As of its latest update, Uber is now tracking users for five minutes after exiting their ride. It’s not exactly CIA-level spying, but users aren’t exactly digging the update. new #uber update w/ 5min post-trip tracking is worrisome to me, a woman who has 2x now given a fake desti … | Continue reading
CHICAGO (AP) -- Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu is active for their game against the Chicago Bulls after being sidelined by a left calf injury. | Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) -- Magic Johnson is returning to ESPN to work on the pregame studio show for ABC's NBA Saturday night games. | Continue reading
Vietnam has had a particularly rocky relationship with bitcoin. Just a few months ago, the country was shattered by an alleged Ponzi scheme surrounding bitcoin activity. Promises were made that ultimately weren’t kept, and several people lost money that could have otherwise gone … | Continue reading
After announcing plans to release a new character during its fan gathering in Anaheim last month, Blizzard is finally giving players a chance to try out Ragnaros in Heroes of the Storm. Ragnaros, the lord of the fire elementals in World of Warcraft’s Azeroth, is now playable on t … | Continue reading
Web hosting firm GoDaddy is beefing up its services after it acquired WP Curve, a startup offering services and support for WordPress websites. The deal is undisclosed, but it will see NYSE-listed GoDaddy pick up WPCurve’s customer base, assets and “a few dozen” of its 39-person … | Continue reading
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Bulls suspended Rajon Rondo for Monday's game against the Portland Trail Blazers for conduct detrimental to the team, adding another disciplinary measure to the point guard's lengthy resume. | Continue reading
If a flurry of 3D-centric job postings is any indication, your Snap Stories will probably be getting a lot more animated and interactive in the not-so-distant future. SEE ALSO: Sextacles: How Snapchat's new Spectacles are being used in the sackBusiness Insider noticed the influx … | Continue reading
Video star PewDiePie said in a bizarre rant that he believes YouTube is sabotaging his channel. The Swedish YouTuber also said that he will going to delete his YouTube account because Google’s video service has been penalizing him in some way, leading to a dip in popularity. In a … | Continue reading
ATLANTA (AP) -- The slumping Atlanta Hawks have benched guard Kyle Korver. | Continue reading
If you've got an Apple TV and have wanted to check out SMG's One More Jump [appprice url="asdf"] on it, then good news: One More Jump: Big Screen Edition is now available on Apple TV, as a one-time purchase similar to the Apple TV version of Thumb Drift. No IAP because of the App … | Continue reading
Colloquially speaking, Bluetooth speakers are synonymous with portable speakers. But audio company Fluance doesn’t give a darn about your preconceptions. Fluance’s Fi70 are pretty much the biggest Bluetooth speakers you can buy. It’s an all-in-one sound system is almost comically … | Continue reading
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube today announced they would cooperate on a plan to help limit the spread of terrorist content online. The companies said that together they will create a shared industry database that will be used to identify this content, including what th … | Continue reading
Can social media even exist without political debate? What about trolls? HackerNews, the social news site run by Y Combinator, is trying to find out.The head of the HackerNews community since 2014, Daniel Gackle (whose HN handle is “dang”) on Monday initiated a site-wide “Politic … | Continue reading
To the brave bird willing to wear goggles and fly through a laser sheet: we salute you. Thanks to you, we know a little more about how you and your kind fly.When birds lift off, their wings generate tiny, circular currents of air called wingtip vortices. Think of them like tiny t … | Continue reading
A few days ago, I wrote about the upcoming Pianista [Free], the Guitar Hero-like rhythm game that has you playing classical music instead of rock. Well, the game is now available worldwide, so if classical music is your thing, jump on it. Pianista can be played with two thumbs - … | Continue reading
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The United States’ biggest social networks are working together to build a database of photos and videos used to recruit people into terrorism, the companies said. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube will create a shared database that identifies images via a unique … | Continue reading
IDC’s latest world wide wearable numbers are in, and everything looks to be coming up Fitbit. As smartwatch numbers declined, the larger wearable space is up overall, thanks in no small part to the Charge manufacturer. According to IDC’s numbers, Fitbit commanded nearly a quarter … | Continue reading
Sometimes you see a gadget and think simultaneously, “that’s insanely clever,” but also just “that’s insane.” The RokBlok was one of those situations for me: Who but a mad genius would have thought of a record player that propels itself along the groove like a little remote contr … | Continue reading
A group of Russian MPs (members of parliament) want to ban a video game for what it’s calling ‘gay propaganda.’ Soccer simulation ‘FIFA 17’ is one of game developer EA’s most popular titles. The studio recently sparked the ire of Russian MPs by offering — gasp — rainbow-colored k … | Continue reading
Do you remember the old days of those Olympics-style games on old PCs and consoles? The ones with a bunch of games with arcane controls and objectives that if you mastered, you were truly the master of gaming? Or did you ever play Justin Smith's Realistic Summer Sports Simulator … | Continue reading
Microsoft is experimenting with a new, tamer chatbot. Months after the company's first chatbot Tay went viral for all the wrong reasons, Microsoft quietly rolled out a new bot that looks to be far less controversial than its predecessor.SEE ALSO: Microsoft's CEO wants bots and AI … | Continue reading
The next version of Android Wear won't officially launch until the first quarter of 2017, and we think Google needs to do three things for it to succeed. | Continue reading
