The Tesla Model S will reportedly gain the "Bioweapon Defense Mode" air filtration system from the Model X and a 100kWh battery option. We've heard from a source that the new options may be introduced as soon as this week, alongside the debut of the Model X custom order configura … | Continue reading
Philadelphia 76ers owner Josh Harris returned for a state-of-the franchise address with a new Colangelo by his side. | Continue reading
San Antonio star Tim Duncan has been ruled out for the Spurs' game against Golden State. | Continue reading
Just as Darth Vader turned from student to master of the Force, so too has his son: Mark 'Luke Skywalker' Hamill's latest shot from the Pinewood sets of the still-untitled Star Wars: Episode VIII shows him riding on Daisy Ridley's back, just as Jedi master Yoda once rode on his. … | Continue reading
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Utrecht based architecture practice EVA Architecten have transformed an old workshop in the dense historical center of 's-Hertogenbosch into | Continue reading
Last week, Yahoo extended the deadline for potential bidders to submit their proposals to acquire the Silicon Valley company. Already reports have surfaced companies like Verizon and Google seeking to make a move, but today it seems that the parent company of the U.K.-based Daily … | Continue reading
GUEST: Raising your first round of funding can be a daunting endeavor. While you’re delivering your business plan, wouldn’t it be great to able to read the minds of angel investors and VCs? Well, that may not be possible, but I can give you a few ideas of what most investors will … | Continue reading
Once derided for its utilitarian rehashes of old Fiat designs, the Russian-made Lada has undergone a makeover in recent years, part of a multibillion-dollar bet by Renault and Nissan on the Russian car market. Photo: Dmitry Beliakov for The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
In this post I describe a couple of practice that makes the process of writing code faster, more predictable and straightforward | Continue reading
According to a Google Fiber representative, some changes are to come to the pricing model in Kansas City. The free tier is going away! | Continue reading
I contend that the iPad is in many ways *more* versatile than a laptop for people with disabilities. Computing and productivity isn’t always about a spec sheet or raw power or Photoshop. The iPad *is* a full-fledged computer, no question about it. After using a review unit for a … | Continue reading
BlackBerry isn't finished with the hardware business yet. CEO John Chen said this week in an interview with Abu Dhabi's The National that two new BlackBerry smartphones are on the way: one with a physical keyboard, and another with a full touchscreen. Both will run Android.But ho … | Continue reading
Marvel Comics just launched a new Black Panther series, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates (that’s right, the well-known journalist and author of New York Times bestseller Between The World and Me) and drawn by Brian Stelfreeze. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the character, h … | Continue reading
Emaar Properties: Dubai, Vae (ots/PRNewswire) - Die Skyline von Dubai ist um ein legendäres Bauwerk reicher: Emaar Properties hat das Design und die architektonischen Besonderheiten eines atemberaubenden Hochhauses in Dubai Creek Harbour bekannt gegeben. (Photo: ... | Continue reading
My team, the Defense Digital Service (DDS) exists to bring in the best processes, talent, and technology from the private sector into the DoD. An offshoot from the United States Digital Service (USDS) at the White House, we’re tasked with transforming how the Pentagon builds and … | Continue reading
There has been a lot of comparison between bitcoin and gold in the recent times. Bitcoin has been compared to gold in many aspects. In fact, bitcoin is also called digital gold for a reason due to various similarities it shares with the yellow material. However, referring to bitc … | Continue reading
A new ride-sharing initiative is set to launch in Boston on April 19. Chariot for Women is a female-only (mostly) ride-sharing service that utilizes heavily-background checked women drivers and only serves female customers. There have already been a number of rapes and assaults b … | Continue reading
GUEST: Financial indicators turn wobbly, stock markets head south, and then north, and then south again — soon enough, whispers about possible cost-reductions begin to ricochet through company corridors. Historically, in times of economic uncertainty, marketing departments would … | Continue reading
Regardless of your political orientation, it is hard to argue against the success of the digital media strategy that President Obama and his team implemented to engage millions of Americans over the past two terms. Read More | Continue reading
The Red Bull Air Race series is an amazing display of nerve and skill. In a series of events around the world, pilots fly small, single-engine stunt planes at high speeds around giant inflatable pylons to set the fastest time. But those pylons won't do any damage to the plane if … | Continue reading
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen. Check any online marketplace, electronics store or kiosk at your local mall and you’ll be met with hundreds of options, all based on no more than a couple dozen designs. Options aside, originality is typically lacking. Offering a unique iPhone cas … | Continue reading
