Actor and entrepreneur Jessica Alba will appear on Apple's Planet of the Apps as a "mentor" for up-and-coming developers. She's the fourth big name to be added to the show's list of mentors, the last three including Will.i.am, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Gary Vaynerchuk.Alba's addition … | Continue reading
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Okta announced it was bringing identity management to APIs today at its Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas.For a long time, Okta was about connecting people with cloud applications such as ServiceNow, Salesforce or Office 365. A couple of years ago, the company extended that … | Continue reading
Okta has become the latest company to commit to the 1% pledge, giving away its services and technology to support the community. The identity management platform provider announced that nonprofits will be able to use any product within its Okta Identity Cloud for free — up to the … | Continue reading
You can now buy a Sense sleep monitoring system from Best Buy and Target. Starting today, target.com will carry Sense, with Best Buy’s online portal getting it “soon.” The system is expected to hit store shelves later this year. James Proud, CEO of the company behind Sense, Hello … | Continue reading
Snapchat wants to make your party planning easier.The mobile storytelling app has released customizable templates for geofilters, the in-app illustrations that are seen more than 1 billion times every day.Now, Snapchat users can go to the on-demand geofilter page on desktop to ac … | Continue reading
I’ve just released SCS, a session management package for Go 1.7+. Its design leverages Go’s new context package to automatically load and save session data via middleware. Importantly, it also provides the security features that you need when using server-side session stores … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price pushes higher, again, from horizontal support zone near $560. The outlook remains that the market is engaged in a sideways base formation prior to advance. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join n … | Continue reading
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Audi’s upcoming four-door luxury electric car will have a 311-mile range, along with Level 4 self-driving features (essentially full autonomy for those keeping track) and three separate electric motors, according to a new report from Autocar. The car is set to go head-to-head wit … | Continue reading
It was just last week that Sony announced that its PlayStation Now streaming service would be expanding to PC — and now it’s already available. The service lets users stream hundreds of different PS3 games for a single monthly fee of $19.99, making it something akin to Netflix fo … | Continue reading
If you pre-order the Fitbit Charge 2 or Flex 2 on Amazon right now you can enjoy a nice discount of between $20-35 off the RRP. | Continue reading
Twitter wants the kind of video creators YouTube has — and the massive audiences that come with them.To make this dream a reality, the company is pulling a page from YouTube’s playbook: It’s going to sell ads alongside creator videos and share that ad revenue with the people maki … | Continue reading
Von Sonos war heute zu hören, wie sich der Hersteller von drahtlosen Lautsprechen und Multiroom-Systemen die Zukunft des eigenen Ökosystems vorstellt. Die Änderungen bzw. Weiterentwicklungen bestätigen die Strategie, die sich vor... | Continue reading
The latest drone from Yuneec isn't targeted at drone enthusiasts, but at people who want to step up their Instagram game. The Yuneec Breeze is a $499 "flying camera" that can take 4K video and 13MP images that can easily be shared to your social media accounts through the accompa … | Continue reading
If summer movie season is when thought and reason are jettisoned in favor of explosions and bombast, then fall is when Hollywood decides to get serious. Or should we say, it's when Hollywood decides audiences are ready to get serious — because over the next few months a slew of O … | Continue reading
American Airlines doesn't know what to say. And they're having a lot of trouble saying it. They're making a fortune this year due to low oil prices, and one way to manage shareholder expectations for the future is to put... | Continue reading
Microsoft has been gradually detailing all the new car options in Forza Horizon 3 in recent months, but the company has saved a secret addition for Halo fans. Halo's Warthog will be driveable in Forza Horizon 3, alongside 350 other vehicles. It's the first time Microsoft has allo … | Continue reading
If CES is the tech industry's Super Bowl, IFA is like the NCAA Football Bowl. Not quite the trendsetting tech event of the year, but still worth getting excited for.Held annually in Berlin, Germany, IFA is essentially Europe's version of CES with one big key difference: It's open … | Continue reading
Google today announced a slew of Google+ updates. The redesigned Google+ is now rolling out to all users, a few new features have been added to the social network, and it is becoming a core Google for Work service. Google first showed off the new Google+ for the web, which puts a … | Continue reading
The US government's Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has announced the winners of a blockchain research paper contest. | Continue reading
Disembodied hands put a vinyl record on a turntable. It is not the turntable The Wirecutter recommends for casual listening. The taste of the owner of these hands is suspect.The hand-possessor sets the record to play. "Five years ago today" Your Friend became Facebook … | Continue reading
Despite progress in creating bug-resistant crops, pesticide is still one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways to ensure good produce yields. But the current approach actually involves applying a huge volume of pest-control poison – way more than you need, because just 2 … | Continue reading
Welcome to episode 17 of VB Engage, the VentureBeat podcast where we dissect mobile and marketing in a brutally honest way. This week, we take a look at the world of customer relationship management (CRM). Before you hit the snooze button, there’s a lot brewing in the world of mo … | Continue reading
