The RT81 is a higher end, entry-level turntable. It will cost you a little bit more than some of the $100 plastic entry-level turntables out there, but it’s much higher quality both in terms of appearance and sound quality. Read More | Continue reading
Twenty years after it was released, the Sega Saturn's DRM has finally been breached. James Laird-Wah, an engineer known online as Dr. Abrasive, has developed a way for games to be loaded onto the console via USB, skipping past the Saturn's hardware DRM system that requires game d … | Continue reading
The London Underground, famous for its iconic subway maps and stations, now wants to share its peerless fare payment system with the rest of the world. The Transport for London (TfL), which runs the Tube, signed an agreement with Cubic, a defense and transportation contractor, to … | Continue reading
Skype is getting a proper Linux client. Given it’s an alpha, there are some features missing, but it’s a good start for team Linux. To be clear, Skype already had a Linux client, but it had been long abandoned. Rather than just an update, this is an all new app follows Skyp’es mo … | Continue reading
Official Police Business is a weekly column and newsletter by reporter Matt Stroud about new developments in police technology, and the ways technology is changing law enforcement — think body cameras, cell-site simulators, surveillance systems, and electroshock weapons. Sign up … | Continue reading
Deep inside Facebook's very first data center, located in a sprawling facility in the hills of Prineville, OR, lies a series of about 60 server racks. Each one houses 32 smartphones, all of which are running a version of one of Facebook's many mobile apps. The company calls this … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Facebook gave a small group of reporters a tour of its Prineville, OR data center. In the process, the company also showed off its mobile device lab for testing on physical devices new iOS and Android versions of the Facebook app, Messenger and Instagram. The m … | Continue reading
PRINEVILLE, Oregon — Tucked deep in a Facebook data center, amid hundreds of humming server racks, nearly 2,000 smartphones are running some some version of a Facebook app.Some are scrolling through the News Feed, Facebook's notoriously algorithmic and somehow always-controversia … | Continue reading
Facebook’s quarterly earnings typically has one particularly eyebrow-raising statistic: the number of mobile users. That’s why the company’s new Oregon datacenter has a ‘Mobile Device Lab,’ which uses real devices to monitor Facebook performance in real-time. Scaling Facebook In … | Continue reading
To add to Apple's "declining sales" woes, Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are outselling the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in the U.S.. | Continue reading
When Lee Atchison arrived at Amazon, Amazon was in the process of moving from a large monolithi... | Continue reading
Pokémon GO became an overnight craze. Media outlets filled their pages with stories of people using their cell phones to search for Pokémon in stores, offices, parks – almost everywhere, sometimes gathering in large groups. The new game offers the possibility of a bonanza for mar … | Continue reading
Amazon has the OontZ Angle 3XL going for $79.99. That’s almost 40% off the normal selling price and the lowest this device has ever got on Amazon. | Continue reading
Apple has been working on an unscripted TV series for a few months now. The TV show should be about the app economy, but it’s unclear how Apple is going to distribute it. Apple just announced an open casting call. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook said it would take awhile to integrate Apple's 3D Touch features on the iPhone 6S into its apps, and it certainly has. You've been able to peek and pop within the main Facebook app for some time, but only today — two months before the next iPhone — is the same functional … | Continue reading
Are we allowed to feel joy anymore? A level of cynicism will eventually infect the joy of playing Pokémon Go, until we can no longer experience the happiness of finding a Squirtle on a park bench without anticipating the inevitable letdown.Pokémon Go is not the best game ever, no … | Continue reading
While it seems that Pokemon Go [Free] has completely taken over the planet, brave developers are still releasing new iOS games this week. The haul feels a little lighter than usual as far as big name releases are concerned, and we got more than a few emails from devs who pushed t … | Continue reading
Wenn alle Welt Pokémon Go spielt, bedeutet das eigentlich auch, dass sehr sehr viele Menschen quer durch Stadt laufen und dabei auch Orte bevölkern, die an sich keinen Besuch lohnen, aber seitdem die Realität mit begehrten Dingen wie... | Continue reading
Those of you that watched yesterday's gameplay reveal for Overwatch's newest hero, Ana, will have likely paid close attention to the moment she prevents McCree's ultimate using her sleep dart ability. That has some serious potential, we think.With the character already being play … | Continue reading
After decades, the DRM solution on the Sega Saturn has finally been bypassed without a need for mod chips. The move should boost the console's homebrew community, given that the CD-ROM drives inside the system are now more than 20 years old. | Continue reading
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What an honor! I’ve been named one of the top 60 Most Influential Event Professionals to Follow on Twitter! Read the article here. | Continue reading
A report has revealed that the total value of bitcoin trading among digital currency exchanges in Brazil has now surpassed that of gold spot trading on the Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange – the country’s securities market authority and regulator – during th … | Continue reading
