What do you know about the Clinton email scandal? If you’re anything like me, not much – yet! Let’s take a stroll into our political Swamp of Sadness where both parties are currently mired. One candidate became stuck there while trying to beat the dead horse of the Crooked Hillar … | Continue reading
One of the unique elements of mobile is that because people have their devices with them constantly, game design has taken on a new element of trying to fit into people's lives. Phoenix 2 [Free] feels like the idea was to provide an intense shoot 'em up experience that could be m … | Continue reading
Nothing tells the story of how the Mexican tech ecosystem is steaming ahead in Latin America quite like the rise of fintech. The financial services space ticks all the right boxes entrepreneurs look for when launching a company. On the flipside, Mexico’s fintech industry has ever … | Continue reading
It's no secret GoPro is developing a drone called "Karma" for release later this year. But what it looks like, nobody outside of GoPro really knows.Last month, GoPro posted a teaser video for the animated film The Secret Life of Pets and speculation ran wild that the company may … | Continue reading
Matt Damon is one of those actors who has become one of the most recognizable and bankable stars in the movie industry. Because he’s worked in film for nearly three decades, he’s also an embodiment of time’s cruel indifference. Burger Fiction has put together a great 13-minute su … | Continue reading
CBS's bold experiment in over-the-top TV streaming is paying off. The company says its All Access and Showtime subscription services have 2 million total subscribers, with user bases evenly split between the two. "That’s well ahead of where we’d thought we’d be this early in the … | Continue reading
Google is giving you one less reason to think of the Docs and Sheets mobile apps as simple document viewers. | Continue reading
VB LIVE: As financial services have become more efficient and convenient, they’ve lost some of their personal touch. This webinar will demonstrate that financial institutions are utilizing big data to better personalize customers’ connections with their finances…as well as the pr … | Continue reading
Since launching four years ago, Snapchat is a platform you and your business can't continue to ignore. | Continue reading
At this year's Olympics, the U.S. women are expected to bring home more medals than the men. Here are some of the top U.S. women athletes to watch at the summer games in Rio. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Wars, rogue nations and extremists are just some of the vexing challenges that the next president will have to face. Here’s a quick-hit look at where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on Russia, China, Iran, ISIS, and North Korea. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Coinbase's first employee has departed to start a blockchain-focused hedge fund. | Continue reading
Proving the sharing economy is dominating every aspect of our lives, we now have an app for cleaning up dog poop. The new app, Pooper (seriously), is designed to keep dog owners from having to pick up after their four-legged friends when they do their business. Its motto? “Your d … | Continue reading
The Chamber of Digital commerce, a trade association comprised of industry leading companies representing the digital assets and blockchain sector, unveiled a new initiative called Smart Contract Alliance (SCA). The project aims to promote real world applications of this new “vi … | Continue reading
LG Display will spend around $1.7 billion to build a new production line for making flexible OLED smartphone screens. Flexible smartphone screens, which go into phones like the curved Galaxy S7 Edge, are becoming increasingly popular, and they seem likely to become a dominant sty … | Continue reading
However, after I started to explore the assorted CEF accounting features, it turned out the entire thing is just not as simple as it seems to be. The software program should be capable of give you a report for every transaction made and these reports ought to be obtainable for e … | Continue reading
If you're looking for a CCG that promises a higher degree of complexity than a game like Hearthstone but one that's still quick to play, you might want to check out the just-released Deckstorm: Duel of Guardians [Free] by DeNA. In Deckstorm's matches, players throw cards down sim … | Continue reading
Sprig is making some changes to its delivery model, and in order to do it as efficiently as possible, the company is pausing its operations in Chicago and laying off seven team members across its marketing and operations teams. In reviewing different aspects of the logistics behi … | Continue reading
When software developer Todd Moore wrote up the code for his now-famous White Noise app in 2008, it was a side project to him and one of the first mobile apps go live on the Apple app store. The app quickly climbed to a number one spot in the Health and Fitness category, and has … | Continue reading
A company called iPatrol has released a sentry robot called Riley that will cruise around your home on tank tracks with an HD camera, but without the requisite weapons to deter intruders (unless the intruder is a small animal). The tiny robot features a 5MP camera with night visi … | Continue reading
Whether you're playing Pokémon Go, texting, sending an email, or just checking out fantasy baseball scores. In some cases, this leads to dire consequences. | Continue reading
Until last year, Amazon was known as much for its ubiquity in online retail as it was for the bold and expensive visions of CEO Jeff Bezos. The company would spend mightily, only to assuage investor fears with promises of a bright future. Many of those investments, like in cloud … | Continue reading
The unexpected rise of Ethereum Classic, the original Ethereum blockchain without a hard fork has got few leading cryptocurrency exchanges considering its implementation into their platforms. Poloniex became the first cryptocurrency exchange platform to include ETC support, with … | Continue reading
Alphabet, the umbrella for Google’s core business, as well as its riskier "Other Bets," posted its second-quarter earnings today. In the third time the company has detailed its performance segment by segment, it handily beat analysts’ expectations. It notched $21.5 billion in rev … | Continue reading
Amazon reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2016 today and for its AWS unit, it was once again a big quarter. AWS net sales hit $2.9 billion in the last quarter, up from $2.5 billion in net sales in the last quarter. That’s up from $1.8 billion in the year-ago-quart … | Continue reading
It used to be that only car companies could build cars. But this is the twenty-first century, when seemingly anyone can build a car or four, including a Chinese solar power company. Hanergy Holding Group, which manufactures thin-film solar panels, has created a Solar Vehicle Busi … | Continue reading
Amazon shattered expectations when it reported second quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.78, when Wall Street was forecasting $1.11. Amazon also beat revenue predictions, posting $30.4 billion for the quarter when analysts were … | Continue reading
While Alphabet’s core advertising business has often been questioned as the net value of its ads has been in decline, there’s one thing that’s hard to argue — it’s still one of the biggest technology businesses in the world, and it’s still growing. And it’s growing very quickly. … | Continue reading
Have you ever been curious what the person in front of you in line at Chipotle is thinking about while Snapchatting? Now you can find out with Whatsgoodly. Whatsgoodly claims to be “the largest database of millennial attitudes,” and is now searchable by anyone. Via a familiar Goo … | Continue reading
As expected, the MVNO Republic Wireless has now expanded its lineup to include the Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, Galaxy S6, Nexus 6P, and more. | Continue reading
Learn from former filmmaker & current consultant and storytelling expert Donna Lichaw, author of The User's Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love. | Continue reading
The Chaos Rings series holds an important part in mobile gaming history, as it was among the first truly full-featured sets of original games made specifically for mobile devices. That coupled with the fact that Square Enix was the developer lent a lot of credibility to mobile as … | Continue reading
Tech founder Gurbaksh Chahal appears to have handed over his CEO role at Gravity4 to his sister, Kamal Kaur, after a judge found last week that he violated his domestic violence probation.Chahal has been removed from Gravity4’s leadership page and replaced by Kaur, who is current … | Continue reading
Warm up those creative muscles so your team can put their best ideas forward. | Continue reading
Hyperloop One is celebrating the grand opening of what it calls "the world’s first Hyperloop factory," just two weeks after one of its co-founders filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming, among other things, that a noose was left on his desk. The lawsuit includes a number o … | Continue reading
Two years after Apple came out with its Family Sharing feature, Google announced a similar feature called Google Play Family Library, which allows sharing of TV, app, movie and book purchases on up to six Google accounts. It will work across Android and Chrome devices, but also o … | Continue reading
Takeout food delivery platform Grubhub stock soared 26 percent following a way-better-than-expected second quarter earnings release. The online marketplace connecting restaurants and takeout diners beat analysts expectations, both for revenue and adjusted EPS.For the second quart … | Continue reading
According to a new report, Apple’s mysterious car project is now focusing on software, and may end up serving as a platform for existing manufacturers. It’s said Apple has hired Dan Dodge, the former head of BlackBerry Ltd.’s automotive software division (and former CEO of QNX, w … | Continue reading
Now you don’t have to just dance … you can sing as well. Publisher Ubisoft announced Just Sing today. This karaoke game launches September 6 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and it comes with more than 40 songs from artists like Meghan Trainor, Queen, and One Direction. This rhyth … | Continue reading
What do Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant look like as emojis? For the launch of MovieLaLa‘s emoji marketplace MojiLala, the startup made a set inspired by tech’s best known venture capitalists. The list could have included more of the great female and minority VCs … | Continue reading
More changes are underway at Apple's secretive electric car division. According to Bloomberg, the team has brought on Dan Dodge, the former head of BlackBerry's automotive software group who joined the Canadian phone maker in 2010 when it acquired his operating system company QNX … | Continue reading
The co-founder of an Australian digital currency startup has been indicted for his alleged involvement in a fraudulent text messaging scheme. | Continue reading
Repetition is a powerful tool for both filmmakers and teachers, and Professor Werner Herzog wants you to know two things: he doesn't have a cell phone (later he will tell you that he does, but only for emergencies) and he didn't know movies existed until he was 11. He's dropped t … | Continue reading
I’m going to put this right up front: Adr1ft isn’t for the weak of stomach. The virtual reality free-floating space survival sim left me a tad queasy, and I’m somewhere in the middle of the VR sickness sensitive spectrum. But for those looking to boldly barf where only Oculus Rif … | Continue reading
After months of teasing, Microsoft is finally almost ready to give Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta users a taste of VR. In a blog post celebrating the first anniversary of Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta, Microsoft announced that support for the Oculus Rift will be coming “in … | Continue reading
If you own both a Nest thermostat and an Apple Watch, you might’ve figured the two would’ve learned to play friendly by now. I mean, Apple Watch keeps you from having to pull your phone out of your pocket to see who’s bugging you while you’re trying to finish Stranger Things, Nes … | Continue reading
GUEST: Sure, chatbots are useful for service industries like hospitality and food delivery, but in health care? Some groups are testing the use of chatbots to retrieve medical information from within a messaging app. At first glance, that seems a bit impersonal, but a closer look … | Continue reading
Formula One cars will keep their open-cockpit design for at least another season. The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), F1's governing body, has scrapped its plan to introduce partially closed cockpits for the 2017 season, according to a statement released today. T … | Continue reading