Chock up another "W" for Amazon. On Wednesday, the Seattle-based retailer announced that its second annual Prime Day was the "biggest day in the history of Amazon."The event was a huge success last year, but it was even bigger this year, Amazon said, with worldwide and U.S. order … | Continue reading
Koss Porta Pros. The very name of these achingly retro-looking headphones is hallowed among the audio lovers who’ve gotten to hear them. The Porta Pros are about the same age as I am, and they’ve endured because of their inexplicably, illogically awesome sound quality, which beli … | Continue reading
Farmigo, an online farmer’s market that allowed consumers to shop for locally grown food via the web, then pick up those orders at nearby locations, says it will now be shutting down its delivery service. According to an announcement penned by Farmigo founder and CEO Benzi Ronen … | Continue reading
Halifax-based Spring Loaded Technology announced today that it has delivered the first 60 in of a planned 190 bionic knee braces to the Canadian Army, part of a $1 million (CAD) contract awarded to the company. The UpShots are the military grade version of the company’s assistive … | Continue reading
Facebook invited a small group of reporters to its Prineville, OR data center this week. Most companies don’t even give their own employees access to their data centers (outside of the relatively small group of people it takes to keep the millions of servers inside up and running … | Continue reading
Oak Pass House is a modern single family residence designed by Walker Workshop. The house is located in Beverly Hills California, US. | Continue reading
The Tor Project today announced that it has elected an entirely new board of directors, as the nonprofit privacy organization continues seeing the fallout from accusations of sexual misconduct by prominent former employee Jacob Appelbaum. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Even if you’re an active photo or video creative, chances are that your gear will be gathering dust on a shelf at least part of the time. At the same time, other photographers and filmmakers are in need of equipment. If that sounds like a business opportunity, ShareGrid is way ah … | Continue reading
Your childhood dream of being a pilot just became appealing again. Employment review site Glassdoor has released a list of 11 unexpected jobs that pay $100,000 or more. Career paths highlighted include special agent, geophysicist, regional sales executive and software architect. … | Continue reading
A report to be released by NRI argues Japan needs to do more to bring clarity to the innovators working with digital currencies. | Continue reading
Vector Unit's latest entry in their fun Riptide GP series of water vehicle racing games, Riptide GP: Renegade, has been in the works for a while now, with our latest major look at it being at PAX Prime in 2015. The good news is that the game is set to finally release, with Apple … | Continue reading
It has never been more clear that transformational change to one of the world’s largest industries is just around the corner. Car ownership is supposed to change — and when it does, it is predicted to be one of the most monumental displacements of wealth the world economy has eve … | Continue reading
What do Budapest and Austin have in common? Both are cities that have been abandoned by Uber after their governments passed laws seen as onerous by the famously prickly ride-hailing service. Uber is suspending its service in Hungary after the right-wing government of Prime Minist … | Continue reading
Think about the people you’ve known the longest and best: your siblings, your summer camp acquaintances, the crew you met in undergrad and stuck with as you became adults. Do you ever find yourself connecting with them on some subconscious level? Maybe you hear a joke someone’s g … | Continue reading
The Swindle, Gun Monkeys, and Ben There, Dan That developer Size Five Games has revealed the first gameplay footage of its upcoming football game Behold the Kickmen.Size Five founder and creative lead Dan Marshall has admitted that he doesn't know the rules of football and doesn' … | Continue reading
BitTorrent is officially launching its ‘BitTorrent News’ TV network at the Republican National Convention on July 18 in Cleveland, Ohio. Like so many other news platforms, BitTorrent News will focus on news breaking in real-time, as well as commentary from experts on various subj … | Continue reading
For quite some time, whenever someone wanted to make a generalized statement about how popular mobile gaming is, he would use Candy Crash Saga as the example, and that made sense given the game's 20 million peak active users in the US. However, there's a new kid in town now, Poke … | Continue reading
Inside a 350,000-square-foot building in the hills of Prineville, OR, slotted inside a nondescript server rack, is one of Facebook’s most valuable artificial intelligence tools. It’s called Big Sur, and it’s a hardware system for training software to improve itself over time. It … | Continue reading
In science we need to track the misses along with the hits. The same is true for business —we want to prove and disprove reality. We call people who do that skeptics. Psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer is director of the Skeptics Society. He publishes Skeptic maga … | Continue reading
This could be the start of the final act for Birchbox, a service that charges subscribers $10 per month for a box of five or six deluxe beauty samples. They've announced plans to limit the offering of store credit for sample reviews and suspended plans to open new brick-and-morta … | Continue reading
While Pokémon Go rakes in millions of dollars with its augmented reality action, the company responsible for the tech behind the game is raising money to help build the future of AR and VR gaming. Unity Technologies has raised $181 million in a Series C funding round. The company … | Continue reading
We’re delighted to announce an exciting fireside chat for the AR/VR day at GamesBeat 2016 to address what the environment for investing in VR startups in the near-term and the opportunity for a VR mass market. Check out the new agenda here. You can register for the event here. Ou … | Continue reading
Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green struck a Michigan State football player in the jaw during a weekend confrontation near campus, tried to apologize and then had to sit in jail for a while until he could sober up, according to a police report released Wednesday. | Continue reading
Although its up in the air as to whether or not this extension is a joke or a practical tool, Pokemon NO! will purge Pokemon content from your screen. | Continue reading
The DTCC has revealed it hosted a group of regulators and financial industry execs in Washington, DC, last month for a conversation on blockchain | Continue reading