A San Francisco startup called Trace Genomics wants to help farmers diagnose and improve the health of the soil where they want to raise crops before it’s harvest time and too late to change course.So the startup has developed a soil testing kit and “pathogen panel,” that tells t … | Continue reading
EA's released a patch for FIFA 16 designed to tackle the FIFA Ultimate Team chemistry glitch.As we reported last month, FIFA players found a troubling glitch that meant the game buffed low-rated teams and nerfed highly rated teams without telling players.This had to do with chemi … | Continue reading
Over the last few years, Unity Technologies has grown to become indispensable to the gaming industry and much of the entertainment industry as an engine for building experiences in one place and distributing them across a swath of platforms. Now, with the rise of augmented and vi … | Continue reading
With Wonder Woman due out next summer, the Warner Bros. PR machine is kicking into high gear to promote the film. As part of its San Diego Comic-Con ramp up, the studio revealed the exciting plot synopsis: an epic Wonder Woman origin story set during World War I. But it’s the wri … | Continue reading
Titov Boris, the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights in Russia and the Leader of Right Cause party, is trying to lead the Party of Growth to create clear and transparent legal regime and regulations for cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. The Party of Growth, whic … | Continue reading
Nobody loves change, especially when it hits our most beloved digital services like Gmail, Facebook, Spotify, or Instagram. The majority of the time we get over these changes and suddenly forget what these services were like before. It’s like seeing a friend’s new haircut — shock … | Continue reading
CoinDesk profiles ongoing efforts to return funds to investors whose holdings were compromised in the demise of The DAO. | Continue reading
If there's one thing that motivates me to get out of bed in the morning and try my hand at this dreary carnival called Life, it's the thought of clocking my eyes on a freaky-looking robot I've never seen before. And thanks to the good folks at Suzumori Endo Robotics Laboratory in … | Continue reading
Consumers' loyalty to specific news outlets is on the rise, according to a recent poll by Gallup . Among consumers, 48% identify... | Continue reading
The PC version of the Doom 2016 reboot finally has the Vulkan API update we've been waiting for. Everyone's a winner in terms of higher performance but for AMD owners in particular, there are some game-changing improvements. Our initial tests suggest anything from a 30 to 40 per … | Continue reading
Another Amazon Prime Day has come and gone and while the company did step up the sales this time around, it seems the best deals were still some basic household stuff. Amazon today released data from Prime Day 2016 calling it its “biggest day ever” for the company, and aside from … | Continue reading
It's Wednesday morning and the world has been grim (this last week and generally always) and the coffee I'm drinking is foul and I didn't shower. And yet, there is a video of mountain lion kittens to look at.These mountain lion kittens are deeply precious. They are the definition … | Continue reading
Ants are really good at lots of things. Lifting, communicating, ruining picnics. Turns out they’ve got the whole voting thing down to a science, too. When time comes to move nests, the plucky little insects vote by quorum. The democratic process is determined, at least in part, b … | Continue reading
Google has struck a huge real estate deal with LinkedIn that will see LinkedIn leave Mountain View and Google take over two valuable new properties. | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: More surprising move: Durant’s or Wade’s? | Your lasting memory of Duncan? … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: More surprising move: Durant’s or Wade’s? | Your lasting memory of Duncan? … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: More surprising move: Durant’s or Wade’s? | Your lasting memory of Duncan? … | Continue reading
Market yourself into the marketing role of your dreams with these tips from IMA's own Whitney Duprey. | Continue reading
Kobe Bryant will be keeping busy with daddy duties in retirement. | Continue reading
Yesterday’s checkout glitches didn’t impact Amazon’s ability to pull off another successful Prime Day sales event, as it turns out. The online retailer announced this morning, without giving specific figures, that its Prime Day 2016 was the “biggest ever.” Not just in terms of ot … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Neumob. A lot of dominoes had to fall into place for mobility — and more specifically, mobile apps — to effectively take over the SaaS market. Of course, that’s “software as a service” — think Dropbox, Concur, Jira, Salesforce and man … | Continue reading
Schafe haben aus unserer Perspektive ja mal eher ein merkwürdiges Verhältnis zu digitaler Technik, aber es kann auch richtig harmonisch werden, zum Beispiel auf den Färöer-Inseln, die ziemlich einsam im Nordatlantik liegen und Heimat... | Continue reading
Freedom is crucial to happiness. We live our best lives when we feel like we’re untethered, that we can do what we want and what’s best for us without a ton of obstacles standing in the way.And these days, contrary to what some curmudgeonly grandfather figures may believe, techno … | Continue reading
With the season for air shows in full swing, Event has scouted out some of the best air-themed venues for hire. | Continue reading
European plane maker Airbus announced Tuesday it would slash production of its A380. The plane has been a massive hit on the air show circuit, but airline executives are less enamored as they worry about filling the more than 500 seats. Photo: George Downs/The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading