Google has acquired LaunchKit, a set of tools that makes it easier to track sales, reviews and build a landing page for apps and services. In a blog post, LaunchKit co-founder Brenden Mulligan says it will remain around for about a year: As we focus our efforts on building great … | Continue reading
A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-frien … | Continue reading
Vegascasino.io is the ultimate Bitcoin casino one stop shop. This Casino offers the best online gambling entertainment around. Whether you’re into Slots, Blackjack or, when you visit Vegas Casino, you’re sure to find what you’re looking for. The company made its online debut with … | Continue reading
According to the American Trucking Association, nearly 70 percent of all freight tonnage moved around the U.S. is transported by trucks. There’s more than $603 billion in revenue coming from trucking — making it a pretty valuable market — and some are looking for modernized tools … | Continue reading
The team behind LaunchKit, a set of tools that helps developers to launch their apps, is heading to Google and joining the Developer Product Group. It doesn’t look like LaunchKit’s products are moving over to Google, so the team decided to open-source its products and make them a … | Continue reading
Chinese manufacturer Gionee has introduced a pair of Android-powered smartphones with several unique security enhancements, including dedicated hardware encryption chips. The all-aluminum handsets — the 5.5-inch M6 and 6.0-inch M6 Plus — store vital information like passwords, cr … | Continue reading
EventsEvent is focused on the latest research findings on Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), EU-own taxes, a sustainable tax collection, what defines equal, socially and environmentally sustainable taxation and more and organized by Horizon 2020 research project Fair … | Continue reading
EventsS2M 2016 is a three days conference conjointly organised by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, and The University of Manchester, with a wide variety of plenary and parallel sessions and inspiring keynote speakers, aiming to foster transdisciplinary research … | Continue reading
Google has acquired LaunchKit, adding the maker of a toolkit for mobile app development to its Developer Product Group. As a result, all of LaunchKit’s services will remain online for the next 12 months before being discontinued. However, all of the suite of products and services … | Continue reading
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know the world is Pokemon Go crazy but there's bad news: the Pokemon Go Plus wearable has been delayed. | Continue reading
Since 2015, an increasing number of multi-billion-dollar financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs have exhibited their interest in emerging innovative financial technologies and startups. Several major banks and financial organizations have established various investment fund … | Continue reading
Life is Strange will receive a live-action series produced by Legendary Digital Studios.The digital series is being developed and produced in conjunction with Dmitri Johnson and Dan Jevons of dj2 Entertainment, who previously produced the Skulls of the Shogun animated series and … | Continue reading
Blu Products is back with another cheap smartphone, the $99 Blu Studio Touch, and it's one of the rare smartphones to come with a fingerprint sensor with a price tag under $100. The rest of the specs are average for a low-end smartphone in 2016 (as you would expect): Continu … | Continue reading
On July 19, members of the Northwest Automotive Press Association got together in Portland, Oregon, to drive 14 fuel-efficient and high-tech vehicles and compare them head to head. The overall winner was the 2017 Chevy Volt, which uses electricity plus a small gasoline generator … | Continue reading
Podcasting is emerging as one of the more effective thought leadership tools marketers can leverage to differentiate their brands. | Continue reading
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump it seems, isn’t much of a fan of email. In fairness, he’s also not much of a fan of immigrants, women, muslims, the disabled, reporters, African-Americans, Asians, prisoners of war, latinos, our president, or other politicians. “I’m no … | Continue reading
Believe it or not, some of us are carrying drug-resistant bacteria around in our noses; these colonies make infection more likely. But scientists have discovered a new weapon to use against these bugs — and it also lives in your nose.It may be years before the new compound comes … | Continue reading
The upper atmosphere above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — the huge storm that has been raging for centuries on the gas giant — is much hotter than anywhere else on the planet. New research published today in Nature suggests that movement of the massive storm in Jupiter’s lower atmosp … | Continue reading
Every decade, a set of major forces work together to change the way we think about “applications.” Until now, those changes were principally evolutions of software programming, networked communications and user interactions. Today, data and machine learning/artificial intelligenc … | Continue reading
Chinese tech firm LeEco made its biggest splash on American soil yet yesterday with the announcement that it's acquiring Vizio, the biggest US maker of TVs, for $2 billion. You might not be familiar with the name, but in LeEco's short history the ambitious company has achieved on … | Continue reading
AchievementsNew materials can make aircraft greener and quieter. But how would these planes behave in an emergency water landing? An EU-funded project's experiments and computer simulation tools are contributing to better understanding of the complicated phenomena involved in dev … | Continue reading
AchievementsA fast, accurate and easy-to-use test for detecting high explosives, toxic chemicals and other small molecules is providing security services with a potentially life-saving tool in the fight against terrorism. Developed by EU-funded researchers, the innovative detecti … | Continue reading
Leapdroid is an Android emulator for PC. It claims to be the best and fastest. Is it everything it claims to be? Find out in our Leapdroid review! | Continue reading
Smart Katzenklo und smart Katzen-Napf sind schon halbwegs etablierte Gadgets, dass das smarte Zeug auch das eine oder andere neue Problemchen mit sich bringt, haben wir auch schon kapiert, aber diese aktuelle Notfallmeldung ist doch ein ganz anderes... | Continue reading
PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection - i.e. free games for subscribers - has been revealed for the month of August.PS4 titles include Tricky Towers and Rebel Galaxy. The former is debuting next month and offers a physics-based competitive spin on Tetris. Players build towers … | Continue reading
A new report indicates global smartphone sales are back on the rise following their first-ever downturn last quarter. But the results are still not good. | Continue reading
For 10 years the New York Botanical Garden has devoted time and resources to the Amorphophallus titanum, a single towering flower that when in bloom smells like a rotting corpse. Today garden guests may be able to catch a whiff of that rare stench, as the flower is expected to bl … | Continue reading
Donald Trump says that if Russians were behind the security breach that made tens of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails public, he hopes they’ve also hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server. In a press conference, Trump responded to a question by saying that … | Continue reading
Apple Maps now has insight from Parkopedia, a service that tells you where to park and plug in your electric vehicle. It’s not an all-in strategy, though; Like it does with Yelp, Apple Maps will offer to open up the Parkopedia app for additional information like pricing, user rev … | Continue reading
Even if you’ve only seen an episode or two, it’s not hard to spot the influences of Netflix’s new show Stranger Things. It’s all so very 1980s: the tight-knit group of young boys pulled from Stand By Me, the synth-heavy soundtrack of a John Carpenter film, the suburbia-meets-sci- … | Continue reading
Ford is working with MIT on a research project that will deploy a new fleet of on-demand electric shuttles that can ferry students from class-to-class both on campus and on city roads at MIT’s Cambridge, Mass. location. Students can hail one of three electric shuttles using an ap … | Continue reading
Tumblr made a quiet announcement today that’s quite a huge shift for its platform: ads. Ads for everyone. Starting tomorrow, it seems all Tumblr blogs will show the ads. In a neat touch, users can actually choose to make money off of the ads shown on their blogs. But a lot is sti … | Continue reading
We had the opportunity to check out the upcoming Mobius Final Fantasy, which arrives on August 3rd to the US and other markets. | Continue reading
Funding a project on Kickstarter is like placing a bet – will the project ever work? Will it ship? Or will you just be out a chunk of change? That said, the crowdfunding platform has enabled a number of companies to get off the ground, including those that range from gadgets and … | Continue reading
As Dropbox — the cloud storage company with 500 million users — gets more profitable and inches towards an IPO, the company is slowly adding more features that cater to the lucrative business market. Today, Dropbox — which already has some 200,000 companies using Dropbox Business … | Continue reading
I will initial encourage every person to use some accounting application to record all income coming in and going out. This will be how you create invoices for your clients. You should constantly have get in touch with info for your clients which involves an e-mail address.A grea … | Continue reading
Dropbox is revamping the way teams and businesses work on its platform. It’s introducing a new team folder for making collaboration easier under a new set of ‘AdminX‘ tools. The main differences with team folders are their new set of granular controls: First up, Admins can now co … | Continue reading
The BLU R1 HD - the $50 Amazon phone - just got even better. Now you can root it, unlock the bootloader, flash TWRP, de-bloat it and install Xposed. | Continue reading
Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today is announcing new features geared toward admins at companies that use Dropbox. For one thing, companies can now elect to use team folders, rather than shared folders or individual folders. Invitations and links to thes … | Continue reading
As the world of DNA sequencing becomes more efficient and less expensive, a number of companies are sprouting up within the space. The latest, Phosphorus, has just raised a $10 million Series A led by FirstMark.Phosphorus is actually a spin-out from a previous genomics company ca … | Continue reading
Yik Yak is continuing its push beyond anonymity with profiles, which are just like any other profile — but let you be as personal or private as you want to be. According to Yik Yak, it will auto-generate some content, but lets you manicure your profile as you see fit: We’ll start … | Continue reading
The popular OnePlus 3 smartphone is, like pretty much every handset these days, going gold. However, the Android upstart is hoping to outflank its competition with a different shade: a "soft gold" color that's more muted than most gold- or rose gold-colored handsets. Could this b … | Continue reading
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Yakuza 0 will launch on 24th January in Europe and the Americas, Sega has announced.It will be available both physically and digitally, exclusively on PS4. Set in 1988, Yakuza 0 will let players assume the role of two different protagonists. There's series stalwart Kazuma Kiryu a … | Continue reading
Media-sharing service CloudApp announced today that it closed a $2 million seed investment. The desktop tool lets users save screenies and GIFs to a sharable link. Once in the app, CloudApp’s machine learning technology analyzes the image and gives them context so that users can … | Continue reading
Last year, visitors to a wide range of gambling sites started reporting unusual behavior. Strange text windows would pop up, offering users special access codes for third-party gambling sites. Links would appear with new affiliate tags, an almost unnoticeable difference that coul … | Continue reading
HBO is ending Project Greenlight, the movie-making reality show spearheaded by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck that ran for four seasons across HBO and Bravo. Its first three seasons aired between 2001 and 2005, and the show laid dormant for a decade before being revived by HBO for a … | Continue reading
Paweł Zadrożniak hat ja neulich sein Floppotron reaktiviert und tüchtig erweitert, die Elektroschrott-Musikmaschine besteht nun aus 64 Floppy Drives, 8 Festplatten und 2 Scannern, womit sich schon recht komplexe Stücke umsetzen lassen, außerdem... | Continue reading