Spotify launches Release Radar, Deliveroo raises $275 million in a series E, Facebook tests opening camera at top of the news feed and MSQRD filters, Amazon launches Prime Air – its own cargo planes for making deliveries faster, Nike releases a $1,200 pair of glasses, and the Oly … | Continue reading
With endless possibilities for design and image usage, infographics can help you build a personality for your brand that is not possible with articles. They're also easily embedded and can be shared across multiple platforms. You have so much flexibility, infographic content can … | Continue reading
Want to know what’s going on with the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro? Yahoo can tell you. Throughout the course of the 2016 games, Yahoo Search will display information cards relating to the Olympics in response to certain queries like “olympics,” or specific sports. “Visual c … | Continue reading
With the League of Legends Championship Series and the DOTA 2 tournament The International underway, we kick off this week's podcast with some quick eSports chat before diving deep into discussing a whole bunch of different new games. This time around, those games include Mobius … | Continue reading
A number of long-time members of the self-driving car team at Google are leaving the company, including technical lead Chris Urmson who often acts as the face of the project. Urmson announced his departure in a post on Medium, noting that after the seven-and-a-half years that he … | Continue reading
If you thought Bear Grylls was cool, you’re gonna love YouTuber Thomas Kim. Kim is a lot like Grylls in that he’s fully capable of escaping a jam while in the wild (like trying to catch Pikachu with 1 percent battery) all while drinking at least 100 percent less urine and avoidin … | Continue reading
Hey everyone, it's Friday and we're close to the end of the week of TouchArcade blasting stories out (unless anything cool happens over the weekend we need to cover), but the fact still remains: To survive, we very much need your support. The business of running a web site is tri … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
There are new regulations that will lower the barriers to entry for the commercial operation of drones. The challenge for the Federal Aviation Administration has been to establish a framework of rules to regulate how small unmanned aircraft systems (small UAS, or drones) can be u … | Continue reading
The 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge has concluded, and the winning team — Carnegie Mellon University’s ForAllSecure — is taking home the $2 million grand prize. What’s that you say — what’s the Cyber Grand Challenge? I’m glad you asked! Read More | Continue reading
The Washington Post announced today that it will use artificial intelligence to report key information about the Olympics.The software will contribute The Post’s coverage of Rio 2016 by posting raw data and short updates, while a team of human reporters will provide readers with … | Continue reading
Months back, Instagram switched its reverse-chronological timeline to an algorithm that sorted posts it thought you wanted to see, much like Facebook’s. Now, it’s taking the Facebook comparison a step further by actually including actual Facebook data in its algorithm in an effor … | Continue reading
Adding hashtags to Instagram just got way easier. Right now, deciding on and typing out more than one or two hashtags is a pain. There are handful of apps that try to make life easier for you with suggested hastags, but you’ve got to constantly switch back and forth to copy them … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has been banned in Iran due to "security concerns".As reported by the BBC, Iran's High Council of Virtual Spaces, an official body governing online activity, made the ruling.Allegedly the Iranian government was hoping Pokémon Go developer Niantic would negotiate some n … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is no stranger to being called a scam artist. Shoddy products (Trump University), bad investments (Mexico), and his inability to stop getting sued long enough to trick the populace into believing he’s a viable presidential candidate, it seems, were just the beginning … | Continue reading
Previously known as the starting point of the Pony Express and the place where Jesse James died and Eminem was born, St. Joseph, Missouri now has a new claim to fame, as the home the future of fast food. It’s a future that apparently includes lots of touchscreens and, for a limit … | Continue reading
Google’s self-driving car project is losing Chris Urmson, who served as the unit’s CTO and lead technical resource after going the company from Carnegie Mellon. Urmson has considerable status among roboticist in the world of autonomous vehicles, but said in a Medium post announci … | Continue reading
Punk Labs, the fine folks behind Skeletomb [Free], are back at it with a new game called Kerflux set to release on Friday, August 12th. The concept is a bit tough to grab on to just by looking at t, but the idea is that you have to manipulate different waveforms in order to make | Continue reading
One of these days we’re going to see aircraft go electric, just as cars are — but not for a while. In the meantime, we can’t slack off when it comes to the research that will make it possible. NASA has announced five research projects that may help make planes more efficient and … | Continue reading
Sometimes, based on the recommendation of the lovely Touch Arcade community, you get to go into a project completely blind. I had never heard of the source material for Eden: The Game [Free], which is apparently based on a UK reality television show where a group of people live i … | Continue reading
For the LG V20, Gordon-Levitt's production company hitRECord is encouraging fans to go out into their everyday worlds and do something spectacular. | Continue reading
Search trees are everywhere: In databases, in file systems, in board game algorithms,… This post explores the probably most basic form of a tree: a binary search tree. | Continue reading
After a long absence, Harry Potter is back. The script for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out in bookstores earlier this week, and it’s a welcome return to familiar magical stomping grounds. What’s most rewarding about this story however, is that it’s grown … | Continue reading
Showing its serious about improving its virtual assistant, as well as the company’s online storefronts, Apple purchased Seattle-based AI/machine learning startup Turi today for a reported $200 million. Details are still hard to come but so far we know that the Turi team plans to … | Continue reading
