A few thoughts on what Android apps for Chrome OS are going to mean for app design, the transition process and target audiences for apps in future. | Continue reading
Glenn Beck isn't impressed with recent conservative criticism of Facebook. In the wake of the company's much-watched meeting with conservative media figures, the television and radio host posted a lengthy essay on Medium applauding Facebook's efforts to remain impartial and criti … | Continue reading
San Francisco-based Tally Technologies Inc. raised $15 million in Series A venture funding, to launch an app that promises to help people maintain good credit while avoiding fees, charges and other credit card affiliated pains. Shasta Ventures led the Series A investment in Tally … | Continue reading
Bitcoin exchange and wallet service Coinbase is adding support for ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network. | Continue reading
TechCrunch is please to bring you Alchemist Accelerator‘s demo day live from PARC, a Xerox Company. Alchemist is one of those rare programs that focuses on enterprise startups. These aren’t your parents enterprise companies. Pitches today will span products that help businesses l … | Continue reading
This week I ended up with an advance copy of Influence Central’s new report called Kids & Tech: The Evolution of Today’s Digital Natives. The report—which is a subsection from a larger, ongoing study of 500 women across the USA—details findings on the way that kids are using tech … | Continue reading
If you thought Chromebooks were mainly low-end devices, you may be right — but Google wants to change your mind about that. Starting later this year, there will be more high-end Chromebooks in the wild. At a session during Google I/O, the company confirmed it was working with par … | Continue reading
One of the biggest challenges an SMB faces is picking the right marketing channels. Here are tips for that perfect fit. | Continue reading
The Halo series of first-person shooters left the PC back in 2004, but 343 Industries is bringing a key component to Windows 10: the Forge user-generated content toolset. 343 Industries said today in a blog post that Forge is coming to PC later this year. It will have keyboard an … | Continue reading
Sprint originally killed two-year contracts back in January only to have them spring back to life the following month. Soon they will be gone for good. | Continue reading
Poncho, the only weather app that will have a cartoon cat tell you about the chance of precipitation, has now arrived to Android. | Continue reading
Google has created a single API that will let Android apps be more contextual and location aware. The Google Awareness API uses seven location and context signals (time, location, places, beacons, headphones, activity and weather) from your phone to help apps create custom behavi … | Continue reading
Google has been slowly building virtual reality-focused functionality into the YouTube app over the past year with support for 360-degree video formats, stereoscopic video, 3D audio and general Google Cardboard support. Today, YouTube, the “world’s largest collection of VR videos … | Continue reading
As reported yesterday, Android apps are coming to Chromebooks at long last via a Google Play Store app. What we didn’t know were which Chromebooks will be getting Android apps – or indeed, that there would be limitations at all. Google is rolling out the update in batches, and it … | Continue reading
Having spent a good deal of time flying UAVs like DJI’s Inspire 1 and Phantom 4, I like to consider myself experienced with drones. So when I came across Horizon Hobby’s Vortex 250 Pro racing drone, I didn’t think twice that it was labeled for “the experienced pilot”. I thought I … | Continue reading
It's been rumored for quite some time, and now the news is finally official: Android apps are coming to Chrome OS! | Continue reading
People fear robots are becoming too human, but, in reality, robots are becoming a little more bug-like every day.A team of Harvard University researchers proved this axiom when they found the solution to extending tiny robot flight is by mimicking the way small bugs alight on wal … | Continue reading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google's Play Store, home to more than 1 million Android apps, is finally moving beyond the confines of Android.The Chrome browser and Chrome OS, the operating system that powers Chromebooks, are both getting support for the Play Store, Google announced Th … | Continue reading
A blogger outreach case study revealed a surprising degree of commercialism among bloggers. The findings show that PR may face difficulty obtaining backlinks by contributing posts to bloggers. In his blogger outreach campaign, Alex Jones, a PR pro with Hallam Internet in Nottingh … | Continue reading
New research into HIV vaccines could have found a good target for antibodies -- but what does that mean, exactly, and why might this be different than the cures that have come (and gone) in the past? | Continue reading
Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Kristaps Porzingis of the New York Knicks have been unanimously selected to the 2015-16 NBA All-Rookie First Team, the NBA announced today. Both players received all 130 First Team votes from a panel … | Continue reading
Florida's Saltwater Brewery has a pretty clever idea for replacing those environment-destroying plastic rings holding your Tecate cans together: animal food. Technically, the rings are a combination of wheat and barley, leftover from the brewing process. The brewery hopes the bio … | Continue reading
When Australia's athletes travel to Rio for the Olympics this summer, they'll be equipped with "anti-Zika condoms" — or at least that's how Reuters, Gizmodo, Fusion, and Jezebel portrayed condoms made through a collaboration between the companies Starpharma and Ansell. Here’s the … | Continue reading
The latest Android N preview introduces a sustained performance mode that aims to make long-running apps run much more smoothly. | Continue reading
There's hardly a week that goes by where there isn't at least one straggler new release, and this week that prize goes to none other than Warhammer 40000: Regicide [$3.99] which just hit the App Store a few moments ago. Originally announced just over two years ago, Warhammer 4000 … | Continue reading
