Automatic emergency braking systems, or AEB, will be installed in 99% of all new passenger vehicles by 2022. Toyota has promised to have it on all of its vehicles by 2017, and many vehicles already have the sensors and technology in place. But that doesn’t mean every system on ev … | Continue reading
One of ethereum's best-known wallets released new updates today, though one drew outsized attention and provoked discussion. | Continue reading
Pop quiz: how many elaborately detailed, scientifically generated topographical maps have you created in the last day or so? Chances are the answer is "none," unless you're writing or publishing a series of old-school fantasy novels. Those kinds of novels were the inspiration for … | Continue reading
Marinea, a company planning to establish a self-sustaining “Village At Sea’ between Miami and Cuba, plans to use bitcoin as its currency and eventually have its own electronic currency. Bitcoin, a decentralized currency with no centralized governing authority, naturally fits the … | Continue reading
Have you ever dreamed of being a journalist? Maybe just of being on TV? Maybe just of 10 minutes of internet fame? Or maybe just relative internet obscurity that brings approximately 120 strangers in contact with your face for all of 52 seconds?Then head on down to Washington, DC … | Continue reading
You’ll want to be updating your iOS devices to 9.3.5, the version released today by Apple — especially if you’re a prominent human rights activist. A recently thwarted attack on just such a person employed not one but three zero-day exploits. And that’s just the beginning of the … | Continue reading
Apple is looking to challenge two of its most successful App Store developers with a homegrown video editing application for iOS, according to a Bloomberg report. Both Facebook, with its Instagram property, and Snapchat are being targeted by the alleged program, which is said to … | Continue reading
Security researchers have identified a three-headed monster that could be used to record sounds, collect passwords, read text messages, record calls and track users. All iOS versions 9.3.4 and below are vulnerable. The attack utilizes a mobile spyware product, ‘Pegasus,’ created … | Continue reading
The esports counter-terrorists are heading back to TBS. Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive military shooter is getting a second season as part of Eleague’s televised competitions, and it kicks off with preliminaries September 7. Turner and esports talent-agency WME-IMG plan … | Continue reading
Snapchat and Instagram bear remarkable similarities. Both are extremely popular among teens and college-aged users. Both emphasize photo sharing. With limited time and resources, brands may wish to concentrate on just one. Marketers can determine where to invest their resources b … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, an Emirati human rights activist named Ahmed Mansoor got a suspicious text. It promised new details of torture in the country’s state prisons, along with a link to follow if he was interested. If Mansoor had followed the link, it would have jailbroken his phon … | Continue reading
Though Google continues to add cities to its Fiber lineup, it seems parent company Alphabet is ready to scale back. A new report from The Information notes Alphabet has asked Google to drastically cut staff (down to 500 employees) and expenses (reduce spending by 10 percent). It … | Continue reading
20th Century Fox’s two upcoming series set in the X-Men universe are starting to look a little more ambitious. The Hollywood Reports writes that director Bryan Singer, speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival in Scotland, plans on linking the series to the larger X-Men franc … | Continue reading
Yesterday, the European Southern Observatory dropped a bombshell announcement: an Earth-sized planet orbits around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. And as an added bonus, it sits in the habitable zone of its star — the place where temperatures are just righ … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Enterprise software company SAP is acquiring Altiscale, a startup that offers a cloud-based version of the Hadoop open-source software for storing, processing, and analyzing lots of different kinds of data, VentureBeat has learned. News of the deal should be announced … | Continue reading
Apple today released iOS version 9.3.5, which contains patches for security vulnerabilities that exist in earlier versions of Apple’s mobile operating system. Today’s update follow the release of iOS 9.3.4 earlier this month. Mobile security startup Lookout says it discovered the … | Continue reading
The European session has now drawn to a close, and it’s time to take a look at the action we saw in the bitcoin price throughout the day, and see if we can use that action to put together a strategy for this evening out of the US, and beyond, into Asia. Once again, it’s … Continu … | Continue reading
Grabr, a startup that allows users to request travelers to bring them rare finds from all over the world, announced today that it scored a $3.5 million seed investment. The startup’s marketplace allows shoppers and travelers who have extra space in their luggage to negotiate rate … | Continue reading
Garmin has just announced the Fenix Chronos, an amazingly elegant smartwatch with all the features of their standard GPS exercise watches – the Vivoactve, for example – with a case and aesthetic that would be at home in a fine watch shop. That’s right: this is the first fancy sma … | Continue reading
At the Hot Chip 2016 conference Samsung has revealed more information about its Exynos 8890, including details about the interesting "neural network" M1 CPU design. | Continue reading
Grabr, the peer-to-peer marketplace that lets anyone become an international shopper, has today announced the close of a $3.5 million seed round led by Alexey Repik from RBV Capital. Kanstantin Nikolaev of N-Trans Group also participated in the round, along with various angel inv … | Continue reading
A weasel using a woodpecker as its own private convertible; a wolf stuffing its snout in another wolf’s mouth; a reindeer comically failing to camouflage itself with some leaves. The internet has an insatiable appetite for bizarre wildlife pictures. But, like anything that brings … | Continue reading
We’re going to a section of a magical tower that holds a bunch of animals, dragons, and other strange creatures. What could go wrong? The Menagerie wing is now open in One Night in Karazhan, the latest adventure for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. It includes more bosses to kill … | Continue reading
