The FDIC and three state-level regulators discussed blockchain technology at a panel today centered on the future of US regulation. | Continue reading
Facebook is working on bringing better Internet connectivity to the world in three major ways, and one of them is aiming to bring faster and more reliable connections to urban areas.Called Terragraph, the system is an antenna-based Wi-Fi delivery system designed for urban connect … | Continue reading
Facebook is conducting a lot of research into how to capture social interaction in virtual reality so that it will seem real. In addition to a demo on how to do selfies in a 360-degree VR photo, Facebook showed how researchers are trying to make social interaction in VR indisting … | Continue reading
Longtime Apple industrial designer Danny Coster is joining GoPro. Coster had worked at Apple since the early 1990s, and helped Apple re-establish itself after Steve Jobs returned. Now he has to do that to GoPro. GoPro’s stock popped on the news and is trading up on the day. The n … | Continue reading
HBO is being exceptionally secretive with Game of Thrones this season —€” so much so that it has decided to not send out any advance copies to media or industry insiders. That leaves only two ways to know the fate of Jon Snow ahead of time:Work on the show Successfully campaign t … | Continue reading
When huge directors like Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, and Peter Jackson agree that something is the future of cinema, you'd expect large swaths of Hollywood to be on board with them. But that's not the case when it comes to releasing huge movies straight to your living room. De … | Continue reading
Facebook has made it a mission to connect the world. Whether unconnected, or poorly connected, there are several new initiatives on the horizon that could bring an estimated 1.6 billion people online. We were able to get a glimpse of a few of them at F8 today. The most ambitious … | Continue reading
At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, Facebook demonstrated its latest artificial intelligence (AI) research efforts. Not surprisingly, they are about video. Video implies a whole bunch of individual images put together. So it logically flows from Facebook’s prog … | Continue reading
OK, this sounds a bit more exciting for Star Wars fans, even if one addition has us a little perplexed. EA has released details for its next Star Wars: Battlefront expansion, the second of five planned as part of its season pass. Titled Bespin, the new content includes four maps … | Continue reading
Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically taggi … | Continue reading
Developers, start your fastboots! Android N’s Developer Preview 2 is now live for OTA updates or manual flashing. This update brings a mixed bag of features and fixes. Read More | Continue reading
After a spate of damning articles about Nest, CEO Tony Fadell came to the weekly staff meeting of sister company Google to counter the negative press and defend Nest’s corporate culture and sales figures. Continue reading… | Continue reading
When Faily Brakes [Free] first launched a couple of months ago, I remember thinking to myself "Great, ANOTHER Verby Noun endless arcade game, BIG WHOOP!" Then I finally got around to playing it and was completely taken by surprise with just how darn fun it was. I guess you can't … | Continue reading
Sure, the idea of making a movie based on emojis may seem like an of-the-moment cultural cash grab — but what if the Spotify mobile app also had a starring role? According to The Wrap, that's the plan for the upcoming The Emoji Movie, and it's just one of many brand partnerships … | Continue reading
The first thing that greets your eyes when you open the packaging of the Fairphone 2 is a simple message: “Yours to open, yours to keep.” For added emphasis, these words are printed on the inside of the device, seen before you assemble it for the first time. These words represent … | Continue reading
During the second day of Facebook's F8 conference, the company showed off the latest prototype demo of its ToyBox virtual reality software. But this one offered a huge twist: VR selfiesSee also: Everything you need to know about Facebook's 10-year planIn the middle of his keynote … | Continue reading
When Google launched its Android N Beta Program last month, it promised regular updates every few weeks, and now we have our first ones. While there aren’t huge new features the likes of split-screen mode, there are some updates users will appreciate. Perhaps most notable, Google … | Continue reading
Google is updating the developer preview of its latest big Android update, Android N, to a new version today. The company has just released factory images of Developer Preview 2, which can be downloaded and manually installed on your device. But one of the great things about the … | Continue reading
If you preordered the Oculus Rift headset, you might still be waiting for it — but that’s not because of the Xbox One controller. Microsoft has debunked allegations that it is responsible for the delays customers are experiencing with their Oculus Rift headset orders. Yesterday, … | Continue reading
Facebook is putting their home-brewed app optimizer ReDex out into the world so that devs can use it on their own projects. | Continue reading
At Facebook's annual F8 developer conference yesterday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about the evolution of sharing on the social network, from text to photos to video to VR. He showed an old demo reel of two generic avatars — blue floating heads with a pair of blue floating hands … | Continue reading
With the recent announcement of the Apple CareKit, an open-source platform to simplify the development of healthcare apps for iOS devices, it appears that the digital health industry is primed to become even more robust in 2016. As the convergence of healthcare and technology con … | Continue reading
Facebook is planning to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into building new hardware, the company said today, and it's hired a star to lead it: Regina Dugan, who leads the Advanced Technologies and Projects Group at Google. Dugan will lead the new group, to be called Buildin … | Continue reading
