Google today announced Fiber Phone, a home phone service powered by “much of the same technology as Google Voice.: Fiber Phone is an optional $10-per-month add-on for Basic, Gig, and Gig TV customers. Home phone service — is this an early April Fools’ joke? “Haha, definitely not” … | Continue reading
Während die Raumsonde New Horizons schon lange weiter zum Kuipergürtel-Objekt 2014 MU69 reist, präsentiert die NASA immer noch neue Fotos des Pluto-Vorbeiflugs. Dieses hier zeigt wahrscheinlich einen gefrorenen früheren See aus... | Continue reading
The Xbox One's backwards compatible list has just been bolstered by Left 4 Dead 2.Yesterday the service received a few other titles such as Soul Caliber HD, Halo Wars and The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match.Fans have been clamouring for a Left 4 Dead 3 since Valve's sequel la … | Continue reading
DTCC CEO Mike Bodson spoke today at the firm's one-day Blockchain Symposium, held in New York. | Continue reading
In a press release celebrating its one year anniversary, Tidal says it has amassed 3 million subscribers, up from 900,000 last June. Of those 3 million subscribers, 1.35 million are paying for Tidal's $19.99 Hi-Fi offering, according to Billboard. The growth of the streaming serv … | Continue reading
Instagram has begun rolling out a update that lets you record longer videos on the media-sharing application. Starting today, you’ll be able to post videos as long as 60 seconds, an increase from the 15 seconds you had before. It’ll be available on both iOS and Android, but only … | Continue reading
Pinterest has launched a new pin type that will display step-by-step instructions for creating the image that is displayed. Called a How-To Pin, it’s a tool that not only helps brands promote their products, but also gives users the push they may need to start a new project. The … | Continue reading
Back in 2007 co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green envisioned a new kind of mass transportation carpooling system connecting riders and drivers across the nation. They called it Zimride. But it turned out a lot more people wanted to get around the city than wanted to go the dis … | Continue reading
As Pinterest continues to ramp up the parts of its business that generate revenues (namely advertising), it’s also expanding the free features that might entice users and brands to linger around for longer and engage more on it’s image-based social network for sharing ideas. Toda … | Continue reading
Two months after letting advertisers extend their videos to 60 seconds, Instagram is granting the same privilege to regular users. Instagram videos, which have been limited to 15 seconds since they were introduced in June 2013, can now extend to a full minute. Like its corporate … | Continue reading
Ride-hailing service Lyft is launching a new carpooling service in the Bay Area today that it insists is entirely different from all the other carpooling services out there, including its own Lyft Line. Lyft Carpool will "tap into a completely different population of drivers" by … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price sold off from a bull-trap at 09h00 UTC today. The move lower has changed the chart technical bias to bearish across the board. An escape route out of stronger decline still exists, but time is running out. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. … | Continue reading
Pinterest is now making it easier than ever to turn DIY envy into an actual project, announcing today a new Rich Pin that helps users actually see how things get accomplished step-by-step. Called the “How-To” pin, you’ll be able to tap into one and see how everything gets done in … | Continue reading
Sony today announced that it's new 4K streaming service, called Ultra, will launch in the US on April 4th. Ultra was first announced back at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, when Sony revealed that the service would be available as an app exclusively on the company's new … | Continue reading
I’m a sucker for apps that do clever algorithmic stuff to images. Linify takes your photos and, well, ‘linifies’ them, redrawing them using nothing but straight lines. The results from this Web-based app can be striking and it’s fun to watch the images develop on-screen. You can … | Continue reading
Minecraft’s Pocket Edition is about to get a lot more interesting. The mobile version of the popular building game will soon get command blocks, according to CNET. Command blocks are in the PC version, and these allow for a ton of complexity and flexibility, since players can pro … | Continue reading
When Minecraft: Story Mode [$4.99] launched in October of last year, we were pretty impressed with how quickly Telltale was releasing new episodes compared to their previous episodic games. In just a couple of months 4 episodes were released with the last episode arriving just pr … | Continue reading
Airbnb is offering its coolest accommodation yet: an underwater bedroom surrounded by 35 sharks. Continue reading… | Continue reading
On their next trip to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX will be carrying an inflatable space habitat built by Bigelow Aerospace. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be folded up for its April 8th launch, and then fully inflated once it’s properly connec … | Continue reading
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If you're looking for something a little different than your standard battery pack, you should check out the Bump -- it's an odd little orb that acts as a wall outlet, battery pack and cable holder. | Continue reading
by Ginger Conlon, Editor in Chief, DMNews (excerpt) Time for change During his presentation at the Summit, Brian Solis (left), a principal analyst at Altimeter Group, also asserted that “the future of brand is experience.” Like Rencher, Solis pointed out that there’s a great deal … | Continue reading
