One of the big strengths of Oculus Rift is its plug-and-play simplicity. Put the camera sensor on the desk, plug in the cables and one simple calibration later you're good to go. There's a certain level of simplicity to it, tempered only by the nagging feeling that the product's … | Continue reading
A great deal on the original LG Watch Urbane has appeared on eBay. A NJ-based store is offering the watch brand new in either silver or gold color options for $150 with free USA standard shipping. | Continue reading
It's day three of Rezzed in East London - our parent company Gamer Network's friendly and indie-focused game show, little sister to September's big, bad (in a good way) EGX. Just like EGX, we host and stream developer sessions live at the show, this time with a little help from o … | Continue reading
T-Mobile's Des Smith has some good news for LG V10 owners: the Un-carrier will begin updating the phone to Marshmallow from next week! JOY! | Continue reading
What do you do with a decommissioned nuclear power plant? If you’re the French government, you offer the land it sits on to Tesla Motors as a potential new factory site. Tesla has mulled large-scale European production for some time, and French Energy Minister Segolene Royal beli … | Continue reading
Nach den Gerüchten zu einem überarbeiteten Model S machen heute auch noch News zum Model X die Runde. Elon Musk hat in einem Tweet angekündigt, dass der Online-Konfigurator zum Tesla-SUV ab Montag auch ohne Reservierung verfügba... | Continue reading
Politics played a larger-than-usual role in Latin America’s tech scene last month, either directly or indirectly, for better and for worse. From Obama’s visits to Argentina and Cuba to Uber’s troubles, here’s the news you don’t want to miss: Big players Facebook’s vice president … | Continue reading
What is the next big wave of social media? Maybe it’s Peach — or another hot new social network. Maybe it’s a strategy like posting times or text faces. It’s really hard to say! (And yet here I am saying it…) To ride the wave of the next big thing in social media, it often takes … | Continue reading
The speed at which we learn anything can determine the quality of our lives. Imagine if you could pick up that skill you’ve always wanted to learn, in a matter of months versus years. How would that affect your life? Countless learning experts and researchers have shown us that i … | Continue reading
Die Taxibranche in Deutschland will sich mit einem neuen Service gegen die Konkurrenz durch Uber und MyTaxi wappnen: Ab sofort lassen sich Taxis in allen größeren Städten auch mit der Chat-Funktion von WhatsApp bestellen. Voraussetz... | Continue reading
H.G. Wells left quite a mark. He destroyed civilisation half a dozen times. He infested Woking with Martians. He took us to the end of time and back again. He pretty much co-founded science fiction as a genre. That stuff is well-known, but I hadn't been aware that he also invente … | Continue reading
Tesla scheint zu befürchten, dass sein günstiges Model 3 dem Model S künftig Konkurrenz machen könnte. Nach Informationen von CNET wird der Elektroautohersteller deswegen ab kommender Woche das Model S mit mehr Luxus und zu eine... | Continue reading
The App Store has a copycat problem. Then again, we’ve known this for years. It doesn’t help that there’s a thin line between an innovator and a copycat. Before we move forward, let’s explore that thin line and define copycat more clearly. Author Austin Kleon suggests that real a … | Continue reading
Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week. | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Security researchers and civil liberties advocates on Friday condemned draft legislation leaked from the U.S. Senate that would let judges order technology companies to assist law enforcement agencies in breaking into encrypted data. The long-awaited bill is emerging … | Continue reading
Just how many smartphones are there and how much time do we spend on our phones? 1st aerials used data gathered by Deloitte, Statista, Ofcom and Ericsson to visually represent the data and create an infographic. | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
J.J. Barea, a key component in Dallas' push for the playoffs, strained his right groin and won't return to a game against Memphis. | Continue reading
Siri is good for a lot of things, but she generally doesn’t care much whether you sound your usual perky self. Launching today is EmoWatch, a new app for your Apple Watch that will help you track your emotional state. EmoWatch is a technical demo for Smartmedical Corp’s Empath AP … | Continue reading
Elon Musk's SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship, so what better way to take a victory lap than to invoke T-Pain? Just watch the video that Musk tweeted, and then deleted for some mysterious reason. It's like The Lonely Island knew the future and wrote this song just for t … | Continue reading
We hop right into things this week with a bunch of game discussion surrounding Pktball [Free], Chameleon Run [$1.99], Disney Crossy Road [Free], Looty Dungeon [Free] and Kingdom Hearts [Free]. I wanted to hop in with some input on Kingdom Hearts, but that secondary download is th … | Continue reading
Hey everyone, it's Friday and we're close to the end of the week of TouchArcade blasting stories out (unless anything cool happens over the weekend we need to cover), but the fact still remains: To survive, we very much need your support. The business of running a web site is tri … | Continue reading
San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich is resting every starter except Tim Duncan against the Denver Nuggets on Friday night. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Glu Mobile, the maker of celebrity mobile games such as Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, has laid off a number of employees, GamesBeat has learned. San Francisco-based Glu has been making mobile games since 2001 and it is publicly traded. The company reported net income of $ … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
Some might say that you never really need a Lamborghini. Those people might also state that no one needs an amphibious car either.Certainly, though, even those naysayers can agree that everyone needs an amphibious Lamborghini. And, thankfully, there's one for sale right now on eB … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Reddit released its first apps for iOS and Android, developed in-house — and it’s already at the top of the App Store charts in the US. According to Sensor Tower, the official Reddit app is now top dog in the US App Store. In just 24 hours, it’s left Twitter, Snapchat … | Continue reading
