GUEST: Imagine if great content found you because it’s smart enough to know who really wants to see it. Over the next ten years, content embedded with machine-learning technology will start to be smart enough to seek out its own audience. This will solve a growing frustration for … | Continue reading
Is your PC a bad enough dude to run Virtual Reality?Our Digital Foundry guru Richard Leadbetter dug into this VR-ready query last month and now Valve has released its very own SteamVR Performance Test.The Portal-themed analysis "measures your system's rendering power using a two- … | Continue reading
Google is doing away with right-side ads. Whether you manage SEO and PPC, or just search Google on desktop, major changes are coming. Here's what to expect. | Continue reading
After Mashable reported on Saturday that Swagway advised its customers to take a break from hoverboarding, the company now says that direction was the result of a "miscommunication" and its products are safe to use. "Due to an apparent miscommunication, there have been inaccurate … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s online gaming infrastructure is having a rough February. Xbox Live is down for some gamers today, according to complaints on social media. People are complaining that they cannot boot up their digital games. This means that if you own a download-only release like Tria … | Continue reading
A vaginal ring that dispenses an HIV-preventative drug blocked about a quarter of HIV infections in a trial involving 2,600 women in Africa, according to a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine. When the numbers were broken down by age, researchers found that th … | Continue reading
Last summer I was on vacation with my family, watching an episode of Hoarders — as you do — when my dad turned to me and said "This is going to be you, but with books, isn’t it?”I agreed with him. And I was only half jokingSee also: 17 gifts for the bookworm in your lifeWhen I re … | Continue reading
It's been a while since we've heard some news about Breath of Fire 6, the MMORPG take on Capcom's seminal RPG series, surprise! The game is launching in Japan this week, if not right now. The game is currently in pre-launch on Windows and Android, though the official launch and p … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg echoed Google CEO Sundar Pichai and WhatsApp founder Jan Koum today in stating his personal support for Apple in its encryption fight with the FBI. "We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one," Zuckerberg said today at the Mobile World Congress in Barce … | Continue reading
Facebook is practically king at reminding you when your friends are celebrating their birthdays, pushing you to say hi and wish them well. Today, the company will now encourage you to leave a video — with the ‘Birthday Video Cam.’ When you access your Facebook via mobile (iOS onl … | Continue reading
A US district judge has ruled that bitcoins are a kind of intangible property in an ongoing civil case in California. | Continue reading
If you ever wanted to re-enact Speed but without that pesky bomb or fast driving, you're in luck as Bus Simulator 16 will bring the excitement of transporting commuters to Steam on 2nd March.Despite the title, this latest job simulator is not developed by Euro Truck Simulator's S … | Continue reading
Verizon has teamed up with Samsung to begin field testing their 5G equipment on Galaxy devices in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading
Ever felt like cranking up your 3D printer and making fossil recreations suitable for living room décor?Now you can, thanks to a free website under the auspices of Duke University that allows registered users to peruse a library of some 9,000 digital scans of fossils uploaded to … | Continue reading
Google is trying to give the text message an overhaul. It's partnering with major phone carriers including Sprint, T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and Vodafone to succeed SMS and MMS — the standards used to send text and picture messages — with a newer communications sta … | Continue reading
Rund 50 Teilnehmer erlebten mit events und Abu Dhabi Tourism Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) vier sonnige Tage mit Wüste, Wasser, Adrenalin und Lifestyle in der Hauptstadt der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate. Das kreativste Bild der Teams von der Citytour in Abu Dhabi möchte eve … | Continue reading
This year is already shaping up to be the year virtual reality (VR) goes mainstream. In January, Oculus Rift stole the spotlight at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by (finally) announcing a $599 price and late Q1 ship date. HTC and Sony have also confirmed launc … | Continue reading
Facebook is rolling out a way to make wishing "happy birthday" to your friends a little more personal.The company announced a feature on Monday that allows users to record 15-second videos that can be shared to a friend's timeline. You'll also be able to select from various birth … | Continue reading
Birthdays on Facebook have become a dystopian chore. Typing “HBD” or just “Happy Birthday!” on a friend’s profile is basically the least human way to interact with them. So Facebook is pushing people to record more intimate greetings with its new Birthday Cam feature launching to … | Continue reading
Facebook's plan to turn the News Feed into a personalized video channel faces a roadblock in the form of "happy birthday" messages, which until today have almost entirely taken the ancient form of text. Lol! That begins to change today with the launch of birthday video cam, a fea … | Continue reading
Skype is announcing that on March 24, its Qik video messaging service will be shuttered. But dry your tears, the company was also quick to point out that most of the app’s features were already integrated into the core functionality of Skype. You may remember Qik as a standalone … | Continue reading
Amazon’s X-Ray for Movies and TV Shows – the feature that brings additional content, like actor bios and other background information – is now available on Amazon Video and Prime Video on the web. HTML5 was actually one of the few major platforms Amazon had yet to address with th … | Continue reading
When a Yelp employee uncovers a difficult working situation, she gets fired for her complaint. Was that the right way to handle it or should Yelp have hugged its haters? | Continue reading
