A replica of a 2,000-year-old Roman arch razed by ISIS in Syria last year was unveiled today in Trafalgar Square in London, the BBC reports. The two-thirds scale model was made by the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) using 3D computer models based on photographs of the ori … | Continue reading
Everybody's pretty much had their fill of zombie games, myself included, but I'm making an exception for Zombie Hunter: Death to the Undead, which is releasing this Thursday from Yodo1 Games. Why make an exception? Because Zombie Hunter is an action-platformer-shooter that channe … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-EngineRetrofitPrize-2016Pillar: Societal ChallengesPlanned Opening Date: Deadline: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
My brother is an unabashed Bernie Sanders supporter, and so his Facebook page has been full of campaign-related posts for the past few months. If a story brings the bern, it will be shared, full stop. Today, though, my brother stumbled across a video that so took him by surprise … | Continue reading
UPDATE 16/05/2016 10pm: The Dark Souls board game Kickstarter campaign has ended with a final tally of $5,342,789. That's pretty incredible when one conside… | Continue reading
Google is in the clear with Canadian competition regulators. Canada's Competition Bureau announced this morning that it was closing a three-year-long investigation into Google's business practices. It only found one instance of anti-competitive behavior during that time — back in … | Continue reading
Led by Inhouse Brand Architects’ director, Aidan Hart, the re-design of John Brown Media’s premises aims to increase connectivity among staff | Continue reading
VIDEO: Crawford secures Kia Sixth Man Award LOS ANGELES — Jamal Crawford won the Kia Sixth Man Award and a fringe benefit: The hunk of bronze was “renamed” the Jamal Crawford Trophy. Well, for one day, anyway. More like an honorary title, which still belongs to Kia. But here’s wh … | Continue reading
For months, the FBI pressured Apple to break security measures on an iPhone used in the San Bernardino attacks, only to call off the case at the last minute when it was presented with a third-party method for breaking into the phone. But while the bureau's legal arguments have be … | Continue reading
The fight to drag the healthcare system kicking and screaming into the 21st century often overlooks the little picture in favor of larger systematic fixes. But for many users on multiple meds, the only thing standing between them and an incorrect or missed dosage is a big, plasti … | Continue reading
The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across the Arduino platform. Completely open source and always pushing the limits for collaboration, there are a ton of different development boards available, but none are as awesome as Johan Kan … | Continue reading
GUEST: The release of Nintendo’s first mobile game, Miitomo, largely caught the world off guard. Not merely because it’s so unique, but also because people either seem to love it, hate it, or sometimes both. Regardless of their opinion, more than 3 million of them have already do … | Continue reading
Does the government secretly force companies to decrypt their customers’ messages, build backdoors or hand over their source code so that law enforcement officials can pick through it for vulnerabilities? Those are the questions at the center of an Electronic Frontier Foundation … | Continue reading
The Old Gods are returning to Hearthstone, and madness follows with them. | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the launch of the first cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s “Agents for Messenger” program revealed at F8, and it will help our readers get the news they want from us in a more con … | Continue reading
MIT has moved its blockchain research from the theoretical to the real world with a project announced earlier this week with Ripple. | Continue reading
OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture between OneWeb LLC and Airbus Defense and Space, has selected Florida to be the home of their satellite manufacturing facility. Located in Exploration Park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the factory will turn out most of OneWeb’s 900 satell … | Continue reading
The most interesting 360 videos rarely take place in clean, indoor spaces (unless, of course, it's the First Lady of the United States). One of the earliest VR filmmaking studios, Condition One, announced today its latest rig, nicknamed "Bison."Featuring 16 genlock synchronized c … | Continue reading
Well, here it is, everyone. Magikiras [Free] is easily one of the worst gamebooks I've played in my years of reviewing, and hands-down the most painful. It's absurdly long given its meager premise, poorly-written, and just plain boring. There are tons of spelling and grammar mist … | Continue reading
Life-falling-apart sim Always Sometimes Monsters is getting a sequel with the confusingly titled Sometimes Always Monsters.Announced today by developer Vegabond Dog and publisher Devolver Digital, this follow-up is due later this year on Steam.The perplexing title is that way for … | Continue reading
Before the trolls slide into the comment section, know this: I've owned and currently own a lot of Apple products. The scratches and dents on my iPhone 6 are scars of love. My aging iPad 3 remains my favorite sofa companion. I paid a boatload to spec out my 2014 13-inch MacBook P … | Continue reading
Taiwanese office HAO Design has completed the interior of this modern family apartment in Kaohsiung City for a family with two daughters. | Continue reading
Snapchat released an update to its iOS app today that lets you overlay emojis on top of video snaps. So if you'd like to place, say, a "Face With Tears of Joy" or "Ghost" emoji on top of your video, just record the clip and tap the emoji button at the top of the screen, located n … | Continue reading
Intel said today it will lay off 12,000 employees, but its first fiscal quarter results aren’t all that bad. The results are a bellwether for the PC industry, which is struggling in the age of mobile devices. But the layoffs may signal that there are more changes and strategy shi … | Continue reading
DJ apps are few and far between, but there are a few good ones that a DJ (or amateur) can use to have some fun. Here are the best DJ apps for Android! | Continue reading
