During GDC this past March, I was able to check out an extremely early build of a game called Old Man's Journey from Austrian developer Broken Rules. Unfortunately, at that time Old Man's Journey was in such an early state that we weren't able to capture video of it, and Broken R … | Continue reading
Consumer Reports is calling on Tesla to make some serious changes to its ‘Autopilot’ program, including removing it from circulation. And really, Consumer Reports may be suggesting that Tesla make drastic changes to its hardware. It wants the company to remove Autopilot from cars … | Continue reading
The Google Play Indie Games Festival is coming to San Francisco on September 24, bringing prizes, networking opportunities, and more for indie devs. | Continue reading
Bethesda has just announced that Fallout Shelter is getting a big update to version 1.6 with a new quest system, improved combat, and much more. | Continue reading
The Ori system is transforming studio apartments into one-bedroom sanctuaries. Based off an idea developed at MIT, the furniture app is transforming tiny spaces from bedrooms to living rooms and offices in three cities. Boston, Washington, D.C., and Seattle, you're in luck!Read m … | Continue reading
Editor’s Note: For years now, I’ve been telling people that passwords are obsolete. When I wrote the password section for “Programming…Continue reading on JavaScript Scene » | Continue reading
T-Mobile has been a pioneer in giving special treatment to various apps and types of content used on its mobile network, and the carrier announced today that Pokémon Go will be joining its enclave of free data. Starting on July 19th, T-Mobile customers will have Pokémon Go data e … | Continue reading
Facebook is expanding its Instant Articles format.The feature, previously limited to the main Facebook app, is now compatible with the Android version of Messenger and will be on iOS soon. SEE ALSO: Dear Facebook, you're a media company now. Start acting like one.Unlike typical l … | Continue reading
If you didn’t think Pokemon Go was the biggest mobile game ever, brands are getting involved. T-Mobile’s Tuesday deals are going full-on Pokemon next week, including free data. In addition to a free Frosty and a Lyft Ride up to $15 (because you “gotta stay fueled up” to “explore … | Continue reading
I hate to be one of those people, but summers in the city are the worst. New York City right now is basically a scientific experiment to see how much heat, humidity, garbage, and humans you can trap in a few square miles.But it doesn't have to be this way. If only humans could le … | Continue reading
You can run Android apps on your compatible Chromebook right now! Want to learn how you can join the fun? Continue reading. | Continue reading
Is nothing sacred? The rugged trails that over history have been trod by cowboys, gauchos, ranch hands, and in Australia, swagmen, are now to be presided over by cold, calculating machines. SwagBot is the vanguard of our incoming steer-driving overlords, its independent all-wheel … | Continue reading
Orbital ATK’s newly redesigned Antares rocket is set to make its spaceflight debut on August 22nd. That’s when the vehicle is scheduled to take off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and carry the company’s Cygnus cargo capsule to the International Space Station. In … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Nvidia. Fully immersive virtual reality is finally here with the arrival of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, powerful next-gen VR hardware capable of transporting users to convincingly realistic virtual worlds. But the road to delivering hig … | Continue reading
Agency Vista will deliver a nationwide roadshow for automotive brand Mini to promote its Mini Clubman car. | Continue reading
Olly Moss, a graphic designer and illustrator and one of the artists for indie game Firewatch, has made a name for himself doing stylized and cherubic renderings of pop culture characters. He has them Giclée printed on high-quality 5 x 5-inch watercolor paper and sells them in li … | Continue reading
Just when you're finally accepting the controversial new Instagram icon and the flatter black and white design, Instagram may be shaking things up once again.Mashable has discovered Instagram may remove the list view that lets you scroll continuously through an account's postsMas … | Continue reading
The first custom bundle for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One S is Gears of War 4-themed.Priced at $449 (or your local equivalent), this stylish limited edition bundle contains a stylish Gears-branded Xbox One S with a 2TB hard drive, a themed "Crimson Omen" controller, and a full ga … | Continue reading
July 11 Content Chat Recap: Marketing Your Content and Your Brand to Employees #ContentChat regular Wayne Hendry aka @ideakid88 was in the hot seat this week, sharing his thoughts on how to best market your brand and your content to employees. Note: this recap was originally publ … | Continue reading
Remember that Space Black iPhone 7 concept we all fell in love with? Yeah, so, it might be DOA. Sorry. The latest iPhone 7 leak shows four casings, said to be for the iPhone 7. Unfortunately, they’re the same colors as the iPhone 6S: Space Grey, Silver, Rose Gold and Gold. A ‘Spa … | Continue reading
With an EU antitrust investigation still underway regarding Android, Google is now under fire for shopping comparisons and AdSense for Search. | Continue reading
In a surprise federal court ruling, Microsoft has won its lawsuit against the United States government over a warrant for a customer’s emails. The company has been fighting since 2013 to resist turning over the emails, which are stored in an Irish data center. The U.S. Court of A … | Continue reading
With Pokemon GO [Free] having a very staggered rollout worldwide, this means that while it's quite possible to play the game since the backend exists, it doesn't mean that it's perfect. Namely, in South Korea, players are flocking to a seaside town called Sokcho in the northern p … | Continue reading
500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure took the stage at Startupfest in Montreal on Thursday to chat with festival co-founder Phil Telio, and while a lot of what he covered was the McClure Classic Hits playlist you might recognize if you’ve ever seen him speak, he also shed s … | Continue reading
