Today in local news, Los Angeles Assemblyman Mike Gatto has introduced a bill that would allow Californians to cancel their Internet or cable services online with ‘one click’. The bill, which has no official nickname but I am hereby dubbing ‘Ryan’s Law’ for reasons that will beco … | Continue reading
Microsoft officially unveiled the augmented reality headset packaging on Tuesday during the opening keynote for its Build 2016 developers conference. I got a special opportunity to unbox one of the early units.HoloLens BoxImage: Andrew Burton/MashableSeeing the package for the f … | Continue reading
Sure, a while back I said I was done with idle clickers. But I'm done with them in the same way I'm done with match-3 games, for the most part: I'll play the occasional one because I still enjoy the core idea, but I've just played too many of them to want to keep diving | Continue reading
Riptide GP: Renegades is bringing the nail-biting action of high-octane racing to transforming jetskis on your mobile device. | Continue reading
As a former patent examiner, I recognize that the patent system, in its purest form, should protect and incentivize innovation through a limited-term contract, offering exclusive monopoly rights covering a technology, product or design element. In practice, it’s much uglier, and … | Continue reading
“Fresh air” is a concept most often associated with the “great outdoors”. Dyson is looking to make your home nature fresh by ridding it of indoor pollutants with the Pure Cool Link purifier fan. Hopefully, the engineering that went into James Dyson’s new gadget is better than the … | Continue reading
At DigitalOcean, we are making some changes to the recruitment process of back-end developers. We simplified the job description and the interview process, and added a step that asks the candidate to write us some code. This is an account of my experience on hiring processes and … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO, California — As HoloLens makes its way from Microsoft’s development labs into the hands of early developer and enterprise customers, the big question remains: What will they do with it?Microsoft has done its best to guide would-be developers with a series of demons … | Continue reading
We’ve been at Microsoft’s Build conference all day, getting up close and personal with the latest and greatest from Microsoft. With announcements about Xbox, Cortana, Windows 10, new developer tools, the introduction of a Bash shell to Windows (!), cool new API tools for develope … | Continue reading
When a new category of gadget appears, it’s understandable when the vanguard devices aren’t the most well designed, or are resistant to disassembly and repair. Fortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case with the first headset from Oculus, iFixit has found. Read More | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard that story about NPM community and LeftPad package, that broke thousands JavaScript projects worldwide. There was a nice follow-up article titled “Have We Forget How To Program” and one guy even created left-pad.io - Left-Pad As A Service web service. People … | Continue reading
Most mapping companies are pretty good at getting you from point A to point B. They usually optimize for the quickest or shortest route, but rarely take into account the risks of navigating the shady end of town. RedZone, an iOS app launched today, adds a soupçon of street smarts … | Continue reading
Ever since college, the way that I've been told to study computer science was to avoid Windows for writing code. In class, we used Ubuntu, a flavor of Linux to complete our assignments. Students who showed up to class on the first day with a Windows laptop (myself included) were … | Continue reading
Build 2016 has one clear takeaway: Cortana is what matters, at least for now. At almost every product or service announcement at this morning’s keynote, Microsoft made a point to mention that it would also work with Cortana. At a deep dive event for press later in the day, Micros … | Continue reading
Dyson shot to fame for its bagless vacuum cleaners more than two decades ago, and in the intervening years the U.K. company has launched everything from hand-dryers and heaters to washing machines and air multipliers. Exactly a year ago today, Dyson launched its first ever air pu … | Continue reading
Dyson is hopping into the regular-product-turned-smart game with its new Pure Cool Link smart air-purifying fanSmart air purifiers aren't exactly new, but a big name like Dyson jumping on the smartification bandwagon means these types of products could dominate the home air quali … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a reputation for dribbling little hints about the company's plans on Twitter — and on the eve of the unveiling of the mass-market Model 3 near Los Angeles, he's at it again. Continue reading… | Continue reading
The BLU Life One X is a surprisingly powerful budget smartphone that currently has a third knocked off its already-low price tag. | Continue reading
Microsoft's HoloLens headset starts shipping to developers today with a price tag of $3,000, but early versions of the device are already being used by a handful of corporations around the globe. We've seen some neat uses of the augmented reality technology from these third parti … | Continue reading
Today at Build, Microsoft’s developer conference, Microsoft announced it will ship its $3,000 development kit for the HoloLens. It also secretly released a HoloLens emulator which allows developers to build augmented reality apps without actually owning a headset. The emulator us … | Continue reading
If you were to take a really serious, old-school iPhone launch day with big lines in front of Apple Stores, but substitute a $35,000-plus giant gadget in place of a phone, you'd get Tesla Model 3 pre-order day. It's getting real out there. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Prolific simulation developer Kairosoft, of Game Dev Story [$4.99] fame, has been releasing the Japanese versions of their latest iOS games in App Stores worldwide recently. The English versions of the games typically follow anywhere from two weeks to a few months later, but alwa … | Continue reading
“Nature’s ready-made robot platforms.” That’s how a new paper from researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University describe insects — it’s excellent shorthand for the level of “playing god” we have attained, whether you find it fascinating or abhorrent. Read More | Continue reading
