Publisher 2K has released a new Humble Bundle that offers Battleborn for a mere $15 (about £12) only 2.5 months after release.The Humble 2K Bundle 2 lets players snag The Darkness 2, Spec Ops: The Line, and Duke Nukem Forever for a mere $1.Pay more than the average (currently $6. … | Continue reading
Another detail of Amazon's plan to use drones to deliver packages has been revealed thanks to a patent filing that surfaced this week. SEE ALSO: Amazon reveals Prime Air drone flight footage with Jeremy Clarkson explainerThe filing outlines plans to turn existing vertical structu … | Continue reading
I just saw the future of music videos. And it came in the form of an Instagram post transformed by the Prisma app. SEE ALSO: 10 amazing Prisma app images that started as simple selfiesPosted by musician Junk-E-Cat, the brief video shows the producer tapping out beats on an apartm … | Continue reading
Leslie Jones, the star of the new “Ghostbusters” reboot and a cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” announced she was leaving Twitter after trolls bombarded her with racist comments.“I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart,” Jones tweeted before going silent on he … | Continue reading
A team of physicists and electrical engineers at Facebook published a new idea for using luminescence to improve signal detection in free-space optical communication today. Facebook, in a partnership with Internet.org, has been developing drones to deliver basic internet access t … | Continue reading
Microsoft posted its fourth quarter earnings today, reporting revenue of $22.6 billion and net income of $5.48 billion. The most important data point was that revenue from the company's Azure cloud division was up significantly, climbing over 100 percent year over year, as usage … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s gaming division is in a slump, and it’s hoping to claw its way out with new hardware coming in August. Xbox and gaming revenue for Microsoft was $152 million during its fiscal fourth quarter. That’s a 9-percent year-over-year decrease for the three month period from A … | Continue reading
A committee of the House of Lords struck a curious but at times critical note when discussing blockchain and its impact on finance and government. | Continue reading
The idea of creating a central bank backed digital currency is not a new thing. The digital currency community and central banks of various nations have floated this idea at one point or another. While most nations are yet to act upon it, the Bank of England is already doing the … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that in the second quarter of 2016 — the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year –compute usage on its Azure public cloud more than doubled year over year. Azure revenue growth was once again above 100 percent, clocking in at exactly 102 percent, Microsof … | Continue reading
Surreal point-and-click adventure Kentucky Route Zero has just launched its fourth episode on Steam, GOG, the Humble Store and itch.io.Cardboard Computer's strange series about an antique delivery man and his dog searching for a mythical highway has been in the works for quite so … | Continue reading
“They’re going to hit some challenges and marketers are gonna start to ask questions when they get out of the experimental budget phase”, Facebook’s head of ad tech said about Snapchat today. While Facebook tries to collect as much data about users as possible to prove its ads wo … | Continue reading
Meizu has finally taken the wraps off its MX6 flagship smartphone. | Continue reading
Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, including revenue of $22.6 billion and earnings per share of $0.69. In Q4 2015, Microsoft saw $22.2 billion in revenue and a loss of $0.40 per share due to the $7.6 billion writedown related to its acquisiti … | Continue reading
I still love books, and I still have a fair amount of trouble finding new ones to read that I’ll actually enjoy. Helping with discovery is the idea behind Reco, a new mobile app from Canadian bookseller and retailer Indigo, which provides users with a social network based around … | Continue reading
Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, its first earnings report after announcing its proposed acquisition of LinkedIn. The company’s earnings came in at a non-GAAP revenue of $22.6 billion and $0.69 of non-GAAP per-share profit and were well abo … | Continue reading
Google has been working to create a faster news reading experience through its Accelerated Mobile Pages project. Now it’s bringing something similar to online ads. AMP is an open framework for creating articles that load more quickly, particularly on mobile. (They can also be spe … | Continue reading
As we’ve previously documented, the pettier a conflict, the further Donald Trump and those around him will go to defend it in the most nonsensical ways possible. When Melania Trump apparently plagiarized first lady Michelle Obama in a speech at yesterday’s Republican National Con … | Continue reading
TellTale Games' new BATMAN game will be story-driven and appears to focus on Bruce Wayne walking the tightrope between man and myth. | Continue reading
Think back on your college experience and you may recall the presence of an on-campus residence set aside for international students. The fact that there was likely only one house for all the students probably made you think your school didn’t have a large international contingen … | Continue reading
One of the great quirks of mobile gaming is the way that so many games can come as surprise releases to everyone. In fact, the two biggest games of 2016 so far were both complete surprises when they were revealed. First you had Clash Royale [Free], which was revealed and soft lau … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One filed a countersuit against co-founder and former CTO Brogan BamBrogan today, claiming he was part of a group of four employees engaged in misconduct and abusive behavior.The transportation startup developing a high-speed shuttle is suing the plaintiffs for at least … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: In two weeks, Samsung will unveil one of the most anticipated smartphones of the year: the next class-defining Galaxy Note phablet. This year’s model, the Note7, has seen even more interest than usual, due to both its envelope-pushing iris scanner technology and Samsung … | Continue reading
