Before I got into bitcoin, I was not too much of a gambler. In fact, back in those days, I was a compulsive gamer. I would spend my whole time playing Role Play Games. Once I got into bitcoin, my gaming days ended. I had no time to play anymore and instead I was spending … Contin … | Continue reading
Innovation requires a level playing field that Silicon Valley elites seem unprepared to give emerging nations. Are the original Valley’s glory days over? And will successful mini versions of the Bay Area’s tech Mecca spring up in other locations around the world? Alec Ross, techn … | Continue reading
A man taking the HIV-prevention pill Truvada has contracted HIV, marking the first reported infection of someone regularly taking the drug, according to researchers. The report, from the Maple Leaf Medical Clinic in Toronto, says that a 43-year-old man who had sex with other men … | Continue reading
Not all Pokémon are created equal. While Pikachu and Jigglypuff turn into adorable little mascots, others become embarrassing reminders of an artist’s bad day at the office. They don’t really hurt the franchise. Total sales for Pokémon have reached over 200 million. It’s spawned … | Continue reading
It seems the ‘artist friendly’ streaming option, Tidal, has run into a roadblock after failing to pay some $5 million in past-due royalties. After the relaunch of Tidal nearly a year ago, the service promised to take a more artist-centric focus by paying a fair share of revenue t … | Continue reading
Netflix is cracking down on customers using virtual private networks (VPNs) to watch its content, and it doesn’t look like anyone is happy about it.Netflix is a region-locked service, meaning that different countries and regions have access to different TV shows and movies, as we … | Continue reading
The Novelist developer Orthogonal Games has revealed its upcoming wintry survival game Near Death.Set in an Antarctic research station, you play as a shipwrecked pilot trying to survive the very hostile climate of -100 degrees Fahrenheit. Given the dreadful weather, you'll have t … | Continue reading
The Internet lost a little piece of meme history over the weekend.Josh Holz, the 15-year-old high school student behind the crazy viral "Damn Daniel" video, had his Twitter account hacked Sunday. Though the teen has since regained control of his account, the attackers deleted the … | Continue reading
In a separate battle with the FBI over encryption, this one in New York, Apple scored a major win today as US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein denied a government motion that would require Apple to unlock an iPhone that belonged to the suspect in a Brooklyn drug case. This case, … | Continue reading
According to new data from freelance placement firm Toptal, Swift is the most in-demand developer language. The study, which compares requests from prospective employers year over year, shows a 600 percent increase in requests for developers who know Swift. Second is HTML, which … | Continue reading
HTC just opened its doors for Vive pre-orders, so if you've got a killer PC, a love for VR, and $800, now is your chance to dive in. | Continue reading
GoPro has always been deceptively easy to shoot with and deceptively difficult to edit. While the company has made its name on providing a simple, waterproof action camera, the interface to clean up those videos was woefully unintuitive. Perhaps that will change now, as it announ … | Continue reading
Apple’s general counsel Bruce Sewell will testify before a congressional Judiciary Committee tomorrow. The hearing has been convened to discuss what is being described as “The Encryption Tightrope” — subtitle: “Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy”. Read More | Continue reading
Small Giant Games, developer of Oddwings Escape [Free], has announced Rope Racers, an "instant multiplayer game" that takes cues from grappling hook games and SpeedRunners in particular. You race through multiple-lap levels, trying to finish first against 9 other racers, swinging … | Continue reading
A Rolls-Royce can be customized — made bespoke, in RR-speak — in a nearly infinite number of ways.From custom paint and leather colors to the starlight headliner (which can be built to illuminate the night sky of a particular day and time), nearly anything is possible. But someti … | Continue reading
Buffer is best known as a scheduling tool to help marketing teams schedule content on social media, but with the acquisition of Respondly they signaled a plan to expand its repertoire to cover customer service users. Buffer’s Respond is a tool to help companies reach its audience … | Continue reading
Now that almost everything in our lives has a smart variant, from our watches to our refrigerators, why not add water pitchers to that list?Brita has teamed up with Amazon to create the very first smart pitcher, the Brita Infinity Pitcher. The pitcher tracks the amount of water t … | Continue reading
In Android N, it looks like we can expect more information on notifications and even quicker quick settings. | Continue reading
Rookie forward Jahlil Okafor has been ruled out for Philadelphia's game at Washington due to a bruised right shin. | Continue reading
Here are 17 simple yet powerful techniques to increase website traffic and beat your competition. | Continue reading
Scientists say they’ve confirmed that the Zika virus can cause Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare but severe neurological disorder that kills 5 percent of people who develop it. Authorities in countries with a Zika outbreak should make sure they have enough intensive care beds to de … | Continue reading
Beyond artificial intelligence and machine learning to the brave new world of cybersecurity. Read More | Continue reading
Last night, deep inside Verge’s Oscars HQ, the staff shared their thoughts and feelings during the telecast of the 88th annual Academy Awards. Nothing inspires a healthy dose of shouting at the TV like the Oscars, and last night's show was full of enough surprises and oddities to … | Continue reading
Cavaliers point guard Mo Williams will be sidelined for at least the next two weeks with an injured left knee. | Continue reading
