Apple may have landed on a name for its upcoming revamp of the iPhone 5S: the iPhone SE. According to 9to5Mac, Apple has chosen to to drop "5" from the new iPhone's name and go entirely with letters. It had previously been rumored that the phone would be called the iPhone 5SE, to … | Continue reading
High Voltage Software is creating a collectible card game, Dragon Front, as an exclusive for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The game plays like Blizzard’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, except with the innovative twist that you play it inside VR. That’s a good thing b … | Continue reading
Tower above your army of monsters, lean across the battlefield and make your opponent’s face explode. That’s Dragon Front, a virtual reality card game coming to Oculus Rift. While many VR games see you flailing your arms or head about, or swinging swords and shooting bows and arr … | Continue reading
Virtual reality has traditionally been about transporting you to new worlds and making you believe you’re really there. It’s the immersion element, known as "presence" in industry lingo, that makes VR feel like magic. So it was refreshing to see Dragon Front, a new VR game in dev … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be available globally on March 11In the U.S., the phones can be pre-ordered on AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and U.S. Cellular. You've got lots of options from contracts to installment plants to leasing plans.See also: 12 awesome Instagram f … | Continue reading
While personalized recommendations for books, music, movies, restaurants, nights out and pretty much anything else you could want are now defacto for any self-respecting content platform, it’s only just today that Kickstarter will start pointing you in the right direction of proj … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Mike Gallagher came out swinging in defense of the game industry in a recent talk. He has to be feisty, as he’s the industry’s chief lobbyist as the CEO of the Entertainment Software Association. Gallagher is gaming’s biggest cheerleader, and he showed that at the recent … | Continue reading
Today, cult favorite email app Mailbox says it’s final goodbyes before heading to that giant glue factory in the cloud. It’s a move that many are in agony over and one that was pretty costly for Dropbox, but if I’m being honest, I’m over it. I was a Mailbox user. I had dutifully … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Luol Deng delivers in Heat’s win over Wizards By Ben Leibowitz, Special to NBA.com Luol Deng is trying to get his groove back. The two-time All-Star floundered throughout the first half of the season for the Miami Heat, averaging just 10.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 assi … | Continue reading
Samorost 3, the upcoming adventure by Machinarium and Botanicula developer Amanita Design, is coming to PC and Mac on 24th March.The developer confirmed to Eurogamer that Samorost 3 will also arrive on iOS and Android platforms later this year.Amanita Design cut its teeth making … | Continue reading
In Play is a column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases. It's a bit like our old series Game of the Week, if you remember that. There are weeks when you look at the new releases and think that video game developers and publishers are doing a pretty good job. This … | Continue reading
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The snooze option has become one of the best features of email apps on our smartphones. It basically amounts to "I don't want to deal with this right now, so show it to me again sometime later." That simple concept has proven massively helpful when trying to keep your inbox under … | Continue reading
Google today announced some tweaks to its Inbox by Gmail email client. There are two new time options available if you’d like to snooze an email and see it pop up in the inbox at a better time: “Later this week” and “This weekend.” “These new options should hopefully save you som … | Continue reading
We all get the urge to snooze sometimes. It’s been a big feature for Inbox for Gmail – offering the ability to push emails away until you’re ready to tackle them. Detailed in a blog post today, the Snooze feature will be getting a new look and new features over the next week. The … | Continue reading
IT giant Intel is running an internal blockchain trial centered on a fantasy sports market. | Continue reading
Google.org has awarded a total of $3 million in grants to San Francisco Unified School District’s My Brother and Sister’s Keeper program (MBSK), Oakland’s Roses in Concrete Community School, Beyond 12 and Equal Justice Initiative, all of which are local organizations working to e … | Continue reading
Pusher, the real-time messaging service for apps, has retooled its interface. The aim is to allow developers to focus on their apps rather than the back-end, so Pusher’s new interface allows for information to be digested at a glance. The dashboard offers up basic info on how use … | Continue reading
AT&T is suing Louisville, Kentucky over a new law that would make it easier for companies like Google Fiber to install gigabit internet networks throughout the city. The law, which was passed last week, would allow companies installing equipment on utility poles to move around th … | Continue reading
Brand journalism helps marketers keep up with both the speed at which technology moves and the way in which consumers want to be communicated with. | Continue reading
Last year's Galaxy S6 Edge proved to be quite a big seller at the expense of the standard S6. Will history repeat this year, too? It's all up to you! | Continue reading
Wonderful diagram of @adrianco Microservices talk at #OOP2016 by @remarker_eu If you li... | Continue reading
It’s not always easy as a tech company to make yourself relevant to every single big public event. But Google has had a pretty nice go at shoehorning itself into the Oscars this year by letting you travel through a winning movie’s story using Maps. Can you guess which films they’ … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Fire Emblem: Fates is a hit, we learn more about the Iron Maiden mobile game, and Nintendo cuts its 2016 earnings guidance. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Nine memorable moments fr … | Continue reading
Zenefits is laying off around 17% of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales divisions, according to an email sent by CEO David Sacks to the company. Most of the layoffs are happening in the sales division, according to the email … | Continue reading
