo has a big event coming up on June 9th, and one of the things we might see then (or shortly thereafter) is a new lineup of Droids. VentureBeat reporter Evan Blass leaked an image showing what appears to be three color options for this next round of Droid phones — and they l … | Continue reading
Wearable computers is a technology category that’s supposed to take off because of smartwatches and digital visors, but I want something more than a visor. Hardware manufacturer MSI has my back … pack. The Backpack PC is one of the newest products for virtual reality that MSI, wh … | Continue reading
Following the announcement of Android apps for Chrome OS, Google has given tablet manufacturers a touch choice moving forward, but will Ch | Continue reading
Are your marketing results more unimpressive than you care to admit? You might have BS content to blame. | Continue reading
Whistle while you tweet with the new partnership between Twitter and Spotify. Now you can listen to 30-second previews of songs in your timeline and Moments thanks to Twitter’s audio cards which now support Spotify. Twitter first launched audio cards in 2014 with iTunes previews … | Continue reading
NVIDIA is offering a 50% discount on five great racing games for Shield on either Android or the GeForce NOW streaming service. | Continue reading
TechCrunch is looking for a Startup Battlefield Manager! TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is the world’s preeminent startup competition and is at the very heart of Disrupt. At each event selected startups have an opportunity to pitch in front of top-notch investors, compete for $ … | Continue reading
Samsung has launched two new mid-range devices in China, the Galaxy C5 and C7. If that branding doesn't sound familiar, it shouldn't — the Galaxy C line is a brand-new series of smartphones from Samsung. The Galaxy C5 is the smaller of the two devices, and features an all-metal c … | Continue reading
Today, after three days of deliberation, a jury in San Francisco federal court found that Android’s usage of 37 Java APIs is protected by fair use | Continue reading
Some days it’s hard to get excited about Bluetooth speakers. That’s not a statement of judgment, really, it’s just that the space has been flooded with a lot of likeminded devices that are honestly pretty tough to tell apart. And then something like the Beoplay A1 comes along and … | Continue reading
I was just getting used to a colorless E Ink world. My eyes accepted the tradeoff between seeing in color and being blinded, and seeing in black and white and feeling at ease while staring at a screen for hours. Now my days of darkness might soon be over. E Ink unveiled its new A … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: It’s not your grandmother’s mail-in sweepstakes operation. Find out how PCH transformed their traditional business model and became the fifth-largest gaming publisher by implementing innovative marketing automation strategies. Register here for free. Say “Publisher’s Cle … | Continue reading
The golden age of passwords is coming to a close.The change started when websites started rating passwords as we were creating them, trying to get us to add some capital letters and symbols to boost their status from weak to strong.SEE ALSO: Google's password-killing project is c … | Continue reading
How can the decentralized ledger technology be taken a step further to enable decentralized computing, also known as grid computing? 21 Inc., the Bitcoin technology company has come up with a solution which can very well become the backbone of the Internet of Things revolution. I … | Continue reading
Progressive Democrats are calling for the ouster of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the head of the Democratic National Committee due to what they call political bias. Shelby Holliday explains the party feud in WSJ's Campaign Fight Club. | Continue reading
Blue Origin is planning the next test flight of its reusable New Shepard rocket, but CEO Jeff Bezos just revealed a twist: the empty crew capsule, which sits on top of the rocket, will crash-land on purpose."On this upcoming mission we also plan to stress the crew capsule by land … | Continue reading
(Jim Christie, Reuters) — A U.S. jury handed Alphabet’s Google a major victory on Thursday in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Oracle Corp, saying the law allowed Google’s use of Oracle’s software to create its Android smartphone operating system. The jury unanimously uph … | Continue reading
HTC is developing a virtual reality game for its Vive headset called Front Defense, and the company plans on demoing it at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan next week. Little is known about the game, as translated marketing material simply describes it as a wartime shoote … | Continue reading
Seven LEGO titles on Android are currently on sale for 99 cents, including Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Ninjago, Marvel and more. | Continue reading
Today, a jury in California's Northern District federal court declared that Google's use of copyright-protected code in Android was fair use, freeing it of any liability. Oracle, which controls the copyright on the code, had been seeking $9 billion for the use of the code.The cas … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Motion AI, a Chicago company that lets anyone easily build a bot without touching a line of code, has announced it is open to business after several months of private testing. What, another bot-builder? Dozens of other startups have launched to build bots for developer … | Continue reading
I've been keeping an eye on the upcoming Take Off - The Flight Simulator for some time now, since it seems to promise the kind of flight simulation game I enjoy. And even though I don't usually care much about trailers, I have to say that Take Off's release trailer is one of the … | Continue reading
Software developers can breathe a massive sigh of relief — a jury found today that Google’s implementation of 37 Java APIs in Android qualified as fair use. However, Oracle attorneys have already indicated that they will appeal the decision.“Today’s verdict that Android makes fai … | Continue reading
Indie musician Casey Dienel (aka White Hinterland) is suing Justin Bieber, Skrillex, and the team of co-writers behind Bieber's 2015 mega-hit "Sorry" over the song's resemblance to Dienel's "Ring the Bell," released in 2014 as part of her album Baby. TMZ reported on the lawsuit t … | Continue reading
I managed to get a rare peek inside Naughty Dog’s headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., during an interview with the co-directors of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End: Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann. Their game is peppered with Easter Eggs that are homages to games from the past, incl … | Continue reading
The omnichannel customer experience is nothing new, especially in the consumer and retail industries. Many companies and brands are using data and automation technologies to engage seamlessly with their customers at any time and place and across any device. At the same time, omni … | Continue reading
Minecraft, a game that skyrocketed to unprecedented levels of popularity among all ages because of its open-ended gameplay, infinite worlds, and limitless possibilities for creation and collaboration, is getting a deathmatch mode. Read More | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Worth the Drive: These Delicious Destinations are the 6 Best Road Trips to take this Spring Source: Tasting Table Why we like it: What is a vehicle if not a means to get you places and try new things? Like eating delicious foods and exploring hidden treasure … | Continue reading
We all like reading on a Kindle because of its E Ink screen. We can read for hours without feeling like our eyes are burning off from a harsh backlight. Chinese company Dasung wants to bring that same experience to computer monitors. The company showed off its Paperlike E Ink mon … | Continue reading
The scale is tipping from traditional media to social media as a source for news. That’s the conclusion reached in a new study published on Thursday by Pew Research CenterPew surveyed over 4,600 people who told them that they’re increasingly using their favorite social media plat … | Continue reading
Virtual reality gaming has introduced a number of new platform companies to a space that aren’t necessarily known for developing video games, but the company responsible for one of the best head-mounted displays is looking to change that. HTC will show off Front Defense, its firs … | Continue reading
We're just about a month away from the release of Independence Day Resurgence, a 20-years-later sequel to the blockbuster 1996 alien-invasion flick Independence Day, and while this new movie will be sans Will Smith it will have the obligitory mobile tie-in game launching alongsid … | Continue reading