Disney is the latest high-profile name to consider an acquisition offer for Twitter, according to a report today from Bloomberg. While a formal bid has not been placed, Bloomberg says Disney is working with Bank of America to put one together. Just last week, various reports stat … | Continue reading
Chatbots and SMS are becoming the preferred method of how people and businesses communicate with one another, and it’s time that search engines follow suit. Read More | Continue reading
FEATURE: This story originally published during the Nintendo 64’s 20th anniversary of its Japanese launch. September 26, 1996 was when it came out in the U.S., so we’re highlighting this piece to help celebrate. Twenty years ago, 3D gaming (no, not the pop-out-at-you kind) was ex … | Continue reading
Plex Cloud piggybacks off your Amazon Drive account, allowing you to upload an unlimited amount of your home media for streaming on any smart device. | Continue reading
My mom tells me bugs are more scared of us than we are of them. I don’t believe her, but maybe that’s what the creators of Venus Optics’ new camera lens are thinking. The 24mm f/14 Relay 2x Macro shrinks down to the size of a dime so that you can capture objects from a safe dista … | Continue reading
One of Neil Gaiman’s most beloved stories, Stardust, will make its radio debut this December, following the model of the earlier BBC Radio adaptions of Neverwhere and Good Omens. Continue reading… | Continue reading
GUEST: Machine learning (ML) is such a hot area in security right now. At the 2016 RSA Conference, you would be hard pressed to find a company that is not claiming to use ML for security. And why not? To the layperson, ML seems like the magic solution to all security problems. Ta … | Continue reading
Plex wants you to have all your digital movies available on your Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nvidia Shield whenever you need it without having to maintain expensive storage drives and finicky routers. The company revealed today that it is partnering with Amazon to power the new … | Continue reading
Disney has had talks about a potential acquisition of Twitter, we’ve confirmed. They’re working with bankers now to determine whether the deal makes sense, multiple sources have informed us. While some reports have suggested that Twitter could fetch $30 billion, we are hearing th … | Continue reading
The new jet black iPhone 7 is still the hardest color of the phone to get, even though it's more prone to scratching and scuffing.Sold out within minutes as soon as pre-orders went live on Sept. 12, there is apparently a good reason for the shortages.SEE ALSO: 7 reasons why you s … | Continue reading
Microsoft today provided new information abut how it will be integrating Office 365 Groups into its Yammer enterprise social network. The integration will make it possible for people to make Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents using Office Online within Yammer, and it will be e … | Continue reading
One of Japan’s largest property insurers is co-developing a prototype blockchain system for insurance derivatives.Source | Continue reading
It’s no secret that Donald Trump draws huge crowds. Within these crowds are doctors, lawyers, fry cooks at your local Wendy’s and, of course, the group Hillary Clinton recently called ‘a basket of deplorables.’ For what it’s worth, Clinton later backtracked and apologized for the … | Continue reading
If you're an owner of a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus, here's a quick PSA for you: things aren't going to end well if you try to make a DIY headphone jack. Last week, YouTuber TechRax made a tongue-in-cheek video demonstrating a "secret hack" that brings back the iPhone's headphone jack … | Continue reading
So that’s the first day of the week in the bitcoin price out of the way, and it’s been a pretty interesting one. We didn’t quite get the volatility we’d hoped for, but price did move, and we managed to get in on a short term scalp entry to draw a small profit from the … Continue … | Continue reading
We just got our first look at the Chromecast Ultra, which ditches the Chrome branding in favor of the Google "G" and has a mystery button on the back. | Continue reading
A forthcoming report from EventMB will shed light on event registration tools. If you are a provider of online event registration or ticketing, make sure to submit your platform for inclusion. The new 2016 version of the Good Event Registration Guide will be launched in a few wee … | Continue reading
A new report has surfaced stating that Google will also showcase Andromeda on a Huawei-built 'Nexus' tablet alongside the rumored Bison laptop. | Continue reading
Apple insists that the best path forward for audio is going wireless. And if that's going to be true, the future needs to involve a lot more than just earbuds. So today it's been announced that Sonos speakers are coming to Apple's retail locations. You'll be able to buy either th … | Continue reading
We’re less than 12 hours from what is bound to be one of the most watched, and bloodiest, political showdowns of an already ultra-polarized US election season. So now would be a good time to remember what it looks like to be a civil human being. Let’s start with President Obama, … | Continue reading
When you think of the on-demand economy, I bet you imagine services like Amazon Prime, Uber and Postmates. The London Sperm Bank Donors think of sperm. A new service, dubbed ‘Order a Daddy,’ lets users narrow down results from a sperm donor registry to find their ideal match. Bro … | Continue reading
Mobile ad startup AppLovin announced today it has agreed to sell a majority stake of the company to Chinese private equity firm Orient Hontai Capital for $1.4 billion.We first reported that AppLovin was in talks with a Chinese company for a $1.5 billion acquisition back in August … | Continue reading
Short-haul flights in airborne taxis: It’s next-level alright, but is it next-level hype, or something city-dwellers can actually look forward to? Uber is betting it’s the latter, according to comments made by the company’s head of products to Recode’s Kara Swisher at a conferenc … | Continue reading
Now that you're done lusting over jet black iPhones, it's time to turn your attention toward Google. You know, the guys who make Android and Chrome.And what a bonanza the company reportedly has in store for Oct. 4.SEE ALSO: Google's smart speaker will be cheaper than the Amazon E … | Continue reading
