North Korea said Wednesday it was considering using intermediate-range ballistic missiles near Guam, the U.S. territory that is home to strategic military installations, dramatically raising tensions with the United States.The country’s military said it was “carefully examining t … | Continue reading
Wakeout is a new app that has only one goal: to wake its users up by exercising. And yes, it’s as horrible and effective as it seems. I downloaded the app the night before I planned to use it, and was already dreading waking up. 7:30 a.m. eventually hit, and my sleep was rudely i … | Continue reading
To pay or not to pay? For HBO and other companies targeted by cyber criminals, that is increasingly becoming the question. The network behind Game of Thrones is the latest victim of a massive digital breach, with hackers claiming to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data that includes … | Continue reading
Disney executives today announced the company would be pulling its movies from Netflix in favor of its own streaming platform. The plan is for a branded direct-to-consumer streaming service that will hit your US living rooms in 2019, before expanding globally shortly after. I thi … | Continue reading
The vice president of Faraday Future’s human resources department is leaving the company. Alan Cherry, who was part of the original leadership team that founded the ambitious electric car startup back in 2014, announced that he was “stepping away” from the company during an all-h … | Continue reading
Testing a $92,000 car is a bit daunting. You worry a little about traffic jams, a deer jumping out into the road, and the possibility of hail falling out of the sky at any moment. Knowing that the vehicle you’re driving costs more than your first house is a stark realization. In … | Continue reading
In 2013, an old Argentinian shepherd named Aureliano Hernandez found a fossilized bone protruding from a rock at the farm where he worked. The remains of giant dinosaurs festoon Argentina’s landscape, and knowing the strict rules that govern such fossils, the farm’s owners—the Ma … | Continue reading
According to Disney, its movie and TV show streaming service will start in 2019, while its streaming service solely for ESPN will launch early next year. | Continue reading
A developer from Google that you’d probably never heard of before yesterday wrote a manifesto detailing his views on diversity. The author of the memo was subsequently fired. Google issued a statement saying the man was dismissed for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” TNW has bee … | Continue reading
Members of Donald Trump’s administration have repeatedly signaled that they might be willing to use military force against North Korea—even if it inflicted on the Korean peninsula the worst human catastrophe in living memory—if it meant preventing Kim Jong Un from acquiring the c … | Continue reading
If you're planning to buy a colorful new iPhone later this year, you should probably temper your excitement: You might have fewer options to choose from than you were expecting. The next-gen iPhones will likely launch in only three hues, according to reliable Apple insider Ming- … | Continue reading
GUEST: Though it may seem virtual reality has emerged in the last few years, the technology has been around for quite some time. The term was coined in 1987, but head-mounted displays (HMDs) have been around since the 1960s, with some enthusiasts arguing panoramic paintings and m … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingNorth Korea: President Trump said that threats to the U.S. from North Korea would “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” after The Washington Post reported that the country had produced a miniature nuclear warhead to fit inside its missiles. … | Continue reading
Disney just announced a breakup with Netflix. The company will be launching its own standalone video streaming service sometime in 2019, which will be home to future theater releases including Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4 — plus Disney’s vault of animated classic and new original con … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of talk about the quantified self, but one of the grey areas remains working out your levels of stress. Usually this requires hardware devices. Now a New York based startup thinks it’s come up with an approach based on a specially developed algorithms and machine l … | Continue reading
Popular imagery of the atom bomb is oddly sterile.For all we know of the horrors of nuclear weapons, the visual that’s most often evoked is ethereal, if ominous: a silent, billowing cloud, aloft in black and white.The reasons for this are understandable. Nuclear weapons have been … | Continue reading
The U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating Qualcomm’s claims that Apple is violating several of its patents related to mobile technologies in several of its iPhone models. Qualcomm is seeking a ban on imports of the iPhone models that allegedly infringe on its IP. … | Continue reading
There was some big news in the content marketing space here in Australia last week. Less than two years after media monitoring and data firm iSentia bought Australia’s best-known content marketing agency, King Content, for A$48 million, the company has killed off the brand, close … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesPresident Trump warned that North Korea “will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it continues to threaten the United States. Earlier in the day, North Korea said it would take “physical action” in retaliation against newly imposed sanction … | Continue reading
According to reliable reports, Apple isn’t releasing an iPhone in rose gold this year. Sorry rose bros. The first report came early this week from Weibo. MacRumors published a photo found on the social network that seems to display the back of each of the three new iPhone 8 color … | Continue reading
