ESPN and Vice Media are planning to make shows and share content on each other's TV channels and digital platforms. WSJ's Lee Hawkins explains the partnership. | Continue reading
Humans have always wanted to control the weather. Also, drones are cool. Put those together and you've got the "Sandoval Silver State Seeder," a new drone built by the Desert Research Institute which deploys silver-iodide flares to kick off rain fall. The cloud seeding drone just … | Continue reading
Disney's Star Wars raiding-strategy game Star Wars: Commander [Free] has gotten another huge update just in time for Star Wars Day on May the 4th (be with you). The game has a new multiplayer feature called Squad Wars, where you and your 15-person squad engage in interesting new … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever wondered who exactly is signing up for all these free learn-at-home coding classes and tutorial websites, Free Code Camp (which is one of them) has kindly surveyed 15,624 users with regard to various basic demographics and some more code-centric items. Read More | Continue reading
Last month we told you that Disney would like to invest in BAM Tech, the video tech business that pro baseball’s MLB Advanced Media unit would like to spin off.It still does. Here’s a brief update: Disney is willing to write a very big check to buy into BAM Tech.Industry sources … | Continue reading
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who has drawn deep criticism for his role in the Flint water crisis, was loudly booed and heckled as he spoke to about 1,000 students, teachers and residents at Northwestern High School Wednesday. Photo: Fox News | Continue reading
Oculus is bringing a new COO aboard as it perhaps looks to double down on tightening things up logistics-wise. Fitbit COO Hans Hartmann will be jumping ship and joining the virtual reality company owned by Facebook according to a tweet from Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. Hartmann, who … | Continue reading
Roost's smart smoke alarm connects to Wi-Fi, comes with a companion app, and lets you know when it's low on battery. The alarm also alerts you and your loved ones when it detects smoke, just to make sure everyone is good and worried. It relies on Roost's smart battery, which conn … | Continue reading
Shortly after being purchased by Apple, two of Siri's founders left the company to begin creating yet another AI assistant. It's called Viv, and The Washington Post reports that it'll be unveiled to the world on Monday.Viv is essentially meant to be Siri, but good. It's an AI ass … | Continue reading
The Chevy Jolt isn't real, but Matt Teske really wants it to be. Teske is a marketing and branding consultant for the car industry and an electric vehicle fan. He invented the car and its brilliant spoof website. He owns a Chevy Volt and his wife has a Chevy Spark EV (electric ve … | Continue reading
GUEST: It’s been almost a month since, right on the heels of the Apple vs FBI showdown, WhatsApp added fresh fuel to the already hot encryption debate when it announced it was enabling end-to-end encryption for all of its 1 billion users. As of April 5, every message, every video … | Continue reading
Tesla has set a Model 3 production date of July 1, 2017. Of course, there's a caveat.SEE ALSO: Ahead of Model 3, Tesla leases new warehouses, loses 2 product chiefsElon Musk revealed during the Tesla first quarter earnings call Wednesday afternoon that Tesla has told its third-pa … | Continue reading
Forex Broker Inc. is a trading platform registered in the Marshall Islands, with its headquarters in Belize and the European Offices in Malta. The company is a very reputable Forex broker always trying to do its absolute best to increase its traders’ profits through its several b … | Continue reading
[appicon]SMG Studio's keeping the new cars coming to the fun Thumb Drift [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thumb-drift-furious-one-touch/id1001425491?mt=8"]. 12 new cars in total have been added to the game, several focusing on guests from across internet and automob … | Continue reading
On Tesla's earnings call this afternoon, Elon Musk spent most of his opening comments talking about improving manufacturing, which is becoming an urgent priority for the company as it faces the task of increasing vehicle production five-fold or more to accommodate Model 3 reserva … | Continue reading
Tinder now has more than 1 million members who pay for its Plus subscription, which costs less than $5 a month and lets you swipe an unlimited number of times on the mobile dating app. The user numbers were released as part of parent company Match Group's first quarter earnings r … | Continue reading
Get ready for the search giant's big event with the official Google I/O app: maps, schedules, alerts... everything you need to make the most of it. | Continue reading
Uber today announced that it has enlisted high-profile former policy-makers from around the world to form a public policy board, as the company pushes back on regulatory restrictions of the startup. Continue reading… | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Global tech giant Samsung is announcing today that its Made With Samsung program for promoting mobile apps will be extended to independent game developers. That means that game developers will get considerable marketing and tech support from Samsung if they bring exclu … | Continue reading
Let’s face it, we are all time-poor these days and, yes, we all hate having meetings for the sake of it. But believe me when I say you do not want to skip your editorial meeting when you are running a Brand Newsroom. The editorial meeting is really what holds your content marketi … | Continue reading
Fitbit is not having a good day, with the stock crashing more than 11% after reporting its first-quarter results. Here’s the rub: its guidance for the second quarter came in light. Very light. Industry watchers were expecting the company to report earnings around 26 cents per sha … | Continue reading
Researchers and aviators in Nevada completed the first successful test flight of a drone designed to bring rain to drought-stricken regions. The flight, which took place last week at an FAA-approved test site in Hawthorne, Nevada, was an 18-minute test of the ‘Sandoval Silver Sta … | Continue reading
The best teachers see how each student requires a unique inspiration and learning style. Yet with classroom sizes ballooning and teachers underpaid, there’s no way for students to get the dedicated attention they need. Luckily, technology could offer the adaptive education guidan … | Continue reading
TORONTO — The Miami Heat announced Wednesday afternoon that Chris Bosh is out for the remainder of the 2016 playoffs. This isn’t a surprising announcement, but it puts to rest any questions or uncertainty about Bosh’s availability in the Heat’s conference semifinals series with t … | Continue reading
