Hassan Whiteside is the NBA's new king of blocked shots. He just set a Miami Heat single-season record for rebounds per game. He's a few months away from signing a contract that should set him up financially for life. | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Verizon is the clear favorite in the upcoming bidding for Yahoo’s core Internet business, according to Wall Street analysts, in large part because the telecommunications company’s efforts to become a force in Internet content have gone relatively well under the leader … | Continue reading
NEW YORK — Convening appropriately enough on some of the priciest real estate in the U.S., the NBA’s Board of Governors is expected to discuss and approve its own brand of pricey real estate at its annual spring meeting that ends Friday. If an average two-bedroom Manhattan condom … | Continue reading
Not all important scientific research is cool looking, or has a cool name. But now and then you get something with both. These self-assembling carbon nanotubes are created with a process called Teslaphoresis. If you’ve read a more impressive-sounding sentence today, I’d like to h … | Continue reading
Apple may soon be radically changing the way it deals with developers in its App Store.The company is considering plans that would allow developers to pay for sponsored search results in the App Store, according to a new report in Bloomberg. SEE ALSO: The 100 best iPhone apps of … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we respect giant dino-cows. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the here and now. It's a chance to revisit old favorites, reflect on their position i … | Continue reading
As if we weren’t expecting it already, there’s a huge new clue Apple is about to rename OS X to MacOS. In discussing how it concluded product life spans for an Earth Day promotion, Apple writes “years of use, which are based on first owners, are assumed to be four years for MacOS … | Continue reading
Looks like Supercell is well on their way to making Clash Royale [Free] the mega-hit it sure seemed like it would be from day one of the game's soft launch. App analytics firm Newzoo has released their analysis of March in mobile gaming, and they estimate that Clash Royale has ma … | Continue reading
In my 20-plus years in tech, and now in Silicon Valley as part of a tech foundation that supports innovations, I’ve had the opportunity to partner with many entrepreneurs and help foster the growth of dozens of startups for social good. As a woman, the fact that I’m still working … | Continue reading
Jeremy Guillory, a Bay Area mechanical engineer, has filed a cross-complaint against 2.5-year-old Cruise Automation and its longtime CEO, Kyle Vogt, saying that the self-driving car company — which developed autopilot system for existing cars and is being acquired by General Moto … | Continue reading
Apple next App Store move could spell trouble for independent developers, according to a new report from Bloomberg. If Bloomberg’s sources are to be believed, Apple has about 100 employees working on new methods to help App Store discovery. Among them is paid advertising for busi … | Continue reading
Google Play Music is finally getting podcast support come this Monday, according to sources. | Continue reading
According to a recent study, Spanish men and women are some of the most unfaithful in all the world. In light of this, Durmet — a Spanish mattress company — has come up with a rather unorthodox solution to put an end to infidelity. The ‘Smarttress,’ while obviously named by a foc … | Continue reading
Google has hidden the tool to take an Android Wear screenshot, join us to see how it's done - Android customization | Continue reading
Search and discovery have both been longtime major pain points of Apple's App Store on iOS. We've seen some tweaks and improvements over time, but now it sounds like Apple is growing more determined to rework the way iPhone and iPad users find and install apps. Bloomberg reports … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Warriors-Rockets: By the Numbers HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — It was a record-setting season for the Golden State Warriors: 73 wins, 24 to start the season, 1,000 3-pointers, and a full, 82-game slate without ever losing two straight. These Warriors will stand as one of the best … | Continue reading
If you’re a fan of Shuddle’s uber-style driving service for getting your kids to school/playdates/etc, bad news: they’re shutting (shudding?) the doors tomorrow. Shuddles main pitch point was their focus on safety: they did intense background checks on drivers, monitored drivers … | Continue reading
[appicon]The odd week of new releases continues as more than a few games have trickled out later than anticipated. The latest is Umbrella's single-tap block-by-block platforming game Back To Square One [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/back-to-square-one/id1092258126 … | Continue reading
Apple today let slip another reference to its potential operating system rebranding from OS X to MacOS. As part of its new environmental webpage in honor of Earth Day 2016, the company lists off names when discussing how it evaluates product life spans. "Years of use, which are b … | Continue reading
Automakers, airlines, and US regulators will come together to discuss if airline industry safety practices can be applied to the automotive industry, according to a report from Automotive News. The meeting will be co-hosted by the administrators for the National Highway Transport … | Continue reading
Another tech startup seeking to transform aviation has closed its doors. Beacon sought to bring an all-you-can-fly option to business and leisure travelers starting on the East coast. The company’s approach was to charge membership fees, handle customers at the gate with a white- … | Continue reading
Mountain Retreat is a small structure set within a high country station, adjacent Lake Wakatipu, Central Otago, ne Zealand. | Continue reading
Gamers aren’t spending more than they did last year, but that’s only because many of them already have the latest hardware. New video game products generated $964.1 million in sales at United States retailers in March, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That is re … | Continue reading
For the next 10 days, Apple will send proceeds from 27 popular apps in the App Store to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of what it's calling "Apps for Earth." The list includes mobile games like Angry Birds 2 and SimCity BuildIt, camera app VSCO, and messaging service Line. … | Continue reading
