Verb moods are not unlike the moods of people (happy, sad, angry, etc.) in that they indicate the manner in which an action or condition is intended or conceived. Unlike people’s moods, though, which have an endless variety, a verb may only occur in one of three verb moods: the i … | Continue reading
Snapchat is getting ready to redesign a big section of its app.The company will soon roll out a redesigned version of its Discover page, according to multiple reports. The new design will reportedly ditch the current look for a tiled design similar to Instagram's feed.SEE ALSO: S … | Continue reading
Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has settled with the CFTC following an investigation into its financed trading activities. | Continue reading
It makes a lot of sense to use your smartphone as the brain for other types of electronics — virtual reality viewers like the Gear VR are a perfect example. What may make a bit less sense is using your smartphone to control a drone. Not as a remote; I mean as the actual brains fo … | Continue reading
The NBA has released a chatbot for Facebook Messenger, right in time for the first game of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. You can start talking to the bot simply by going to the short URL m.me/NBA, David Marcus, vice president of mes … | Continue reading
Warner Bros.' upcoming DC Comics movie The Flash has finally secured a director. Rick Famuyiwa, who directed last year's Dope, will helm the project, Deadline reports. Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will star as the title character. Continue reading… | Continue reading
When Eric Schmidt took the stage today in New York City, he spent less time talking about business at Google (where he was previously CEO and now serves as executive chairman of parent company Alphabet), and more time focused on new technologies and the bigger picture. Schmidt wa … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton has often been depicted as an enemy of government transparency in the long-running controversy over her use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. It took several lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a law that gives th … | Continue reading
Although Apple hasn't admitted it's working on a car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sees the company as bigger competition in the automotive market than Google.SEE ALSO: For Volvo, driverless cars won't mean the end of manual drivingSpeaking at CodeCon on Wednesday, Musk divulged he doesn' … | Continue reading
As the tech world chips away at making virtual reality a Thing™, augmented reality — VR’s less-flashy-but-equally-awesome cousin, the idea of blending 3d models and visuals into a view of the real world — quietly gets better and better.But there are problems to be solved before A … | Continue reading
Indeed’s parent company is the buyer for SimplyHired, until last week one of the Austin, Texas-based job search engine’s significant competitors. | Continue reading
The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is a yearly competition in which writers attempt to create the worst possible opening sentence to a novel. Google, for several reasons, should enter this year — in its latest self-driving car project report, the company writes: “As our honking al … | Continue reading
The late great game designer Kenji Eno's 1995 cult classic horror game D is now available for PC via GOG, where it's going for £4.09.Developer Night Dive Studios - who previously ported System Shock 2 and Turok to modern digital platforms before embarking on a full-fledged System … | Continue reading
Who would have ever thought BMW, the "Ultimate Driving Machine" brand, would someday view autonomous tech as paramount to electrified vehicles?SEE ALSO: For Volvo, driverless cars won't mean the end of manual drivingIn the face of increasing competition in the luxury EV market fr … | Continue reading
A new VSCO update is bringing an entirely new user interface and community-focused experience to the popular photography app. | Continue reading
If there's one thing that we can all agree on, it's that the world of free to play games can be really weird- Particularly when you consider that nearly everything any of the big free to play developers does is driven by analytics and performance metrics. If you ever wonder why a … | Continue reading
Modernization and extension of Sandringham house is the result of collaboration between Techne Architecture + Interior Design and Doherty Design Studio. The brief from the client was to convert the double-fronted weatherboard into a fun, energetic home with more space and lots of … | Continue reading
A group of angry Uber drivers say they’ve been screwed over by their own lawyers in a worker misclassification lawsuit and are asking lead attorney representing the drivers in the case, ShannonLiss-Riordan, to step down.Uber drivers filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they have … | Continue reading
Located in a privileged environment in the province of Cáceres, the goal was to transform an abandoned stable into a family home by completely renovating it in a way that would be consistent and respectful with the environment. At the end, the Studio decided that building from sc … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is no stranger to big ideas. Musk, the founder of PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City and the brains behind the revamped Hyperloop, took to the stage yesterday at Recode’s ‘Code’ conference to offer up a few bold statements about the world we live in and where we’re going … | Continue reading
Are small phones back? Probably not, but smartphone manufacturers may finally be realizing that there's a market for them beside the 5-or-so-inch devices that have become standard. Continue reading… | Continue reading
This is probably pretty far down everyone’s list of necessary Olympic athletic equipment to pack for the 2016 Rio games, but Visa’s gonna be Visa, because it’s everywhere you want to be and life takes Visa, etc. The credit card giant is offering up a new NFC-enabled payment ring … | Continue reading
One of the best game developers around is expanding its operations into the publishing business. Techland, the Polish studio responsible for the excellent Dying Light, is transforming into Techland Publishing, with the goal of bringing more games to the global market. The company … | Continue reading
The public relations industry will undergo extensive changes in response to new technologies, additional communications channels, increased demand for content and greater use of data within the next five years, PR agency and corporate leaders report. Practically all corporate and … | Continue reading
