Next month, Uber will be testing a flat-fee program that will have commuters paying a lot less to get around town. The flat fare program will bring $2 UberPool rides and $7 UberX lifts to an invite-only group. Interested participants will have to pay to be in the program. Here’s … | Continue reading
The COWAROBOT R1 is a fully autonomous, smart suitcase that will follow alongside its user as they travel. With additional features like GPS and a portable charging bank, this robotic companion makes traveling effortless. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Robotics, Robot, Au … | Continue reading
Google Fiber is arriving in Salt Lake City today, but future cities receiving the service might get wireless technology instead of fiber. | Continue reading
Roasted eggplants, tahini, lemon juice and garlic make a delicious dip that makes a great, healthy snack with crudites, chips or pita bread. | Continue reading
Roasted eggplants, tahini, lemon juice and garlic make a delicious dip that makes a great, healthy snack with crudites, chips or pita bread. | Continue reading
Researchers at Harvard have come up with an innovation that may eventually give us the terrifying organic-style automatons we've always feared: a robotic octopus. Nicknamed the Octobot, the mechanism was created using a combination of 3D printing, molding and soft lithography. To … | Continue reading
Wspaniałe ciasto pasujące do większości owoców. Możemy przygotować je ze śliwkami morelami, gruszkami, jabłkami. W dzisiejszej wersji dodałam odrobinę jeżyn, bo lubię w ciastach owocowych odrobinę kwaskowatego posmaku. W przypadku tego ciasta zwróćmy jedynie uwagę na to, by jogur … | Continue reading
YouTube is a destination for hosted video, but may soon become a social network. According to a report from Venture Beat, YouTube is working on a project known internally as Backstage that lets users post text, video and polls to their personal channel page. Those posts may also … | Continue reading
Boxing and match-3 puzzle games. Maybe like peanut butter and chocolate, these two different flavors can combine into surprisingly decadent treat. Or maybe it’ll be just as tasteless as the use of the celebrity plastered all over it. Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died this June … | Continue reading
I’ll get to the very simple reason why the trailer for Rings, a reboot of 2002’s The Ring, itself a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring, loses the plot in its first few seconds. But first, take a moment to watch the trailer for the 2002 film, above.The Ring was excellent … | Continue reading
The latest version of the Google Drive app supports more notifications, a new homescreen widget and a shorter path to paying for more space. | Continue reading
Hewlett-Packard said its outlook for the current quarter is weaker than expected due to falling printer demand, but Dion Weisler, president and CEO of HP, was optimistic in an analyst earnings call because the company is gaining share in personal computers. HP beat analyst’s esti … | Continue reading
LG's V20 is set to debut on September 6th, but mobile leaker Evan Blass has already got his hands on a high-resolution image of the Android flagship and posted it to Twitter. The image shows off a rather bland-looking smartphone with an uncluttered home screen devoid of any dupli … | Continue reading
Car soccer is a sport, and nothing you can do will stop that now. Rocket League’s highest competitive tier is getting a second season. The Rocket League Championship Series returns with registration opening today for teams looking to partake in the three-month season that will ha … | Continue reading
iOS 10 will include over 100 new emoji. Apple things that’s about five too few. Apple’s Peter Edberg, a software engineer that’s been with the company 28 years, reached out to the Unicode Technical Committee recently and shared five mockups that he — and Apple — think should be i … | Continue reading
SigOpt, a company aiming to “optimize everything,” announced today that it has raised $6.6 million in Series A funding. When startups talk about optimization, they often mean trying out a few different variations and then choosing the ones that get the best results. With SigOpt, … | Continue reading
Snapchat is about to have a couple of really good years.The company will see huge gains in the numbers of its U.S. users, according to a new report from market research firm eMarkerter. SEE ALSO: Why Snapchat and smartphone beauty filters need a culturally inclusive updateSnapcha … | Continue reading
Uber drivers are being given the opportunity to save for retirement. The ride-hailing company announced today that drivers in several cities will be offered retirement plans through Betterment, an automated investment service. The deal, which has been in the works since this spri … | Continue reading
The latest addition to a growing menagerie of octopus-robots has a lot going for it: It’s small, completely squishy, it doesn’t need a battery — and it farts.The adorable palm-sized robot is the work of a team of engineers from Harvard University. They created our flatulent frien … | Continue reading
GUEST: There are two sides of the chasm when it comes to conversational commerce. One side is the long-standing group of professionals who have invested hundreds of billions of dollars and countless man-years developing and implementing enterprise-grade conversational commerce pl … | Continue reading
Serendipity has long been a staple of scientific study, and a new discovery by MIT is no exception. Researchers at the school were trying to build better batteries, but instead found a better way to smelt metal. The study resulted in a brand new, far less polluting way to make an … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of a deal with a self-driving sensor technology startup this month, the automotive giant has backed Zoomcar, a Zipcar-like company that operates in India. Subsidiary Ford Smart Mobility led a $24 million Series B round for Zoomcar, with participation from returni … | Continue reading
Rats and other whiskered animals use senses that we don’t yet possess. In addition to being able to run mazes and lick our faces to confirm we aren’t covered in BBQ sauce, scientists have confirmed that some animals use their flowing front whiskers to sense wind position, a techn … | Continue reading
The Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin will close at the end of August to undergo an €11m refurbishment programme. | Continue reading
You don't have to subscribe to Project Fi to take advantage of the program's Wifi assistance -- well, that's if you have a Nexus device. | Continue reading
A few weeks back, I finally got around to reviewing a 17-inch MSI laptop with a built-in GeForce GTX 1080 desktop graphics processing unit (GPU). Now, I’m running a 14-inch MSI notebook that is tiny compared to that older model — only it is just as powerful. A new generation of l … | Continue reading
Say what you will about Windows Phone, but Lumia devices have always had solid cameras. One thing Windows the Windows camera app doesn’t include by default, however, is a panorama mode. Seriously, if you wanted to shoot a Panorama on the Lumia 950 or 950 XL, you have to download … | Continue reading
Researchers have identified a number of planets outside our solar system that both resemble Earth and carry a better than zero chance at containing life. None of these is as close to Earth as newly-discovered Proxima b. Only 4.2 light-years away — about 25 trillion miles — Proxim … | Continue reading
Gunshot detectors and anti-drone defense topped our list of favorites from the 48 startups that presented at Y Combinator Summer 2016 Demo Day 2. We asked investors what wowed them and huddled with the TechCrunch team to come up with our picks of the 8 most promising companies. C … | Continue reading
Espace Panet is an apartment designed by Montreal-based Anne Sophie Goneau Design. Description by Anne Sophie Goneau Design: Design of a space with an area… Continue reading | Continue reading
With a minimalist design, this white apartment was designed by Tai & Architectural Design in Taipei, Taiwan. | Continue reading
Alain Carle Architect completed the design and development of La Héronnière, a sustainable modern home in Wentworth-Nord, Québec, Canada. | Continue reading
Formo Design Studio have designed Wash Coffee, a charming laundry & coffee shop situated in Taipei City, Taiwan. | Continue reading
Hewlett Packard reported earnings for the third-fiscal quarter that beat Wall Street estimates. HP reported non-GAAP net income of 48 cents a share on revenue of $11.89 billion. Analysts expected third-fiscal quarter earnings of 44 cents a share on revenue of $11.47 billion reven … | Continue reading
After the close of the bell, technology stalwart Hewlett-Packard announced better than expected numbers in their Q3 earnings report. This comes after a relatively flat week on the public markets for the company. Analysts expected an adjusted EPS of 44 cents on $11.44 billion in r … | Continue reading
A new digital currency built for central banks is designed to make it easier for more people to use two powerful tools: real-time settling and cash. | Continue reading
Dass das Honor 8 heute in Europa erscheinen würde, war bereits bekannt, nun – nach der Pressekonferenz in Paris – ist auch der Preis bekannt: 399 Euro. Dafür bekommt man ein mit 4 GB RAM und 32 GB ausgestattetes Smartphone. Anders... | Continue reading
We hear a lot of good rumors about the iPhone 7, but the latest may actually be the best. A tipster says the 16GB storage option is being discontinued. Instead of 16GB, Apple is sliding the 32GB option down as the base model (take that, Google). The 64GB version is also being scr … | Continue reading
Kevin Durant told Michael Lee of The Vertical that he needed that gold medal run at the Rio Olympics to heal himself from a tumultuous free agent summer. Durant called it therapy. We agree that he needed something to lift his spirits after coming off as the villain to many after … | Continue reading
A recent study by Gartner has shown that blockchain has reached the ‘peak of inflated expectations’ phase of the hype cycle as the chief architect of ACI Worldwide states that the distributed ledger technology is not yet able to handle financial transactions at scale. The study b … | Continue reading
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak isn’t impressed with the company’s plans to ditch the headphone jack. According to rumors, the next iPhone will be so much thinner, Apple may have to drop the headphone jack. Instead, customers would use the same lightning port used to charge the ph … | Continue reading
Fox’s Marvel film franchise has suffered a new setback. Gambit director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) has departed the project and has signed on to direct DC’s supernatural ensemble film Justice League Dark. DC started publishing the supernatural team-up in N … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: RockYou has grown into one of the top video ad networks in the world by monetizing mobile and social games with advertisements. Now it is expanding into a new market with the acquisition of Fanbread, which has made a platform that automates advertising for influencers. … | Continue reading
David Lortscher was one of a few dozen people practicing dermatology in New Mexico when he realized a huge problem in the field: there weren’t enough dermatologists, and people were skipping out on visits because they thought it was for more affluent people or took too long. So L … | Continue reading
GUEST: Every once in a while, a product comes along that changes everyone’s expectations of what’s possible in user interfaces. The Mac. The World Wide Web. The iPhone. Alexa belongs in that elite group of game changers. Siri didn’t make it over the hump, despite the buzz it crea … | Continue reading
“Apple will be fine.”That’s what I wrote five years ago this Wednesday when Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, then in ill health, reluctantly stepped down as and handed over the reins to COO Tim Cook. It was Aug. 24, 2011. Cook was largely unknown to the public until 2009, whe … | Continue reading
B&O works with LG again, on the upcoming V20. A Hi-Fi pair of B&O PLAY earphones will be included with the V20 to ensure a premium audio experience. | Continue reading
While innovations like mobile payments and biometrics may one day change the way we safeguard consumer financial information in the digital age, we cannot neglect the here-and-now of both online and off-line users. The overwhelming majority of Americans use credit cards at the po … | Continue reading