E-hail company Gett announced a new fee structure for its drivers in New York City this week, prominently advertising a 10 percent take from fares — a commission that undercuts Uber by at least 10 percent. Gett also lets passengers tip their drivers and lets them keep all of it; … | Continue reading
CapGemini took its latest step on its bid to dramatically increase its investment in blockchain tech this week, announcing a retail payments trial. | Continue reading
BorderLeap is keeping very busy this month, with several of their games set to get updates. BorderLeap's latest entry in their most popular franchise, Harmony 3 [$0.99], just got a big update that adds in 30 new levels as part of the Encore path. These levels are particularly tri … | Continue reading
In today’s digital world, everyday functions such as making dinner reservations or hailing a taxi are done at the touch of a button. Similarly, other, more complex and esoteric functions, such as wealth management, are also moving toward automation. This evolution is enabled by t … | Continue reading
Spend any time tapping out emoji and you've probably noticed that women are confined to three principal roles: bride, princess and dancer. While these are lovely things to be, the limited selection grows tiresome quickly, especially in contrast to emojis that show men as a police … | Continue reading
Researchers at Stanford are trying to give drones another of insects' useful traits: the ability to land on vertical walls, and even upside down. They've already gotten pretty far on a system that lets drones do that. As one of the researchers writes at IEEE Spectrum, the setup h … | Continue reading
It looks like Blizzard has another hit on its hands. The open beta for its team-based shooter Overwatch — which lasted from May 5 to May 10 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC — attracted 9.7 million players. That’s a lot. Blizzard is calling it its most successful beta ever. If e … | Continue reading
The LG Phoenix is a new budget phone for AT&T's GoPhone prepaid carrier, priced at just $100 and with Android 6.0 Marshmallow on-board. | Continue reading
Communication in the harsh, uninhabited and undeveloped environment of the Australian Outback is a huge challenge. That’s why Paul Gardner-Stephen, a senior lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, has partnered with Toyota and the communications and advertising agency Saatch … | Continue reading
Apple, which recently launched a music streaming service, will continue to offer music downloads — an industry it helped legitimize — for a long time. The question now is how long is long?A report surfaced on Wednesday saying plans to terminate iTunes music downloads in two years … | Continue reading
Disney Research has built an incredibly accurate telepresence robot that can nearly match a human's motions one for one. The telepresence robot uses a combination of stereo cameras and an air and water hydraulics system, which allows for more precise controls by its human operato … | Continue reading
Overwatch's open beta had an astounding 9.7m players globally when it premiered last week on PS4, Xbox One and PC.That's the biggest open beta Blizzard has ever had.In the five days the beta was live folks spent more than 4.9bn minutes (that's over 81m hours) playing it.Read more … | Continue reading
It's been only a week since Ubisoft finally released the forever soft-launched Hungry Shark World [Free] in the App Store, and already the game is dipping into the double digits in terms of millions of downloads. During Ubisoft's year-end earnings release today, the company annou … | Continue reading
You know what to do at work today, but do you know why? Goals. Having clear goals is critical to keeping productivity and morale high on any team. Whether it’s a launch date, level of traction, sales quota, or hiring objective, teams perform better with well-defined motives. Latt … | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: How to Nail the Job Interview Source: Imgur Why we like it: How do you make sure you to rock that interview and land the job of your dreams? If you don't have a game plan already, SoFi.com got you covered with this sponsored post in Imgur. Great insights, us … | Continue reading
As NBA scouts, coaches, general managers and other staffers descended on Chicago for the league’s annual Draft Combine, the process of poking, prodding, measuring and timing the nation’s top pro prospects began in earnest. But at least one authority on what it takes to excel as a … | Continue reading
Star Trek Online is getting PS4 and Xbox One ports this autumn, publisher Perfect World Entertainment has announced.The free-to-play MMO launched six years… | Continue reading
The Amazon Echo has to be constantly plugged into a wall outlet to receive power and turn on. But what if it didn't? Mission Cables has built a small stand that you can place the Echo on, called the Battery Base, that plugs into the speaker and gives it enough power to play music … | Continue reading
In a post today, Facebook VP Justin Osofsky revealed more detail than ever before about the company's Trending Topics product, which faced accusations of liberal bias from a former employee earlier this week. In the post, Orlofsky detailed how potential topics are surfaced by an … | Continue reading
Visa, the electronic payments major has made its plans to create blockchain technology solutions at its technology development center in Bangalore. | Continue reading
Virtual reality is tech’s hottest topic right now, but very few consumers have access to the gear to watch VR content, and even fewer have the tools to make their own. Vuze wants to change that with its $799 VR camera. The device uses eight wide-angle 1080p cameras to stitch toge … | Continue reading
Graphics chip maker Nvidia reported earnings for its fIrst fiscal quarter ended April 30 that beat Wall Street’s expectations. Nvidia’s results are a bellwether for the PC industry, as the company is one of the largest makers of graphics chips. Its results are also indicators of … | Continue reading
Mitsubishi, days after admitting it had falsified fuel-efficiency ratings, just got snapped up by Nissan.SEE ALSO: Volvo's in-car delivery service will bring packages to your trunkNissan Motors announced Thursday that it will be purchasing a 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors for $2. … | Continue reading
Advanced Micro Devices announced today that board member John Caldwell has been appointed chairman. Caldwell succeeds Bruce Claflin as chairman of the board. Claflin had been chairman of the board since March 2009 and will continue to serve as an AMD board member. AMD is the No. … | Continue reading
