I grew up at the foot of a dormant volcano in the Cascades, and like many of my classmates, I climbed it a few times as a teenager. Mountains — real, tree-bare, snow-capped mountains — feel like alien worlds. Air is thinner; water boils faster. Wind scours any signs of life from … | Continue reading
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication ... Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our 'Age … | Continue reading
Medium announced today that it has acquired Embed.ly to support publishers with backend APIs for embedding content. Embed.ly supports writers by providing analytics on content and customized recommendations and promotions. Their APIs are currently used by an all-star list of publ … | Continue reading
Snapchat is upgrading its stickers — again. The latest additions, however, will only be available to some users, at least for now.That's because the company is introducing new location-specific stickers that are available now in 10 cities. SEE ALSO: Snapchat wants to show you ads … | Continue reading
Three more top officials at the Democratic National Committee, including the CEO, have resigned in the wake of last month's hacked email revelations, the Washington Post and Associated Press report. Continue reading… | Continue reading
If your social media life wasn't confusing enough, Instagram has essentially stolen "Stories" from Snapchat. Now you can put your photos in little timelines all over the place.In an interesting move, "Stories" was released by Instagram on Tuesday. The update seems to be taking a … | Continue reading
A hacker group called Pravvy Sector reportedly accessed and leaked a massive 150GB data trove from the Central Ohio Urology Group on Twitter today, Motherboard reports. It’s unclear how many patients were affected, but the health care organization boasts that it has the "largest … | Continue reading
Bramasole House was completed in 2016 by New Zealand studio Herbst Architects. The house is located in Waimauku, Auckland, New Zealand. Description by Herbst Architects: The… Continue reading | Continue reading
French designer Marc Venot, has created an armchair named Quetzal for Spanish furniture manufacturer Missana. Inspired by the Quetzal bird, 14 overlapped bicolor pillows manage… Continue reading | Continue reading
The digital port of the board game Tsuro [$2.99] was one of the prettiest board games on the App Store, offering a lovely, serene experience. I quite enjoyed it when I reviewed it, and the good thing is that the developers have continued to update it and make it even better. This … | Continue reading
The NFL and Snapchat heart each other, and will continue to heart each other for multiple years to come: the two announced an extension to their “strategic partnership” today, which includes Snapchat’s first official sports league Discover channel, an NFL-programmed collection of … | Continue reading
Snapchat is reportedly developing a new form of QR code that opens unique content in-app when scanned. According to The Information, Snapchat’s scannable codes could be found just about anywhere: a box of canned soda, movie posters or even in-store advertisements. They may also c … | Continue reading
A federal judge in the Bay Area ruled that the FBI violated the fourth amendment by recording more than 200 hours of conversation at the entrance to a court house. Agents planted concealed microphones around the San Mateo County Courthouse in 2009 and 2010 as part of an investiga … | Continue reading
In 2009, Batman: Arkham Asylum managed to capture something that had eluded video games for decades: the feeling of being Batman. The brutal hand-to-hand combat, the high-tech tools and investigations, that sensation of skulking around in the dark undetected, all of it was there … | Continue reading
Digital currency exchange Bitfinex has taken its trading platform offline following a reported hack that resulted in the theft of customer funds. | Continue reading
Microsoft is opening up sales of its HoloLens augmented reality headset. In a blog post today, project head Alex Kipman said that all developers and business customers in the US and Canada can now order up to five HoloLens development kits apiece, instead of going through an appl … | Continue reading
AWS announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes among other things support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help customers manage a myriad of enterprise functions in the cloud, this latest one is ai … | Continue reading
25 bitcoin companies plan to launch smart contract federation to support new applications of the blockchain technology previously dominated by ethereum. | Continue reading
People.ai, a company bringing machine learning algorithms to sales operations, is emerging from stealth. The platform uses machine learning tech to give sales reps what it calls a predictive playbook on how to close deals based on past success. People.ai also shows managers how w … | Continue reading
Lost in all the hysteria over the potential for virtual reality is the Samsung Gear VR. The Gear VR might be the most mature virtual reality solution yet, not only because the hardware is made in partnership with Oculus, but because the third revision of the Gear VR is set to hit … | Continue reading
Most higher education institutions recognize the importance of employing social media monitoring to listen to what stakeholders are saying. That’s just one of the many insights from the latest Survey of Social Media in Advancement, sponsored by CASE, Huron Education and Stoner. O … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we look at a new approach to creating plans using a chat interface. Submit your startup to get featured too. What does Tweek do? Me and my colleagues all felt the need for a simpler task sharing tool that would help us assign tasks to … | Continue reading
Anyone interested in the history of personal computing will surely have heard of the Alto, but when’s the last time you got to play with one? It’s been a while even for Paul Allen — long enough that he decided to have a couple restored at the Computer History Museum in Seattle. T … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the launch of the HoloLens Commercial Suite, a group of tools that should help businesses start using the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality (AR) headset. The HoloLens Commercial Suite includes mobile device management (MDM), the Windows Store for Busi … | Continue reading
