Another San Francisco financial tech company is expanding operations into Utah, looking to add 500 jobs with a capital investment of $5.6 million. Earnest Inc., a startup that offers low-interest, no-fee loans using its software to analyze applicants’ creditworthiness, will expan … | Continue reading
Popular voice chat platform Discord has shut down several servers and accounts associated with the alt-right for violations of the terms of service. The company announced the enforcement action on Twitter, emphasizing that it will “continue to take action against white supremacy … | Continue reading
California already has some of the most generous incentives to get an electric car, but people living in San Diego are being further enticed to go the plug-in route. Through September 30th, San Diego Gas & Electric will offer its utility customers $10,000 toward a BMW i3 or Nissa … | Continue reading
A Samsung Galaxy S5 allegedly fell from a plane and miraculously survived after landing in someone’s yard. It also happened to record the whole thing and was returned to its owner, Blake Henderson, with the hilarious footage inside.The 11-minute video posted on YouTube by the pho … | Continue reading
The BrandpointHUB content marketing platform is designed to help your content creation team increase collaboration, maximize efficiency and eliminate bottlenecks. This is content marketing the way it was meant to be. | Continue reading
On Friday, GamesBeat held its first PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Family Chicken Dinner night. For hours, game developers and designers, composers, writers, and other media personalities came together to fight over a few measly drumsticks and a breast piece. It was a blast, and w … | Continue reading
Trying on a pair of jeans in a store’s changing room the other day, I overheard another shopper ask the assistant, “does it look OK?” I’ve no idea what the person was buying but I know the question was directed at a sales assistant because the answer she got was: “Yeah, great; y … | Continue reading
We heard earlier this month that the next Apple Watch would be available in an LTE version. Now, it seems, Apple will make two models of the watch: one with LTE and one without. The company also likely won't iterate on design much with its form factor remaining largely similar to … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin has gained the distinction of being called “digital gold”. The label, befitting the virtual currency is drawn following its comparison with the yellow metal which has remained as a store of value and medium of exchange for centuries. However, … | Continue reading
Four years ago today, the Arab Spring—or what was left of it—ended with a massacre. There were only two countries with largely peaceful democratic transitions. One of them was Tunisia; one of them was Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation and a bellwether for the region. O … | Continue reading
Nintendo just launched new options for online Switch customers, allowing them to customize the color of their Joy-Con and accompanying straps — up to a point. The page is on Nintendo’s Japanese store, and hence is in Japanese. I apologize for any translation errors — I’m relying … | Continue reading
The 2018 Nissan Leaf’s motor is in that Continue reading… | Continue reading
DJI is far and away the world’s most popular brand of drone across the consumer and commercial sectors. Increasingly, its aircraft are also being used by militaries. The US Army, for example, has issued over 300 exemptions allowing its troops to fly DJI drones on various missions … | Continue reading
GUEST: I recently introduced my kids to the original Star Wars trilogy. As we watched together, there was one thing that bothered me over and over. That “thing” was a gangly, gold-plated klutz of a droid called C-3PO. Threepio is kind of a terrible robot. The problem is his heavy … | Continue reading
Goodbye pencil/ruler/paintbrush, hello popsicle sticks. While the app store icon has seen subtle tweaks over the years, it’s featured the same basic logo until now. Apple today released it’s sixth developer beta for iOS 11 about a week ahead of expectations. The update includes n … | Continue reading
A new rumor claims Samsung may reveal its new wearable, the Gear Fit 2 Pro, at the same press event for its Galaxy Note 8 smartphone. | Continue reading
Pandora announced today it has appointed Robert Lynch as its new president and CEO. Lynch was the founding CEO of Dish’s Sling TV, previous to the move. He will also become a member of Pandora’s board of directors, along with Snap Inc.’s Michael Lynton. Naveen Chopra was serving … | Continue reading
Humans have been obsessed with eclipses for centuries. But, what can they actually teach us about our place in the solar system? Total solar eclipses have helped bring about some of the most important astronomic discoveries. Nicolaus Copernicus’ eclipse observations helped him de … | Continue reading
This property was a old bank space and Saukkonen + Partners converting this space into a home required a radically different layout. | Continue reading
In a blog post today, online web hosting provider DreamHost disclosed that it has been involved in a months-long legal battle with the Justice Department over records on visitors to an anti-Trump website. The dispute focuses on the website disruptj20.orgThe dispute focuses on a J … | Continue reading
A consumer rights watchdog in Italy is fining a group of companies that have promoted OneCoin. | Continue reading
After being nabbed by the FBI while leaving DefCon, the security researcher who singlehandedly neutralized the WannaCry malware attack earlier this year is back online. Marcus Hutchins, a.k.a. @malwaretech, appeared for his arraignment at a federal court in Wisconsin on Monday w … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Last year, AR and VR raked in $1.8B, with 6.3M headsets shipped. And those numbers are expected to just keep climbing. Join this VB Live for insights into VR and AR usage, consumer attitudes, and to learn whether the massive potential audience that exists is ready to go … | Continue reading
Fake reviews, regardless of their extent, can do more harm than good to a business’s reputation. Many new, and even established companies resort to paying online marketers for engaging target audience through fake/paid testimonials. While this practice is grossly treacherous, it … | Continue reading
