"We may be on the cusp of a safety innovation revolution," said Mark Rosekind, who runs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), kicking off the federal government's first public hearing on self-driving cars. Over 200 people attended the hearing Friday at the U … | Continue reading
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BMW just launched a new car-sharing service called ReachNow that will enable Seattle residents to access 400 cars that they can pick up and drop off pretty much wherever they like, as long as that’s not on the outskirts of town. Eventually, the idea is to expand into cities natio … | Continue reading
Yesterday I just tried to debug an ES6 Node.js application using Visual Studio Code and noticed that I couldn't remote debug. So I just asked on Twitter and got some replies from Erich Gamma and Andre Weinand today: @alexzeitler_ @code pls see the remote debugging section here ht … | Continue reading
How do we create serendipity in analytics when serendipity, by definition, is a happy event created by chance? | Continue reading
See data from successful blogs on Quora, discover how to start a Quora blog for your business, and more. This is the ultimate guide to blogging on Quora... | Continue reading
Louis Tomlinson used to be the least-famous member of One Direction.Since the band’s inception in 2011, Zayn Malik was the beautiful one, with the best voice; Niall Horan was the funny one with the charming accent and the bottle-blonde hair; Liam Payne was "Daddy Direction," a ru … | Continue reading
A test unit of the HTC VIve may be coming to a Gamestop or Microsoft store near you as early as this month. | Continue reading
The solo act of flying a drone is oddly better in a group setting. DJI, a leading consumer drone manufacturer, is introducing a new app for iOS and Android to help you find some people to fly with. Dubbed DJI+ Discover, the app does just about everything DJI’s piloting app doesn’ … | Continue reading
Phil Libin has made his first investment since joining General Catalyst in a bot company called Begin that’s co-founded by GDGT co-founder Ryan Block, who left AOL Alpha in September last year to pursue the new venture.This is Libin’s first investment in bots, but it certainly wo … | Continue reading
One device will have a full keyboard, the other will have a full touchscreen. No release date targets or pricing was given in the source interview. | Continue reading
Daimler, parent company of Mercedes-Benz, is the closest thing that BMW has to an arch-nemesis — so it's not a huge surprise to see that Daimler's Car2Go car sharing service has lobbed some remarks today at ReachNow, a similar service from BMW that just launched in Seattle. … | Continue reading
Uber driver Michael Spelletz is launching a new ride sharing service with a twist: all the drivers and passengers will be women. Chariot for Women will be active in the Boston area on April 19. But does the world need another ride sharing service? Especially one so specific? It t … | Continue reading
Ryan Murphy's The People vs. O.J. Simpson may have just come to a close, but ESPN's almost eight-hour documentary, O.J.: Made in America, is still looming on the horizon. The first trailer for the documentary is out now, via The Hollywood Reporter. Continue reading… | Continue reading
This one’s for you, procrastinators. We are giving you one extra week to get tickets to Disrupt NY at the early-bird price point of $1,995 per ticket, a full $1,000 off the full retail price of $2,995. You now have until next Friday, April 15, to get in on this incredible discoun … | Continue reading
Publishers make an increasing percentage of their revenues through so-called "branded content" — articles and videos that look and feel like standard editorial products, but paid for by advertisers. At the same time, publishers' audiences are increasingly migrating from their web … | Continue reading
This summer, the Japanese government is set to begin testing a system that would allow foreign tourists to verify their identities and purchase goods and services using nothing more than a fingerprint. Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Japan sought to prevent … | Continue reading
The Libertarian Party of Texas will log the results of its ballot initiatives on three separate blockchains implemented by Blockchain Technology Corp. | Continue reading
When I wrote a few days ago about the World of Tanks Blitz [Free] 2.8 Update, I described how I was glad Wargaming.net had decided to make higher Tier tanks more affordable to play by decreasing repair costs and increasing profitability. And up to that point, all was well. But th … | Continue reading
Civilization 4 lead designer Soren Johnson's upcoming economic real-time strategy game Offworld Trading Company is leaving Steam Early Access on 28th April.Offworld Trading Company is the debut effort of Johnson's new studio Mohawk Games. It's been on Steam Early Access since Feb … | Continue reading
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Yesterday, Republican strategist and #NeverTrump affiliate Patrick Ruffini noticed something strange. Four hundred sixty-five separate Twitter accounts had tweeted a message complaining about Ted Cruz's robocall program. "If you’ve opted out of Ted Cruz robocalls and are still re … | Continue reading
Yesterday we heard that Facebook has a sharing problem, and now we know part of what Facebook is doing to address it. During a Facebook Live video broadcast discussing the product's launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg briefly pulled out his iPhone for a demo, showing off an internal buil … | Continue reading
WordPress.com is adding HTTPS support for all its blogs. If you have a custom domain or have a blog under the wordpress.com domain name (like bestcrabrestaurantsinportland.wordpress.com), you’re good to go.While many social services like Facebook and Twitter have supported HTTPS … | Continue reading