The parents of actor Anton Yelchin, who was killed in a roll-away accident involving his Jeep Grand Cherokee last month, have filed a wrongful death suit against Fiat Chrysler (FCA), the car’s manufacturers, according to Reuters. But a spokesperson for FCA says the car company ha … | Continue reading
Bitfinex, one of the leading digital currency exchange, today reported that it has faced a security breach. Following the discovery, the exchange reportedly halted all its bitcoin trading operations until further notice. “Today we discovered a security breach that requires us to … | Continue reading
HANG TIME, N.J. — The United States Men’s National Team wasn’t tested on either end of the floor in its exhibition schedule leading into the Olympics. Four of the team’s five games were against the three worst teams going to Rio: China (twice), Venezuela and Nigeria. And both Ven … | Continue reading
Microsoft first released HoloLens back in March, but it was a relatively small batch limited to developers. Now anyone can buy one – no sign up required. The news coincides with the Windows 10 Anniversary update, which technically applies to the HoloLens too (and the Xbox). With … | Continue reading
Six major banks have partnered with Samsung to improve banking security measures with the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung Senior Vice President Justin Denison announced at Samsung Unpacked on Tuesday. Even cooler, it involves eye scanners. After growing concerns that fingerprint scanners … | Continue reading
This Thursday, seven teams of researchers will face off in a live hacking challenge at Defcon, competing for a grand prize of $2 million. It’s a common sight at the conference, but this challenge comes with a twist — instead of human teams, Thursday’s challenge will be entirely a … | Continue reading
Chip-card checkout nightmares? WSJ's Joanna Stern explains the transition to the new EMV chip cards for credit and debit, and why your smartphone is the real answer to all your payment problems. Photo illustration/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. | Continue reading
With prices like these, you can scoop up some of the hottest Android games currently out there without a single pang of guilt for hurting your wallet. | Continue reading
Everybody knows how the hero’s journey goes. Joseph Campbell laid it out clearly in 1949’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and countless books, films, and comics have followed the pattern: the call to adventure, the journey into the unknown, the challenges, the transformation, an … | Continue reading
If you were anxiously waiting for BATMAN: The Telltale Series to come out today, August 2nd, as originally announced, I'm afraid you'll have to wait quite a bit longer. Originally, the first episode of the new series was supposed to come out on mobile today, on the same day as on … | Continue reading
The NFL is extending its partnership with Snapchat to include the first ever sports channel for the mobile app's Discover tab. By swiping left on the app, users can now seek out NFL videos made for Snapchat alongside football news and popular topics of interest. The partnership f … | Continue reading
The Gear 360 will launch to the US market on Aug. 19th, which is in conjunction with Samsung’s new Note 7 flagship smartphone. | Continue reading
Wondering where to buy the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7? We've got all the details here! | Continue reading
As of today, Google has the all clear from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to start testing its drones at any of six FAA-approved test sites in the US. Until now, FAA guidelines prohibited drones in the US to operate without a human pilot, or beyond the pilot’s line of … | Continue reading
The 15-year-old porn studio Naughty America operates on a subscription model. Yes, in an age of rampant piracy when nude bodies are a Google search away, people still pay for porn. But the business isn't what it used to be. The studio and other porn sites now face the threat of e … | Continue reading
You can now buy Microsoft’s HoloLens Development Edition, the company’s futuristic augmented reality helmet, without having to go through an application process. Until now, Microsoft only made HoloLenses available to developers who put in an application. Now, if you have $3,000 t … | Continue reading
A Tesla Model S that can supposedly run Pokémon Go might be the nerdiest thing I've ever seen.Ever since Pokémon Go launched, I've been trying to imagine a way in which I could use a car to play. Specifically, I imagined playing with the Chevy Cruze. It has 4G LTE Wi-Fi, GPS, an … | Continue reading
Our ninth annual GamesBeat conference is well underway, and you can find every session right here. We’ve listed every talk from day one — featuring Oculus, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR and more — below and also in the YouTube playlist at the top of this story. We’ll update thi … | Continue reading
Along with today’s rollout of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft is also debuting a new version of its Skype Windows application, which the company says has been redesigned from the ground-up. In addition the new app’s look, Skype is also now integrated with Windows 10, … | Continue reading
Experience marketing agency George P Johnson has hired James Klein as senior vice president, live production at its New York office. | Continue reading
One of the biggest selling points of the ZTE flagship is its audio features. We take a look at how take your audio to the next level with the ZTE Axon 7! | Continue reading
The Note 7’s little friend continues to prove its worth as the differentiating companion. Here's what you should know about the new S Pen! | Continue reading
In a world that’s soon to be dominated by VR, the ability to create a life-like environment revolves almost wholly around advanced 3D modeling, an expensive and labor-intensive process that yields great results but comes at the expense of hundreds (or thousands) of man hours. Res … | Continue reading
Is the latest Samsung flagship a worthy upgrade over its predecessor? We find out, in this quick look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 vs Galaxy Note 5! | Continue reading