Facebook is rolling out two new features for its popular Messaging app, giving users in-chat polling and also testing out an intelligent way to detect when you want to send money. The latest changes will be available on both iOS and Android starting this week, but they’re limited … | Continue reading
Taxi startup Flywheel is officially making its move into New York City, with the aim to better equip old-school taxis to take on Uber and Lyft. Flywheel recently received approval from the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission to operate TaxiOS, its smartphone-based taxi meter that c … | Continue reading
Facebook’s chat app wants to help you and your friends decide where to go for dinner or what movie to see, then use machine learning to remind you to pay them back. Today Messenger users on iOS and Android in the US get two new features which could roll out to other countries if … | Continue reading
Flybrix is piggybacking on a toy-making giant to let kids build drones using Lego bricks. Now you don’t need to use your imagination to see your Lego creations fly. Aimed at kids ages 14 and older, the drone is “crash-friendly” and rebuildable because the parts are made of Legos. … | Continue reading
Facebook is testing a new feature on its Messenger app starting today that’ll use machine learning to prompt you to pay back your friends. It relies on a new service called "chat assist" that recognizes certain words and the actions they reference when they come up in conversatio … | Continue reading
Flywheel, a Bay Area-based e-hail app company, announced Thursday that its “TaxiOS” technology was approved by New York City regulators for use in the city’s iconic yellow taxis. Flywheel offers two main products: an e-hail app for riders, and a smartphone-based operating syst … | Continue reading
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A company called Flybrix is putting legos on the wing. The San Francisco startup today began selling build-a-drone kits for kids age 14 and up comprised of: LEGO bricks, boom arms and motors that don’t require soldering, and other off the shelf and Flybrix-designed parts. Once as … | Continue reading
Fresh from raising $750 million in new financing this week, Uber rival in Southeast Asia Grab is now making a move into the self-driving car space after it agreed to a partnership with NuTonomy, the MIT spin-out that is developing autonomous vehicles. Read More | Continue reading
Der schwedische LKW-Hersteller Scania hat sich einen bestimmt beeindruckenden, aber irgendwie auch leicht irreführenden Marketing-Stunt ausgedacht, um die Zuverlässigkeit seiner Laster zu demonstrieren: 14 Lastwagen, die sich 24 Stunden im... | Continue reading
Tesla has filed suit with the Western District Court of Michigan over its ability to sell its cars directly to consumers in the state, Electrek reports, as well as its ability to service vehicles owned by state residents. The lawsuit follows the rejection of an application for a … | Continue reading
Recess could soon become a lot kids’ second-favorite subject at school. Developer Mojang announced that Minecraft: Education Edition hits November 1 for computers running Windows 10 or OS X El Capitan. Minecraft has sold over 106 million copies across all of its platforms, with m … | Continue reading
The tech news of the past few weeks still lingers, so this week on Ctrl-Walt-Delete Walt and Nilay tackle a few topics.Samsung is still trying to remove all Note 7s affected with battery malfunction from circulation, but as Walt notes, some customers are going through obstacles t … | Continue reading
Did you know there’s a nifty little trick that will let you pack over 2,000 games in just one oldschool Nintendo cartridge? In his latest video, Zach from Howchoo explains how you can hack your useless old Nintendo cartridge and turn it into a retro gaming powerhouse – and it’d c … | Continue reading
A new report may have mutual fund investors beaming right now — and traditional venture investors sniggering.According to new research from the data company Pitchbook, Fidelity Investments has assembled stakes in 24 “unicorn” startups. That’s more than any venture firm. Fidelity’ … | Continue reading
GIPHY lives and breathes reaction GIFs so it was only a matter of time before we decided to create and star in some of our own. There are too many to list, so here are 15 of our favorites. If you want to see all 150 of them just head over to our GIPHY Originals channel and choose … | Continue reading
New projectsThe EU-funded GETUI project is developing ways to assess how gestures fit into the communication skill set needed for collaborative problem solving.Date: 22/09/2016 - 17:10Collaborative problem solving has become a major feature within today’s workplaces. Increasingly … | Continue reading
I have 6,569 photographs stored on my iPhone. The majority of these images are all of the same subject — my dog. They document his journey from a puppy to a fully grown four-year-old Tibetan Terrier. Unfortunately, my family has grown tiresome of the hordes of pictures I post in … | Continue reading
The full version of Minecraft: Education Edition is finally arriving on November 1, following an extended testing and free trial period that began this summer. The version of Minecraft aimed at educators and schools came out of Microsoft’s acquisition of learning game MinecraftEd … | Continue reading
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Valve was once working on a Half-Life-related game with Three in the title. No, not Half-Life 3. Threewave.Threewave began life as a Capture the Flag mod for the original Quake that went on to enjoy huge popularity among the PC first-person shooter community.As revealed by a new … | Continue reading
“Rise of Iron” is Destiny’s fourth major expansion, and it plans for the game’s future with new weapons, armor, missions, and multiplayer modes. It’s as good an excuse as “The Taken King” was to jump back into developer Bungie’s world: the loot is plentiful, the levels are easy t … | Continue reading
It’s worth noting right off the bat that this is all still in the very early stages. Apple scouts plenty of locations for its stores, and plenty never come to fruition. But the fact that Cupertino is potentially looking to plant its flag in South Korea is pretty telling – not onl … | Continue reading
