Few details have emerged since yesterday's news that digital currency exchange Bitfinex was hacked. | Continue reading
Comma.ai, the startup that George Hotz (aka Geohotz) founded to show that making driverless vehicles could done relatively cheaply using off-the-shelf components and existing vehicles, has open-sourced a dataset of 7.25 hours of highway driving. Read More | Continue reading
One of the reasons it is difficult to find work from home is because there are so many ways to get the work. In this post, I’m going to outline the easiest way I’ve found work from home over the last 12 years. Outreach. 20 years ago people who were looking for work would print [… … | Continue reading
Apple on Wednesday released its annual diversity report. And like in previous years, the company is still predominately white and male. But that doesn’t mean that its efforts to improve diversity haven't yielded improvements. This is the third year that the Cupertino giant has re … | Continue reading
Sales of the OnePlus 3 will be suspended throughout Europe and in Hong Kong for a month beginning next week as the company said it needs "to give inventory time to replenish." OnePlus says sales of its flagship device will be suspended from August 9th until September 12th in the … | Continue reading
This is going to be fun. I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio next week, Wednesday, August 10, and I’ll be holding a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar. The event will be at O’Toole’s 4796 W Broad St, right off I-270. We’ll start at 7pm sharp with pitches so get … | Continue reading
Take a tour of Facebook’s new 22,000 square foot hardware lab where it’s building drones, satellites, lasers, VR headsets, and the machines that store the world’s biggest collection of photos. Click the arrow to the right or scroll down on mobile to see what’s behind the Area 404 … | Continue reading
Yesterday, the US Air Force said its fleet of F-35A fighter jets are ready for battle — finally. The planes were actually ordered 15 years ago, but their development was plagued by numerous delays and cost overruns. The Air Force is the second branch of the US military after the … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch analysis, our primary focus was the forming of a triangle, a classical charting pattern, and the implications of this triangle from our strategy throughout the day. We hoped that we would see price break out of the triangle in a definitive di … | Continue reading
It’s time for the Olympics, so of course all the tech companies are doing their own promotions. We’ve already had Google and Twitter do their thing, so now it’s Facebook’s turn First up, you can now add a Rio 2016 frame to your photos – decorated with your team flag – because all … | Continue reading
In some parts of the country, internet service providers (ISPs) are offering a special deal on broadband. What you might not know, however, is hidden deep within the fine print, you’re getting that deal because you’re agreeing to sell the ISP your Web browsing history. Speaking M … | Continue reading
While I assume most of you are out celebrating National Watermelon Day, those of us at TouchArcade Towers are scratching our heads wondering what's been going on with the App Store as of late. As we mentioned last week, the delightfully predictable behavior of App Store game rele … | Continue reading
Samsung's impressive new Galaxy Note 7 doesn't launch until Aug. 19, but pre-orders begin today.In the U.S., the Note 7 will be available on Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and U.S. Cellular in three colors: Blue Coral, Black Onyx and Silver Titanium. Here's how much it'll cost o … | Continue reading
A short video that was posted to Vimeo and Reddit this morning appears to give us our first glimpse of GoPro’s long-awaited Hero 5 camera. The video is the same kind of quick how-to that usually lives in the company’s mobile apps, as it shows a step-by-step process of how to conn … | Continue reading
Google has already proven how fun maps can be with Pokemon Go, but now it’s trying focusing on another adorable creature instead. The Maps team just released a game featuring a 500-foot tall Yeti named Verne who explores the Himalayas. It’s meant to be educational, so players wil … | Continue reading
There is much talk of “cloud native” these days, and people are taking liberties with the interpretation — as they do with everything else associated with the cloud. Cade Metz put it right: “The term has taken on so many meanings in recent years. But keep in mind: most of these m … | Continue reading
1Password, one of the best password managers out there, is switching up its business model. Today the app's developer AgileBits is introducing a monthly subscription for individuals priced at $2.99 per month. That's cheaper than the $5 / month family plan that 1Password launched … | Continue reading
About one year ago, Apple unveiled a diversity site featuring its employee representation data and a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Today, Apple has revealed its latest diversity numbers, showing slight but consistent imp … | Continue reading
Telltale's new Batman series isn't going down well on Steam. By most accounts the actual content of the game is fine, if not revolutionary, but the criticism stems from a litany of technical issues resulting in a buggy, poorly optimised PC port.The main complaints are that it has … | Continue reading
As expected, Mobius Final Fantasy has now arrived on Google Play, bringing the originally Japanese only social RPG over to the western world. | Continue reading
Meg Whitman, the CEO of HP Enterprise and a prominent Republican fundraiser, has decided to endorse Hillary Clinton and reject the "demagoguery" of Donald Trump, she said in a Facebook post last night. Continue reading… | Continue reading
As the CDC issues travel warnings for Miami, Florida, the National Institutes of Health are set to begin the first human trials for an experimental vaccine for Zika. Last week, Florida health officials identified four cases of the Zika virus that were likely transmitted by mosqui … | Continue reading
For three years, a cartoon dog has sat patiently in a house fire. He smiles as he says, "This is fine." Today, however, the dog changes his stance. Today, says the dog, "this is not fine."The "This is fine" meme comes from KC Green’s 2013 webcomic "On Fire." The meme rarely inclu … | Continue reading
