Move over Skype, Facebook Messenger is beefing up its calling features in a big way.The social network is starting to roll out group calling features to Messenger's iOS and Android apps, Facebook announced Wednesday.SEE ALSO: 10 hidden tricks to get the most out of Facebook Messe … | Continue reading
It’s always refreshing to see devs getting clever with gameplay mechanics on mobile devices, and Orbit’s Odyssey is certainly no exception. | Continue reading
Are you getting a little bored with Clash of Clans but don't want to leave the kingdom building games genre? Here are the best games like Clash of Clans! | Continue reading
Digital currency may be set to play a prominent role in a TV drama called “StartUp”, set to debut on streaming service Crackle this fall. | Continue reading
Chromebook users are in for a surprise: Chrome 50 is bringing material design to Chrome OS, too. On his blog, Senior Designer at Google Sebastien Gabriel notes there will also be two implementations of Chrome OS. One will be designed for those using mice, while touch-enabled Chro … | Continue reading
For years, fashion and apparel brands have received criticism from the public for using sweatshops to produce their products. Maderight recognized the plight these brands face and has set out to be a platform that will “democratize ethical manufacturing” while also making manufac … | Continue reading
Last September, Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft would be investing $75 million into its YouthSpark program for helping children and students develop computer science skills. Now it’s expanding that program with a series of grants around the world. The company says it will … | Continue reading
Messaging app Viber rolled out its own end-to-end encryption update yesterday, following in the footsteps of its competitor, WhatsApp, and allowing users to keep their calls and messages private. But researchers are questioning whether Viber’s messages are really as secure as the … | Continue reading
Back in February, Lume [$1.99] and Lumino City [$4.99] developer State of Play announced INK, a stylish mashup of pinball and painting and puzzles. However, due to its similarity to Zack Bell's Steam platformer also called INK, State of Play slightly tweaked the name of their rel … | Continue reading
Mindie does with soundtracks what Instagram did with filters: it makes boring imagery interesting. And with the insane amount of video that teens are sharing, the music video making app seemed too useful to die when its creators shut down Mindie in December. So Mindie’s technolog … | Continue reading
Most JavaScript developers make heavy use of the bash terminal, git, and Node. Chances are, you won’t get far on your JavaScript journey…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
Today, Facebook announced a group-calling feature for its Messenger app, letting you dial up to 50 friends concurrently over the internet. The feature is coming to iOS and Android over the next 24 hours, according to Messenger chief David Marcus, and it should show up as a phone … | Continue reading
Last we heard, the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott's classic Blade Runner was scheduled to come out in January of 2018, but it looks like audiences won't have to wait as long as expected. Production company Alcon Entertainment has announced the film will now hit theaters on O … | Continue reading
Comcast will make its Xfinity app available on smart TVs and third party set-top boxes without the need to lease a cable box, the company announced today. Roku and Samsung Smart TVs will be the first devices to receive the apps later this year. The move comes as the FCC prepares … | Continue reading
Rolltape is a voice messaging app that’s supposed to help you share personal, emotional moments with friends. Now, with the launch of Rolltape Radio, it can help you share those stories on a broader scale. The change is pretty straightforward. Previously, Rolltape messages (which … | Continue reading
The European Commission has finally filed antitrust charges against Android, but Google was ready for this with a rebuttal. Now for years and years of legal wrangling. | Continue reading
Michael Arrington — who famously cofounded TechCrunch in 2005 and just as famously parted ways with the outlet in 2011, one year after selling it to AOL — is now taking on a reduced role at the venture fund that he cofounded when he left TC. After an SEC filing surfaced earlier t … | Continue reading
This is the second post of the series about Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Whilst the first post provided a theoretical background, this post will discuss the actual implementation of the PCA algorithm and its results when applied to some example data.Theory Recap In the fir … | Continue reading
Ford Motor Co. paid $199,950 — $55,000 more than the sticker price — to buy one of the first sport utility vehicles made by Tesla Motors Inc. so it could test and examine the electric SUV.Ford bought the 64th Model X — a white Founders Series version — in March 2016. Spied recent … | Continue reading
I know that this week's Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl is possibly the last thing on players' minds because of the expansion release date announcement and the upcoming nerfs, but it's still a fun one and still a good way to get some gold to use for expansion packs. So, this wee … | Continue reading
This means if Lincoln is your brand of vehicle, then soon you’ll be able to have your brand of OS in the console as well. | Continue reading
We've been slowly learning new details about the upcoming second season of Mr. Robot, and now we know when we can watch it. Variety reports that the show will return to the USA Network on July 13th, and given the way the first season ended, it will have plenty of questions to ans … | Continue reading
After more than 60 years since its conceptual inception — and after too many hype-generating moments — AI is yet again making its presence felt in mainstream media. Following a recent WEF report, many perceive AI as a threat to our jobs, while others even go so far to assert that … | Continue reading
Facebook Page admins: rest easy and don’t fire your intern just yet. If your Page seems to be auto-like nearly every post you’ve published, it’s not just you; it appears a bug on Facebook is causing Pages to do so on its own. We noticed this bug overnight when a bunch of our own … | Continue reading
