With Apple's Mac lineup looking old and dusty (almost all of them are due for refreshes), it's no surprise startups are looking to drum up interest for their products and innovations with dubious rumor-spreading.The questionable Reddit post (since deleted) involved a "smart magic … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: HTC is poised to release a new mid-range Android 7.0 Nougat-powered smartphone this month, the HTC Bolt. Although it closely resembles the flagship HTC 10 in appearance, it’s actually a larger device, with a 5.5-inch FHD display. Known internally at HTC as Acadia, acco … | Continue reading
There are things you do at a concert that you wouldn’t during your everyday life. When thousands of people are pumping their fists in time to the beat, you do it, too. When they chant “encore” in unison, so do you. I did all of those things while attending my first concert from H … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, the Xbox One once again outsells the PlayStation 4, a mobile game player that spent $2 million on one app is now leading a boycott against the title, and … well, just a ton of virtual reality news. Enjoy, and have a great we … | Continue reading
An opportunity presented itself to participate in a whole building open house last night at our main HQ in Ada, Michigan! | Continue reading
I haven’t used a Lenovo laptop as my main computer for years. In fact, the last time I touched a Lenovo laptop for more than a few hours was when I used to manage a fleet of them in a corporate environment before joining The Verge. Lenovo ThinkPads are the de facto laptops of the … | Continue reading
InnoGames, the Hamburg-based developer and publisher of successful browser games such as Elvenar, Tribal Wars, The West, and Grepolis, is going to the next level.MTG (Modern Times Group), the Swedish digital entertainment company, has acquired a 35% stake in the company for an es … | Continue reading
A Russian government agency focused on anti-trust regulation is testing blockchain to exchange and secure documents. Source | Continue reading
Apple is on a research & development spree! The company has announced a bunch of new R&D centers over the past few months, and R&D spendings have skyrocketed. This time, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company plans to open a new center in Japan during a visit in Tokyo, acc … | Continue reading
Diversity is central to TechCrunch’s mission. We believe that everyone, regardless of background, should have access to the immense possibilities of the tech world. We also believe that a diversified workforce can only benefit technology businesses and society at large. In that s … | Continue reading
Cozmo and I are still getting to know each other. It’s been a few days and we’ve warmed to one another, sure, but there’s still a lot of work to be done and blocks to be stacked. I was there when he first woke up, shook himself awake and opened his big, bright eyes, tentatively r … | Continue reading
Anki has created an amazing toy in Cozmo, a cute robot toy that makes use of the company’s deep artificial intelligence research. It shows that Anki has started to figure out how to marry years of A.I. research with a consumer product that has a real personality. Instead of cold … | Continue reading
Human beings have an uneasy relationship with robots. We’re fascinated by the prospect of intelligent machines. At the same time, we’re wary of the existential threat they pose, one emboldened by decades of Hollywood tropes. In the near-term, robots are supposed to pose a threat … | Continue reading
TechCrunch writer Megan Rose Dickey is becoming a White House regular, and recently attended the first ever South By South Lawn festival at the Presidential HQ. I spoke to her about the experience for this week’s episode of TCBC, and we also discuss her first trip from earlier th … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: A pattern from the collective unconscious of the universe. ... | Continue reading
The request comes amid scrutiny by privacy advocates and civil liberties groups about the legal authority and technical nature of the surveillance program, first revealed by Reuters last week. | Continue reading
According to StackOverflow’s 2016 Developer Survey, participating in a mentorship program is more highly correlated with job salary than a…Continue reading on JavaScript Scene » | Continue reading
Famous film directors as Ron Howard, Roberto Benigni, Kenneth Branagh and Matteo Garrone chose Tuscany as a movie set. | Continue reading
If you were worried about Sony's walled garden limiting your enjoyment of the PlayStation VR, you can breathe easy now. | Continue reading
Wir haben ernsthafte Zweifel, dass es wirklich Sinn macht, einen Plattenteller zum Schweben zu bringen, denn ob ein Magnet wirklich in der Lage ist, den so rund, ohne äußere Einflüsse und obendrein plan laufen zu lassen, wagen wir noch... | Continue reading
Facebook-owned virtual reality (VR) firm Oculus has acquired InfiniLED, an Irish startup specializing in low-power LED displays. Founded in 2010, InfiniLED was spun-out from the Tyndall National Institute, a research hub specializing in photonics and micro/nanoelectronics that’s … | Continue reading
The demise of reading may be over-exaggerated. The conventional view holds that reading is falling out of fashion and being replaced by video watching. Young people in particular prefer to watch videos rather than read text, according to that perception. However, young people pre … | Continue reading
Passwords are hard to remember and less secure than you think. Password UX needs a serious facelift. Here's how you can improve your password UX. | Continue reading
There's just something about trying on a Halloween costume for the first time that would make anyone giddy with excitement.Maybe you're not even into Halloween that much, and you do the bare minimum every year by reluctantly slapping on some vampire fangs. That's fine! But even t … | Continue reading
[…]The post Bitcoin Network’s Hashrate Gets a Boost with Updated BitFury 16nm Chip appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
