The founder of Liberty Reserve, a private digital currency system that was a predecessor of bitcoin, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. | Continue reading
Bike2 has built a chainless electric bike motor that it hopes will become a major part of bicycle manufacturing moving forward. The chainless e-drive system will allow manufacturers (at whom it's targeted) to outfit standard bicycles with an electric motor that can be recharged a … | Continue reading
Since Facebook rolled out chat bots in Messenger in April, programmers have created bots to deliver news on demand, provide medical advice, and request an Uber. Now there's a bot that one day could save your life.SEE ALSO: Here's how bots work on Facebook MessengerThe 911bot allo … | Continue reading
OverNest, a startup that was launched just over a year by several technology industry veterans, announced its first product called GitZero today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition in Brooklyn, NY — and it’s a pretty exciting product that makes encrypted cod … | Continue reading
Verizon's version of the Galaxy S7 is already carrying a pretty hefty bloatware load -- and the most recent OTA update included an application that loads yet more apps without user input. | Continue reading
Facebook has responded to allegations that its contract news curators actively censored news from conservative publications when selecting which stories appear in its Trending Topics section. In a statement given to BuzzFeed News, the company does not actively deny that members o … | Continue reading
We’re heading into summer, but the chilly relationship between government bodies and private tech businesses is growing frostier by the day. In the latest development, it has emerged that Twitter requested one of its key B2B partners, Dataminr — a service that offers advanced soc … | Continue reading
If you've got a Google Cardboard headset, the right emulator, and the willingness to make a few tweaks, you can be playing Virtual Boy again in no time. | Continue reading
As self-driving cars are not quite ready yet, bike accidents are still a thing, unfortunately. Sometimes, stupid monkey brains can’t see someone riding a bike. Lumenus wants to fix that with smart clothes and accessories for runners, cyclists and motorcyclists. The company is tak … | Continue reading
A 15-year-old kid from Maine is turning his collection of 200 vintage Apple computers into a museum exhibit. It will be one of the largest collections available for viewing in the United States. Alex Jason began collecting Apple devices at the age of 10, acquiring a lot of 50 com … | Continue reading
Krishnan house was completed in 2015 by Khosla Associates in Bengaluru, India. The 16,000 sft site of the Krishnan house had ... | Continue reading
Facebook says it’s against the company’s trending topic curation policy to suppress or prioritize specific political views in its Trending topics, and that it has guidelines in place to preserve consistency and neutrality there. This would imply that blame for any deviation from … | Continue reading
If you've been playing Hearthstone [Free] for some time now, then you probably have a few copies of the Classic cards Blizzard nerfed just prior to Whispers of the Old Gods and Standard hitting. If you remember, on April 20th Blizzard dropped the hammer on several cards in order … | Continue reading
Home Wi-Fi is a vital, fickle friend, and thankfully a handful of companies are doing something about it. The most prominent among these is probably Google's OnHub, but now Ubiquiti Networks is getting into the mix with it's new Amplifi product. Instead of offering a single fix-a … | Continue reading
After scoring multiple No. 1 hits as a featured guest and racking up dozens of top 10 singles, Drake has finally earned his first solo chart-topping-single. According to Billboard, "One Dance" — one of the first two singles cut from Drake's new album Views, along with "Pop Style" … | Continue reading
Today, Uber and Lyft took their ride hailing services offline in Austin, Texas, leaving drivers scrambling for other means of making income, and riders stranded or seeking another mode of transportation.Here’s why: this week, Austin voters upheld a rule that would require Uber, L … | Continue reading
Stephen Curry is adding a second straight MVP award to his record-setting season. | Continue reading
In January of 2015, it was announced that Scarlett Johansson would star as Major Motoko Kusanagi in Paramount's live-action adaptation of the beloved anime and manga franchise Ghost in the Shell. The reaction at the time was mild to positive —€” mostly because it seemed to make a … | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of ways to get a satisfactory caffeine fix these days, and some of them are mighty high-tech. Spinn Coffee’s new machine, demonstrated on stage at Disrupt NY today, claims one of the most high-tech of all — but this elaborate centrifugal brewing method may be … | Continue reading
Retargeting users after they leave your site, particularly if they haven’t taken any action, is crucial to eliminating lost leads, and expanding the ability to create and retain customers. Lifecycle marketing, which is often associated with email alone, needs to be going hand in … | Continue reading
Jide's Remix Mini lets people use Android more like a desktop, and although the OS remains integral to the company's work, it's relationship with Google is changing. Jide released an optional update this past week that removes Google Mobile Services from future and current Remix … | Continue reading
With 'The Angry Birds Movie' right around the corner I have a feeling we'll be in for an Angry Birds-palooza of new games and merchandise to hype the release of their big screen debut. It's not even been two weeks since Rovio did the worldwide launch of the pinball-esque Angry Bi … | Continue reading
Halo Neuroscience wants to build a new category of wearable. Not for passively tracking human activity, as so many existing wearables are, but for actively and positively influencing physical abilities — or that’s the claim — using an existing neurostimulation technique called tr … | Continue reading
Two days after being jettisoned by the Memphis Grizzlies, Dave Joerger has landed in Sacramento. | Continue reading