I don’t know which company is going to make the best next-generation virtual reality headset, but I do know that chances are good that it will work with the apps you buy on the Steam PC gaming platform. Oculus releases its Touch motion controllers this week (December 6), and they … | Continue reading
The US may be getting some new legal tender soon that will showcase the most famous space event in history. The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint special commemorative coins to celebrate the 50th anniversary of th … | Continue reading
Facebook is apparently asking users to rate the quality of news stories on its service, after facing criticism for allowing fake or misleading news. At least three people on Twitter have posted surveys that ask whether a headline “uses misleading language” or “withholds key detai … | Continue reading
As we wrote a few days ago, Supercell is getting ready to launch an animated series based on Clash of Clans [Free] and Clash Royale called Clash-A-Rama, and now we finally know that the animated series is launching Friday, December 9th. The series is based on the shorts released … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is all around us. It’s in our cars, our homes and our pockets. With all this information, this intelligence, at our fingertips and lips, shouldn’t our educational system catch up? Teaching not rote facts and figures, but instead teaching students the paths … | Continue reading
Amazon’s ambitious physical retail plans extend well beyond its new cashier-less convenience store unveiled earlier today. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Amazon hopes to ultimately operate more than 2,000 grocery and convenience stores across the US in a numb … | Continue reading
Why would you want to “drain the swamp” when it’s home to crocodiles, snapping turtles, and other wonderful wildlife? That’s what a number of biologists are wondering, after the catchphrase from President-elect Donald Trump took on a life of its own.And so the scientists have rus … | Continue reading
The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas can be an emotional roller coaster for a college student: first, you get to go home, feast, see your hometown friends; then you head back to school only to realize there are still finals and papers in the way before the extended Christ … | Continue reading
Android 7.1.1 starts going live today as an over-the-air update – a roll out that will continue through the next several weeks to a select number of Google approved devices, including the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mob … | Continue reading
In the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, every studio wants a behemoth self-referential franchise to call its own. Last night, we got a look at Universal’s effort: a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters films, beginning with The Mummy. The lurching bandaged corpse of the … | Continue reading
Midnight Tea Studio has announced their puzzler Dropa is releasing on the App Store on December 8th. The core idea is somewhat like Tetris in that your goal is to is to put down pieces to complete lines to continuously clear the board, and the game ending once you run out of piec … | Continue reading
Google today released new statistics about adoption of different versions of its Android mobile operating system. They show that Android 7.0 Nougat, which was first released in September, is now running on 0.4 percent of Android devices. The percentage is certainly small, but the … | Continue reading
Unveiled in September this year, the LG V20 was the first smartphone with Android Nougat out-of-the-box. | Continue reading
Netflix’s decision to introduce an in-app subscription option in its iOS app over a year ago has helped the streaming service steadily gain more subscribers, and surge up the Top Grossing charts in the Apple App Store. Back in November of last year, the app hit the Top Grossing c … | Continue reading
If you ask Tumblr, 2016 is the year of the caterpillar. Specifically, it is the year of Chicken Nugget, a caterpillar who eventually metamorphosed into a butterfly named Chicken Wing. Chicken Wing née Chicken Nugget was the platform’s biggest celebrity of the year, and the story … | Continue reading
We've all used Reddit before, but some of us like to more than others. If you're looking to get into Reddit on mobile, here are the best Reddit apps! | Continue reading
Every parent’s worst nightmare is a student spending more time playing video games and surfing the web than studying for school. But the team over at OpenAI believes that a “fun parent” approach could actually bring us all one step closer to elusive generalized intelligence. Its … | Continue reading
TypeScript has gained a lot of popularity since the Angular 2 project decided to adopt it and write all their documentation examples in…Continue reading on JavaScript Scene » | Continue reading
Is it possible to put cannabis on the blockchain? With one company, that’s exactly what’s taking place. Motherboard reports that Medicinal Genomics is creating a registered list of all cannabis genomes to be stored on the bitcoin blockchain. The purpose is to take any confusion o … | Continue reading
Ether (ETH) prices fell to a nine-month low on 5th December, extending losses suffered in recent weeks. Source | Continue reading
Shadowverse [Free] is one of the many CCGs that have popped up on the App Store recently but is one of the few to actually get a foothold and a decent player base both on mobile and on PC. Now, the game is getting ready for its second expansion called Rise of Bahamut, and this | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of entrepreneurs in Africa, but their ambitions are often hampered by the lack in many countries of reliable and affordable digital payment systems. Moneywave wants to empower individuals and small merchants to take part in the thriving digital economy by lett … | Continue reading
One of the biggest downsides of vinyl is the inconvenience of using it on the go. With the exception of things like the now-defunct Audio-Technica AT727 portable vinyl player, you've pretty much got to lug an entire turntable around for listening to vinyl records anywhere outside … | Continue reading