Gaming isn’t just a young person’s … uh, game. The Entertainment Software Association (the gaming group that puts on the yearly Electronic Entertainment Expo and represents the U.S. games industry) and the AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) released the r … | Continue reading
Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton joined Kara Swisher on stage at Vox Media’s Code Conference next to an empty chair — reserved for Peter Thiel, who is involved in a lawsuit against Gawker, who did not attend the conference. The conversation centered around Gawker’s decision to publis … | Continue reading
The very intelligent business people at VODOHOD River Cruises have hired two cats to oversee operations on their Nikolay Chernishevsky cruise ship. The ship cruises between Moscow and St. Petersburg, traversing several rivers and the Baltic Canal — the journey sounds truly lovely … | Continue reading
Nine months ago, the Unicode Consortium approved new sets of emoji to be added as part of the Unicode 9.0 release. These include some long-awaited ones like bacon, avocado, selfie, and face palm – and they’ll all officially arrive on June 21. You may be excited for these 72 new e … | Continue reading
It seems like ever since these monthly swag packs have become a thing, everyone has their own variation on the Loot Crate (I have no idea if they were even the first to do it, either). Well, Minecraft is bigger than Jesus so it only made sense that they would also have their own … | Continue reading
I love it when big companies open source software and ideas. Google's contributions are innumerable — for instance, the Go programming language, Android, Angular, and who can forget the 2004 publication of "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters"? Lately I've bee … | Continue reading
Facebook has just introduced 1,500 new emojis to the smiley ecosystem in Messenger. | Continue reading
Mediachain is a new company looking to revolutionize the way we think about registering and tracking creative works. By using blockchain technology, the Brooklyn-based company wants to create a new type of universal media library. In this day and age, keeping content original and … | Continue reading
Through House is a family home refurbished by the Toronto-based Dubbeldam Architecture + Design. Description by Dubbeldam: A busy doctor commissioned the renewal of this 128 year-old house to fulfil his desire for a modern and light-filled home with a connection to the outdoors. … | Continue reading
Remember eBay? It's no longer just the auction site or a destination for other people's used stuff. It's a commerce destination with more than 100 million users that, according to eBay CEO Devin Wenig, moves $90B of products per year.It's also not necessarily the Amazon competito … | Continue reading
OAKLAND – Two LeBron Jameses? Two Stephen Currys? It might seem like overkill or an embarrassment of riches, but a lot of times in showdowns such as The 2016 Finals, that’s what we get: the actual superstar and then his stand-in. As in, the opposing player designated by his team … | Continue reading
Most would agree that the HTC 10 is a very good phone, to say the least, but can it actually save the company that made it from years of bad sales? | Continue reading
Pebble Core has a new trick up its sleeve: the added support for the Amazon Alexa voice assistant. | Continue reading
Online gambling is still a legal gray area in several parts of the world. However, it is an industry that has a large demand and an ever increasing audience. With the entry of bitcoin in the online world, we have seen many new and innovative online casinos take form. These new Ca … | Continue reading
The venture arm of Naspers Ltd. has invested $60 million in Udemy, an online marketplace for education. For the unfamiliar, Naspers is a Johannesburg-listed tech and media firm that operates robust online classifieds businesses in emerging markets, with a strong presence in India … | Continue reading
A new London School of Economics paper suggests that blockchain tech could alleviate custody risks for securities owners. | Continue reading
Just how serious are you about having a stylish keyboard? Because Roccat may have the answer. It's introducing a new keyboard for gamers called the Suora. It uses fully mechanical keys for better feedback, feel, and responsiveness — Suora is promising a 1 millisecond response tim … | Continue reading
In a world where engineers truly are the new rock stars and markets continue to be moderately funded, it is not uncommon to witness or experience the engineering “prima donna effect.” I’ve gently suggested this term in the past and it struck a nerve. Read More | Continue reading
Pebble just announced its new devices last week, and its already adding features to them. The wearable maker is adding Amazon’s Alexa voice service to its Core clip-on device – which doesn’t even ship until 2017. If you need a recap, the Core is basically like an Internet of Thin … | Continue reading
Humans have a tighter bond with dogs than perhaps any other animal. But figuring out exactly how that bond developed has been a huge, tantalizing challenge for researchers. Now, an ambitious study of canine genetics suggests that dogs’ history is even more complex than we thought … | Continue reading
Every fall, my music habits change. I ditch the faster pop-punk and rock for slower, more contemplative music. When spring rolls around, though, I stash the sappy crap and get right back into the fast stuff. The weird thing is, nothing changes when summer hits. Maybe it's because … | Continue reading
Compensation among the S&P 500 CEOs fell 4.6% in 2015, according to a new Wall Street Journal analysis. None of the ten highest-paid CEOs in the Journal's survey, however, ran one of the S&P 500's ten best-performing companies. Photos: Bloomberg, Reuters. | Continue reading
VSCO, the popular image editing app, is getting a complete redesign on both the Android and iOS platforms, which will be rolling out in the coming weeks. Most of the new key features are improvements, like a new camera interface, gesture-based navigation, a redesigned personal sp … | Continue reading
Apple has at last released an iOS update to fix a nasty bug that was transforming 9.7-inch iPad Pros into unusable slabs of glass. The update, version number 9.3.2, pledges to fix whatever software issue was bricking the tablets, and it can be downloaded over the air today. Apple … | Continue reading