A senior Bank of England official doesn’t believe widespread blockchain adoption will happen anytime soon.Source | Continue reading
If you’re like the rest of America, chances are you sneak in the occasional Netflix binge. What if I told you that you could catch everything you’d normally take an hour to watch in a mere 54 minutes; impossible, right? Actually, you could go even faster if you’re able to keep up … | Continue reading
Tesla moved quickly to patch a vulnerability discovered by Tencent security research team Keen Security Lab that rendered the Model S susceptible to remote attacks, provided the Tesla Model S was currently making use of its in-car web browser, and also physically close to and con … | Continue reading
Nothing lasts forever — not even Pokémon fever. Developer Niantic’s Google Maps-powered location game that places digital creatures into your real world using augmented reality has fallen from the No. 1 spot on the iOS App Store’s top-grossing charts, according to data-tracking f … | Continue reading
AllSet, an app that promises to cut restaurant wait time in half by allowing customers to book tables and preorder meals, announced today that it raised a $2.35 million investment led by New York-based VC firm Metamorphic Ventures. With operations in San Francisco, Palo Alto (Cal … | Continue reading
Facebook just announced some new features for its dynamic ads, aimed at making the format more appealing to businesses with brick-and-mortar stores. Facebook’s dynamic ads show you different products based on your activity and interests. Now, the company says it can incorporate d … | Continue reading
When someone has lost a hand, particularly the dominant one, it can be a real challenge to do the simple clicks and drags that all of us take for granted on our desktops and laptops. A German design team has created a device to remedy this, detecting signals from the user’s remai … | Continue reading
Leica, the company best known for its soul-fryingly expensive, lovingly hand-crafted high-end rangefinder cameras, recently launched the Sofort. It's a $300 Polaroid-style instant camera that aims to "make photography tangible." When getting up close and tangible, it turns out th … | Continue reading
The latest Google Maps for Android update (9/16) contains a small but important change that isn’t mentioned on the change log: the direction arrow, which represents the user’s position on the map along with their bearing, has turned into a flashlight-like blue beam. What’s more, … | Continue reading
Gamblit Gaming has teamed up with Phosphor Games to take the virtual reality shooter game The Brookhaven Experiment into land-based casinos as part of an attempt to target younger gamblers. Younger folks visit casinos often, but they don’t like older slot machines and table games … | Continue reading
A new update means that many smart writers are publishing reviews showing the many new features of macOS Sierra. I’ll leave the hyper technical reviews to them. Based on three months of testing, there’s not much to say about macOS Sierra and this article could end up being the sh … | Continue reading
Tardigrades — also known as "water bears" — are microscopic animals that can live through almost anything: 30 years in a freezer, rapid dehydration, boiling and freezing temperatures, massive doses of radiation, baths in organic solvents, and a trip to open space. Today, scientis … | Continue reading
(Updated: See at bottom) I am merely an observer of these things, okay, but…. Tonight, the Nashville/Davidson County Commission has the chance to both de-criminalize the possession of a small amount of marijuana and reject an ATT/Comcast anti-Google Fiber effort. (Note: For those … | Continue reading
Samsung Pay is rolling out an update that brings more membership card support and nifty cloud features, but iris scanning is only available on the Note 7. | Continue reading
"Lubię to"to cykl poświęcony przedmiotom, osobom, tekstom, wydarzeniom, jakie zachwyciły mnie w danym miesiącu. Wszystkie przedmioty, jakie tu się pojawiają, kupuję sama, ale jeśli coś mi podarowano i ujęło mnie to na tyle, by o tym tu pisać, wyraźnie to zaznaczam. Więcej postów … | Continue reading
I welcome you to the second quarter of 2016 Jehovah deserves all the praise and to Him alone be all the glory.Isn’t that a fascinating idea for a book? I should admit that I can hardly wait to study it myself and see what the other 99 have to say. I am usually in need of suggesti … | Continue reading
Following tests earlier this year, Instagram today confirmed it’s rolling out a “Save Draft” feature to all users. As the name implies, this new addition means you’re now able to begin working on a post, then save a copy of your changes to be completed at a later point. This opti … | Continue reading
On The Writer Files, Kelton Reid digs into the archives and shares his favorite lessons from writers about how they keep the ink flowing, | Continue reading
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf apologized and faced a grilling from legislators over the bank’s sales practices at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday. Photo: Zuma Press | Continue reading
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Google is really good at writing really confusing instructions. I know, I’ve spent HOURS researching things through Google’s help site for clients. One of those things was how to use UTM parameters. Part of content marketing is measurement. If you’re running a specific campaign, … | Continue reading
Samsung has just pushed a relatively large update to its mobile payment platform, Samsung Pay. The upgrade brings a handful of much-requested new features to the application, including the facility to pay for goods using your retina on the Galaxy Note 7. Version 2.3 also transpor … | Continue reading
Last year, Tumblr announced it would support Live Photos on its mobile apps. Fast forward 10 months later and the company is bringing that feature to the web. Now when someone has posted a Live Photo to any Tumblr site or property, you can tap or click and hold to watch it animat … | Continue reading
After 11 years of grocery store check-out tabloids like US Weekly, In Touch, Star, and even the occasionally reputable People reporting that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were splitting up, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have split up. Neither one of these people have ever been very … | Continue reading