The RTS genre is one I remember fondly. Micromanaging troops and building an empire is an unparalleled joy in some cases. For some titles, it was all about just getting through the day, and taking out an enemy force. But for others, it was about managing an economy, and growing o … | Continue reading
Apple won't officially confirm that it's working on an electric, semi-autonomous car, but if the rumors are true it could need to partner with a seasoned car company to help it navigate the tricky and expensive world of automobile manufacturing. Today the list of potential partne … | Continue reading
Captiv8 announced today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding.Created by the founders of mobile ad exchange Moblix, Captiv8 is one of a number of companies connecting marketers with influencers on social platforms like Instagram and Twitter.However, the startup says it us … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced previews for video optical character recognition (OCR), face detection, and emotion detection services from Azure Media Analytics, which itself is a recently launched portfolio of smart services built with Azure Media Services. Video OCR, which is curren … | Continue reading
As I spent this weekend blasting through the second half of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s new season, I felt a creeping horror reserved for people who write about TV shows in public spaces. (Consider this your spoiler alert.) It became clear with every new roll of the credits that … | Continue reading
Google refreshed its Inbox email service today, most notably by introducing a link-saving Chrome extension for storing articles and websites. Similar to popular apps like Pocket and existing save features in Apple's Safari browser, Google's new extension lets you click a "Save to … | Continue reading
When Netflix announced plans last year to produce four Adam Sandler films, the motivations for the actor and the studio appeared obvious. Sandler would continue to treat his production as lavish vacations for family and friends, and Netflix would attract enough new subscribers to … | Continue reading
A Louisiana man and his son have plead guilty to running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange, the US Department of Justice said today. | Continue reading
Today on Android and iOS, users with the latest update of Messenger will have the ability to start a group VoIP (voice over internet protocol) audio call from any group chat. To take advantage, just tap the phone icon and select which members you want to include in the chat. Once … | Continue reading
On Monday, the VPN service Cloak got an unsettling email: if the owners didn't cough up 10 bitcoin (or $4,400) in the next week, the service would be hit by a denial-of-service attack large enough to bring down the service entirely. The fallout from that downtime would easily cos … | Continue reading
International payments network SWIFT is looking to build its own distributed ledger platform, a new report reveals. | Continue reading
It has been said plenty of times in the past and it’ll be said again in the future. Taavet Hinrikus, CEO of TransferWise, a popular peer-to-peer international money transfer service has stated that bitcoin, is dead. TransferWise is a prominent player in the Fintech space. Founded … | Continue reading
Turns out Inbox isn’t the only app Google had updates for today. The company announced a few new features for Keep – its note-taking app – that should help make a bit more sense of your reminders and tasks. First up, a new Chrome extension allows you to add a link to save directl … | Continue reading
A settlement between Volkswagen and US regulators could be coming soon, after a judge gave the two sides more time to hammer out an agreement. The two sides have until April 21st — tomorrow — to come to an agreement, and German newspaper Die Welt says a deal has been made.The set … | Continue reading
Car soccer is transforming into car basketball. Rocket League will get a Hoops Mode update on Tuesday that will introduce a new way to play the popular digital auto sport. It debuts simultaneously on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. This free addition enables players to take t … | Continue reading
The Zeitgeist electric bike was designed to solve one problem: getting uphill on a bike. That led to other goals, like creating a battery that only had to be charged every two weeks and was hidden within the structure of the bike. This, then, led to favoring design and performanc … | Continue reading
Until Aston Martin's project with Red Bull to build the fastest car in the world comes to fruition, the Vulcan is unquestionably the most diabolical Aston you can buy — and at a list price of well over $2 million, it better be. The problem with buying a completely absurd hypercar … | Continue reading
It's not a massive change, but this change to the Play Store seems indicative of a new tack that Google is taking with design language. | Continue reading
Jump on the party line or hear the voices of your whole family with Facebook Messenger’s latest feature. Rolling out globally over the next 24 hours on Android and iOS for free, users can start a group VoIP audio call from any group chat. Just tap the Phone icon, select which of … | Continue reading
what happens between idea and publication that trips up so many would-be wellness bloggers? Let’s look at five bottlenecks that can hinder a wellness clinic blog | Continue reading
Watch out, Tesla. You official have a Chinese rival.SEE ALSO: Beverly Hills plans to use autonomous vehicles for public transportationChinese tech giant LeECO, which is a subsidiary of LeTV, the company funding Faraday Future, unveiled its first luxury EV sedan in Beijing, China … | Continue reading
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today. The latest build turns on the “messaging everywhere” feature in preview and adds three new Cortana languages. Like the last mobile build, this one is only available for devices that shipped with Windows 10 Mobile (the Lumi … | Continue reading
Google Chrome just pushed out its 50th release, coming almost eight years after it originally launched. With it, Google released a bunch of statistics about Chrome on its blog.SEE ALSO: Here's how much Google paid that guy who bought google.com for a minuteAccording to Google, Ch … | Continue reading
Are you ready for the future? Chinese holding company LeEco is totally ready for the future. It unveiled its first electric car today, the LeSEE, which it hopes will become fully autonomous. The company also unveiled three — yes THREE — new smartphones today, all of which come wi … | Continue reading