What if finding a job were as easy as playing a game? Well Scoutible, thinks its smartphone games have what it takes to assess the aptitude and traits required for certain professions. The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on Monday. With work experience at the W … | Continue reading
Snapchatters, rejoice! The app teenagers are addicted to and adults can't seem to figure out has been updated with the ability to zoom in via the camera without needing to lift your thumb off the capture button.In previous versions of Snapchat, the only way to zoom in was to use … | Continue reading
Just because a car needs to go fast doesn't mean it can't also travel in style.Alfa Romeo presented two special editions of its new Giulia Quadrifoglio high-performance sports sedan to the Italian national military police, the Carabinieri, on Monday morning.SEE ALSO: The Hyperloo … | Continue reading
It’s easier to close a client who finds you than one you go out and find. For sure. So how can we help them find us? Inbound marketing. Thought leadership. And first impressions. Think about becoming a magnet for the right audience. Become easily findable, irresistible, and belie … | Continue reading
Facebook’s news algorithm has come under fire lately, and a new report claims it tends to err on the side of liberals. To its credit, Facebook isn’t shying away from the news. In the ‘trending’ section, Facebook has called itself out, noting the report calls it ‘suppressive.’ Tho … | Continue reading
Practically everyone who has ever considered a tattoo know the old parental refrain of “you’ll have it forever.” It’s a fairly stark warning tinged with the regret of a generation covered in inked relics of disco and popular culture past. Some temporary solutions do exist, includ … | Continue reading
DT Ignite is an app Verizon may have installed on your Samsung Galaxy S7, and it has the capability to download more apps without your permission. | Continue reading
Jeet Raut’s mom was told she no longer had breast cancer. But it turned out to be a false diagnosis and she had to undergo further treatment. She’s okay now, but that medical mistake could have cost her life and it gave Raut the idea to build a better way to catch medical abnorma … | Continue reading
Microsoft has begun experimenting with showing tweets in its Bing search results, just like how Google search results started featuring tweets last year. It’s possible to see the test in live Bing search results in the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explor … | Continue reading
When B.J. Novak, best known for exec producing, writing and starring as Ryan on “The Office,” teamed up with Dev Flaherty to create a mobile application that allowed people to create lists and share them with others, they gave it a playfully anti-tech name: “The List App.” But fo … | Continue reading
The gaming community is one of the most vibrant and powerful groups on the internet. The power of platforms like Twitch to unite gamers interested in watching streams of other people playing video games seems intensely foreign to those outside the community but has quickly become … | Continue reading
The formatting and structure of the Google search results page may be one of the most user-tested websites in the history of the internet. So it comes as a bit of surprise that Google would tinker with its prized jewel in one small but noticeable fashion: turning the color of lin … | Continue reading
According to a CNBC report covering the Consensus event in New York former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers told the audience how blockchain technology will disrupt the current way we handle finances. Summers gave a three-part summary of his vision of how distributed le … | Continue reading
Minimum viable smartphone - how I coped when I lost my iPhone in the back of a cab in Tokyo...… Continue reading Minimum viable smartphone → | Continue reading
Foursquare’s business looks a whole lot different than it used to. New CEO Jeff Glueck and co-founder Dennis Crowley know it — and they still have a plan to hit $100 million in revenue, and profitability, in the next few years. The talked about some of their efforts, like focusin … | Continue reading
The latest update for Periscope adds drone integration, a search function and an ability to save live streams. It’s a significant update for a social network that revolves entirely around sharing moments and interactions through comments on a live stream. The saving feature is st … | Continue reading
Minecraft on the Xbox hit an anniversary, and Microsoft wants to give you a gift to celebrate. The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft turns four years old today, and Microsoft is giving away the 4th Birthday Skin Pack for free to everyone playing Xbox editions of the game. This means … | Continue reading
The research arm of SWIFT released a new report today which argues that blockchain won't replace all third parties in securities trade. | Continue reading
From NBA.com staff reports Just two days after being fired by the Memphis Grizzlies, coach David Joerger has agreed to a deal to become the coach of the Sacramento Kings. Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical reports Joerger and the Kings have agreed to a deal to make him the next c … | Continue reading
The skin is the body’s largest organ, but replacing it has proven a complex and so far unsuccessful quest. Monday, researchers say they have developed a “second skin” made of polymer that is strong, stretchy and adherent, just like the real thing.“It’s kind of like an invisible S … | Continue reading
Learn image optimization! Want to learn image SEO? In this video, you will learn the goals of image optimization, how to optimize images for the page level, Google image search and even social media marketing. Scroll Down to Watch the Image SEO Video on YouTube There is a lot tha … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: The idea of one monolithic marketing cloud may be misunderstood. Xero CMO Andy Lark joins VB’s director of marketing technology Stewart Rogers to look at the reality of cloud-based marketing solutions and how best to use them to break down crippling marketing silos. R … | Continue reading
When asked, "Will it be warmer than 70 degrees near the Golden Gate Bridge after 5PM the day after tomorrow?” Viv didn't even flinch. | Continue reading