Ottm is a crowd-sourced project to bring wooden smartwatch bands to the market. For every band sold, Ottm is planting a tree in a national forest. | Continue reading
On Thursday, a report from ZDNet claimed Microsoft was planning to build ad blocking right into its new Microsoft Edge web browser. We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's not going to happen.Mashable has confirmed that Microsoft is not building native ad-blocking featur … | Continue reading
The tedious wait for Tesla’s Model 3 continues. Tonight Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to unveil the company’s first mass-market car, the Model 3, at its design studio in Hawthorne, California. You can watch the event live on Tesla’s website starting at 8:30 p.m. PT (11:30 p.m. ET) … | Continue reading
Should we set the record straight once and for all? Because some of these bad smartphone manners are really starting to get to me! | Continue reading
Writers who work on children’s books or are looking for a unique challenge might be intrigued by Cleartext, a barebones text editor for Macs that doesn’t allow you to use anything other than the 1,000 most common words in the English language.SEE ALSO: This writing app deletes ev … | Continue reading
Kevin Hart is gearing up to serve comedy all day, every day. Canadian-American entertainment company Lionsgate announced today that it is entering a partnership with Hart's company Hartbeat Digital to launch Laugh Out Loud — a video-on-demand service just for comedy content.Hart … | Continue reading
Earlier this month we checked out the trailer for Go Surf, a new one-touch endless surfing game that had a really killer visual style. Developer Diverso Games has got in touch with us to let us know that Go Surf now has an official release date, and should be arriving on the App … | Continue reading
The recent announcement that Facebook would soon allow all publishers to access its Instant Articles platform wasn’t the only change coming to the platform. The social network also told The Wall Street Journal that it plans to enable publishers to place video ads into content pub … | Continue reading
Jon Snow, who is obviously very dead and never coming back, may have been the key to the whole A Song of Ice and Fire story. Whoops!At least, that's what Andrew Beveridge and Jie Shan of Math Horizons argue in a new research paper that maps out the insanely complicated social net … | Continue reading
Daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel have voluntarily ceased college sports betting indefinitely in all US states as part of a deal with the NCAA. The action takes effect following the conclusion of the NCAA March Madness tournament on April 4th, according to a repor … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 11 has finally shuttered its PS2 and Xbox 360 servers, Square Enix has announced.We knew this was coming as Square made the announcement last year, but the publisher never listed a specific date for the closure. The PS2 version launched way back in May 2002, at leas … | Continue reading
You thought yesterday’s Build 2016 keynote was long? Day 2 was no different. If you didn’t sit through the entire keynotes for both days, here’s a quick recap of what you missed on this second half of the conference. All about Azure Today, we’re starting Microsoft’s cloud computi … | Continue reading
Following yesterday’s news about bringing bots to the Skype platform, Microsoft today unveiled two more SDKs for its Skype platform which will allow businesses and application developers a way to integrate Skype’s capabilities into their own applications. On stage at its annual B … | Continue reading
The first thing I have to mention before I launch into my tirade is that I'm no teen expert. Sure, I recently rewatched season 1 of Gossip Girl, putting my mental age at 17. Yes, I'm a proud member of the #vox-teens (for 25 and under!!) Slack chatroom. I know full well that they' … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Developing for Windows 10 might sound complicated. But 14-year-old Mihir Kasmalkar figured it out. Now he and his classmates at the Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, California — with a little help from Microsoft — are preparing to send a MinnowBoard Max running th … | Continue reading
The dinner was a Japanese-inspired six-course meal made by a chef in Brooklyn. The sample menu included dishes like "steamed silken tofu with edamame sauce" and "stuffed potato ball in Dashi soup" and a roasted green tea crème brûlée for dessert. For a night out in New York City, … | Continue reading
TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on April 15th! Bryan Schreier and Bill Coughran from Sequoia Capital will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportun … | Continue reading
Voice detection has come to Twitter Fabric by way of Nuance, the company behind the powerful Dragon voice-to-type platform. SpeechKit is Nuance’s plugin for Fabric apps, offering cloud-based speech recognition and natural text-to-voice interactions for users. It can be installed … | Continue reading
The US Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is looking to establish a framework for regulating financial technologies like blockchain. | Continue reading
Microsoft’s new Windows Ink platform was probably the biggest feature coming in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, but one big piece of news was left out of the keynote presentation at Build 2016: Microsoft and Wacom are partnering to create a new ‘universal’ stylus than can work … | Continue reading
The Financial Stability Board has discussed and reviewed distributed ledger or blockchain technology in a wider meeting covering its priorities in 2016, during a discussion in Tokyo over the past two days. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a common platform that sees the comin … | Continue reading
The best action cameras are still susceptible to capturing super shaky footage. A new company called Revl has a solution to this problem — it's called the Arc, and it's the first action camera with built-in, motorized image stabilization.At first glance, the Arc doesn't look all … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Next week, eight VR startups are hoping to retrace Oculus’s path. They’ll participate at the company’s 2016 Emerging Companies Summit, in a session called the VR Showcase. Each will have an opportunity to describe their VR-based business in front of a live audience of … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger has reorganized the way its call feature is setup in an attempt to get more user engagement from the service. | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced a slew of incoming Edge extensions. Partners announced include Pinterest, Ad Block, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and Page Analyzer powered by Vorlon.js. Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build with … | Continue reading
