Amazon Prime Day is less than 12 hours away. This year, Amazon’s big savings event for Prime members will be bigger than ever, with more than 100,000 deals—which will come as frequently as every five minutes. So what are the best deals for Prime Day? Mashable is rounding up the b … | Continue reading
For many businesses, ownership of the Internet of Things lies within a number of C-suite titles. But IoT demands an interdisciplinary approach, whether the desired outcome is to streamline internal processes, introduce new customer experiences or uncover new revenue. This require … | Continue reading
Pokemon Go is exploding. It’s a pop culture phenomenon unlike anything we’ve seen before. Think I’m crazy? If you live in anything resembling a major city, go stop by a mildly popular landmark — if you don’t see a dozen people staring at their phone and flinging Poké balls, you h … | Continue reading
The zero marginal cost of information is turning everything upside down. Albert Wenger, Partner at Union Square Ventures asserts in our latest interview, “We are just at the beginning of this inversion.” Although the changes this inversion is bringing to many associated industrie … | Continue reading
Nintendo should cancel the NX and go exclusively mobile as soon as possible. I admit that is a hot take after a few days of Pokemon GO [Free], but why shouldn't they be making a major mobile push right now? The Pokemon Company releases an app that has server issues, eats your bat … | Continue reading
Mobile events and conferences company DoubleDutch announced today that it will be laying off 55 of its employees as a part of a company-wide restructuring. The company, founded in 2011, has raised over $78 million in funding to power its mobile tools which allow event organizers … | Continue reading
Pokemon Go has been such a breakout success that it has already more than doubled Tinder's presence on Android devices and it's on-track to surpass Twitter in terms of daily active users. | Continue reading
Seamless and Grubhub are revamping their restaurant ratings system today to let reviewers provide a bit more detail. After ordering food, you'll now be able to rate a restaurant based on three things: how accurately it estimated delivery time, how accurate the order was, and how … | Continue reading
Universal Avenue, the Stockholm-headquartered startup that lets companies access a local sales force on-demand, has closed a deal of its own.The company has raised $10 million in fresh Series A funding, adding to the $5 million “extension” to its seed round a little under a year … | Continue reading
Despite some pretty fun football games recently - such as Pixel Cup Soccer 16 [$2.99] - I'm still waiting for a good multiplayer football game now that FIFA has turned into an imitation of a football game that disappoints me daily. Today, we got an announcement that Hugo Games, p … | Continue reading
A NASA camera on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a rare lunar transit across the face of a sunlit Earth. The images, which feature a fully lit far side of the moon, were captured between July 4th at 11:50 pm ET and July 5th at 3:18 am ET. This … | Continue reading
Twitter has expanded its animated GIF size limit from 5MB to 15MB, opening up all kinds of new possibilities for situations when plain text just doesn't cut it. Prior to the change, Twitter's size ceiling for both photos and animated GIFs was 5MB. The photo limit has stayed the s … | Continue reading
Twitter now allows users to upload higher-quality GIFs on its platform, but only on the web. The company has updated its documentation to reflect that animated GIFs of up to 15MB are now supported. However, its 5MB limit remains for those posting from its mobile apps. This change … | Continue reading
Arcade games are known for their addictive game play and their challenge. If that sounds like something you want, here are the best arcade games on Android! | Continue reading
Want to participate in the cultural moment that is Pokémon Go? You could read our how-to guide and dedicate dozens of hours and potentially tens of dollars to the hobby, gradually discovering its secrets, making new friends, and finding new favorite local spots in your jaunts acr … | Continue reading
The SEC has settled with the Bitcoin Investment Trust and its original issuer following an investigation into a repurchase program. | Continue reading
While the whole world seems to be totally obsessed with Pokémon Go, at least six people aren't going to have the chance to try out the augmented reality gaming sensation anytime soon. According to NASA, the six crew members living and working on the International Space Station wo … | Continue reading
Tesla is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wall Street Journal reported, for a possible securities law breach. What’s at issue is whether the electric vehicle company should have notified shareholders immediately following a fatal accident on … | Continue reading
I’m a software developer.No matter what I’m doing (and I did a lot of different things in the past years, like create startups, speech in events, and became a father), I always will do this with a software developer’s mindset: analyzing the task carefully, breaking a big problem … | Continue reading
How do you rescue a brand like Ashley Madison after it becomes synonymous with infidelity, poor security, a fateful hack, a massive breach of privacy and at least two suicides? That was the challenge thrown in the lap of the company’s new CEO and president. The new leadership tea … | Continue reading
Eva and I rented a car (our first summer with driving licenses), filled it with clothes, a tent and some food and then took off on a little road trip down the east coast of Sweden. See also: part 2 Have some thoughts? Send me an email. | Continue reading
The Samsung Gear Fit 2 is the second iteration of their fitness tracker - is it enough to tackle the many trackers that have come out since their first try? | Continue reading
Good news, GIF lovers: Twitter has expanded the size limit for GIF support up to 15MB. It’s awesome for media outlets like The Next Web which frequently uses GIFs in tweets to illustrate products, but also for when you’re trying to GIF battle with your friend and a low quality GI … | Continue reading
LAS VEGAS — The 2017 D-League Showcase will be held in suburban Toronto barring an unlikely late snag on final minor points, NBA.com has learned, the first time the premier in-season event for the NBA’s minor league will be held outside the United States. An announcement is expec … | Continue reading