The iOS App Store has been a huge boon for indie developers, offering devs a place to sell apps to a massive audience that’s all already running the same operating system and hardware. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Chatbots are the Now Big Thing and, of course, you want to be on board. But if you misstep, you’ll be hurting your business rather than hurtling it into the future. Join this VB Live event for the results of our exclusive chatbot study, plus real-world insights from experts into … | Continue reading
Yahoo has today reversed its decision to prevent Yahoo Mail users from being able to automatically forward their emails to another address – a key feature that makes leaving one email service for another an easier process. Earlier this month, Yahoo Mail disabled this now-standard … | Continue reading
Es sieht immer gut aus. Diese flexiblen Displays, die von einer Smartphonezukunft träumen, in der man so ein Ding irgendwie... ja, was eigentlich? Nur ein flexibles Display löst ja noch kein Problem, denn der Rest muss mindestens ebenso biegsam... | Continue reading
PITCH is the startup competition at Web Summit that brings together the world’s leading early-stage startups for a live on-stage battle. After a week of deliberating over 1,000 applications, our judges have now chosen the shortlist of companies for PITCH at Web Summit 2016.The po … | Continue reading
Gree, the Japanese game company that owns mobile games such as Modern War, hit the gold mine with Stephen Barnes of Houston. The 59-year-old owner of an appliance store has spent more than $2 million in Modern War, as one of the leaders of a clan that has been around for more tha … | Continue reading
Yahoo has applied for a patent on a new mass-surveillance advertising method that would embed sensors and monitors into billboards, signs, and other advertisements. If you can see an ad, it can see you -- at least, in Yahoo's brave new world. | Continue reading
Looking for an affordable 4K television for your living room? Consider grabbing this slick 55-inch Samsung UHDTV from Dell. This 2016 model is still relatively new, but it's already getting a steep price cut. Even better, Dell is throwing in a $250 eGift card on top if you act fa … | Continue reading
Buckle up, YouTube! There’s now a mashup between Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty and the smash-hit game Fallout 4 – and it looks pretty wild. In anticipation of the show’s third season, YouTuber UpIsNotJump has decided to recreate an entire episode of Rick and Morty in Fallout 4. The … | Continue reading
Nathan Copeland is the first paralyzed person in the world to regain an "almost natural" feeling in his fingers. His brain was implanted with four electronic chips connected to a robotic arm, bypassing his damaged spine. The implants stimulated the parts of his brain that are ass … | Continue reading
Google is again stepping up its efforts to provide U.S. voters with all the information they need ahead of Election Day with the addition of ballot information to Google Search results. Web users who search for a query like “who’s on my ballot,” will now be presented with detaile … | Continue reading
As a dedicated lover of cyan, magenta, and yellow I welcome Mr. Jones’ addition to the color – or colour – canon. The Colour Venn uses overlapping translucent circles of yellow, red, and blue to display the time. It has an automatic movement, steel case, and leather strap. Mr Jon … | Continue reading
Tommy John surgeries have seen a marked rise across just about every level of baseball over the past several years. The procedure, which rebuilds a pitcher torn ulnar collateral ligament, has been performed on around a quarter of active major league pitchers according to numbers … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Yes. You read that right. If you send a push notification to a mobile user based on events particular to that user, rather than a notification to every user at the same time, you’ll get a 2,770 percent increase in engagement. That’s according to a new study released to … | Continue reading
Pokémon Sun and Moon’s release for 3DS rapidly approaches, and the Pokémon Company is unveiling eight new Pokémon unique to the new games, including six evolutions of Sun/Moon characters and two Alola-region variants of existing pocket monsters.The new Pokémon include two evoluti … | Continue reading
The Instagram app is finally available for Windows 10 PCs and tablets.The app, which took over six months to arrive after being announced at Build 2016, offers native Windows 10 features such as Live Tiles, notifications and the ability to view Stories.SEE ALSO: Instagram's draft … | Continue reading
This week on Vergecast, we have the exclusive interview with our tech and transportation reporter Jordan Golson, who has been reporting nonstop on the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 debacle. Nilay, Lauren, and Paul welcome Jordan to the show to talk about the recent events regarding Samsu … | Continue reading
This week in space: Obama wants a Mars shot, you can help NASA search for gravity waves via the magic of distributed computing, and a Jupiter-class planet with rings so huge, they'd nearly reach the Sun from Earth. | Continue reading
This quarter’s funding was marked by both very slow funding and a small number of overall deals. In the third quarter of 2016, 35 unicorns raised a collective $8.38 billion from 38 funding events. This represents a staggering decrease in funding compared to the third quarter of 2 … | Continue reading
Like humans, robots that are working hard generate a lot of heat, a byproduct that adds stress to their systems and limits the amount of time they can be active before they need to recharge. One of the things that makes humans such good distance runners is our ability to sweat, a … | Continue reading
Russian payments firm QIWI has joined the R3 blockchain consortium.Source | Continue reading
While the Apple Watch Series 2 has been available since mid-September, the exact release date for the Nike+ version of the watch has not been available — until now. French site WatchGeneration and 9to5Mac noticed Apple has posted an Oct. 28 launch date for the Nike+ Apple Watch S … | Continue reading
If you’re tired of managing multiple controllers for different devices, the KlikR universal remote control is a great solution. This coin-sized device lets you seamlessly control any connected device from your phone — even your air conditioner. For a limited time, you can pick up … | Continue reading