Good news! All those times you skipped class to play Overwatch now counts as practice. Tespa, a collegiate competitive-gaming association, revealed its plans to host tournaments for three Blizzard games this fall and spring. Overwatch, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and Heroes … | Continue reading
The European Commission’s proposals to reform the region’s copyright rules, published in draft form today, have been criticized by tech companies and digital rights groups as regressive and a missed opportunity to modernize hopelessly outdated rules. Read More | Continue reading
A new study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that regardless of treatment methods, the risk of dying from early prostate cancer in the next 10 years is low and nearly identical. WSJ's Lee Hawkins explains. Photo: Zuma Press | Continue reading
GUEST: In the consumer space, four big areas of interest seem to be emerging among chatbot developers: travel, retail, recommendations, and personal finance. Gaming is slowly growing. Products in these areas are mostly pull products. They assist you mostly after explicit intent a … | Continue reading
The audience at Disrupt got a surprise visit from Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. While the company’s YouTube channel is quite popular, it’s even more impressive to see one of Boston Robotics’ robots in action.Boston Dynamics founder and CEO Marc Raibert got interviewed by TechCrunc … | Continue reading
As Airbnb, the $30 billion private accommodation renting portal, continues to mature and very slowly inch its way to an IPO, it is adding more ways to bring in more properties and hosts to its platform. TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb is working on a new service under the name … | Continue reading
Imagine walking into a store, picking up a pair of shoes, and seeing specs for the kicks appear on a TV next to the display. Or imagine standing in front of an airport departures screen and seeing your flight appear and then a map displaying the best route to your gate. These use … | Continue reading
Sapphire Ventures, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm funded solely by the German software giant SAP, has secured a whopping $1 billion to invest across two new funds: a $700 million growth fund, and a $300 million early-stage tech fund.The capital places the group into a ever-g … | Continue reading
PlayStation Worldwide Studios is shrinking. Sony has cut jobs in its studios in London and San Diego. PlayStation VR is going to launch next month, and London Studio’s virtual reality game The London Heist is nearing completion. Sony explained that it is enacting layoffs at that … | Continue reading
Enjoy activations from Burberry, Grazia and Paul Smith at Carnaby Street's London Fashion Week celebrations, take part in a day of fitness with Sweaty Betty and experience Perrier-Jouët's Champagne garden this weekend. | Continue reading
Event takes a look at venues suited to hosting fashion-themed events. | Continue reading
Business is content drunk and it’s not a pretty sight. Like a university freshman at the first big party of the year, the wider marketing and communications industry has abandoned all decorum and is spewing content in all directions. But smart marketers have a trick for avoiding … | Continue reading
The bot Digit has saved $230 million for its users in the past 18 months, founder and CEO Ethan Bloch told an audience of more than 200 at a “Leaders of Chatbots” discussion at LinkedIn Tuesday. The event was put together by Leade.rs, which hosts monthly conversations with influe … | Continue reading
GUEST: Bot building is a nascent field, and that’s part of what makes it exciting: It offers a chance to escape conventional design paradigms and the saturation of existing app stores to create something that’s refreshingly new. Graphical software designers have graphic design to … | Continue reading
The European Space Agency released the first data it is using to create the largest and most precise 3D map of the Milky Way. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: ESA/Gaia/DPAC | Continue reading
The rising popularity of live video has given companies an opportunity to get creative and produce content experiences that can’t be missed. | Continue reading
Overstock subsidiary tØ has partnered with a new broker-dealer as part of its bid to launch a blockchain trading platform. | Continue reading
Marketers use algorithmic attribution to accurately track the increasingly complicated customer journey and optimize cross-channel spending. But acting fast enough to gain those benefits poses a challenge. While marketers believe algorithmic attribution produces quantifiable bene … | Continue reading
Eliza House is a single-family house designed by Melbourne-based MRTN Architects. Sophisticated living on an elevated position enwrapped ... | Continue reading
Designed by Paulina Arcklin, this bright loft is a styling studio, photo studio, creative office and cozy home in Milan, Italy. | Continue reading
VB LIVE: While social media is table stakes today, measuring its success, especially its impact on other channels, is another thing entirely. Join Playboy’s Chief Digital Officer and CRO to understand how they’ve reinvented the iconic men’s magazine for the social age — and are c … | Continue reading
Brook Renovation Project was recently completed by Wanda Ely Architect, a Toronto-based architecture design practice. The Brook renovation | Continue reading
ACME is an Italian-Asian fusion restaurant designed by Luchetti Krelle in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, Australia. ACME restaurant makes the most | Continue reading
Find out why SPROUT Content was recently recognized as a leading content marketing company by Clutch, a B2B research firm based in Washington, D.C. | Continue reading
From menus inspired by London Fashion Week to dishes showcasing seasonal and fresh ingredients, Event takes a look at high-end and indulgent dishes and drinks. | Continue reading
David Aldridge of TNT, NBA TV and NBA.com, is the insider's insider. No one covers the NBA like DA, who won the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award this year. We talk Olympics, free agency, honors, the state of hoops around the world and everything … | Continue reading
