EA reboots Uncharted creator’s new Star Wars game, closes Visceral Studios

Electronic Arts announced today that it is reworking Visceral’s Star Wars game. The project was being headed by Amy Hennig, who was the creator and director of the Uncharted series at Naughty Dog before leaving that studio in 2014. Visceral’s Star Wars game was to be a similar st … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 6 years ago

Bots are transforming personal banking around the world

GUEST: Digital banking brought a transformational wave to the banking system. As traditional banking practices slowly adjusted to the wave, artificial intelligence quickly caught up and made the bot market hotter than ever before. VentureBeat’s 2016 Bots Landscape showed that und … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 6 years ago

WhatsApp's new feature lets you track your friends in real-time

WhatsApp will now let you track your friend's location.The app is getting a new "live location" sharing feature that allows users to share their location in real-time with the friends they're chatting with.SEE ALSO: Facebook is opening up its most annoying feature to thirsty bran … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 years ago

Adorable smart alarm clocks are the latest trend in kid tech

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Parenting is pretty much synonymous with sleep deprivation. Just when you finally get them to sleep through the night, your kid starts waking up at the crack of dawn ready to pla … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 years ago

China Is Quietly Reshaping the World

The Pakistani town of Gwadar was until recently filled with the dust-colored cinderblock houses of about 50,000 fishermen. Ringed by cliffs, desert, and the Arabian Sea, it was at the forgotten edge of the earth. Now it’s one centerpiece of China’s “Belt and Road” initiative, and … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 6 years ago

Weekly Plan Spotlight: LG V30 Plus Buy One Get One from Sprint

Pay $38 per month for your first LG V30+, and Sprint will comp you the lease of your second device. After 18 months, buy both or upgrade! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 6 years ago

Tree House Hotel in China – Qiyunshan by Bengo Studio

The Qiyun Mountain Tree House Hotel is located in the region of Xiuning County which is 33 kilometres south of Huangshan City, Anhui Province | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 6 years ago

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs strikes deal to turn 800 acres of Toronto into an ‘internet city’

Sidewalk Labs, the smart city subsidiary of Alphabet with the stated goal of “reimagining cities from the Internet up,” now has a very big sandbox in which to conduct its high-tech experiments. The Google spinoff announced a deal with the city of Toronto to develop 800 acres of w … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 6 years ago

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to turn Toronto area into a model smart city

 Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs, the Google parent’s company focused on smart city technologies, will build a “mix-use, complete community in Toronto on its eastern waterfront, with the aim of building a livable space from the ground up using innovations in construction techniques, … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 6 years ago

Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee: Blockchain Builders Should Beware Misuse

Sir Tim Berners-Lee encouraged the blockchain space to think about the unintended consequences of its actions in a talk at Ripple's Swell conference. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 6 years ago

The iPhone 8 is reportedly selling worse than the iPhone 7. Wait, what?

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@mashable.com | 6 years ago

This portable solar cooker has already destroyed its Kickstarter goal

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Over the course of the last few years, GoSun has introduced a new wave of outdoor eating by harnessing solar power to let you cook. This eco-friendly cooking device is getting an … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 years ago

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 636 Chip with 40 Percent Speed Boost

The Snapdragon 636 will be one of the first budget SoCs from Qualcomm to have the Kryo CPU cores built-in.The post Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 636 Chip with 40 Percent Speed Boost appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 6 years ago

The Nexus 5X and 6P can now get some Pixel 2 camera features

A new camera mod brings some of the best features of the Pixel 2's camera to the Nexus 5X and 6P. Check out all the new features in the recent update. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 6 years ago

How the Digital Marketer Must Change as Automation Grows

What if you took all that "time saved" from marketing automation and reinvested it in the most critical plans, skills, and habits of successful digital marketers? | Continue reading


@portent.com | 6 years ago

How Trump Changed the Topic to Obama's Consolation Calls

With the political press in a volley of anonymous leaks and counterleaks about how Barack Obama did or did not console John Kelly after his son’s death, it’s important to reflect on how we got here—and what it shows about President Trump’s methods of controlling the media and the … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 6 years ago

Eidoo ICO Concludes at $28 Million After Trolling Jamie Dimon in the WSJ

[…]The post Eidoo ICO Concludes at $28 Million After Trolling Jamie Dimon in the WSJ appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 6 years ago

