Ubisoft is releasing a digital version of the popular card game Uno for PS4, Xbox One and PC on 9th August.A previous digital version of Uno was released in… | Continue reading
Pokémon Go had a week unlike any video game I’ve covered before in my career. Here’s a collection of the posts we penned last week, ranging from players finding dead bodies to Craigslist entrepreneurs selling preplayed accounts.My friend and former boss Chris Grant wrote about t … | Continue reading
Making a Murderer, Netflix's popular true crime documentary series, will return for a second season. The show followed the arrest, trial, and conviction of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin who was found guilty of murdering Teresa Halbach, a local photographer. … | Continue reading
Google just launched an awesome new app and website meant to help users discover art, architecture, music and culture. It’s called, fittingly enough, Google Arts & Culture. You can search through a huge database (which Google has been building for a while), searching for anything … | Continue reading
It happens in every company, eventually the internal dynamics become more important than what happens with the customer, what she wants to talk about, what he's thinking about. In fact, we often (still) prefer the detached rooms of research to a human contact. We over-engineer fe … | Continue reading
The attorneys general of several US states are suing Volkswagen for violating state environmental regulations with its diesel emissions cheating scandal, even as federal regulators and many of those same states have agreed to a $14.7 billion settlement for violating consumer pro … | Continue reading
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I have never nerded out so hard over a USB cable the way I am over Winnergear's MicFlip reversible Micro USB-to-USB Type-A cable.Charging cables suck. I know it. You know it. They friggin' suck, especially ones that only go in one way, like Micro USB and full-sized USB (aka USB T … | Continue reading
Spark Capital, one of the biggest and most successful early-stage and growth-stage VC firms based in New York, is bringing on a new partner in the form of Rachel Horwitz, veteran at both Twitter Comms and Facebook Comms. She will be the first marketing/comms partner at the firm. … | Continue reading
Nintendo ist spätestens seit dem Erfolg von Pokémon Go wieder in aller Munde. Das große japanische Unternehmen hatte aber bekanntlich nicht nur Erfolge. Der YouTube-Kanal Watch Mojo hat die größten Fehltritte in einem Video... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? IT Security Engineering . At Gusto we are on a mission to create a worl... | Continue reading
Sitting in a Tel Aviv office, my interviewee borrowed my iPhone for a simple demo. Inside 2 minutes he was displaying my key strokes and web browsing onto a big screen in the meeting room, entirely remotely. I’d heard Israel was a hotbed of security startups — but this was a pret … | Continue reading
Play Pokémon Go for any length of time, and you soon internalize its rigid hierarchy. On the top are the elites — the rare and high-powered pokémon — and on the bottom, the commoners — low-level and of little interest to most players. However, unlike many people, I can't get enou … | Continue reading
Telltale's Batman series begins on 2nd August with its first episode Realm of Shadows. It will be available on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, Mac, iOS and Android.A physical retail release will be available on 16th September in Europe (and 13th September in North America) that … | Continue reading
The upcoming Pokémon Sun and Moon lets you train your Pokémon further, beyond the usual level cap of 100, via a new mechanic.Hyper Training is a brand new feature for this winter's 3DS games and is only available for Pokémon you have levelled up to 100.In layman's terms, this new … | Continue reading
Early this morning in Beijing, Meizu announced the MX6, its latest smartphone which closely resembles the Pro 6 which was unveiled just three months ago. Just like the Pro 6, the MX6 features a 10-core processor (albeit a slightly slower one) and an all-metal design, along with s … | Continue reading
It's July Madness! We’re finally down to the final four Bachelorette contestants: Chase, the startlingly life-like robot whose programmers only bothered to add one facial expression; Jordan, the younger, estranged brother of famous sports guy Aaron Rodgers; Robby, a mannequin; an … | Continue reading
To predict and prevent fraud online even more quickly than cybercriminals adopt new tactics, Sift Science has raised $30 million in a Series C round of venture funding in a round led by Insight Venture Partners. According to the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2015 ann … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we look at an app for fitness enthusiasts. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Sidekick? Sidekick is a mobile app for fitness enthusiasts, matching like-minded people together based on their fitness goals and personal pre … | Continue reading
Uber arch-rival Careem, which operates in Pakistan and across the Middle East and North Africa, has inked a deal to use self-driving electric pods, reports Gulf Business.The pods, made by Italy-based Next Future Transportation, are modular, allowing them to drive individually or … | Continue reading
Facebook Reactions were introduced in mid-March. Initially the response could be described as tepid, but new research from Unmetric shows that Reactions are gaining ground. As part of this study, Unmetric analyzed 6.2 billion Facebook Reactions from over 32,000 brand pages betwee … | Continue reading
Facebook Reactions were introduced in mid-March. Initially the response could be described as tepid, but new research from Unmetric shows that Reactions are gaining ground. As part of this study, Unmetric analyzed 6.2 billion Facebook...read more | Continue reading
A new startup called Civic, launching today, wants to help Americans stop becoming victims of identity theft. The company is aiming to topple similar identity protection services like Lifelock by focusing on a broader market than just credit monitoring, while also allowing people … | Continue reading
MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk: Leipzig (ots) - Nach dem Insolvenzantrag der Unister Holding GmbH schließt der vorläufige Insolvenzverwalter Lucas Flöther eine Insolvenz der Tochterfirmen des Konzerns nicht aus. Das erklärte er in einem Interview mit dem MDR-Magazin "Umschau" ... | Continue reading
10 Second Ninja X is out now and goodness me does it ever make me want to smash my controller into little tiny pieces and then sprinkle those pieces over some breakfast cereal. It's not like I expected to top the global leaderboards when I started playing earlier today, but I at … | Continue reading
An official from Russia’s Ministry of Finance has indicated the agency now supports changes to a forthcoming law that would ban domestic bitcoin use. | Continue reading
Wissenschaftler lassen sich bei der Entwicklung von Robotern gerne von Tieren inspirieren. Ein Team der Case Western Reserve University ist dabei allerdings einen entscheidenden Schritt weiter gegangen: Es hat seinem Bot mit einem Muskel einer Meeresnacktschnecke... | Continue reading
Prisma, the mobile app that can turn your mundane photos into beautiful pieces of art, is poised to launch an Android version, and an invite-only beta is already available. Originally launched only on iOS, the app quickly became a hit in Apple's App Store, its large selection of … | Continue reading
Recently found company called EtherIndex LLC officially filed with the SEC on July 15 to offer the public opportunities to invest in Ether | Continue reading
The Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced yesterday that it was buying the chip maker ARM for a whopping $31.4 billion in cash. There are some straightforward explanations for why this deal took place. The UK's decision to exit the European Union caused the value of the p … | Continue reading
Leading up to two of our most important conferences of the year (Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit and SiriusDecisions), the Content4Demand team had an important task: come up with a new and compelling theme that we could leverage to capture attention and generate leads. We were … | Continue reading
We’re going through a bit of dejavu here: a Brazilian judge has ordered a nationwide block on WhatsApp after it refused to comply with a court order to reveal user information in a crime investigation. The most recent block happened in May, causing 100 million users to have to us … | Continue reading
Duolingo is probably the most popular mobile education app, but until now, the company’s focus has been solely on language learning. Today, the company is expanding its reach by launching Tinycards for iOS, its first app that can be used for learning virtually anything that invol … | Continue reading
Developers are already working on mock-ups for Pokemon Go on the HoloLens -- even if the game isn't actually being ported to Microsoft's new developer platform. | Continue reading
How does the idea of playing a deck of Zombies and Pirates against your friend's Robots and Ninja sound? I don't know about you, but it sounds like great fun to me. Nomad Games, of Talisman: Digital Edition [$6.99] fame, is bringing Shufflebuilding Smash Up to iOS, so you'll soon … | Continue reading
Doppler Labs, the makers of the Here Active Listening system and the Here One headphones, has today announced the close of a $24 million follow-on Series B funding round led by Peter Chernin and The Chernin Group. New investors also contributed, including Kevin Efrusy, David Geff … | Continue reading
Next month you’ll be able to see what it’s really like to be Bruce Wayne. Today Telltale Games — the studio behind renowned episodic series like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us — announced that its take on Batman will be making its debut on August 2nd. Called "Realm of Sh … | Continue reading
Flash cards are the most straightforward way to learn anything, and Duolingo is using that foundation for Tinycards, which happens to be its first foray outside of languages. With Tinycards, you can pick up info on anything from languages (Duolingo wasn’t going to ignore its root … | Continue reading
Snapchat on Tuesday announced that users can now use Bitmoji inside the service. Back in March, reports surfaced that Snapchat purchased Bitstrips — maker of Bitmoji — for $100 million.Today, that news is essentially confirmed and the two products will now work together.SEE ALSO: … | Continue reading
Post-rock titans Sigur Rós delivered one of last month's coolest musical surprises when they released Route One, a day-long "slow TV" broadcast that paired a live-streamed journey through the band's native Iceland with an algorithmically generated remix of their new single "Óveðu … | Continue reading
La Muna is a ski chalet completely renovated by Oppenheim Architecture. The design involved the complete renovation and minor addition ... | Continue reading
The apartment 50 remains an "Historical Monument" in the collective memory of the Unité d'Habitation, Marseille. Designer Alessandro Mendini | Continue reading
Marta Nowicka has transformed this former redbrick, circa-1950s ambulance station into a family’s four-bedroom vacation home. | Continue reading
If a picture is worth a thousand words then I suppose this screenshot from Rise of the Tomb Raider is worth a dissertation on real-time graphics technology. The image is a promotion for the latest version of the 2015 adventure game, this release pegged to the 20th anniversary of … | Continue reading
Is your list's value decreasing? Here's how to reactivate a tired email list by either reactivating or unsubscribing those who are slipping away. | Continue reading
Research is an essential part of the writing process. But what happens when that research is taking much longer than anticipated? | Continue reading
Well, well, well, what do we have here?New images leaked by the Apple sleuths at Nowherelse.fr (via China's Weibo as always) suggest Apple could release not two, but three iPhone 7 models this fall. SEE ALSO: Video shows possible new iPhone 7 without headphone jackUp until now, a … | Continue reading
Earlier this year at CES 2016, Withings announced the Thermo, a wireless infrared thermometer that uses infrared sensors to take your temperature when placed up against your temple. The biggest question at the time of the announcement, however, was if Withings would be able to se … | Continue reading