The Play Store is coming to Chrome OS, Google announced at its I/O developer conference today — and with that, you will soon be able to install and run virtually any Android app on your Chromebooks and Chromeboxes.It’s no secret that Google has been working on this project for qu … | Continue reading
Game and app developers already working inside of virtual reality will be able to port existing apps and games to Google's brand new Daydream platform, if they are building on Unreal Engine.Epic Games appeared on the stage of Google I/O to unveil Unreal Engine 4's compatibility w … | Continue reading
It’s been a big month for trucking innovations. In addition to Otto’s autonomous truck announcement, there’s the unveiling of Nikola Motor Company’s electric long-haul rig concept. The Nikola One, as it’s called, has “6×6 all-wheel drive,” with 800-volt AC motors and regenerative … | Continue reading
Flying can be exhausting when you’re a tiny, bee-sized robot, but researchers from MIT have created a new way to let little winged bots take a break. Using static electricity, robots no bigger than a quarter can latch onto the underside of any flat surfaces, a process that uses b … | Continue reading
Researchers have designed aerial robots that can perch on various surfaces, according to a new study. The robots' perching ability allows them to rest which reduces energy consumption. Dipti Kapadia reports. Photo: AAAS | Continue reading
Suffocating bosses—also known as micromanagers—often send this message to subordinates: “I don’t trust you to get the job done, nor to do it right.” | Continue reading
Google just announced that Chome OS finally has what many people have been clamoring for almost since its introduction five years ago: true native apps. And it has a massive number of them, too. When support for them launches later this year, there will be more and better apps th … | Continue reading
Google is finally bringing the Google Play store, including its more than 1.5 million Android apps, to Chrome OS. Google Play will first arrive with Chrome OS version 53 on the dev channel in early June, starting with three Chromebooks: the Asus Chromebook Flip, the Acer Chromebo … | Continue reading
Hard Reset Redux, the remastered version of Flying Wild Hog's shooter debut, will launch on PS4, Xbox One and PC on 3rd June.This will mark Hard Reset's console premiere, as the original 2011 game was a PC-exclusive.Since Hard Reset's launch, Flying Wild Hog has gone on to make S … | Continue reading
Xiaomi might be getting into drones. The company posted a mysterious lil' baby flying device on its Weibo page last night, which might be its first official hint at a foray into the drone game. Look at the thing! It looks like a maple tree seed! The poster doesn't give us much to … | Continue reading
A Los Altos startup called Afero raised $20.3 million in a new round of venture funding to secure connected devices, from toys and arcade games to medical equipment. The company’s technology works even when WiFi isn’t, employing 4GLTE and other radio sensors. Afero works with lar … | Continue reading
The IDC reports that Chromebooks outsold Macs during Q1 of 2016, positioning the Google-powered devices to go toe to toe with Microsoft in the low-cost laptop market. | Continue reading
Music blasting into your ear-holes not immersive enough for you? Rhapsody’s new VR app brings you as close to the music as you can get without getting sprayed with spit, sweat and god knows what else that gets flung about on a music stage these days. Available on Android and iOS, … | Continue reading
During its second day keynote on virtual reality, Google announced some new hardware partners for its Jump VR platform. Yi Technologies, a Chinese digital camera maker, will be creating an action camera for Jump, and IMAX will be working with Google to create a cinema-quality VR … | Continue reading
Earlier this month Koei Tecmo release an alpha demo of Team Ninja's third-person combat game Nioh to much acclaim. It was downloaded by over 850k people and survey results show that most really enjoyed it. However, its punishing difficulty was criticised by players in Asia, while … | Continue reading
It’s easy to imagine that they’ve been happening regularly across the startup industry. The pace of funding in recent years as been feverish, giving investors less time than ever to assess the startups they’re funding. That once-celebrated companies like the blood testing outfit … | Continue reading
Google dashed the rumor-fueled hopes and hype of many yesterday when it failed to bring any real VR hardware onstage and instead spent much of its time detailing the Daydream platform they would be pushing out with Android N this fall. Today, the company snuck in an announcement … | Continue reading
A year ago, when Google began to unwind Google+, it felt like a positive sign for the company’s underperforming social efforts. After sinking years into building a product overstuffed with photos, communication tools, link-sharing, and discussions, Google began to shrink them int … | Continue reading
Google's new Daydream platform is designed to create a vibrant Virtual Reality ecosystem on Android, and has support from most of the major hardware vendors. | Continue reading
In an approximately 400-page report released this week, a nonprofit academic group evaluated 20 years of research on genetically-modified foods and found them safe for consumption as well as for the environment. WSJ's Jacob Bunge joins Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — YouTube will soon have a much better virtual reality experience.Google is making a standalone YouTube app for Daydream, the company's newly-announced Android-based virtual reality platform. Clay Bavor, Google's head of VR, announced the upcoming app during … | Continue reading
HANG TIME BIG CITY — In a candid interview released today, Dwight Howard speaks freely about a number of topics relating to his career, his time with the Houston Rockets, as well as his future. While Howard says he hasn’t decided what to do this summer as far as his contract — Ho … | Continue reading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google wants to take VR all the way to Hollywood.Last year the company launched its platform for creating 360-degree video, called Jump, and since then Hollywood studios have come calling, Google's head of VR, Clay Bavor, said at the Google I/O developer c … | Continue reading