It's not just owners of The DAO tokes who stand to be impacted by the upcoming planned ethereum hard fork. Many industry player must play a role. | Continue reading
If you're anxiously waiting to play Batman - The Telltale Series, have just a bit more patience because the game is almost here. According to this blog post, the game will premiere at some point next month, with the exact date announced late this week. We'll also be getting the f … | Continue reading
Now that her feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian over "Famous" is once again dominating the headlines, it's easy to forget Taylor Swift is also embroiled in a much sillier scandal, one involving the producer Calvin Harris and a songwriting secret. It was revealed last week th … | Continue reading
Trekkies abroad will be able to tune into CBS's new 2017 Star Trek series starting in January thanks to the streaming power of Netflix. | Continue reading
The secret to our data storage woes could be an atom or, more precisely, a grid of them.Atoms, the smallest building blocks in nature, have their appeal as a storage medium. We certainly need a new storage paradigm. Something that takes up considerably less space than the current … | Continue reading
If you’re into building stuff and making things and live near a major city, you might’ve heard of TechShop. Like a gym for DIY-geeks, the idea is that they buy and maintain all sorts of crazy expensive machinery — laser cutters, CNC mills, 3D printers, etc — and you pay them a mo … | Continue reading
A computational design tool created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology lets you fold a piece of metal or plastic into a “complex 3D shape” like a mask or even a shoe. “We’re taking a flat piece of material and giving it the tendency, o … | Continue reading
Most Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft players battle complete strangers over the internet. This week, Blizzard wants you to spend more time challenging your buddies. The digital card game is celebrating an event called Friendly Feud this week. It will allow players to finish Daily … | Continue reading
Late last week, a report indicated Google had scrapped a plan to create its own standalone VR headset. Now Engadget has thrown cold water on that, saying Google is indeed still working on its headset project. Recode claimed Google’s X Lab was working on the headset at one point, … | Continue reading
A new report released today confirms allegations that Russia operated a state-sponsored doping program during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and beyond. The World Anti-Doping Agency commissioned the independent investigation after Grigory Rodchenkov, former head of Russia's an … | Continue reading
Someone on Facebook’s social media team (lulz) appears to be drunk. The company posted the following status post about 50 minutes ago to its official UK Facebook Page, although it doesn’t show up here in the US: A few other possible explanations: Has Facebook been hacked? Is this … | Continue reading
CityPilot has taken a key early step towards fully autonomous public transportation: The Mercedes-Benz self-driving bus program saw one of its Future Bus vehicles drive 20 km (or around 12.4 miles) in the Netherlands, on a route that connected Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport with th … | Continue reading
When I woke up this morning, I asked my assistant a simple question: “Siri, is it going to rain today?” Siri understood my intent, pulled the local weather data via an API, and answered me in less than two seconds: “There’s no rain in the forecast for today.” In the not-too- dist … | Continue reading
SpaceX has released a collection of high-resolution photos of last night's mission to resupply the International Space Station. The images, which were published to the company's Flickr account this morning, show the Falcon 9 rocket taking off and performing its landing in great d … | Continue reading
A late July gathering featuring members of bitcoin’s development and mining communities will not focus on scaling. | Continue reading
Dear developers, today is update day. Apple just released the third beta for the next major iteration of iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS — that’s a lot of megabytes. The third developer betas squash bugs and tweak new features as the final versions of these operating system updates … | Continue reading
The fifth and final beta for Android 7.0 Nougat is here. Google is currently pushing out OTA updates for Nexus devices, but you can flash the new build if you're not too keen on waiting.Since this is the last developer preview before Google releases Nougat later this summer, don' … | Continue reading
The Republican National Convention kicks off today in Cleveland and the event promises to be unusual. Donald Trump’s campaign has, of course, been controversial, and he’s putting his own strange spin on the event. Major GOP figures have declined to attend, so Trump has replaced t … | Continue reading
Josh reviews Prynt - a fun accessory that takes and prints Polaroid-style pictures with a little augmented reality fun thrown in. | Continue reading
JPMorgan has lost two of its senior leaders on its blockchain project, Juno, as they embark on starting up their own blockchain startup, a report by Quartz revealed. Will Martino, the lead developer and Stuart Popejoy, the head of Juno started Kadena.io in June; however, the two … | Continue reading
As it turns out, sailing the narrow sea takes longer than imagined. HBO has announced that its truncated seventh season of Game of Thrones will be delayed until the summer of 2017. Filming will begin later this Summer in Northern Ireland, with additional shooting to take place in … | Continue reading
Six months after showing it off at CES, Acer is releasing the Liquid Jade Primo, a curved Windows 10 handset. Interestingly enough, Microsoft is selling the smartphone with a display dock, keyboard, and mouse for $649 on its website, as it continues to push Continuum. The phone i … | Continue reading
Welcome to another weekly roundup that helps you keep up with all that's going on in the world of Hearthstone [Free]. This week we have even more whispers of possible themes for the next Adventure, two stories about decklists you can put together depending on whether you're rolli … | Continue reading
At its Build conference back in 2015, Microsoft set for itself a particularly ambitious goal: Have 1 billion devices running Windows 10 by mid–2018.But now that we’re more than halfway through 2016, Microsoft has backed off of that figure, admitting that goal was just a little bi … | Continue reading
