If you’re doing any serious astrophotography, a long exposure time is critical to get good, bright images of the night sky. But taking shots with an exposure for minutes at a time with a DSLR leads to the sensor heating up, which can add digital noise to your pictures. Conti … | Continue reading
The true impact of Samsung’s discontinuation of its Galaxy Note7 smartphone will cost the company approximately $2.6 billion (mid-3 trillion Korean won) in operating profit in both Q4 2016 and Q1 2017. Most of that will be realized during the last quarter of the year, and moving … | Continue reading
LeBron James has big plans for his beautiful basketball mind, college plans … someday. | Continue reading
Returning a product you bought online is inherently a statement of dislike, but smart retailers are quickly learning that they’re far better off if they shelve their defensive impulses and instead embrace your dissatisfaction with open arms. This is because it turns out that a sm … | Continue reading
Count Los Angeles Clippers forward Paul Pierce among the players who have weighed in on Kevin Durant's decision to leave Oklahoma City for the Golden State Warriors. | Continue reading
Uber, the ridesharing behemoth that recently began operating driverless cars and exploring self-flying drone taxis, can’t seem to catch a break these days in the legal arena. The New York State Department of Labor has ruled that two Uber drivers, Jakir Hossain and Levon Alesanian … | Continue reading
Count Los Angeles Clippers forward Paul Pierce among the players who have weighed in on Kevin Durant's decision to leave Oklahoma City for the Golden State Warriors. | Continue reading
Facebook video is heading to bigger screens. The social network now allows you to stream video from your smartphone to your television using Apple TV or Chromecast, Facebook announced Thursday. The functionality is available now for iPhone users and coming "soon" to Android. SEE … | Continue reading
LCDs are old hat, my friend. What you need is dozens of tiny spheres levitated and spun using ultrasonics. That’s what researchers at the Universities of Sussex and Bristol have cooked up, and it’s exactly as weird as you think. Read More | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Today, NextEV celebrated the ribbon cutting and grand opening of its new headquarters, located in the heart of the Silicon Valley. The 85,000 square foot facility at 3200 North First Street in San Jose, California, will house approximately... | Continue reading
GUEST: If you listen to chatter lately, you’d be led to believe that casual dining chain restaurants are about to go the way of the dinosaur — a relic of an age when couples, families, and even young singles would go out for drinks and dinner served by friendly staff. Consumers a … | Continue reading
It’s the end of the Chilton era for World of Warcraft. After a decade of overseeing one of the biggest games ever made, World of Warcraft director Tom Chilton is leaving. The designer announced in a blog today that he is stepping down from the lead role on Blizzard’s massively mu … | Continue reading
Most won’t have noticed a recent $6.5M Series A for a company called Mobilize, but it’s indicative of a major change occurring in businesses today. Companies’ growing reliance on a distributed workforce have been occupying headlines and podcasts for the past couple of years. Howe … | Continue reading
Mobile devices (and wearables) are the obvious fit for biometric security measures. Whether it’s the seemingly far-fetched RFID or NFC implants, or more standard faire like retinal scanning and fingerprint sensors, security that exceeds the common password is on the horizon — or … | Continue reading
Sugar pumpkin + fresh ginger and a ginger snap crust = a prize-winning pie! | Continue reading
Sugar pumpkin + fresh ginger and a ginger snap crust = a prize-winning pie! | Continue reading
Consumer virtual reality has a clear new leader today, and it’s the just-launched PlayStation VR. Unequivocally, this is the best VR experience currently available outside of the kinds of high-flying, super secret test rigs that exist out there for army training or whatever that … | Continue reading
Twitter confirmed that it has begun testing a new “Explore” page; a feature designed to promote content discovery on the platform. | Continue reading
Twitter continues to make changes in what seems like an existential journey to define itself. The service confirmed that it has begun testing a new “Explore” page — a feature designed to promote content discovery...read moreThe post NEWS: Twitter Tests New Explore Page Possibly t … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: New lending technologies improve customer satisfaction and reduce risk by digging into granular customer data: personal, transactional, application, product-selection, and more. Join this VB Live event for insight into how and why fintech innovation is driving adoption a … | Continue reading
mParticle announced today that it has raised $17.5 million in Series B funding. The New York City startup helps marketers collect user data through a variety of services and then funnel that data to other marketing and analytics tools. Co-founder and CEO Michael Katz said this no … | Continue reading
Introduction The thin layer of frost, brisk air, and falling leaves all signify one thing: it is finally that time of year when it is socially acceptable to eat hundreds of tiny chocolate bars in one sitting. October is hands down the best month of the year. By day, you can enjoy … | Continue reading
Facebook wants videos on its platform to live on as many screens as possible, so the social network has added Apple TV and Chromecast support starting today. Now, when you watch a video on Facebook using your smartphone, you’ll see a small button in the upper righthand corner tha … | Continue reading
GUEST: A very familiar story is unfolding beneath our feet. Consumer behavior changed over the past 20 years as audiences shifted from traditional media to digital media. The industry experienced massive growth in content production, consumption, and ad spend thanks to this shift … | Continue reading
Apple’s CarPlay, which is a sleek iOS-style infotainment system, has been capable of communicating with supported vehicles wirelessly since the launch of iOS 9 last year. Until today, however, not a single car supported the feature. Now, BMW’s new 2017 5 Series, announced today, … | Continue reading
