Google just showed off the biggest update yet to its smartwatch platform.Android Wear 2.0, previewed during the company's I/O developer conference, adds standalone apps, more customizable watch faces and new ways of inputting text. Though the update won't be widely available for … | Continue reading
With Daydream VR finally out in the open, Google's vision for virtual reality is slowly coming into focus. So what does it mean for all of us? | Continue reading
Attribution: amymariestad.tumblr.com This gif right here really strikes a chord with me. You see; I know a ton of people like the girl on the left, but only one person who sees the world as the girl on the right does. It’s important – especially when you’re going your own way thr … | Continue reading
The first quarter of 2016 saw Google’s Chromebook outsell Macs for the first time. The data, shared by International Data Corporation (IDC) in a Chromebook session today at I/O, estimated 1.76 million Macs sold in Q1 2016, while Chromebook makers Dell, Lenovo and HP sold nearly … | Continue reading
Siri on the desktop is something we’ve long expected was in the works, but there’s new evidence Apple will soon make it a reality — except they don’t seem to know where Siri should live. Screenshots obtained by MacRumors allegedly show a Siri icon for the menu bar as well as a do … | Continue reading
For three years now Google has been working on its Project Tango augmented-reality (AR) technology for mobile devices. For three years, non-Googlers have been waiting patiently to use it. But in a few short weeks, Lenovo will be launching the first Tango-compatible smartphone tha … | Continue reading
The Orlando Magic moved quickly to fill their coaching vacancy, agreeing to a deal with Frank Vogel just a week after the position suddenly became available. | Continue reading
If you're looking for a killer MIDI controller that feels like not just one "real" instrument, but many of them, Artiphon could be your salvation. | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where I randomly generate an article about an RPG. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's archives to see how it holds up in the here and now. It's a chance to look back on old favorites, | Continue reading
In today’s tech-driven business world, the title “serial entrepreneur” is a coveted badge of honor. It’s easy to understand the appeal of the phrase. It suggests that someone is so full of groundbreaking ideas they can’t channel all of them into just one company. Instead, they ch … | Continue reading
A training video Sega put out in 1996 for rookie video game testers has been released to the internet at large by the production company behind it, Green Mill Filmworks.The 28-minute "trainumentary" was filmed at Sega of America's office in Redwood City, California and boy does i … | Continue reading
One of the frustrations we have as tech bloggers is Reddit; not because it’s weird or sometimes shitty to people, but because embedding a post in an article is difficult. Reddit just solved that for us, though. Welcome to 2014. Writers like me can now embed Reddit posts in articl … | Continue reading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google's Chrome browser will soon be better at managing your passwords and payments information on the go.Google introduced two new APIs for the mobile version of its browser Thursday at its I/O developer conference. The new developer tools streamline both … | Continue reading
After Google’s decision not to provide end-to-end encryption by default in its new chat app, Allo, raised questions about the balance of security and effective artificial intelligence, one of the company’s top security engineers said he’d push for end-to-end encryption to become … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Our second 30-minute mobile marketing webinar dives into user acquisition with EasyTaxi’s CMO Paul Malicki. Join him and VB’s Stuart Rogers to hear how to snag the best users and then keep them on board. Register here for free. Easy Taxi, a rival to Uber and GrabTaxi, ha … | Continue reading
Android games will make like Steam with the upcoming Google Play Early Access. It works exactly as you'd expect, with in-development titles marked as E… | Continue reading
It's pretty hard to believe that it's been more than 4 years since developer Touch Foo released their Metroidvania-style action platformer Swordigo [Free] to the App Store, but in the crazy world of mobile gaming time flies right before your eyes. While Swordigo has lived a long … | Continue reading
Mobile ad company UberMedia is expanding its measurement and attribution business in a big way. You may remember UberMedia as the company that owns social apps like Echofon and UberSocial. While that’s still the case, it has shifted its attention over the past few years to its mo … | Continue reading
Reddit has added an embed feature for nearly every post on its site, letting you snag a snippet of code and place linked posts, images, and videos in other news outlets and blogs. The feature may be something a journalist or website owner finds more useful than the everyday Reddi … | Continue reading
Having driven over a million miles in fewer than four months, General Motors' car sharing brand Maven is expanding to Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C.SEE ALSO: Uber teases a first look at its self-driving carGM announced Thursday morning that it will be expanding Maven into t … | Continue reading
How often do servers really fail? If Backblaze’s 61,523 operational hard drives are any indication, not often. On average, Backblaze reports its drives have a fail rate of 1.84 percent in Q1 2016. That’s 266 failures with over 5 million days in operation. Cumulatively, Backblaze … | Continue reading
Here's our 60-second recap of Google's biggest event of the year: the I/O developer conference with a keynote from Google CEO Sundar Pichai.Live from the keynote: http://on.mash.to/1NATmMW Read more...More about Google, Mobile, Google Io, Tech, and Dev Design | Continue reading
Google released a comprehensive list of Chromebooks devices that will receive the Play Store, and most devices older than two years didn't make the cut. | Continue reading
Check out my post at mocca’s wordpress.com blog to get a full rundown of all my posts on this site. 53 blog posts while keeping up with freelance work and a full-time job (or two)… not bad!The post What a year of blogging looks like appeared first on /mocca.co. | Continue reading
