If you were one of those who were hoping to get Gary Grisgsby's World at War, the classic grand strategy game, on mobile, get ready for some disappointment. We've talked a few times in the past that Slitherine, the publisher of quite a few strategy games, has decided to shift att … | Continue reading
U.S. regulators have barred Elizabeth Homes, founder and CEO of Theranos from operating a medical laboratory for at least two years, raising questions about the future of the once promising startup. Photo: Theranos | Continue reading
Huawei has filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile US for what the Chinese telecom giant says are patent violations of its 4G wireless network services. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news of the suit.In the complaint Huawei said T-Mobile has been using Huawei's patented net … | Continue reading
GUEST: Chatbots are one of the most interesting emerging business models in mobile tech. At their core, they represent an entirely new way of communicating with other individuals, businesses, and services — some of these customers using chatbots themselves. Social media networks … | Continue reading
CartoDB, a data visualization company founded in Madrid in 2012, changed its name to CARTO to celebrate its new analysis tool CARTO Builder and to emphasize its attempt to enlarge its audience from developers to business people and non-coders. Historically, CartoDB has helped dat … | Continue reading
First-person floating simulator Adr1ft is coming to PS4 in Europe and North America on 15th July.Developer Adam Orth tweeted that it will cost $19.99 (about £15).The deep space survival game drew many comparisons to Alfonso Cuarón's zero-g thriller Gravity, with its central premi … | Continue reading
Apple has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Network-1 Technologies, which was suing over a patent from 1999 that basically just describes a simple file system function. "The present invention relates to an operating system in which docum … | Continue reading
Facebook only removes content if it celebrates or glorifies violence, not if it’s only graphic or disturbing, according to a spokesperson. Facebook also insists that the video of Philando Castile’s death was temporarily unavailable due to a technical glitch that was Facebook’s fa … | Continue reading
If you act fast, you can snag a pro bono Google Cardboard headset from the Conan O'Brien team for free. | Continue reading
I almost let this particular game slip completely under my radar, but when I saw some screenshots of it, I knew I absolutely had to play it. I just hoped that the game would live up to the aesthetic. Mahluk: Dark Demon [$0.99] is a hack and slash platformer in the vein of Goblin … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices experienced moderate volatility during the week ending 8th July, as market participants took action ahead of the upcoming halving. | Continue reading
This week, Apple’s iOS 10 beta was released, Tesla Autopilot went under scrutiny and the tech world responded to the devastating shootings and protests that occurred across the country. These are the top tech stories to bring you up to speed. Read More | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is sweeping the nation, and along with its growing popularity is a steady stream of bizarre news stories and personal anecdotes of near-death experiences. First there was the Australian police warning users not to physically enter the police station when collecting ite … | Continue reading
The upsell we all fall for at fast food joints and places like Costco doesn’t seem to work on purchasers of in-game currencies, according to a study conducted on millions of Candy Crush players. Turns out the decision to buy fictional bars of gold isn’t quite rational, economical … | Continue reading
It’s starting to happen like clockwork. Firms are closing new funds almost exactly 24 months to the date from their last fund closing. The newest example? Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), which this morning announced a new, $600 million fund. It last closed two funds — a $650 million … | Continue reading
Meizu has earned a reputation for great affordable user experiences but is its latest handset up to the task? Let's find out, in this our m3 note review. | Continue reading
Regulators, legislators and entrepreneurs will decamp to New Hampshire this week for a gathering aimed at formalizing industry principles. | Continue reading
Although the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge passed Consumer Reports' dunk tests with flying colors, the ostensibly more rugged S7 Active did not. | Continue reading
Well, there goes all the memes about Pokemon Go. Just days after its release in Australia, New Zealand, and the US, things have gotten dark with the game. While many players have been sent to random locations like local churches and police stations to find Pokemon, a Wyoming teen … | Continue reading
Google’s Self-Driving Car Project is one step closer to becoming its own independent business. Recode has confirmed that the autonomous-driving company under the Alphabet umbrella has hired The Climate Corporation’s chief legal officer, Kevin Vosen, as its first general attorney. … | Continue reading
In my eyes, artistry goes a long way towards making me want to play a game, even if the gameplay might sometimes fail to entertain me as much. The upcoming game Lanota, though, seems to not only bring a great artistic vision to life but also combine that with a fun blend of rhyth … | Continue reading
The renowned photographer Peter Krasilnikoff commissioned architecture practice Studio David Thulstrup for his private residence and studio in the Islands Brygge harbour-side district of Copenhagen. The guiding inspiration for the project evolved from worn-out warehouses and fact … | Continue reading
The Eixample Loft has an area of 300sqm and is located in a historic building in the heart of the city. Designers have tried to preserve .... | Continue reading
Today we learned the Dallas police used a bomb disposal robot to deliver and detonate an explosion, killing the suspect in last night's shooting. It was surprising, and shocking, and left me with a lot of questions. But, really, there's only one question: is this ethical?So I spo … | Continue reading
