Moleskine is launching a kit that's perfect for doodlers, writers, and note-takers alike. Keep all your scribbled work digitized and saved automatically. | Continue reading
Romania has long been a hotbed for tech companies outsourcing contact centers, software development and even research and development. Now, Romania is growing its own entrepreneurial culture. Read More | Continue reading
Earlier today, Sony released firmware version 3.50 (codenamed "Musashi") for the PlayStation 4. Social features like scheduled events and log-in notifications have made their way to Sony's console, but today's biggest news is the support for Remote Play on both Macs and PCs. At l … | Continue reading
Newegg will begin to offer customer support through Facebook Messenger, becoming one of the first retailers to integrate with the platform. Facebook has continued to expand the Messenger platform over the past few months, adding the ability to order Lyft and Uber rides, get fligh … | Continue reading
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security are running extensive surveillance missions over US cities, as revealed by a new investigation by Buzzfeed News. The project looked at flight data collected from FlightRadar24, a public tracking service, then … | Continue reading
Forget a license to kill. Thanks to Enterprise, you can drive like James Bond for a day with just a license to drive.SEE ALSO: 7 people who are perfectly happy to wait 2 years for their Tesla Model 3Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced Monday morning that it has added not one but two … | Continue reading
To get all routes registered in express.js, this snippet gets the work done: const routes = [];app._router.stack.forEach((middleware) => { if (middleware.route) { routes.push( `${Object.keys(middleware.route.methods)} -> ${middleware.route.path}` ); }});console.log(JSON.strin … | Continue reading
The Wild Eight is a procedurally-generated co-op survival sim in which eight players must band together to survive the snowy Alaskan wilderness.The wintry setting may recall The Long Dark while the co-op bend resembles Don't Starve Together, but developer 8 Points is going for so … | Continue reading
From the very beginning of Android, Apple has been complaining that its Android competitors are ripping off its iPhone designs. Whether the culprit is the Samsung Galaxy S, the HTC One A9, or the ZTE Whatever, Apple is all too happy to remind the world that it's the leader and An … | Continue reading
A new report by the Santiago-based NGO, Derechos Digitales (digital rights) claims that nearly every Latin American country, from Mexico to Chile (and practically everywhere in-between) is using aggressive surveillance software to spy on its citizens. The report relied heavily on … | Continue reading
Upvotes! What are they good for? Soon, they might get your very, very early stage company into Y Combinator. The incubator is experimenting with using the Hacker News community to pick startups for its Fellowship program. Read More | Continue reading
According to some pages from the “book” that Yahoo bankers have given out to prospective buyers, the financial situation at the Silicon Valley Internet giant is becoming increasingly dire.While I cannot show the documents I have obtained, Recode has gotten access to them. The boo … | Continue reading
Today, GIFs have become a popular way communicate sentiment online and in mobile messaging, where written text doesn’t always do the job. More expressive than an emoji, these looping images let you share a specific thought or feeling with little effort. But today, a new app is la … | Continue reading
Reddit is looking to shape itself a bit more around the needs of the individual user in order to make the community more accepting as a whole. Reddit users will soon be able to block and mute other users on the site so they can customize their experience, the New York Times repor … | Continue reading
We are in a world where high-end consumer virtual reality devices are shipping to people around the globe, but Microsoft is already preparing for the next era of computing. HoloLens is one of Microsoft’s new key products, and the company has a lot to say about what it means for t … | Continue reading
Y Combinator wants to see if crowdsourcing can help it find worthwhile startups to join its next batch of Fellowship startups. The organization’s latest experiment relies on the Hacker News community for help in choosing at least two startups to participate in its early-stage sta … | Continue reading
Nvidia is clearly pinning a large part of its future growth on the autonomous vehicle market -- both its development and delivery. It's even part of the DIY market for scale model versions. | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft are locked in a high-stakes battle for market share. But new data suggests that Lyft still has an uphill climb in its quest to compete on a level playing field with its larger, richer rival.About three-fourths of Lyft users also hail rides with Uber, but only a litt … | Continue reading
NVIDIA has released a new state-of-the-art chip that pushes the limits of machine learning. The Tesla P100 GPU, which CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed yesterday at NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference, can perform deep learning neural network tasks 12 times faster than NVIDIA's p … | Continue reading
The Intel Basis Peak launched in 2014 as a high-end fitness and sleep tracker. I’ve used it as my favorite wearable ever since. Now the Intel division is launching an update that allows you to control the music playing through your smartphone from the smartwatch. And it lets you … | Continue reading
Last month the Metal Gear Solid fan remake, Shadow Moses Project, was unceremoniously shut down, ostensibly due to legal pressure from Konami. But now the folks behind that, the Fan Legacy Team, have started a new MGS-related project with another person spurned by Konami: the ori … | Continue reading
The team behind Monstro is launching a new microfund called Monstro Ventures according to co-founder David Prager. For the unfamiliar, Monstro is an ad agency with headquarters in Oakland and another office in Los Angeles, that specializes in video creative, including videos that … | Continue reading
In a move to battle harassment on the site, Reddit today released a new tool for blocking users. The expanded blocking option, the company announced, will hide a user's content but not inform the user that they've been blocked. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Huawei unveiled its latest flagship smartphone this morning, the P9, and the big story here is its camera — or really, its camera system, since there are two of them. In the past, dual-camera systems have been used for 3D or focus-changing gimmicks, but Huawei has taken a differe … | Continue reading
