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
After years of arguments, Microsoft has won a major victory in its legal fight over US access to information stored in a company data center in Ireland. In a decision filed today by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, judges ruled that US investigators can’t use the Stored Commu … | Continue reading
A Los Angeles judge has dismissed former Hyperloop One CTO and co-founder Brogan BamBrogan’s restraining order against the company’s former head of legal Afshin Pishevar. BamBrogan and several other former employees are suing Hyperloop One for wrongful termination claims of failu … | Continue reading
Today, ISI Technology announced the closing of their $5 million Series A led by Wade Equity Partners. ISI is the maker of the Heatworks technology — a fully electronic water heater. It happens every morning in households across the US: Turn the water on then check your emai … | Continue reading
Google Glass, the company's augmented reality eyewear, may have been a huge consumer flop, but it's still finding its way into the workflows of professionals. In a report from CIO.com, members of Boeing's research and technology division say they've used the original Google Glass … | Continue reading
As more consumer services go on-demand, why not the summer job? QuadJobs is a platform that connects college students with summer jobs. QuadJobs CEO Betsy O'Reilly joins Tanya Rivero to discuss. Photo: iStock | Continue reading
Are you spending all your waking hours playing Pokémon Go? Of course you are — and now you can play for a good cause.Social good app Charity Miles, which raises money for charity by tracking a user's physical activity, is encouraging players of Pokémon Go to play the game while a … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced that Instant Articles will no longer be limited to the main Facebook app. Facebook Messenger for Android now lets you view Instant Articles directly in the app, and Messenger for iPhone will be getting the same treatment “in the coming weeks.” You can dow … | Continue reading
Facebook is making reading links your friends share on Messenger much faster. The company today announced its integrating its Instant Articles technology right into the app, meaning that you don’t need to open a browser to quickly read breaking news or the viral listicle of the d … | Continue reading
Let's talk about a common battery myth that's been around for years. Is it dangerous to leave your phone plugged in overnight? | Continue reading
Despite Pokemon GO [Free] only having been out for about eight hours here in the UK, I've been to a multitude of bizarre locations to try and catch 'em all. Whether the PokeStops have been in churches, train stations or random stones in the ground with absolutely no significance … | Continue reading
Let’s talk about autonomous vehicles. Again. In the aftermath of the recent fatal crash that occurred in a Tesla running in Autopilot mode, it seems like it’s a topic worth digging into.I attended a panel this spring before the Formula E race in Long Beach, California. In light o … | Continue reading
During the primary season, tech industry leaders kept fairly quiet on the subject of the presidential race and its most notorious contender, Donald Trump. A few investors snarked about him on Twitter, and his campaign netted minimal donations from Silicon Valley. But now, many CE … | Continue reading
The Australian Centre for Field Robotics called Otto Tag on a Wednesday afternoon. Tag was a farmer living in Australia. The Centre for Field Robotics was looking for a person with just those qualifications. The phone rang and Tag asked who was on the line."Hi, yes, this is the A … | Continue reading
Facebook is getting serious about Swift. A full two years after the language was launched, Facebook now has an SDK (in beta) for Swift. Downloadable via CocoaPods, Carthage or GitHub, the Facebook Swift SDK uses Swift versions 2.2.1 and 2.3. Facebook says it will update to Swift … | Continue reading
Guns are bad (and good). The EU is great (and terrible). Mr. Trump is full of shit (and a genius). The news landscape is complicated and there is always another side to the story. Enter Discors, who today launched an iOS app and announced they’ve raised a healthy stack of Benjami … | Continue reading
When Facebook announced its platform for bots at the F8 developer conference this year, publishers raced to push news into Facebook Messenger. But until now, their stories have loaded in slower-loading web views inside Messenger, rather than the faster Instant Articles format tha … | Continue reading
Thanks to Google, the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee has agreed to add 11 new emoji that represent professions for men and women across all races. Back in May, Google proposed a new set of emojis to the Unicode Technical Committee that “represents a wide range of professions for wome … | Continue reading
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Samsung Electronics v. Apple on October 11th, it announced this week as it posted its schedule for the October 2016 term. It was announced back in March that the court would hear the case.The Supreme Court will be the last stop for … | Continue reading
At Montreal’s Startupfest on Thursday, Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobias Lütke sat down with Recode’s Kara Swisher to talk about what Shopify does, and how it can compete as a platform for online retail when giants like Facebook have a keen eye on potentially owning the space. Sw … | Continue reading
Although Donald Trump just lined up Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel for a Republican National Convention speech, a new open letter makes it clear that much of the tech industry remains concerned about the prospect of a Trump presidency. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Back in May, Google proposed 13 new emoji meant to better represent women in professional fields, and now 11 of those emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium. The new emoji, including a chef, a graduate, and a David Bowie-like rockstar, will be available in both male a … | Continue reading
Kristen Wiig has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon as Harry Styles, Daenerys Targaryen, Peyton Manning, Michael Jordan, and now, JoJo Fletcher from ABC's The Bachelorette. It's one of the show's odder running jokes, which is notable because the host regularly has to … | Continue reading