A leaderless, distributed organization raised $50m worth of ether to invest in sharing economy projects, but how it came to be is largely a mystery. | Continue reading
Developers, known as a curmudgeonly bunch, typically take to mediums like Twitter to vent. The problem is that non-developers also use Twitter, and most of what is said goes sailing over their head — but devRant is specifically for developers. The app is a bit like YikYak in that … | Continue reading
The free-running reboot of Mirror's Edge doesn't launch until next month, but you can get a brief taste of it with the newly released theme song from Chvrches. It's called "Warning Sign," and it's actually a great fit; the band's light electronic sound feels at home in the bright … | Continue reading
UPDATE 13/05/2016 4.52pm: Hitman's first Elusive Target will go live at 5pm UK time. That's in just a few minutes!Here's a trailer detailing the first Elusi… | Continue reading
You can't accept a new kind of computer into your heart if you don't have a good way to input text. Hardly anyone picked up a smartphone until BlackBerry solved the thumb keyboard, and still most people didn't pick up smartphones until Apple solved the touchscreen keyboard. Some … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: We just finished our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, and we were pleased with how that went. Now we’re happy to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 will use as its theme “The Platform Awakens: A new hope for the game industry.” We’ve also got our first batch of speakers. Th … | Continue reading
4:33 Creative Lab, aka Four Thirty Three, makers of last year's hack 'n slash RPG Blade: Sword of Elysion [Free], have unveiled their next mobile project, a graphically rich side-scrolling strategy defense game called Seven Guardians. It's one of those side-scrolling castle defen … | Continue reading
Whatever your reason for leaving may be, escaping from the Twitter realm is not a very complicated task. Let's show you how it's done. | Continue reading
Rebuilding and Extension / Can Calau - From a listed farmhouse in a ruinous estate, located in the Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone in the .. | Continue reading
The company is ramping up Project Tango, its technology for 3D-sensing smartphones and tablets, and hopes to eventually make the technology "ubiquitous," according to a new report in Bloomberg.SEE ALSO: If you always get lost in museums or malls, you'll love 3D indoor navigationT … | Continue reading
I downloaded the new Gboard for iOS today, and have been really enjoying it so far. Along with wondering about what Google will tell advertisers now that they can read every single thing I type, I came to the realization that pretty much every major function of my iPhone has now … | Continue reading
NASA has announced that astronomers working with the Kepler space telescope have verified 1,284 new planets – more than doubling the number of previously confirmed planets from Kepler. In fact, this new batch was the single largest group of new validated planets to date.Astronome … | Continue reading
Armed with an iPhone, a Moleskine notebook and my trusty MacBook, I boarded a bus (one of many) with about 60 other journalists from nearly every national news source or tech publication I could think of. We were joined by investors, industry analysts and the kinds of people that … | Continue reading
So if you're eating lunch, maybe hold off on watching this first-person video of the Valravn. I'm a person with a delicate tummy, and I confess that, even from the safe confines of my desk, looking over the edge of this roller coaster made me a tad bit nauseous.Opening this summe … | Continue reading
Google Calendar now scans calendar events for conference call access codes and member IDs, allowing you to login to your call with just a couple of taps. | Continue reading
Big data company Palantir says it has no involvement with a Hong Kong cloud mining service that claims to be owned by it. | Continue reading
Fallen Tree Games has just delivered the Infinity update to Swapperoo [$2.99], which will let you play forever. Theoretically, you could play the game forever, but you could run out of electricity someday, and use up all the solar panels on Earth, and then the sun would someday c … | Continue reading
Finally, everything that I've ever wanted out of DIY engineering culture, virtual reality, and the internet have been delivered with the VR Robot Tank, which makes fart noises and quotes the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Kindergarten Cop."I feel like my body is inside the … | Continue reading
Jason Nazar set out to make work better with Comparably, and while he started with people’s salary and benefits, one area that hadn’t been addressed is equity people receive at their company. While this may not seem like a big deal to some, in the technology industry it can be pr … | Continue reading
Biographies have been published for all 26 of the contestants on the upcoming season of The Bachelorette, starring JoJo Fletcher as the Bachelorette. In these detailed accounts of 26 lives, portraits are painted of 26 different people who would love to marry JoJo.Early frontrunne … | Continue reading
Google today is open-sourcing SyntaxNet, a piece of natural-language understanding (NLU) software that you can use to automatically parse sentences, as part of its TensorFlow open source machine learning library. The release includes code for training new models, as well as a pre … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence. It’s dominating headlines with the promise of self-driving cars and virtual assistants becoming more real every day. But despite all the talk around AI, no one seems to really understand what it is or how companies can use it. Read More | Continue reading
Understanding human language is easy for humans. Not so for machines; making them understand human sentences is one of the biggest challenges in today's field of artificial intelligence (AI). Now, Google has open sourced its new English language parsing model, called Parsey McPar … | Continue reading
Say hello to Parsey McParseface.Yes, to get you to pay attention to what would otherwise be a fairly dense and nerdy thing, Google is using an homage to Boaty McBoatface for one of the software tools it's releasing today. But don't just laugh (or groan) at the name, what Google i … | Continue reading