There's just nothing like the pure joy that I feel when I hear that there's a new Game of Thrones trailer circulating the internet. Any "important" work that I'm doing comes to a halt at once, so I can immediately watch the footage frame by frame to puzzle out what to expect for … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode of AmyTV we’re looking at the problem of Umbrella Terms, how they creep into your copy to make your marketing bland and, more importantly, what you can do about i… | Continue reading
Tesla Motors is voluntarily recalling 2,700 Model X SUVs over safety concerns its third-row seat could move forward during a crash. SEE ALSO: The world is ready for the Model 3. Is Tesla?According to a tweet from Electrek, which includes a screen grab of a letter sent to a Model … | Continue reading
A new appeals court ruling has reopened the fight between Google and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. Filed this morning by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the core of the ruling is procedural, vacating an earlier injunction against a subpoena filed by Hood against Goog … | Continue reading
In late 2013, Tim Draper left the decades-old firm he’d cofounded, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but he suggested he might be back some day.Specifically, he told this reporter, “I am not leaving DFJ. Ever. I am just skipping a fund to do some work building Draper University” — which i … | Continue reading
No surprise here: The PC market started 2016 off poorly. Both Gartner and IDC have noted PC shipments were down globally, again. Gartner estimates worldwide PC shipments fell 9.6 percent to 64.8 million units in Q1 2016. In fact, the firm notes that this is the first quarter to s … | Continue reading
The application of Bitcoin technology has gone a long way since its introduction to the world in 2009. Now it has reached a new milestone as it gets implemented in the energy sector. Recently, a New York-based startup, Transactive Grid introduced blockchain enabled microgrid enab … | Continue reading
Dropbox has launched a new feature that allows you to share photos, videos, and other files directly with people you’re chatting with on Facebook Messenger. The feature is available within Messenger’s iOS and Android apps and you can either share directly through the messaging ap … | Continue reading
Papers, Please developer Lucas Pope has released a new playable demo for his upcoming first-person adventure game Return of the Obra Dinn. T… | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger now accepts Dropbox files for sharing directly in-app, without having to copy and paste a thing. Instead of finding a link — then sharing it — Messenger now supports direct sharing of Dropbox stuff. You can add a video, picture or text document, so long as you … | Continue reading
Seven years after its cancellation, Mad TV is making a comeback. Deadline reports that The CW has picked up the sketch comedy series for an eight-episode run on the network. There's no word yet on when the series will debut, but the show will feature new comics, as well as old ca … | Continue reading
Last night's NBA TV telecast featuring the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs generated an average of 2.6 million total viewers to become the network's most-viewed telecast of all time (regular season and playoffs). The game telecast -- peaking with an average of 3.7 mil … | Continue reading
The OPPO F1 Plus has a 16MP front facing selfie camera, 4GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, an octa-core 64-bit processor, and a 2850mAh battery all squeezed into a sleek 6.6mm thin body. Here is my full review. | Continue reading
The Impossible Project made wave years ago when it touted bringing back Type 600 Polaroid film through an extensive reverse engineering process. Now the company is releasing its own instant film camera – and it’s a fair bit more modern than your might expect. The camera accepts e … | Continue reading
Gaming consoles are finally back in China after a lengthy ban, and now a developer in that country is building games for those systems. Oasis Games, a Chinese studio that started in 2011, plans to release Koi for the Western PlayStation 4 market April 19. This makes Oasis the fir … | Continue reading
Fans of the kind of node-based RTS popularized by games like Galcon [$1.99] and Tentacle Wars [Free] will want to pay attention to NeoWars. A predecessor to Flash game Neo Circuit, this will have you distributing your resources between different nodes to attack up to 3 enemies at … | Continue reading
There are a lot of third-party event ticketing apps that uses Facebook Events to advertise upcoming shows – but when you click to buy tickets, you’re often led to another site or forced to download an app to make that purchase. Ticketmaster and Facebook have reportedly joined for … | Continue reading
In a new photo series by Reuben Wu (@itsreuben on Instagram) he extracts alien landscapes out of already-kind-of-great Earth landscapes by flying an LED light above the scene with a drone. The photographs look alien and eerie, but with that touch of optimistic exploration that ha … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Guaranteed residual revenue through subscription models is hugely attractive and highly scalable — but missteps could lead to costly attrition and churn. Join Netflix Head of Payments Luis Vargas to learn how payment models factor into success and how to turn subscrib … | Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter will launch on 27th May for PC, PS4 and Xbox One and its first gameplay footage has just now been released. The following 17-minute video - cut together from B-roll footage by AllGamesDelta - takes us through the basics of Sherlock's day-to-d … | Continue reading
Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 6, the stylus-equipped phablet, will be waterproof and dustproof to IP68 certification, SamMobile claims. Launched in February, Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge flagships are also IP68-certified, meaning they can be submerged in up to 5 feet of water … | Continue reading
Late last year, New Balance announced it was working on a limited edition sneaker with a 3D-printed midsole, which would be released sometime this April. Well it's April, and that sneaker, called the Zante Generate, will be available to purchase this week. Buying a pair won't be … | Continue reading
In 2006, Aydin Senkut was an unlikely candidate for a venture capitalist. A Turkish immigrant who arrived in Silicon Valley by way of Boston, Philadelphia and Istanbul, Senkut held product positions at Silicon Graphics and a small startup named Google. Now, a decade later, Senku … | Continue reading