Until 1904, most ships that encountered trouble at sea effectively vanished. "Ships at sea out of visual range were very much isolated from shore and other ships," writes the Telegraph Office, an online history of Morse code. "A ship could vanish from the high seas, and no one wo … | Continue reading
On this week’s MashTalk, Lance, Christina and Pete are back talking about all the stuff happening in work this week.We start out with a “hella good” discussion about Microsoft’s terrible recruitment email (0:20). Seriously, can brands stop saying bae already?SEE ALSO: Snapchat ma … | Continue reading
Bitcoin groups around the world are gathering to celebrate the halving of the bitcoin mining reward this weekend. | Continue reading
Of all the ways to apply sunscreen, ‘getting pooped on by a seagull’ does not sound like the best option. Still, that’s what Nivea is banking on with a new, rather ridiculous ad campaign. Here’s the premise: kids apparently don’t like to wear sunscreen, so Nivea partnered with an … | Continue reading
Do you wish to create a chilling music score for your amateur horror film, but you have no musical experience? No problem!The Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator is a web experiment by Jake Albaugh that allows you to generate different musical scores based on a variety of diffe … | Continue reading
Move over, Tatooine, astronomers have discovered a planet with not one, not two, but three suns. Known as HD 131399Ab, the newly discovered planet is located 320 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus. The planet is estimated to be merely 16 million years old, m … | Continue reading
When it comes to software engineering, that management is best which manages least — to borrow Thoreau’s quip about government. While it’s rarely as easy as nodding at a brilliant developer and getting out of the way, the best systems are, like good software, minimalist and light … | Continue reading
While Pokemon GO [Free] players likely know the name Pokemon, there's another name to know: the developer, Niantic. Namely, because they made another geolocation game called Ingress [Free] that served as the foundation for Pokemon GO. And as it turns out, there's years of advice … | Continue reading
This month, eBay became the first major non-news website to begin widely showing AMP results. Here’s why this is a good sign for content marketers. | Continue reading
Sonabar takes mixology to the next level by putting the power in your fingertips. After you infuse bitters and choose the strength of your drink through Sonabar's smartphone app, this robotic bartender will get to work on your new favorite concoction. Read more...More about Sona … | Continue reading
This week a UK man walked into an international airport with his smartphone in a gun-shaped case. Do we even have to say what happened next? | Continue reading
Micro Machines, the new, updated version of the legendary racing game, has been in the soft-launch oven baking for quite some time now, but it appears that it's finally time for it to be served. We wrote about the game going into soft-launch back in November, and the developers s … | Continue reading
Sunscreen and I have a love / hate relationship. I know I should love it and wear it because it keeps me skin cancer-free and because I look hella bad with sunburn. I hate sunscreen, though, because it’s messy to put on and it makes me smell like sunscreen, which isn’t a cute sme … | Continue reading
When Apple introduced iOS 7 in the summer of 2013, the software came with the biggest visual overhaul in the mobile OS's history. Alongside flat design icons and a more modern and Jony Ive-inspired approach was one of iOS's much-needed features: Control Center. It was a slide-up … | Continue reading
Earlier this year game developer Daniel Mullins released the deceptively titled cult classic Pony Island, a fourth wall-breaking horror comedy about the dev… | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger just made it a little bit easier to book an UberPOOL ride. It works like this: Open up a messenger conversation, click on the three-dot menu button, and select ‘Request a Ride’. You’ll then have the option to request a ride just for yourself, or for you and you … | Continue reading
Members of the bitcoin industry, including major players in the mining space, as set to meet in California this month, sources say. | Continue reading
I think it's pretty fair to say that Pokemon GO [Free] has become incredibly popular in the few days it's been available. Trying to avoid seeing something about the game is like trying to avoid air. The game's popularity is, of course, already translating into more money for Nint … | Continue reading
Snapchat is rolling out its biggest change yet: Memories, a feature that allows users to easily save and share old photos with the app for the first time.It not only promises to overhaul the way many people share Snapchat photos, but it's also the app's biggest shift away from th … | Continue reading
Reports that as many as 40 million iCloud accounts have been compromised by Russian attackers have not been confirmed by Apple. But they haven’t been denied either. “For now, let’s assume there hasn’t been a massive iCloud data breach,” writes Steve Ragan at CISO. So… what do the … | Continue reading
Navigating the corridors and alleys of cities can often make a person feel small, but video games are here to make you feel big again. Mobile publisher Storm8 wants to give players control over city streets, business, and housing in its new Dream City: Metropolis game that launch … | Continue reading
I’ve always really loved high-resolution time lapses: there’s something really cool about seeing cities or the night sky fly across my computer screen in gorgeous detail. There’s a new time lapse by photographer Joe Capra of Scientifantastic that puts every one that I’ve seen to … | Continue reading
Since I Left You, the 2000 LP that turned The Avalanches into minor musical legends, is an outlier in almost every respect. It’s a lengthy album, one that stretches out over an hour, but its seamless track-to-track glide makes it easy for the listener to get lost within the large … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced new capabilities for chatbots that work inside Skype when building with Microsoft’s Bot Framework. Most prominently, Skype chatbots can now now be part of group chats and respond to messages from multiple users in a single chat, potentially making intera … | Continue reading