Falling is awful. It causes irreparable harm to senior citizens and the fear of falling reduces senior citizen mobility drastically, creating a feedback loop that can be catastrophic. Now, thanks to a team at the Sinclair School of Nursing and the College of Engineering at the Un … | Continue reading
The European Commission will soon rule that Apple illegally received tax benefits from the Irish government, Financial Times reports. EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager reportedly circulated a 130-page ruling for official release tomorrow, concluding that Ireland’s ta … | Continue reading
Tired of getting sand kicked in its face by high-profile AI efforts from Google and Facebook, Apple opens the kimono to reveal that it is using AI technologies throughout its product line | Continue reading
GUEST: Chatbots are starting to make their way into all aspects of our online lives. According to CB Insights, funding for startups in the chatbot and voice assistants space has seen a lot of major VC backing, primarily due to advances in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) that i … | Continue reading
YouTube’s biggest name is going to star in a game about streaming games on YouTube. Today PewDiePie revealed a new game called Tuber Simulator, that puts players in the role of a budding video game streamer. It’s being developed by Outermind, the Montreal-based studio behind PewD … | Continue reading
It’s been a rough day to be an intraday bitcoin price trader. In this morning’s analysis, we highlighted a pretty tight range and set out some entry rules with which we would get into the markets on any volatility. We suggested that the recent action seen in the bitcoin price was … | Continue reading
Apple finally sent out an invite for an event happening September 7, almost certainly to launch the iPhone 7. Though the invite is very sparse there’s a big clue as to what you might be able to expect from the new cameras. And no, we’re not just overanalyzing it: Apple's invi … | Continue reading
A CEO of a mid-size advertising company received a call from one of her vendors while working in office. When the vendor started pitching his new offer, the CEO said she wanted to hear more but was busy at the time. The vendor kept pushing even though the CEO said she needed to t … | Continue reading
Sony just launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund its FES Watch U e-paper watch as a follow to its first FES watch, which was funded and released in Japan last year. The difference is that the Watch U has scratch-restant sapphire glass and the premium model comes with a stronger … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is still going after the esports scene. The French publisher launched the third season of the Rainbow Six: Siege Pro League today with preliminary rounds starting for Xbox One players today, Monday August 29, and for PC players on Thursday. This will pit the best teams in … | Continue reading
Who decides who’s cool? Snapchat refuses to recommend accounts for fear of feeling heavy-handed. Maybe it learned from Twitter, whose old one-size-fits-none suggested user list immediately made it noisy, impersonal and ruled by an oligarchy. But Instagram is betting that algorith … | Continue reading
Well, that was fast. Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a fake news story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. The mistake seems like an easil … | Continue reading
In an effort to highlight its upcoming launch of more in-train Wi-Fi (not to be confused with in-train cricket attacks), the New York MTA, Transit Wireless, and publishing powerhouse Penguin Random House are getting together to release ebooks and articles timed to your commute. T … | Continue reading
Google is the latest company to seek compliance with the Privacy Shield Framework developed jointly by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission. “We are committed to applying the protections of the Privacy Shield to personal data transferred between Europe and … | Continue reading
A new Google application called Crowdsource has quietly appeared on Google Play, asking users to perform brief tasks that will help improve the quality of Google services like Maps, translation, image transcription, and more. The app, surprisingly, doesn’t offer any sort of rewar … | Continue reading
A California legal firm filed the necessary paperwork to start a class action lawsuit over Apple’s so-called ‘touch disease’ problem. As we reported last week, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners are complaining of a gray flickering bar at the top of the screen that renders the phone unre … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is living at least a few years out ahead of anyone reading this post – the founding executive told an audience in Rome (via Verge) today that he hopes to demonstrate his home’s artificial intelligence system, which controls things like air conditionin … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The European Commission will rule against Ireland’s tax dealings with Apple on Tuesday, two source familiar with the decision told Reuters, one of whom said Dublin would be told to recoup over 1 billion euros in back taxes. The Commission declined to comment on Monday … | Continue reading
Sous vide cooking as we know it has been around for about 40 years, but consumer devices for it have only been around for about seven years, and affordable consumer devices to do it at home have really only been around since Sansaire first launched its precision cooker on Kicksta … | Continue reading
The launch of a new iPhone in the second week of September has become so regular an event that you could set your Apple Watch by it. Equally consistent is Apple’s teasing or trolling with the invite, which I’m now going to indulge in deciphering for the 2016 edition. It’s actuall … | Continue reading
Behind the blonde wooden service counter of a Chipotle restaurant, humanoid robots created in the golden image of C3PO prepare customers’ chicken burritos and sofritas tacos. After tapping their orders on glowing touch-screen iPads right behind the entrance doors, patrons sit pat … | Continue reading
Blocksafe, a blockchain-based system that provides secure access, personal monitoring and control of “smart” guns, will use Lisk sidechain technology to build out its blockchain and will issue a new token for use on that chain called “Trigger” (TRIG). Lisk is a public blockchain … | Continue reading
Founded by former investment bankers and veteran financial experts, Bcapital is armed with the following principle: To make the world of online financial trading accessible, friendly and as secure as possible. More Platforms Means More Options With a bevy of user-friendly tradi … | Continue reading
T-Mobile felt the pain over its new "unlimited" plan and is making a few improvements. T-Mobile ONE will also launch five days than originally planned. | Continue reading