Experimental City: The Sci-Fi Utopia That Never Was

To forestall the continuing growth of cities as “cancerous organisms,” the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) was conceived in the mid-1960s by epochal technologist Athelstan Spilhaus. A modular settlement of 250,000 people or more, the city was to be powered by clean energy and r … | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Amazon patents a drone that delivers a charge to power up EVs on the go

 A recent Amazon patent could be an answer to range anxiety, albeit one that sounds a bit more sci-fi than practical solution at the moment: the newly granted patent (via Roadshow) describes a drone that could carry a battery charge for electric cars, and deliver them to any cars … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 6 years ago

Facebook’s Building 8 head, Regina Dugan, is leaving the company

 Facebook’s Regina Dugan, who led the company’s secretive Building 8 hardware lab, is leaving the company after just 18 months in the role. Dugan detailed in a Facebook post that she would be leaving the post to focus on “building and leading a new endeavor.” She will be staying … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 6 years ago

Gumi's Promising Strategy RPG 'The Alchemist Code' Opens Up Pre-Registration

As we reported at the end of August, Gumi Inc is bringing their popular Japanese mobile strategy RPG For Whom The Alchemist Exists to mobile devices out West under the name The Alchemist Code, and today they've also fired up their pre-registration system for the game. This isn't … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 6 years ago

Fire Emblem Warriors is getting a free Japanese voice pack at launch

English copies of Fire Emblem Warriors on Switch will receive a free Japanese-language voice pack update when the game launches on October 20th, Nintendo has confirmed.There has, of course, been some confusion surrounding the game's dual-audio status in the run up to release. Nin … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 6 years ago

Apple has a lot to say to Al Franken about Face ID on the iPhone X

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@mashable.com | 6 years ago

What Martin Scorsese Gets Right About Rotten Tomatoes

Last weekend, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, a drama about the creator of the famed comic-book character, became the latest mid-budget casualty. It was marketed on the back of its connection with Wonder Woman, one of the biggest hits of the year. It received a moderately … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 6 years ago

10 Tips to Avoid Camera Hacking - #infographic

Computer webcams, home security systems, and baby and pet monitors allow us to stay connected 24/7. These camera-enabled devices allow us to video chat with family members and work contacts and keep tabs on the safety of our homes, pets, and children with ease. | Continue reading


@digitalinformationworld.com | 6 years ago

The Problem With 'Fast-Casual Architecture'

There are no stop signs along the Wharf, the new $2.5 billion waterfront development that opened over the weekend in Washington, D.C. No traffic lights or pedestrian crossings, either, even though the strip stretches for more than a mile along the Washington Channel. The master p … | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Intel to ship new Nervana Neural Network Processor by end of 2017

 This morning at the WSJ’s D.Live event, Intel formally unveiled its Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) family of chips designed for machine learning use cases. Intel has previously alluded to these chips using the pre-launch name Lake Crest. The technology underlying the chi … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 6 years ago

Urban Lights Are Confusing Birds to Death

Walk around any city at dawn this time of year and you’ll likely encounter a grim, feathery graveyard. Migrating birds that have crashed into windows lie stunned or dead at the bases of buildings, only to be swept up by property managers or snatched away by predators as the sun r … | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

This mechanical pencil is made entirely out of metal

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.The second version of the Modern Fuel mechanical pencil is up on Kickstarter right now and it's a minimalist designer's dream come true.SEE ALSO: Want to become an animator? Star … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 years ago

The Slack Chat That Changed Astronomy

In between its silly chatrooms and custom emojis, Slack is a place where real work gets done. But in some offices—no offense—the projects managed on the messaging platform are way cooler than others. Some even have cosmic significance.On August 17, observatories in the United Sta … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 6 years ago

The Opening of 'The World’s Most Useless Airport' in Remote Saint Helena

Last weekend, after five years of construction and controversy, the tiny and isolated British island of Saint Helena welcomed its first scheduled commercial flight. Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most remote islands in the wo … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 6 years ago

Pre-Sale Lessons Learned

H2O Token as Voucher From now on the H2O token will be representing a sort of voucher defining the mining time that you will be able to use starting from March 2018. This change was mainly implied by the compliance with the Austrian law that we have liability towards as we are lo … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 6 years ago

Intel plans to ship its first-generation Neural Network Processor by the end of the year

