Apple's battle with the FBI in San Bernardino may be over, but the iPhone wars continueEven after the FBI gave up on getting a judge to compel Apple to hack the San Bernardino shooter's work-issued iPhone, the tech company is still bogged down in orders to assist authorities in u … | Continue reading
We've been following the progress of Extreme Gear ever since spotting it for the first time back in late January, but today is the day that Zero Games' Extreme Gear: Demolition Arena [Free] has finally arrived in the App Store. If you haven't been following along, Extreme Gear is … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
On-demand streaming music is inevitable, so Spotify is taking whatever fuel it can get to win the race against Apple. Whoever can sign up customers faster to consume their data and network effect could earn money off them for a long, long time. So it makes sense that Spotify woul … | Continue reading
Just north of London, one of the world's most unusual aircraft is taking shape. Hybrid Air Vehicles is trying to bring gas-filled blimps back into style with the launch of its Airlander 10. When will we see blimps flying commercially? As early as the end of the decade, reports Ro … | Continue reading
Newly unsealed National Hockey League emails show executives including commissioner Gary Bettman, discussing the link between fighting, concussions and "personal tragedies," following the deaths of three NHL enforcers. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Instagram has announced that they are rolling out full minute video support on their popular social media app. | Continue reading
The NCAA has announced that the Final Four and National Championship will be broadcast in live VR to owners of the Samsung Gear VR. | Continue reading
Noodlecake Games and Jan Ilavsky's Hyperbolic Magnetism are set to release Chameleon Run next week on April 14th for iOS. The gang got to see it at GDC, but now you'll get to play this color-switching runner for yourself real soon. You'll be switching colors to land on the proper … | Continue reading
Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have teamed up with over 80 CEOs, as well as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC to add their signatures to a letter calling for the repeal of House Bill 2. Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign identified some … | Continue reading
Not content to simply announce the long awaited-arrival of the Oculus Rift to consumers, company founder Palmer Luckey and Facebook (the parent company of Oculus) founder Mark Zuckerberg both engaged in unusually direct presentations to the public this week.See also: Oculus Rift … | Continue reading
Sony is set to debut Ultra, its new streaming service, on April 4. But if you’re planning to binge-watch 4K movies on Ultra, you might want to prepare your wallet. Sony has announced it will charge customers $30 a movie to stream in 4K on Ultra. According to Buzzfeed, its initial … | Continue reading
Snapchat Chat 2.0 is a hot-swapping, multimedia approach that is sure to confuse the hell out of anyone older than thirty, but the younger crowd will probably love it. | Continue reading
Pinterest is making moves to keep more people and brands on the site. The company introduced on Tuesday a new feature called How-to Pins, allowing companies to create and share pins with DIY instructions.The feature, which is a new take on its existing Rich Pins feature for brand … | Continue reading
The CEOs of Facebook, Apple, Lyft, Google, Dropbox, and Tumblr joined more than 80 other company executives in urging Pat McCrory, the governor of North Carolina, to repeal a law that allows for discrimination against LGBT people. In the letter sent today, the CEOs write that the … | Continue reading
If you've been patiently waiting to see and hear more about Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Legends CCG, I'm afraid you'll have to wait at least a bit longer. According to Pete Hines, VP of marketing at Bethesda, they are getting closer to talking about it and showing the game, but … | Continue reading
There is new research out this week that will shake up old notions about how business-to-business brands should be using social media. A report by intelligence platform TrackMaven shows LinkedIn isn’t the most effective platform to drive engagement — but you might be surprised to … | Continue reading
There is still life in the unicorn funding world. The swath of negative articles in the past six months about the coming demise of unicorns apparently didn’t keep investors from joining the bandwagon. Even funds like Fidelity, which saw major mark-downs in its portfolio, made one … | Continue reading
The $120 Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro is almost identical to its non-professional forerunner save for the addition of a fingerprint sensor. | Continue reading
“Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective,” says Peter Drucker. The subject of The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done is how we can manage our self for effectiveness. Half of the battle in managing ourselves is abo … | Continue reading
If screaming at your TV screen and flicking virtual basketballs on Facebook Messenger aren’t enough excitement for this March Madness, you can take it to the next level this weekend with the addition of virtual reality. The NCAA has announced that the upcoming Final Four games wi … | Continue reading
You can’t time travel to a future when Oculus has already delivered your headset, but you have some other options available — if your bank account is healthy. The consumer version of the Rift that started arriving yesterday to people who backed the original crowdfunding campaign … | Continue reading
J.J. Abrams is riding high after the success of 10 Cloverfield Lane, and is getting ready for his next producing gig.TheWrap reports that Selma's David Oyelowo and Concussion's Gugu Mbatha-Raw have been tapped to costar in sci-fi thriller God Particle. Abrams' Bad Robot will prod … | Continue reading