All we knew was that BART had received 66 complaints, with excessive use of force being the primary allegation, according to a 2010 audit. In 2015, when a homeless man was shot and killed on Skid Row in Los Angeles, there was no data available on how many homeless people are shot … | Continue reading
Trivia Crack has been a huge mobile game hit with more than 200 million users. And now Etermax, the Buenos Aires company that created the original, is following it up with Trivia Crack X. Trivia Crack X is a new social tool for creating and sharing fun animated trivia on social m … | Continue reading
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Watch out, Shutterfly. Amazon has quietly launched a new service called Amazon Prints, which allows consumers to print photos and custom photo books, and soon, other photo products like stationery and calendars, at prices that are significantly cheaper than rivals. Though the com … | Continue reading
Old speakers are thrown out every day, laid to rest in favor of shiny new portable speaker systems from Jawbone, Beats and Bose. SEE ALSO: Look out Sonos, Vizio's coming for you with its Google Cast-ready speakersWhy waste? Take a look at the Vamp stereo + speaker. It's a Kickst … | Continue reading
Life in New York City can feel artificial. I don’t mean that in the stereotypical sense — that its residents are vapid, self-interested snobs. No, for me, it’s the opposite. The city’s unease stems from its density of humanity.On a simple walk to work, you will pass beneath hundr … | Continue reading
Europe continues to test the waters of shared vehicle ownership models, and the Amber One is a car designed to help eliminate the huge amount of time our own vehicles currently spend idle. The all-electric concept has a 250-mile range on a single charge, a top speed of over 93 mp … | Continue reading
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Anonymous hackers have compromised the private Gmail account of a low-level White House staffer, and posted the email archive publicly on the site DCLeaks. It’s the same site that published Colin Powell’s personal email archive earlier this month, as well as emails from the Democ … | Continue reading
Volvo kümmert sich nicht nur um die Sicherheit der Fahrzeuginsassen, man sorgt sich auch um Fahrradfahrer, Kängurus und andere, durch Kraftfahrzeuge gefährdete Verkehrsteilnehmer, schließlich will man erreichen, dass bis 2020 niemand... | Continue reading
Content Marketing World brings together many of the world’s best content marketers in the “Content Marketing Capital of the World,” Cleveland, Ohio, as CMWorld and Content Marketing Institute’s founder Joe Pulizzi has deemed it. Just browse through the #CMWorld hashtag and you’ll … | Continue reading
When was the last time you printed a photo? Well, Fotr is a new iPhone app that wants to turn that trend on its head, by automatically printing every photo you take. The idea is to bring back an aspect of analog photography: shoot fewer, but higher-quality photos. Read More | Continue reading
Okay, I’ll admit it — I’m a gadget geek. I love consumer electronics, a passion that has made CES a cherished pilgrimage for nearly three decades and certainly made my 15 years working with Panasonic...read moreThe post Interview: Building a Customer Centric Brand with the CMO of … | Continue reading
Okay, I’ll admit it — I’m a gadget geek. I love consumer electronics, a passion that has made CES a cherished pilgrimage for nearly three decades and certainly made my 15 years working with Panasonic...read more | Continue reading
The sky is tuned to a dead channel as drones fly lazily over the metropolis. This is the opening shot of the new music video for Lorn’s song Anvil, set in an overpopulated world a century from now.The monochromatic palette enhances this bleak story, where people are required to j … | Continue reading
The annual MacArthur Foundation fellows have been announced, and among them is Bill Thies, a researcher for Microsoft who works on communications programs in the developing world.In a statement, the foundation, which awards the grants sometimes referred to as the "genius" awards, … | Continue reading
Ready to moonlight as a successful digital entrepreneur? The Internet Marketplace Entrepreneur Bundle delivers a crash course on everything you need to start your own side business. For a limited time, you can pick up this 6-course package for over 90 percent off from TNW Deals. … | Continue reading
Mobile app marketers will lose up to $100 million this year due to app install and engagement advertising fraud. San Francisco-based mobile attributing and marketing analytics firm AppsFlyer said in a report that its data shows the U.S. is targeted the most by fraudsters. After t … | Continue reading
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Signia Venture Partners is announcing today that it has raised a second fund — totaling $85 million — to invest in early-stage technology companies. The fund is headed by a seven-member team that includes Rick Thompson, former chairman of Playdom (which Disney bought for $763 mil … | Continue reading
DECENT, the blockchain based content distribution platform has begun its ICO on a successful note. The much-anticipated platform has raised around $2.4 million in Bitcoin within only a day since ICO launch. Launched on September 11, 2016, at 13:00 GMT, DECENT raised a total of 37 … | Continue reading
The term “cinematic” is overused in video game criticism to the point of cliche. The label is liberally applied when a game’s world is realistically rendered, when its storytelling has the thinnest sliver of ambition, or when the publisher hires Hollywood talent for the voice-ove … | Continue reading
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Signia Venture Partners has closed its second fund at $85 million to lead early-stage deals in emerging tech startups mostly in and around San Francisco. For the unfamiliar, Signia is typically the first money in and the lead investor in the companies it backs, writing $1-2 milli … | Continue reading