Bethells Bach was recently completed by Herbst Architects on the west coast of New Zealand. A two-bedroom bach set back from the beach ... | Continue reading
Blackbird House is a vacation home designed by Will Bruder Architects in Aspen, Colorado, US. The Urban Mountain Retreat is located in ... | Continue reading
The Dovecote is an old building transformed and renovated by AZO - Sequeira Arquitectos Associados in Soutelo, Portugal. | Continue reading
Linux will turn 25 years old on August 25, the day Linus Torvalds sent out his fateful message asking for help with a new operating system. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing si … | Continue reading
A startup called Proxy has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to help people use internet-enabled devices of every kind without all the annoying login processes and standalone apps for each separate device. Proxy’s cofounders Denis Mars and Simon Ratner said they were inspired t … | Continue reading
The National Park System is turning 100, and The Verge is celebrating with Wilderness Week: a look at the natural world, its freaky critters, and its future.Whitebark pines are majestic trees with a whitish, often wind-curled trunk that grow up high in the Rocky and Sierra Mounta … | Continue reading
The new T-Mobile plan will force you to pay for unthrottled video, and the EFF doesn't think that's cool. Neither do we. | Continue reading
In the four years since Channel Orange was released, Frank Ocean’s greatest weapon has been ambiguity. Save for a guest spot on Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo and a few Tumblr essays, the R&B singer has remained silent and reclusive, while fans wondered how he was spending his ti … | Continue reading
Money can't buy happiness, or Ian McKellen's dignity! In a recent interview with The Daily Mail, the British knight who has more acting awards than I have square feet in my apartment has revealed that he was once invited to officiate Sean Parker's wedding in exchange for $1.5 mil … | Continue reading
From Pokémon Go to AdWords, check out Brandpoint's take on the latest news and happenings in this week's installment of Last Week in Content Marketing. | Continue reading
This week, the MTA completed the launch of its Metro North eTix app, which lets commuters in Connecticut, Long Island, and upstate New York purchase train tickets directly on their phones. The initial release of the app came earlier this summer with a grandiose celebration from N … | Continue reading
While we all know the best business cards are printed on bone paper with lettering in Silian Rail, the second best business cards are the ones you roll yourself right in front of your intended recipient. This wild 3D printed card roller lets you do just that. Built by maker Paul … | Continue reading
There’s nothing worse than the seemingly frozen moment after you’ve dropped your phone and have to gingerly pick it up off the floor, as you stare grimly at the face-down device and wonder whether or not your screen survived the landing this time. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is the latest epic in the long-running series about the moral dilemmas humanity faces with synthetic augmentations for humankind. You act as superhuman “aug,” or augmented human, Adam Jensen, with bionic limbs and other powers. You can play Jensen’s chara … | Continue reading
It’s time to dig out the Game Boy classic. Dust it off, pop in some fresh batteries and use it the way the 1989 handheld was supposed to be used — to pilot a drone. With a few simple modifications, Gautier Hattenberger of the French Civil Aviation University (ENAC), managed to br … | Continue reading
The day has finally come! Android 7.0 Nougat has arrived, and you can get it right now on eligible devices by signing up for Android beta. | Continue reading
There's a new reigning monarch for the most expensive American car ever sold at auction. And it's a modified British sports car with a Ford V8 under the hood. Go figure.The roundish blue shape you see above is the 1962 Shelby 260 Cobra "CSX 2000" — a.k.a the first Cobra from lion … | Continue reading
So the European session has now drawn to a close, and it’s time to take our second of two looks at the bitcoin price market for the day. In this morning’s analysis, we outlined the levels we were focusing on and set up what turned out to be a relatively tight range on the fifteen … | Continue reading
It's been a month since the ethereum hard fork moved $150m worth of DAO ether into a withdraw-only account. Today, $25m is still unclaimed. | Continue reading
Most game industry observers expect Sony to reveal a more powerful PlayStation 4 next month in New York City, but now it looks like the company may have more than one piece of new hardware to reveal during its September 7 event. The rumored PlayStation 4 Slim looks like it is rea … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Banks are starting to catch on — but not quickly enough. Quick-thinking companies leveraging innovations in transactional data analysis are driving millennials to new kinds of financial services. Join our panel of fintech experts to find out what the future of finance in … | Continue reading
Several states have been exploring ways to squeeze more money out of the rapidly growing ride-hailing industry, but Massachusetts appears to have just beaten them to the punch. According to Reuters, Republican Governor Charlie Baker signed into law a 20-cent tax per trip on Uber … | Continue reading
Investment company Forex Paradise recently announced that it is issuing a new debit card range for Bitcoin users. The Hong Kong-based international company, which already offers traditional finance management services, marks its entry into a rather unconventional digital currency … | Continue reading
Frau Prof. Dr. Dagmar Lund-Durlacher berichtet in der Folge über ein Projekt, das mir aus zweierlei Gründen als für den TP-Blog relevant erscheint: Erstens wird mit „nachhaltiger Ernährung“ ein brandaktuelles Thema grundlegend bearbeitet. Und zweitens haben sich zu dieser Untersu … | Continue reading
MediaBrix, a mobile advertising startup that says it creates “emotionally targeted brand connections,” announced today that it scored a $6.5 million investment led by Edison Partners. “With this funding, we will continue to ramp our programmatic offerings, invest in R&D and expan … | Continue reading