If you think 2016 Internet is pretty great with all its Vines, viral hashtags and memes, you haven’t seen Reddit3016. The parody site is an art project by Reddit user Blair Erickson (gonzoblair) who wanted to imagine the stuff that would end up on site’s front page 1,000 years fr … | Continue reading
Google is getting a wee more enterprisey. Today the company announced that it’s beginning to offer 24-by-7 phone and email customer support for Chrome for businesses that aren’t even paying to use Google Apps like Gmail and Docs. The new program, Chrome for Work Assist, is a cont … | Continue reading
A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York ruled Monday that the Department of Justice cannot force Apple to unlock a phone for the FBI. The decision hands Apple a potentially useful victory in its legal battle over iPhone security, though it came in a Brooklyn drug case … | Continue reading
It's a milestone moment for Czech, head-turning, no-fantasy role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. In a couple of days' time (3rd March) it sheds alpha and goes beta, transforming into a fuller, more complete game in the process. And we've got 40 minutes of the beta in vid … | Continue reading
Czech-made no-fantasy medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been turning heads for a couple of years, ever since - and even before - it was successfully funded on Kickstarter. It's powered by CryEngine and it genuinely looks lovely - and you can watch the 40 mi … | Continue reading
The 11th of December 2015, Open AI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. With $1 billion in funding from high-profile investors, such as Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel, the company put forward an ambitious research agenda to ke … | Continue reading
Foursaken Media continues to put out game after game, and not long after releasing All is Lost, the developers are planning on releasing their new game, War Tortoise, somewhere in March or early April. As for what this new game is? Well, as it's usually their style, the developer … | Continue reading
Google’s self driving car initiative is one of the most ambitious and controversial projects currently under the scrutiny of the public eye. Although the search giant has had six years of experience under their belt with only 17 minor accidents occurring across over two million m … | Continue reading
Video and mobile devices are the top influencers to people's search behavior. Here's our 3 suggestions on what marketers should do to adapt the trend. | Continue reading
One of Google's self-driving cars hit a public bus last month while it was in autonomous mode on a Mountain View, California, roadThe collision occurred on Valentine's Day and Google reported it to California's Department of Motor Vehicles in an accident report that the agency po … | Continue reading
Just one day after Mark Zuckerberg’s internal memo leaked, which asked employees to stop crossing out Black Lives Matter slogans, Facebook hosted more than 200 African-American students from the San Francisco Bay Area. The day-long field trip to Facebook this past Friday, which h … | Continue reading
In a New York case, Judge Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Read More | Continue reading
Apple just won a major victory in an iPhone warrant case — although it may not help the company in its San Bernardino trial. The victory comes from a New York district court that's been facing something legally similar to the higher-profile warrant case playing out in San Bernard … | Continue reading
If you go back to the 1990s and start reading about "virtual reality," you’ll quickly realize that the term could refer to anything from a full Lawnmower Man simulation system to a 3D model on a computer screen. Things have gotten simpler since then: outside a few special circums … | Continue reading
Did I mention we’re having a pitch-off in Brooklyn tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and tickets are still available, which you can buy here. But what is a pitch-off? Well, ten companies have been selected to show off their wares on … | Continue reading
Back in December we checked out the trailer for a clever upcoming puzzle game called Zenge. The actual puzzles were similar to Tangram puzzles, but with a couple of unique wrinkles. One is that each of the pieces of the puzzles had a track of sorts, meaning it had to be slid in i … | Continue reading
Square Cash is now a much more able virtual wallet. Today, the app has been updated to allow users to keep a balance in their accounts. Rather than automatically depositing incoming funds to your bank account, Square Cash’s new “Cash Drawer” feature lets you store money in-app fo … | Continue reading
GoPro today announced the acquisition of two startups to address one of the company’s sore spots: Video editing. Stupeflix and Vemory are the companies behind the mobile apps Replay and Splice, respectively. GoPro tells TechCrunch the company spent $105 million on the two compani … | Continue reading
In conjunction with its appearance at the RSA security conference in San Francisco tomorrow, Google announced today that it’s rolling out security enhancements for Gmail. Perhaps the most interesting one is bringing optical character recognition for attachments, such as images an … | Continue reading
So far, Google’s autonomous car has logged a pretty impressive driving record. There have been some missteps and even a few accidents, but until recently it had never caused an accident while driving itself. That changed on February 14 when an autonomously-driven Google Lexus hit … | Continue reading
Google announced a number of new security features for Gmail users in the enterprise today. Last year, the company launched its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature for Google Apps Unlimited users that helps businesses keep sensitive data out of emails. Today, it’s launching the fi … | Continue reading
While we haven't yet confirmed with Discovery News' worldwide network of apocalypse mythology scholars, we're pretty sure this is some sort of End Times omen:Fast food juggernaut McDonald's is rolling out a pilot program in Sweden that turns Happy Meal boxes into virtual reality … | Continue reading