VB LIVE: In part 2 of our Masters of Mobile Data series, take a deep dive with our omnichannel experts into where your mobile marketing strategy is falling short — and what you need to do right now to fix it, plus how to sift through terabytes of data and how to escape the Facebo … | Continue reading
Verizon has just set live LTE-A, a boosted mobile network that reportedly increases download speeds by up to fifty percent in cities across the US. | Continue reading
On September 7 at 10 AM, Tim Cook will walk on stage and start the most anticipated tech press conference of the year — the introduction of the new iPhone. In New York, two hours later and right around the time Apple’s conference ends, Sony will also introduce the PlayStation 4 ‘ … | Continue reading
Dzień dobry, Lato (tak, jeszcze mamy lato!) jest świetnym czasem dla przyrządzania domowych peelingów! Dziś przygotujemy sobie jeden z najfajniejszych, najpiękniejszych i najbardziej zmysłowych... | Continue reading
Philips is making another investment in smart home lighting. Hue owners can now buy a motion detector that will turn on connected lights around their home. Simply named the Hue motion sensor, the $40 add-on uses two AAA batteries, which Philips says last about two years(!). It af … | Continue reading
Digital distribution is affecting all forms of media, and gaming has figured out an answer that other industries are starting to look to. Candy Crush Saga publisher King brought in $2 billion in revenue in 2015 across all of its games, and all of that money came from just 2 perce … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: Antshares is the latest development in the Blockchain ecosystem that creates a bridge between a cryptocurrency driven financial system and real world assets. In its ongoing ICO, the platform has raised over 4400 BTC under 2 weeks. August 29, 2016 Shanghai C … | Continue reading
A US judge largely denied a push by Mizuho Bank last week to dismiss charges filed against it in a class action suit tied to the collapse of Mt Gox. | Continue reading
Here are two lines from T-Mobile’s latest "Uncarrier" missive, in which the company proclaims that it has "listened to customers" and is changing its new T-Mobile One plans less than two weeks after announcing them.The first line:Everyone gets unlimited talk, unlimited text and u … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: One of a kind bitcoin-based retirement service to offer 1% rebate of real silver for all new retirement accounts. August 29, 2016, Los Angeles, CA – Bitcoin IRA, the only company that enables people to invest in real bitcoins as part of their retirement po … | Continue reading
Facebook today named the recipients of 22 servers that Facebook designed specifically for artificial intelligence (A.I.) research. This comes after Facebook’s introduction of the giveaway program for academic researchers back in February. University departments in Austria, Belgiu … | Continue reading
Google just took a big step in tying together your computing world, with full integration of its Google Cast capability directly into its Chrome browser. This is a step up from the Cast extension it has offered for the past two years, which allowed users to broadcast content from … | Continue reading
No Man’s Sky (NMS) is a truly remarkable game with untold potential. Sadly, it only gives you the warm and fuzzies for the first few hours. Soon after, the excitement wears off. What replaces it is a feeling of repetition as you explore a different-looking planet and ultimately f … | Continue reading
The FBI warned states to check the security of their election systems after hackers stole voter data from one state election board earlier this summer and attempted to access another this month. The attacks were revealed in an FBI bulletin sent to the agency’s private industry pa … | Continue reading
Google today announced Google Cast is built into Chrome, allowing anyone using the company’s browser to cast content to supported devices without having to install or configure anything. The Google Cast extension for Chrome, which launched in July 2013, is no longer required for … | Continue reading
I like to think of myself as an inherently trusting person. Take this story, for example. Two weeks ago, I was in Liverpool city center with my fiancee. It was 1am and we were walking to the hotel. This is typically the time when most pubs and bars close, sending their patrons of … | Continue reading
I’m excited to announce Digital Outliers, a new podcast series that I’m hosting that features some of the brightest minds who are exploring the ways digital technology is transforming (and disrupting) the modern workplace. Each episode dives into the latest trends driving the fut … | Continue reading
As we get ready for Apple’s September 7 event — and probably a new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus — a spec sheet for the two new devices has leaked. From techtastic, we learn the following about the Phone 7: Screen: 4.7-inch, 750×1334 resolution Processors: A10 and M10 RAM: 2GB LPDDR4 Batte … | Continue reading
Owners of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices are slapping Apple with a lawsuit over a so-called "Touch Disease" that makes the devices unusable.SEE ALSO: An internal defect is causing tons of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to breakThe case, which was filed in the Northern District of Califo … | Continue reading
It is not just the Bitcoin exchanges and trading platforms that are plagued by security issues. Over 60 US banks and 20 global stock exchanges have experienced cyberattacks. | Continue reading
Last year BlackBerry launched the Priv, its first-ever Android smartphone. The Priv represented another attempt by BlackBerry to reinvent itself for the modern mobile era and build something worthy of competing with Apple, Samsung, and other smartphone makers. But the Priv’s posi … | Continue reading
Social media and other modern communication conduits have long been accused of killing people’s ability to interact in real life, and the age-old question reared its head again today when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg participated in another Townhall Q&A, this time at Luiss Univer … | Continue reading
There is a Facebook Messenger chat bot for Starbucks' highly controversial pumpkin spice latte and I spent an hour of my morning talking to it because I have a very hard time politely ending conversations in messenger apps that include read receipts.I don't recommend talking to t … | Continue reading
All current reports to indicate that the flagship 2017 iPhone will include a curved OLED panel. But new rumors indicate that Apple isn’t planning on staying with the technology for long. Instead, it’s likely to move on to a fancier technology called microLED. Wang Jyh-chau, CEO o … | Continue reading