If you live in a non-Google Fiber market, you’re paying too much for Comcast’s ‘Gigabit’ internet. Google Fiber is already in select locations in Atlanta. It’s coming soon to Nashville. In both of these markets, Comcast’s competing service, Gigabit, is priced at $70 a month with … | Continue reading
Rdio, the now-dead music streaming service, lives on via a Spotify theme for the desktop. While it’s not a recreation of Rdio, Spotio at least makes your Spotify experience feel a lot more like Rdio. To get it, you’ll have to ump through a few hoops, but design-concious listeners … | Continue reading
I’m not a sports person, but I know some things about athletes. I know they wear gym shoes; I know they usually coordinate their pants and shirt to match their shoes; and I know they enjoy sweating. Tech companies seem to think true athletes want to have Bluetooth earbuds that co … | Continue reading
Color Switch has joined a rarified club in mobile gaming, as the colorful puzzler has been downloaded more than 100 million times since its launch seven months ago on January 22. The growth of the free-to-play game shows it’s still possible for small independent developers to cre … | Continue reading
Picturelife, a four-year-old photo-storage and management service acquired by digital media hub Streamnation last year, is shutting down. An email sent to subscribers today said the service faced "a challenging economic environment" and was no longer viable. Members will have the … | Continue reading
Chess is one of the original logic and strategy games ever and it's just as challenging today as it was long ago. Here are the best chess games for Android. | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the availability of a new extension for its cross-platform Visual Studio Code text editor that makes it possible for developers to debug code for websites when they’re running on iOS devices. Until this point, if developers wanted to do this type of debu … | Continue reading
Google has launched Android Nougat to the world today and in doing so, has confirmed that the LG V20 will be the first smartphone to launch with Nougat out of the box, NOT the new Nexus smartphones with previous years. | Continue reading
Microsoft, Harvard, Infra, UCL and others are taking steps to ensure formal security of smart contracts as well as planning tools and implementations. | Continue reading
Bessemer Venture Partners led a $29 million investment for data privacy startup Virtru, the Washington, D.C.-based security software developer announced today. The series A capital will help Virtru build new products and scale worldwide. “With the new funding and the support of b … | Continue reading
Amazon’s same-day delivery service Prime Now, which is today available in more than a couple of dozen U.S. metros, is experimenting with another type of service that goes beyond traditional purchases: it’s offering consumers the ability to test drive cars. Specifically, Amazon ha … | Continue reading
NewsBTC recently got the opportunity to speak with Matej Boda, the co-founder of DECENT, a blockchain-based content distribution platform. Boda discussed how Decent is following the blockchain’s literal and moral code to create a decentralized content distribution network that wo … | Continue reading
When AMC’s Walking Dead spinoff Fear the Walking Dead debuted last year, it tried to distinguish itself with a very simple premise. Where the original hit series follows Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes as he roams a landscape ravaged by the zombie apocalypse, Fear would explore the … | Continue reading
Es wäre auch verwunderlich gewesen, wenn sich der große kanadische Mobilfunkanbieter Telus im Datum vertan hätte: Android 7, aka Nougat, geht noch heute an den Start. Man braucht nur das richtige Endgerät, um es installieren zu... | Continue reading
Frank Ocean finally dropped his much-anticipated album Blonde this weekend, along with a limited companion zine called Boys Don't Cry that came with some physical copies of the album. The zine features artwork from collaborators, personal essays and interviews, and a poem about M … | Continue reading
One of Russia's largest banks is in discussions to join a domestic bank consortium that would study blockchain technology. | Continue reading
Twitter’s dark mode has finally made its way from Android to iOS. If you’re not clear on what a ‘dark mode’ does, it’s simple: it changes your background color to a darker grey, and tweet text to white. Check it out: Rolling out today – we’re bringing night mode to iOS! https:// … | Continue reading
We’ve already heard plenty of rumors that Apple is introducing a curved display for the 2017 iPhone, but new reports are suggesting that this will be a third tier in the company’s product line. A report from Nikkei indicates the flagship 2017 iPhone won’t have a completely wrapar … | Continue reading
The price of PlayStation Plus is rising by a Hamilton. Beginning on September 22nd, the yearly fee will increase by $10 — from $49.99 to $59.99.The new price won’t impact current subscribers until its time for renewal. So, if you’ve been considering PlayStation Plus, it would be … | Continue reading
Google has announced that the consumer-ready version of Android 7.0 Nougat will begin rolling out to Nexus devices starting today. | Continue reading
Twitter is now rolling out the much-anticipated night mode feature to its iOS app. First introduced on Android back in July, night mode re-skins the mobile app in darker hues to make it easer to scan the feed and read tweets in environments with less light. To toggle night mode o … | Continue reading
Google today started rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to existing Nexus devices via an over-the-air software update. This is a gradual rollout: The Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C, and General Mobile 4G (Android One) will all be updated, but ” it may tak … | Continue reading
Google surprised everyone when it launched a public beta of the Android Nougat back in March. Annual updates are nothing new for Android, but not only did this announcement come very early, it also offered users the option to easily install the beta with an over-the-air update. N … | Continue reading