PayPal today announced an expanded partnership with two of the largest bank issuers, Chase and Citibank. The agreements include a number of increased integrations between the companies, including easier access to Chase and Citi bank cards in the PayPal wallet; permitting Chase a … | Continue reading
End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Wire is targeting Slack’s territory with a new messaging for teams product, called Teams. Read More | Continue reading
For the first time ever, legendary Pokémon are coming to Pokémon Go.On July 22, if players around the world and at the Pokémon Go Fest in Chicago complete certain challenges, legendary Pokémon will appear all over the world in the form of raid battles. Players will have to work t … | Continue reading
Finally, the electronics ban has been liftedIt’s been four months since passengers flying from 10 airports in the Middle East had their laptop (and other devices) privileges taken away. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced the ban was over, according to Reu … | Continue reading
A new report from Ripple suggests institutional investors are increasingly interested in its native cryptocurrency.Source | Continue reading
The new trailer for Dave McCary’s Brigsby Bear is the best look at the film we’ve seen so far. It’s full of spoilers, so you might want to skip it. If not: it shows Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney escaping from a bio-dome operated by his kidnapper dad Mark Hamill. Wild start! O … | Continue reading
Machine learning is one of the hottest buzzwords in tech right now, and it generally refers to software that can improve itself based on user response. But not all developers (including Apple itself) know how to take full advantage of it.Back in June at its Worldwide Developers C … | Continue reading
A newly patched vulnerability in Valve's Source SDK engine could have allowed hackers to hijack your computer in a truly bizarre way: by killing you in Counter-Strike. The vulnerability was discovered by security research firm One Up Security, which published an overview of the e … | Continue reading
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a film that refuses to let a single action sequence play out simply. Its director, Luc Besson, has long excelled at set pieces with a twist—think of the backwards car chase in his last feature, Lucy. But for his newest project, he’s … | Continue reading
TOKYO—Japan’s population is shrinking. For the first time since the government started keeping track more than a century ago, there were fewer than 1 million births last year, as the country’s population fell by more than 300,000 people. The blame has long been put on Japan’s you … | Continue reading
Today Affirm has announced that it has more than 1,000 merchants signed up to offer its financing options at checkout, helping to reduce the friction around making large purchases and, by extension, increasing sales for its partners. Read More | Continue reading
I didn’t associate Massachusetts beaches with burqinis—or with Muslims, for that matter. But my family and I were on vacation, and there was a woman in the water wearing the full-body swimsuit. Next to me on the beach, two friends were talking somewhat loudly. The woman said, “Th … | Continue reading
Slidebean, the app that wants to take on Prezi and PowerPoint, is launching version 3.0 of the service on the heels of an $850K seed round from 500 Partners. The idea behind Slidebean is relatively simple. Presentations/decks are a fact of life for many professionals, but creati … | Continue reading
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PRESS RELEASE: Guidance, a customer centric commerce services provider (CSP) that enables retailers, branded manufacturers and distributors to accelerate growth, announced today that it has successfully launched Rubie's Costume Company (Rubie's) new... | Continue reading
Niantic revealed today that Pokémon Go players will finally be able to capture Legendary Pokémon. They can do this by teaming up in group Raid battles where they all fight against one of the powerful creatures together. If they win, they get the Pokémon. This is a feature that Ni … | Continue reading
Elon Musk said on Twitter that he received “verbal government approval” to build an underground Hyperloop transit network connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, with stops connecting each city center, and a dozen more entry or exit elevators located with … | Continue reading
Elon Musk just tweeted that his Boring Company tunnel project has just received “verbal [government] approval” to build a hyperloop connecting New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an undergr … | Continue reading
Atari's mounting a comeback with the Ataribox, its first game console in decades, but it's also selling baseball caps with built-in speakers. Yeah, really.The Speakerhat is part of "Atari Connected Life," a subdivision that's "all about retro, arcade & mobile gaming, modern PC & … | Continue reading
What a day. The bitcoin price started off the week on the back of what looked to be a substantial decline and had mainstream news media calling for the death of the cryptocurrency space as a whole. We had a couple of opinions on this as the week kicked off. Not on the death of … … | Continue reading
Unless you literally wear a mask all the time, it is almost impossible to completely avoid cameras and face recognition technology. Not only is this a privacy concern, but it also presents a potential liability for companies that need to protect personal data. D-ID, a startup cu … | Continue reading
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Exactly a month after releasing Firefox Focus for Android, Mozilla has updated its privacy browser with full screen support on most video sites (YouTube is still missing) and the ability to download files. You can grab the latest version now from Google Play. Firefox Focus offers … | Continue reading
Ready At Dawn Studios spent 20 months working on its science fiction single-player virtual reality game Lone Echo and its accompanying multiplayer companion mode Echo Arena. Both are debuting today exclusively on the Oculus Rift + Touch VR platform, and they’re going to take the … | Continue reading
Movidius and Intel have put deep-learning on a stick with a tiny $79 USB device that makes bringing AI to hardware a snap.In April of last year, Movidius showed off the first iteration of this device, which they then called the Fathom Neural Compute Stick. The company wasn’t abl … | Continue reading