Want to know if you have the “athlete gene” or if you’re actually related to the weirdos who claim you as a family member? Get your collection tubes ready, citizen scientists, Bento Lab’s DIY DNA analysis kit is here and ready for the in-home lab.Normally you’d order a kit somewh … | Continue reading
San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round.Branch’s free-to-download Android app is a kind of “branchless bank for the next … | Continue reading
The Justice Department has managed to unlock an iPhone 5c used by the gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last December. The high-profile case has pitted federal law enforcement agencies against Apple, which fought a legal … | Continue reading
Apple today made the first release in the Safari Technology Preview, a program that gives developers early access to new builds of Safari that use “upcoming Web technologies.” The new software can run on Macs right alongside the regular version of Safari, Apple says in the releas … | Continue reading
Identifier: PP-1-2016Pillar: 3rd Health ProgrammeOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
In a span of two and a half hours, Microsoft packed a lot into the opening keynote of its Build 2016 conference. But it was the last video shown that seem to have the biggest impact on many of the viewers at home: the introduction of an AI that helps one of its blind developers “ … | Continue reading
Satya Nadella’s tenure as Microsoft’s CEO has been marked the knowledge that the company has to find a future beyond Windows. "Our industry does not respect tradition," Nadella said when he was appointed. "It only respects innovation." Since then, Nadella reorganized the company … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Without a unifying marketing cloud, you’ll be left in the land of silos by companies who are gaining share through omnichannel strength. Join our panel to find out how to choose the best marketing cloud solutions, and how to implement them for success. Register here f … | Continue reading
The one giant of the American tech industry that's transforming faster and more violently than all the others is Microsoft. Today's Build 2016 event was a marathon two-hour affair, but it was almost completely devoid of incremental or iterative improvements. Dead-end projects lik … | Continue reading
Porsche would like you to buy a new 911. In order to convince you of that, it has created "the world's first interactive hologram print ad."Now, it's not exactly a "hologram print ad." It's a print ad, included in 50,000 copies of Fast Company's April issue, that includes a prism … | Continue reading
It’s something I have experienced firsthand — the power of a team over the power of one. For many years I worked as a freelancer, running my own business. In many ways, it was great. For a start, I was the lead editor in my own little empire. But I was also the motion graphics... | Continue reading
Microsoft's HoloLens demo just transported us back to the '80s. Microsoft showed off its HoloLens to developers at its Build 2016 conference. But unlike previous HoloLens demos, which were impressive, today's demo was less awe-inspiring and more like a slice of bad '80s special e … | Continue reading
Hannah offers a peek into the world of a Brafton Video Producer. | Continue reading
MailTime is a popular app that makes your email as streamlined as instant messaging. After making a splash on iOS, it has arrived on Android. | Continue reading
The voice assistants in our phones have always sounded somewhat robotic, but Google is taking steps to do away with that. It's rolled out a new voice for the Google Now / Search app on iOS and Android, and it sounds a lot more natural than the old version. You'll definitely still … | Continue reading
Via Ted Karczewski, Content Standard, Excerpt What Is Experience, Really? According to speaker, author, analyst, anthropologist, etc., Brian Solis, “An experience is something that you feel and sense, but it only counts when it’s whole, when it’s one thing.” And as a business in … | Continue reading
This week on Bullish, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the queen of Imgur, a.k.a. Sarah Schaaf, head of community at Imgur. We talked about IRL communities versus digital communities, what it takes to build and sustain virtual communities, and the role these places have in … | Continue reading
This is some disheartening news for Apple TV gaming. Disney said recently in a customer support reply that "there are currently no plans for futher updates to the Apple TV version" of Disney Infinity 3.0. Now, this doesn't likely impact Toy Box 3.0 [Free], but the Apple TV versio … | Continue reading
A fetus that was aborted weeks after the mother was infected with Zika provides striking evidence that the virus causes fetal brain abnormalities, researchers say. The report, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, isn't the first to document a case of a mother p … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever tried voice search on Google’s mobile app you’ve probably become quite familiar with the robotic voice answering your queries. While it gets the job done, the Google app’s old voice lacked a certain human element and, to me, sounded like it was equal parts human an … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s massive Surface Hub is just now reaching customers, and the company is making it really simple to develop apps for it. During a session today at Build, Microsoft’s Surface Hub team says the only real consideration developers should make when considering the larger scr … | Continue reading
A platform for developing enterprise blockchain applications has raised €600,000 in seed funding. | Continue reading
Microsoft kicked off its Build developer conference in San Francisco with a focus on Windows 10, bots, and developer tools, but there was something missing: Windows Phone. A single demo of Skype running on a Windows Phone was the only time a phone running Windows 10 Mobile appear … | Continue reading
If you just spent $599 on an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, you probably don’t want start ripping into it with a screwdriver. Thankfully, we can all let other people handle that. The Oculus Rift is moderately easy to repair, according to the crowdsourced repair-guide site i … | Continue reading
Foursaken Media's freight train of releases is just about to pick up in 2016. They've already released All is Lost [Free] and have the clicker-inspired War Tortoise coming out in late April. But no, they ain't stopping, as they've just announced Adventure Company, a class-based a … | Continue reading