Nearly one year ago LiveBlends was a Y Combinator smoothie delivery startup. The company has evolved since then, raised $3.8 million in seed from various investors and switched its name to Replenish. It’s also moved away from delivery and into manufacturing a line of Keurig-like … | Continue reading
Ahead of potential new monetary policy from the Bank of Japan, CoinDesk explores its potential impact on bitcoin markets. | Continue reading
From Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works team — the same folks that brought you the strategic recon aircrafts U-2 Dragon Lady and SR-71 Blackbird as well as the stealth fighter jet F-117 Nighthawk — now comes Spider (not to be confused with this one), a device to repair blimps more eff … | Continue reading
After rolling Wi-Fi calling capabilities out to the LG G4, AT&T has turned their attention to the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. | Continue reading
The Xbox Ones S may have been Microsoft’s biggest E3 announcement, but for many the coolest bit was that new Bluetooth controller – especially the ones with a custom design. Well, mine just arrived, and it’s pretty rad. Here’s the basic recap of the advantages of the new one comp … | Continue reading
Today, I want to talk about something very different. I am not going to hit you with yet more reasons to journey down the content marketing trail, discover more about the virtues of an animated video or enrol on some media or presentation skills training session. No, you’ve heard … | Continue reading
GUEST: Apple reported lackluster earnings on Tuesday as the company’s iPhone sales continued to slide. The numbers make it clear that the future of the consumer products behemoth is no longer in its consumer products. The fix? Apple should release a version of iOS for non-Apple d … | Continue reading
Apple on Wednesday announced that it has sold its billionth iPhone. The original iPhone went on sale on June 29, 2007.SEE ALSO: U.S. Army switching to iPhones because Androids freeze upThe news, which comes a day after the Cupertino giant announced its quarterly earnings for the … | Continue reading
It would have been a nice piece of information to share during yesterday’s earnings report, but the Tim Cook and co. were clearly too preoccupied with service revenues and R&D. And hey, no better way to kick of a midweek meeting than a little positive news — particularly if you c … | Continue reading
Flagship reviews go under the microscope during a discussion on the Motorola Moto Z. Join Josh, Joe, Jonathan and Lanh for AA Podcast 073. | Continue reading
Facebook wants to be known as a place to search for mentions of current news in hopes of drawing more public chatter that normally ends up on Twitter. While Facebook stumbled with its natural language Graph Search, it refocused on keywords, and now seeing 2 billion searches per d … | Continue reading
Netflix has just renewed a big handful of shows, and announced a smaller handful of new ones. The most exciting renewal is probably Maria Bamford's Lady Dynamite, a sitcom that's not only funny and absurd, it also offers a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of mental illness. Netflix … | Continue reading
One of the best and darkest science fiction shows ever created is coming back — soon. Netflix announced today that it will be releasing a new, six-episode season of Black Mirror on October 21st.Netflix announced the release date with a cryptic tweet from the show’s official Twitt … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One is today announcing the opening of its first manufacturing plant.Called Hyperloop One Metalworks, the 105,000 square-foot building in North Las Vegas will be the new professional home of many of the company’s 170 employees, including engineers, machinists and welder … | Continue reading
High-end audio company Beyerdynamic announced three new earbuds this week that it imagines will be affordable and reliable options for people who use their phones to listen to music. The cheapest pair in the Byron series will sell for $54, and the most expensive model — the BTA — … | Continue reading
In both an extremely surprising yet predictable attempt to wrestle the cultural zeitgeist back away from Pokemon GO [Free], a new Angry Birds title has soft launched today in Singapore - but not as you'd expect. Angry Birds: Ace Fighter is a departure from the typical aggravated … | Continue reading
The Olympics are coming up, and everyone (except maybe the Russians) are hoping for big things from their national teams. But if companies tweet about it, there may be legal trouble. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is sending letters to companies that sponsor Olympic a … | Continue reading
The Financial Stability Board said in a recent annual report that it continues to assess opportunities and risks related to digital currencies. | Continue reading
Power Hover [Free] is one of those games which really epitomises the most positive aspects of the App Store. Ever since its launch, the developers have been extremely active in releasing new updates based on feedback received directly from fans and, as a result, it as become a cu … | Continue reading
If you dislike RNG-heavy Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl, I suggest you do not touch that Tavern Brawl button this week because Randomonium is all about picking a class, getting a random deck, and then playing a game where card cost is random every single turn. As you can imagine … | Continue reading
At an employee meeting today, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company has sold over one billion iPhones. Here’s his take, from Apple’s blog post: iPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing and successful products in history. It’s become more than a constant comp … | Continue reading
Crowdfunding has kick started a number of great products, but for every success there are some failures. Here are six devices that we are still waiting for. | Continue reading
Nine years after the iPhone’s debut, Apple announced today that it has now sold 1 billion iPhones. It’s a noteworthy milestone for a company recently knocked around by investors over the smartphone’s declining sales momentum. “iPhone has become one of the most important, world-ch … | Continue reading
Facebook posted its second quarter earnings for investors today. The social media giant reported $6.44 billion in revenue and $2.05 billion in profit. That’s a 59 percent increase over the $4.04 billion in revenue during the same period last year. Its monthly active users now num … | Continue reading