This week on the Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, Jake, and Nicola review the reviews! The iPad Pro 9.7, the iPhone SE, and the Microsoft Build developer conference; we're covering all the top tech news this week. If you liked our video reviews this week, then tune in live to hear in ou … | Continue reading
For the first time ever, researchers have spotted a white dwarf surrounded by an atmosphere of mostly oxygen. A star of this kind, a super-dense dead star with an oxygen atmosphere, had never been seen before, though astronomers had speculated that one might exist. Such a unique … | Continue reading
The incredible image above is the 3D structure of the Zika virus, which has only just been revealed. The finding could help scientists determine how the virus is transmitted and, hopefully, how to prevent infection. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Wealthfront, the West Coast robo-advisor battling Betterment for the top spot in tech-enabled wealth management, is launching a new version (and vision) of its wealth management service. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company is integrating with tools like Venmo and Redfin, to ge … | Continue reading
Hostel and the original Cabin Fever director Eli Roth has made an animated short film promoting Dark Souls 3.Working with animation studio Six Point Harness, Roth's video, The Witches, is about two minutes long and contains all the gore and subtly macabre comedy one would expect … | Continue reading
At the Build Developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a series of new Office 365 developer tools designed to enhance how they interact with Office 365 platform. Microsoft outlined three new ways for developers to work with Office 365 including Graph APIs t … | Continue reading
We don't know what it looks like. We don't know how far it will go on a charge. We don't even know exactly how much it will cost.But for all we don't know about the new Tesla Model 3, thousands of Tesla fans know they want it anyway, and are willing to plunk down real money for a … | Continue reading
Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid passed away this morning at age 65, after a truly groundbreaking career. Hadid was the first woman architect to win the field's highest award, the Pritzker Prize in 2004, and in 2015, she became the first woman architect to be receive the Royal … | Continue reading
Earlier this week we reported a bug in iOS 9.3 that caused apps to become unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari. The bug seemed to affect any iOS device, but was most prevalent on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Today, Apple released an update to fix the problem. iOS 9.3.1 has … | Continue reading
Are you fluent in MongoDB? Well today is your lucky day. Microsoft’s NoSQL document database service DocumentDB now supports drivers for MongoDB. So if you were using existing MongoDB tools and libraries, now you can use them with DocumentDB and take advantage of Microsoft’s clou … | Continue reading
Apple hat neulich ein Patent für ein Verfahren für die Live-Zensur beliebiger Audio Streams - also sowohl Musik als auch reine Sprache - erhalten, mit dem Inhalte dann garantiert familienfreundlich beim Hörer ankommen. Dazu analysier... | Continue reading
Apple today released an update to iOS 9 to fix an issue that made some apps like Safari and Mail unresponsive, and in some cases crashed them entirely, when trying to open links. The update, version 9.3.1, arrives just two days after Apple acknowledged the bug and pledged it woul … | Continue reading
Google today announced the first Chromebase for Meetings device, from Acer. It’s a desktop computer designed exclusively for videoconferencing. It costs $799, and it’s available from Google’s partners in U.S, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. It will become available in mor … | Continue reading
Starbucks is making a strategic bet on Microsoft Office. At Microsoft's Build conference in San Francisco today, Starbucks CTO Gerri Martin-Flickinger took to the stage to announce a Starbucks add-in for Microsoft Office. While you might expect a Starbucks add-in for Office would … | Continue reading
VR is an immersive experience — but perhaps a little too immersive. With a device strapped to your face, it can be difficult to do simple things like respond to text messages, phone calls, and other trappings of real life. While you might want an escape every once in a while, you … | Continue reading
It is always positive to see increased interest in the concept of Bitcoin and digital currency. Reaching a global audience is not an easy task, but the Internet is certainly an invaluable tool to do so. Now that the first Arab Bitcoin community has been formed, like-minded people … | Continue reading
Mac users will soon be able to do a lot more with Microsoft Office.Add-ins, extensions that allow third-party apps to run inside Office, will soon roll out to Mac versions of the Office suite. Support for the plugins will be available on Mac in the coming weeks, Microsoft says.Se … | Continue reading
The full version of Final Fantasy XV doesn't launch until late September, but luckily there's a new minigame coming to mobile devices that will tide you over until then. | Continue reading
You don’t have to go pro to chase your competitive Rocket League dreams. The exciting car-soccer game is getting official competitions for players at the amateur, collegiate, and semi-pro levels in partnership with esports organizer ESL, American Video Game League, and Rocket Lea … | Continue reading
500 Startups is moving north of the border for its next micro-fund. The fund, called 500CAN, is targeting a $30 million size that will be focused on checking out what investments in Canada are all aboot. 500 is specifically looking to build presences in Toronto and Waterloo where … | Continue reading
The founder of Organic Avenue, a now-bankrupt restaurant chain that sold stale wraps and overpriced juices, is launching a $699 Wi-Fi connected juicer that can't actually juice produce you've brought home from the store. Instead, the company, called Juicero, wants you to buy its … | Continue reading
Dead Space and Saints Row 4 are now backwards compatible on Xbox One.That's convenient as Dead Space is also a free Games with Gold offering for April, so you can enjoy Visceral's sci-fi horror adventure on Microsoft's latest console.Earlier this week Xbox One's backwards compati … | Continue reading
More users are happy when they actually interact with people since it puts a human angle to the whole interaction. | Continue reading