How does virtual work, both in the mobile and desktop realm? What's all involved? Join us as we take a closer look. | Continue reading
Music can show us the heart of a game without requiring us to press a single button or shoot a single bullet. For Overwatch, making a score that fit all of the team-based shooter’s themes was a big challenge. Neal Acree is a video game composer that has faced this task. He compos … | Continue reading
Since the industrial revolution, economic advancement has been achieved by increasing efficiency and reducing human labor through greater mechanical autonomy driven by technological innovation. For many, commercial drones represent the next enabler of economic benefit using robot … | Continue reading
Every now and then, a game comes along that has wonderful ideas, but sadly fails to live up to the promise of those ideas. Mainly because the awesome ideas are either under-funded or come from inexperienced developers. That's the case we have today, but when I saw this game, I co … | Continue reading
TUI Cruises GmbH: Hamburg (ots) - Dieses einzigartige Spektakel beeindruckte Gäste an Bord und Zuschauer an Land gleichermaßen: Mit einem Handlaser löste Lena Meyer-Landrut, Taufpatin der Mein Schiff 5, heute um 23 Uhr den Taufmechanismus aus und ließ die ... | Continue reading
NBC is taking ripping headline crimes to the next level by ordering the latest iteration of Law & Order to a series. The eight-episode season will be taking on the 1996 Menendez Brothers trial.The show is jumping on the true crime bandwagon, joining television shows such as The P … | Continue reading
NASA announced today that the Mars 2020 rover has made it past a "major development milestone" in the review process and is ready for the final phases of design and construction. The agency also showed a new image of the rover’s guts, and affirmed plans to launch the robot in the … | Continue reading
The Turkish military have deployed in Istanbul and Ankara, and the government has apparently blocked social media in response to what is being reported as an attempted coup. Read More | Continue reading
Magarola House is a single-family home designed by Lagula Arquitectes in Alella, Catalonia, Spain. An intervention in an existing building ... | Continue reading
The BeatBring is a backpack full of speakers that can connect to your phone over Bluetooth and blast music at up to 110 dB, roughly equaling the same noise level as a live rock concert.Depending on your age and general disposition, the BeatBringer will be either one of the most i … | Continue reading
In an attempt to better understand the nature of the expansion of our universe, scientists have created a 3D map plotting the locations of 1.2 million galaxies. This map may help give astronomers new details about how the universe has been expanding, which will help us learn more … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is rough on your battery. It’s constantly pulling data, using GPS, and rendering 3D graphics. The solution? Make a Pokédex battery case, of course. A user by the name of NPOOLE posted a blogpost detailing his creation on SparkFun (which sells parts for DIY electronics … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go, as one of the most popular mobile games ever released, is a fascinating test case for observing just how taxing a single app can be for an entire network's performance. In an analysis of a small European telecom performed by California-based networking company Procera … | Continue reading
A UK House of Lords committee will meet next week to hear testimony from academics and representatives of the blockchain industry. | Continue reading
Ergo, the secretive, CIA-linked firm that was paid by Uber to investigate the plaintiff in one of the ride-hail startup’s many lawsuits, has now admitted to lying and illegally recording phone calls during its probe, according to Law360. Lawyers for Ergo owned up to the infractio … | Continue reading
[appicon]If you have an Eevee in Pokemon GO [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345?mt=8"], and want to make sure that it evolves into one of Jolteon, Vaporeon, or Flareon, it seems as if Niantic has offered a way to do so. As discovered by Reddit u … | Continue reading
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle, which also makes a security-focused Android smartphone called the Blackphone, has announced it’s closed a $50 million Series C round of financing, led by Santander Bank. Read More | Continue reading
Tests can be stressful. I mean, that makes sense when you're not confident about the material on the test, but sometimes tests that cover things you know very well can be even more nerve-wracking. You shouldn't fail something if you know what you're doing, right? Now imagine the … | Continue reading
Talking to your TV is so hot right now. Apple TV does it. Google TV does it. Android Fire TV does it. I get it, Dish, you wanted in on this action. I don't fault you for that.But holy hell, how did you make a remote this ugly? The Hopper 3 has been shipping since Febru … | Continue reading
Legion Analytics is looking to make your sales team more productive with the help of artificial intelligence. We covered the startup last year when it was part of Y Combinator’s fellowship program and offered to help companies find sales leads. CEO Jamasen Rodriguez told me that … | Continue reading
Boris Titov, the leader of Russia’s Party of Growth, called for the country to legalize cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and become a leader in blockchain development, according to Tass, a Russian news agency. Speaking at a press conference, Titov also said Russia can take advantage … | Continue reading
Let’s just push past the whole inherent irony of naming a product category “smart dumbbells,” shall we? This is 2016, we’re living in the future. And really, if something isn’t connected to a smartphone, does it really exist? No. Of course it doesn’t. BowFlex has been showing off … | Continue reading
While we've already posted this trick for using the Ingress [Free] map to find Pokestops in Pokemon Go [Free], there's a considerable amount of friction in downloading and installing Ingress, signing up for the game, and using the surprisingly clunky browser map. Well, Yelp [Free … | Continue reading
Mixtapes are so 1980s. To help you catch up with the 21st century during your next Netflix and chill sesh, the company today introduced a feature called “Flixtape,” which is basically a mixtape for – take a wild guess – Netflix. Meet flixtape…it's like a mixtape, but for Netf … | Continue reading
