Apple on Friday divulged a fascinating iPhone statistic: owners unlock their device, on average, 80 times a day. The company disclosed the figure during a press briefing centered on the many layers of iPhone security it employs to protect customers — and keep governments out. (Ap … | Continue reading
I only got to interview Bill “Coach” Campbell once. My mind flashed back to that solitary encounter today upon hearing that he had died. I was working for the San Jose Mercury News as a columnist in February 2012 when a press release slipped into my inbox about some new partnersh … | Continue reading
Do any of us really know Yahoo? It’s been ever-present in our lives for more than 20 years, but like that cousin whom you only see at family reunions, no one, including Yahoo itself, I fear, really knows it.Yahoo (or, more on-brand, Yahoo!) had the benefit of being first in onlin … | Continue reading
In so many ways, the iPhone SE is the phone we’d been waiting for. It’s just that our wait kind of ended with the iPhone 6, and Apple is now picking up where it left off with 4-inch screens. The question now is whether or not you should consider the iPhone SE when it’s time for a … | Continue reading
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — or DARPA — just launched a one-fifth-scale model of its LightningStrike aircraft for the first time. Built by Aurora Flight Science, the ‘Subscale LightningStrike’ relies on 24 fans to propel the 325 pound scale model and enable ver … | Continue reading
Comma.ai, the autonomous car startup founded by George Hotz — "Geohot" of iPhone and Playstation hacking fame —has snagged a senior engineer from Tesla. That engineer, Riccardo Biasini, will work on integrating the autonomous software with the car, allowing the computer to contro … | Continue reading
Located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Fisher Brothers in a joint venture with BlackRock converted this apartment building into a 72-unit | Continue reading
Sony is going to bang some hammers on its online gaming service tonight, and that could cause some minor connectivity troubles. PlayStation Network is getting scheduled maintenance tonight from 9:30 p.m. Pacific through 11:30 p.m. Pacific (12:30 a.m. Eastern through 2:30 a.m. Eas … | Continue reading
Telegram isn’t conceding the bot market to Facebook or any other messaging platform — it’s putting more resources into building their service out. The company revealed that in order to attract developers to its service, its founder Pavel Durov will be giving away $1 million in gr … | Continue reading
Netflix just posted its first-quarter earnings, and it looks like for investors it was a whiff. The company’s shares are diving more than 10% in extended trading, which more or less fits in with the usual behavior of Netflix — big spikes, up and down, all over the place and all t … | Continue reading
I got my first cellphone in 2003, and my first smartphone in 2011. Kanye West, ever the purveyor of tech, apparently got his first phone in 2011, too, and only because he wanted to steal Kim Kardashian's love from her then-fiancé and very-tall-person Kris Humphries.He explains i … | Continue reading
In terms of venture capital dollars, it’s still hard to beat Silicon Valley. The latest figures have Bay Area companies gobbling up about 15 percent of the world’s venture capital. Factor in San Jose and Los Angeles and that share climbs to nearly one-third of the all the money r … | Continue reading
Back in 2012, indie developer Christian Schnellmann released Flight Simulator 0 [$0.99], a flight simulator (duh) where the main goal was not having any goals and instead focusing on the joy of flying around a colorful polygonal environment. The game was received reasonably well … | Continue reading
“You only get what you measure, so be careful what you measure.”Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
WeChat is ready to take on a new market: the office. The company today launched WeChat Enterprise, essentially its competitor to the ever-growing Slack. First announced in March, it has most of the features you expect from standard WeChat. You can make groups, send photos, voice … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: How did #Batkid become a viral phenomenon? A brilliant Twitter campaign. Join the mastermind behind #Batkid plus more social media marketing masters as they discuss how to leverage the real power of social media to drive action. Register here for free. Stefania Pompon … | Continue reading
Apple’s battle with the FBI may have whipped the tech world into a frenzy of establishment-hating wannabe anarchists, but it’s this ’60 minutes’ segment that should really piss you off. Wanting to find out just how safe our phones are from hackers, the 60 minutes team sought prof … | Continue reading
Slender: The Arrival developer Blue Isle Studios has announced its upcoming sci-fi game Valley.Due this summer on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, Valley is a first-person adventure that revolves around a "L.E.A.F. Suit" that allows players to run faster, jump higher, and "manipulate life a … | Continue reading
Samsung is adding TD Bank and Regions Bank to Samsung Pay, the company's mobile payments service. Customers in the United States with debit or credit cards from these banks will be able to use their phones to make purchases "soon," according to the company.The new additions bring … | Continue reading
Netflix has sought to shine in the streaming media world by providing a plenitude of original content to subscribers. Today the company disclosed a specific figure about how much it’s willing to pay when it comes to producing original films, specifically. “We are investing about … | Continue reading
Kanye West's The Life of Pablo still isn't quite finished, but that didn't stop him from releasing it anyway this past February. Instead, West continued to update the album several times after it was already available on streaming services. Now, it seems the rapper has decided to … | Continue reading
Bitcoin and Russia have had some tough times so far. The government is not interested in having bitcoin around, but they definitely want to explore the use of blockchain technology in banking and financial sector. However, ‘Bitcoin’ did get its date with the legal and regulatory … | Continue reading
A Korean securities broker has begun working with a local bitcoin exchange, moving closer to allowing access to the digital currency for its clients. | Continue reading
This is the first full quarter after Netflix announced its massive global expansion to 130 new countries. It added a record 6.74 million new subscribers, and a whopping 42 percent of its customer base is now outside the United States. Normally that kind of good news would send th … | Continue reading