Google appears to be just as fed up with the constant lies during the presidential election as we are, so now it’s helping you set the facts straight. The company today introduced a new feature that will tag and help find “fact checking in large news stories.” Tagged articles wil … | Continue reading
I’ve spent quite a bit of the last few months with headsets strapped to my face. Whether that has enriched my life significantly or left it in shambles I cannot say, but I will mention that the games are at least starting to get really fun and the video content is only getting be … | Continue reading
This morning, fintech startup Affirm announced a new $100 million credit line from Morgan Stanley. The money will go directly to supporting the company’s current financial products that help customers purchase goods and spread their expenses over a period of time. Morgan Stanley … | Continue reading
A maker of delivery drones called Zipline began nationwide delivery of blood and other critical medical supplies in Rwanda today, through a partnership with the Rwandan government.The program strikes a hopeful note about drones, following news earlier this week that ISIS fighters … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: When MaxPlay debuted its new game engine for the cloud era in 2015, it wanted disrupt the business of providing tools for game developers. But the company fell short of those goals, and after a failed transaction, MaxPlay laid off most of its 70 employees on September … | Continue reading
Venezuela is going through severe financial problems, and it appears that bitcoin has arrived to bring it out of its misery. | Continue reading
Rwanda has launched the world's first national drone delivery system, which will be used to deliver blood to patients in remote areas of the country. The drones, manufactured by California robotics company Zipline, will begin delivering blood to 21 transfusing facilities in the w … | Continue reading
Today Google added a new “fact-check” tag to its popular Google News service. The site aggregates popular timely news from multiple sources and has traditionally grouped them with tags like “opinion,” “local source,” and “highly cited.” Now readers can see highlighted fact-checks … | Continue reading
HP isn’t out of the woods just yet. In an address to this year’s 2016 Securities Analyst Meeting, Dion Weisler, the President and CEO of the newly formed HP Inc., attempted to put a positive spin on a tricky situation. “I’m proud of the progress we have made in our first year as … | Continue reading
A slimmer PlayStation 4 wasn’t enough to slow down Microsoft’s momentum. Xbox One was the top-selling home console in the United States September, according to data from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. This marks the third straight month that Microsoft’s gaming system has b … | Continue reading
During a special fan event for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling pulled the equivalent of Steve Jobs’ "One more thing," and dropped some hints about what the future of the franchise might look like: she’s planning a total of five films, rat … | Continue reading
Samsung’s public relations response to its faulty and fiery Galaxy Note 7 caused more serious problems that the defective device itself. Following confirmed reports since August that the batteries in the device caught fire, the company recalled and replaced the faulty phones, say … | Continue reading
“Index… ring… pinky… index… middle…”Nathan Copeland is telling a researcher which of his fingers he feels a touch on. But the researcher is touching a robotic hand, not Copeland’s, whose hand hasn’t felt a thing in over a decade. Read More | Continue reading
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton revealed her stance on the GIF debate today during a San Francisco fundraiser. Yes, in a country divided in practically every imaginable way, the pronunciation of an acronym will please one group of people, and perturb another.Refer … | Continue reading
Hillary says Trump “makes you just want to look at cat GIFs”, and she even pronounced it correctly.* Today Hillary Clinton appealed to the tech crowd of San Francisco at a campaign event, discussing technology in more depth than her or Trump has in weeks. Clinton said that becau … | Continue reading
A risk assessment agency within the UK government recently published comments on blockchain technology.Source | Continue reading
GUEST: Gartner predicts that by 2018, 20 percent of business content will be authored by machines. This figure is set to continue to rise as chatbots become increasingly useful and the users increasingly accepting. The main attention on chatbots up until now has been on how they … | Continue reading
Cyber security is playing an starring role in the drama surrounding the question of who will be the next president of the United States. “The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough,” Republican nominee for president Donald Trump said, when asked about securing American secr … | Continue reading
Bern, 5 October 2016 The PREFORMA team organised a workshop at iPRES to dive into the larger narrative of the project, show the three different tools in development, detail the standardisation strands and get a conversation started between potential users of the tools with the pe … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Pathbreaker Ventures has closed its first venture capital fund to invest $12.9 million in early stage companies in emerging technologies. Ryan Gembala, general partner of Pathbreaker, is looking to fund companies developing technologies such as virtual reality, augment … | Continue reading
In 2008 the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the UNESCO – Clearing House for Literary Translation launched the first World Directory of Children’s Book Translators dedicated to all professionals in.. | Continue reading
Everyone agrees that the cryptocurrency technology is still in its nascent stages. At this stage, it is necessary for the digital currency industry to have a conducive atmosphere to further innovation. And such an atmosphere is feasible only if there is an understanding between t … | Continue reading