The Microsoft Garage division just launched two business apps on Android to get your products noticed and your team productive. | Continue reading
After 2 Teardowns of SaaS homepages (Close.io and Contactually) and their marketing, I wanted to share a checklist for SaaS homepages. What’s the purpose of your SaaS homepage? Front App says that “SaaS products have in common the fact that they must convince potential customers … | Continue reading
The nonprofit Pew Research Center today released the results of a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults regarding the Apple-FBI encryption debate, and the results may be surprising to the technology industry, which has largely sided with Apple. The results show that 38 percent of … | Continue reading
The daily fantasy sports market rose dramatically in the past few years with the rise of DraftKings and FanDuel. But in 2015, regulators closed in, with some declaring the betting on sports outcomes amounted to illegal gambling, rather than legal skill-based wagering as the compa … | Continue reading
Google is rolling out its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that will supposedly enable lightning fast mobile Web browsing. Without naming sources, Ad Age said Google will introduce the pages on Feb. 24. With the new pages, Google continues to emphasize the importance of speed in ac … | Continue reading
Nothing like starting off the week with a surprise, and I'd have to say that Dungeon Raid [$0.99 / Free] developer Fireflame Games releasing a brand new puzzle RPG is about as big of a surprise that there is. For a little backstory, Dungeon Raid was released more than 5 years ago … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Mark Zuckerberg is on Apple's side, but we're still not sure what he'd do if the FBI asked him to help break into a customer's encrypted phone. The Facebook CEO and founder gave his thoughts on a variety of topics in a keynote conversation on Monday, closing up the fi … | Continue reading
Halo’s greatest players are fighting for more than just bragging rights. Microsoft announced today that 16 teams from across the globe have earned a spot in the Halo World Championship, which features players competing in Halo 5: Guardians. The event has a prize pool of $2.5 mill … | Continue reading
Today’s mobile landscape is dominated by a handful of companies –Samsung, Apple, and Huawei — making it exceedingly difficult for a new company to generate the capital and the buzz necessary to compete. That’s why Nextbit, a small company formed by veterans of some of the industr … | Continue reading
Social media marketers are posting more than ever on Pinterest, but engagement rates are dropping. | Continue reading
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Real, a Houston-based startup that aims to help real estate agents to break away from traditional brokers, announced today that it took in a $6 million investment led by Magma Venture Partners. The startup also announced that its full service is now available, after one year of b … | Continue reading
An international organization composed of the world’s top securities regulators is set to delve into blockchain technology research. | Continue reading
Vimeo has teamed with Wipster to incorporate its video review and approval tools into the media platform’s creator toolset. With this partnership, Vimeo users will be able to privately share and review videos through the Wipster option. Wipster offers up an application that gives … | Continue reading
Skype Qik, Microsoft’s attempt at spinning off video messaging into a simplified mobile application, is shutting down. The app was first introduced in fall 2014 to serve a different audience than the larger, more fully-featured, Skype application. Instead of offering real-time ch … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down Skype Qik on March 24, meaning that you’ll no longer be able to send or receive messages in the video chat application. However, the company said that you should worry because many of the features from Skype Qik have been alre … | Continue reading
Learn how to get more out of your SEO and content marketing when they are combined. | Continue reading
Facebook today announced the launch of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), which is bringing together a coalition of internet service providers and tech companies to focus on the engineering challenges of delivering high-res video and virtual reality. The group has 30 initial member … | Continue reading
SanDisk has just unveiled their first ever USB Type C flash drive at the MWC in Barcelona. | Continue reading
Tom Clancy's The Division beta was played by 6.4m players this weekend, setting a new record for betas of new IPs on current-gen platforms.To put this in perspective, Destiny's beta was played by 4.6m players.Of course, when Destiny's beta launched in July 2014 far fewer people h … | Continue reading
Date: From 05/04/2016 to 06/04/2016Venue: Addis Ababa, EthiopiaMore informationThe Bureau of the Africa‐EU High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation (HLPD Bureau on STI) is convening a stakeholder forum in Addis Ababa in collaboration with a group of Africa … | Continue reading
If you’re bored at work (or lucky enough not to be working), maybe it’s time to head to the hack.summit developers conference. You don’t even have to leave your seat. The conference is a virtual one (not VR), meaning you can ‘attend’ online. There’s still a fee to join-in, but al … | Continue reading
Uh oh. You’re three cups of coffee into a busy work day, and you’re starting to get the ol’ caffeine rumble gut. But you don’t want to give up your prime table at the coffee shop.“Hey, can you watch my stuff?” you say to the nearest complete stranger.This box watches your stuff f … | Continue reading
CEO and co-founder of bitcoin wallet and exchange service Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has deemed the recent proposal to scaling Bitcoin as merely “words” and not action while trumpeting Bitcoin Classic as a better solution for bitcoin’s scaling debate. Brian Armstrong, co-founder … | Continue reading
Date: 08/04/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationThe European Commission is holding an Info Day on the Spreading excellence and Widening participation Calls in Horizon 2020. During the event the Teaming, Twinning and ERA Chairs Calls for 2016 will be presented.This information day … | Continue reading