Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans today to send two unnamed private citizens around the moon “late next year.” The two passengers “have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission,” a SpaceX press release reads. If SpaceX manages to rocket the two wealthy citizens ar … | Continue reading
I’ve never worked in an office with cubicles and other people before, so I’ve never played hockey in the hallway with broomsticks and an old bagel before. But now one developer is mashing up office games, Overwatch, and virtual reality. VR developer Zi Ye, who is working on Adult … | Continue reading
It seems like just yesterday that people were clamoring for something other than a Like button on Facebook, yet it’s now been a little over a year since they arrived in the form of five cutesy reactions. Now Facebook tells us it’s changing how these interact with your News Feed: … | Continue reading
Google is adding new tools for game developers to use in the Play Store to help them get their games noticed by more players. | Continue reading
SpaceX has plans to send two private citizens around the Moon, CEO Elon Musk announced today. It will be a private mission with two paying customers, not astronauts, who approached the company. The passengers are “very serious” about the trip and have already paid a “significant … | Continue reading
The owner of an aerial photography business was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine after a drone he was operating crashed into people during a 2015 parade and knocked one woman unconscious. Paul Skinner, 38, was found guilty of reckless endangerment by Judge Willie Greg … | Continue reading
On March 9, 2017, Tallinn will host the biggest Estonian blockchain conference, bringing together banking sector representatives. They will share their experience of implementing the blockchain technology and will discuss benefits of decentralized services. A key speaker on this … | Continue reading
By now, most of us are familiar with Boston Dynamics’ work. They brought us the terrifying giraffe bot and Spot, the robot dog. The company’s great at bringing us nightmare fuel. Another new robot leaked earlier this month and now we’re getting an official look at what Boston Dyn … | Continue reading
Productivity app-maker Doist is trying to lure new customers over from the dark side by making it easier for Wunderlist users to jump ship. You may recall that Microsoft snapped up Wunderlist’s parent company — Germany-based 6Wunderkinder — back in 2015. As is the case when any p … | Continue reading
Valve today confirmed it was teaming with LG to create a SteamVR-powered headset. LG isn’t the first to use SteamVR Tracking — that honor belongs to HTC’s Vive — but it casts little doubt about Valve’s aspirations for OpenVR to be a one-size-fits-all platform for third-party hard … | Continue reading
Digital currency exchange Coinbase said today that it will stop serving customers in Hawaii following regulatory changes in the US state.Source | Continue reading
In the last update about Creditbit token ecosystem, the Creditbit development team also updated the community about the management of funds. Creditbit is an open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license which gives you the power to run, modify, and copy the soft … | Continue reading
Chinese chip maker Spreadtrum will make an octa-core smartphone chip, using the Airmont Atom architecture from Intel, that will launch later in 2017. | Continue reading
We’ve all been down that rabbit hole of endlessly watching YouTube videos (I blame the suggestions bar). Perhaps a bit too much; YouTube says people now watch one billion hours of video every single day. YouTube says it hit that milestone at some point last year, showing viewersh … | Continue reading
The Escapists, the very entertaining and award-winning PC game, is about to come to mobile March 2nd. The Team 17 and Mouldy Toof game is a sandbox prison-escape game that puts you in 6 challenging prisons and asks you to break out. You'll have to work around the prison schedule … | Continue reading
Imagine if Noah had built his arc without checking for termites. All that wood, freshly cut and slotted into place for this big beautiful boat, suddenly full of holes and soaked to the core.Now imagine this boat is the White House press office. Just a ship full of leaks in the mi … | Continue reading
The blockchain analytics platform, Skry has been acquired by Bloq. With the new acquisition, Jeff Garzik’s company dealing with enterprise grade blockchain solutions stands to strengthen its existing suite of analysis tools. Bloq announced the acquisition of Skry, formerly known … | Continue reading
Mozilla has bought content time-shifting app Pocket for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced simultaneously on their blogs. What started out as a handy Firefox plug-in for saving articles you didn’t have time for became more and more closely integrated with the browser … | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics’ wheeled Handle robot received much fanfare earlier this month when DFJ partner Steve Jurvetson slipped us an early video from a company Keynote. Today we have more details on Handle in the form of a shiny HD video. We already knew Handle could manage some pretty … | Continue reading
Not a fan of Trump? Can’t stand country music? Think selfie culture is the worst? Wouldn’t go camping if someone paid you? Bonding over the things you hate can be more powerful than bonding over what you like, studies have shown. Now, a new dating app called Hater can help you f … | Continue reading
A Kuwaiti oil field set afire by retreating Iraqi troops during Operation Desert Storm on March 1, 1991 (Wikimedia)Spurred by our collection of stories from readers who used marijuana as a substitute for prescription opioids, another reader writes:I am a totally and permanently s … | Continue reading
Samsung announced a motion controller for the Gear VR during Mobile World Congress, at last addressing the headset’s biggest problem. The controller resembles a pared-down version of the HTC Vive remote (or a slightly more powerful Google Daydream one). On the front, you get home … | Continue reading
Porsche Design has announced its new 2-in-1, called the Book One, today at Mobile World Congress and it sure reminds us of a Surface Book. The device runs Windows 10 Pro and includes a 5-megapixel camera with an infrared sensor for logging in through Windows Hello. Here’s the res … | Continue reading
