PlayStation Plus launched back in 2010 and since that day the price has been $49.99 for a year of exclusive content, online play, free games, cloud storage and a handful of other features. Starting next month, you’ll have to tack on an additional $10. Current subscribers aren’t g … | Continue reading
Sony is about to start charging more for one of its best gaming services. PlayStation Plus will jump in price from $50 to $60 annually, according to an announcement on Sony’s PlayStation Blog. Three months of PS Plus will now cost $22; it previously was $18. If you pay monthly fo … | Continue reading
There's a nifty nod to Dark Souls in the new Overwatch map Eichenwalde. Venture into the castle and into a room opposite the entrance, just off to the right, and you'll find a sword stabbed into a flaming mound. It is undoubtedly a reference to the Dark Souls series' iconic check … | Continue reading
Apple has made another move that could make iOS the de facto health platform of the future. According to a new report from Fast Company, it has purchased Gliimpse, a startup aimed at secure medical record transfers. Gliimpse allows users to gather records from various sources (li … | Continue reading
The Analogue Nt mini isn’t an NES – it’s better. The third-party system created by designer Christopher Taber is a work of art in its own right, crafted from a solid piece of aluminum and offering internals that boast no-compromise gameplay experience, vs. what you’d get from a h … | Continue reading
Car dealerships are beginning to use virtuality reality to sell their vehicles, but once upon a time, sealing the deal required carmakers to pass out printed matter. The folded car dealer brochure was a carefully planned work of artful design intended to show the promise and pres … | Continue reading
Beer pong, a decades-old staple of the modern American college experience, deserves a reboot. We gotta make it more high tech. Pongbot could be the start of a rethinking of the game. The beer pong-oriented robot just launched on Kickstarter and is basically a cup holder on wheels … | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the full agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt SF. The show runs from September 10-14 and is returning to the wonderful Pier 48 venue. General admission tickets and exhibitor packages are still available.The event spans five days where we will celebrate entrepre … | Continue reading
Join Jonathan Feist and Joe Hindy, the duo talk Duo, Nokia phones, Nexus or Google phones, cloud storage disasters and layout the world's fastest mobile networks. Enjoy AA Podcast # 077. | Continue reading
Apple has quietly acquired health data startup Gliimpse, Fast Company reports. The acquisition reportedly happened earlier this year, although it hasn’t been publicly announced. Fast Company says that Apple has now confirmed it, commenting that "Apple buys smaller technology comp … | Continue reading
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Think your only career options involve sitting at a desk in an office? Think again. When it comes to many professions, offices are outdated. People simply don’t need a brick-and-mortar headquarters for their jobs, and are better served working remotely, wherever that may b … | Continue reading
Telegram-based bot Lara has attracted over $1 million worth deposits to its Bitcoin investment project. The automatic trust management system, which was launched with an aim to offer passive income options to customers, has gained momentum over the past few weeks. At least the st … | Continue reading
Aus Kalifornien stammt dieses Produkt namens Shoka Bell, das derzeit erfolgreich bei Kickstarter finanziert wird. Und man kann es sich vorstellen, das Klingeln ist nur eine der wenigen Funktionen, die das Gerät kann. Es trackt Fahrtinfos, kann navigieren,... | Continue reading
Amazon's Echo made controlling music with your voice easy-peasy, but its sound quality could be a lot better.Enter Whyd, an Apple-esque voice-controlled speaker that claims to offer better sound than the Echo, though it lacks all of the smart home functionality of Amazon's produc … | Continue reading
Though it’s been 31 years since its first release, Super Mario is still going strong. First, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dressed up as the iconic character, and now there’s this. Japanese YouTuber yutako55 recently created something he calls ハムマリオ or ‘hamumario’ — a version … | Continue reading
When Newsela was created in 2012, the edtech startup aimed to help students master reading at their own pace, specifically with news articles adapted to different reading levels. The company’s app has racked up 800,000 teachers, and 7.7 million students as users and counting, acc … | Continue reading
Discover how to attract thousands of leads from the world's biggest marketplace by simply repurposing content for Amazon's Kindle. How to publish, market... | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have stepped up their game from an Ikea-like chair that can put itself together: the team built a working cell phone that’s self-building, Fast Company reports, using a basic DIY cell phone design create by MIT professor David Mellis as a mo … | Continue reading
The buying spree of machine intelligence startups continues, with Microsoft announcing Monday that it is acquiring automated calendaring service Genee.Genee, which launched in 2014, uses artificial intelligence to help automatically schedule meetings based on the participants’ sc … | Continue reading
Heads-up displays or HUDs are one of the best features in newer vehicles, as they allow drivers to keep their eyes focused on the road instead of on their in-dash navigation or their smartphone running Google Maps. Now, Hudly is looking to bring that technology to drivers whose v … | Continue reading
I always enjoy a good personal story. It’s a nice way to get to know people, and retelling such stories is my favorite part of journalism. So I enjoyed moderating the first IBM Science Slam talks at the recent celebration of the 30th anniversary of the IBM Almaden Research Center … | Continue reading
