Soon after incorporating a very Snapchat-like Stories feature into Instagram, Facebook is taking a similar approach with its main app. Basically the latest Facebook test places a camera on the proverbial front page of its mobile app. Like, really front and center – it’s taking up … | Continue reading
In this morning’s analysis, we stated that we hoped for a bit of action during today’s session so we could get on short term volatility. We returned to our standard horizontal breakout strategy (as opposed to sticking with our technical pattern plays that we dabbled with on Wedne … | Continue reading
As the Zika virus has gained a foothold in Miami, Florida the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a field test of a genetically modified mosquito to help combat the virus.The engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were created by Oxitec Ltd. as a means to control the … | Continue reading
Blythe Masters and 14 other financial leaders have joined a new tech advisory panel formed by Singapore's central bank. | Continue reading
Following my previous post about using Quora for business purposes, I was conscious that my own usage of the platform meant I was barely scratching the surface of what could be achieved. So, with just 43 answers so far, I set myself a challenge to reach 100+ answers within 30 day … | Continue reading
heranos has had a long 10 months. The company, beset with regulation issues, has faced a Congressional inquiry, possible criminal charges, lawsuits, a recall of test results from the past two years, its main partner Walgreens severing ties, Forbes downgrading its worth from $9 bi … | Continue reading
Nike made a special set of sunglasses for its track and field athletes participating in the Rio Olympics, and now you can buy a pair for yourself. For $1,200. The Nike Wing is a single body, curved glass "sun shield" — which the company says is the first of its kind — that wraps … | Continue reading
Facebook scheint sich ernsthaft Gedanken darum zu machen, wie sie snapchattiger werden könnten. Das neueste: Video- und Fotofilter. Besser gesagt lustige (ähem) Add-Ons für Videos und Bilder wie Flaggen und so. "Kreative Effekte". Die... | Continue reading
Apple’s rumored decision to ditch the 3.5mm audio jack is proving to be an increasingly unpopular one. Even Samsung’s VP of marketing is making fun of Apple. Despite that, it’s almost certainly going to happen anyway. A video posted by Mobile Fun – a UK-based distributor of smart … | Continue reading
People really weren't joking about needing extra batteries to play Pokémon Go. Battery pack sales doubled in the US during roughly the two weeks that followed the game's release, according to The NPD Group. It reports seeing a year-over-year growth of 101 percent, with 1.2 millio … | Continue reading
Nerial's Reigns is looking like quite a unique title, that could be best described as Tinder for the enterprising king trying to command his kingdom. The entire game gives you a series of binary decisions to make based on people making requests of you, which you answer by swiping … | Continue reading
Virtual reality headsets have largely been sold as gaming devices thus far, but the industry soon expects their utility to expand far beyond that. Today at VRLA, HTC announced that they will be opening up a dedicated virtual reality app store called Viveport to host largely non-g … | Continue reading
Steam isn’t the only way you’ll get games for your HTC Vive virtual reality headset. HTC announced today that it is working on its own VR app store called Viveport for the Vive headset that will launch later this year. This distribution channel will provide anyone with the Vive h … | Continue reading
HTC is launching Viveport, an alternative to the Steam catalog of Vive virtual reality experiences, worldwide this fall. Viveport was announced earlier this year, and it launched in China — where Steam is a much less established platform — in the spring. Now, a global developer b … | Continue reading
Diameter Accounting follows Server Directed Model, signifies server tells accounting client, that is generation accounting information how the generated accounting details shall be transferred to server. Diameter accounting client may possibly have a non-volatile storage to hold … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: What does a 107 football field long battery building G... | Continue reading
"That’s a lot of wires for a pair of wireless headphones," was my first thought when I unboxed the $199 Roam Ropes USA Bluetooth headphones.For Steven Lamar, a co-creator of Beats, the development of Roam Ropes is a personal journey. Lamar lost his spouse to brain cancer and want … | Continue reading
In a New York Times editorial published this morning, former acting director for the CIA Michael Morell called Donald Trump a potentially "dangerous" commander in chief, as he took aim at the candidate's comments on Russia and Vladimir Putin."On Nov. 8, I will vote for Hillary Cl … | Continue reading
Bienvenidos a la edición semanal del podcast del programa 1060Interfase. Las plataformas digitales, sobre todo las de medios sociales, pueden ser concebidas, diseñadas y construidas de cierta forma… | Continue reading
In the battle between FiveThirtyEight.com and NYT's Upshot, we are the winners.Related posts:A Winning Football Interactive Map This Interactive Chart is Great, Except for How it’s Not Fun with infographics | Continue reading
The HTC Vive VR headset will get its own app store this fall, as the company moves to broaden the experiences available to its users. Viveport will offer virtual reality experiences in areas like education, communcation, entertainment, shopping and more, said Rikard Steiber, SVP … | Continue reading
At the end of last year, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider thought they may have discovered a brand-new type of particle that could completely change our understanding of physics. But it looks like our understanding of physics won’t be drastically altered today. I … | Continue reading
CoinDesk explores the impact of the Bitfinex hack on perception of multi-sig wallet technology, a key security feature used by the Hong Kong exchange. | Continue reading
Early on in the Pokémon Go hype cycle, there were signs that players were driving a significant uptick in sales of backup batteries, like the Mophie units you may be familiar with that offer USB connections for topping up mobile devices while you’re away from an outlet. Now, rese … | Continue reading