You can finally stop feeling bad about leaving your dog at home by itself — just turn on an audiobook and hit the road. Amazon's subsidiary Audible and "The Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan are teaming up to create an audiobook series made specifically for your dogSeriously. Soon you' … | Continue reading
For months, worried observers of the Trump administration have wondered what would happen when the president first faced a bona fide, urgent international crisis out of his own control.This week, the world seems terrifyingly close to getting an answer.On Monday, the United Nation … | Continue reading
Ever since Bitcoin came into existence, it has managed to bring in some drastic changes to the global economy. The cryptocurrency’s underlying technology has also gained a lot of adoption, across industry segments. While most of these are serious commercial applications, Prospect … | Continue reading
GUEST: In the next 7 years, true augmented reality will not become mainstream anywhere except the automotive industry — and here’s why. Despite the explosive growth, AR software and content is now mostly created for small-screen devices: smartphones and tablets. True AR presumes … | Continue reading
Americans like to think of the US as the center of the tech universe. But on more than one occasion, I’ve been upset to find some great smartphone is not easily accessible in the states. The Nubia Z17 is one of those phones. Thankfully, the company shipped me one directly. Nubia … | Continue reading
I think I write this post once or twice a year, not simply out of reflex but because PR people are incapable of listening. I don’t do it out of anger, I do it out of love. I also add that I wanted to call this “Tech PR People,” but it seems that every vertical of public relations … | Continue reading
The SaaS market in Brazil is booming. It mirrors the rapid adoption of SaaS as the dominant cloud computing type in a global public cloud services market that’s forecast to reach more than $122B in 2017. Earlier this year, we embarked on an inaugural survey of more than 400 exec … | Continue reading
India's government has reportedly completed work on a report that outlines possible steps for regulating cryptocurrencies. | Continue reading
Disney’s bombshell announcement today that it would be building its own branded direct-to-consumer streaming service, and ending its licensing deal with Netflix, came with another nugget of news: the previously announced all-new ESPN streaming service is launching next year. We f … | Continue reading
Panasonic is a fairly diverse electronics company. There are some fun apps for their products as well. Here are the best Panasonic apps for Android. | Continue reading
Cord cutters have another reason to get excited, as CBS this week announced it’s planning to launch a live streaming service for sports. The news was discussed on the company’s Q2 earnings call, and though details are light – there’s no name, pricing, or exact launch date at thi … | Continue reading
Bad news if you were just getting used to all of the new Disney stuff hitting Netflix: that deal is on the way out. Disney has just announced plans to end its distribution agreement with Netflix in 2019, instead opting to launch its own streaming service sometime during that sam … | Continue reading
Disney will end its distribution deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service, the company announced today. It intends to launch the service in 2019.The move is a huge blow to Netflix, which secured a valuable streaming deal with Disney back in 2012 — before streaming h … | Continue reading
The Fishers Island House is designed to accommodate and entertain them all for generations to come. Located off the coast of Connecticut ... | Continue reading
The V30 will be announced one day before IFA officially opens its doors, with the phone expected to go on sale sometime during September. | Continue reading
SuperDAO organization, a group of veteran Ethereum developers and technologists, has provided a brand new Metamask compatible tool to access its early bird token pre-sale along with a tutorial. The organization has also recently completed a 5-week training program to onboard more … | Continue reading
GUEST: Reno, a city just four hours away from Silicon Valley, is the home of Tesla’s Gigafactory. It’s a city whose economy once chiefly relied on the low-wage casino industry, where bankruptcy and crime were frequent and unpredictable. Hit hard with the housing crash and recessi … | Continue reading
Aguardiente in Medellín The night starts innocently enough. I’m supposed to meet a group for dinner, two nights before a good friend’s wedding in Colombia. I haven’t seen my friend Sacha, his brother Martin—who’s also a friend—or their significant others in two years. But no way … | Continue reading
It’s always been a bit weird that San Francisco, the cradle of autonomous research, has been missing from the list of cities that boast their own self-driving ride-hailing services. Autonomous cars are prowling the streets of cities like Pittsburgh, Phoenix, and Singapore — and s … | Continue reading
Google announced today that it’s cutting the price for high-speed storage attached to its cloud virtual machines. Customers will pay up to 63 percent less for Local SSD storage that’s attached to the virtual machines they use in Google Cloud Platform. Local SSD storage is designe … | Continue reading
Mazda is using diesel engine technology to save the gasoline engine, just as everyone else is trying to find the alternative fuel that will beat more stringent emissions standards around the world.While it might sound like the Japanese company is making a backward move in an incr … | Continue reading
Overwatch's Summer Games event kicks off tomorrow through 28th August and now we know what its seasonal skins entail.Blizzard revealed the new beach-based costumes on Overwatch's official site. There's also quite a few shots of them in action in the Summer Games trailer below:Jus … | Continue reading
This non-promotional plan from the Sprint-based carrier Rok is the cheapest unlimited we've seen, and you won't get price gouged later on. | Continue reading