Most people in business and finance (and most people, frankly) think that the new economy (of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines) is like the old economy: satisfying customers’ needs for products and services. But, the real heart of the new economy will be about help … | Continue reading
MedStar Health was forced offline this week after hackers took over its computer systems. An unconfirmed virus reportedly strangled the network and rendered it completely useless. Because of the attack, the healthcare operator’s 30,000 staff members and 3,000 affiliated physician … | Continue reading
2 for 1 tickets are being sold this Thursday: here's everything you need to know.The post How to redeem your 2 for 1 ticket this Thursday appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
The main purpose of this revised Bitcoin regulation is determining whether or not Bitcoin transactions would be subject to taxes. | Continue reading
Robocopp ist eine kleine Alarmanlage, die am Rucksack oder Gürtel befestigt werden kann. 120 Dezibel wird die sogenannten Soundgranate laut, wenn der Nippel oben gezogen wird und soll den Träger in Grenzsituationen helfen. Das kann in der... | Continue reading
Fallout 4's extra hard Survival Mode enters beta today on Steam and Bethesda has provided a full breakdown of everything this new challenge mode changes.… | Continue reading
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Microsoft isn’t doing so hot in mobile. That’s been its unfortunate story for years, as it’s played catch-up to Google and Apple ever since Windows Phone 7 launched in 2010. There’s plenty to blame: entering the game late, featuring underpowered hardware, missing features and a l … | Continue reading
The FBI has “successfully accessed the data” stored on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone without the help of Apple. | Continue reading
Tinder may soon let you do a lot more than swipe right.The company is acquiring Humin, the San Francisco startup behind the contact-management app of the same name. Humin is also behind Knock Knock, an app for connecting with people nearbySee also: These jobs get you the most rig … | Continue reading
Tim Attia, co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, said there’s “a ticking time bomb” threatening the on-demand economy — namely, insurance and liability. Attia’s tackling that problem with Slice, which will offer insurance for on-demand workers and providers, starting with rideshare d … | Continue reading
Dropcam co-founder and former CEO Greg Duffy has bitten back at Nest’s Tony Fadell, after Fadell claimed in an article published in the Information last week that “a lot of the [Dropcam] employees were not as good as we’d hoped…” and “unfortunately it wasn’t a very experienced te … | Continue reading
Hopper, the makers of a handy travel application that tells you the best time to fly in order to find the best deals, has now raised additional capital to continue to grow its business. It has also scored a partnership with American Airlines which allows it to sell AA’s tickets t … | Continue reading
Screen sizes on smartphones are getting bigger and bigger, but battery tech is lagging behind. As a heavy user of your smartphone, you’ll know that dreaded feeling of your battery marching towards extinction. The most common solution to the problem is to carry a charger or an USB … | Continue reading
Snapchat is making sure its addicted teens have absolutely every tool in their arsenal to communicate with each other, as a new update released today finally makes good on longstanding rumors of improving the app’s chat functions. The company outlined the details in a blog post: … | Continue reading
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It was a sunny afternoon in Manhattan and I needed a ride from Rockefeller Center to The Verge's office on West 40th Street. So, like thousands of people do everyday, I pulled out a smartphone, tapped an app, and requested a ride. Minutes later, a black GMC Yukon pulled up to the … | Continue reading
Vine, the six-second, looping video platform from Twitter, has just hired Hannah Donovan as the new general manager.Donovan has built her career in product and design leadership. Her most recent position was product lead at Drip, which was recently acquired by Kickstarter. Some e … | Continue reading
Years after its release, I thought I'd seen everything you could do in SNES classic Super Mario World.But now, someone has programmed Super Mario World from within the game - while playing it - so it transforms into a completely different and entirely functioning other game, Flap … | Continue reading
It didn’t quite add up when Fortune broke the news last week that Snapchat would spend a $100 million to acquire Bitstrips, the maker of personalized avatar stickers called Bitmoji. Snapchat didn’t have anywhere to put them. But today, Snapchat launched “Chat 2.0”, a huge product … | Continue reading
Google Photos just introduced a clever new feature that will let you edit photos without the risk of irreversibly altering the original. While previously users had to rely on duplicates to avoid making permanent changes to pictures, Google Photos now offers a nifty ‘Undo Edits’ b … | Continue reading
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Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate information into one contact app. Terms were undisclosed by TechCrunch understands from multiple sources that this roughly equat … | Continue reading
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Snapchat just stepped up its one-on-one chat features in a major way.The company added a host of new messaging features to its app Tuesday, including voice and video calling, audio and video notes and stickers.See also: 10 hidden tricks to make Snapchat infinitely betterFirst rum … | Continue reading
Publicly traded enterprise hardware company Brocade is announcing today that it has acquired StackStorm, a startup that built software for automating data center operations. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. StackStorm launched out of stealth mode in May 2014 and announced the … | Continue reading