Die Recycling-Idee, aus Plastikflaschen Schnüre oder Bänder zu schneiden, ist schon seit einer Weile unterwegs, war aber soweit eher etwas für Menschen mit ausgeprägten Bastelambitionen. Das soll sich aber jetzt mit dem schlicht... | Continue reading
Samsung is now offering free wireless charging pads to folks who pick up their pay-nearly-anywhere-with-your-smartphone service Samsung Pay. | Continue reading
State officials say investigations into the death of energy magnate Aubrey McClendon in a fiery single-car crash in Oklahoma City could take months to complete. | Continue reading
A Cornell University engineering team has created a new kind of flexible display based on a perennially popular inspiration for scientists: the cephalopod. A study published today in Science describes how researchers developed a highly flexible, color-changing "skin" that senses … | Continue reading
Scientists are duking it out over whether a study on reproducibility has a reproducible conclusion. The high-profile study reported last year that many psychology findings can’t be replicated, but a separate group of researchers now claim the finding is severely flawed. Today in … | Continue reading
First came the Transportation hub with Uber, and now Facebook Messenger is launching “its very first music integration” with Spotify. Inside the Messenger “More” section in chat threads, all iOS and Android users will now find a Spotify option. Tap it, and they’ll be shuttled int … | Continue reading
While Apple and the FBI await a ruling from congress on their encryption battles, Amazon just willfully dropped encryption on Kindle, Fire Phones, Fire Tablets and Fire TV devices running Fire OS 5. The change affects millions of users with these devices and makes each of them de … | Continue reading
RingCentral, which focuses on providing VoIP services to businesses, today announced the beta launch of its WebRTC-based API and developer kit for developers. RingCentral’s one-year-old Connect Platform, which helps developers integrate business communications (including voice, t … | Continue reading
Mac users interested in VR will probably need to buy a PC. In a recent interview, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says his company will only support the Mac if Apple ever releases a “good computer.” Sounds sensational, but it’s really about specs. Luckey continued: It just boils dow … | Continue reading
The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti is made in Unreal Engine 4, but you'd never know it. The 2D glam rock story of a young musician developing his stage persona through a cosmic journey eschews the glistening metallic 3D corridors we often see from Epic's tech in favour of lush … | Continue reading
It’s no surprise to anyone to hear that there is a lot of porn on the Web. OK, perhaps not as much as some studies make out, but there’s still plenty of naked bodies out there if you want to find them. By some estimates, this time last year around 4.5 percent of global Web traffi … | Continue reading
This past Christmas, Valve encountered a huge snafu when an error in a partner’s caching configuration temporarily caused users of game platform Steam to log into each other’s accounts. Although purchases couldn’t be made, there was plenty of personal information visible — includ … | Continue reading
One year after throwing a massive, multi-day party, Tumblr is returning to SXSW Music with a new focus. The 79 Cents event being held on March 16th — its name reflects the gender wage gap in the US in 2014 as per the Institute for Women’s Policy Research — will boast a lineup of … | Continue reading
Most videos on the Web are just not worth seeing in full – or at least this is how the founders of Vibby want you to see things. Available for free, Vibby is a lightweight Web-based video editing tool that lets you easily select the most outstanding moments from any video and qui … | Continue reading
CoinDesk analyzes the recent decrease in transaction capacity on the bitcoin network and its affect on bitcoin users. | Continue reading
Jaguar is trying to help Olympic skier Graham Bell become the world's fastest man on skis, the company announced at the Geneva Motor Show. Bell hopes to reach speeds upwards of 180 miles per hour next year, which would break the world downhill speed skiing record by more than 20 … | Continue reading
Die Neuverfilmung des ikonischen 80er-Streifens Ghostbusters wird schon seit geraumer Zeit mit Neugier und Getuschel erwartet, aber bisher gab es kaum aussagekräftiges Material zum neuen, durchgehend weiblichen Geisterjäger-Team (Melissa... | Continue reading
Intel is reportedly jumping into the world of augmented reality with a new headset. The company is using its RealSense 3D camera technology in the AR headset, according to the Wall Street Journal.Augmented reality is a separate but similar idea to virtual reality. Instead of taki … | Continue reading
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens wrapping up its record-breaking theatrical run, it's about time for it to head to home release. Disney announced this morning that The Force Awakens will be available as a digital download and through its Disney Movies Anywhere streaming service … | Continue reading
Neumob, which recently raised a $8.5 million Series A round, helps developers speed up their apps with the help of a combination of a content delivery network and a number of network optimization techniques.As the company announced today, it has now hired Jim Roskind as its CTO.W … | Continue reading
HTC wants to keep you safe in our new, VR-powered world. Don't get too immersed -- the furniture around you still can't be sat on. | Continue reading
Bidorbuy, an online auction and marketplace in South Africa and among the biggest e-commerce platforms in Africa has included bitcoin as a mode of payment for users – buyers and sellers in the marketplace. Major African e-commerce platform Bidorbuy has enabled bitcoin as a paymen … | Continue reading
Virtually everything can be made better by doing it in space. Except breathing oxygen, I suppose. And eating potato chips. And using the toilet. Okay, let's revise that. Some things can be made better by doing them in space, and engaging in capitalistic ventures just happens to b … | Continue reading
Google Analytics custom reports, combined with advanced segmentation, reveal the useful data that is so often concealed or buried. | Continue reading