Despite adding a record number of new users in the first quarter, Netflix is having a no good, very bad day. The company reported earnings of 6 cents per share — a beat — but missed on revenue targets with $1.96 billion in revenue. Analysts were expecting earnings of 3 cents per … | Continue reading
After a decade-long hiatus, Nintendo's Star Fox series returns this week with the Wii U title Star Fox Zero. But here's something you can enjoy even if you don't have the latest Nintendo console: the company today announced an animated short that will stream live from Nintendo's … | Continue reading
If you've watched The Walking Dead TV show, then you probably know Michonne as the almost-immortal bad-ass with the samurai sword who chops off zombie heads as if her sole purpose is helping the poor creatures depart this world. The Michonne of the TV show has consistently been t … | Continue reading
LinkedIn has long been a helpful tool for students looking to land work or internships by connecting them with potential employers. Now, the company is rolling out a new app called LinkedIn Students that narrows in on helping soon-to-be-professionals demographic to help college k … | Continue reading
Last quarter Netflix launched in 130 new countries. Today we found out whether the company’s ambitious expansion plan is working. So far, the answer is: yep, for now. Netflix has 81.5 million subscribers now after adding more subscribers than ever (not drastically more, mind you) … | Continue reading
A one-fifth-scale model of Aurora Flight Science's strange LightningStrike aircraft just took to the skies for the first time, proving (seemingly!) that stuffing 24 ducted fans into a single aircraft might just work after all.The LightningStrike, which Aurora is building in coope … | Continue reading
Well, holy smokes. Daily Steals is currently selling BlackBerry Priv handsets for $450, more than a hundred dollars cheaper than the lowest price we've seen for the phone so far. | Continue reading
Overwatch's closed beta is coming to an end on 25th April at approximately 6pm UK time.Blizzard specified that no new players will be invited to the closed beta in that time.Of course, the game will enter an open beta on all platforms (PC, PS4 and Xbox One) from 5th-9th May, whil … | Continue reading
Technology is quickly evolving right before our very eyes. The things we may have taken for granted like messaging are now becoming central in how people converse with businesses. Tech companies like Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Tesla, and WhatsApp are shaking traditional enter … | Continue reading
Kanye West’s decision to flip-flop on whether or not his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” would be an exclusive to music streaming service Tidal, has now been met with a class action lawsuit led by consumer tech privacy law firm Edelson PC. The artist originally promised the album … | Continue reading
The first telephoto lens used on the moon is up for sale, and it'll only cost you a few hundred thousand dollars. | Continue reading
GUEST: Late last month, Nintendo released its first mobile game in the United States: Miitomo, launching a ton of hype. This app is based on Nintendo’s adorable Mii characters, which first appeared in 2006 with the launch of the Wii console. So, what is this game like? My experie … | Continue reading
Today Google Play Music released an updated version with support for podcasts, but the much bigger deal — visually, anyway — is that new logo. Gone are the simple two-tone headphones, and in their place is a four color triangle-and-circles confection that closely resembles breakf … | Continue reading
WeChat launched version 1.0 of its hotly-anticipated office chat app, WeChat Enterprise, on Monday.WeSlack (not its real name, but it does have a nice ring to it) is free and only available in Chinese via apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X. But using the program isn’t quite … | Continue reading
Thousands of Verizon workers are in the middle of a strike across the northeast United States, and today members of two unions — the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) — took to midtown Manhattan to keep the work sto … | Continue reading
There’s an old saying in football: It isn’t the hours you put in but what you put in the hours. Apparently, Bill Campbell — a widely revered former Columbia University football coach who went on to run Intuit for four years in the ’90s and only retired as its chairman in January … | Continue reading
Technology market analysts at ABI Research predict that advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are going to be big business in the next decade — to the tune of $132 billion. But they also predict the decline and fall of night vision in our cars. Night vision systems have been … | Continue reading
OAKLAND — The Warriors continued to list Stephen Curry as questionable for Game 2 against the Rockets tonight at Oracle Arena, well aware that not playing would give the reigning MVP four days of rest and rehabilitation before the series shifts to Houston on Thursday. Curry sprai … | Continue reading
If you were hoping Facebook would use last week's F8 conference to release its AI assistant M to the mainstream, you're going to have to wait a lot longer.In an interview with The Verge, Facebook's Messenger chief David Marcus confirmed what many insiders have suspected for awhil … | Continue reading
Funcom, the developer of The Longest Journey and The Secret World, will launch its first-person horror game The Park on 3rd May for PS4 and Xbox One.It was previously slated to arrive on PS4 last week, but was delayed a bit.This will be Funcom's first console release since 2006's … | Continue reading
Expect to start seeing sporting events, concerts, and virtual classrooms arriving live on YouTube in the near future. | Continue reading
Has your well of content ideas started to run dry? There’s a solution lurking in your blog archives: your own content. | Continue reading
GUEST: In the week since its launch, Facebook Messenger’s bot platform has seen a litany of complaints, with users arguing that it is tedious and unusable. The reality underlying the feedback is that natural language processing isn’t ready for prime time. The techies at Facebook … | Continue reading
Hana Financial Group, a large bank holding company that specializes in a multitude of financial services including banking has now joined the financial blockchain consortium led by R3. Global private blockchain consortium R3 sees its first Korean financial institution join its ra … | Continue reading