Nearly 20 major telecom companies are essentially holding 5G hostage until the EU agrees to cut apart net neutrality laws. | Continue reading
Tomorrow is the second annual Amazon Prime Day, which means two things. The first is that in the future, we will have international holidays that are actual exclusive branded events — woe betide those who forget to re-up their Christmas subscriptions in December. The second is th … | Continue reading
‘It’s not you, it’s me’. Those five little words have the power to stop a person in their tracks and rain on anyone’s parade. Deep down you know the other person believes it’s ‘you’ and no amount of spin will change that. Relationships in the real world can be hard work. They’re … | Continue reading
After a few different stories surrounding crooks using Pokemon go to steal phones, it seems social media has been ablaze with warnings surrounding not getting your phone stolen while wandering around collecting endless Pidgeys. Unfortunately, phones getting snatched isn't exactly … | Continue reading
Movies based on video games haven't had the best track record, so what's the next logical step? Try turning them into TV shows, instead! Paramount Television has announced that it's optioned the rights to create a series based on EA's multiplayer shooter Battlefield. Production c … | Continue reading
The dream of turning your smartphone into a laptop will never die. From Motorola's Atrix to this crazy HP Windows Phone, there have been a number of companies that have tried (and largely failed) to build a smartphone that can be attached to a dock and turned into a laptop.In a s … | Continue reading
Sharing economy startups like Airbnb and Uber have gone nuclear to defend their business model, suing city governments or shuttering their services entirely when they don’t get their way. Just last week, Airbnb sued the City of San Francisco over legislation that would require Ai … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go, the mobile app that’s reignited the cult of Pokémon for millions of berserk, smartphone-wielding fans, works on Chromebooks. But only certain Chromebooks — those that already support Android apps and the Google Play Store. GamesBeat got it running on Acer’s 2015 Chrom … | Continue reading
Thanks to the new addictive app Pokémon Go, millennial missed connections are on the rise.A slew of Pokémon Go trainers posted missed connection ads on Craigslist for people they interacted with while playing the game. Let's help these hopeful souls find their Ash Ketchums.SEE AL … | Continue reading
A Federal Appeals Court this month issued a ruling that makes password-sharing a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That has given many Americans pause, as sharing passwords to online services like Netflix and HBO GO is a fairly common activity these days — and … | Continue reading
If you haven’t seen it already, you will soon walking down the street. Every person you pass who is fervently looking at their phone is likely playing the number one game in the country right now: Pokémon Go. You might think it’s popular because of the brand. Nintendo, which refu … | Continue reading
As people around the United States gather at parks and other public spaces to capture and train their augmented-reality creatures in Pokémon Go, the three companies responsible for the the mobile app are probably having a difficult time counting all of their money. Pokémon Go deb … | Continue reading
As the new Pokémon Go app slowly takes over the Earth, a natural question arose: has the app’s influence extended out into the vacuum of space? Continue reading… | Continue reading
A soon-to-be-released study has found evidence that bitcoin’s market is now a venue for "legitimate" commerce. | Continue reading
[appicon]We don't hear much about Fallout Shelter [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fallout-shelter/id991153141?mt=8"] anymore, but that doesn't mean the game isn't a popular time-waster among those who enjoy the Fallout franchise and even those who just like fun man … | Continue reading
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Tesla for not notifying investors of a fatal crash in May when Autopilot was active, reports The Wall Street Journal.Tesla previously said that the fatal crash was "not material" information to shareholders after reporter … | Continue reading
A new patch for Doom has added Vulkan support, making the recent Bethesda game the first title to support that API. AMD GPUs pick up significant performance as a result, while Nvidia performance looks mostly flat. | Continue reading
Jonathan Zarra knew something about Pokémon Go that most people didn’t. As a beta tester this summer, the 28-year-old freelance developer had early access to the smash hit mobile game — and as a result, he could see that it offered users no way to chat with one another inside the … | Continue reading
GUEST: Last week I helped to kick off Delaware State University’s inaugural Android Bootcamp as lead instructor. I welcomed a total of 13 students, with little to no programming experience, with the intent of teaching programming and Android fundamentals. The program, hosted by h … | Continue reading
Not satisfied with your noisy old PC cooling fan? Then consider upgrading to Corsair’s latest ML-series fans, which use maglev technology in order to bend the very forces of physics to your PC-cooling will.With earlier, now outdated models, wear was caused by friction from the ra … | Continue reading
The latest smart contracts platform Lisk is gaining popularity as an alternative to Ethereum. Since its successful crowdfunding campaign which helped the platform raise over 14,000 bitcoin, the platform has made some rapid progress in terms of development and strategic partnershi … | Continue reading
So you're going crazy for Pokémon Go, aren't you? You can't stop thinking about it, tweeting about it and playing the darn game that's taken the entire world by storm.You want to become a Pokémon master, right? Though the game's quite simple, it's also deep if you're a completion … | Continue reading
If you’re in the market for an SSD drive with tons of storage space, Samsung has one you should consider — if you have $1,500 to spare. The already popular 850 Evo line now has a 4TB option, which is its largest capacity. You can now incrementally get SSD storage from 128GB up to … | Continue reading