Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day sees deep discounts on various SanDisk storage products. | Continue reading
Tacoma, the next project from Gone Home developer Fullbright, will now launch in spring 2017.The story-based sci-fi game had previously been slated for a mid-to-late 2016 arrival on PC and Xbox One - a date which Fullbright has now decided was simply too soon for the amount of wo … | Continue reading
From a talk by @aysylu22 at QCon London on modern computer science applied to distributed syst... | Continue reading
The company behind San Diego Comic-Con is trying to expand its control of geekdom beyond a single weekend in July. It's teaming up with Lionsgate to launch a streaming service with classic sci-fi and fantasy titles, live streams of select SDCC panels, and original programming, in … | Continue reading
Protecting your phone from prying eyes with your fingerprint is great. Now you can keep your emails locked up and secure, too.A new update to Microsoft's Outlook app, arguably the best email app for iOS, now lets users protect their emails with their fingerprints using iOS device … | Continue reading
Facebook-owned WhatsApp already encrypts your messages sent via the service, but that additional security doesn’t apply to voice calls at present. However, according to The Guardian, that will change “within weeks,” thereby preventing the authorities from accessing any of the con … | Continue reading
It's all about timing, say the researchers from Stanford University responsible for creating the incredibly strong microrobots above. If you want to move large weights with tiny bots, they say, it's better to concentrate on precise movements executed in perfect harmony, than powe … | Continue reading
Sony's internet TV service, PlayStation Vue, has been a bit slow to roll out since launching a year ago. Before today, it was only available in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, and Miami. A big part of why Vue has been expanding so slowly is be … | Continue reading
When people hear the name, Samsung, they think of the most potent force in the world of technology. We agree, of course, but we also think of something simpler and slightly more meaningful: to us, the name is synonymous with a tireless pursuit of innovation and a keen eye for whe … | Continue reading
Kilka tygodni temu ogłosiłam na swoim profilu Instagramowym akcję picia świeżych soków. Chętnych poprosiłam o umieszczanie swoich zdjęć ze świeżo przygotowanymi sokami z oznaczeniem #makecookingeasier. Przedsięwzięcie zdecydowanie przerosło moje oczekiwania! Każdego dnia czekały … | Continue reading
Google doesn’t just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing other online services using the widely used SAML standard. Today, Google is adding a few new options to this … | Continue reading
Square is acquiring the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics service, and will be deploying the team of data scientists to its Square Capital team. Square tracks merchants’ transaction history through its services in order to better determine their eligibility for loan … | Continue reading
Samsung's Gear VR headset provides a great experience for its $99 price point, but it can't match up to some of the incredible stuff you can do with a motion tracking system, like the one available with HTC's Vive Pre. So last night at the SXSW festival in Texas Samsung introduce … | Continue reading
SXSW is technically not over – but every year, it seems we know the clear darling way before the festival ends. 2016 hasn’t offered any obvious fan-favorites like Meerkat or Secret (RIP x2), so I’ll just go ahead and nominate Pied Piper for the win. Pied Piper is a fictional star … | Continue reading
The National Autistic Society (NAS) is launching a series of pop-up shops next month, to mark World Autism Awareness Week. | Continue reading
Jasná (Slovakia), 14-16 March 2016 For the 19th time, the beautiful surroundings of Low Tatras will create a scenery for the ILIDE 2016 Conference where as usually the digital preservation, digital collections access and digital processing experts from around the world will gathe … | Continue reading
With the release of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge on Friday, it took only a couple of days for the world to get an extensive look at just how much damage the smartphones can take beyond scratching and burningSquareTrade, a smartphone insurance company, took the brand-new Gala … | Continue reading
Eigentlich war es ein guter Move, als Microsoft Bitcoins als Währung für den hauseigenen Windows App Store eingeführt hatte. Das Experiment scheint aber nicht gelungen und so hat Microsoft angekündigt, für Windows 10 keine... | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced its support for Cross-Network Play, allowing Xbox owners to play games with anyone on PC or PlayStation.First, the caveats - this invitation has yet to be taken up. There's no suggestion you'll be teaming up with clans of Destiny or The Division anytime so … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. This week we saw a nice mix of updates from big names, indies, free-to-play, and paid games. A rare moment of balance. Of course, you can keep an eye … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch piece, we outlined the range that we would be focusing on for the early morning session in the bitcoin price market, and noted that an element of indecision across the board (induced by the ongoing debate over the technical fundamentals of bi … | Continue reading
Skype for Web is getting more useful today as it adds a few features to bring it to parity with the desktop apps. First up, you can now call cellphones and landlines right from the Web app. As expected, you’ll have to pay, but it’s a good and fairly affordable option (prices star … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Go on. Take a moment for yourself. Why not sit on the beach, sip a piña colada, and just enjoy the view? That was, after all, the promise of running an ecommerce business — doing little to nothing while your website makes money for you in the background. In reality, we … | Continue reading