The Skype team today announced that anyone using a Chromebook or Chrome on Linux can visit web.skype.com to make one-to-one and group voice calls on top of the messaging features they get today.The Alpha version of Skype based on WebRTC inherits the same features as the Alpha ver … | Continue reading
It's interesting watching the flow of game design over time. While it's sometimes painful to watch established game designs hop from a paid model to a free-to-play set-up, those very same free-to-play hits have now been around long enough to start inspiring developers to travel t … | Continue reading
Few spaces are safe from computers anymore. We’ve got them in our refrigerators, in our beds, and on our bikes. I would say all these spaces should be sacred so as to make relaxing while eating, sleeping, and biking easier, but whatever, I've clearly lost this war. Now, Garmin is … | Continue reading
Thirty Flights of Loving and Atom Zombie Smasher developer Blendo Games is releasing its long-anticipated cyberpunk heist game Quadrilateral Cowboy on 25th July.This will only be the PC version, however. The Mac and Linux versions will follow in September.Quadrilateral Cowboy has … | Continue reading
In the early morning hours I pad down the hallway in my grandmother’s ranch-style home in Martins Ferry, Ohio. It’s June 1986. I’m eleven years old and still in my pajamas. The house has cooled overnight and it’s even a bit chilly but as the sun rises the dark roof will warm up a … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s grand vision for the Kinect clearly hasn’t gone according to plan. The few Xbox One games that supported the device for motion or voice controls were mostly forgettable, while the Kinect also largely failed to catch on as a way to navigate the console’s myriad menus. … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is calling for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's resignation after she spoke out against the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. WSJ's law bureau chief Ashby Jones joins Tanya Rivero to discuss the precedent for political comments from the Justices, and t … | Continue reading
If you've ever been at a large event like a music festival, you're probably aware of just how awful cell service can get as hundreds or thousands of people all try Instagramming from the same spot. AT&T thinks it might have a solution.In a blog post today, AT&T floated the idea o … | Continue reading
You want fries with your Psyduck? If a snippet of code found in the Pokemon app has been correctly parsed, McDonald’s could soon be a sponsored location within the Pokemon Go app. Deep within the app’s code there’s a curious mention of McDonald’s; specifically, it reads Sponsored … | Continue reading
The Harry Potter film series might be long over, but recent trademark filings from Warner Brothers shows that the film company could be planning for the franchise beyond the upcoming Fantastic Beasts trilogy, with the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.The story of Harry Pott … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is family friendly entertainment, while also being the latest popular video game about life after the apocalypse and nature’s inevitable reclamation of our planet. At least, that’s my theory.Unlike the series of roleplaying games that precede it, Pokémon Go doesn’t bot … | Continue reading
ETNews, a credible Korean tech publication, reported today that both Samsung and LG would bring forward the release of their respective flagships. | Continue reading
BitTorrent has long focused on helping others distribute content online — but starting next week, BitTorrent plans to start producing content of its own. It's launching an online TV channel called BitTorrent News, which will provide live news coverage of politics and sports.The c … | Continue reading
We live in an age with no shortage of robot animals — they seem to multiply like little unstable rabbits, except they're hardly ever rabbits — but none have proven themselves quite so relatable as this one. This is PneuHound, and while its name doesn't quite slide off the tongue, … | Continue reading
A Dutch asset management service that oversees the largest pension fund for government and education workers in the Netherlands has begun exploring possible blockchain applications. APG announced earlier this week it is partnering with Maastricht University and the Netherlands Or … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is giving away the first Splinter Cell to celebrate the publisher's 30th anniversary.As such, it's offering one free game a month on PC. Last month it was Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and there are still five months to go this year. What could be next?You only have … | Continue reading
A Nintendo game for smartphones sends people around the real world chasing virtual monsters. WSJ's Joanna Stern takes to the streets to explain everything you need to know about the latest craze. Photo: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. | Continue reading
Tesla has ended its Resale Value Guarantee program for cars purchased after July 1st, a company spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge. The program guaranteed the resale value of a Tesla Model S after three years when purchased through one of the company’s loan financing program … | Continue reading
As early reviews have indicated, Paul Feig's new Ghostbusters isn't the transcendent antidote for years of Hollywood gender imbalance some might have hoped for. It's broad and dubiously sentimental, and relies gross-out slime gags to mega-pratfalls. Its special effects are big an … | Continue reading
Adobe has updated Lightroom for both iOS and Android, each with some special features users will love. On the Android side, a new photo capture experience brings manual controls like shutter speed, ISO, white balance and focus. There is also a new capture widget for Lightroom, an … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has already brought in millions of users and tons of money to Nintendo. Now, just a week after its release, developer Niantic is preparing for its next big move. Financial Times reports that the company plans on letting advertisers create sponsored locations to drive b … | Continue reading
Wissenschafts-Moderator Steve Mould demonstriert, charmant wie gewohnt, wiederum mit seinem Messbecher die Eigenschaften eines ausgefuchsten Kunststoffs: Natriumpolyacrylat. Der Superabsorber kann das 200fache seines Eigengewichts binden und kommt in... | Continue reading
In the fleeting ecosystem that is the App Store, games live and die by the strength of their core concept, and how well the developers are able to execute such pivotal ideas. Owing to the ease of development for iOS, there are innumerable innovative ideas in games - in terms of r … | Continue reading