NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency’s next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 500 seconds. The SLS, which will use 4 RS-25 engines in its core stage, is designed to take humans to deep space destinations like asteroids or … | Continue reading
Blowing a meter-long kudu antelope horn has been a rite of passage for companies listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 2002. AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito blew the horn in January. Photo: Denise Barnard/JSE | Continue reading
Over the past few weeks, the FBI has been trying to force Apple into helping it open the iPhone 5c that belonged to San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple has refused – and a slew of other tech companies have joined the tech giant in claiming that what the FBI wants pose … | Continue reading
Two robotic spacecraft are set to launch to space on a Russian Proton rocket tomorrow, the beginning of a seven-month journey to Mars. This is the first phase of the ExoMars mission, a partnership between the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal Space Agency, or Roscosmo … | Continue reading
SEOUL (by Se Young Lee, Reuters) – South Korean Lee Sedol won his first match against a computer program developed by a Google subsidiary on Sunday in the ancient board game Go, denying a clean sweep for the artificial intelligence in a five-match series. Lee, one of the world’s … | Continue reading
The ‘connected home’ is a concept we’ve heard a lot about over the past few years, but how about the connected yard? At SXSW, Scotts – the company behind gardening brands like Miracle-Gro and Weedol – has been showing off its Gro ‘Connected Yard’ offering that is set to launch in … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 5,436 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all five thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the six most interesting patents. Apple’s multi-function device US 20160070399 Apple fi … | Continue reading
Video news startup NowThis is partnering with FWD.us, the immigration lobbying group backed by Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives, to tackle one of the biggest issues in this year’s election cycle. Last night at South by Southwest, the two organizations announced a partner … | Continue reading
DCH: Kiew, Ukraine (ots/PRNewswire) - Am 2. März fand auf dem Internationalen Flughafen Kharkiv eine Präsentation der neuen regelmäßigen Direktflüge von Charkow nach Warschau statt. Es ist das vierte Projekt der großen polnischen Fluggesellschaft in der ... | Continue reading
digitalundivided, an organization geared toward advancing equity in tech, is opening an innovation center for black and Latina female founders in tech this summer. Located in downtown Atlanta, GA, the BIG Innovation Center will be home to a four-month long accelerator program as … | Continue reading
Over the past several months I’ve noticed a bizarre trend among the digital health and fitness products I’ve tested: many are faulty, incomplete, or inaccurate products, and the companies making them are hawking them anyway. And when people — myself included — complain about them … | Continue reading
As we’ve reported several times over the past few weeks, Apple’s ongoing spat with the FBI and phone hacking is a big deal. Just to recap: the Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that it requires Apple’s assistance to bypass the “auto-erase” feature on San Bernadino shooter Sy … | Continue reading
Do you use YouTube with Adblock Plus? Some users have been getting the following message instead of ads: “An error occurred. Please try again later.” The error message is only shown for the duration of the ad, meaning Adblock Plus is still technically getting the job done. But ad … | Continue reading
Last summer, I spent some time with the Devialet Phantom, a ridiculously loud, bulbous mass of a wireless speaker. The Phantom, which comes in two, expensive flavors, can hit deafening volumes of over 90db. It also looks like something straight out of Portal.While the Phantom is … | Continue reading
SXSW is known as the tech conference at which bizarre things happen, whether its people queuing for hours to have their photo taken with a cat, or companies spending huge amounts of money to build promotional landmarks, such as a life sized TIE Fighter. But quietly and away from … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Everyone’s talking about virtual reality at South by Southwest, but in the early going there isn’t much new to see and hear. The gaming & VR/AR track doesn’t even kick off until Wednesday. In the meantime, companies like Samsung – who am I kidding, only Samsung – … | Continue reading
GUEST: In October 2014, I raised nearly $150,000 on my first crowdfunding campaign. Three months later, when I was in my final year of college and 21 years old, I wished I’d never heard of Kickstarter. I’d committed the cardinal sin of crowdfunding by shipping a shit product to o … | Continue reading
Bitcoin block size and scaling issue can easily win the debate of the year award if there is anything of that sort. Now, the next best thing in the crypto industry is Ethereum. Ethereum is another crypto-platform for creating blockchain-based applications and smart contracts. Eve … | Continue reading
Writer/director Jeff Nichols' priorities, on the surface, are no mystery. The Take Shelter director is interested in the American South, the inner lives of children, a murky sense of mysticism, Michael Shannon. He's not particularly interested in spelling things out for an audien … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk a bit about Android N, in-app purchases in Google Cardboard, new live video streaming, and more! | Continue reading
What's the big idea behind Ethereum? Developer Travis Patron gives his take. | Continue reading
Ulysses is a Markdown text editor for small and big projects. It works quite well for anything between a blog post and a novel. And Ulysses is also the kind of apps we need on iOS. It's an expensive $25 app that provides nearly all the features of its desktop equivalent. In … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, Texas — The creators of HBO's Silicon Valley had some strong words to describe the tech industry's diversity problem.Producers Mike Judge and Alec Berg appeared onstage with the Silicon Valley cast Saturday at South by Southwest to discuss the differences between the real … | Continue reading
