Google refreshed its Inbox email service today, most notably by introducing a link-saving Chrome extension for storing articles and websites. Similar to popular apps like Pocket and existing save features in Apple's Safari browser, Google's new extension lets you click a "Save to … | Continue reading
When Netflix announced plans last year to produce four Adam Sandler films, the motivations for the actor and the studio appeared obvious. Sandler would continue to treat his production as lavish vacations for family and friends, and Netflix would attract enough new subscribers to … | Continue reading
A Louisiana man and his son have plead guilty to running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange, the US Department of Justice said today. | Continue reading
Today on Android and iOS, users with the latest update of Messenger will have the ability to start a group VoIP (voice over internet protocol) audio call from any group chat. To take advantage, just tap the phone icon and select which members you want to include in the chat. Once … | Continue reading
On Monday, the VPN service Cloak got an unsettling email: if the owners didn't cough up 10 bitcoin (or $4,400) in the next week, the service would be hit by a denial-of-service attack large enough to bring down the service entirely. The fallout from that downtime would easily cos … | Continue reading
International payments network SWIFT is looking to build its own distributed ledger platform, a new report reveals. | Continue reading
It has been said plenty of times in the past and it’ll be said again in the future. Taavet Hinrikus, CEO of TransferWise, a popular peer-to-peer international money transfer service has stated that bitcoin, is dead. TransferWise is a prominent player in the Fintech space. Founded … | Continue reading
Turns out Inbox isn’t the only app Google had updates for today. The company announced a few new features for Keep – its note-taking app – that should help make a bit more sense of your reminders and tasks. First up, a new Chrome extension allows you to add a link to save directl … | Continue reading
A settlement between Volkswagen and US regulators could be coming soon, after a judge gave the two sides more time to hammer out an agreement. The two sides have until April 21st — tomorrow — to come to an agreement, and German newspaper Die Welt says a deal has been made.The set … | Continue reading
Car soccer is transforming into car basketball. Rocket League will get a Hoops Mode update on Tuesday that will introduce a new way to play the popular digital auto sport. It debuts simultaneously on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. This free addition enables players to take t … | Continue reading
The Zeitgeist electric bike was designed to solve one problem: getting uphill on a bike. That led to other goals, like creating a battery that only had to be charged every two weeks and was hidden within the structure of the bike. This, then, led to favoring design and performanc … | Continue reading
Until Aston Martin's project with Red Bull to build the fastest car in the world comes to fruition, the Vulcan is unquestionably the most diabolical Aston you can buy — and at a list price of well over $2 million, it better be. The problem with buying a completely absurd hypercar … | Continue reading
It's not a massive change, but this change to the Play Store seems indicative of a new tack that Google is taking with design language. | Continue reading
Jump on the party line or hear the voices of your whole family with Facebook Messenger’s latest feature. Rolling out globally over the next 24 hours on Android and iOS for free, users can start a group VoIP audio call from any group chat. Just tap the Phone icon, select which of … | Continue reading
what happens between idea and publication that trips up so many would-be wellness bloggers? Let’s look at five bottlenecks that can hinder a wellness clinic blog | Continue reading
Watch out, Tesla. You official have a Chinese rival.SEE ALSO: Beverly Hills plans to use autonomous vehicles for public transportationChinese tech giant LeECO, which is a subsidiary of LeTV, the company funding Faraday Future, unveiled its first luxury EV sedan in Beijing, China … | Continue reading
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today. The latest build turns on the “messaging everywhere” feature in preview and adds three new Cortana languages. Like the last mobile build, this one is only available for devices that shipped with Windows 10 Mobile (the Lumi … | Continue reading
Google Chrome just pushed out its 50th release, coming almost eight years after it originally launched. With it, Google released a bunch of statistics about Chrome on its blog.SEE ALSO: Here's how much Google paid that guy who bought google.com for a minuteAccording to Google, Ch … | Continue reading
Are you ready for the future? Chinese holding company LeEco is totally ready for the future. It unveiled its first electric car today, the LeSEE, which it hopes will become fully autonomous. The company also unveiled three — yes THREE — new smartphones today, all of which come wi … | Continue reading
Facebook announced today that it is letting anyone make group voice calls within its Messenger app. It appears that this capability is rolling out over the next 24 hours, so if you don’t have it yet, make sure you have the latest app update. For those that do have this feature, w … | Continue reading
If Apple really is working on a car, it won’t be the Ultimate Driving Machine™. BMW and Daimler have discontinued talks with Apple over a potential automotive collaboration, Handelsblatt reports. Read More | Continue reading
Ben Pasternak, 16-year-old CEO of the app Flogg, joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and explains how he conceived the social selling mobile app and encouraged some of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists to fund the app. | Continue reading
The Huffington Post, owned by AOL, owned by Verizon, is buying a virtual reality studio called RYOT to build VR content production on the site according to a blog post from site co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington. The studio will also be providing their services to … | Continue reading
Digital Asset Holdings has acquired Swiss FinTech startup Elevence to build out a system of smart contracts designed to preserve privacy. | Continue reading
