SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket stuck another landing last week, making it three times now the reusable rocket has blasted off and arrived back safely on Earth. At the time, people following the launch on live stream had to make do with limited footage of the touchdown, but SpaceX has n … | Continue reading
Last month, Uber agreed to pay $84 million to settle lawsuits in California and Massachusetts to the 385,000 plaintiffs in two cases brought against it in 2013, over whether its drivers should be classified as employees. That’s a pittance compared to what it would have had to pay … | Continue reading
(Bild: Noam Galai/Getty Images/TechCrunch)Die sprachgesteuerten Assistenten in unseren Smartphones und Computern könnten bald viel, viel besser werden. "Viv" heißt die neue Generation der Künstlichen Intelligenz, die Siri, Cortana... | Continue reading
Mobile apps increasingly act as the digital gatekeepers of our daily routine, whether we're accessing our bank accounts or dating, but can they be trusted?On Tuesday, Deloitte release its annual privacy index of the top 116 consumer brands operating in Australia across 13 sectors … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price continued to stay under a bearish pressure vs the US Dollar, and may trade a few points lower. Yesterday’s highlighted bearish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD continued to act as a resistance. The price is now … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis Bitcoin price is starting to trend higher on its short-term time frame, moving inside a rising channel on its 1-hour chart. Price is currently testing the channel resistance around $465 and might be due for a move back towards support. If so, a bo … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission is moving to limit the number of times government debt collectors can robocall individuals. The commission approved a proposal last week that would only allow collectors to call three times a month, and only in situations when the debtor has … | Continue reading
Rancher Labs, a container management platform that supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B round. This new funding round was led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, a Chinese private equity and venture capital fund, with par … | Continue reading
Nearly 100% of internet users in Brazil use WhatsApp, more than any other messaging app or service; 87% said they use Facebook. | Continue reading
Many restaurants are looking to provide tech-enabled options this year, and according to January 2016 research, most US restaurant IT decision-makers plan to invest in technology to improve operational efficiency. | Continue reading
More ad tech buyers in North America and Western Europe manage their data management platform (DMP), as well as their demand-side platforms and ad exchanges, internally, as opposed to externally, a January 2016 survey found. | Continue reading
Smartphone users ages 10 to 29 in Japan are generally unwilling to download paid apps; those who do won’t pay much. | Continue reading
Three-quarters of US female social media users visit brand websites, apps or social media accounts at least a few times a week, according to February 2016 research. Almost a third do so daily. | Continue reading
Facebook began pushing in-stream video about two years ago, which has led to consumers wanting more viewable and shareable content. Matthew Corbin, head of global product marketing at Facebook, spoke with eMarketer about how brands have capitalized on this, as Facebook optimizes … | Continue reading
The glory of virtual reality is to live in another person's shoes — to feel what they feel, experience what they experience, and see what they see. The Eyse camera, which launches on Kickstarter today, aims to make that a possibility for anyone with a smartphone. Eyse's promotion … | Continue reading
The multitude of Moto leaks continue! HelloMotoHK has just posted a pic of a flagship device with "AMOLED & ShatterShield Screen". | Continue reading
T-Mobile has struck a roaming deal with state-owned Cuban carrier Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA), letting visitors to the island nation use voice, text, and data services from this summer. The move follows the Obama administration's loosening of travel and trad … | Continue reading
Norman Winarksy has joined Relay Ventures as its first-ever executive-in-residence (EIR), bringing his extensive experience as the former president of famed research lab SRI International to the Canadian-based venture firm. It’s said that he’ll advise the entrepreneurs in the por … | Continue reading
People love their smartphones but hate poor battery life. We love having access to the world’s information at our fingertips but tire of the need to constantly plug in to the world’s electricity grid. The recharging model of batteries fails us — the marketplace is ready for a new … | Continue reading
You don’t have to leave the internet to the young. And the truth is that fewer and fewer older people do. The internet is not hard to learn, and most people find that once they take the dive, they really enjoy it. What’s more, before long, you might be teaching your grandson a th … | Continue reading
Just a couple weeks after introducing a free and unlimited virtual private network (VPN) for its browser, Opera is doing the same on iOS. The company launched a new iOS app Monday that brings an unlimited free VPN to iPhones and iPads. SEE ALSO: Whack-a-mole between Netflix and V … | Continue reading
The average iPhone costs significantly more than the 'equivalent' Android phone. So why is Apple still able to command such an extravagant price? | Continue reading
Siri may be synonymous with the words "digital assistant," but Apple's sassy assistant will soon have a lot more competition — and it's going to come from the same people who first created Siri in 2007.Viv, a new artificial intelligence-powered assistant app, just made its formal … | Continue reading
REVIEW: We like watching numbers get bigger. Perhaps the simplest way of providing positive feedback to players, increasing numbers form the foundation of many different games, and with good reason. It’s the easiest way to show players they’re improving in a quantifiable manner, … | Continue reading