It’s another victory for the machines: a robotic surgical system outperformed humans and robot-assisted human operators in a soft tissue procedure, bringing us that much closer to automated medical care (and the robocalypse). Read More | Continue reading
Well, at least now we know what Batman would drive if he were a sleazy club promoter.SEE ALSO: Semi-autonomous tech could lead to more in-car sex, expert worriesThe infamous Gumball 3000 rally across Europe is in full swing. Of all the absolutely wild cars that are participating … | Continue reading
Drake will perform and host Saturday Night Live on May 14th, NBC announced today. The rapper will pull double duty for the second time, following up his first appearance on the show in 2014. It's been a good few days for Drake — after releasing his fourth studio album Views last … | Continue reading
Copying and pasting code from the internet is one of the biggest open secrets in computer programming. And trust me, we all do it. That's because there’s question-and-answer sites like StackOverflow.com where any developer can post a programming-related question and get a respons … | Continue reading
Someone finally went and decided to try living in virtual reality for a full day, and in the process set an official Guinness World Record for the most time spent in VR while playing a game.SEE ALSO: This is how calls and texts look in virtual reality, via the HTC ViveFilmmaker D … | Continue reading
Kaytranada’s career bloomed on SoundCloud, a platform that blurs the line between original artistry and curation more readily than other music services. Scroll through the Montreal producer’s feed (his real name is Louis Kevin Celestin) and you’ll see a mix of scrappy solo beats, … | Continue reading
For Tesla, as one door opens, another closes. And, this time, they're not falcon-wing doors.SEE ALSO: The world is ready for the Model 3. Is Tesla?News broke on Monday that Tesla has leased two warehouses totaling one million square feet (the size of 17 football fields) in Liverm … | Continue reading
Today, GoPro released some truly amazing footage of a suborbital rocket launch that saw a SpaceLoft-10 rocket carry two cameras to 396,405 feet at speeds of up to Mach 5.5. The 20-foot tall rocket from UP Aerospace launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico last November. The … | Continue reading
Bitcoin markets experienced little change on 2nd May in response to Craig Wright’s claim that he is the digital currency’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Tesla Motors said on Wednesday it was on track to deliver 80,000 to 90,000 electric vehicles this year and that it would produce 500,000 in 2018, two years faster than expected. Tesla’s Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market product, has generated massive interest since … | Continue reading
Tesla's earnings are out for the first quarter of 2016, which saw a loss of $282 million on $1.15 billion in revenue; that represents slightly less revenue than the previous quarter but a slightly lower loss as well, which Tesla credit in part to "a careful eye on spending." Nota … | Continue reading
The relationship between Bitcoin and Australia has been a roller coaster ride so far. There have been ups and downs, but now the country’s premier research institution, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) intends to conduct an in-depth study of th … | Continue reading
Tesla says it is expecting to hit its goal of producing 500,000 cars annually — including the Model S, Model X and Model 3 — two years earlier than expected, meeting that expectation by 2018. All this is coming ahead of a critical next year for Tesla with the expansion of its lin … | Continue reading
After dedicating tons of energy (and loads of bandwidth) to live streaming sporting events in stereoscopic VR, NextVR is moving to its next major market: live virtual reality concerts. NextVR has announced a major partnership with Live Nation to live stream “hundreds” of concerts … | Continue reading
It appears that YouTube is planning on bringing live cable TV to their streaming platform with subscriptions starting at around $35 per month. | Continue reading
Hypetex is the first company to make colored carbon fiber — also called Hypetex — which had been limited to a dark shade of grey for years, unless you decided to paint it (which can add weight, an issue for the F1 teams from which Hypetex's engineering team comes from). But seei … | Continue reading
Zynga’s mobile strategy is beginning to work. The social game maker revealed its financial results for Q1 2016 today, with bookings at $182 million. That is above the consensus estimate of $162 million from analysts. It was also higher than Zynga’s own expectations of $150 millio … | Continue reading
When Robyn Kanner was 19 and living in Portland, Maine, she decided to transition from male, her sex at birth, to female.But she was unable to find a therapist who would prescribe her the hormones she wanted to help change her body. Kanner decided to begin her transition without … | Continue reading
One of my seed portfolio founders called for advice recently. He’d raised a Series A from a Tier 1 VC and was ahead of plan, but his investor suddenly wanted him to cut spending: on SEM, on PR, on whatever he could. He wanted to know why, and how to think about it. Read More | Continue reading
Stephen King's advice to writers who crave an audience: Leave out the boring parts . "If you can't write your idea on the back of my ca... | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Instagram confirmed that it was developing business profiles — a la Facebook Brand Pages. Recently, we managed to snag a peek at just what these new offerings look on iOS thanks to Later.com reporter Taylor Loren. The new profiles remain largely the same short … | Continue reading
If you go to chevyjoltev.com, you're graced with a long, detailed ad for the Chevy Jolt, a little all-electric coupe that promises 230 miles of range between charges and a price as low as $30,000 after federal tax credits when it launches in late 2018. It's pretty cute! You'll ev … | Continue reading
Instagram's latest experiment to make its photo-sharing network more business- and ad-friendly is dedicated brand pages for companies. The new profiles adopt some of the functions of Facebook pages by categorizing companies by type and letting users reach out using a contact butt … | Continue reading
BlackBerry updated BBM this week to allow for video calls. It's currently available in beta on Android and iOS for North American users. The rest of world will get the update in July.The company says on its blog that BBM users are "on-trend" in wanting video calling. Sounds about … | Continue reading