Apple and the FBI both started to veer toward the same stance in the San Bernardino iPhone case: we need better policy. It’s on its way, but if passed, it’s certainly not the policy Apple had hoped for. The latest version of the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016 requires c … | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I spent this week cowering in fear of a surprise drop from the 6 God. When "Pop Style" and "One Dance" tumbled onto Apple Music this week, it felt like Drake was sending a not-so-subtle rem … | Continue reading
Don't Starve Together will emerge out of Steam Early Access on 21st April.That's just the start, however, as Klei still has big plans for Don't Starve Together additions. For one, it's working on a free content pack called "Through the Ages" that's designed specifically for multi … | Continue reading
Drones, by definition, are unmanned aerial vehicles. But what happens when a drone is big and powerful enough to carry a person, can it still be considered a drone? For these purposes, we'll call it a drone hybrid: part helicopter, part super-sized drone. And the video of this th … | Continue reading
This week, Tesla revealed its newest model; the HTC Vive VR headset dropped; the internet saw the largest leak of private documents ever; and Facebook’s chatbot plans were revealed. Here are the top tech stories from this week. Read More | Continue reading
I’ve spent most of my life in and around schools. First as a student, then as a teacher and lately as an innovator building tools and launching programs. As Nelson Mandela said, “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Despite its importance, … | Continue reading
Phil Libin announced today that he has made his first investment as a partner at the investment firm General Catalyst. The former Evernote chief executive said that he has funded a bot startup called Begin created by Ryan Block, the cofounder of product/gadget database and discus … | Continue reading
Let's hope autonomous cars like the heat.SEE ALSO: 7 people who are perfectly happy to wait 2 years for their Tesla Model 3Capitalizing on the area's opportunities for extreme temperature testing, Google announced Thursday that it is expanding its self-driving car testing program … | Continue reading
Verizon is definitely going to make a grab for Yahoo next week, and Google is weighting their options. Microsoft, however, is expected to stay out of the game. | Continue reading
Both of Alan Wake's DLC expansions are currently free on the Xbox Marketplace.You may recall that Remedy Entertainment's horror action affair became backwards compatible last month. Well now you can play both story add-ons, The Writer and The Signal, on Xbox One as well;.The core … | Continue reading
Activity trackers like Fitbit are common for monitoring steps taken and distance covered, but these devices are increasingly becoming instrumental in painting a bigger picture of overall health — and in some cases, it can even help save a life.When a 42-year-old man from New Jers … | Continue reading
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According to a new report, 76 percent of iPhone purchases in 2015 came from carrier stores — not directly from Apple. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners also says that in 2014, 65 percent of us bought iPhones via carriers. At carrier sales grew, Apple Store iPhone sales drop … | Continue reading
Japan’s Financial Services Agency is set to discuss blockchain tech at a policy meeting early next month. | Continue reading
Game of Thrones Liam Cunnigham appeared on Conan last night and brought along a little gift for GoT super fans: a clip from the new season! The clip is extremely dark (thematically, and you can't see anything), and features an out-of-focus, but extremely dead (how shocking) Jon S … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Missed it? You can catch our webinar on demand and learn how Q1 research shows that the venture capital landscape for martech shows no sign of slowing down. Join Ravi Belani, partner at Alchemist Accelerator, Adam J. Plotkin, partner at ff Venture Capital, and VB anal … | Continue reading
The century-old car business received a shocking jolt last week, when Tesla fans lined up outside the electric automaker’s stores to order its Model 3 sedan, hours — or in some cases, days — before its March 31st unveiling. Seven days and 325,000 preorders later, the most common … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Relive the Damian Lillard-Stephen Curry duel By Ben Leibowitz, Special to NBA.com For those who haven’t been following along, Kobe Bryant’s retirement tour with the Los Angeles Lakers hasn’t been going well. Sure, there’s the elaborate parting gifts and raucous chants from … | Continue reading
At Build 2016, Microsoft announced the Desktop App Converter, a tool that would allow developers to convert classic Windows programs into modern Universal Windows Platform(UWP) apps. A preview version is now available to download. As expected, it supports both .NET and Win32 apps … | Continue reading
The fight between the government and Apple is not over. While the most controversial case is now over, the Department of Justice keeps pushing Apple on another case. The government still wants Apple to unl Read More | Continue reading
Dark Souls is getting an official board game courtesy of Steamforged Games.The game is being licensed by Bandai Namco and a Kickstarter will launch for it later this month."As Dark Souls fans, we could not be more excited to be given the honour of developing a board game that emb … | Continue reading
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If you thought Apple’s battle with the FBI was going to end in San Bernardino, guess again. After the FBI decided it no longer needed Apple’s assistance in the Syed Farook case, it went on to offer assistance unlocking a phone in Arkansas and today informed a federal judge in Bro … | Continue reading
Finding a way for robots to mimic, or even improve upon human movement is no easy task – which is why most use wheels, tracks or some other workaround that doesn’t require a highly complex task like walking. While the two-limbed robot unveiled by Alphabet-owned Schaft today may n … | Continue reading