About this time last year, the first generation Spectre x360 was capturing the heart of tech journalists across the land with zippy internals, a solid build and an innovative yet simplistic swiveling design that does double duty as a laptop and tablet. The convertible-hybrid has … | Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon, Blizzard, developer of the enormously popular digital card game Hearthstone, made an announcement about its new expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods. It's like the half dozen expansions which have come before it, with a backstory tied into Warcraft lore, a the … | Continue reading
Two thousand fifteen was the year fintech – including blockchain technology – entered the “mainstream,” signified by a groundswell of venture capital (VC) investment. More than $13.8 billion in venture capital (VC) was invested in a variety of fintech companies globally, more t … | Continue reading
For some reason three of the links to today's Learning Habit went missing between the time I tested the new format and the time it sent. Maybe it got ahead of itself like the rest of our clocks for Daylight Time Savings. Here are the links: 2. / How informality is more than nice … | Continue reading
Basic coding is becoming a fundamental requirement in the digital world, but the good news is that most anyone can learn the ropes in a few hours. The Coding 101 Bundle is a great place to start, with eight courses covering the fundamentals of Web and app development available at … | Continue reading
Bitcoin evangelist and journalist Chris DeRose examines both the promise and problems related to smart contracts. | Continue reading
The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Apple to build a new version of its mobile operating system (iOS, or GovOS) so that the contents of an iPhone can be removed from an iPhone use … | Continue reading
Invites send to everyone who’s ever known you: check. Dungeons and drag queen theme: check. Glowing aurora jungle juice: check. What else is missing to throw that epic party of yours? Technology! It never hurts to throw some of the cool gadgets in there to make your event merrier … | Continue reading
Wenn man sich die Bilder, die als Promo für BigScreen gelten sollen ansieht, dann kommt man an so einer Überschrift leider nicht vorbei. Bei der Software geht es darum, dass man - u.U. gemeinsam - einen Film oder schlicht einen Bildschirm... | Continue reading
FEATURE: David Gaider is now part of the renaissance. The acclaimed writer for blockbuster Dragon Age role-playing game series left EA-owned studio BioWare in January. It didn’t take long for him to return to his roots — the Infinity Engine, a development tool that helped create … | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.Listen up: there are mites on your face. Yes, right now … | Continue reading
Tidal's had a bit of a rocky road since its star-studded relaunch last May, but it appears the streaming music service has at least earned itself enough mindshare to get its very own Saturday Night Live skit. Well, not quite, because the skit was mostly just a vehicle for host Ar … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-FoodScannerPrize-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016Latest information: A total of 15 entries were submitted in response to this call | Continue reading
Screening Room will einem endlich ermöglichen, Kinohits ab dem Startdatum schon zu Hause sehen zu können. Für einen erstaunlichen Preis. Die Settop-Box soll 150 Dollar kosten, jeder Film bei jedem einzelnen Home-Screening 50 Dollar (... | Continue reading
VIDEO: The Fast Break — March 12 NEWS OF THE MORNING Spurs clinch Southwest | Warriors win without Iguodala | Kyrie ready to “step up” | Grizz lose Conley, Andersen No. 1: Spurs clinch Southwest — At this point we shouldn’t be surprised: The Spurs just win games. Some of the tert … | Continue reading
GUEST: The great thing about ideas is that they don’t cost anything. Today there are more ways than ever to turn your app ideas into something material for close to free, but at the next steps of app entrepreneurship, you’ll need more than pocket change. This article is for app i … | Continue reading
SEOUL, South Korea — A champion Go player scored his first win over a Go-playing computer program on Sunday after losing three straight times in the ancient Chinese board game, saying he finally found weaknesses in the software.Lee Sedol's victory over AlphaGo is a reminder that … | Continue reading
Android N is out, and N stands for nut tellin’! Google dropped a bombshell this week: a very early preview of Android N that we’re still digging through to find all the goodies. Who’s excited? | Continue reading
Im kommenden Jahr werden in Großbritannien erstmals selbstfahrende Autos auf Schnellstraßen getestet. Finanzminister George Osborne werde entsprechende Pläne am Mittwoch ankündigen und Vorschläge zum Abbau von regulatoris... | 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
It would appear as if Microsoft is trying to make a push for replacing Bitcoin with Ethereum across all of their offerings. One the one hand, the company, is pushing hard to promote their Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service product while they have also partially removed Bitcoin paym … | Continue reading
Laser tag is still one of the coolest things ever, but it’s kinda weird for me (a 32-year-old man) and my friends to go to the local Magic Mountain to take on a team of kids celebrating little Gary’s 10th birthday. This is where Father.io comes in. Father.io is a new generation o … | Continue reading
This weekend, the world’s greatest Go player beat Google’s AlphaGo, an AI program developed by Google’s DeepMind unit. Lee Se-dol, the 33-year-old South Korean has been pitted against a machine in a game that is arguably the most technically challenging thing to take place on a b … | Continue reading
Messe Berlin GmbH: Berlin (ots) - Globale Reiseindustrie trotzt geopolitischen Krisen und bleibt auf Wachstumskurs - Rekordzahl von rund 120.000 Fachbesuchern an fünf Tagen - ITB als internationale Erfolgsgeschichte: neben ITB Asia in Singapur findet ab 2017 die ITB ... | Continue reading