It is tough to pick which of the significant accounting standards convergence projects has provided investors the shortest shrift. But leases is notable for 1 factor: the FASB’s handpicked Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) panned the FASB’s proposals, and then have been fully ign … | Continue reading
Everyone, at some point or another, has wished that they could have a longer USB cable: whether it's a few more inches to reach the plug under your desk, a 5-foot long cord to plug a phone in on your nightstand, or a 65-foot long USB cable that stretches across your implausibly-l … | Continue reading
Reading the links your friends share with you in Messenger is getting a little easier, starting today. Facebook says it’s beginning to roll out support for “Instant Articles” – the fast-loading, distraction-free versions of publishers’ sites – in its popular mobile messaging app. … | Continue reading
Drones flying over a war zone are nothing new, and as they've proliferated, there have been more efforts to make them harder to see from the ground.Case in point? A drone that was recently downed in Mogadishu, Somalia looks less like a drone and more like a large bird.Local repor … | Continue reading
YouTube is again livestreaming the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this year, but this time there’s a twist: 360 degree video. Time to pull out that Cardboard headset. I’m not exactly sure how well that will contribute to the experience, but I suppose it would be f … | Continue reading
Was Tesla’s Autopilot mode too much autonomy, too soon? Consumer Reports seems to think so. On Thursday, the publication called for the automaker to disable its hands-free operation until the system can be made safer. Consumer Reports came to this decision after its experts concl … | Continue reading
BP Global plans to announce in its upcoming second-quarter earnings report that it will pay an additional $2.5 billion in fines for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, according to The Guardian. The additional charges bring BP's total pre-tax fines to date to $61.6 billion, … | Continue reading
Remember when Napster said it was coming back? No, you didn’t dream that – it’s very real and it’s available today for a 30-day trial. Napster, rebranded from Rhapsody which acquired the former company in 2011, finally has more details about what’s in store: there’s an updated ap … | Continue reading
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced late yesterday that it has rejected Volkswagen Group's plan to fix thousands of cars with 3-liter engines that were affected by the company's global emissions cheating scandal. The plan was submitted for approval earlier this ye … | Continue reading
In the spring of 2012, an app named Highlight seemed poised to break out. In 2009, Foursquare had captivated early adopters with the idea of location-based social networking. But where Foursquare focused on places, Highlight founder Paul Davison was focused on people. His app let … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants more data scientists in the job market. But some young people need to acquire their knowledge starting completely anew, while mid-career professionals need to build on their previous experience.To plug the skills gap for both categories, Microsoft launched a serie … | Continue reading
The tricky part about being Cadillac is that it’s awfully easy to get tripped up in a 114-year-old history of glamour, glitz, and glorious fins.After World War II, Americans began to drive in droves, and Cadillac became a metaphor for the best of the best. Even the names of its f … | Continue reading
Racing drones can be difficult to operate if you've never flown them before, and at high speeds, a crash can be very costly. To address that issue, Aerix is releasing a racing drone for beginners, called the Black Talon Micro FPV Racing Drone.The Black Talon comes with novice-fri … | Continue reading
In an open letter published to Medium, 140 of tech’s largest names conclude Donald Trump is basically just an idiot. Penned by former Twitter VP Katie Stanton, luminaries in the tech world say Trump “would be a disaster for innovation” and “he campaigns on anger, bigotry, fear of … | Continue reading
Long before there was a Dyson V8 Absolute vacuum, a bias existed about the pricing and overall effectiveness of Dyson products. While I am not trying to prove or disprove that, I am going to share my impressions of their latest (expensive) household appliance: the V8 Absolute vac … | Continue reading
John Hanke has come a long way with Niantic Labs, the creator of the mobile gaming sensation Pokémon Go. That augmented reality game is so hot that it has broken records, shooting to No. 1 in the top downloads and top-grossing mobile games charts in just seven days. We’re delight … | Continue reading
The Bitcoin point-of-sale terminal by 34 Bytes has now entered the beta testing phase. The hot new product will soon be made available by 34 Bytes, LLC, a Los Angeles-based startup pioneering in cryptocurrency payment solutions for physical stores. 34 Bytes is deeply involved in … | Continue reading
News publishers and marketers are jumping headlong into online video, based on multiple studies showing that video attracts more viewers than text and still graphics. Many in publishing and marketing expect that video will soon dominate the internet. Sixty percent of marketers no … | Continue reading
Our planet is losing so many species that we might be putting ourselves at risk. New research shows that across half of the Earth’s land surface, biodiversity — all the different animals, plants, and other species that make up an ecosystem — has dropped below a threshold that som … | Continue reading
Pinterest today said it was acquiring the team behind Math Camp, the creators of Highlight, and will be sunsetting its applications Roll and Shorts in the next few weeks. The acquisition shouldn’t seem like a twist — Highlight captured a ton of buzz at SXSW a few years ago, but t … | Continue reading
Back in 1996 ad agency Digital Cafe created a free Doom mod called Chex Quest as a pack-in toy for the popular breakfast cereal. Naturally, it was about pro… | Continue reading
OpenBazaar is becoming more than an illicit market. New upgrades are being designed to attract more users and larger merchants. | Continue reading
It feels like we keep saying it year after year, but Flash’s days really are numbered — and one of the largest Flash video streaming sites on the web, Twitch, is about to hit the button and switch to HTML5. But first: a beta! Read More | Continue reading