Kesällä 2007 aloittamani kirja on vihdoin kasassa. Käyn siinä läpi kymmenen viime vuoden aikaiset uskomattomat käänteet ja kerron myös, mitä tapahtui kulissien takana. Kiitokset kaikille, jotka lähettivät ehdotuksia Into-kustantamon kautta!Syyskuussa ilmestyneen kirjan voi ostaa … | Continue reading
Google is releasing the fifth and final preview of Android 7.0 Nougat today to developers, but anyone can try it out. Unfortunately for everyday users just trying to get a taste of Google’s latest OS, there doesn’t appear to be much new to report. The changes are focused on devel … | Continue reading
Google today launched the fifth and final release of the Android 7.0 Nougat developer preview. You can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview. The factory images should arrive shortly for the supported device … | Continue reading
European markets have now shut for the day, and it’s the turn of US volume to control the bitcoin price. In this morning’s analysis, our primary focus was the volatility we had seen across the last seven or eight days, and the opportunity afforded to us by this volatility from a … | Continue reading
Google has just released the fifth (and final) developer preview for Android 7.0 Nougat. | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to the Internet. Those metal doors to your left and right are where they keep all the serious stuff like Amazon.com and Pinterest but right over here I think you will be delighted to find PointerPointer, a website that shows pictures of people pointing to your p … | Continue reading
It took Uber six years to complete a billion rides around Christmas 2015. Now, just six months later, the company has announced that they have completed their two-billionth ride. Six months is 180 days, meaning the company was providing an average of 5.5 million rides a day, or 2 … | Continue reading
Samsung has been promising that its Gear S2 would support Samsung Pay ever since it announced the smartwatch (and its variations) in 2015. Now, almost a year later, the company finally appears to be rolling out the NFC payment functionality. Droid-Life spotted an update to the Sa … | Continue reading
About 5.000 people showed up at Millennium Park on Sunday for probably one of the first massive Pokémon Go player gatherings since the game was released in the US a couple of weeks ago. Teenagers, artists, cosplayers, young adults and families with children spent a couple of hour … | Continue reading
Vor zehn Tagen veröffentlichte Consumer Reports einen Wassertest zum Galaxy S7 active. Das peinliche Ergebnis: Ausgerechnet die robuste Variante des Smartphones fiel durch. Zwei Geräte lagen jeweils für eine halbe Stunde im Wasser - beide... | Continue reading
I might be the only one who doesn’t care about Pokemon, and there’s good reason for that. But if it were available in VR, AR or ‘mixed reality’ (MR) — that could change. Hololens is still in its ‘what can we really do with this thing?’ stage, but someone has already put Pokemon G … | Continue reading
Stephen Colbert is filming The Late Show in Cleveland this week for the Republican National Convention, and he just gave Donald Trump a good reason to put him on his long list of banned journalists. Colbert, in costume as Caesar Flickerman from The Hunger Games, appears to have s … | Continue reading
Facebook seems to want to replicate some the success of its established platforms with its more emerging ones: The FB job board has a listing for a “News & Media Content Lead,” for VR subsidiary Oculus states right upfront that “effective content aggregation” is “key” to Oculus’ … | Continue reading
We’re very pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting the official Mr. Robot Digital Aftershow every week, in partnership with USA Network. Every week after the show, Emily Yoshida, Russell Brandom, and I will be breaking down the episode, looking at the tech and hacks involved, t … | Continue reading
Twitter remains a major channel for reaching potential customers, despite growing competitive challenges from other social media networks. PR pros, marketers and other business people typically tweet frequently to attract followers, build relationships and create leads. But what’ … | Continue reading
Boomer is a Bengal cat who lives in Australia with an owner who is apparently pretty good with a GoPro. He has time for a lot of things, like skimboarding, relaxing by the ocean with his best friend, Didga, and enjoying his local swing set. One thing he doesn't have time for is r … | Continue reading
Getting people to download apps on their phone is hard enough. Getting to use them and return is even harder. And getting valuable users who spend money in the app or take other actions that the developer wants to encourage, is the most difficult task of all. Today, Facebook anno … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. So I was already to go for a full-sized article this week, only to find that this was a pretty quiet week. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes. Of c … | Continue reading
Western Union has launched a new service WU EDGE that allows businesses to receive cross-border payments from customers within minutes. Read more.. | Continue reading
The next season of Game of Thrones will officially debut later than usual and with fewer episodes. HBO now confirms that season seven will air next summer with seven episodes, three fewer than the usual 10."Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David … | Continue reading
The internet has been totally devoured by the latest chapter in the long-running feud between Taylor Swift and Kanye West, an interpersonal conflict that stretches back all the way to the halcyon days of 2009. When West’s wife Kim Kardashian posted a series of Snapchat videos cap … | Continue reading
Yesterday, news broke that Donald Trump had hand-selected Scott Baio to speak at the Republican Nation Convention. The news spread like wildfire across the Facebook streams belonging to the generation that knows who Scott Baio is. But what about the rest of us. Must our streams r … | Continue reading
How does Google keep all its services up and running? They almost never seem to fail. If you... | Continue reading
Wir wissen bereits, dass Bryan Fuller eine brandneue Raumschiff Enterprise-Fernsehserie schreibt und produziert, die schlicht "Star Trek" heißt und ab dem kommenden Januar bei CBS All Acess laufen wird (Trailer). Nun ist dieser Abokanal aber auf... | Continue reading