Facebook’s Marketplace has become one of the biggest competitors to Craigslist in the US since it launched last year. Unfortunately, it’s only been available in a handful of countries so far. That’s now changing. The company today announced it’s rolling out Marketplace to 17 more … | Continue reading
American football is very popular in North America. You can find tons of football apps to extend your enjoyment. Here are the best NFL apps for Android! | Continue reading
Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones.Game of Thrones’ “Eastwatch” episode came bearing the gift of reunions. It was the latest round of important meet-ups in a season already packed with homecomings, but the power of those encounters is wearing thin.Anticipation for some of these s … | Continue reading
Pandora has announced that Sling TV founding CEO Roger Lynch will join the company as CEO and president, effective September 18th, 2017. Naveen Chopra, who served as Pandora’s interim CEO following co-founder Tim Westergren’s announcement that he was vacating all official positio … | Continue reading
The concept - a modern reinterpretation of the vernacular dogtrot house found commonly in Appalachia - aligns the more private program ... | Continue reading
This week, we’re running a series on our favorite stadium eats from around the world. Udon in Japan The crack of a bat; the slurp of noodles. These are the sounds that fill baseball stadiums across Japan. Forget portable snacks; for baseball fans that flood the 12 NPB—Nippon Prof … | Continue reading
After GoDaddy told The Daily Stormer to get lost, the neo-nazi news site chose Google as a new home for its controversial domain. Now, Google too has given the site the boot. “We are cancelling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service,” … | Continue reading
Snapchat’s got a new trick to stay one step ahead of Instagram by turning everyone’s quick video clips from concerts into a much more watchable music video you control. Snapchat “Crowd Surf” uses artificial intelligence machine learning technology to analyze when lots of people … | Continue reading
Members of Congress publicly condemned the white nationalists who’d gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. “The views fueling this spectacle are repugnant,” House Speaker Paul Ryan declared on Saturday. “I w … | Continue reading
The Google Brain team has a new high-profile hire. Chris Lattner, a former Apple executive credited with the creation of the Swift programming language who previously headed engineering efforts for Tesla’s Autopilot system, said in a tweet today that he would be joining one of th … | Continue reading
Upping the stakes in an already epic round of backbiting on Uber’s board, Benchmark today sent an open letter to Uber employees explaining why it decided to sue founder Travis Kalanick. The influential VC firm then posted the open letter on Google Docs and posted a link on Twitte … | Continue reading
GUEST: We have a summer home in New England in a semi-rural area, just ~10,000 people in town, with a potato farm across the street. Drive down the road and you can see the tall stalks of corn waving on other farms. Most people aren’t in tech or law or teaching in universities; t … | Continue reading
Discord, a fast-growing free chat service popular among gamers, said today that it had shut down “a number of accounts” following violence instigated by white supremacists over the weekend. The service, which lets users chat with voice and text, was being used by proponents of Na … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Don't be the victim of full selfies. This mini flashlight is here for you. The enhancing LED fill-light can help brighten up any photo opportunity, whether it’s at the top of a m … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.The MirroCool is an all-in-one smart mirror with proprietary facial recognition that will revolutionize the way you look at yourself.Everyone has those mornings where you're rush … | Continue reading
Meizu also teased that the processor may surprise people, but we are unsure whether that means a change in processors. | Continue reading
Designed to connect with its unique urban-forested surroundings, the Mini Treehouse offers a bespoke split-level design strategy ... | Continue reading
After white nationalists descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia, a Twitter account with the handle @YesYoureRacist began soliciting the identities of rally goers based on photographs. “If you recognize any of the Nazis marching in #Charlottesville, send me their names/profiles … | Continue reading
Microsoft is on the defense after Consumer Reports withdrew its recommendation for the Surface Pro and Surface Book computers last week, alleging the devices had poor reliability. The non-profit publication reported its survey of 90,000 tablet and laptop owners found, "25 percent … | Continue reading
GUEST: In the first Terminator movie, Arnie’s T-800 is sent back in time to kill a human. In Terminator 2, the T-800 is programmed to protect a human. This idea of having our machines grapple with the concept of “kill/do not kill” is still science fiction for now, but some profou … | Continue reading
In 1898, scientists in Uruguay noticed that some of their laboratory rabbits were dying from a mysterious illness, their skin riddled with tumors and weeping wounds. The researchers named the disease myxomatosis. They showed that it was caused by a new virus. And they argued that … | Continue reading
Target has acquired San Francisco-based transportation technology company Grand Junction, in order to help it move more quickly into the business of same-day delivery. The company had already been working with Target on a same-day delivery pilot program in New York’s Tribeca nei … | Continue reading
Ever wanted your own robot that you could build and program? Meet the Raspberry Pi robot. Put it together any way you want then tell him what to do! | Continue reading
Google Assistant has a smattering of recently released voice apps that do things like help Airbnb guests, play a rap lyrics karaoke challenge, or give guided whiskey tastings by Johnnie Walker. The Actions on Google platform, which launched last December, now counts more than 450 … | Continue reading