Yesterday, ARHT (Augmented Reality Holographic Technology) announced that it had acquired the digital rights to Notorious B.I.G.’s — aka Christopher Wallace’s — likeness and that it would resurrect the deceased rapper as a hologram. Not wasting any time, ARHT is putting the holog … | Continue reading
At least there’s good news for Tesla; after you get the rear seats in your Model X fixed, you can take it for a spin on Rainbow Road from Mario Kart. One of the more dizzying levels of Nintendo’s endearing, enduring title is an easter egg for Tesla vehicles. You even have a cheat … | Continue reading
Twilight Struggle has been one of those board games I've heard a lot about but never managed to play (I lack real life friends). So, when I heard that Playdek was making a digital version of the game, I was excited because I would finally have the opportunity to get my hands on t … | Continue reading
John Carmack is a legend in video game programming, and he received a high award from the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) on Friday. He gave a short acceptance speech and did an interview that should inspire the whole game industry to do greater things. We’ve poste … | Continue reading
Android N is making it easier than ever for people with disabilities to move around on their favorite mobile operating system. | Continue reading
The Impossible Project is best known for keeping Polaroid's type 600 instant film format alive even after it was abandoned by the long-time camera maker in 2008. The company also refurbishes old Polaroid type 600 cameras in order to resell them. But today the Impossible Project b … | Continue reading
Ripple has hired SWIFT board member Marcus Treacher as its global head of strategic accounts. | Continue reading
Throughout my business career of some 60 years, I have always been fascinated by change — the dynamics of change and how businesses, governments and people respond to change. Or fail to respond. Throughout history, major technological trends have had a profound, and often invisib … | Continue reading
Apparently, Facebook, which is just 32% female worldwide, doesn’t have a gender pay gap, according to Lori Goler, head of people at Facebook.In the United States, women make about 76 cents for every dollar men earn, according to a 2016 Glassdoor study. The tech industry’s gender … | Continue reading
The National Football League has opted not to stream three London games scheduled for its upcoming season, according to Reuters. Instead, the NFL says it will focus on a recently announced partnership with Twitter, which will be home to 10 Thursday Night Football games. (You'll b … | Continue reading
Who doesn’t like instant film? Get out. The rest of you, stay and marvel. The Impossible Project, which 7 years ago started the, well, nearly impossible project of reverse-engineering Polaroid’s instant film manufacturing process, has graduated to making its own Polaroid-type cam … | Continue reading
Someone modified a Glock to look like a Nintendo Zapper, but we only showed you photos of the device when we first reported it. Now there is actual footage of the modified gun in use, by none other than Mario himself (or at least a gun enthusiast dressed as the famed character)As … | Continue reading
Easter eggs in video games are everywhere, but most don’t take nearly three decades to figure out. ‘Punch-Out’ — aka ‘Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out’ — is the obvious exception to this rule. Reddit user Midwesternhousewives used his weekend to discover an Easter egg in Punch-Out that tel … | Continue reading
It's public relations 101. What's the best way to draw attention away from bad news? Release some awesome news instead. That's what Tesla has done with this fantastic Mario Kart Easter egg. Right when the embargo lifted on the Model X recall this morning, Tesla CEO Elon Musk twee … | Continue reading
Lytro’s consumer cameras introduced the intriguing concept of being able to refocus your image after a shot was taken, but the execution wasn’t quite convenient enough to catch on with the masses. So now the company is aiming much more upmarket – professional movie-making – where … | Continue reading
Date: 18/04/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationThe European Fruit Juice Association and the PHBOTTLE consortium invites you to a half-day workshop dedicated to discussing biopolymers and their use in food and non‐food packaging applications. The EU-funded PHBOTTLE project set out … | Continue reading
For decades, Latin American elections have been rigged. In the 21st century, technology has abetted the practice, resulting in the region’s dirtiest elections over the past half-decade. And, when hacking an election, Bloomberg reports, using Bitcoin is crucial. As Enrique Peña Ni … | Continue reading
Periscope is testing a feature with beta users to allow hand-drawn doodles on top of live video streams, according to The Next Web. Called Sketching, the feature lets the broadcaster paint in an array of colors to bring attention to certain parts of a shot. You can even use an ey … | Continue reading
At CES 2016, New Balance and Intel announced they were working together to offer the first pair of sneakers outfitted with 3D-printed midsoles. Today, the companies are ready to make this reality in limited edition, but it’s going to cost ya. If you’ve got $400 handy and are in t … | Continue reading
What does virtual reality do for a game that doesn’t need to be played in VR at all? That’s the question I’ve been asking about Chronos, one of the best games on the Oculus Rift. Chronos is a gorgeous third-person action game that fits well in the Rift, using VR to turn players’ … | Continue reading
In early February we caught the first teaser for Choppa, an upcoming Choplifter-inspired side-scrolling rescue game from developer Parta Games. Choppa took the formula of rescuing people and delivering them to safety using a helicopter popularized by Choplifter and added in proce … | Continue reading
Banking consortium R3 discusses the implementation strategy behind its forthcoming distributed ledger tech Corda. | Continue reading
Although emoji fill in where words are lacking, their true meaning might be getting lost in translation. People interpret emoji differently, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. This holds true even if chatting is happening over the same operati … | Continue reading
After releasing its first public API less than two weeks ago, Ticketmaster has landed its first major integration with Facebook, first reported by Buzzfeed. The ticketing platform will begin to sell its tickets directly on Facebook in the next few weeks. (Image c … | Continue reading
A new site launching today wants to be the app store for bots. Botlist, as it’s called, is a third-party database that’s a catalog a lot of the bots currently available across platforms, including email, web, SMS, Slack, mobile, apps, and more. There’s no question that bots are a … | Continue reading