Google really wants people to use its new video chat app Duo. So much so that it made not one or even two, but 10 different video ads promoting the service. The ads are polished and professional spots, with anthropomorphic jam jars and socks showing off the app's benefits, like i … | Continue reading
To showcase some of the cool features Duo brings to the table, Google has launched a series of new advertisements that are quite adorable. | Continue reading
LG is finally releasing its 77-inch Signature OLED 4K TV, for a staggering $20,000. Given that LG's lineup of OLED TVs are widely seen as the best sets money can buy, the TV may actually be worth the price if you really want a monstrous display. The 77-inch Signature features HDR … | Continue reading
Pokemon Go continues to lose players, but despite this drop, the AR game remains highly profitable. | Continue reading
Customer service software company Zendesk today announced that companies using its platform can now reach more customers on what it calls “nontraditional platforms.” The new function automatically generates Zendesk customer service tickets when a company receives a message or is … | Continue reading
The strangest thing about talking to writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard is just how nice they both seem. These are the same two guys that dreamed up the animal mask murderers of You’re Next, after all, before they turned Downton Abbey softie Matthew Crawley into a kil … | Continue reading
Nexon has released This Game Studio‘s Oz: Broken Kingdom, a mobile role-playing game based on the world of the Wizard of Oz. This take on Oz has high-end graphics on mobile devices — a feature that earned it a coveted spot onstage at Apple’s iPhone 7 debut last week. It takes pla … | Continue reading
Twitter has launched a way for brands to better set customer expectations when using the service for support questions. Companies are now able to affix a support label on various accounts and even specify the hours when someone will be on call to provide assistance. Twitter has a … | Continue reading
Since it launched in 2009, 500px has steadily grown its global photography community to 8 million members. In addition to hosting shutterbugs’ portfolios, it also allows them to license photos to clients for commercial use and profit from their work. It’s now launched RAW, a free … | Continue reading
500px, the photo-sharing service aimed at professional photographers, is today launching a new mobile app aimed at serving the needs of this audience by offering editing tools along with a way to license their images through the company’s custom photography service. The company l … | Continue reading
Twitter today is rolling out a series of new features designed to help users better connect with businesses offering customer support through their official Twitter accounts. Now, those businesses will be able to clearly display on their profile if their account offers customer s … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead: Road to Survival has been downloaded more than 25 million times in the past year on mobile devices. That’s a big score for Scopely, the publisher of the game, and developer IUGO Mobile Entertainment. In an exclusive interview with GamesBeat, Scopely C … | Continue reading
Re-creating the colors of a dinosaur can help us figure out where and how it lived, say researchers who did just that for a so-called “parrot lizard” that lived in China more than 100 million years ago. In dinosaurs, as in plenty of other animals, color patterns aren’t random. Co … | Continue reading
Ever wanted to enjoy a Shake Shack burger at 30,000 feet? Here’s your chance. Well, aside from all the airport locations that Shake Shack has, but no matter.In honor of National Cheeseburger Day, Delta Air Lines will offer Shake Shack burgers to its Delta One business class custo … | Continue reading
YouTube is updating its Creator Studio apps to introduce actionable advice and insights. It says will make it easier for video producers to make informed decisions on how to grow their channel. The latest version, available for Android and iOS, takes advantage of the wealth of da … | Continue reading
Advertisements are important, but frankly, most, of them suck. The problem’s especially bad on mobile, where the tools used by developers to insert adverts can cause an application to soar in size. iOS and Android apps both have a 100MB size limit (with some caveats). Advertising … | Continue reading
Der Designer Jeremy Burnich hat sich ein Schmuckstück bzw. einen Scherzartikel für wütende Nerds ausgedacht: Sein Ctrl+Alt+Del Statement Ring kommt wie ein Tastatur-Schlagring rüber, ist allerdings genauso wenig zum Prügeln... | Continue reading
Sony's internet TV service, PlayStation Vue, will soon offer HBO and Cinemax "in the coming weeks" — a big development in the company's ongoing attempt to build a cable replacement. The networks will be available for $15 each on top of whatever Vue package customers are already s … | Continue reading
Microsoft is calling Google out on its latest improvents to battery life in Chrome. While the company acknowledges that competitors have made significant improvements of late, it still finds Edge has an, umm, edge over other major Windows browsers. The Chrome team put out a batte … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Volvo announced its V90 wagon. I said it "may be the most Volvo car ever." I was wrong. The Volvo V90 Cross Country is the most Volvo car ever.First released nearly 20 years ago, the Cross Country was Volvo's attempt to deliver a more capable, more rugged vehic … | Continue reading
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As autumn quickly approaches, so does the launch of numerous video game titles. A trend that usually goes straight through to the holiday season, so naturally a PC gamer needs to be ready. For what exactly? The destruction of incoming n00bs (gamer speak for newbies), of course. R … | Continue reading
Apple has questions for MacBook Pro owners, like:I just received a survey from Apple that contained this question: pic.twitter.com/tlylnMMDE1— Ligia Carrion (@dotina) September 14, 2016And:@MacRumors pic.twitter.com/ly1xz6Biu7— Blake A. (@mmodelmusic) September 15, 2016There were … | Continue reading