Those still rocking the Nexus 5 have started experiencing some strange audio bugs after the most recent update. Fortunately, a fix has been made available. | Continue reading
You know how Netflix is always suggesting you watch a Psycho-Thriller Comedy With A Strong Female Lead And Vague Romantic Subplot Plus Conspiracy Theory Twist? And you're like, What dark algorithm hath created this chaos? Well Netflix has just announced a new platform that lets y … | Continue reading
A tropical addition to the restaurant scene in Amsterdam East, Bar Botanique, designed by Studio Modijefsky, brings a green interior ... | Continue reading
If you want to grab a bite to eat and then grab an Eevee in one stop, the Yelp app is a great complement to your Pokédex. The user-review site and app for businesses and restaurants in your neighborhood has added a filter that will only show you locations that have a PokéStop nea … | Continue reading
Movie tie-in games are notoriously bad, and movie tie-in mobile games even more so. Oftentimes the game's release is tied to the release of the film, so development cycles are rushed in order to get the game out in time resulting in a far worse experience than if the game had the … | Continue reading
Hank the Cat always had promise. Born in a refrigerator box, his family didn’t have money but they had morals and respect. His mother was a house cat. His father, he was also a house cat.They led an ordinary life structured by rules, and Hank found a passion for the law. On his f … | Continue reading
Whether you’re developing apps or bots, it’s a mobile world. And while the Pokémon Gos and Snapchats of the world grab the lion’s share of attention, the pick and axe sellers of the mobile revolution are companies that supply mobile-focused software development kits, or SDKs, tha … | Continue reading
The rover NASA plans to send to Mars in 2020 is taking shape, and today its near-final design was revealed, along with details on several of its cool new instruments. The computer-generated image of all the rover’s components is too cool to be missed. Read More | Continue reading
Although many pharmaceutical and biotech companies have a social media presence, most do not take full advantage of the wealth of information obtainable through social media listening, experts say. Many healthcare companies hesitate to adopt social media listening due to worries … | Continue reading
Cubot hat sich mit Cheetah Mobile für dieses 5,5 Zoll Smartphone der Mittelklasse (preislich gerade ab ca. 155 Euro erhältlich) zusammengeschlossen, die man vor allem von ihrer "Clean Master" App kennt. Das bedeutet natürlich auch eine... | Continue reading
Andy Samberg and Murray Miller (executive producer of Girls) are working on a follow-up to last summer's incredibly odd tennis movie 7 Days in Hell, Variety reports. The mockumentary starred Samberg and Game of Thrones's Kit Harington as a mullet-ed pervert and an affectless wimp … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 is almost upon us but before then, what makes a Galaxy Note? What's in the DNA and how has the series stacked up so far? Here's a history of the Galaxy Note series. | Continue reading
“Please speak up…” “Why don’t you share your thoughts with the group?…” “Don’t isolate yourself from others…” Sound familiar? Whether you’re learning a new language, or going through training at your workplace, we’re either taught to collaborate or fail. But is this really the be … | Continue reading
SpaceX finally announced the date of its hotly anticipated Hyperloop pod competition: January 2017. The contest was initially planned for the summer of 2016, but SpaceX said it was pushing it to next year after several of the teams requested more time to complete their pods. “We … | Continue reading
Just in time for the weekend, Netflix today announced the launch of a new service called Flixtape, which the company describes as a way to make short playlists of your favorite Netflix titles. “It’s like a mixtape, but for Netflix,” the site explains. The new tool lets you create … | Continue reading
The first thing most people will notice about the dreamy, heavily stylized animated noir Phantom Boy is that it doesn’t look like any other animated film from the past five years. Ever since Pixar’s Toy Story hit theaters in 1995, American theatrical animation has been an aggress … | Continue reading
There weren't a lot of games that used the "draw a line" mechanic before smartphones, but the ones that did exist really stand out. One such title is Kirby: Canvas Curse, released on the Nintendo DS in 2005, among several other follow-ups and clones. Most of them follow the same … | Continue reading
The White House has announced a $400 million research program aimed at building 5G wireless networks across the country, TechCrunch reports. The project, called the Advanced Wireless Research Initiative, will be led by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the next seven ye … | Continue reading
With our pace anywhere from quick to ludicrous, as Mel Brooks would say, we tend to skim the surface of most things and situations. For many, this is a survival mechanism, until it becomes a habit and keeps us from the actual physical experience of living. Sir Ken Robinson would … | Continue reading
Here's a study on how alternative Hampton Creek uses social media to share the story of the fastest-growing food company in the world. | Continue reading
Es ist ein wenig unerklärlich, warum manch praktische Features oft erst sehr spät aktiviert werden. Für manche Streaming-Anbieter ist offline ja immer noch ein Problem, bzw. eins dieser Spätkommerfeatures, aber zumindest Amazon Video... | Continue reading
Bragi Dash is the realization of a dream. It’s a completely wireless earbud system that sounds as good as it looks, and there’s good reason to think it’s the future of wearable audio technology. At Tech Open Air Berlin, we spoke with its founder, Nikolaj Hviid about what makes Da … | Continue reading
The whole Pokemon GO [Free] craze is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I totally get that people who aren't partaking in all the craziness are sick of hearing about all things Pokemon, and to be perfectly honest I'm pretty sick of it myself. But that hasn't diminished my she … | Continue reading
Now it's even easier to take your favorite videos with you. Amazon Video and Amazon Prime Video let you download titles to your SD card on Android devices. | Continue reading