Apple recently sold its billionth iPhone, the company announced today. During a meeting at Apple's Cupertino headquarters this morning, CEO Tim Cook made an appearance to celebrate the major milestone. "iPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing and successful pr … | Continue reading
In its second quarter 2016 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed it now has 1.71 billion monthly active users (up 15 percent year over year) and 1.57 billion mobile users (up 20 percent year over year). The company also shared that it now has 1.13 billion daily active us … | Continue reading
Action-camera maker GoPro reported second quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. Shares quickly rose 10% in after-hours trading, but then were down 3% as investors dug through the earnings release. And then they were back up at about 3%. The company posted revenue of $22 … | Continue reading
Google Play Family Library lets users share eligible purchases such as apps, games, movies, TV shows, or books across 6 different accounts. | Continue reading
Xiaomi has announced the RedMi Pro, its first smartphone with a dual-camera setup. The RedMi Pro features a 13MP Sony IMX258 sensor along with a 5MP Samsung sensor on the rear of the device, which Xiaomi says will produce DSLR-quality photos. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Coming off an all-time high stock price of $123.34, Facebook in Q2 2016 smashed earnings again. The social network continued steady growth just slightly slower at 3.63% compared to last quarter’s 3.77%, adding 60 million monthly users this quarter to reach 1.71 billion. It scored … | Continue reading
Professor Layton developer Level-5 announced a new game in the storied puzzle series, this time starring the progeny of the top hat-sporting scholar.Entitled Lady Layton: The Millionaire Ariadone's Conspiracy, this sequel focuses on the adventures of Professor Layton's daughter K … | Continue reading
Amazon is ordering its starry F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation The Last Tycoon to series after a successful June pilot run, according to Deadline. The '30s period piece stars Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahl, a fictionalized version of the real-life precocious movie mogul Irving Thalberg … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is a Bitcoin casino role play game that offers players to enter a virtual world of fun and exotic casino-based mini-games. Launched back in 2012, Dragon’s Tale is one of the oldest Bitcoin casinos around and the first to introduce a mix of role playing and casino ga … | Continue reading
Weedo Interactive has announced their new game Shoot the Dragon, and it looks like an intriguing horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up. The game has you controlling a jetpacked warrior shooting various foes...but he can also transform into a chef bear that launches utensils as weapon … | Continue reading
Mercedez-Benz has been putting QR codes on the the B-pillars and inside the fuel door of new cars since November 2013, and those have provided a way for first responders and emergency personnel to quickly get detailed model info about any Mercedes-Benz vehicle involved in an acci … | Continue reading
Peep Show, the weird, cynical British comedy starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, will return in a new form on American TV. Variety reports that Starz is developing an American version of the show stateside. Like the US version of The Office, Starz's Peep Show will be an enti … | Continue reading
A slew of recent departures from itBit suggest a changing future for a startup originally founded as a bitcoin exchange service. | Continue reading
With wonderful titles like Triple Town [Free] and Alphabear [Free], Spry Fox is one of the preeminent developers of mobile games. But they make games for desktop and console, too! One of those games is a roguelike puzzler called Road Not Taken [$4.99], and although it took a coup … | Continue reading
A group of researchers have identified a gene implicated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that attacks neurons in the brain and spinal cord. They identified the gene using funds from the... | Continue reading
A Metal Gear Solid 5 Definitive Edition has popped up on Amazon Japan and German retailer NetGames.The latter lists a release date of 30th October, though this could very well just be a placeholder date, so we wouldn't put much stock in it.But a Definitive Edition that combines s … | Continue reading
After an email leak that saw nearly 20,000 emails from Democratic National Convention officials go public last week, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warns that this is just the beginning. Talking with CNN, Assange claims to have “a lot more material” concerning the US presidenti … | Continue reading
The hardcore Pokémon Go players out there know that once you reach level 20 in the augmented reality mobile game, the difficulty curve starts getting much steeper. How steep? Well, to go from level 19 to 20 requires 25,000 experience points. To go from 20 to 21 requires twice as … | Continue reading
GUEST: Chatbots are hot right now in the startup community. It seems like a new bot releases every day. I’m not always sure that chat interfaces are ideal solutions — I find scanning the news on Flipboard much quicker than chatting for the news — but the blending of A.I. with a c … | Continue reading
HERE Maps has re-launched as HERE WeGo, and with the new name comes some pretty handy new features including travel cost and bike terrain difficulty. | Continue reading
There's been a lot of talk about Russian hackers infiltrating the Democratic National Committee's servers and then leaking sensitive emails via WikiLeaks. The breach, which happened in June but was revealed this week, may sound like a high-level hacking plot by international spie … | Continue reading
If you are of the many Pokemon GO [Free] players waiting for the Pokemon GO Plus to release at the end of this month, I have some bad news for you. According to a tweet by Nintendo of America, Pokemon GO Plus will release September 2016 instead of the end of July, which is a | Continue reading
If you're at all interested in smartphones, you've probably heard of Cyanogen OS. What is it, and how does it differ from Google's Android? Let's find out. | Continue reading
Netflix has put out a first trailer for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, the much-loved series' four-part revival. It's been almost a decade since Gilmore Girls ended its seven-season run, and this trailer offers the one thing fans want the most: more of the show's wonderfully … | Continue reading