Der persönliche Tinder-Account ist eigentlich was sehr Privates. Abr was passiert, wenn jemand anders dein Handy kapert und sein Ding in deinem Namen betreibt? So geschehen bei dem Format Tinder Takeover, in dem der amerikanische Comedian, Schauspieler... | Continue reading
Google’ dead-simple video-chatting Duo app was just released to the masses, and it’s been doing pretty well for itself. That means Allo, its text counterpart, likely isn’t very far behind. One of the big features in Allo is its private conversations, which allow for Snapchat-like … | Continue reading
Console manufacturer Analogue has been making waves with its Nintendo throwback systems. It sold out of the NES-based Nt console at the beginning of the year and in April, showed off a $5,000 24-karat gold NES remake. Then Nintendo stole back its thunder with the $60 NES Classic, … | Continue reading
Nintendo isn’t the only one making a smaller NES.Today the company behind the gorgeous, aluminum Analogue Nt — a modern console designed play classic games — announced new version that keeps the same beautiful style, but shrinks it down into something more compact. The new versio … | Continue reading
In a lab in Germany, researchers are making shrunken, see-through rodents. Don’t worry, it’s not as macabre as it sounds. Rather, this new method is a step forward for science because it’s the first time we can image whole animals at once and see how their organs work together. I … | Continue reading
A favorite client told me during a recent phone call that she wanted to share her organization’s internal plans with my team here at Content4Demand: nurture plans, content plans, annual budgets — the works. “I want you to see everything we’re working on, because I know you’ll be … | Continue reading
For the 30 short stages of Hidden My Game By Mom, a mother hides a little boy’s Nintendo DS, and you must help find it. This is, at least at first, a traditional hidden object game, a genre indebted to Where’s Waldo and decades of Scholastic magazines. By tapping the 2D artwork, … | Continue reading
Things have been rough going on the home front for Xiaomi of late. According to numbers posted by IDC last week, the Chinese smartphone maker’s marketshare has slipped considerably on its own turf, tumbling to number four as fellow countryman Huawei took top honors.Even so, the c … | Continue reading
Microsoft has picked up another productivity app — announcing the acquisition of AI-powered scheduling tool Genee. In a blog post today the software giant said it will be plugging Genee into its cloud productivity suite, Office 365. Read More | Continue reading
Microsoft announced today that it acquired Genee, an AI-powered scheduling assistant bot that specializes in planning meetings for large groups or when organizers don’t have direct access to the calendars of everyone involved. Genee’s app is a chatbot accessible via an iPhone app … | Continue reading
In an extended interview with CCN to be published shortly, Dawei Lee, Chief Executive of CHBTC, China’s biggest ETH and ETC trading exchange and fourth by volume for BTC, stated: Recently the government in China has been giving positive signals in regards to digital currency and … | Continue reading
Talk about being at the right place and at the right time. Following revelations of government spying, data breaches, malicious hacking, identity theft and other online threats, the email and file encryption application Virtru has now grown to over 4,000 customers and has closed … | Continue reading
2011 erschein der Sportfilm "The Art of Flight" und bis heute gilt er als einer der besten Snowboardfilme. Vor allem auch die filmische Qualität betreffend. Nun wurde ein neuer Film von den Machern für Anfang Oktober angekündigt. Produziert... | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Genee, an artificial-intelligence-powered scheduling service. The company is planning to integrate the intelligence technology into Office 365 and shut down the Genee service on September 1. Genee was founded in 2014 to simplify schedu … | Continue reading
Today we wanted to announce our first 200 partners and exhibitors below.Web Summit is no longer just a platform for the world’s leading technology companies, it’s become Europe’s largest marketplace for companies of all sizes, and today’s announcement reflects that.The post Annou … | Continue reading
A financial management company has promised to offer up to 25% monthly returns on Ethereum investments. EthTrade, as the company is titled, is touted as one of the first Ethereum-based investment projects that exclusively operate with currency pairs Ether/BTC and Ether/USD. The c … | Continue reading
Some days it's impossible to come up with a good blog topic. Here are our 5 favorite free tools for blogging inspiration. | Continue reading
Samsung has updated its S Health app to version 5.0 today, introducing new social features and the ability to ask the experts about your health. | Continue reading
Instagram’s newest feature, Stories, is one of the biggest additions to the social site. These five tips will help you optimize your biz' Instagram Stories. | Continue reading
CopyPress has launched CopyPress Resources. From whitepapers to webinars, we will share content marketing tips, tricks, and how to's. | Continue reading
Bitfinex customers may soon have a way to convert the digital assets they were issued following the exchange's hack earlier this month. | Continue reading
Should content marketing be a drip or a deluge for marketers? SME Publisher, Drew Neisser, gives us his undiluted perspective on effective content strategy. | Continue reading
Content is like water. It seems to fall freely from the sky in abundance (think 4 billion drops of content per day raining down on us). When it lands it either disappears into the deep...read moreThe post A Beginner’s Guide to Content Marketing appeared first on Social Media Expl … | Continue reading
Mobile - Younger demographics are favoring dark messaging apps, where users share content one on one or in smaller, private groups. And now, marketers are slowly going to the dark side, too. | Continue reading
Email Marketing - Is your email marketing growing stale? If you're up for trying something different, possibly even a little scary, try these somewhat unconventional ways to give your email marketing that much-needed ... | Continue reading