Hollywood studios are buying up remake rights for buzzworthy documentaries like "Batkid Begins" at major film festivals, giving producers the rights to tell the story in feature-film form. Photo: Batkid Begins | Continue reading
Jason Stirman is part of a select group of early Web 2.0 builders in Silicon Valley. He was there at the beginning of Twitter, jumped to with Ev Williams to Obvious Corp and then Medium and is now working on a passion of his – mindfulness for athletes. His new app, Lucid, launche … | Continue reading
Scattered thoughts on why the Apple Watch is getting mixed reviews one year in | Continue reading
Google is attempting to take the hassle out of sharing content by creating a catch-all messaging system that essentially creates social networks on the fly. | Continue reading
R3CEV's test with Northern Trust inspired a blockchain proof-of-concept among three other experiments for different aspects of asset management. | Continue reading
Google today announced that its YouTube app for iOS now supports Google Cardboard. Google made a similar update to its YouTube app for Android in November, and now it’s available on the other major mobile operating system. The new feature arrives in version 11.18 of YouTube for i … | Continue reading
Hollywood and games haven’t always gotten along. Consider the fact that Disney just pulled the plug on its toy-game Infinity series. Getting a movie-based game right isn’t easy, and that’s why movie studio Lionsgate is trying to partner closely with a new mobile game startup call … | Continue reading
Mr. Robot surprised everyone in its original season, and from the look of the show's new trailer, the second season is only going to get more intense. "Remember the night of the hack?" Christian Slater asks over black to kick things off, teasing the answer to a question that view … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: So you’ve built an app. With over 2,300 launching on the two major app stores every day, how will you make sure people see the digital embodiment of your blood, sweat, and tears? We have been analyzing mobile user acquisition strategies and tactics for some time at Ven … | Continue reading
Whenever I see stock photography, I'm reminded of Ancient Greek theater. This is what happens when you put yourself in debt in order to attend a fancy art school. You justify the burden by seeing the arts in practically everything.Anyway! In Ancient Greece, actors wore big masks … | Continue reading
Waze is opening up a carpooling service in San Francisco, 10 months after launching the service in Tel Aviv. Domestically, it’s called ‘Waze Carpool’ (it’s ‘RideWith’ in Tel Aviv) and requires a separate app. For now, Waze Carpool is “invite-only to a select group of employers an … | Continue reading
Audio enhancement is never going to be an easy sell. You’re basically trying to sell something people don’t know they’re missing. Sure, the audio coming out of your everyday iPhone earbuds is "meh" at best, but for most people it’s good enough.BoomCloud 360, though, contends it c … | Continue reading
GoButler, the startup that originally offered a virtual assistant that let you request anything on-demand, appears to be pivoting for a second (and maybe final) time. This time the New York-headquartered company is shuttering the GoButler consumer-facing service altogether in fav … | Continue reading
Months after adding VR support to its Android version of YouTube, Google is bringing the feature to iPhone users. An update to the iOS YouTube app notes that it now comes with Google Cardboard support, a feature that's been notably absent so far. By selecting the small Cardboard … | Continue reading
Apple today rolled out a key update to iOS 9.3. Version 9.3.2 solves one niggling problem with iOS 9’s Low Power Mode for extending the lasting power of the last 20 percent of an iOS device. In that mode, the Night Shift feature introduced in iOS 9.3 — for lowering the color temp … | Continue reading
For all of the talk there is in how virtual reality is going to usher in some dark, utopian age where people are huddled in corners with VR headsets strapped to their faces… That’s just not where things are headed right now. VR has a lot of impact for social change. We’ve talked … | Continue reading
In a public statement, Tesla has responded to accusations that it used cheap foreign labor to build a paint shop at one of its factories. The accusations came in a report from The Mercury News, alleging that a sub-contractor misused foreign worker visas, underpaid its employees, … | Continue reading
A Dark Souls 3 fan has made a mod that lets you play From Software's latest action-RPG from a first-person perspective.Made by modder Zulliethewitch - who created a similar mod for both Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 - makes the game look like From's King's Field series of first-per … | Continue reading
Apple released a minor update for iOS today, bringing us to version 9.3.2. Mainly a bug-fixing update, 9.3.2 solves a Bluetooth issue for the iPhone SE which prevented playback, and makes dictionary definitions more reliable. It also brings the ability to use Night Shift and Low … | Continue reading
Sony Mobile East Asia executives revealed a plan to consolidate the company’s disparate handset lines under the Xperia X brand, in a presentation to reporters (via Phone Arena). First introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February, the lineup now consists of … | Continue reading
Today, David Chang, owner of the Momofuku Group and patron saint of monosodium glutamate, is launching a new, delivery-only restaurant called Ando. The app is now available in iOS and Android. But before you fire up your smartphone with visions of Milk Bar cookies, fried chicken, … | Continue reading
Eine neue Beta-Version von WhatsApp für Android bietet die Option für Videotelefonie an. Damit dürfte die Zeit vorbei sein, in der Messenger wie WhatsApp primär für Textnachrichten und Emojis benutzt werden. Seit sechs Mona... | Continue reading
Having played hundreds of action adventure games over the years, the thirst is still very much intact. To many people out there there's only so many times you can adventure with Samus in space, or take an anthropomorphic rabbit on a quest to remember his past before you started t … | Continue reading