Transgender surgery is changing as more academic centers perform it and more insurers cover it, opening it up to many more patients. WSJ's Sumathi Reddy and gender-confirming surgery recipient Sheela-Marie Padgett explain on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Sheela Marie Padg … | Continue reading
Google is reportedly announcing a whole boat load of things at its upcoming October 4 event. While the new Pixel phones have gotten the attention, there’s also a 4K Chromecast on the way – and now it’s leaked. Evan Blass from VentureBeat corroborates an earlier report from Androi … | Continue reading
Riding in a yellow taxi used to be a miserable experience, which helps explain why Uber and Lyft were able to swoop in and so thoroughly disrupt the industry. Fed up with unreliable and dirty taxi rides, passengers migrated en masse to ride-hail apps that promised cleaner rides, … | Continue reading
At the Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta today, Microsoft announced a preview of Project Springfield, a security-oriented cloud service that’s based on work from Microsoft Research. Project Springfield can be considered a tool for fuzz testing, which involves giving software … | Continue reading
On Twitter, but unsure how to use it effectively for your business? This post lays out 20 quick ways to use Twitter for rapid benefits, including a FREE... | Continue reading
Dzień dobry, Moi kochani, jest mi niezmiernie miło ogłosić, że za miesiąc przyjeżdżam do Warszawy poprowadzić pierwsze od długiego, długiego czasu warsztaty ziołowo-kosmetyczne. Zamknęłam... | Continue reading
The adoption of IoT technology can provide companies with unprecedented opportunities to reduce operating costs, increase productivity and tap into new markets previously inaccessible. But that won’t happen when IoT data gathers dust in the cloud. Read More | Continue reading
Brandon Lewin wants to help five billion people grow their business. He's doing so by sharing content and providing services to purpose-driven companies. | Continue reading
Now that the dust has settled from Foursquare’s big split, the company is pushing forward with a few new executives and a brand new office in Los Angeles. The company has recently brought on Gareth Jones — former head of mobile partner integrations at Twitter, who previously held … | Continue reading
The popularity of No Man’s Sky is drifting into a black hole. The universe-exploring space sim that debuted August 12 on the PC-gaming service Steam (after hitting PlayStation 4 first on August 9), has lost 94 percent of its daily active players in just over 40 days, according to … | Continue reading
The flavors in this vegetarian stew are simple and lovely. Served over quinoa, it makes a great Meatless Monday dinner. | Continue reading
The flavors in this vegetarian stew are simple and lovely. Served over quinoa, it makes a great Meatless Monday dinner. | Continue reading
Yahoo’s announcement last week that data from 500 million user accounts had been stolen in 2014 by what it called a “state-sponsored actor” certainly alarmed Yahoo’s users and its new bosses at Verizon. But now it seems that eyebrows were raised in the Senate as well. Senator Mar … | Continue reading
Google Doodle is joining the likes of Rock the Vote, Facebook, and Snapchat to get you to register to vote. SEE ALSO: Can Social Media Really Boost Voter Turnout?Just in time for National Voter Registration Day — and Monday's presidential debate — Google launched an interactive d … | Continue reading
Google's got a growing list of gadget announcements we're expecting at the company's October 4th media event, and this is one of the more exciting ones: a Chromecast capable of 4K playback. It's reportedly called Chromecast Ultra, according to a previous report from Android Polic … | Continue reading
Was Google wirklich vorhat mit dem Andromeda OS, ist noch nicht bekannt. Ob es heute in einer Woche, am 4. Oktober bei der Vorstellung der neuen Pixel-Smartphones und anderer Hardware, bereits Informationen geben wird, bleibt abzuwarten. Android Police... | Continue reading
People will do crazy things to get to the top of the "real money slots" search rankings.Last week, researchers at eTraffic uncovered a scheme that sent a certain site rocketing up the organic search rankings. When eTraffic investigated, 76 different university and foundation web … | Continue reading
Die holländische Firma VanMoof stellt seit acht Jahren hippe Stadtbikes her. Einige von ihnen auch elektrisch und plagt sich seither mit dem immer gleichen Problem. Lieferungen, die kaputt bei den internationalen Kunden ankommen. Man habe alles... | Continue reading
You may have heard of Google’s Panda algorithm update, its Penguin update and its Hummingbird update. Now it’s time to learn about its Possum update. That’s the name search engine optimization experts gave to Google latest revision to its all-important search engine algorithm. Go … | Continue reading
Gamblit Gaming said today it has cut a deal with Halfbrick Studios to take the smash hit Jetpack Joyride to casino floors. The Glendale, California.-based company specializes in real-money gambling and skill games in both mobile and land-based casinos. It announced a flurry of de … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Google is holding a wide-ranging hardware launch event on October 4, where it’s expected to debut a pair of Pixel-branded phones, a VR headset, Wi-Fi router, the Amazon Echo-like Google Home, and the device pictured here, a 4K-capable digital media player. A person fam … | Continue reading
Der Bergsommer 2016 biegt in die Zielgerade ein und die ersten der 565 Schutzhütten alpiner Vereine in Österreich schließen ihre Pforten. Mit fast 30.000 Schlafplätzen und rund 1 Mio. Nächtigungen sowie einem Mehrfachen an Tagesbesuchern besitzen die Schutzhütten des Österreichis … | Continue reading
The ECB is not in a hurry to incorporate blockchain technology into its trading systems anytime soon as it needs to be evaluated first. | Continue reading
Inverse, a new-ish digital media startup founded by Bleacher Report’s Dave Nemetz, is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The Inverse site launched in August 2015 and covers a mix of science, technology and entertainment news — as I write this, the front … | Continue reading