Taking Android customization to the max, use this Tasker project to adjust CPU speeds on your rooted device. Throttle to save battery or speed up for games. | Continue reading
Ratrod Studio has a long history of bringing extreme sports activities to mobile devices. They cover snowboarding with their Snowboard Party series, drift racing with their Drift Mania series, and skateboarding with their Skateboard Party series. Oh, and let's not forget hockey f … | Continue reading
Apple is working on an OS X feature that would allow Mac computers to be unlocked using an iPhone's fingerprint reader and Touch ID, according to a report from MacRumors. This auto-unlock feature may be included in the next big Mac OS refresh, which is set to be previewed in June … | Continue reading
Decentralized chat app FireChat is adding a new feature that could help disseminate critical info like storm warnings, health advisories, and so on, when the normal communications grid is down. Truth be told, Alerts aren’t terribly different from the normal chat function, which p … | Continue reading
The Milwaukee Bucks say their organization inadvertently provided tax information of employees, including players, to someone who was impersonating the team's president over email. | Continue reading
Collaboration plus creativity equals inventive outcomes. By supporting San Diego SmartCity Hackathon, we’re working with UC San Diego, SDG&E, Qualcomm, FabLabs and Teradata to help San Diego achieve its Climate Action Plan. Learn more about the SmartCity Hackathon here. | Continue reading
Google hopes to quickly make its virtual reality platform Daydream a mass-market product. "Our intention is to operate at Android scale, meaning hundreds of millions of users," senior product manager Brahim Elbouchikhi said at a session on monetizing Daydream apps at the Google I … | Continue reading
Volvo rolled out some concepts for their new line of cars. The brand new 40.1 and 40.2 offer a sleek new design, paired with eco-friendliness and connectivity. It's truly a new breed of car.Read more: http://on.mash.to/1qxbSdP Read more...More about Video, Cars, Tech, Volvo, and … | Continue reading
The machine learning community has coalesced around Google's TensorFlow library. Interestingly, one major holdout was DeepMind, which did most of its research on the Torch7 library. Then, late last month, DeepMind announced it was moving to TensorFlow as well — it was already usi … | Continue reading
For all their being motion-enabling platforms, wheelchairs are themselves rather static. A frame of steel and aluminum supporting foam-filled leather or plastic, with a handful of settings that may or may not accommodate the user’s specific condition. A London design firm has wor … | Continue reading
This list of keyword research methods will help you find high-performing, low competition search terms and start rapidly ranking your content. | Continue reading
Noodlecake's physics puzzler Pull My Tongue [Free] is currently free on the App Store as part of the Apple Free App of the Week promotion. So, go get this game that we rated four stars, which our Nathan Reinauer also gave a pretty snappy review headline to. I mean, well done. Gre … | Continue reading
Selfies, while seemingly easy to achieve, are a modern art form. Anyone who's taken one knows a quality selfie isn't easy to snap off. A good shot requires patience, proper lighting, and a clear idea of what your face looks like at different angles. Paul has only taken between fi … | Continue reading
Today at Google I/O, a new Web Payments API was discussed at length which will help AndroidPay find its way to the mobile Web. The API stores payment information you commonly use, and can identify new payment info as you enter it on Websites. It works independently of Android Pay … | Continue reading
It may be a bit jarring for some to learn that the average age that a child gets their first smartphone is now the tender age of 10.3. | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: At its I/O 2016 developer conference, Google announced two new messaging apps: Allo and Duo. The company is effectively doubling its number of messaging apps, which also include Hangouts and Messenger. And at least for now, the company plans to keep them all, not outrig … | Continue reading
Don't you wish we all still had hair over our eyes and phones that could definitively fit in our pockets? And also pockets that could definitively fit our phones?Lenovo put out an ad this afternoon teasing the unveiling of Motorola's next... something... that's all about reliving … | Continue reading
Bummer, dude! That’s what you say when you find out that your whole keg of Heiney is totally skunked but it doesn’t matter because you’ll totally still drink it after you finish the pony keg of Sammo’s Irish Red. But what if I told you that folks in Spain have figured out a way t … | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Roots: A Cultural Force that Changed The Nation Source: New York Times Why we like it: This paid post in New York Times takes you on a beautiful and engaging story of how "Roots" made it's impact on American culture and history. Featuring the History Channel … | Continue reading
We do not control the challenges we face. We control how we face them. May we all have the mental endurance and optimism to face life head on, like a giant inflatable octopus kite, charging against the wind.The footage comes Erich Chew, who has posted many videos of empowering ki … | Continue reading
Drop the price $20 and add a bit more functionality and you’ve got a compelling product on your hands. The way things stand now though, the Withings Go is more of a curiosity than it is compelling — or, for that matter, tempting. Read More | Continue reading
I remember way back in high school my friends being into a web game called Kingdom of Loathing, an absurd MMORPG that featured crudely-drawn stick figures, but was a surprisingly deep experience. And somehow, Kingdom of Loathing is apparently still a thing in 2016. It is such a t … | Continue reading
China is becoming the most important market on mobile, and Ubisoft wants to tap into this $7.1 billion moneybin. The French publisher announced today its Chinese partner, Ourpalm, will work on a pair of games for mobile players in the world’s largest gaming market: Hungry Shark W … | Continue reading