Supercell — the maker of huge mobile games Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Hay Day — has another big hit on its hands. Clash Royale shot to No. 1 in top downloads on the app stores less than a day after its release. Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell in Helsinki, Finland, said on h … | Continue reading
If you're new to Amazon Echo — hey! Welcome. Amazon Echo fans can be a fanatical bunch when it comes to the part-speaker, part-smart home device. We'll teach you the secret handshake later.But jokes aside, we've gotten our hands on a lot of smart home gadgets over the years, and … | Continue reading
You want to reach out to your crush, but what do you say? Do you start with "u up?", or go for something less thirsty? Who knows?! Messaging apps may be the most popular pieces of software in the world, but good luck getting them to do much work on your behalf. It's 2016 and we'r … | Continue reading
Nilay and Dieter are joined by senior reporter Adi Robertson to talk VR technology, DJI's new drone, and fan favorite: Amazon Echo. Racked style editor Nicola Fumo operates the hype matrix once again in this week's episode of Vergecast! We'll be live at our usual time today — 4: … | Continue reading
The Amazon Echo is a pretty great piece of hardware, but many folks out there aren't willing to spend almost $200 to get one. This is why Amazon today unveiled the Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Tap, two new Alexa-enabled devices. | Continue reading
When it comes to filing expenses at work, things can get a little messy, usually with piles of receipts and general laziness getting in the way. To help ease the pain of it all, Uber has announced a new feature for its business profile users that allows auto-expensing after every … | Continue reading
In the middle of Steam's winter sale, roughly 34,000 users had personal information exposed to other users. The breach was unusual. According to Valve, a partner tried to counter a denial-of-service attack by deploying new caching rules, hoping to distinguish the malicious traffi … | Continue reading
GitHub for the desktop now lets you mention other users and reference issues, just as you can on the Web. It also works exactly the same on the desktop; just use the ‘@‘ symbol before names to mention friends or coworkers, and the ‘#’ to reference known issues. Oh yeah — you can … | Continue reading
Last year, Jay Z and a cadre of music industry titans launched Tidal, a streaming service meant to take a stand against free streaming and give artists value again. Grammy Foundation president Neil Portnow has twice made a call for listeners to think about what makes music valuab … | Continue reading
Security experts are not happy about the FBI's proposal to break security on an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino attack. Today, seven of those experts submitted their arguments in an amicus brief to the court considering the order, arguing the proposed software would weaken lo … | Continue reading
Turns out that dogs and primates are the latest in a line of creatures that produce cryptochrome, the photopigment that lets migratory birds see the Earth's magnetic field. | Continue reading
March 3, 2016 Geneva / London / Hong Kong First Global Credit, the first company allowing bitcoin holders to trade mainstream stocks announced that in February $2.2m worth of stock and currency trading took place on the website. This represents a new high in the amount of trad … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has just detailed two huge features for The Division set to arrive via free post-launch updates: raid-like "incursions" and player trading.April sees the first incursion added to the game. Ubisoft describes the feature as "a new challenging end-game activity developed spe … | Continue reading
Samsung hat mit der Auslieferung der derzeit wohl speicherstärksten 2,5-Zoll-SSD begonnen: Das 16-TB-Modell der neuen SSD-Serie PM1633a. Das Teil hat allerdings die 16 TB nur im Namen, real hat Samsung nur 15,36 TB in den 2,5-Zoll-Formfaktor g... | Continue reading
After months of anticipation, the first trailer for Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters has landed online, and it is great, effortlessly evoking the sensibility of the 1984 original, while still confidently establishing its own unique take. The jokes land, the scares look scary, a … | Continue reading
Health care giant Philips has officially launched the Philips Blockchain Lab, a research and development center located in Amsterdam. | Continue reading
Thanks to smartphones and the rise of apps like Snapchat and Periscope, vertical videos have gone from being an annoyance requiring a workaround to a popular and often preferred video file format. That shift has inspired a number of startups to focus on the medium, in an effort t … | Continue reading
G3 Communications has been publishing Demand Gen Report for more than eight years, and from the first day there has always been debate about whether or not marketers should require buyers to fill out a form in order to access content. This discussion was raised again during David … | Continue reading
Date: From 09/03/2016 to 12/03/2016Venue: BarcelonaMore informationThe conference sessions will explore issues and cutting-edge technologies that affect many adult and pediatric conditions.The following topics are to be discussed:Drug repositioning and personalized medicineNGS an … | Continue reading
One more chapter in the messy story of Powa Technologies, the payments startup that last raised money at a $2.7 billion valuation but rapidly sank into the deadpool on a flimsy raft of vaporware. Today, accounting firm Deloitte announced that it had secured two buyers for two par … | Continue reading
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LinkedIn today announced that it’s open-sourcing a piece of its software called WhereHows, which allows anyone in a company to learn about and share information on data that company has under management. The software is now available on GitHub under an open-source Apache license. … | Continue reading
LinkedIn today open-sourced WhereHows, a meta data-centric tool the company has long used internally to make it easier for its employees to discover data the company generates and to track the lineage of its data sets as they move around its various internal tools and services. N … | Continue reading
Agar.io is a quirky game that has gained a massive audience in part because you can easily play it against so many other people at once. The mobile and PC game starts you out as a tiny bacteria cell (Agar refers to the substance that scientists use to create bacteria cultures). T … | Continue reading