The Pictar is a new $90 iPhone accessory that gives you physical buttons and a one-handed grip. It's a lot like the "Friends" camera module for the new LG G5, except instead of clipping in to your phone, it slides over it like a case. (Unfortunately, it's not a very practical cas … | Continue reading
Back in March, Rocket League — the futuristic soccer game featuring cars instead of whining sacks of flesh — teased a new basketball mode that hoops fans pretty much went nuts over. March Madness is just around the corner. Great time to tease the mode we're working on next #Rocke … | Continue reading
Two Apple car partnerships may be dead, according to a new report. While many believe Apple is still working on an automobile, it may not involve BMW or Daimler. Interestingly enough, the project may have been killed by iCloud. Citing industry sources, Handelsblatt claims that wh … | Continue reading
Back in March, husband and wife development team Queen Bee Games released their action tower defense title Onion Force [Free] to a small but positive reaction. Being sick of the casual, free to play vibe of mobile gaming, Queen Bee created Onion Force to be a very challenging but … | Continue reading
Google, Facebook, Samsung, LG — basically all the tech heavyweights of today, with the notable exception of Apple — are all pushing the same message: virtual reality experiences and 360-degree content are the future. But while those 360-degree videos on Facebook and YouTube are c … | Continue reading
The Quo Vadis game development conference in Berlin has been good for judging the sentiment and state of the European game industry. That’s been helpful for me at GamesBeat, where we often get a U.S.-centric view of how gaming works. As an example, the European developers I talke … | Continue reading
AOL is acquiring 360-degree media company Ryot in order to jump into the world of virtual reality news coverage. The companies, which did not reveal exact terms of the sale, announced that Ryot will immediately start working with AOL-owned outlet The Huffington Post to create VR … | Continue reading
Google today updated Google Keep with two new features for collecting and managing your notes. You can download the latest Android version now from Google Play, the iOS release from Apple’s App Store, the Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store, and of course access the latest … | Continue reading
Customer Service and Social Media not working together for the customer? Here’s 8 steps to building a social care program. | Continue reading
Keep, Google’s note-taking service, is getting an update today that introduces support for hashtag-style labels and an update Chrome extension that will make it easier to save links to sites and add notes right from the browser. None of these updates are revolutionary, but they a … | Continue reading
Teased in trailers last month, Google has finally posted the full video of its epic 360-degree short monster movie Help on YouTubeDirected by Justin Lin (Fast and Furious, Star Trek Beyond), the nearly five-minute immersive film puts viewers on the streets of Los Angeles just as … | Continue reading
Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange Kraken today announced that it has appointed renowned lawyer Edward M. Stadum as its new General Counsel. | Continue reading
we take a look at some of the best cases for the OnePlus X Android phone. | Continue reading
VIDEO: Previewing Game 2 of Blazers-Clippers LOS ANGELES — They’re used to it by now, the basketball world shedding pity on them for losing four starters from last season and giving them a nice pat on the head and a wish for good luck. The Portland Trail Blazers had fallen from t … | Continue reading
Google announced today it’s giving higher placement to articles in Google News that come from those publishers who have embraced the Google-backed “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project” (or, AMP). The company debuted this open source initiative last year, as something of a rival to F … | Continue reading
Five years ago, Christine Meeusen decided to wear a nun costume to an Occupy Wall Street protest in central California. The Milwaukee native had been living in Amsterdam for eight years while working as a business consultant, and upon returning to the US with her three kids after … | Continue reading
HANG TIME BIG CITY — Tom Thibodeau and Scott Layden are close to terms with with Minnesota Timberwolves to become the franchise’s new coach/president and general manager, respectively, according to a report from The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Sources: Minnesota is engaged in … | Continue reading
Inbox now groups together more related emails including calendar events and newsletters, and you can save links for later viewing. | Continue reading
It might have been a bit of a throwaway purchase when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought Irish user-generated newswire Storyful back in 2013 for a pretty measly €18 million. But Storyful has been making quiet steps to capture the future of the Web – through the content you post an … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Hornets-Heat Game 2 Preview MIAMI — The Charlotte Hornets had a lot to think about after getting thumped, 123-91, in Game 1 of their first round series with the Miami Heat on Sunday. And, with Game 2 on Wednesday night (7 p.m. ET, NBA TV), they’ve had two full days off to … | Continue reading
VR content will soon be arriving on yet another digital streaming service – this time, Sony’s Crackle. But it will also include VR-enabled ads, the company announced today. That is, in addition to streaming its entire content library – including movies and original programs – in … | Continue reading
Google has been leading the way in its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project for delivering articles quickly on mobile devices, with the feature deployed to Google search results on mobile in February. Now, the feature is coming to Google News, on Android, iOS, and t … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Tesla Motors recalled 2,700 Model X cars to fix a third-row seat latch that could allow the seat to fold forward during a collision. But owners of the $138,000 sport utility vehicle — whose many features include falcon-wing doors, seating for seven, a 200-plus … | Continue reading
Vuosia sitten alkanut urkintajuttu on vihdoin tullut syytevaiheeseen. Median kautta saamani tiedon mukaan 55 virkamiestä ympäri Suomen o... | Continue reading