Intel’s hardware for accelerating AI computation is finally on its way to customers. The company announced today that its first-generation Neural Network Processor, code named “Lake Crest,” will be rolling out to a small set of partners soon to help them drastically accelerate ho … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 6 years ago

McCain Rebukes 'Half-Baked, Spurious Nationalism'

Sen. John McCain took aim on Monday night at isolationist and nationalistic rhetoric, saying at his National Constitution Center Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia that abandoning America's role as an international leader is "unpatriotic." Photo: Getty | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 6 years ago

Intel unveils new family of AI chips to take on Nvidia’s GPUs

When the AI boom came a-knocking, Intel wasn’t around to answer the call. Now, the company is attempting to reassert its authority in the silicon business by unveiling a new family of chips designed especially for artificial intelligence: the Intel Nervana Neural Network Processo … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft already published a KRACK fix, Apple and Google are working on it

 Security researcher Mathy Vanhoef publicly disclosed a serious vulnerability in the WPA2 encryption protocol yesterday that affects all devices that use WiFi. While we’ve listed many ways to protect yourself against KRACK, the best way to completely eradicate it from your networ … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 6 years ago

Computers will soon be able to fix themselves – will that kill IT departments?

Robots and AI are replacing workers at an alarming rate, from simple manual tasks to making complex legal decisions and medical diagnoses. But the AI itself, and indeed most software, is still largely programmed by humans. Yet there are signs that this might be changing. Several … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 6 years ago

Google Pixel 2 will be available at Verizon stores on Thursday

It’s officially launch week for the Pixel 2. Some customers are set to receive their preorders as early as tomorrow, and Verizon — the exclusive carrier of Google’s new smartphones — will have them for sale in stores on Thursday. A Verizon spokesperson confirmed that both the Pix … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 6 years ago

Sonos is offering a $25 off coupon for Echo Dots to all its customers

Sonos is offering a $25 discount on an Amazon Echo Dot to its customers starting this week, to better help them take advantage of the newly added Alexa integration that’s now in public beta. The deal is pretty simple: if you’re a Sonos customer, you should be getting a unique cod … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 6 years ago

Out of Tragedy, An Opportunity for Somalia

Saturday’s twin-truck suicide bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, have so far killed at least 320 people and injured hundreds. The assault took place at a buzzing intersection on a busy afternoon during peak traffic, causing maximum damage to people and property. In the aft … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 6 years ago

Nova Launcher beta update adds docked search bar, Android Oreo-style pop-up menu, and more

The beta version of Nova Launcher has received an update that allows you to add Google’s search bar to the dock, just like on the new Pixel smartphones. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 6 years ago

Google Home speakers now let you control YouTube TV with your voice

Google continues to add more media and smart speaker integrations across its growing number of hardware and software products, and today YouTube TV support has arrived. Now, if you have a Google Home speaker — that includes the new Home Mini and Home Max that were announced earl … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 6 years ago

Family Italian Restaurant Chipolucho by ALLARTSDESIGN

The family Italian restaurant Chipolucho is located in Samara, in the European quarter. Above the project worked the design studio ... | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 6 years ago

The KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerability, explained like you’re five

Yesterday, we learned about KRACK (or Key Reinstallation Attack) – a security flaw in the WPA2 protocol, which could see an adversary break the encryption between a router and a device, allowing them to intercept and interfere with network traffic. Or, more succinctly, shit’s fuc … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 6 years ago

You can now explore moons and planets with Google Maps

Get excited, space fans. Google just rolled out a new Maps feature showing off some of our favorite planetary neighbors. The new Maps feature label images of our moon, Mercury, Venus, Pluto, the International Space Station, and a number of icy moons that orbit the outer planets l … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 years ago

This line of smart jewelry is the most stylish Life Alert you've ever seen

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Wearable tech is a growing market, with new smart rings and other jewelry being added all the time. The latest to join those ranks is Blinq — a line of smart rings currently seek … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 years ago

Brazil Central Bank Chief Compares Bitcoin to Pyramid Scheme

The president of Brazil's central bank compared bitcoin to a financial scam, according to newly published statements. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 6 years ago

Google will start selling products at its pop-up stores this week

Google doesn't have any dedicated hardware stores like Apple or Microsoft, but it has previously experimented with pop-up demo experiences where users can test products before buying them online through the Google Store. That's changing today... sort of. The company confirmed to … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 6 years ago