Andrew Grove, Intel’s former CEO and Chairman passed away today at the age of 79. He was the company’s first hire when it was founded in 1968 and went on to become its CEO in 1987. Under Grove’s leadership, Intel transitioned from manufacturing memory chips to microprocessors lik … | Continue reading
London-based blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic has closed a $5 million Series A funding round led by Paladin Capital Group, a Washington-based VC specializing in disruptive security applications. Santander InnoVentures, KRW Schindler, Digital Currency Group and previous inve … | Continue reading
Take-Two Interactive’s 2K label has unveiled the launch of WWE SuperTokens in GameStop stores. The tokens are the latest way to blend physical objects and digital games in a way that could generate more sales for game companies. The SuperTokens are coin-like objects that can conn … | Continue reading
In the UK and US, about a quarter of smartphone users have installed an ad blocking app on their device, while in France, about 30% of all internet users use ad blockers. | Continue reading
Marketers and IT professionals in Australia and New Zealand believe a number of challenges are holding back successful implementation of marketing technology programs. A lack of integration between different systems, insufficient budgets and a dearth of knowledge about how system … | Continue reading
Ad spending during the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Championship continues to climb, though fewer advertisers are participating than did a few years ago. One reason could be the price. | Continue reading
Social network users in the UK increasingly check in via mobile. An interesting side-effect of this trend is the rising incidence of people signing in to social media first thing in the morning before they get out of bed. Among women, in particular, this is becoming ever-more com … | Continue reading
Adobe has a smart new way of letting advertisers market to consumes, and it just might work out for everyone involved. With what they call the Device Co-op, Adobe is making the ads you see about you, not how many devices you own. When brands join the co-op, it allows those compan … | Continue reading
Spring is here, which means it’s time to put away those coats and get out those dresses. But is your wardrobe still in style? Fashionistas, take note. These apps will help you find the latest styles.Moda OperandiStraight from fashion week, Moda Operandi makes it easy to shop the … | Continue reading
On Monday Apple announced the iPhone SE and a new, smaller iPad Pro. As a longtime Apple watcher, I can tell you that this was not the most exciting Apple event in the company's history.And at just over an hour long, it was one of the shortest product events I can recall. Part of … | Continue reading
BYJU, an educational app for Indian schoolkids, plans to create new learning formats and products after raising $75 million from Sequoia India and Sofina. Read More | Continue reading
The Oculus Rift headset ships in one week, and the virtual reality company is working to ensure it’ll have plenty of content ready to go when people plug in their Rifts for the first time. To help developers distribute games, Oculus VR operates the Oculus Share store, and the Fac … | Continue reading
In MDG Advertising's latest infographic, "B2B Marketing 2016: 5 Digital Must-Dos," discover the key approaches that have led B2B marketers to success and what tactics can have a major impact on future growth potential. | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stepped into the high-profile patent fight between the world’s two fiercest smartphone rivals, Apple and Samsung, agreeing to hear Samsung’s appeal of what it contends were excessive penalties for copying the patented designs of the iP … | Continue reading
It was a sticky situation, but it looks like Dwight Howard will slide away with no penalty. The NBA will not fine or suspend the Rockets center for use of an adhesive substance Saturday night in Atlanta, but sent a memo to all 30 teams that its usage is “strictly prohibited,” lea … | Continue reading
SANTA CLARA, California — Andy Grove, the former Intel Corp. chief executive whose youth under Nazi occupation and escape from the Iron Curtain inspired an "only the paranoid survive" management philosophy that saved the chip maker from financial ruin in the 1980s, has died. He w … | Continue reading
Today was a pretty small news day for Apple. In part, because the announcements were largely iterations on existing products. But, also because the rumors about Apple’s hardware getting smaller were indeed true. The most notable downsided-device was the iPhone SE (watch our hands … | Continue reading
Telstra users are complaining of yet another outage on the company's network.From late morning Tuesday, customers of Australia's largest telecommunication network began voicing their dismay on social media about the inability to make phone calls.SEE ALSO: Telstra apologises after … | Continue reading
You don’t have to be a circus freak contortionist to sleep on a plane thanks to Woollip. Now you can dive face-first into an inflatable travel pillow that’s made to sit atop your tray table. Woollip just hit Kickstarter for $30 and plans to ship in July. Most travel pillows sit b … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is one of the most popular, unique and original Bitcoin Casino Role Play games to have come out in the recent times. The game was launched in 2012 and it is the home of hundreds of casino-based mini-games that players won’t find anywhere else in the gambling history … | Continue reading
While 2015 was a solid year for digital health, with $4.5 billion in total venture funding, healthcare startups also made headlines for other reasons when reports emerged that much-hyped companies like blood-testing startup Theranos and brain-training app Lumosity were unable to … | Continue reading
Facebook is dropping support for BlackBerry's mobile operating systems, which will force BlackBerry owners to use the social network's mobile website if they'd like to access it on the go. Lou Gazzola, BlackBerry's senior marketing manager for developer relations, announced the n … | Continue reading
Andy Grove, who fled from Nazi and Soviet oppression to become one of the most powerful business leaders in the global tech industry as the chairman and CEO of Intel, died on Monday. He was 79. The cause of death was not reported, though Grove was a longtime sufferer of Parkinson … | Continue reading