If you like poking, prodding, and proving big corporations wrong, has FCA US got a challenge for you. FCA US is the umbrella company for Fiat, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, and it wants you to find potential vulnerabilities in their vehicles’ cybersecurity systems. And they’ll … | Continue reading
My daughter is almost eight. She likes princesses and Harry Potter and doll houses and making videos to Taylor Swift songs and she has a few very clear influences and/or heroes. Mal from the Descendents. Hermione. My wife. Me. Her great grandmother Sadie. And now I want her to be … | Continue reading
Nvidia's new GTX 1060 is here, with vastly improved performance at the $250 - $300 price point. Is it powerful enough to sweep AMD's cheaper RX 480? | Continue reading
Imagine a lawyer with a client who lives in one county and works in another. Or even a lawyer who litigates in multiple states. Both common occurrences, but situations that make it very hard to keep track of legal documents. Essentially, it should be easy to keep track of court r … | Continue reading
The U.S. Army's Special Operations Commands has had enough with using Android phones that constantly freeze up and is switching to iPhones.Apple's latest iPhone 6S, which will be integrated into a soon-to-be deployed iPhone Tactical Assault Kit (iTAC), will replace the Android Ta … | Continue reading
Take your email marketing to the next level by targeting your mid-funnel audience with the perfect CTA. | Continue reading
Lenovo might not be the most well-known company here in the U.S., but it does have a very interesting history. Here are some interesting facts about Lenovo. | Continue reading
The interior designers Carolina Luzon and Luis Ruiz transformed a 300 square meter industrial space in the heart of Barcelona | Continue reading
I've had a PocketChip in my possession for over a month, and I still don't know what I say about it. I can't really recommend anyone buy this thing, and yet I wish everyone owned one. Does that make any sense? It's not "practical" in the sense that it's not "practical" for an Eng … | Continue reading
Poodlecorp (yes, you read that right) has threatened to take the über popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go offline August 1 through a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the game’s already fragile servers. “We take the servers offline because it is popu … | Continue reading
It will soon be a lot easier to get that coveted blue checkmark next to your name on Twitter.The company will soon have an official way for users to request a verified account via an online application, marking the first time Twitter has implemented a streamlined way for users to … | Continue reading
Did you fear you'd missed the Apple CarPlay and Android Auto boat when you purchased your new Kia? Worry no more; the Korean carmaker is offering free updates that will bring the popular smartphone integrations into the dashboards of eight of its models later this summer.SEE ALSO … | Continue reading
Gravity is a well-known concept, both from Alfonso Cuarón's eponymous 2013 Oscar-winning film and as one of the fundamental physical forces of the universe that governs our daily lives. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Volkswagen is trying to mash the dash into the future, but its ongoing emissions scandal remains its biggest roadblock. And it doesn’t look like the trudge from the crisis will be sliding into the rearview mirror anytime soon.On Tuesday, the embattled automaker confirmed with the … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: Breakout Gaming has announced the launch of its BreakoutPvP eSports platform as part of its cryptocurrency based gaming ecosystem built around the world’s first ‘multicurrency’ Breakout Coin. July 19, 2016, San Jose, Costa Rica – Breakout Gaming has expande … | Continue reading
While it looks as if funding for startups moved slightly higher in the last four months, there’s a big catch.According to a new report from KPMG International and CB Insights, global deal activity for venture capital-backed startups continued a decline in the second quarter after … | Continue reading
Do you want a lesson on how far the point-and-click adventure game has come, while still seeing the appeal in the classics? Day of the Tentacle Remastered [$4.99] is a perfect example of that. This is a genre classic made by some of the masters of the medium. Tim Schafer and Ron … | Continue reading
Press Release: The popular Ethereum blockchain explorer and smart contract analysis tool invites developers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to participate in their upcoming hackathon. July 19, 2016, Toronto, Canada — has announced the launch of its second annual hackathon. The p … | Continue reading
Kesha's legal issues with former producer Dr. Luke haven't yet been resolved, but that isn't keeping the singer from embarking on a tour of the US and Canada that's kicking off in Las Vegas this Saturday. The Fuck the World tour is covering 17 dates between July and October, all … | Continue reading
Theranos is now steeped in an avalanche of legal woes, including a suit filed Monday, July 19 by an ex-customer alleging the company’s faulty blood tests caused him to have a heart attack.The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Arizona, and first reported in Ars Technica, … | Continue reading
The Furbo has new competition. Petcube is launching two pet-centric cameras on Kickstarter today that let users monitor their pets when they’re not home. The Petcube Bites and Petcube Play come with 1080p video cameras that use night vision and can stream live. The devices connec … | Continue reading
Flying is expensive. So Airfordable is launching from Y Combinator’s Summer ’16 batch to let you book flights and pay over time before you take off. Here’s how it works: Travelers find their preferred flight online (using any travel site they want) and upload a screenshot with th … | Continue reading
A team of six South African banks is now conducting experiments with ethereum's blockchain, a process that was bootstrapped by Whatsapp. | Continue reading
Google Arts & Culture is a new service that puts the richest elements of human civilization at your fingertips, whether you're on the web or on the go. | Continue reading
The last time Herman Cain and Pokémon shared headlines was 2011, when the politician, announcing the termination of his campaign for Republican presidential nominee, quoted an entire stanza of the theme to Pokémon 2000. Five years and another botched presidential campaign have pa … | Continue reading