Google is celebrating the 2016 Olympic Games by offering Doodle Fruit Games in its app for Android and iOS. | Continue reading
Jussi Simpanen's fun platformer Super Dangerous Dungeons [Free] is set to get a new dungeon on August 11th, the Sand Dungeon. This is meant to be about the same difficulty as the fire and golden dungeons in the original, so yeah, good luck with that. Expect lots more deaths and t … | Continue reading
The Friday Afternoon Timewaster is our roundup of the week's most important marketing articles--perfect for any content marketing or PR professional. | Continue reading
Just about every major tech company is doing Olympics promotions: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and now Snapchat. The company is today releasing a batch of stickers, lenses and filters themed after the Olympics. First off you have a couple of new lenses themed around the c … | Continue reading
Dass Algorithmen sich für die Empfehlung von Musik eignen, beweist Spotify seit einiger Zeit mit dem Feature Mix der Woche. Nun gibt es erstmalig eine Ergänzung, um sich besser durch Neuerscheinungen orientieren zu können. Release Radar... | Continue reading
The OnePlus 3 has been one of the standout smartphones in a year full of great options. It has great build quality, fast performance, and a good camera in a package that costs little more than half of what you'd pay for a high-end Android phone. Last week, the company released a … | Continue reading
This week on Vergecast, our usual team of Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, and Dieter Bohn bring in senior editor, tech expert, and friend of the show Dan Seifert to discus Samsung and their new Galaxy Note 7. Dieter gives us his review of the Xbox One S, and the Flag Ship goes deep int … | Continue reading
Almost 20 years after initially launching it back in 1998, Blizzard might be prepping a remastered HD release of legendary strategy game Starcraft, iNews24 reports. While the new version will offer better resolution and revamped user interface, rumours speculate that there won’t … | Continue reading
We got a first look at Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 7 this week. In the US, it comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. Samsung often varies its storage capacities across markets, so we weren’t going to be surprised if international u … | Continue reading
UK indie studio Relentless Software - best-known for its Buzz! series of quiz games on PlayStation 2 - has closed its doors for the final time.All staff at the Brighton-based company were made redundant today, studio founder Andrew Eades told Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.b … | Continue reading
Spotify has launched a new Release Radar weekly playlist to help listeners discover the latest releases based on their tastes. | Continue reading
Volume is a new kind of 3D display. It was created by Looking Glass, a company based in Brooklyn and Hong Kong. The volumetric display uses a projector and a series of transparent slices to create images in three-dimensional space, a technology Looking Glass calls "lightfolding." … | Continue reading
Episode 9 of our GamesBeat series of conferences is over. We heard the Yoda-like wisdom of 105 speakers at our ninth annual GamesBeat event at the beautiful Terranea resort in Los Angeles. Sadly, we had way too many talks for me to summarize in a single column. (You can see all o … | Continue reading
Snapchat opens to the camera by default to spur content creation, and now Facebook is trying the same starting with an Olympics-themed test in Brazil and Canada. Instead of just the “What are you doing?” text status update prompt, users will see an open camera window as Facebook … | Continue reading
When a franchise that essentially died more than a decade ago comes back to life with such fervor, we need to ask ourselves how and why that happened. And if you’re able to stop playing Pokémon Go long enough to read this article, you’ll find the phenomenon is deeply rooted in ev … | Continue reading
Facebook is testing a new version of its flagship app that opens directly to a Snapchat-style camera, encouraging you to capture more photos and videos and adorn them with filters and stickers. The test, which begins today in Canada and Brazil, marks the first time Facebook has i … | Continue reading
A number of businesses use Twitter to interact with their customers and offer support. But that often means responding to angry tweets directed at their account, then switching users over to private messaging to deal with the issues at hand. Now the company is testing a new featu … | Continue reading
Okay, tell me if you’ve heard this story before. You’re wandering through the streets of your city playing some Pokémon Go. Suddenly, a wild pidgey appears. It’s got a CP of 10, or something, and you’ve already caught a million of them, but you think “screw it, I’ve got enough Po … | Continue reading
The Army is currently in the process of transitioning away from their pixelated Universal Camouflage Pattern uniforms to ones with the Operational Camouflage Pattern. Now, the US Navy is following suit by ditching their pixelated blue uniform in favor of a new pattern.It will tak … | Continue reading
Cryptographer Andrew Miller discusses his latest work, Hawk, which aims to increase the privacy of digital currency transactions. | Continue reading
Fans von Star Trek aufgepasst. Dass es im Enterprise-Universum zahlreiche Charaktere gibt, ist aufgrund der Fülle der Filme, Serien und Spin-Offs eigentlich klar. Aber wann und wo haben die Charaktere eigentlich interagiert? Diese interaktive Infografik... | Continue reading
It can take a long time to find interesting projects on Kickstarter, so we're here to help, with this roundup of some of the Best Kickstarters in July 2016 | Continue reading
The word 'Metroidvania' has become synonymous with disappointment and cynicism for me over the past few years. Every game with such a label either plays nothing like the side-scrolling action titles with an emphasis on exploration that I fell in love with as a child, or cannot li … | Continue reading
Apple has big plans to overhaul its App Store in the months ahead to better tailor the experience to its end users, but ahead of that, the company has introduced a more personalized version of its Apple Store App – yes, the one you use to buy things. According to the company, the … | Continue reading