If you already own PlayStation Move controllers and the PlayStation 4 camera, Sony is still giving you an option to preorder its upcoming virtual reality headset. On March 29 at 7 a.m. Pacific time, preorders will go up for the PlayStation VR core package, which is the $400 versi … | Continue reading
Intel announced today that the company’s former CEO and Chairman Andrew S. Grove, who was born in Hungary as András István Gróf, died today at age 79. | Continue reading
Apple events always bring great products, but some are quietly introduced in the background. That’s the case with a new USB-C to Lightning cable discovered on the Apple website. Available in both one and two meter lengths ($25 and $35, respectively), the cable lets you plug an iP … | Continue reading
Mozilla is laying off a portion of its Connected Devices team, which worked on Firefox OS and Firefox phones before recently shifting over to more experimental products. When asked about layoffs by The Verge, Mozilla's senior vice president of Connected Devices, Ari Jaaksi, confi … | Continue reading
Apple's monthlong legal odyssey is now officially suspended, after a magistrate judge approved the FBI's request for continuation earlier this afternoon. The FBI now has until April 5th to test a method that the bureau says could potentially unlock the phone without Apple's assis … | Continue reading
Smartphone cameras are so good these days it can seem almost churlish to yearn for improvements. And yet enhancements continue to shave away at imperfections as engineers turn the screw to optimize multiple aspects of image capture hardware and software. Read More | Continue reading
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Shotgun is a new show that lets you ride shotgun with me while I tackle real programming challenges for real apps and libraries. The show…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
By raising $1 million in seed funding, blockchain startup RSK Labs will develop Rootstock, a smart contracts platform that will be deployed as a sidechain on the bitcoin blockchain. In a funding round led by bitcoin mining hardware company Bitmain Technology, RSK Labs has raised … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has begun circulating long-awaited draft legislation that would give federal judges clear authority to order technology companies like Apple to help law enforcement officials access encrypted data, according to sources familiar with … | Continue reading
Apple just released its biggest software update since iOS 9.0 rolled out last year.With it, Apple is making the highly anticipated Night Shift feature, which reduced the amount of blue light emitted by your display, available to everyone.See also: Apple's new 'Night Shift' featur … | Continue reading
Apple is coming dangerously close to losing control of how consumers make sense of its mobile and tablet lineup. The culprit: the company's ever more complicated naming scheme for its proliferating product lines. With today's announcement of a new 4-inch iPhone, called the iPhone … | Continue reading
This week was slated to be a busy one for Apple. After today’s event that saw a new 4-inch iPhone and a handful of other product announcements the spotlight was set to shift to its ongoing battle with the FBI tomorrow as Apple once again appears in front of Congress. But that may … | Continue reading
Just one day before the government was set to meet Apple in court to determine whether Apple could be forced to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.. the government is saying “Nevermind (for now)!”Why?Because they might’ve found their own way in. Read … | Continue reading
Following the Flint water crisis turned national scandal, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder called for stricter lead-test regulations—but without giving any specifics about what they might be. Continue reading… | Continue reading
VIDEO: Sager makes return to sidelines in March 2015 Craig Sager’s battle with leukemia has entered new territory. The TNT announcer told Bernard Goldberg of HBO’s “Real Sports” that doctors told him in February he was no longer in remission from the acute myeloid leukemia he has … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday moved to postpone Tuesday's showdown with Apple in a federal district court, saying the FBI might have discovered a new way to hack into an iPhone even as officials were trying to force Apple to do it for them.Investigators want to break i … | Continue reading
Australian Tesla fans should give thanks for the international date line. As Aussies live slightly in the future, they'll have the chance to be the first in the world to preorder Tesla's more affordable electric vehicle offering, the Model 3.If you line up at one of Tesla's Austr … | Continue reading
Yes, I know, another upcoming digital card game, but GalaCollider is truly trying to carve its own niche space by fusing a digital card game and a space exploration game with the hope of creating an accessible game that boasts deep strategy without the micromanagement. The develo … | Continue reading
U.S. attorneys today asked to vacate the court hearing scheduled for tomorrow, March 22, over the Apple-FBI iPhone encryption case. The reason: FBI might have just figured out a way to get into the phone on its own. “On Sunday, March 20, 2016, an outside party demonstrated to the … | Continue reading
The FBI just filed a motion to delay Tuesday's hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case, claiming that an "outside party" may be able to help it break into the phone without Apple's help. The motion comes after weeks of escalation tension in the case with Apple, the FBI, and oth … | Continue reading
At today's announcement, Apple, as it sometimes does, gave prominent stage time to the future of the planet. After an interlude from CEO Tim Cook, Lisa Jackson, Apple vice president of environment, policy, and social issues, stepped on stage to make an announcement: 93 percent of … | Continue reading
Gawker Media has been ordered to pay an additional $15 million to Hulk Hogan, on top of the $115 million in damages that were announced on Friday. The company's founder, Nick Denton, has also been ordered to pay $10 million, while former site editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio has to … | Continue reading
Located in Austin, Texas, Palma Plaza Spec is a family home designed by Dick Clark Architects. On a quiet residential street in Clarksville .. | Continue reading
When I write about card games, there's often at least one commenter talking about how much they would love more Yu-Gi-Oh! games on iOS. Well, wish granted. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links for iOS and Android will be coming to Japan in late April and then should release globally before the e … | Continue reading