Marion Abrahams-Welsh grew up with four generations of her family on hilly Sheppard Street in the Cape Town neighborhood known as District Six. Fourteen of them shared a small home filled with love and possibility, even though they had little money. In the new South African book … | Continue reading
There is a good news for Paybis users since the UK-based cryptocurrency platform has recently announced the provision of 25% discount on Bitcoin purchases made via credit or debit cards. According to this scheme, the users on Paybis will now be able to purchase Bitcoin with their … | Continue reading
Step by step, artificial intelligence is moving down from the cloud and into the device in your hand. The latest sign? This unassuming little thumb drive from chipmaker Movidius, which packs one of the company’s machine vision processors — the same chip used by DJI for its autono … | Continue reading
Microsoft continues to put its artificial intelligence, Cortana, in everything as part of a larger effort to make everyday products more connected and easier to use. The next spot it's showing up: the thermostat in your home. The company teamed up with popular thermostat maker Jo … | Continue reading
Mobile games are now the biggest segment in the global games market, but high-fidelity games in particular are coming out on top. A new report from industry analyst Newzoo in a partnership with the chip manufacturer ARM, finds that hi-fi games have shown strong year-over-year gro … | Continue reading
YouTube is taking its next step in countering extremism and terrorist content on its platform. Today the company announced that effective immediately, YouTube will respond to certain English-language keyword searches by displaying playlists of pre-existing videos on the site that … | Continue reading
In November 1861, the poet Julia Ward Howe took the melody of the abolitionist singalong “John Brown’s Body” and added a new set of lyrics meant to inspire the Union to righteous victory. The editors of The Atlantic published those lyrics in February 1862 with the title “The Batt … | Continue reading
Google last year introduced an app called Motion Stills that aimed to help iOS users do more with their Live Photos – including being able to crop out blurry frames, stabilize images, and even turn Apple’s Live Photos format into more sharable GIFs. Today, Google says it’s bring … | Continue reading
For a long time, traditional IT resisted the cloud, but that has changed in recent years as companies have come to realize that they can’t survive without the agility, scalability and economics that only a public cloud approach can provide. Yet in spite of the clear advantages t … | Continue reading
Atari hat manchmal alberne Ideen. Eine Baseballcap mit Lautsprechern drin wäre so eine. Wearables wollen sie machen und als erstes kommt der Speakerhat, der von Audiowear hergestellt. Ein Mikrofon hat die Mütze auch und wir müssen schon... | Continue reading
For better or worse, San Diego Comic-Con isn’t just about comics: it’s about movies and television shows, cosplay, celebrity panels, trailer reveals, and, of course, toys. Case in point: the X-34 Landspeeder from wagon-maker Radio Flyer. The toy car, designed to fit tw … | Continue reading
After raising $55 million last year to build its business beyond its existing help desk services, today Freshworks (the parent company of Freshdesk) has made an acquisition to help it fill out that strategy. The company has acquired Joe Hukum, a startup out of India that offers … | Continue reading
An international law enforcement effort has brought down two of the dark web’s largest marketplaces, AlphaBay and Hansa Market. According to a Europol announcement, AlphaBay hosted roughly $1 billion in transactions since its founding in 2014, primarily focused on drugs and fraud … | Continue reading
Apple released a new version of its mobile platform, iOS 10.3.3, on Wednesday, fixing a couple of security issues. Sounds like business as usual, but one of the bugs squashed with this update was actually quite serious. The issue, first reported by security expert Nitay Artenste … | Continue reading
The Tor Project, the not-for-profit body behind the anonymizing Tor browser that lets anyone browse the internet without being tracked, has announced its first ever bug bounty program. Tor, an acronym of “The Onion Router,” is downloadable software that directs traffic through a … | Continue reading
Businesses often do not put enough effort into their subject headings, especially for marketing campaigns. However, the subject line is by far the most important aspect of email marketing. It is a prime opportunity to...read moreThe post The Psychology of Subject Lines: Using Sci … | Continue reading
Businesses often do not put enough effort into their subject headings, especially for marketing campaigns. However, the subject line is by far the most important aspect of email marketing. It is a prime opportunity to...read more | Continue reading
If you’ve always wanted to poke around inside a spaceship but don’t ever wish to leave the safety of Earth, Google Street View now lets you explore the International Space Station (ISS) right from your computer.Astronauts have been working and living on the ISS for the past 16 ye … | Continue reading
Senator John McCain’s brain cancer diagnosis is likely to revive a persistent and complex question about the safety of wireless technologies, like cell phones, that emit electromagnetic radiation.For years, researchers have explored whether cell-phone use can increase a person’s … | Continue reading
Spoilers ahead for War for the Planet of the Apes.By the third film in the blockbuster Planet of the Apes series, it seems like the franchise should have wrung every last narrative drop from the virus that drove humans to near extinction and boosted apes’ brainpower. But in War o … | Continue reading
It’s hard to see this move as anything but a temporary reprieve for the once-mighty Sears brand. The mall mainstay has fallen on hard times in recent decades as online retail has taken over — and now, the company is signing on with Amazon to sell its Kenmore brand through one of … | Continue reading
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Video hosting and streaming company Vimeo has finally found a permanent new CEO — more than a year after the previous chief, Kerry Trainor, stepped down. Anjali Sud, who served in a couple of positions at Vimeo since 2014, including head of global marketing and senior vice presid … | Continue reading