The long and bumpy road to the 88th annual Academy Awards is almost at an end, and Sunday's telecast of the ceremony is look to be just as interesting for what goes down on stage than on the actual awards outcome — maybe more so. With many prominent filmmakers and actors opting o … | Continue reading
FEATURE: We are now two decades removed from the start of the Pokémon fad, and I’m starting to think it is more than just a phase. Back in the late 1990s, it was difficult to understand why Pokémon caught on with so many people around the world. But with the benefit of 20 years o … | Continue reading
Spark, the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct Mailbox, has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app features a number of popular features including read later and mailbox organization. However, the system … | Continue reading
Swiss Army Knife creator and watchmaker Victorinox has partnered with Acer to create the INOX Cybertool, a smart watch attachment for a traditional watch. The Cybertool clips on to any Victorinox INOX watch (it won't work with other traditional watches) and won't cover up the wat … | Continue reading
A few months ago, Google demonstrated a visualization tool that shows how its AI that mimics neural networks identifies objects in images. Applying it to photos and videos makes for some interesting effects that we’ve previously seen in video clips and our own snapshots. Now, you … | Continue reading
Watching Amazon's original shows like Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle typically requires a subscription to Amazon Prime, but as of today, there's an exception to that rule. As Recode notes, the company is letting anyone watch season three of The Fashion Fund — so long as the … | Continue reading
If you're looking for some insights from the recent Bitcoin Roundtable consensus, you're in the right place. | Continue reading
I've been spending a lot of time with TinyCo's Marvel Avengers Academy [Free] recently. What can I say? I have a documented weakness for Marvel fan-service, and this app really packs it in nicely. Now, there's not a whole lot of playing to be done here, since at its heart it's mo … | Continue reading
The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an app like Expensify is now Birdly, a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesfo … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Learn which marketing automation systems come out on top in our recent VB report covering the top 43 vendors — and hear how marketing leaders in the trenches are getting outstanding results with them. Register here for free. There’s no question that marketing automati … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continues scratching out a non-committal path around $420 and 2800 CNY. Another attempt at advance is not out of the question, but the prospect of a labored decline looms. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Stephen Curry scores 51 points in Orlando HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — Stephen Curry is following up his MVP season with … another MVP season. On Thursday, Curry set the record for most consecutive games with a 3-pointer and hit 10 of them for good measure. He’s currently 10 awa … | Continue reading
When you visit South Korea's capital in 2017, you can expect to hop onto free Wi-Fi in public spaces, including subway trains and buses.That's what the government promised this week, as part of a broader 460.5 billion won ($372.5 million) digital plan to get its people and busine … | Continue reading
Media relations is the traditional core of public relations. With the demise of print newspapers and the corresponding rise of digital alternatives, some public relations veterans say media relations is disappearing. Industry observers point to several trends. Print circulation c … | Continue reading
OnePlus has begun rolling out a hotfix for a camera image corruption bug that has been affecting some OnePlus X handsets. | Continue reading
As a CEO and immigrant worker (take that, Trump!), I always get asked about moving my company to Silicon Valley. I usually answer that I believe you can build a world-changing organization anywhere, but the job is always easier at your industry’s center of gravity. For fashion, i … | Continue reading
Last week, I heard a lot of smart people talking about the game industry at the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. After I got home, people kept asking me what the most interesting thing I heard was. I had to punt and say I couldn’t think of any single barn- … | Continue reading
Bryan Henderson has told the people behind a new game bundle designed to give him up to $10,000 that he wants the money to go to charity instead.Henderson told GameBundle.com to give the 10 per cent of revenue promised to him by the company to video game charity Special Effect.La … | Continue reading
While most video games have a story to tell, the best tales are actually told by the players themselves. It's one thing to play an online shooter; it's another for someone to regale the time they randomly lobbed a grenade across the stage and won the game with half a point of lif … | Continue reading
There are auto shows, and then there is Geneva.This is the show of the state of the automotive art, a place where car companies flex their muscles and give us a sense of what it looks like when both engineering and design are pushed to the jagged limits of present-day technology. … | Continue reading
2016 is the year of Pokémon. Nintendo revealed Pokémon Sun and Moon today, the next entries in its popular series that has so far sold over 200 million games. We don’t know much about Sun and Moon yet, other than that it will come out worldwide this holiday. This announcement com … | Continue reading
Samsung phone owners will get the first new set of emoji since the S5 when the company releases the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge next month. Get ready, taco fans, unicorn lovers, and volleyball players because the release on March 8th will include all the emoji you’ll need to communicat … | Continue reading
Popcorntime.io, probably the most popular iteration of slippery movie piracy app Popcorn Time, is back — sort of. Earlier this week, part of the team apparently behind popcorntime.io announced a comeback, four months after being shut down and hit with a lawsuit from the MPAA. Lik … | Continue reading