It's been just over 30 years since Spike Lee released his first feature film, She's Gotta Have It, in 1986, and it's on its way to a revival. Netflix has just ordered a 10-episode series of She's Gotta Have It, which the company is framing as a "contemporary update" to the origin … | Continue reading
FX teased dozens of different possible themes and settings for the sixth season of American Horror Story for months. So to land here — a haunted farmhouse in North Carolina — feels like anything but a dramatic reveal. Haven't we been here before?surprise! it's another haunted hou … | Continue reading
It's set to be our most international conference yet. Take a look at the delegations coming from just seven of these countries. We can't wait to meet them.The post Meet seven country delegations coming to Web Summit appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
Asana — the enterprise SaaS businesses started by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and early FB employee Justin Rosenstein — has made a name for itself as a workflow and task management app that aims to help teams be more productive by making it much easier to figure out what … | Continue reading
Der Kickstarter-finanzierte Über-Kampfroboter MegaBot bereitet sich ja gerade auf ein Duell mit japanischen Riesen-Exoskelett Kuratas vor, wozu es dann ab dem 28. September regelmäßig neues Video-Material geben soll, das nun standesgemäß... | Continue reading
A new group focused on promoting blockchain tech within the city of Shanghai’s business and technology sectors has been established. | Continue reading
LVL, a new fitness tracker that just launched on Kickstarter, seems a lot like any other wearable. It can measure your heart rate, track your sleep cycle, and monitor your caloric intake. But its main function is measuring hydration levels, and letting you know when you need to s … | Continue reading
PlayStation VR launch title Battlezone has co-operative multiplayer for up to four players, developer Rebellion has announced.The '101' trailer, below, details the drop-in, drop-out nature of the co-op campaign. The video provides a pretty detailed look at Battlezone's campaign, … | Continue reading
Apple has pulled the ability to search for "butt" GIFs in iMessage after realizing that the first result was a sexualized My Little Pony character.GIF search is one of the many weird new features that Apple built into iMessage in iOS 10, which just came out on Tuesday. For the mo … | Continue reading
Carbon3D has raised additional funding for its 3D printing company, pulling in $81.1 million as part of its Series C extension round. The latest infusion of capital will be used to help accelerate production of the company’s M1 printer that launched in April and will be available … | Continue reading
Cyberattacks have become more frequent in recent years, with some particularly notable occurrences, such as attacks on Sony Pictures, Target, Dow Jones, Ashley Madison, Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase, and the Democratic National Committee. How hackers gained access varies case by cas … | Continue reading
Asana, a company with an app for keeping track of work across teams, is announcing today the launch of custom fields, a new way for users to stay on top of specific aspects of projects. The new feature, which is only available for organizations paying for Asana’s premium tier, re … | Continue reading
It would seem a reasonable expectation to learn about all the most exciting games coming to the PlayStation 4 in 2016 just by watching Sony’s E3 2016 press conference, but I’m both sorry and happy to tell you that some slipped through the cracks. The biggest example is Gravity Ru … | Continue reading
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Large manufacturers of high-tech products, from luxury vehicles to elastomers and resins, have lined up to invest in and partner with Carbon 3D Inc., the Redwood City, Calif. company known for its rapid, 3-D printing technologies. The three-year-old startup added $81 million in v … | Continue reading
Tony Prophet, a longtime tech executive who’d previously worked at Microsoft and HP, has been named as Salesforce’s first Chief Equality Officer. Before joining Salesforce, Prophet worked as Microsoft’s corporate vice president of education marketing. While at Microsoft the execu … | Continue reading
As promised, Salesforce has brought on board a chief equality officer, naming former Microsoft corporate vice president of education marketing Tony Prophet to the post. The news comes just a couple of days after company chief executive Marc Benioff revealed the role. Starting on … | Continue reading
Jide Technology has just released an emulated version of the Android OS, dubbed Remix OS Player, which is now available as a free install on Windows. | Continue reading
Lenovo's Moto Z "Skip the Sevens" ad campaign suggests that the latest Apple and Samsung smartphones aren't the true innovators anymore. | Continue reading
LONDON — Bad news if you were planning on hitting the iPhone queue tomorrow.Despite the expense and the lack of a headphone jack everyone's been whinging about, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are completely sold out in the UK — in every colour.So the lucky souls who reserved thei … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton is here to tell you about racist memes.Earlier this week, the Clinton campaign posted an explainer of Pepe, an anthropomorphic frog who has become an unofficial mascot for Trump and the alt-right. It’s responding to a photoshopped riff on The Expendables posted by … | Continue reading
Amazon has announced a new 253-megawatt (MW) wind farm will be opening in Texas next year, a project that the internet giant says is it’s biggest renewable energy project so far. Opening in late 2017, Amazon Wind Farm Texas will be situated in Scurry Country, and will generate 1, … | Continue reading
Remix OS is basically a desktop version of Android, with floating windows and a start menu-style app drawer. So, it makes sense that creators Jide would make it as easy to use on a desktop. Enter Remix OS Player — a free, downloadable emulator of the OS for Windows. It's always b … | Continue reading
Während hierzulande der Verkaufsstart des Galaxy Note 7 ob der Akku-Probleme verschoben wurde, wurde das Gerät in den USA schon einige Wochen verkauft, bevor Samsung es nach diversen Brandberichten wieder aus dem Handel nahm. Kunden, die bereits... | Continue reading