Online document creation and editing tool Dropbox Paper is now in open beta, alongside iOS and Android apps for better productivity on the go. The open beta means there’s no waitlist, so any Dropbox user can sign up. The company says Paper users have created over one million docu … | Continue reading
Car component supplier Lear is hoping to ride the wave of connectivity to new heights, with plans to develop and ship a unit for its car-maker customers that lets their vehicles communicate with other cars on the road, city infrastructure including connected roads and traffic lig … | Continue reading
Yahoo has developed an AI algorithm that it says can correctly detect up to 90 percent of abusive comments online, making it outperform other "state-of-the-art" deep-learning-based algorithms, according to a report by the algorithm's developers."While automatically detecting abus … | Continue reading
Most people are well aware of how using credit cards is becoming a significant security risk these days. Not just online, where data breaches are running rampant these days. But also in real life, as Hotel point-of-sale devices are vulnerable to attacks and malware injections. Th … | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard of Prisma, the mindblowing photo-editing app that uses AI for its filters. While they was the first to reach worldwide popularity, it has since become a crowded space for apps. With today’s launch of Artisto, it’s now possible to put an arty layer over your … | Continue reading
I can’t be the only one that’s still awe-struck by bots. The idea that you can book a flight abroad, order a meal from Burger King, or refresh your wardrobe by chatting to an algorithm is nothing short of mind-boggling to me. At the forefront of this revolution in how people inte … | Continue reading
Following yesterday’s launch of a new version of the Skype Windows 10 application, Microsoft today announced an expanded collection of its “Skype bots,” the automated chat assistants that it introduced earlier this year in a limited preview. The new bots include those that can he … | Continue reading
Whereas our older generations gathered around the television to watch a man tightrope walk between skyscrapers or attended an actual event to see Evel Knievel perform epic jumps, today watching the next wild stunt is as simple as launching an app on your phone. General Electric i … | Continue reading
After a few months of testing the waters, Kik is still bullish on chatbots and has quite a few reasons to be.Just last May at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Kik CEO Ted Livingston divulged that developers had built over 6,000 chatbots on the platform. Fast forward a few months and the po … | Continue reading
Many executives and employees have need for a role that’s basically a “chief of staff” — someone who keeps track of all the details about everyone they encounter and are headed off to meet in their professional careers. But there’s plenty of information that they might be missing … | Continue reading
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It’s an interesting time for Dropbox’s document-building tool, Paper. Quip, in a similar vein to Paper, was bought for a whopping $750 million by Salesforce earlier this week. This deal surprised a ton of people, but made a lot of sense given that Salesforce has seemingly been di … | Continue reading
Microsoft today is announcing that new security features inside the Operations Management Suite — a cloud service for managing public cloud and private cloud infrastructure that includes backup, site recovery, and log analytics capability — are now generally available following a … | Continue reading
The Bot Shop, where users of the chat app Kik go to get featured bots, recently surpassed 110 bots, the chat app announced today. And you wouldn’t know it by visiting the Bot Shop, but another 19,000 bots have also been made for the Kik platform. That means roughly 1,100 bots hav … | Continue reading
YouTube Red, the subscription service released last summer, is finally being integrated with YouTube Kids. The Kids app already lets parents plunk their kids in front of the screen without having to worry that their little ones will stumble onto some unsavory content. With the ad … | Continue reading
Dropbox today is launching dedicated Android and iOS apps for its Dropbox Paper collaborative note-taking program, which has been previously limited to the web. Also today, Dropbox is graduating Dropbox Paper to open beta, meaning that anyone can start using it right away, and th … | Continue reading
Unlock Cinderella characters and Splash Mountain in the latest update to Magic Kingdoms. | Continue reading
There's a meme out there that hardware is dead. Maybe not. Hardware is becoming more specialized a... | Continue reading
JBL announced in April that it would be releasing a pair of USB-C-powered earbuds this year in coordination with the release of the HTC 10. At the time, we didn’t have a price or specific release date. Well now the day has come. The Reflect Aware C are out on HTC’s website, and t … | Continue reading
A misguided flaming arrow interrupted the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent, a network reality program comprised of Branson-friendly variety acts. Fortunately the arrow's ultimate target, Canadian stunt man Ryan Stock, appears to be okay.Stocks had performed a sword-swallowin … | Continue reading
2016 is a big year for Final Fantasy. After a decade of waiting, fans will finally be able to play the long-standing franchise’s latest flagship title, Final Fantasy XV, when it launches next month. But before that comes another important entry in the series: Mobius Final Fantasy … | Continue reading
Ripple has acquired Hoodline, a deal that combines two different approaches to covering local news.Founded by former Viki CEO Razmig Hovaghimian, Ripple launched earlier this year and taps community contributors for its coverage. Hoodline, meanwhile, has an editorial team (led by … | Continue reading
In recent years, venture capital has poured into food companies, from meal kit and grocery delivery services to the makers of environmentally sustainable, or health-promoting food products.Now, investors and entrepreneurs from tech, food and the restaurant industry have launched … | Continue reading
Is the Galaxy Note 7 nothing more than a tweaked Galaxy S7 Edge? Has Samsung made tweaks in the right places to perfect the design? Let's find out. | Continue reading