Chatbots seem to be climbing the proverbial peak of the tech hype curve with every passing day. Popular messaging apps have been attempting to outdo each other in terms of making their platforms open for bot development. The frenetic action notwithstanding, the moot point is whet … | Continue reading
Out of the various Google Adsense ad formats, which are the best performing ones. Here's a detailed overview of the best performing Google ad formats. | Continue reading
The year 2016 has been quite successful for Bitcoin ransomware developers so far. After crippling two major hospital systems in quick succession, it was a matter of time until new guidelines would be established. The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was cre … | Continue reading
Getting cash out of an ATM could be getting a bit easier. Finance technology company Fidelity Information Services and ATM provider Payment Alliance International have announced that they will be bringing Touch ID to 70,000 ATMs across the United States.The partnership will allow … | Continue reading
This week, Apple Stores will begin selling the Tangram smart rope, a jump rope with embedded LEDs that creates the appearance of a digital display in mid-air that displays your jump count. The smart rope tracks your jumps, calories burned, and has a leaderboard system that will l … | Continue reading
I’ve played a lot of VR games. Some task me with shooting zombies, others put me in the cockpit of a spaceship. I’ve been behind the wheel of a top-end car, and I’ve also been exploring and uncovering clues. Throughout the dozens of games I’ve played, several have nailed the sens … | Continue reading
SpaceX has picked out which one of its landed Falcon 9 rockets it wants to re-fly for the first time. The plan is to reuse the vehicle that landed in April — the first Falcon 9 that SpaceX successfully landed on a drone ship in the ocean, and the second rocket the company has lan … | Continue reading
Electronic Arts unveiled Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star as the newest expansion pack for its popular Star Wars Battlefront game on the consoles and the PC. The new downloadable content (DLC) will arrive in September. EA made the announcement at the EA Star Wars panel at Star W … | Continue reading
Starting now, users will also see a new section dubbed "Plan your trip". This will showcase an estimate amount of time people usually stick around at a certain place. | Continue reading
The horrible situation in Turkey is sending more shockwaves to the fragile global financial ecosystem. After news had broken about an attempted military coup in the country, it didn’t take long for the Turkish lira to depreciate. Over the course of fewer than 24 hours, the curren … | Continue reading
Designed by Studio RO+CA, the VF apartment is located in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A few steps from the beach. The initial idea was ... | Continue reading
GUEST: I’m a VC at Russia’s government-backed startup community Skolkovo, where I focus on spacetech and drones. So I’ve been watching the global surge in spacetech investments closely. And what’s clear is that we’ve entered a virtuous cycle in spacetech, where VCs are encouraged … | Continue reading
As the internet social turf wars continue to mature, the land grab is becoming much better understood. With a few companies controlling 95 percent of the social data, the internet is more closed and much more controlled than ever before. Read More | Continue reading
July 15, 2016 London – The popular Bitcoin casino BetKing is happy to announce that one of its players has won a huge record payout of 250 Bitcoins which has a current market value of approximately $165,000. The winner who goes by the name TRK_L8_UH-btches, is a regular high roll … | Continue reading
July 15, 2016 Costa Rica – Breakout Gaming, the online gaming entertainment company offering poker, sports wagering, casino games, fantasy sports and other gaming options will soon be launching two new platforms powered by the company’s own Breakout Coin. The launch of Breakout P … | Continue reading
VANCOUVER, BC – 13 July, 2016 – Blockchain Intelligence Group (“BIG”) today announces that the Company now allows potential investors the opportunity to buy shares in the current BIG private placement using Bitcoins, a digital currency, besides traditional monetary forms. The co … | Continue reading
With new emoji rolling out left and right (thank you, Google and Twitter) you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week's list includes a new social trivia game, Vevo's redesigned app and an a … | Continue reading
Star Wars: Battlefront made a splash by recreating locations, characters, and moments from the original movie trilogy, but the final piece of DLC will focus on a new film: Rogue One. Design director Niklas Fegraeus announced the news at a gaming panel during the Star Wars Celebra … | Continue reading
Amy Hennig has just spoken in public for the first time about the Star Wars game she's making at Visceral and.... Well, she didn't reveal too much, which is understandable given the game's 2018 release date, but a few small details could be gleamed from what was said at a panel d … | Continue reading
It has been a bit over a year since Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce major decided to use Bitnet to accept bitcoin payments on its platform. Now, the company is looking forward to acquiring the intellectual property rights for bitcoin-based payments system from Bitnet. According … | Continue reading
Star Wars Battlefront's fourth and final DLC pack will bring locations and characters from this winter's Rogue One to the shooter, with the tropical planet of Scarif complemented by Jyn and Krennic - the characters played by Felicity Jones and Ben Mendelsohn. The news came as par … | Continue reading
The Golden State Warriors lost a treasured member of the family when Hall of Famer Nate Thurmond died Saturday. He lost his battle with Lukemia and was 74. Thurmond was one of the NBA’s premier centers in the late 1960s and early ’70s during the age of the big man, along with Wi … | Continue reading
EA has confirmed the two new heroes that will be coming as part of the Death Star DLC pack for Star Wars Battlefront, with Chewbacca and bounty hunter Bossk joining the roster for DICE's multiplayer shooter. There'll also be an emphasis on big space skirmishes introduced by the m … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: When it’s done right, ROI is your most powerful marketing metric. Find out how Miniclip monitors, measures, and maximizes their ROI by leveraging these strategies—and avoiding these all too common mistakes. Register here for free. With over 500 million mobile downloads a … | Continue reading