Microsoft and Facebook are announcing today that the Facebook-led React Native open-source software for native mobile app development is getting Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support. The new UWP development software is available now. But Microsoft will be sharing the code as … | Continue reading
Google has released the second Android N Developer Preview! | Continue reading
Google today launched the second release of the Android N developer preview. You can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview. Google launched the first Android N developer preview just over a month ago. In pas … | Continue reading
Android N developer preview 2 has now arrived, and you can download it here! | Continue reading
We spend so much time on the internet that it's easy to overlook its strangeness. People with disorienting fake McDonald’s adventures can gain brief international fame. A Snapchat Story captured around a random California high school can lead to an appearance on The Ellen DeGener … | Continue reading
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, just showed how to take a selfie of yourself and a friend inside a virtual reality 360-degree photo. He showed off the demo during a keynote at the F8 event in San Francisco today. It’s part of Facebook’s plan to make VR, whic … | Continue reading
GoPro has hired Danny Coster, a member of Apple's industrial design team. Coster will take over as vice president of design, and will reportedly head up a new hardware design group within the company. The news was first reported by The Information.Coster isn't as well known as so … | Continue reading
Facebook today is showing off its latest unconventional equipment for bringing better Internet connectivity to more people. There are two new projects: the Terragraph antennas for distributing gigabit Internet in densely city environments using both Wi-fi and cellular signals, an … | Continue reading
Probably the most impressive of Facebook’s connectivity projects is its solar-powered Aquila drone for enabling Internet access in remote areas. But while the technology behind Aquila is impressive, more traditional terrestrial connectivity systems are often still more practical. … | Continue reading
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Facebook is building a new way to connect to the internet, employing millimeter-wave technology to connect buildings to the larger internet without fiber optic cable. Today at the F8 developers conference, Facebook detailed its new Terragraph system, calling it a "multi-node wire … | Continue reading
Date: From 12/05/2016 to 13/05/2016Venue: OsloMore informationA Nordic-French Event will be organized on 12-13 May, 2016, at the premises of the Research Council of Norway, to present and discuss the upcoming H2020 calls on rare diseases in the 2017 call from the Societal Challen … | Continue reading
Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly and even take a photo while you’re there, and today it demoed how at F8. Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer strapped into Oculus’s Toy Box social den. There, 360 photos will appear as handheld spheres you can rotate to look a … | Continue reading
React Native was originally developed by Facebook to allow its developers to take React, a framework for helping developers build single-page apps the company developed in-house, and allow them to use these same skills to build native mobile apps for iOS and Android. As the compa … | Continue reading
A new investment fund is seeking to raise as much as $100m over the next two years to fuel investments in the blockchain space. | Continue reading
Escape games are unique puzzle games where you're trapped and have to get out. They can be quite challenging and fun. Here are the best escape games for Android! | Continue reading
For many startups, the singular point of focus when you set out on your journey is getting users on board. Without users, you can’t demonstrate momentum and, frankly, that anyone gives a damn that your product exists. If users don’t give a damn, it’s hard for potential investors … | Continue reading
The first brain scans of people on LSD have revealed that the drug causes different regions of the brain to become more entangled and connected. This, researchers think, may contribute to the experience of losing oneself that many drug users report — a phenomenon generally referr … | Continue reading
Take Four, a new Chrome extension that allows you to discover artists and photographers worth following on Instagram, is an art admirers dream. Operating solely in new tabs, Take Four is not at all obtrusive; most of the time you’ll forget it’s there entirely. But once you open a … | Continue reading
Innovations like Augmented Reality (AR), NFC, etc., are bound to take the overall consumer-experience of e-commerce users to the next level. | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is the most popular Casino Role Play Game in the digital currency ecosystem. It is home of hundreds of skill and luck casino-based minigames you won’t easily find anywhere. The game is a complete mix of a role play game with an original casino game style where play … | Continue reading
Australia’s standards authority, Standards Australia, has asked the International Standards Organisation, commonly known as ISO, to commence work on setting global standards for blockchain technologies. Geneva-based ISO, the international standard-setting body that is widely reco … | Continue reading
Google today announced the launch of version 0.8 of TensorFlow, its open source library for doing the hard computation work that makes machine learning possible. Normally, a small point update like this wouldn’t be all that interesting, but with this version, TensorFlow can now r … | Continue reading
Today in two people you wouldn’t think would be in the same sentence, rapper Azealia Banks claims that Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey promised to tweet about her mixtape if she tweeted about Square’s Cashtag. Evident in his Twitter feed, he did not do so, and she threatened to “h … | Continue reading
Thanks to a brain implant, Ian Burkhart can use his hand to play video games for the first time since the accident that broke his neck six years ago. The finding, published today in Nature, is the... | Continue reading