Garmin has a robust wearable lineup that includes activity trackers, smartwatches, and even an analog watch with activity features. Now it's attempting to make a luxury smartwatch, and it's not exactly cheap. The Garmin Fenix Chronos is a watch designed for people who don't like … | Continue reading
A Florida judge has certified a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of customers of the now-defunct digital currency exchange Cryptsy. | Continue reading
A former pornstar, Paree La’Tiejira (aka Lady Paree) is suing Facebook after alleging founder Mark Zuckerberg and Co. conspired to ruin her porn career. In the suit, Paree claims Zuckerberg did nothing to stop the rumor that she was born a man from spreading on Facebook, thus end … | Continue reading
Learn what it means to be a Platinum level HubSpot partner, in the top 3% of inbound marketing agencies in the world. | Continue reading
High school football is about to get a lot more Snapchat-friendly. The photo app will soon debut a new type of geofilter that shows sports scores for local high school football games in real time.SEE ALSO: Snapchat is about to explode in popularity, report saysThe filters, a resu … | Continue reading
The story of the business and marketing of Harry Potter is a unique one. After all, this is a brand that changed the publishing world. This year, 26 years after the idea of Harry Potter formed in J.K. Rowling's mind, the eighth book in the series people across the globe fell in l … | Continue reading
The party continues. Hearthstone’s latest adventure continues today as the third episode of One Night in Karazhan is now live. You can purchase the wing on its own for $7 or you can purchase the whole season for $20, which will get you access to the remaining wings as they roll o … | Continue reading
Like you and I, Spigen thinks it knows exactly what the next iPhone will look like. In a bit of a gamble, it’s released 30 (!) new iPhone 7 cases you can pre-order today. The cases are basically a re-hash of what Spigen already offers for the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, so there’s not … | Continue reading
In 2002 a little-known developer called Retro Studios from Austin released Metroid Prime on the Nintendo Gamecube. Built in collaboration with Nintendo, the game transformed the seminal sci-fi series from a 2D side-scrolling experience into a vast, three-dimensional world. Before … | Continue reading
Whether you’re clumsily attempting to find where your Uber is parked or trying to find your friend at a crowded venue, it’s clear that GPS has some major limitations that need to be fixed. Navisens wants to gather reliable mapping data from users’ smartphones without even touchin … | Continue reading
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, shares that the company's new Duo video chat platform is off to a promising start, with over 5 million Android downloads. | Continue reading
Uberflip's Hana Abaza digs into why more content doesn't = better content. You'll also find helpful tips for how to create a bigger impact with content marketing. | Continue reading
Kanex released its GoPower Watch earlier this week, which it claims is the "world’s first cordless portable charger for Apple Watch." It’s a 4000mAh USB battery pack with an integrated, Apple-approved Watch charger on top along with a second USB port for charging a phone. Co … | Continue reading
It seems everyone is following Snapchat these days: first Instagram, then Facebook, and now Apple. A report from Bloomberg suggests Apple is working on a video sharing app called Snapple that that allows users to record video and apply filters and drawings, designed by the teams … | Continue reading
The 11-year-old, early-stage firm True Ventures, with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, has closed its fifth fund with $310 million, slightly more than the $290 million that the firm raised for its fourth fund, which closed in 2014. Presumably, it could have raised much mor … | Continue reading
DJI, best known for making the best consumer drones around, also make a pretty spectacular Osmo gimbal for use with iPhone. Today, they’re updating it with digital zoom. The Osmo+ keeps everything we like about the original, but adds a 7x zoom feature (3.5x optical, 2x digital). … | Continue reading
Volkswagen has reached an agreement to resolve litigation with its US dealers related to Dieselgate, including both the TDI vehicles and the value of Volkswagen franchises. The settlement includes cash payments and "additional benefits" to dealers, though final details of the set … | Continue reading
Looking to waste time with a round of solitaire on your phone? You no longer need a separate app for that – Google today is rolling out a couple of simple games right into its search engine and standalone Google Search app, the company says. It’s making two of the most popular, c … | Continue reading
Symphony Commerce, a provider of cloud technology for e-commerce platforms, is raising $11 million to grow its fulfillment business. Charles River Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and FirstMark Capital invested in the round. Symphony, which helps companies lik … | Continue reading
National Parks have made me happy, so it's only appropriate for me to wish them a happy 100th birthday today. Related posts:Happy birthday, Doc Happy birthday, Doc Happy Birthday, Doc | Continue reading
Dutch hardware startup Mint Solutions has closed a €5 million (~$5.6M) Series B funding round for its pill-scanning device, MedEye, which is designed to reduce bedside errors when patients are given their medication by medical staff. Read More | Continue reading
The first trailer for No Man’s Sky, published in December 2013, promised a universe with enough planets, creatures, and vegetation that it could not be fully explored by one player in a lifetime. The hype was immediate, and it only continued to build with each month between the g … | Continue reading
Facebook today is announcing that it’s open-sourcing some of its latest artificial intelligence (A.I.) software for segmenting objects within images. The DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet tools are available now on GitHub under a BSD license. It’s not as if Facebook is openin … | Continue reading
Songkick, the company behind the music-monitoring app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands and artists are playing live, has raised another $15 million in funding from Access Industries. This latest funding comes eight months after the U.K. startup nabbed $1 … | Continue reading
Facebook is open sourcing a set of computer vision software tools that can identify both the variety and the shape of objects within photos. The tools, developed by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team, are called DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet, and all three work in tande … | Continue reading