Flipboard has launched another way for brands to easily advertise on its publishing platform with the creation of a private premium marketplace. Through a partnership with Rubicon Project, this invite-only offering lets select advertisers programmatically purchase advertising wit … | Continue reading
Washio, the on-demand laundry startup that launched in 2013, has today announced that it will shutter its service.In a letter posted to the website, Washio founders announced that the company will shut down operations, effective immediately. No new orders will go through the serv … | Continue reading
We still have some waiting to do before we find out more about Nintendo’s next console. Nintendo announced today that it will run a Nintendo Direct livestream on September 1, focusing on upcoming releases for its aging 3DS handheld system. Nintendo specifically told GamesBeat in … | Continue reading
There’s a chance you’re reading this on a public Wi-Fi network, being completely unprotected to dangers from people wanting to do your computer serious harm. You should use a VPN. Even though they are widely promoted, not enough people use them yet. At TNW, we actively support ev … | Continue reading
Dieses Projekt ist wohl genauso abwegig wie gruselig: Eine gemeinnützige Organisation namens RISE (Robots in Service of the Environment) tüftelt angeblich an einem autonomen Tauchroboter, der vor der US-Atlantikküste gezielt Jagd auf... | Continue reading
Conversable and Olo have partnered to help restaurants offer food-ordering bots to office workers — and those of us who often say, “Let’s order in” — using chat and messaging applications. The offering aims to help brands reach people at work via popular communications platforms … | Continue reading
Twitter is rolling out a new way for content creators to monetize their videos and work across the platform. The company’s Amplify Publisher program now supports the inclusion of pre-roll ads to videos, while its Media Studio and Engage apps have received updates designed to make … | Continue reading
One of gaming’s most outspoken developers has gone back to update one of her best-known releases. Brianna Wu and her Giant Spacekat studio are gearing up to release Revolution 60: Special Edition for Steam and iOS on September 6. This is an update to the original 2014 iOS release … | Continue reading
After opening up its Amplify program last fall to a wide range of publishers, Twitter says it’s expanding the video ad program again, this time to individual creators. After creators are approved for the program, the company says that when they’re about to tweet a video, they can … | Continue reading
Email marketing remains one of the best ways to boost your brand. Make sure you’re always growing your email list by using quality lead magnets. | Continue reading
If you’ve got a thing with a battery, odds are Belkin’s looking for a way to charge it. If Belkin already charges it, the company’s no doubt searching for another thing it can charge along with it. And in the case of the classic iPhone/Apple Watch combo, the accessory maker is si … | Continue reading
Et tu, Hyundai?Until recently, the Korean brand offered two upmarket cars, the Genesis and the Equus. The first name had biblical shades and the latter shared a title with a play where an adolescent likes to get naked and straddle horses. So while the connotations were a bit mudd … | Continue reading
Are we moving toward a headphone jack-free future? Motorola recently fired the first warning shots with its Moto Z handset, and Apple is widely expected to follow suit in a week or so when most anticipate the arrival of a new iPhone. Peripheral maker Griffin has one of the more c … | Continue reading
Almost a score of years before the Allies were deadlocked on the western front, a Polish banker foresaw with uncanny accuracy the comi... | Continue reading
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NEW YORK — Sonos took a look at the future and realized it's time to put partners first.The wireless audio company announced it would roll out Amazon Alexa integration early next year, enabling voice control for Sonos systems. It's also pushing out a host of other software update … | Continue reading
Adidas CEO Herbert Hainer talked to The Wall Street Journal about his personal sneaker collection, what he's learned never to do as a CEO, and whether he'd rather go hiking with Kanye West or sing karaoke with Lionel Messi. Photo: Gerdo Vladimir/Zuma Press | Continue reading
The social media community is in an uproar over the sudden closure of Blab, but it’s easy to see why it failed. Here's what marketers should take away. | Continue reading
The social media community is reeling and in an uproar from the sudden closure of Blab. There’s considerable shock that the platform would be shut down within its die-hard community. My Facebook newsfeed has been...read moreThe post What We Can Learn From the Failure of Blab appe … | Continue reading
In case you haven’t heard, Apple has a new iPhone coming out really soon. The leaks have been pouring out, and now there’s one more: Apple is adding a second shade of black to the line up. A leak from Mac Otakara suggests Apple will be adding a ‘Space Black’ to complement the mor … | Continue reading
With so many wearables on the market these days, we want to know - do you own a smartwatch? Cast your vote in our latest Poll of the Week! | Continue reading
Is "New Galaxy Style" a color? What does a new galaxy look like compared to an older one? Why would Nintendo release a device with "New Galaxy" in the name without a new Mario Galaxy game? These are all good questions that the new New Galaxy Style New Nintendo 3DS XL, which Ninte … | Continue reading
Here’s one answer to the question of what, precisely, one is supposed to do a 3D pen. If you’re Nissan Europe, you draw a car, of course (or get a handful of artists to do it for you). The automaker commissioned artist Grace Du Prez (and a team of crafters) to create a full-size … | Continue reading