Mark Karpeles, who has been spending time in a Japanese jail for the past 10 months is finally out. The ex-CEO of now defunct Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange which declared bankruptcy after losing large amounts of bitcoin to hacking incidents has been granted bail by the Japanese court a … | Continue reading
Living in New York, I’m aware that I reside in a bustling Pokémon Go mecca. Its abundance of plaques, murals, and pocket parks mean you’ll find pokéstops practically every block, and its pokémon population can feel almost as dense as its human one. Blatantly jaywalking to catch o … | Continue reading
Nate Thurmond, voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA history and a member of the Warriors organization for more than four decades as both a player and a Community Relations Ambassador, passed away this morning in San Francisco at the age of 74 after a short battle with leuk … | Continue reading
GUEST: The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a new era for Germany. In 1989, I was one of thousands of people who came to experience the opening of a city, a country, and a culture. When I entered the former East Germany, I felt like I had walked into a black and white film as […] | Continue reading
Marketing to sports fans has changed a great deal over the last few years, and marketers face new challenges to bring fans into stadiums. Let’s start with the fact that the economy is still terrible for the younger millennial generation. The jobs they’re getting don’t pay much, a … | Continue reading
Industrial Light & Magic's virtual reality arm xLab is looking to some major Hollywood talent to create its next virtual reality experience, and the subject is as big as it gets. Writer David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Man of Steel) took the stage at Star Wars Celebration today, af … | Continue reading
One of the most famous villains of the Star Wars universe is coming back: Grand Admiral Thrawn. At the Star Wars Rebels panel today at Star Wars Celebration, executive producer Dave Filoni announced that the character would be the next major villain for the show.This is exciting … | Continue reading
The Bitcoin Halving Event, which had numerous predictions of price drops and hashrate drops, had neither occur with both relatively constant. | Continue reading
The first official lightsaber VR experience from Industrial Light & Magic's xLab will shortly be available to the public. Today at the Star Wars Celebration expo, Lucasfilm chief technology officer Rob Bredow announced that Trials on Tatooine is coming to Steam VR on Monday, July … | Continue reading
As a coup against Turkey's government took place yesterday, Turkish citizens were sent a text message that urged them to take to the streets to support democracy and resist the coup. The text message appears to have been sent out during the coup from Erdogan's Justice and Develop … | Continue reading
Have you ever stopped to think about what it takes to bring an animated fish to life? How a team of people can take a spark of an idea and make it a reality so millions of pairs of eyes can stare in amazement at the big screen? I spoke with Pixar’s president and one of the tech l … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I'm sitting in the passenger seat of a modified Audi A7 going about 50 mph on a Washington freeway when the driver — an Audi engineer — takes his hands off the wheel. A strip of sky-blue LEDs just beneath the windshield lights up, the dashboard behind the steer … | Continue reading
Beltretter: Ostholstein / Fehmarn (ots) - BELTRETTER errichten in Ostholstein "Landschaftsrahmen" +++ "Festhalten der Schönheit vor dem Bau des Belttunnels und der Güterbahntrasse" +++ Rahmen werden an mehr als 15 Plätzen aufgestellt +++ Aufruf, in Kürze ... | Continue reading
Our newest panel at the AR/VR Day for GamesBeat 2016 will explore the topic of monetizing virtual reality. We’ve seen the initial wave of VR headsets debut with plenty of entertaining experiments. But what is the path to making money? Wanda Meloni, executive director of the Open … | Continue reading
Lucasfilm has pushed Star Wars far beyond just movies and novelizations, and today at Star Wars Celebration the team at Industrial Light & Magic's xLab will be discussing how they're using virtual reality and augmented reality to create tools and immersive experience unlike anyth … | Continue reading
It's been a week since Pokémon Go launched and people still can't stop playing it. Two men even fell off a cliff because they were too focused on catching Pokémon and not watching where they were going.The game is so addictive people are literally losing sleep over it because the … | Continue reading
So heftig wie das Pokémon Go-Fieber grassiert, war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis jemand die Monsterchen vom Smartphone auf ein Headset transportierte, und zwar auf Microsofts HoloLens, zu der das Spiel perfekt passt, weil mit der Augmented-Reality-Brille... | Continue reading
The Galaxy S7 Edge is one of this year's best phones, so why not give it to some of the world's best athletes? Apparently the Batman phone wasn't enough, as Samsung is churning out yet another special edition of its curved smartphone — this time to celebrate the upcoming Olympic … | Continue reading
Nach mehreren erfolgreichen Jahren im Neckar Forum Esslingen wechselt die Regionalmesse LOCATIONS Region Stuttgart 2017 zur Messe Sindelfingen. Am neuen Austragungsort sind räumlich bessere Möglichkeiten gegeben, die Messe durch attraktive Begleitformate zu erweitern. Zweifellos … | Continue reading
Located in Los Angeles, the Crane House is a project that includes two twin houses designed by Anonymous Architects. | Continue reading
What happens when you live in a heavily populated area, play Pokémon Go and come across a rare pokemon? Chances are, you’re going to be in good company before too long. Pokemon mobs are becoming pretty common in major cities, and they look nuts.Heavily trafficked public locations … | Continue reading
We all took a collective gasp when we saw the price tag of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn. Now that the dust has settled a bit, we can pause and reflect on what this means from a data, privacy and email perspective — given that all three are potential strengths, weaknesses a … | Continue reading
We’ve made it through the surreal first week of Pokémon Go hysteria. Morning news anchors, curious parents, and franchise first-timers now have an opportunity to catch their breath, and learn what this series was up to for the past two decades while they weren’t paying attention. … | Continue reading
Hi! My name is Raymond Wong and I just turned 28 a few months ago. I love Pokémon Go and I'm not ashamed of everyone knowing. And neither should you, however old you are.Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm, and the game hasn't even been released in many parts of the world yet … | Continue reading