Quora has started looking at what ads would look like on the question-and-answer service. The company is running what it calls an “experimental pilot” (basically it’s in beta) where ads from Lever, Uber, Wealthfront, and Sunrun will appear on a small number of question pages. To … | Continue reading
Internal communications at Volkswagen used "dozens" of codewords to obfuscate the use of cheat software to make its diesel engines look cleaner than they actually were, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the ongoing investigation. One such codeword was "acoustic soft … | Continue reading
Corning's special toughened glass, known as Gorilla Glass, is ubiquitous. You can find it on almost any device with a touchscreen: smartphones, tablets, laptops, even wearables. Visually, it's indistinguishable from lesser, non-toughened glass, as it has the same transparent prop … | Continue reading
Yahoo said it earned 8 cents a share today, compared to the 7 cents that Wall Street had been expecting. Muted yay.That is still down from 15 cents a year ago. Definite boo.Its revenue was $1.087 compared to an expectation of $1.08. Even more muted yay.That’s still a 12 percent d … | Continue reading
Wall Street is watching Yahoo today, but not just because of its first quarterly earnings announcement that was reported after the bell. The company is for sale and reportedly has a slew of bidders, including TechCrunch’s parent, Verizon. While it is not yet clear what the final … | Continue reading
Google's Tilt Brush has been a staple in demos of the HTC Vive, and now the company is bringing that experience to a wider audience with the help of some notable artists. Virtual Art Sessions is a new VR experience created by Google that will allow viewers to experience virtual w … | Continue reading
Intel is laying off 12,000 employees, or about 11 percent of its global workforce, the company said in a statement today.According to the statement, the company's "restructuring initiative" comes as Intel moves to focus more on its growth businesses, such as its data center and i … | Continue reading
Shazam made its name for its music recognition technology, and since then has tried to get users to scan anything from TV commercials, radio spots, and print ads. While it’s clear that Shazam has grown into more than just a song discovery tool, tomorrow the company will launch Sh … | Continue reading
This early in VR, everyone is still trying to figure out the best way to design the headset —€” up to and including the basics like where to put the processing. With premium devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, that's being handled by a separate gaming PC. Less-powerful dev … | Continue reading
Multiple sources confirm that Sony’s yet-to-be-announced refresh, the PlayStation 4.5 ‘NEO,’ is set to receive some real horsepower upgrades. While still unconfirmed by Sony, the system that’s being referred to internally as NEO will reportedly feature a faster CPU and GPU combin … | Continue reading
Snapchat just upgraded the emoji in its iOS app in a big way.The company updated its iOS app Tuesday with its new 3D stickers feature, which allows you to pin emoji to a specific part of a video. The update follows a similar update to Snapchat's Android app last week.SEE ALSO: 10 … | Continue reading
Yahoo, the company with a big “For Sale” sign on its lawn, shared its first-quarter 2016 results today, revealing revenues of $1.087 billion and earnings per share of $0.08. Wall Street analysts expected quarterly revenue of about $1.08 billion and earnings per share of $0.07 or … | Continue reading
Intel announced a restructuring that will cut 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its staff, and take a one-time restructuring charge of $1.2 billion as it tries to position itself to be competitive beyond the PC. The move by the world’s biggest chip maker is the most drastic change to … | Continue reading
Intel just announced it was slashing its workforce by 11 percent calling it in all its corporate press speak glory “a restructuring to accelerate its transformation.” Sure. What it means in real human terms is that 12,000 people will be losing their jobs worldwide and that is ne … | Continue reading
Forget the bus. In Beverly Hills, within the next decade, public transportation will be operated by autonomous vehicles.SEE ALSO: Groom crashes rented $342,000 Ferrari into wall on his wedding dayEarlier this month, the City of Beverly Hills, California unanimously passed a resol … | Continue reading
Forex is one of the best options for those wanting so trade in a safe environment with limited volatility. That’s why many of those holding Bitcoin are fleeing to invest their coins in the Forex market. The price of Bitcoin is still highly volatile and many traders are consideri … | Continue reading
Biking to work may be the choice mode of transportation for some, but if it's cold out, it's a lot less attractive. Here's a creative way to stay warm on a bike in colder climates: Turn your ride into a car!Sweden-based entrepreneur Mikael Kjellman has designed a pretty rad four- … | Continue reading
In the lead-up to WWDC, you could follow the rumor mill — or you could learn Swift and get more out of the conference. Via iTunes, Stanford is releasing its Spring semester ‘Developing Apps for iOS 9 with Swift’ course. So far, only the class introduction is available, making it … | Continue reading
If you care about virtual reality at all, you’ve probably heard about VR artists doing their thing using the new medium. Now Google wants to bring you a bit closer to the art-making experience with its new Chrome experiment. Called Virtual Art Sessions, it’s basically a set of 3D … | Continue reading
Nest, the smart home company under Alphabet, has suffered a wave of recent press critical of its culture and business. So much so that, as we reported last week, CEO Tony Fadell appeared before the all-hands meeting of sister company Google to offer a contrite defense of his firm … | Continue reading
Even 2D animation TV franchises have to keep up with technology, as this past Sunday's Family Guy proved when it inserted big mentions of Amazon drones and even the future of TVSee also: 2016 will be the dawn of the drone ageThe episode, in which Lois Griffin is forced to work wi … | Continue reading
IBM is officially joining Consensus 2016 as the conference’s exclusive Four Block sponsor. | Continue reading