Payment fraud is a matter more consumers should be concerned about. A new report by ACI shows how nearly one in three consumers has dealt with card fraud over the past five years. There are alarming numbers, even though this is another clear example as to why Bitcoin is entirely … | Continue reading
Usually knockoff products are cheaper than the original, but if the original is a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, well the knockoffs just can't afford to slash prices. Enter the NanoPi NEO, an $8 Chinese version of the Pi Zero built by FriendlyARM— that you can actually buy. It's easier to … | Continue reading
Yesterday Apple revealed the name of its first-ever unscripted TV show, an app developer competition called Planet of the Apps. Now, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Apple's senior VP Eddy Cue has divulged a few more (admittedly vague) details about Apple's televi … | Continue reading
Mobius Final Fantasy popped up out of the blue a little more than a year ago on the Japanese App Store, and at the time we assumed it'd be like all of Squeenix's other games and eventually makes its way to Western markets. Well, today we get confirmation of our obvious suspicions … | Continue reading
One of the nice surprise introductions at WWDC was Swift Playgrounds, a new app coming to the iPad and iOS 10 that will help teach kids (or anyone, really) how to code with Swift. Apple introduced Swift at WWDC back in 2014. A more modern successor to Objective-C (the language mo … | Continue reading
Amazon has acquired Cloud9, a cloud-based IDE, for use with its AWS service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cloud9 is a fairly robust developer environment, and exists entirely int he cloud via Docker Ubuntu environments. It’s not a shell, either; the company gives develop … | Continue reading
DomiNations [Free] is yet another super popular free to play game I wish I had time to play. We've talked about this quite a bit on episodes of our podcast in that once you get deep into "one of these," you really just don't have time to get into other ones. I've sunk so much | Continue reading
Stylish Zelda-like Hyper Light Drifter is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on 26th, July.Developer Heart Machine made the announcement to Gematsu. The game was described by the developer as an "action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16bit classics, with modernised mechanics and … | Continue reading
I recently moved back to Curaçao, a tiny island in the Caribbean where I grew up. Before, I was living in Belo Horizonte, Brazil from where I managed to get some amazing partners on-board for our last conference in Amsterdam. This experience of managing to organize our biggest an … | Continue reading
Phone mounts for bikes have been around for a few years, but a new one that just hit Kickstarter puts a few twists on the idea. It’s called Bycle, and it’s a clever little mount with an equally clever app that can be used for both navigation and recording (and sharing) your bike … | Continue reading
The number of consumer-advocacy organizations calling for Tesla to do something about its much-criticized Autopilot system is growing.Consumer Reports called for Tesla to "disable hands-free operation until its system can be made safer" Thursday morning. What's more, it urged the … | Continue reading
Das Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) entwickelt Bots, die dem Landwirt nicht nur peripher assistieren, sondern richtig anpacken: Der SwagBot soll beispielsweise Herden hüten und das auch im unwegsamsten Gelände. Gerade hat der HüteBot... | Continue reading
Twitch is about to come through on a promise to its game-livestream spectators and broadcasters. The San Francisco gameplay livestreaming company is announcing today that it has a test version of its HTML5 video player. The new video player will replace the much-maligned Flash pl … | Continue reading
Indie developers have another reason to gather on the West Coast. Google has revealed that it is throwing the Indie Games Festival in San Francisco on September 24. The company came up with this concept after listening to feedback from its indie partners. The event has a number o … | Continue reading
Facebook’s latest diversity report is a lot more of the same, with the exception of two components: LGBTQA employee representation and hiring data from the last 12 months. Facebook also announced a $15 million investment in Code.org to help the non-profit organization develop com … | Continue reading
Google is hoping to lure more indie game developers to its platforms with an upcoming festival in San Francisco. Called simply the Indie Games Festival, the event takes place on September 24th, and Google is currently taking submissions for games that will be featured.Submissions … | Continue reading
Alongside the release of iOS 10 this fall, Apple will put out a video game filled with strange aliens, blocky worlds, collectible gems, and clever logic puzzles. Only it's not just a video game — it's a series of coding lessons and challenges designed to teach kids the fundamenta … | Continue reading
Video game streaming site Twitch is making good on its promise to ditch Flash. Today the company is launching a closed beta for its new HTML5 player, which the company says will result in “a smoother streaming experience with faster load times and more consistent delivery of high … | Continue reading
In an ongoing effort to showcase independent developers, Google is having an ‘Indie Games Festival’ on September 24 at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco. Developers that meet Google’s criteria (US or Canadian developers with 15 or fewer on staff) can submit apps util August 14, … | Continue reading
Heading into WWDC, iOS developers from all corners of Twitter loudly proclaimed that Apple should make an Xcode app for the iPad. ‘Coding on the iPad is the next generation!’ they said. They were right — sort of. Coding on an iPad is for the next generation of developers, and the … | Continue reading
Nintendo announced today that it was bringing back the NES, as the NES Classic Edition with a smaller box, HDMI support, and a new controller that can also be used to play NES games on the Wii U Virtual Console. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Cloud syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today announced that it has released an image compression algorithm called Lepton under an Apache open-source license on GitHub. Lepton can both compress and decompress files, and for the latter, it can work while streaming — tha … | Continue reading