Like some kind of dark comic book movie, the internet has a problem with vigilantes — specifically, online justice-seekers who attempt to take the identification and punishment of alleged wrong-doers into their own hands. Online vigilantes seem to come from the same place as fict … | Continue reading
It’s not just the cryptocurrency space that’s having an excellent financial year in 2017. Companies supporting the industry are also setting personal bests in terms of their own stock prices. Chief amongst these are AMD and NVIDIA. Stocks in both have seen colossal growth in rece … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingNorth Korea: China has ordered North Korean companies operating within its borders to close in its toughest move against the Kim regime since its weapons tests prompted the harshest-ever UN sanctions. Thus far, China has been slow to satisfy U.S. demands to pu … | Continue reading
Asmodee Digital has been releasing some fun card and board games, and the latest release, Harald: A Game of Influence [$1.99], sounds like an interesting concept and unlike most other card games on the App Store. Harald is all about using your cards to win the King's favor. You p … | Continue reading
Samsung’s Gear IconX aren’t the best earbuds in the truly wireless earbuds game — but for today, at least, they might be the best value. Samsung has the original version of the IconX on sale for $49.99 right now. It’s apparently a “closeout sale,” which means that Samsung is tryi … | Continue reading
Uber has added a new feature to its app this month to support its deaf and hard of hearing drivers, a group the company says number in the thousands across its service. Uber says that these drivers have together completed millions of trips, and while it has added a number of fea … | Continue reading
GUEST: The theft of an estimated 143 million Americans’ personal details in the breach of consumer-credit reporting agency Equifax and the Russian hack of the U.S. elections through Facebook had one thing in common: They were partly possible because our personal data has no legal … | Continue reading
If all goes well for Wisconsin, the state may be home to thousands of high-tech manufacturing jobs over the next decade, thanks to the July announcement that Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn will be building a manufacturing facility for LCD screens in a suburb of Milwau … | Continue reading
Russia's cryptocurrency bill is expected to be completed by October, according to a senior government official. | Continue reading
Normally available for $180, the mid-range Moto G4 can now be yours for just $120. | Continue reading
The U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence, which is investigating possible collusion between members of the White House staff and the Russian government in Russia’s attempts to manipulate last year’s Presidential election, first learned about Jared Kushner’s use of a pr … | Continue reading
Madeleine Albright—who as secretary of state in the Clinton administration presided over one of the last diplomatic breakthroughs with North Korea, visiting Pyongyang to negotiate directly with Kim Jong Il—argued on Thursday that the organization she used to lead is being hollowe … | Continue reading
Hurricane Maria demolished Puerto Rico’s brittle electrical grid in one slash across the island. In doing so, it also took the broadband infrastructure with it. A fix could soon be high-altitude concepts for beaming internet to disaster-stricken areas from the sky, but innovation … | Continue reading
The federal government is pleading with Apple to activate the FM radio chips built into every iPhone — for the purposes of public safety.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is well aware that pretty much every cell phone carries an FM radio chip. And as the events of Hurr … | Continue reading
Google's Family Link app lets parents hand down their old Android gadgets to their kids without worrying about what they could end up downloading from the Play Store or finding online. They just have to create a Google account for their kids and download the app, which went publi … | Continue reading
Lost Colossus [$1.99] by Game Stew Studio, the developer behind games like Tower of Fortune and The Lost Shield, is out now, so get ready for some retro robot warfare. As we talked about recently, Last Colossus is an ACT/RPG where you play as a commander who gains control of a gi … | Continue reading
Toyota and Mazda have teamed up with automotive components manufacturer Denso to form a brand new company that will develop technologies for electric vehicles. The three Japanese auto giants announced their plan to create the technological infrastructure needed for electric vehi … | Continue reading
Over the past several days, opponents of President Trump’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico zeroed in on his unwillingness to lift the Jones Act, a 1920 maritime law that regulates U.S. shipping. After some hurried Googling of the Wilson Administration, the medi … | Continue reading
In 2006, I published the first article. Conversation Agent celebrated 11 years this month. I was inspired by an article on Recode about Google's Anniversary for the random facts bit. Before we form thoughts and insights, facts are coming at us randomly... I'm not releasing anythi … | Continue reading
Google will now give parents more control over their children's phone or tablet. Family Link will enable parents to set device limits and control apps. | Continue reading
Like many cities, Moscow has an enormous network of CCTV cameras, but unlike many cities, thousands of those cameras are now hooked up to a powerful facial recognition system that can track criminals (and trash collectors) wherever they go. The privacy implications are serious, … | Continue reading
A good ten years ago now I lived in an apartment with a roommate who had a friend who had a super early pico projector that really just blew us away. It was this thing that wasn't super small bit still totally fit in a backpack then could project low resolution, dimly lit video t … | Continue reading
Anker – best known for its affordable smartphone accessories – has recently branched out into making projectors under the Nebula brand. Now the company is gearing up to launch its smallest model yet in the Nebula Capsule, which fits an Android 7.0 projector in a device the size o … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesRepresentative Steve Scalise, the House Majority whip, returned to Congress after being shot at a congressional baseball team practice in June. Christopher Wray, President Trump’s pick to replace James Comey as the new FBI Director, was sworn in at the FBI Headqua … | Continue reading