The newest edition to Lenovo's Vibe lineup of phones, the Vibe C, is the latest ultra low-cost smartphone with enough power to be a decent backup device for some users (or at least a great burner). The Lenovo Vibe C comes with a 5-inch 720p display, a quad-core processor, 4G LTE … | Continue reading
Hyundai announced today that SangYup Lee, one of the stars of the automotive design world, will be joining the company next month. Lee spent time at GM where he designed the 2006 Camaro concept that led the pony car's revival; more recently, he's led exterior design at Bentley, w … | Continue reading
And now, the moment all foodies in New York have been waiting for… David Chang, owner of the wildly popular line of Momofuku restaurants, is today launching Ando, the latest to join the franchise. But Ando isn’t quite like the Ssäm Bar or the Noodle Bar or even the Milk Bar. To t … | Continue reading
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A Singapore-based firm has expressed its interests to experiment with blockchain technology to strengthen its data storage and security services. Acronis, as the name is titled, has recently employed a research and development facility to look into the Bitcoin’s distributed ledge … | Continue reading
Independent developers (and even teams) often have trouble with code review, but a new Chrome plugin for use with GitHub can automate that process, and even grade your repos. Called Code Climate, the plugin can be configured to scan your repos based on the issues you want it to l … | Continue reading
The Game of Game of Thrones is a fantasy game based on a fantasy show, but we're not the only Double Fantasy in town. It's come to our attention that a thinly-written fan-made character, built on the most indulgent impulses of the worst corner of internet fandom, seems to have ma … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 developer From Software recently released a PC patch to fix some of the game's PvP glitches. Unfortunately, it made things worse by causing the game to freeze for a lot of folks. As such, From just removed the update."The patch has been removed temporarily to fix the … | Continue reading
Gatecoin has claimed that it lost as much as 185,000 ethers and 250 bitcoins, an amount worth roughly $2.14m at press time. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: A new paradigm is rocking the mobile world. It’s the unstoppable shift to artificial intelligence and messaging and away from apps as we know them. It’s changing the way we use our devices, and it’s allowing brands to interact with customers with more immediacy and ease … | Continue reading
Rumors about video calling in WhatsApp have been around for almost as long as those about voice calling, but now we have the first sign the company may be getting closer to releasing the feature widely. First spotted by FoneArena, multiple beta testers saw the feature show up wit … | Continue reading
In the UK, politicians, film stars and CEOs are currently under the spotlight for squirrelling away cash in an attempt to avoid tax.Whether you're a rich tycoon with an empire in property or a politician's dad with an offshore trust fund, it seems like no one wants to pay more th … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Monday revealed a new stake in Apple in a bet that the stock’s price could rebound after iPhone sales fell for the first time. Berkshire held 9.81 million Apple shares worth $1.07 billion as of March 31, according to a regulatory … | Continue reading
What are you willing to believe?Are you willing to believe that a man who photoshopped his own body onto Rihanna's shoulder not two weeks ago hates being a meme? Are you willing to believe that a musician who recently rapped the lines "I do my own propaganda" and "L-O-L-O-L I'm g … | Continue reading
Google-owned navigation app Waze is expanding its ride-sharing ambitions with the launch of a pilot program in the San Francisco Bay area which will allow employees of select companies to carpool to and from work via Waze’s carpooling service. This program is similar to the servi … | Continue reading
Oh man, that first Total War: Warhammer reveal. Do you remember watching it? Finally, these two franchises were working together and it looked absolutely in… | Continue reading
Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is the unanimous winner of the Kia NBA Rookie of the Year award. | Continue reading
500 Startups’ 16th demo day just wrapped up, and the firm is already turning its eyes to its next batch of companies. More than 40 startups are participating in this batch of companies. From softer baby products to tools for creating and distributing vertical videos (a big focus … | Continue reading
Auf Basis von Daten, die Cisco kürzlich veröffentlicht hat, hat die NCTA (National Cable & Telecommunications Association) eine einfache wie eindringliche Visualisierung angefertigt. Bis zum Jahr 2020 sollen nämlich über 50... | Continue reading
Slither.io [Free] combines the classic eat-em-up experience of Snake, the granddaddy of all mobile games, with massively multiplayer action. Slither.io started as a web-based game, but made the leap to iOS in March of 2016. It’s just had a major update this week and it continues … | Continue reading
Last week, Amazon released a new kind of Dash button we’ve all been waiting for: one you can program to merge just about any internet-connected devices together. It all sounds great in theory and seemingly affordable for $20 – until you realize that the battery is not rechargeabl … | Continue reading
Samsung has a special offer for those of you who are planning on purchasing a Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge. | Continue reading
It seems like every week brings a new activity tracker from Garmin. And hey, like clockwork, the navigation-turned-fitness-wearable manufacturer kicked off the week with a new one – or, rather, an upgrade to an old classic. The Vivosmart HR+ is, as the name not so subtly implies, … | Continue reading
If you love art but can't decide what to hang on your wall, well today is your lucky day. Acanvas is a customizable art display that can stream a rotating selection of curated artwork. The eponymous company is a spinoff of LG and has launched a Kickstarter to raise funding. Users … | Continue reading
Google-owned GPS driving app Waze is trialing a new carpooling service in the Bay Area, following a similar pilot it launched in Israel last summer. The new service, which is backed by the brand new Waze Rider app for Android and iOS, is an invite-only affair for now, restricted … | Continue reading