Early this morning — so early that most of our audience probably didn’t see it — a story was posted on TechCrunch from the ever so friendly OurMine hacking team. The post was up for a handful of minutes and was removed, along with automatically generated social posts. Read More | Continue reading
AMD has announced a new graphics card that incorporates an SSD for the first time. The Radeon Pro SSG features two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots allowing you to add up to 1TB of NAND flash memory directly to the graphics card. This will allow large datasets to be worked on locally without h … | Continue reading
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See you tonight! We’ll be meeting at 7pm in the MakeOffices space in the Loop. There will be some free beers and chicken sandwiches. We’ll hold a pitchoff at 8pm and close up at 9pm and perhaps we can go carousing afterwards. The pitch-off will be very cool. I’ve already picked n … | Continue reading
Chinese electronics firm LeEco is buying American TV manufacturer Vizio for $2 billion. The acquisition was announced during a press event this morning in Los Angeles, giving LeEco an instant foothold in the US television market. Under the deal, Vizio will be operated as an indep … | Continue reading
A couple of months after taking to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in Brooklyn to show off their neuropriming headset, Halo Neuroscience revealed that a number of Olympic athletes from various countries have been using the system to prep for next month’s Rio games. According to … | Continue reading
A bit more than a year after Automattic acquired WooCommerce, the popular service that turns any WordPress website into an e-commerce store is now integrating with Square. While this kind of integration doesn’t sound groundbreaking on paper, it has bigger implications when it com … | Continue reading
This Fall, iOS users (and likely some Android converts) will have a decision to make: iPhone 7 or 7 Plus? If the phone’s design is of any concern to you, you’ll want to check these pictures out. What we’re seeing are images (via Techtastic) and videos (still not in Space Black!) … | Continue reading
Apple’s anticipated removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack has drawn plenty of ire and consternation, and rightly so. Along with the jack-less Moto Z and LeEco’s 2016 lineup, the next iPhone is expected to be in the vanguard of a new generation of phones that lack a slot for the mos … | Continue reading
Remember Facebook’s Surround 360, the company’s open-source, $30,000 360-degree camera? The company has just released the parts list and assembly manual – which just so happens to look suspiciously like an IKEA one. Lets take a look at some of the materials you you need. Seventee … | Continue reading
Well it took a while, but Twitter for Android users can finally enjoy the their tweets when the sun dips past the horizon, throwing the world into darkness. Yes, Twitter has added a “Night Mode” to its official Twitter for Android app. Long have we suffered with a Twitter usable … | Continue reading
We're living in the Age of the Robocall. The spam calls reached an all-time high this year and FTC complaints increased 50 percent year-over-year. We have apps to help combat these calls on our phones, but for those of us who'd rather not receive them at all, we've been out of lu … | Continue reading
Last week's episode ended on a To Be Continued, with JoJo popping a squat on a tarmac at the rose ceremony to sob deeply at Luke's confession of love. A totally normal reaction to have when someone tells you they love you! But to be fair to our girl JoJo, nothing about this show … | Continue reading
For those casual NBA critics you run into occasionally – particularly the ones who finally have come off their hackneyed “no one plays defense” or “the regular season means nothing” salvos, only to replace them this summer by grumbling about the flood of TV money and overpaid med … | Continue reading
Nest's app has run into some sort of problem today that's causing it to lose control of some thermostats and smoke detectors. The error is causing Nest Thermostats and Nest Protects to appear offline within the app, leaving them out of owners' remote control.While the app is unab … | Continue reading
There are so many hidden mechanics to Pokemon GO [Free] that it can get pretty overwhelming at times. Each Pokemon has a hidden stat for Attack, Defense and Stamina that is unique to each specific creature of its species, and so while my Rattata may be in the top percentage of Ra … | Continue reading
After acquiring Yahoo for nearly five billion dollars, Verizon’s plan is slowly coming into focus. During an earnings call today, the telecom giant — that just got giant-er — wants to create a juggernaut that can directly compete with the likes of Google and Facebook in the mobil … | Continue reading
A Tel Aviv-based startup called Propsera has raised $7 million in new venture funding to build out systems that will monitor and help farmers improve the health of their crops, and optimize their operations. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series A round. Prospera CEO and co-fo … | Continue reading
The guy leading the charge at Cyanogen, which once proclaimed it was going to “put a bullet through the head” of Google and Android with its own open-source operating system, uses an iPhone. While tweeting that Cyanogen was not pivoting to apps, some noticed Kirt McMaster was usi … | Continue reading
Sony's former indie game guru Adam Boyes has joined Killer Instinct and Divekick developer Iron Galaxy Studios as its CEO.Iron Galaxy tweeted the announcement. further noting that it also has a new CPO, Chelsea Blasko.Boyes resigned from his role as PlayStation's VP of third part … | Continue reading
Today Facebook has followed through on its promise to open source the design of the Surround 360, its 17-camera array designed to capture video in 360 degrees. The company has also made available the stitching software used to piece together those types of videos. The goal is to … | Continue reading
Facebook needs you to fill its News Feed, Oculus Rift, and Gear VR with 360 content. So today it put all the hardware and software designs of its Surround 360 camera on Github, after announcing the plan in April. Thanks to cheeky instruction manual inspired by Ikea’s manuals, you … | Continue reading
Developer RuvixArts is set to release its debut title, Crooked Path, on August 4th. The concept behind the game is a bit abstract, and the video doesn't necessarily make the gameplay super-clear, but you'll be activating switches, hopping portals, all to explore these levels full … | Continue reading