The halving of the bitcoin block reward this past July has changed the profitability of new miner entries, a development that could ultimately impact bitcoin’s decentralization, according to Sveinn Valfells of Flux, Ltd. and Jon Helgi Egilsson of the Faculty of Economics at the U … | Continue reading
If there’s any sign that China’s game market is frothy, this is it. The film company Huayi Brothers Media Corp. has invested $288 million for a 20 percent stake in China’s Hero Entertainment mobile game company. Hero Entertainment debuted in June 2015 from founder Shuling Ying. I … | Continue reading
Ever start to read an email on your desktop, only to pick it up on your phone later and find the formatting is all kinds of messed up? Thankfully, that will soon be largely a thing of the past. Google says that later this month, Gmail will be able to support emails created with r … | Continue reading
With London Fashion Week showcasing SS17 shows this week, Event looks back at some of the best activations for the AW16 shows that took place in February this year. | Continue reading
Vintage video game consoles helped shape the future of gaming as we know it. By way of their improvement, evolution and failures the video game market place rose and fell till it revived in 1985 like a phoenix increasing from the ashes. And those flames burn brightly to this real … | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of massages, so I stopped dead in my tracks when I came across a company in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 Startup Alley earlier today. Taiwan-based U-Gym is a deep layer muscle massager that you can wear while exercising. U-Gym uses medium-frequency electrotherapy … | Continue reading
More than a month after August 2, my media center still doesn’t have the Windows 10 anniversary update. I’m not alone, and it’s not a bug. Microsoft says the release may not roll out to everyone until November. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley noticed a little bit of text, hidden in the bot … | Continue reading
Ubisoft wants the world to know that it’s doing just fine without Vivendi meddling in its business. The French-based publisher has launched a new page called “We Are Ubisoft” that promotes its properties and value as independent company. It does so as Vivendi attempts a hostile t … | Continue reading
Andela, a company working to bring the top 1% of African tech talent to engineering teams in need of capable, skilled developers, will eventually invest in the startups from those who complete its four-year program. According to Andela co-founder and COO Christina Sass, speaking … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. Highlights include Snooze in Microsoft Edge, an improved PC upgrade experience, and better pin logic. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, this me … | Continue reading
Warning: I don’t know what the point of this post will be. Not yet anyways. Stay tuned and hopefully we’ll find out. This morning when I opened my eyes it felt as though I was waking fr… | Continue reading
More than a year ago, people using Amazon Echo devices began asking Alexa, the intelligent assistant within, “Why can’t you distinguish my voice?” said Dave Isbitski, Amazon’s chief evangelist for Alexa and Echo. In this time of super intelligent assistants and metabots, surely i … | Continue reading
New York City’s transit authority is understandably jumpy about the Galaxy Note 7. A week or so after the FAA issued a strongly worded warning asking travelers not to check or fly with Samsung’s new phablet, the MTA is following suit. The organization hasn’t officially banned the … | Continue reading
GUEST: Chatbots have received a lot of hype recently, which is well deserved. There are numerous examples that begin to demonstrate the exciting potential of this technology. Already we’ve seen Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton chatbots capable of informing voters on the president … | Continue reading
Using sunlight to brighten a room sounds like a good idea. I love working from my bedroom because my room faces east and has the sun shining in during most of the day, and everyone knows more... | Continue reading
Facebook will never take money from businesses or merchants that utilize the new ability to pay for products or services inside Messenger bots, said Facebook Head of Product for Messaging at Facebook Stan Chudnovsky. On Monday, the Facebook Messenger team announced that it’s work … | Continue reading
The days of startups being able to hit the ignition and, Uber-like, accelerate away from the law are done. The regulation disruption party is over. That was the loud-and-clear message coming out of a panel discussion grappling with the intersection of red tape and entrepreneurshi … | Continue reading
The most interesting booth at the Techcrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco was the very clean and corporate-looking Westworld exhibit, featuring models dressed in white who invited you to get a taste of the ultimate travel destination. It was a virtual reality demo designed to p … | Continue reading
In this episode of Youpreneur FM, Chris Ducker sits down with mediapreneur David Siteman Garland to talk about online course creation. | Continue reading
Who wowed 'em at New York Fashion Week? WSJ fashion reporter Christina Binkley joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero fresh from the runways with trends and designers to watch. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Bringing to mind the slow rolling disaster that was the hoverboard recall, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has issued an official warning against using the Samsung Note 7 on the New York subway. SEE ALSO: Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note7 reportedly injures young boy … | Continue reading
$29 will get you a Stilla if you act fast. The startup’s simple security system hit Indiegogo about a week or so ago, and it’s already managed to pull in around $44k, courtesy of more than 600 backers. The little pebble-shaped device’s strongest selling point is its simplicity. I … | Continue reading