Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing firm that leads Uber in China, has denied that it plans to go public in the U.S. next year following a report from Bloomberg. Read More | Continue reading
Nintendo is in talks with various partners about developing movies and other video content based on its popular IP. In an interview with the Asahi Shimbun, CEO and president Tatsumi Kimishima says the company needs to invest in video production and wants to be successful on a glo … | Continue reading
Okay, so the 1993 ‘Super Mario Bros.’ movie wasn’t exactly a hit. But that doesn’t mean Nintendo characters can’t make for a fun flick. The company thinks so too; its CEO Tatsumi Kimishima told Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun that Nintendo will release feature-length films in th … | Continue reading
A beta version of WhatsApp for Android included the option to initiate a video call. It looks like we’re in the final stages before the rollout. | Continue reading
Microsoft’s automatic Windows 10 updates may be a convenient way to deliver new features and fixes, but they can interrupt your work or hijack your gaming session without warning or allowing you to save your progress before a restart. Thankfully, a fix is coming. Windows Central … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price, after trading a few points above the $11.00 level vs the US Dollar, found sellers and moved down. There is a bullish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD, which is currently acting as a support area. The price is n … | Continue reading
Amazon will soon roll out its own private-label brands of common household items like coffee, diapers, and other perishable groceries, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The offerings will consist of perishable goods like baby food, tea, coffee, spices, and non-p … | Continue reading
NXP is announcing today it has created the underlying silicon for a self-driving car that could hit the market around 2020. Of course, someone else will have to actually supply the software brains that enables a car to drive itself. That is the hard part.But the Austin, Texas-bas … | Continue reading
Taqtile Mobility said it has teamed up with Microsoft to create a demo for the PGA Tour using the HoloLens augmented-reality headset. Seattle-based Taqtile said it has created an AR demo that shows golf players historical data and scoring information on the infamous 17th hole at … | Continue reading
Generally, internet users want a convenient and secure mobile experience, a February 2016 survey found. Over the next three years, respondents expect the mobile experience to not only be more personalized, but also something that can adapt and react to location. | Continue reading
Retail marketers in the US will invest $15.09 billion in paid digital media advertising in 2016, a 14.9% rise over 2015. The retail industry will remain by far the largest digital ad spender among US industry sectors tracked by eMarketer through at least 2020. | Continue reading
Roughly two-thirds of US agency and marketing professionals said they expect to increase their desktop video ad spending, as well as mobile video ad spending, within the next 12 months, according to March 2016 research. | Continue reading
Marketer interest in brand-based mobile advertising is growing in China, with the format seeing a more than 10-percentage-point increase in ad traffic share between 2014 and 2015 vs. performance-based mobile advertising. A gap between consumers’ time spent with mobile devic … | Continue reading
More than two-thirds of adults use online and offline interchangeably for research and buying. But physical retailers feel the heat, as digitally empowered consumers look for better in-store services. | Continue reading
When you pull the pin on a hand grenade, you have four seconds from the time you release the spoon — the aluminum lever that holds down the fuse trigger — until it explodes. Four seconds can be a very long time. Read More | Continue reading
LONDON (Reuters) — Google faces a record antitrust fine of around 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) from the European Commission in the coming weeks, British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph said. The European Union has accused Google of promoting its shopping service in Internet sear … | Continue reading
Who remembers Pokemon Snap? The game was released in 1999 for N64 as a rail “shooter”, and let you take pictures of Pokemon while riding through different courses. But while your path through each level was predetermined, the photographs were not. Meaning users had free control o … | Continue reading
Google is using romance novels to teach its artificial intelligence (AI) system to better understand how people communicate.Researchers at Google Brain, the company's AI-focused deep learning project, presented a paper earlier this month that detailed techniques they used to teac … | Continue reading
How do you write shareable blog posts? Are there any rules, besides the good-old “be creative” advice? We have 8 writing tips that will make you the master of social media. | Continue reading
Telegram has released an update to its communication app that now lets you edit your messages after they’ve been sent. This feature works across all chat types including with groups and individual conversations. Other features that have been added include being able to mention an … | Continue reading
The laws that govern blogging and copyright infringement are serious issues. They could lead to jail time and heavy penalties. This infographic can help. | Continue reading
PARIS (Reuters) — Three French anti-racism associations said on Sunday they would file legal complaints against social networks Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube for failing to remove “hateful” content posted on their platforms. French law requires websites to take down rac … | Continue reading
Online retail giant Amazon is planning to dramatically increase the private-label products it will be offering to consumers in the next few weeks, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. SEE ALSO: You can now ask Amazon Echo's Alexa to track your packagesProducts rangin … | Continue reading
If you're often away from home and concerned about power outages, then a company called iSocket Systems has you covered. It's created a product called the iSocket 3G — a power outlet that'll text you when the power goes out. It uses a small battery backup, a cellular radio, and a … | Continue reading