If you’re curious to learn about the latest investment out of San Francisco-based True Ventures, you’ll have to be patient. Though the firm is disclosing that it has led a whopping $12 million Series A round in new startup Brava, details about the startup are scarce. What we do k … | Continue reading
Need more space? SanDisk has you covered.At the Photokina 2016 photography show on Monday, the leading flash memory products manufacturer revealed a prototype of a mindblowingly spacious one-terabyte (ir 1,000 GB) SDXC memory card.SEE ALSO: GoPro finally shows off its foldable Ka … | Continue reading
Of the hundreds of betting sites and casinos, sports lovers and people who want to bet have the best pick. Choose the game site BestFreeBets.ie, an online betting games site, offers the best free bets in Ireland as its name says. It features a collection of betting sites that inc … | Continue reading
The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus launched last week, and one of the most hyped features has been the camera(s). This is especially true with the 7 Plus, which now has two cameras — one wide angle and one telephoto lens. This means you can now optically zoom in to 2x, which means you can g … | Continue reading
Canadian mobile studio Roadhouse Interactive has apparently closed down. The developer was making Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, and it employed more than 140 people. But James Hursthouse, CEO of Vancouver-based Roadhouse, said in a Linkedin update that the company “closed in … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Scorpio won't ship for over a year, but the PR war is just winding up. Get used to seeing the word "native" a lot. | Continue reading
North Korea is the most repressive, secretive state in the world. There’s no free press, no independent media, and scarce few people have access to the Internet. It’s about as close as you can get to George Orwell’s Airstrip One. One brilliant illustration of this is found in Nor … | Continue reading
The music industry is growing once again thanks to paid streaming services. This year, the industry is on target to bring in the most revenue since the mid-2000s. If the numbers hold, 2016 will be the first time the music industry has seen its revenue increase year over year sinc … | Continue reading
State Street is working on a new blockchain project aimed at cataloging transactions tied to investment assets.Source | Continue reading
Are you looking for a great looking case for your Moto Z or Moto Z Force? Join us as we take a closer look at some of your options. | Continue reading
Facebook says 53,000 people are talking about Terrence Crutcher’s death by police, but instead it’s showing me Trends about Xbox, a Game Of Thrones actor, and New Jersey’s governor, even though they all have less chatter. Facebook denies it’s a media company, and has tried to dis … | Continue reading
3D printing company MakerBot has announced two new printers and an official shift of focus, away from general DIY printing and toward the specialized worlds of professional design and education. The MakerBot Replicator Plus and Replicator Mini Plus are new generations of existing … | Continue reading
Erin Brockovich may have made this cancer-causing chemical famous, but data from nationwide tests show it’s still in our water — and at potentially dangerous levels. The US Environmental Protection Agency should have enforced stricter standards on the chemical years ago, advocate … | Continue reading
JK Imaging launched Kodak-branded SP360 action cams at CES this past year, and although it marketed them as the solution for creating great VR content, you needed two cameras to create a fully spherical image. That’s wasn’t practical. The company is now remedying that oversight w … | Continue reading
The Google Trips mobile app, which Google launched yesterday, is smarter than you might realize. Behind the “Day plans” tile for the top 200 cities in the world, the app provides automatically generated itineraries full of places that you can visit in a single day. You can add an … | Continue reading
Google today is announcing that it’s now going to start directing mobile web traffic to fast-loading Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) from Google search results whenever those pages are available. About six weeks ago Google began a developer preview of that experience, and now the … | Continue reading
When Google launched its AMP project for making mobile websites load faster, it was mostly about news sites and you’d only see AMP links in the Top Stories section of the company’s search results pages. About two months ago, Google also introduced a new demo site that showed what … | Continue reading
A big annoying experience of living in a city is checking a site like Nextbus for your bus or rail’s arrival time, and then getting there only to find that you’ve missed it by a split second or the doors close as soon as you get there. Now, there’s actually an app that will yell … | Continue reading
While there’s plenty of talent in the San Francisco Bay Area — where Pinterest’s main office is over at 5th and Brannan in San Francisco — it can be very costly to find and recruit that talent. And there’s a lot outside of San Francisco as well. One city, in particular, that Pint … | Continue reading
For the last few years, nearly all of OS X's biggest updates have come in response to iOS. First, the Mac got iOS's apps. Then it got iOS's looks. And now it's even getting iOS's naming format. This year, OS X is gone and replacing it is macOS — a new iteration on the same operat … | Continue reading
On this episode of Hack the Entrepreneur, Jon Nastor interviews Chris Lema, who's been the founder, CTO, and advisor to numerous companies. | Continue reading
Instagram is finally making drafts an official part of the app. The service, which first began testing drafts last month, is now making the feature available to all its users.SEE ALSO: Instagram is killing photo mapsAs you'd expect, drafts allow you to save your work mid-post so … | Continue reading
Today, Apple released the newest version of OS X macOS, dubbed ‘Sierra.’ Inside, you’ll find smaller updates to some of your favorite applications and as well as several long-anticipated features. Like most iterative releases, macOS Sierra is available for free on the Mac App Sto … | Continue reading
Apple's macOS Sierra is now available for general consumption, bringing with it a clutch of new features and the end of the OS X name. The biggest addition for the latest version of Apple's desktop OS is Siri, which is now available as a discrete app in both the dock and menu bar … | Continue reading