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
“When you risk little, you can’t be disappointed if you don’t excel. You are not failing to thrive; you just aren’t trying.” [Ambassador Samantha Power] To live fully and leave the world in a better place that we found it, we have to get close to the action. This is the message A … | Continue reading
Germany’s transport minister is proposing new legislation that would put a number of new requirements on automakers as they roll out autonomous vehicles, according to Reuters.The proposal is from German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt and it would require that drivers remai … | Continue reading
In launching its Charge Force wireless charging accessories last month, Mophie wanted to convince you that wireless charging was the future of everything that was lovely and good. On paper, it sounded like the perfect solution for people who can’t stand plugging in their phones e … | Continue reading
For far too long, humanity has had to deal with a severe deficiency of games involving snowboarding horses. But that deficiency will soon be corrected, as Chris Figueroa and Kinifi Games' Snow Horse is set to hit iOS on July 28th. The game is pretty much what it says on the tin: … | Continue reading
Have you ever thumbed through vintage postcards at a flee market and come across black-and-white photographs of a town or monument livened with a layer of water color or colored pencil? A new service on Algorithmia uses a deep learning algorithm to accomplish a similar result.To … | Continue reading
Yahoo missed its earnings expectations by just a hair, and the company once again wrote down Tumblr. The stock went nowhere. That is pretty much the story of Yahoo for the past few years. Even in just the past year, Yahoo’s core business has been in decline. Even before Marissa M … | Continue reading
Seascape House is a vacation home designed by Pattersons and Associates. The cottage is located in Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand. | Continue reading
GSM Arena got its hands on what looks to be Sony's next flagship phone, the F8331 (the name will likely be changed before it's released), and the design language looks noticeably different from the Xperia X and Z lines that we've become accustomed to over the past few years.The F … | Continue reading
The Clinton campaign is trolling her likely White House rival during this week’s Republican National Committee convention, buying anti-Trump filters for Snapchat images captured in downtown Cleveland.Geofilters are those tiny pieces of art that Snapchatters can use to overlay ima … | Continue reading
You’d be hard-pressed to meet someone who loves garbage more than Jason Gates, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based startup Compology. But Gates isn’t concerned with the residential trash that you put out in front of your home on collection day. Instead, he basks in the mass … | Continue reading
The success of the 'Pokemon Go' video game has prompted some experienced players to cash in by selling their advanced-level game accounts. The WSJ's Lee Hawkins explains. Photo: Gett | Continue reading
When the schedule for San Diego Comic Con first came out a week or so ago, I noticed that there was a Pokemon GO [Free] panel in one of the smaller rooms on Thursday, July 21st. The game had just launched, but it was already becoming a huge hit, so I was pretty sure that | Continue reading
Storj, the blockchain based decentralized cloud storage services provider has joined forces with Counterparty, a Bitcoin blockchain based smart contract tools provider to create a new payments channel technology. The technology developed by Storj is currently in the proof of conc … | Continue reading
Netflix reported earnings after the bell on Monday, seeing its shares quickly tumble 15% in after-hours trading after missing the mark on subscriber growth. In the second quarter of the year, the digital entertainment company added just 1.7 million members, beneath the company’s … | Continue reading
IT giant IBM has just posted its second quarter earnings, where came in at $20.24 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share are $2.95. The numbers beat analysts’ estimates of $20.03 billion in revenue and non-GAAP EPS of $2.89 per share. However, non-GAAP net income is $2.8 billion … | Continue reading
Netflix released its earnings report for the second quarter today. The company was one of 2015's best performing stocks, but has seen its share price stumble in recent months on projections of slower growth. Today it reported $1.97 billion in revenue and net income of $41 million … | Continue reading