GUEST: This year has been fondly dubbed the year of the bot by tech leaders, investors, and journalists. However, while many have been following the bot revolution, the first truly viral augmented reality (AR) game, Pokémon Go, has just usurped that whole trend in the public eye. … | Continue reading
In the fifth developer preview of Android Nougat, which Google released earlier today, you’ll find a nifty update to the standard-issue camera app. Now you can decide what happens when you hit the volume up and down buttons. Usually when you do that, the app actuates the shutter … | Continue reading
Apple is addressing a major complaint some users had with the way its Apple Music streaming service functions when it comes to matching your personal music collection to an online catalog – a feature that allows you to stream your tracks from the cloud, via Apple’s iCloud. The co … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Digital signage is an industry that just keeps getting bigger. Most digital signage customers use screens to sell advertising space, provide information or assist wayfinding. The really good ones look to create dynamic signage that changes in response to variables that allows the … | Continue reading
While the ordinary proving ground of the smartphone may be the mean streets of the city, devices are to be found on the field of battle, too — and if a report from DoDBuzz is to be believed, Android may soon be giving way to iOS for some special operations forces. Read More | Continue reading
A new Congressional resolution calls on the government to support payment innovations like digital currencies and blockchain. | Continue reading
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer provided a brief update on her company’s pilot effort with bots during a conference call following today’s quarterly earnings announcement. She suggested that the company’s initial efforts with conversational interfaces will lead it to compete with other v … | Continue reading
More than 50 former wrestlers and performers have filed suit against the WWE, claiming that it hid the risk of brain trauma and failed to provide wrestlers with necessary medical attention and support. The wrestlers, who include Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, allege that the WWE knew ab … | Continue reading
Cortana is set to fly the friendly skies thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft and Boeing, bring the Microsoft intelligent assistant closer still to the domain of its namesake. Microsoft and Boeing announced a partnership today to move Boeing’s suite of digital aviation o … | Continue reading
Not only does this 3D print job protect your smartphone from scrapes and knicks, but it also keeps you charged and fashionable with retro Pokemon style. | Continue reading
Hello, gentle listeners, and welcome to a much-belated episode of the RPG Reload Podcast. We're a couple of weeks late this month, and that's partly from tech problems and partly from my strict schedule the last few weeks. It's here now, though, and the good news is that the next … | Continue reading
A new lawsuit alleges the Federal Bureau of Investigation is willfully avoiding granting access to documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The lawsuit, filed by national security researcher and MIT Ph.D. candidate, Ryan Shapiro alleges the FBI is using an … | Continue reading
If you feel like playing Hearthstone [Free] with friends this week, then you're in luck because Blizzard has given you plenty of reasons to do so. From today until July 24th, Hearthstone is running an event called Friendly Feud where you can complete your quests by playing agains … | Continue reading
Content Marketing Lessons we can learn from the Epic “Game of Thrones” is priceless. Here are 21 of them in an elegant infographic. | Continue reading
Good news Apple Music subscribers: Apple is updating the way its “match” feature works.Not only is the matching algorithm now better (matching from audio fingerprints instead of metadata), tracks you upload to iTunes from Apple Music will no longer have DRM. In other words, it wi … | Continue reading
Estonian start-up Cleveron is looking to one-up Amazon’s Lockers with a more advanced solution, and today the company’s PackRobot makes its public debut in its home country. Read More | Continue reading
Can you guess just how much Pokémon Go makes in minutes? Well, let’s just say, it is probably going to be more than what you make in a year. | Continue reading
The US Navy is now using a particular type of sonar in more than half of the world’s ocean under an illegal permit. That sonar harms marine mammals like whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses. On Friday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in California found that a 2012 regulat … | Continue reading
Autonomy isn't just for cars; Mercedes-Benz has created a self-driving city bus, too.Mercedes-Benz revealed its latest creation on Monday morning. Called the Future Bus, it's the first city bus that can drive autonomously. Mercedes did more than just unveil the futuristic vehicle … | Continue reading
Google released the fifth developer preview for Android 7.0. Even though the Nougat codename is official, it appears Google still didn't leave us with an Easter egg in the updated dev preview. At least at first glance, anyway. | Continue reading
Eager to throw its product development into high gear, Postmates snags the team from Hey! inc. The latter best known for its ludicrously viral game Stolen, which was shut down and later reborn as Famous. “The Hey team was introduced to us an investor,” Postmates’ CTO and co-found … | Continue reading
A new report from JPMorgan Chase and Oliver Wyman argues that blockchain technology is an opportunity for asset managers. | Continue reading
Every toy and electronics maker wants to get on the edutainment train. And understandably so. After all, who wouldn’t want to make the toy that kickstarts the lifelong fascination of the next Nikola Tesla or Ada Lovelace? But such a glut of products highlights a consistent issue … | Continue reading
Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn’t make it? The internet certainly offers plenty of ways for you to unload the tickets… but how much should you charge? Ticketing startup SeatGeek has launched a … | Continue reading
Umbrella, purveyors of some darn fine microgames, are about to release a torrent of games onto an unsuspecting public. They're getting into publishing, though in a very hands-on role contributing art, design, and code for many titles, to go along with their self-developed titles. … | Continue reading
When Google first announced in May that it was accepting naming suggestions for the next version of Android — something that started with the letter "N" and referenced some sort of sweet, of course — I campaigned hard on the Internets for the name Nougat.Why, you might ask? Nouga … | Continue reading
Its core assets are worth $5 billion (we think?)It owns a bunch of AlibabaThe audio fidelity of the earnings calls is really goodYahoo FinanceFantasy sports (See also: Yahoo’s latest disappointing quarter pretty much sums up the past few years) Read More | Continue reading
aCommerce, a Bangkok-based startup that helps e-commerce companies in Southeast Asia run their businesses, has landed $10 million in new funding ahead of a planned Series B raise later this year. Read More | Continue reading
I've been waiting for the upcoming wargame Heroes of Normandie for quite some time now, but the wait is finally coming to an end as the game is set to release July 28th. After first appearing as a boardgame and then moving on to the PC, the game is finally coming to the App Store … | Continue reading
Earlier today ZTE announced its newest device, the $99 ZTE Max Pro. On paper, it’s a whole lot of phone for an off-contract device. After spending a few minutes with it, there’s a lot to like. Specs Here’s the basic rundown: 1080p 6-inch LCD Snapdragon 617 processor 2 GB RAM 32 G … | Continue reading
The Republican National Convention is underway in Cleveland, where the GOP is expected to finalize its nomination of Donald Trump. The entire Trump clan is attending, plus Donald backers like investor Peter Thiel and UFC president Dana White. The convention runs through Thursday, … | Continue reading
As every seasoned Pokémon Go player came to realize last week, the game is a major drain on your phone's battery. You can carry around a portable battery pack to solve this issue and look like a nerd, or you can cop this pokédex battery case and still look like a nerd, but really … | Continue reading
American company VocaliD is creating customized voices for people who can't speak. The new technology produces realistic voices by synthesizing and mixing recordings made before a person loses their vocal ability. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Technology, Real Time, Tec … | Continue reading
If you've experienced the inevitable breakdowns and frustrations of content marketing with a big team, this is for you. | Continue reading
Slip right into the pilot's seat with a Blue Angels stunt flight simulator officially licensed by the United States Navy. | Continue reading
Superzeitlupe ist was für Hektiker, die den Augenblick nicht richtig genießen können, denn der kommt natürlich erst in Überzeitlupe in seiner ganzen Pracht zur Geltung, also mit 118.830 Bildern in der Sekunde oder noch ein... | Continue reading
Opera was supposed to be bought out by "Golden Brick", a tech consortium, for $1.2 billion. But the deal fell through and a new offer is on the table for $600 million. | Continue reading
Star Wars engineering experts have tipped their hand regarding one of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets: Exactly how BB-8 works in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While film-makers behind the movie have given some clues as to how the droid works, and people have engineered backward … | Continue reading
Google today released the fifth and last preview Android Nougat before the scheduled final release later this summer. According to the company, this preview includes the latest version of the Android Nougat emulator to do apps final testing, the final N APIs, and latest system be … | Continue reading
Not-so-breaking news from the world of celebrity gossip: Kimye and T-Swift are at it again! And with this particular stage of the celebrity feud, we are given an amazing opportunity to look at how social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat can be used as weapons. … | Continue reading
Christopher Correa, former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals, has been sentenced to 46 months in jail for hacking into the rival Houston Astros’ email and database systems to see player profiles, draft picks, and other confidential information.Early this year, Correa … | Continue reading
Way back in January of last year, developer Traplight Games announced their mobile game project, a side-scrolling physics racer called What On Earth! where its standout feature was a touchscreen-optimized level editor which would allow the entire game to be based around user-gene … | Continue reading
Lighting, especially in corporate films, is a part of the filmmaking process that, if skipped, really stands out. Badly lit interviews can cause the viewer to completely switch off from the conversation they are watching because subconsciously their brain is trying to right the w … | Continue reading
Here’s an interesting milestone to talk up around the water cooler: Researchers in the Netherlands have created a microscopic storage system that encodes every bit with a single atom — allowing them to fit a kilobyte in a space under 100 nanometers across. Read More | Continue reading
Without question, the number one complaint I hear about Snapchat from those that have written it off is that finding good content on the platform is a chore. They’re not wrong. I actually had this conversation recently with a colleague here at The Next Web who’d mentioned that he … | Continue reading
Samsung is finally rolling out Samsung Pay to more Gear S2 devices in the United States. | Continue reading
Who is Melania Trump, the wife of presumptive Republican Nominee Donald Trump? Here’s what you need to know. Photo: Getty | Continue reading