It’s certainly not the first company to start work on a pay-by-selfie technique but Amazon has filed a patent for a new system that’ll have you spending your money quicker than you already do… on Amazon. It’ll work by using facial recognition to compare a selfie taken at the tran … | Continue reading
At SXSW this weekend, Jake Gyllenhaal charmed his way to raucous laughter and exuberant applause for a movie that was frankly awful.Demolition, written by Bryan Sipe and directed by Dallas Buyer's Club and Wild's Jean-Marc Vallée, tells the story of Davis Mitchell, a man who can' … | Continue reading
Following a claim that 13,000 bitcoins & 300,000 litecoins were stolen by a hacker, a class action lawsuit and its subsequent insolvency, Cryptsy has now revealed a “reward contract” with ‘Cryptcracker’ to retrieve the stolen coins in exchange for a ‘base’ reward of 1750 BTC, app … | Continue reading
Skype for Web, the browser-based version of Microsoft’s popular communications software introduced last year, is getting a slew of new features that brings it more in line with its desktop and mobile counterparts – most notably the added ability to dial mobile phones and landline … | Continue reading
Attention Instagrammers: You no longer have to do math!The single most annoying thing about Instagram is that it displays a photo or video's upload date as so many "weeks" ago as opposed to the date. Change is finally coming. Over the weekend, we noticed the Instagram app now sho … | Continue reading
Skype today updated Skype for Web with a slew of new features. The service now lets you call mobile phones and landlines, watch YouTube videos, add non-Skype users, and get notifications. Launched in June 2015, Skype for Web is the browser version of Skype — just fire up web.skyp … | Continue reading
The humble connector is by no means a source of much excitement. But when you stop and think about it, the connector can enable some amazing things. Lattice Semiconductor and MediaTek are today announcing advances in delivery of 4K videos over universal serial bus (USB Type-C) co … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Conference doesn’t have the marketing of flashy video game conferences like E3, Gamescom, or Tokyo Game Show, but it’s no less important. For 27 years, the event has been a place for people and the games industry and the press to meet, mingle, and learn from o … | Continue reading
Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering an unsaleable overabundance and/or producing knobbly fruit and veg that gets devalued on aesthetic grounds. But what happens when you … | Continue reading
An der Stanford University werden zur Zeit klitzekleine, sogenannte uBots entwickelt. Kleine Roboter, die wie Insekten aussehen und gerade mal 15 Gramm wiegen. Nun schafften sechs dieser uBots ein fast zwei Tonnen schweres Auto zu ziehen. Wie geht... | Continue reading
It seems Microsoft is jumping off the Bitcoin bandwagon.The company's online store has quietly announced — via a FAQ update — that it's no longer accepting the cryptocurrency. SEE ALSO: The Bitcoin blockchain: Could it be the biggest invention since the Internet?"You can no longe … | Continue reading
The global game market is expected to reach $100 billion by 2019, according to a new estimate by the Open Gaming Alliance, a nonprofit trade group focused on gaming. The group released the data at an event at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC). DFC Intelligence, a separate res … | Continue reading
Ranelagh House is an old Georgian townhouse recently renovated by Dublin-based design studio Kingston Lafferty Design. The Ranelagh House ... | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: News is an industry in which the smallest nugget of information can travel quickly from outlet to outlet, gathering steam and the illusion of credibility as it goes. Such was the case with a rumor that began on the Chinese microblogging service Weibo earlier this week. … | Continue reading
No show likes to troll its audience quite like The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there’s something unique about The Walking Dead’s ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue … | Continue reading
There's a new Oddworld game, subtitled Soulstorm, due for launch in late 2017.Publisher Oddworld Inhabitants announced the title via oddworld.com/soulstorm, where a handful of story details are revealed.Soulstorm will be a follow-up to Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, itself a reimaginin … | Continue reading
Decentralized blockchain prediction market project Augur has officially entered beta following its crowdfunding effort last year. | Continue reading
Next week the first piece of downloadable content for Fallout 4 launches, and today Bethesda has released a new trailer showing just what's in store for those jumping back into the wasteland. Called "Automatron," the debut DLC features a character known only as the Mechanist, who … | Continue reading
This weekend, Apple’s App Store head Phil Schiller responded to complaints that spam apps and rip-offs were appearing in the App Store’s “New” and “What’s Hot” sections for certain categories. Unfortunately, this has been a longtime issue for Apple’s third-party application marke … | Continue reading
Or do we even need one? At Disrupt New York in May, we’ll try to get to the bottom of that question. In a panel on the new frontier of digital dating, we’ll be bringing together some of the freshest minds in the space to discuss how niche dating services could be the next big thi … | Continue reading
As the battle between Apple and the FBI continues, The Guardian reports that other tech companies are close to announcing security improvements. Among them is Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, which the publication says is set to expand encryption to voice calls "within … | Continue reading