Glenn Beck will soon meet with Mark Zuckerberg to discuss the recent controversy over the social network's "Trending Topics" section.Facebook's chief executive previously said he would invite conservative leaders to the company's headquarters to discuss the issue. SEE ALSO: Dear … | Continue reading
POP will surely alleviate some of your battery woes. It is basically a portable battery pack that sticks to the back of your Android smartphone. | Continue reading
Flash's death has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow. Google has detailed plans to start blocking most Flash content with Chrome, with the change targeted toward the end of this year.Under its current vision, nearly every website would have … | Continue reading
The MacBook is many things, most of them good. One thing many lament about it (or any MacBook) is the lack of internal storage. That’s where LaCie’s Porsche Design USB-C drive comes in. At 10mm thin (0.4 inches), the 2TB model I tested slipped into a bag with ease. Both the 1TB a … | Continue reading
Not getting your child vaccinated is dangerous and dumb, and the Ontario government wants to educate the parents who think otherwise. It introduced legislation this week that, if passed, would require parents to attend an educational session before they're allowed to get a vaccin … | Continue reading
Rovio Entertainment has bet the company on The Angry Birds Movie, which debuted this weekend in numerous territories and hits the U.S. on May 20. And the Finnish company just announced that the film has grossed $43 million in its opening weekend and hit No. 1 in 37 markets. Rovio … | Continue reading
Although there is still a lot of hype surrounding 3D printing and how it may or may not be the next industrial revolution, the cost of printing continues to drop while the quality of 3D prints continues to rise. This development can be traced to advanced 3D printing technologies … | Continue reading
Amazon may be about to start selling food and baby products under its own private labels. According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon will begin offering house-branded coffee, nuts, and spices, as well as baby food and diapers, through a series of new private labels that it'll b … | Continue reading
Last year was a massive year for mergers, with industry giants like Dell and Aol finally closing deals that were large enough to make 2015 a record-breaking year. Predictions mostly held that 2016 would be another huge year for mergers, as they are one of the best ways to continu … | Continue reading
GUEST: On May 16, 2016 — Monday — securities-based crowdfunding goes live in the United States. This means that any American entrepreneur can go out and raise up to $1 million from friends, family, and social network for their startup or small business. However, this isn’t your t … | Continue reading
The reimagining of Nancy Drew may not find its way to TV — not at CBS, at least. Deadline reports that CBS passed on the show after seeing its pilot. The show was supposed to update the classic teenage detective as an NYPD detective in her 30s, who continues using her observation … | Continue reading
This is the second post in my Command Line Monday series. On Unix-like operating systems there is a large number of command line tools for text-processing. One of this tools is called fold and helps you to wrap lines to a certain length. fold is part of the Single UNIX Specificat … | Continue reading
Amazon may be looking to expand its private-label brands to include more perishable food and household items such as nuts, spices, coffee, diapers, laundry detergent, and baby food. It’s reported that this roll out will take place sometime around the end of this month or in early … | Continue reading
Does your smartphone keep using the wrong app to open files and execute procedures? Learn how to change your default apps in this handy beginner's guide. | Continue reading
Fundraising is a game of competition. VCs compete against other VCs to fund the latest startups. Startups compete with other startups to attain funding from the brand name VCs.So, to be successful fundraising, “the founder must create a competitive process between VCs,” according … | Continue reading
Here is what you need to know if you are looking to permanently delete your Google or Gmail account. | Continue reading
Google is training AI to speak more naturally, and the early results are pretty entertaining. As spotted by Quartz, Google recently presented a paper describing how it's trying to train AI to naturally fill in the gaps between one sentence and another unrelated sentence. To do th … | Continue reading
Drone owners are a dedicated bunch of hobbyists, and clearly have no issue spending quite a bit on their aircraft. Though it’s a touch on the expensive side, the Manfrotto D1 Drone Backpack is probably an accessory every drone owner should have. The D1 was designed for the DJI Ph … | Continue reading
Blockchain technology, initially developed to record and confirm all digital currency transactions happening over the bitcoin network is increasingly being used in various industries. Given that bitcoin is a kind of decentralized financial network, the banking, and financial inst … | Continue reading
The composition of theatergoers' breath fluctuates along with movie scenes, according to a study published this week in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Johannes Gutenberg University found that they could reliably map the ch … | Continue reading
When Apple first introduced the MacBook, it was a massive technological leap forward. Its recent upgrade seemed incremental, especially when some are hoping for a new Pro. Many were confused by Apple’s move, and the prevailing thinking was that Apple simply offered up a spec bump … | Continue reading
Google has outlined a plan to push HTML5 by default in Chrome, instead of Flash. In Q4 2016, the company plans to only serve Flash by default for the top 10 domains that still depend on the plugin. Chrome will display the HTML5 experience if it’s available, but if Flash is requir … | Continue reading
Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have been toiling away at augmented reality for years at their startup, CastAR. Their ambition to make a fun AR product has been cooking for a while, and they’re taking a very different approach to the next-generation gaming platform. And given Ell … | Continue reading