When brainstorming campaign ideas or ideating a piece of content, it’s easy to get inside your own head. You think, craft ideas, develop drafts, revise copy and re-revise it for hours on end. Completing an asset and getting it out into the field is a tremendous accomplishment, bu … | Continue reading
US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Sunday that she would be reevaluating the Obama administration’s rules for self-driving cars and challenged the automotive and technology industries to better educate the public about the safety features of automated driving. Speaking … | Continue reading
Amazon is reportedly working on a new feature for its Alexa voice assistant that would allow for individual voice recognition, according to a report from Time. In other words, your Echo would theoretically be able to tell voices apart and figure out who is actually talking to it. … | Continue reading
There is now less than 24 hours to register for the next Startup Battlefield event. The application process takes just a few minutes. All you have to do is fill out some fields, upload a video demo and cross your fingers. Startup Battlefield is the premiere startup competition. … | Continue reading
American presidents have often clashed with the press. But for a long time, the chief executive had little choice but to interact with journalists anyway.This was as much a logistical matter as it was a begrudging commitment to the underpinnings of Democracy: News organizations w … | Continue reading
Now that we know that Hearthstone's [Free] next expansion is Journey Un'Goro, let's check out some more of the new cards. Most of them were talked about on the official announcement video. First of all, check out the new Quest cards, a really fun new mechanic that I can't wait to … | Continue reading
The Chamber of Digital Commerce has announced a new research and educational partnership with a US-based finance and securities sector trade group.Source | Continue reading
More than two years ago we wrote about what we learned from the 20 campaigns our startups had run. Fast-forward to 2017: The B2C startups HAX has invested in now count more than 75 successful campaigns (our 200-strong portfolio is about half B2C). Here’s what you need to know to … | Continue reading
The Sony Xperia X Performance, one of the company's flagships of last year, is now on sale for just $399.99, down from $549.99. | Continue reading
Takie paszteciki to dobry sposób na wykorzystanie gotowanego mięsa np. z rosołu czy bulionu. Ja do swoich użyłam mięsa z pulled pork. Dodałam cebulę z pieczeni, przyprawy oraz trochę czerwonej fasoli z puszki. Domownicy się zajadali :-) Paszteciki sprawdziły się jako dodatek do c … | Continue reading
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Driving, driving, driving… DEATH! If ceding control of your car to AI scares you, this demo isn’t going to ease your fears. Created by 17-year-old designer and engineer Jan Hünermann, the application acts as an on-going project journal. His goal is to “create a fully self-learnin … | Continue reading
Viola Davis’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress began with a thanks to the Academy and this observation: “You know, there’s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered.”Pause. Some viewers may have felt a queasy pang. Was the Fences actress … | Continue reading
Roborace, Formula E's long-developing autonomous racing series, just unveiled its first self-driving race car at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It's called the Robocar, and it doesn't look like anything we've ever seen before. If the appearance is jarring, just consider how … | Continue reading
Carnival season 2017 is underway across Europe and the Americas. These pre-Lent festivals, often a blend of local pagan and Catholic traditions, usher out the winter and welcome in spring. Gathered here are images of carnivals around the world, including images from Spain, Brazil … | Continue reading
Don Mesa, an executive for Sony Mobile US, explains – once more – why the company disables fingerprint sensors in Xperia devices launching in the US. | Continue reading
There are four automotive manufacturers at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona this year: Daimler, BMW, Ford, and Peugeot. And if CES is any indicator, expect more to follow in the next few years.Peugeot is going the furthest in bringing a world-premiere concept car to M … | Continue reading
Epic Games, of Infinity Blade and Paragon fame, has just announced a new game called Battle Breakers, a cross-platform tactical RPG that looks pretty cool. According to the developers, the game is inspired by 80s Saturday morning cartoons, which is obvious judging from the visual … | Continue reading
Samsung just released a press statement declaring its Galaxy S7 edge as winning the best smartphone award at Mobile World Congress 2017. That didn’t happen. This is what really happened, and Samsung should retract this press release as it’s misleading and disingenuous.GSMA is th … | Continue reading
A new donation platform helps people turn a moment of rage into charitable giving, simply by replying to an infuriating tweet. Trigger, an amazingly passive-aggressive Twitter-based app, lets you react to hostile social media posts in a positive, productive way. Creator Isaac Alf … | Continue reading
In the age of shared economy, innovative projects do not have to rely on institutional investors to raise the required funds. If an idea is attractive enough for the general public, they can contribute towards the idea to make it a reality. The introduction of crowdfunding platfo … | Continue reading
NASCAR is changing how its races work. It used to be that cars would start on lap 1 and when the checkered flag waved, whoever was in first place would win and drivers got more points the better they finished. Now it’s a bit more complicated than that.Races this year are being br … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Arrow Launcher has just been updated to version 3.0, adding a number of both front-end and back-end improvements. | Continue reading
Businesses need big data masters, and you can become one! | Continue reading
Mozilla has acquired Pocket, a kind of DVR for the internet, for an undisclosed sum. The 9-year-old company, which makes tools for saving articles and videos to view them later, is Mozilla’s first acquisition. It represents a homecoming of sorts for Pocket, which began life as a … | Continue reading