Learn about content marketing for schools. It's one way schools and districts stand out from the crowd in an era of choice and increasing competition. | Continue reading
GUEST: As the automotive industry continues to focus on in-vehicle technology and connectivity, the benefits to drivers expand on a near-daily basis. Since the “connected car” formally debuted in 1996, it has been a staple buzzword in the tech industry. It’s become associated wit … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Prolonged exposure to the screens can be dangerous for our eyes. Subjecting them to the blue light waves from our TVs, screens, and computers can cause eye fatigue, blurred visio … | Continue reading
Kalashnikov Concern, the manufacturer of the AK-47 assault rifle and largest defense company in Russia, just tested a flying motorcycle. Read more...More about Russia, Mashable Video, Military, Flying, and Hoverbike | Continue reading
Following its meeting with members of the Senate and House’s respective intelligence committees, Twitter has issued new details on the information it is providing to aid the congressional investigations into Russia’s potential interference in the 2016 U.S. election.Twitter, like … | Continue reading
When Nancy Pelosi joined other congressional leaders to meet Donald Trump at the White House just a few days after his inauguration in January, there was a sense of anticipation about what the new president would say.After all, the House minority leader recalled on Thursday after … | Continue reading
Gone are the days when people had to rely on a handful of contractors in their phonebook to avail different services. The growth of e-commerce in the past couple of years has opened up unlimited opportunities for both customers as well service providers/suppliers. However, now th … | Continue reading
Netflix today announced its plans to invest at least $400 million in Canadian film and TV productions over the next five years, Variety reports. It’s the first time the streaming service has launched a permanent production presence outside the US.The plan is part of a deal betwee … | Continue reading
The FAA announced today that it has restricted drone use over several national US landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. The FAA says the new restrictions are in place at the request of US security and law enforcement agencies.Under the new restriction, dr … | Continue reading
Designed by Ibsen Nelsen in 1961, the layout of this mid-century home was very well considered but the character and flow between spaces ... | Continue reading
Heading into tomorrow’s release of the $79.99 Super NES Classic Edition, the question on the minds of Nintendo fans is what supply will look like. We all remember the impossible odds of procuring an NES Classic last year, and Nintendo has stated numerous times that it has ramped … | Continue reading
When a company screws up and puts the general public at risk the only acceptable course of action is to immediately go transparent. Equifax, through sheer incompetence, exposed the data of 143 million people after a recent hack. Every single one of those individuals remain vulner … | Continue reading
Going public is a key milestone for a private company and a time-honored way to raise capital. But from the underwriting process to the legalese-filled SEC filings, the road to an initial public offering (IPO) is a long one. Among the many decisions a company has to make before i … | Continue reading
The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is worried about the risk of "pump-and-dump schemes" in the ICO space. | Continue reading
Amid deepening inequality in America’s cities, there have been increasingly urgent calls for economic growth to be more inclusive. There’s also growing recognition that with President Donald Trump in office and Republicans in charge of Congress and many states, this is an area wh … | Continue reading
Dystopia has never looked as good as it does in Ruiner, a fast-paced cyberpunk top-down shooter that debuted Tuesday for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. It’s the debut from indie studio Reikon Games. Devolver Digital, who’s no stranger to masked protagonists with a penchant for … | Continue reading
Further proof the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been warming up to modern technology — it has just approved the first continuous blood sugar monitor that doesn’t require the user to prick themselves over and over for a blood sample. Today, the FDA cleared Abbot’s FreeSty … | Continue reading
Until its direction was reversed in 1900, the Chicago River was such a receptacle for effluent and filth that it poisoned Chicagoans’ beloved Lake Michigan (from which they drew their drinking water). Then it was channelized and entombed in concrete. The river has long been the c … | Continue reading
Facing scrutiny from Congress, Twitter today disclosed that more than 200 Russia-linked accounts had been used to spread propaganda and misinformation on the company’s platform. The news follows similar disclosures from Facebook. Twitter points out that it found 22 accounts corre … | Continue reading
Lego’s hometown of Billund, Denmark, is about see a huge boost in tourism. Set just 10 minutes away from the airport, Lego House is a new 12,000-square-meter playhouse for Lego fans of all ages, including AFOLs (that’s “Adult Fans of Lego,” according to the company’s own lingo). … | Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the details says NBA owners have passed rules designed to prevent healthy players from sitting out games, and teams from losing games on purpose to improve their draft position. | Continue reading
Mining is one of the most popular ways of making money on the Internet today. Having appeared not so long ago, it is rapidly gaining popularity, because it creates ample opportunities for obtaining additional incomes of impressive sizes. Mining is the process of generating a cryp … | Continue reading
Not long ago, Glenn Thrush, a White House reporter for The New York Times, sat down at 7:30 a.m. to plan his day. His schedule and laptop sat arrayed before him. With so much time to spare, he checked Twitter—an easy mistake to make—where he noticed someone saying something vile … | Continue reading
Alcatel Idol 5 is a Cricket-exclusive device that comes with a 5.2-inch Full HD screen, two front-facing speakers, and a customizable "Now Key" on the side. | Continue reading