Verizon is currently running a promotion to loop more users into taking advantage of Android Pay. | Continue reading
The encryption fight is heading for another debate in front of a Congressional committee. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight panel will host a hearing next Tuesday, "Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption: Industry and Law Enforcement Perspectives," that will fea … | Continue reading
The newest addition to Amazon's growing stable of TV programming is Time Out of Mind, a drama inspired by the music and writing of Bob Dylan. (The show gets its name from Dylan's 1997 LP, widely considered a return to form.) Lionsgate's TV division and writer-director Josh Wakely … | Continue reading
Sony’s console continues its sales streak. PlayStation 4 was the top-selling new gaming console at United States retailers last month, according to data from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group that Sony Interactive Entertainment provided to GamesBeat. PS4 has outsold the compet … | Continue reading
Canadian police have been in possession of a BlackBerry master encryption key since 2010, according to a pair of blockbuster reports today from Vice News and its sister site Motherboard. The reports say the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) used the key in a criminal investiga … | Continue reading
Designed by Auhaus Architecture, Barow House is an extensive renovation of a tiny weatherboard beach shack in Barwon Heads, Australia. | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest clash over privacy rights in the digital age, Microsoft is suing the U.S. government over a federal law that allows authorities to examine customer emails or online files without the individual's knowledge.The lawsuit comes as the tech industry is in … | Continue reading
A British startup is using the unique abilities of convolutional neural networks to do a sort of scaled-up version of Adobe’s content-aware fill — but instead of filling in the gaps in a picture, it’s imagining a whole new picture, larger and more detailed than the original. Kind … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: You could spend $10K to drive paid traffic and get some users — or you can growth-hack and land 40,000 downloads in just a few days. What’s the secret? Join top ASO gurus for this free half-hour master class in getting your app ranked, fast. Register here for free. “T … | Continue reading
Much of what you were taught in school about writing is not applicable to the web. For starters, readers do not read your copy — they scan bits and pieces. And they scan very quickly, so it’s crucial to grab their attention in as little time as possible. Even if you feel you’re n … | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: The Water Diviner Source: Complex Why we like it: Get inspired by the athlete, the one everyone loves to love, as he gets ready for his fifth and final Olympics in Rio. This Custom Feature in Complex, presented by Under Armour, takes you on a typical day in … | Continue reading
We got to see Snowhound and All 4 Games' ApeStorm: Full Bananas back at GDC, and now we know when it releases. So if you're going ape over the idea of getting vengeance on humanity for their sins by being a monkey piloting a zeppelin that gets points for destroying the creations … | Continue reading
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today. The latest build includes improvements to the Action Center, notifications, Cortana, Settings, emoji, Edge, and the Lock screen. Like the last mobile build, this one is only available for devices that shipped with Windows … | Continue reading
R3CEV's top lawyer talks about 8 proof-of-concepts in the works. But the areas he focused on won't necessarily be replaced by the technology. | Continue reading
Google today announced that its Google Drive application for Mac and Windows in the next few days will let users start to make more granular choices about which folders should be kept in sync locally. “Drive can store terabytes (upon terabytes), but there’s a good chance your com … | Continue reading
Podcasts are finally coming to Google Play Music, after the service announced it was adding the format back in October. According to an internal NPR email obtained by Android Police, Google has informed the public radio network that the podcasting platform will launch on Monday, … | Continue reading
Yesterday Amazon unveiled its latest e-reader, the Kindle Oasis. As promised by CEO Jeff Bezos, the Oasis is indeed top of the line — and it’s all-new.In fact, the design is the most radical departure Amazon has made to the Kindle e-reader lineup since it dropped the keyboard bac … | Continue reading
Google’s giving you more control over how you sync Drive files to your PC: you no longer have to sync all of your cloud files. A new option in the Google Drive for Mac and PC apps lets you select only the folders and subfolders you want to sync; that should save you a fair bit of … | Continue reading
Coachella is gettin' fancy. The music festival in Indio, California, kicks off its 17th year on Friday, and while its tried and true features will still be there — the Ferris wheel, the enormous art installations and more flower headbands than you ever asked for — there will als … | Continue reading
DDoS attacks take the top position in the list of threats faced by the online platforms. The Distributed Denial of Service attack is a method of cyber-attack where a website or a platform’s server is overloaded by request bombardment. These artificially generated requests general … | Continue reading
HR professionals know that tax day brings an avalanche of employee questions and last-minute procrastinators searching for missing forms, but 2016 grants a brief reprieve as filing day has been moved to Monday, April 18. | Continue reading
Marriage is a tricky, tricky act, isn't it? Quite often those joined in holy matrimony don't really fit well together, and even when they do, compromises must abound if there is to be any kind of happiness in their new union. And when the marriage is of two very different people, … | Continue reading
Instead of uploading to a catch-all "uploads" folder, Google Drive now lets you upload files directly to the folder of your choice. | Continue reading
The Neon Demon, Amazon's recent acquisition from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, has its first trailer. The clip shows Elle Fanning as Jesse, an aspiring model trying to stand out in a big, scary world of crazy lights and beautiful people. Eventually things take a dark turn, … | Continue reading