If you own a OnePlus 3 and have been experiencing any problems with notification management in Doze mode, you'll be happy to hear a fix is headed your way. | Continue reading
We all feel a little bit down sometimes. Maybe it’s because you forgot to buy groceries, or because you pissed off the entire internet. In any case, it’s always nice when someone reaches out to you. Thanks to Kruzo, that someone can now be a cute cat on your phone. Simply send a … | Continue reading
BlackBerry is not done with handsets, yet.On Tuesday, the once-dominant cellphone manufacturer delivered its thinnest BlackBerry device to date, the DTEK50.The name is significant, since DTEK also applies to the BlackBerry's security watchdog software that we first encountered on … | Continue reading
Microsoft has a new Xbox One controller, and I just got one with a custom Michigan Wolverines paint job that has my khaki pants feeling tight. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show last month, Microsoft revealed its slim Xbox One S console and the revised Xbox One S con … | Continue reading
Adobe Lightroom has arrived for the Apple TV — well, at least some of it is. Rather than open up a full editing suite (which would be a terrible idea), Lightroom on Apple TV is just a slideshow viewer of your latest images, which sync with Creative Cloud to show your latest edits … | Continue reading
Nachdem wir uns erst vorhin Länge mal Breite übers Crash Entertainment in der Konsumgesellschaft ausgelassen haben, das hier kurz und schmerzlos: YouTuber Zach Straley war stolzer Besitzer einer (fast) kompletten Sammlung aller iPhone-Modelle,... | Continue reading
Last week, I wrote an informative, objective and only subtly biased article to help any new players choose which team to join in Pokemon GO [Free]. While, at the end of the day, whatever team you join is currently a relatively cosmetic decision and will likely be mostly influence … | Continue reading
Twitter has awarded an Indian white-hat hacker $10,080 (Rs 6,80,000) for discovering a security flaw in Vine, its short-form video platform. The hacker, Avinash Singh, was able to use the exploit to access the service's source code. SEE ALSO: India leads Facebook's Bug Bounty wit … | Continue reading
There’s still some time left before Europe’s Rosetta mission comes to an end in September, but it’s already time to say goodbye to the mission’s Philae lander — the first spacecraft ever to touch down on a comet. Tomorrow at 5AM ET, the European Space Agency will switch off the E … | Continue reading
A quick PSA to ninjas, goths, and other lovers of black: Twitter now has a night mode on Android. Just swipe from the left to bring out the navigation menu, and click on the Night Mode switch. Your AMOLED screen will thank you. No word on iOS for now, but we imagine it’s a matte … | Continue reading
A prominent digital currency service reports that institutional investors are expressing a slow but budding interest in Ethereum Classic. | Continue reading
Twitter may finally have found the feature that gets people excited about its service again: night mode. Twitter is launching a night mode feature on Android today that switches most of the interface from white to a really deep blue. It looks nice, and I have no doubt that a lot … | Continue reading
After marketing for law practices, we’ve spent countless hours adapting legal marketing strategies. Take our advice on marketing for lawyers and firms. | Continue reading
Bellabeat, the maker of a line of health trackers aimed at women, has sold over 400,000 units of its first health tracker known as the Leaf – a name given to the device because of its leaf-like shape which can be worn on the wrist, as a brooch, or pendant. Today, the company is r … | Continue reading
Fallout 4, I can’t quit you. At least, not while Bethesda continues adding content, like today’s launch of the Vault-Tec Workshop add-on. The $4.99 DLC brings players on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC the ability to create their own Values, stock it with furniture and fill it wit … | Continue reading
At the worst possible time — during a heatwave — Nest thermostats around the US have gone offline. A quick poke through Twitter shows that the outage is pretty significant, and widespread. @nest how long do you expect this nest thermostat offline issue to occur? #NestOffline #nes … | Continue reading
LinkedIn, now on the way to becoming a part of Microsoft, is putting some more firepower into its sales product: the company has acquired PointDrive, a startup that has built a service that lets salespeople share content with prospective clients to help seal the deal.Terms of thi … | Continue reading
BlackBerry has just taken the wraps off its new Android-powered smartphone, the DTEK50. | Continue reading
PS4 players can sign up to be an early tester for the platform's upcoming software update.According to the US PlayStation Blog, the beta test will begin in early August and signing up requires a master PlayStation Network account.It's unclear what new features this latest update … | Continue reading
On the heels of Verizon’s $4.8 billion deal to acquire Yahoo, the telecom company emphasized during an earnings call today that it wants to create a mobile video giant to compete with Google and Facebook. With many of its legacy network businesses slowing or declining, Verizon ha … | Continue reading
We’re all familiar with Dr. Neil Clark Warren, the CEO and founder of eHarmony and the star of all the dating platform’s TV commercials. But Dr. Warren is finally resigning as CEO, though maintaining his position as Chairman of the Board. In his stead, eHarmony’s Brand Marketing … | Continue reading
When I was in high school, a friend of mine wanted to brew his own beer and his setup involved a bath tub and a lot of food safety risk. Alchema, a new Kickstarter project, shows just how far home-brewing has come in a relatively short time, and also rides the wave of interest in … | Continue reading
Suspicions have been all abound about just what the Nintendo NX would be, and Eurogamer is reporting something quite interesting: that the system will be portable with home TV dock, feature detachable controllers, and be powered by Nvidia Tegra chips. Eurogamer is saying that mul … | Continue reading
T-Mobile's Binge On service, which excludes certain video services from counting toward a user's monthly data plan, now includes music videos from Apple Music.In a blog post on Tuesday, T-Mobile CEO and president John Legere announced Apple's music streaming service along with a … | Continue reading