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
What if finding and fixing security flaws were just as fast and automated as the computer systems they’re trying to protect? What if cyber defense protocols were as seamless, sophisticated, and scalable as the internet itself? Those are questions at the heart of DARPA’s Cyber Gra … | Continue reading
Brazil’s biggest app developer, Movile, is taking its on-demand delivery service into the Mexican market through a joint venture with Grupo ampm. The deal will cement Rappido’s position as the largest on-demand delivery service in Latin America. Read More | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at a beautiful writing app for crafting notes and prose. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Bear? Bear allows you to write everything from quick ideas to essays and even books, then send your work t … | Continue reading
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Furniture has largely avoided the smart home revolution, but robotic furniture is coming, and it may be the ultimate space-saver for anyone with an apartment or small home. Designer Yves Béhar has collaborated with Ori, a company spun off from MIT Media Lab's CityHome project, to … | Continue reading
Microsoft today launched Stream, a new business video service that aims to give businesses that want to share video internally the same kind of tools and flexibility that YouTube offers to consumers — but with the added benefits of the security tools enterprises expect from their … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the launch of Microsoft Stream, a new service that people can use to upload and share videos with their work colleagues. The new service, which is becoming available today in preview, will eventually converge with the existing Office 365 Video service so … | Continue reading
It's still baffling to see the extent that Pokemon GO [Free] has blown up since its release two weeks ago. Even in relatively quiet suburban towns, everyone is glued to their phones to ensure any elusive Pokemon don't slip under the radar, and in big cities there have been thousa … | Continue reading
Hashtag creator and Uber developer experience lead Chris Messina took the stage at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2016 conference to talk about the evolution of “conversational commerce” — the trend where brands are attempting to chat with consumers like friends via messaging platforms … | Continue reading
Paramount has greenlit a fourth Star Trek movie, Deadline reports. Chris Pine, who starred in 2009's Star Trek, 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, and the upcoming Star Trek Beyond, will return as Captain Kirk. The rest of the reboot cast is also expected to return, including Chris … | Continue reading
A year and change after first showing off ResearchKit, Apple has finally found a big name drug company partner for its medical research platform. GlaxoSmithKline, the camel cased conglomerate behind such pharmaceutical hits as Wellbutrin and Levitra, has signed on with the servic … | Continue reading
A Princeton, New Jersey startup called Arable Labs Inc. recently unveiled a professional-grade crop and weather sensor that’s solar powered, rugged and was designed by Fred Bould, the creative talent behind the Nest thermostat, smoke and carbon monoxide detector, as well as Fitbi … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price looked to be advancing only to bump against the resistance ceiling. How to trade in the coming days (or weeks) is dependent on how the market negotiates $680. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Joi … | Continue reading
Pocket synthesizers are nothing new, but they don’t always scream "pick me up and play — now." That’s where this eye-catching new pocket synthesizer from a company called Zont Sound comes in.It has an AMOLED screen, LED back-lighting in the buttons, a soft-touch finish, and a bun … | Continue reading
AT&T is expanding the budget offering on its Next installment plans with the addition of the LG K10 and LG G Pad X 8.0 from July 22. | Continue reading
Earlier this month, the first Pokémon Go malware was spotted in the wild, but the app was not much of a threat to users as it never made it into the official Google Play store for download. The same cannot be said of a new group of dangerous applications targeting Pokémon Go user … | Continue reading
What launcher are you using? Do you prefer something customizable like Nova or Action Launcher, or do you simply use the stock launcher that comes pre-installed on your phone? | Continue reading
Thrive Capital, a New York-based, stage-agnostic venture fund that focuses primarily on media and internet investments, has closed its fifth fund with $700 million. The seven-year-old outfit is now managing a little less than $1.5 billion altogether.Thrive closed is fourth fund w … | Continue reading
Heute ist wohl Übernahmetag: Im zweiten Anlauf scheint die norwegische Firma Opera ihr Browser-Geschäft doch noch an den Mann bzw. Chinesen zu bringen. Nachdem ein erster Deal am Einspruch der zuständigen Wettbewerbsbehörden gescheitert... | Continue reading
HP is just about ready to release its new high-end Windows phone to the world. The Elite x3 is now scheduled to "[roll] out across the globe at the end of the month," with shipping beginning August 29th in the US.On its own, the phone will sell for $699; bundled with a charging d … | Continue reading
Facebook has made enhancements to its mobile app install ads that it promises will help brands not only get people to download their app but will also encourage users to take a specific action within the app. Starting today, the social networking company is supporting App Event O … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Google. When I was growing up, I was one of the few girls playing such games as Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Castlevania. Today, my four-year-old daughter is learning the games that I played when I was a teenager, by herself on a … | Continue reading
It took Uber nearly six years to complete a billion trips, but only six months to finish another billion. Today, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced his company hit its two-billionth trip on June 18th — with the added caveat that the two billionth car ride was actually 147 trips t … | Continue reading