We've been posting about it for ages now, and we've got a massive thread going in our forums about it, but for a ton of people the Game Center bug is a serious thing that has stopped them from playing countless iOS games that rely on Game Center to function. If you've got no idea | Continue reading
As a Berlin-based VC firm focused on SaaS, we often get questions about the current state of the European cloud software landscape. To be able to answer these questions more precisely we decided to analyze each major European ecosystem, starting with France. Our goal was to find … | Continue reading
NASA engineers have declared a mission emergency for the agency's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has somehow switched into emergency mode. NASA just found out about the anomaly a day and a half ago, right before the agency tried to maneuver the spacecraft to point at the … | Continue reading
Wer es nicht gesehen hat: Das SpaceX-Kontrollzentrum dreht völlig durch, weil ihre Rakete abhebt, sich auftrennt und Teile ihrer selbst sowohl in den Weltraum als auch auf das autonome Floß "Of Course I Still Love You" lenkt. Die Flo&szl... | Continue reading
As we've mentioned before, Crossy Road [Free] found massive success by taking the core gameplay of Frogger, making it endless and 3D, adding a crap-ton of unlockable characters, and stuffing it all into one of the most friendly free to play packages we've ever seen. Games like Do … | Continue reading
Mickey is trying to cross the road … but there is no other side! Disney Crossy Road debuted on iOS and Android on Wednesday night, and it is already the top downloaded game on iOS. Industry-tracking firm Sensor Tower explains to GamesBeat that if the road-crossing arcade-style ga … | Continue reading
SpaceX made history today when its Falcon 9 rocket epically landed on a drone ship in the ocean. The feat was not only impressive but also felt like one big sigh of relief. SpaceX has been trying to pull of this ocean landing for the past year and a half. I've watched numerous ro … | Continue reading
While there's a zombie game released every five seconds, there aren't nearly enough alien games out there. I mean sure, there's a handful of titles based on the actual Alien franchise with Xenomorphs running around causing havoc, but think of how many games are around with actual … | Continue reading
There will be plenty of familiar NBA names wearing the green and gold of Australia at the 2016 Olympics this summer. Andrew Bogut, Patty Mills, Matthew Dellavedova, Joe Ingles, Aron Baynes and on-the-mend Dante Exum are all on board to play for the Boomers in Rio. But possible No … | Continue reading
The Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX landed today may be the first of the company's vehicle to relaunch into space, CEO Elon Musk said today at a NASA press conference. That would make it the first orbital rocket of its kind to travel to space a second time. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Apple Watch version 2.0 may come sooner than expected. Originally thought to be launched in September with an iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, analysts now believe we’ll see a refresh much sooner, perhaps even at WWDC. In a research paper written following a tour of facilities in China, Bria … | Continue reading
If there's one genre I almost never get to experience, it's fishing. I have plenty of nostalgia for SEGA's huge line of bass-centric games as well as their amazing arcade machines where you can actually feel the tension in the rod, but in this modern era, I generally don't go out … | Continue reading
The annual White House Science Fair is always a heartening occasion. Watching Obama ramble around and shoot the breeze (and sometimes marshmallows) with a bunch of smart, nerdy kids is entertaining, and the projects are often pretty impressive. This year’s fair is, of course, the … | Continue reading
Elon Musk's SpaceX program successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea for the first time Friday. The rocket landed back on earth after SpaceX launched its CRS-8 Dragon craft, carrying supplies and an experimental inflatable space habitat for the International … | Continue reading
A group of unbound delegates from several states could be the key factor in deciding the Republican party's nominee in the case of a contested convention. WSJ's Shelby Holliday explains why the "unbound" suddenly hold so much power. Photo: Getty Images | Continue reading
Laurel House is an extension project completed by British studio CaSA Architects. Laurel House was a modest cottage in a wonderful setting ... | Continue reading
On April 6th, the Swedish Tourist Association launched "The Swedish Number" an actual phone number people from all over the world can dial to speak with a random Swedish person. The marketing gimmick is meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country's abolishment of cens … | Continue reading
Nintendo’s mobile debut is going well. 1.6 million people downloaded the publisher’s Miitomo social platform in the U.S. alone from March 31 through April 3, according to industry-tracking firm Sensor Tower. That number includes both iOS and Android, and it doesn’t include the da … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Think of it as a free crash course from top experts who can make sense of the sometimes incomprehensible. We’ve taken the complexities of mobile app acquisition and monetization — from the best tools to the best practices — and broken it down into a 6-part webinar ser … | Continue reading
Generally speaking, I'm not the sort of gamebook fan that replays books terribly often after finishing them. I'm usually okay with getting whatever story and ending comes from my choices, so long as it's an ending and not a "game over". With The Daring Mermaid Expedition [Free], … | Continue reading
Phoenix Suns guard Brandon Knight yesterday underwent successful surgery to treat a sports hernia. The surgery was performed by Dr. William Meyers in Philadelphia. Knight has already begun rehabilitation and will return to Phoenix next week. | Continue reading