Pinterest, that Web and mobile app for saving and sharing Pins of images, videos, articles, and other content, has made a small but telling change to one part of its button for browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on desktop. The button has historically had the words “Pin it … | Continue reading
Twenty-five years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, the Information Age is coming to an end. Thanks to mobile screens and Internet everywhere, we’re now entering what I call the “Experience Age.” Read More | Continue reading
SourceClear, a startup with software for spotting potential vulnerabilities lying dormant in open-source code that could pose security issues for applications that rely on that code, is announcing today the launch of a free tier called Open. The idea here is to “work with the com … | Continue reading
Trump was once entertaining. He was a human cartoon character, a real-life being worthy of mockery for his half-baked ideas on how to “make America great again.” Now, the joke is far less funny and Trump is only a step away from the White House. If you need help transporting your … | Continue reading
Last week, Kuang-Chi, a Shenzhen-based technology conglomerate, launched a $300 million Israel fund in Tel Aviv to tap the country’s smart city know-how, according to the company’s founder Ruopeng Liu. Read More | Continue reading
Virtual reality can deliver on its promise to bring new and immersive experiences to the masses, but the current iteration of hardware will need to evolve first. Read More | Continue reading
Another superhero TV series is in the works: Syfy has ordered a pilot for a show titled Krypton, which will essentially be a prequel to Superman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will begin two generations before the planet Krypton's destruction (and Kal-El's expul … | Continue reading
Paul Bettner has been waiting for virtual reality for decades. That’s one reason why his VR gaming studio, Playful, created Lucky’s Tale as a launch game for the Oculus Rift VR headset. It launched as part of a bundle with the Rift on March 28, and it has drawn praise as a platfo … | Continue reading
To bridge the gap between perception and skill we need to build on technique, says the emperor Hadrian in Memoirs of Hadrian via Marguerite Yourcenar. Describing the emperor's early years: “I was beginning to have my legend, that strange flashing reflection made up partly of what … | Continue reading
We already know what the Honor V8 will be running under the hood, but now we've seen some shots of it out in the wild. | Continue reading
Lenovo's next Moto phones have surfaced via leaked images over the past few days, and Venture Beat has published an interesting report hinting at some big plans — modular ones — for the upcoming devices. It seems that Lenovo will follow LG's lead in building add-ons that owners o … | Continue reading
If you were looking for a new Final Fantasy game to get excited for, the just-announced Final Fantasy Brave Exvius might be just what the doctor ordered. You can sign up on the game's site to pre-register to get "powerful items" to use when the game launch. The whole teaser site … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The online marketplace Groupon has sued IBM, accusing it of infringing a patent related to technology that helps businesses solicit customers based on the customers’ locations at a given moment. Groupon filed its lawsuit on Monday with the federal court in its hometow … | Continue reading
A new video from private spaceflight venture Blue Origin gives people a different perspective of the company's New Shepard rocket returning to Earth from space. The footage, taken from a camera on top of the vehicle during an April 2nd test flight, shows the changing landscape ar … | Continue reading
A trio of games make the bulk of the money from the lucrative Japanese mobile app market, and one of those is continuing its push into the West. More than 10 million people have downloaded Puzzle & Dragons in North America, according to developer GungHo Online Entertainment. The … | Continue reading
The Creative Assembly (Alien: Isolation) 3D artist James Brady has recreated the Midwich Elementary School scene from Silent Hill in Unreal Engine 4.Amusingly, Brady's colleague at The Creative Assembly, Liam Tart, offered a similar treatment of Half-Life 2 when he replicated Val … | Continue reading
There's a handful of Apple-compatible smart home products already on the market, but as of right now, you can't control them via one master app or hub. This is one of the biggest disadvantages of Apple HomeKit — the software framework that smart gadget builders use to make their … | Continue reading
Ether prices experienced only modest movements on 9th May despite its listing on a major US exchange. | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 modder googl4 has created a mod that makes From Software's latest action-RPG look an awful lot like Limbo with a completely colourless palette.… | Continue reading
President Obama’s administration has made large strides towards opening up relations with Cuba, and mobile phone carriers are taking advantage. T-Mobile today announced it’s inked a deal with the Empresa De Telecomunicaciones De Cuba. Thanks to today’s agreements, T-Mobile post-p … | Continue reading
In this article we aim to highlight the most action-packed phones coming to the market in the near future. Let's take a look! | Continue reading
One of the most amazing sections of Miniatur Wunderland — a massive model railway installation in Hamburg, Germany that is Guinness-certified as the largest in the world — is the Knuffigen Airport. It's a huge model airport with dozens of planes and associated airport vehicles, a … | Continue reading
Netflix has picked up its first reality show: an athletic competition series with a title that's likely donned several bad fantasy novels — Ultimate Beastmaster. According to Variety, the series will have athletes from across the globe running through a "demanding" obstacle cours … | Continue reading
Finding an eventual replacement for Disney Chairman Robert Iger could be a costly endeavor for Walt Disney Co. WSJ's Lee Hawkins explains the details. | Continue reading