Actress Patty Duke has died at age 69. Known for playing Helen Keller in a Broadway production of "The Miracle Worker," she later reprised the role in a film version of the play, winning an Academy award for best supporting actress. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Museums offer a space to admire, critique and reflect on the work of artists past and present, but sometimes we forget about the joys of art and history amidst the ease of social media satiation. So museums are bringing it all to you on Twitter, Vine and Periscope for Museum Week … | Continue reading
The NCAA has announced that this weekend's Final Four and National Championship games will be live-streamed in virtual reality. Fans who own a Samsung Gear VR will be able to watch each game from a courtside perspective for free by downloading the NCAA March Madness Live app in t … | Continue reading
CFTC's J Christopher Giancarlo said today that he believes his agency should reexamine existing rules for distributed ledger technology. | Continue reading
A finance executive fell victim to a phishing scam that saw the Los Angeles-based maker of children’s toys wire a cool $3 million to Chinese hackers. Expertly timed during a period of corporate change, the email hit the inbox of the unnamed executive and requested a new vendor pa … | Continue reading
Volkswagen's woes continue, this time on two fronts. The company has recalled its e-Golf electric vehicle to fix a battery software issue, and the FTC has filed suit against the German company for numerous incidents of deceptive advertising related to its diesel engine problems. | Continue reading
AT&T today announced that it's upping the monthly data caps on its U-verse home internet service and introducing a new unlimited option. Now, customers who pay for the first tier of U-verse, the slowest option at .8Mbps to 6Mbps, will have 300GB to use per month instead of 250GB. … | Continue reading
Snail Games, publishers of the action-RPG Taichi Panda [Free], which has been one of the more notable entries in a crowded hack 'n slash field, are set to bring more intense action to mobile very soon. They've announced that Taichi Panda: Heroes will be going into a closed beta t … | Continue reading
Ebay announced this afternoon that it’s acquiring an auto industry technology company known as Cargigi, a large provider of advertising and marketing services on a number of popular free classified websites, like Craigslist and others. Deal terms were not revealed, though eBay de … | Continue reading
With Strata + Hadoop World kicking off, it’s always fascinating to step back and look at the contents of the sessions as a way of understanding what’s happening in the world of Big Data.For those of you who have attended this conference for the more than five years that the event … | Continue reading
Renaissance Capital, the IPO research firm, has published a new report about the first quarter of this year, and, as you might expect, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. For starters, it notes the U.S. IPO market hit the lowest levels in the first quarter since the financial cris … | Continue reading
GitHub today announced the launch of Saved Replies, a feature that allows users to save messages that they commonly use to respond to pull requests and issues that other users file. “This can save you a ton of time typing and posting the replies you use most frequently,” GitHub e … | Continue reading
The new Instagram update for iOS has some useful tools, particularly because it allows me to make longer videos up to one minute, so you can stuff more content into your posts. It’s great! But I just have one question: Where did my log out button go? Normally, the ability to log … | Continue reading
McDonald's is well known not only for their fast food but also for video marketing campaigns. Here are 4 of our favorite campaigns of all time. | Continue reading
Minecraft Pocket Edition [$6.99] developers have repeatedly said they aim for total parity between the various versions of the game. Today we got more evidence on how serious the developers are since they announced that MCPE will get command blocks, mods, and more as they work to … | Continue reading
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC just released a letter addressed to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, urging him to repeal the provisions of House Bill 2. H.B. 2 gets rid of non-discrimination ordinances and effectively writes discrimination against LGBT people … | Continue reading
Fitbit has finally made an attractive wearable with the Alta. What else does this new fitness tracker have to offer? Get all the details in our full Fitbit Alta review! | Continue reading
As expected, Dropbox and Adobe are announcing today that people can now open PDF documents stored in Dropbox using the Adobe Acrobat Reader app on Android devices. This lets users of the apps sign, highlight, annotate, and comment on files from Dropbox from within Acrobat Reader. … | Continue reading
Fiber Phone wants to drag landline technology kicking and screaming into the modern age. The goal is to make your home phone, well, mobile. | Continue reading
Razer’s Ripsaw is far from the first game capture card, but it leapfrogs the competition nicely and takes aim at a growing population of streamers who are willing to pay good money for an easily set up solution with industrial-strength capabilities. Read More | Continue reading
Brafton and Akoonu got together to answer some of the questions you asked during our webinar on audience personas and buyer journeys. | Continue reading
Remember that time you ate glue in seventh grade, and wondered what it would be like if Mortal Kombat featured the characters from your science textbook instead of ninjas? I do! And now I can relive that fantasy without poisoning myself. Browser game Science Kombat stars eight sc … | Continue reading
The last $5 lunch we had in NYC involved multiple slices of dry $0.99 pizza. Good luck finding anything cheaperMealPass is trying. The meal planning startup, which will launch in New York City on Wednesday, according to Eater, allows users to pre-order lunches and pick them up in … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama discussed the problem of addiction in the U.S. and administration steps to help, at an appearance Tuesday at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta. Photo: AP | Continue reading