Apple has acquired the machine learning startup Turi, according to GeekWire. As usual with an Apple acquisition, it's picking up a small company whose products will likely make their way into the fabric of other Apple services. In this case, Turi offers tools that are meant to le … | Continue reading
I’ve never been a big motorcycle guy. I have the hand/eye coordination of a sleepy toddler, and I’m pretty sure I’d hurt myself within about two minutes of firing up the engine. This bike wants me to give it a try anyway. Built by Wisconsin-based machining/customization shop Vint … | Continue reading
If you're looking to optimize your content, you need to be able to identify what makes for bad content. Here are the signs and your solutions. | Continue reading
AMD has made it clear that it wants the low end of the graphics card market, and now it’s time to see how committed it is to that strategy. In July, the company revealed the Radeon RX 470 and 460 chips that are meant to fill out its latest video-card offerings. The 480, on the [… … | Continue reading
Toronto-based B corporation Komodo OpenLab thought Pokémon Go using its Tecla product, an assistive hardware device designed to make it easier to use smartphones, tablets and users for people who might not generally be able to interact with these gadgets, including, for example, … | Continue reading
The Washington Post has a big team of journalists covering the Rio Olympics.Also covering the games for the paper: Robots.The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items wi … | Continue reading
The team from a startup called Eyegroove, a “musical selfie” app, has joined Facebook. According to a message on the company’s website, most of the small team who worked on the app will now be focused on building new experiences for Facebook users that will help them to “create, … | Continue reading
Incipio just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Shortly after after announcing that it had acquired up budget headphone maker Skullcandy, the Irvine-based accessories conglomerate has picked up Griffin for an undisclosed amount. The Nashville mobile peripheral manufacturer will joi … | Continue reading
Back in early June, we told you about Kobojo Games' plan to combine Candy Crush-like match-3 with Hearthstone-like deck building and sprinkle in a dash of real-time strategy in their upcoming game Primal Legends, and while that sounds like an awful lot of genre-mashing, I was rea … | Continue reading
A Philips Hue motion detector may soon be a reality, according to a new FCC filing spotted by Dave Zatz. Instead of having to deal with a second smart home system like SmartThings to get a proper motion sensor, Philips Hue owners may soon be able to easily integrate a sensor desi … | Continue reading
A new paper from Deloitte re-imagines the sports stadium concept in light of a number of developing technologies. Notably, Deloitte gives the example of a fantasy sports-style interaction — a "game within the game" — where bets are placed using bitcoin "on in-game events, or use … | Continue reading
The lesson of almost every big cyber security story of the last year from Ukraine, to the Democratic National Committee to the South China Sea is that everything can be hacked. “Owning an election is gold; being able to influence it is silver; knowing the outcome in advance is br … | Continue reading
Apple has acquired Turi, a machine learning software startup. The startup formerly went by the names GraphLab and Dato. Apple provided no information other than its standard boilerplate message for confirming acquisitions. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to tim … | Continue reading
Ah, college football season. It's the best. Sure, the sport is run by a corrupt cartel exploiting young men's bodies for minimal compensation while everyone else gets rich, not to mention that the culture around programs is often morally reprehensible, where the players are often … | Continue reading
Word just started going around the rumormill that Apple has acquired Turi, a company that describes itself as a “machine learning platform for developers and data scientists” We reached out to Apple for confirmation, and sure enough — we got the standard reply they give when they … | Continue reading
Google has revealed that it will be shutting down the Together watch face feature in Android Wear on September 30th. As first reported by Android Police, the latest version of the Android Wear app informs users of the coming shutdown when they attempt to configure Together. Googl … | Continue reading
An extensive list of free online design tools for DIY graphic design you can use to crank up your visual marketing efforts. | Continue reading
In its bid to become more like Snapchat, Facebook is finally putting its MSQRD acquisition to good use.The social network is testing a new feature that puts a Snapchat-like camera at the top of News Feed, allowing users to add filters and animations to their selfies. The test is … | Continue reading
The Bitfinex hack appears to be forcing the exchange to consider unconventional measures as part of a bid to relaunch. | Continue reading
Just when you thought there would be no Song of the Summer for Summer '16, a savior descends.And that savior is my teammate in social media management, The Verge's Dami Lee. She found this little diddy on YouTube called "Can I Get a Box?" You really need to listen to it to unders … | Continue reading
Instagram released a new feature called Instagram Stories. The update allows for photos and videos to be uploaded that disappear in 24 hours... sound familiar? | Continue reading
He’s won a couple of Oscars, he’s worked with some of the best directors in the biz, and he’s even played a Bond villain. So, where does Christop Waltz go from here? Phone commercials, obviously. The acclaimed Inglourious Basterds actor has signed on with Samsung for a silly new … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe that we're coming up on two years since XperimentalZ Games launched Pixel Boat Rush [Free] on the App Store, but here we are, and despite that lengthy chunk of time the developers have just released a meaty new update for the game. This update introduces 16 n … | Continue reading
Tumbled glass has a definite appeal: It’s eye-catching, has a pleasant variety of colours, and feels nice in the hand. And making it just takes time, and repetitive motion – throw some glass in a rock tumbler for about a week and voila – what comes out is better than what came in … | Continue reading