Segment helps developers manage all the analytics data their apps and services generate. Besides fanning out this information to analytics services like Google Analytics and Mixpanel, or marketing tools like Marketo, all this data lands in a data warehouse. At best, though, all t … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Core, the volunteer community that develops the open-source bitcoin software, has announced a new sponsorship program. | Continue reading
The R3 consortium of financial institutions working on a blockchain-based solution to improve the financial services infrastructure has released an update on its initiative, which it calls “Corda.” Since the R3 consortium has continuously drawn more members among major institutio … | Continue reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook is joining the board of directors of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonprofit organization founded by the Kennedy family. Cook has been an outspoken CEO, personally defending equality and civil rights. In December 2015, Cook already received the Ripple of Ho … | Continue reading
Bringing us one step closer to the day when computers compete directly with humans in the arts, a new painting has been created using software to mimic the style of a masterThe painting, titled "The Next Rembrandt" (below), is the result of a team of developers who, with the tech … | Continue reading
A working group commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration has released a set of recommendations for how small drones should be regulated, opening a path for commercial drone flight over populated cities, and even creating a special class of drones that would be allowed … | Continue reading
Developer Joint Custody have announced their new project Scéal, a narrative-driven adventure for desktop and mobile, and it's one of the most unique looking games I've seen in a long time. Scéal (pronounced Shkeal for those playing at home) is about a girl who has died and return … | Continue reading
Today, Reddit has implemented a tool discussed earlier this week to help users curb harassment. The tool, described by the New York Times, is a new step in automating the regulation of the website’s more unruly sectors while keeping users safe. It’s also about a decade too late. … | Continue reading
The mobile fight for India continues with Samsung battling Apple in the luxury range with Chinese providers like Xiaomi competing below. | Continue reading
Schools in the U.S. may soon be testing a new fitness tracker from Adidas in kindergarten through high school gym classes to keep track of the health of its students. Back in 2015, Adidas announced it was working on an initiative to keep students active, but the company is finall … | Continue reading
Publishers are continuously looking for new ways to expand their reach. One sure bet? Video.Even Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recognizes this. Discussing the company’s performance last year, he told media how video remains central on the News Feed of its users. “We’re ente … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs. This is the first build released since Build 2016, where the company announced the the Windows 10 Anniversary Update coming this summer. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still buil … | Continue reading
On Monday, the Associated Press got early access to a report commissioned by the FAA on how drones flying over or near people should be categorized and restricted. Today, that report was officially released, with all the juicy (and boring) details you’ve come to expect from gover … | Continue reading
If your smartphone and mobile network support voice over LTE (VoLTE) calls, you're probably aware of how much better and clearer they sound than regular old phone calls. More and more devices now support VoLTE, though it's by no means a certainty that every call you place will ut … | Continue reading
Astronomers may have found an explanation for the origins of a strange, radioactive material found deep inside Earth’s oceanic crusts. Much of the material, called iron-60, seems to come from two supernovae explosions that occurred millions of years ago, according to a new study … | Continue reading
Ever had services like Yelp and Pinterest mercilessly boot you off their mobile site and force you to download a native app whether you want it or not? Pinterest’s product lead for growth, Casey Winters, can tell you why that happens because he’s “the asshole that makes Pinterest … | Continue reading
Google recently changed the layout of its AdWords ads in the search engine results pages, which will affect digital advertising strategies for many. | Continue reading
Microsoft is releasing a new test build of Windows 10 today, just a week after the company announced some new features for the OS. The biggest addition is running native Bash on Ubuntu in Windows 10, and testers will have access to test this feature today. Windows 10 build 14316 … | Continue reading
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Microsoft’s first big update to Windows 10 was the biggest news to come out of its Build event last week. Now it’s finally ready to be tested by the public – Microsoft has released the first preview for the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to its Insider beta-testing program. There … | Continue reading
Apparently setting up accounts for your cute pets on Instagram and Vine is a thing. It’s also a thing that people follow said accounts. To complete the trifecta, brands pay big money for sponsored content from four-legged Insta-celebs. In fact, many of these pets make significant … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (By Mari Saito, Reuters) – In a letter sent to shareholders on Tuesday, Amazon.com Inc’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, defended the online retailer’s corporate culture, which was the subject of a critical report by The New York Times last year. Bezos note … | Continue reading
Gal Gadot's portrayal of Wonder Woman was one of the few highlights of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and now her standalone movie will be coming out sooner than originally anticipated. Variety reports that Warner Bros. has moved up the release date of Wonder Woman to June 2 … | Continue reading
You may have innocently filled out a Google poll before accessing an article on the Web. Or you may have already downloaded Google’s polling app that gets you to answer questions in exchange for credits for the Play store. You may not have done either. Either way, Google is in th … | Continue reading