Zamarzyłam o krótkim wyjeździe do Włoch. O stolikach nakrytych obrusem w czerwoną kratkę i pizzy z pieca opalanego drewnem. Lubię pizzę mocno spieczoną. W domu miałam akurat resztki warzyw, więc wyszła z zielonymi dodatkami. Jedząc ją, choć na chwilę mogę sobie wyobrazić że jeste … | Continue reading
The app stores are big jungles, making it hard for someone to find the app that is just right. By attacking that discovery problem, app monetization and distribution platform Appnext grew its revenues by 345 percent in 2015. The London-based company now drives hundreds of thousan … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger launched a pair of neat new features this week, and among those was one that'll sound very familiar to any Snapchat user: Messenger now includes scannable codes that let you add another person as your friend. It was the latest in a long line of features that Fa … | Continue reading
Getting old sucks, just ask Kobe Bryant. But that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun at the basketball star's expense.Apple debuted a new ad for its fourth-generation Apple TV Sunday, starring Bryant and Michael B. Jordan, who does just that. In the spot, Jordan — under the … | Continue reading
Philadelphia 76ers Managing General Partner Josh Harris announced today that the team has named Bryan Colangelo as President of Basketball Operations. | Continue reading
GUEST: The Asia-Pacific region has been picking up some of the slack we’ve been encountering lately within the technology merger and acquisition (M&A) landscape. While US capital markets are tightening, tech M&A activity in the Asia-Pacific region reached a three-year high during … | Continue reading
With WhatsApp stepping up its encryption and new developments in Apple's fight with the FBI, you may have missed some of this week's best new appsSee also: Congress could force Apple to build an iPhone backdoor with this billEach weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and … | Continue reading
You’ll never guess how I got my given name as my Twitter handle. It involved a six-month campaign that included some light Internet stalking, badgering staff at Twitter, $250 and a visit to the patent office. In addition to being an early adopter, I’m an idiot. I failed to realiz … | Continue reading
Up until this point, there is still no tangible evidence one single Satoshi - which is worth 0.00000001 Bitcoin - has ever been used for terrorism funding. | Continue reading
Apple is turning to star power — once again — to sell its latest products. This time, it's none other than NBA star Kobe Bryant and actor Michael B. Jordan demonstrating just what the company's new Apple TV can do. The two are purportedly in Bryant's trailer discussing a possible … | Continue reading
BBC silenced some skeptics when it released its first trailer for the new Chris Evans-led Top Gear, but Amazon doesn't want you to forget about the original trio: Clarkson, Hammond, and May. No, there isn't a teaser for their new high-profile car show on Amazon Instant Video, but … | Continue reading
In the wake of the petering out of the back-and-forth between Apple and the FBI over encryption, Whatsapp decided to throw the switch on end-to-end encryption for its entire userbase this week. Messaging apps appear to be responding to consumers’ need for privacy. Signal – the me … | Continue reading
After Cookie Monster, Taylor Swift, Alison Brie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Apple is releasing a new ad featuring a couple of celebrities. This time, basketball player Kobe Bryant and actor Michael B. Jordan are sitting on a couch watching a Bryant biopic. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook’s F8 developer conference takes place this Tuesday and Wednesday from the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. While the company hasn’t publicly disclosed what it’ll be revealing during its two-day event, here are a few educated guesses about what could be announced. Bots … | Continue reading
GUEST: Last week, we saw a torrent of news stories covering the launch of the DJI Phantom 4 and several WSJ articles about how drone investments have not delivered to full potential. As an early stage investor looking at this sector, I’m trying to make sense of these headlines Th … | Continue reading
When Google Fiber first arrived, it came with a compelling pitch: Pay a one-time construction fee, and you get internet access for free after that.Now Fiber is dropping that option for new subscribers in Kansas City, its first market. In its place are two new plans: A faster opti … | Continue reading
“Every failed on demand startup will reappear as a successful robotics driven business in five to 10 years.” So tweeted Jeremy Conrad, founding partner of the San Francisco-based hardware fund Lemnos Labs, one recent afternoon. Conrad apparently means what he tweets, having inves … | Continue reading
Streaming services have been massively successful. Spotify debuted in the US in 2011 and has 30 million paying subscribers worldwide as of last month. Apple Music, which launched this past year, now has over 10 million paying users. Forty million people paying to stream music ins … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price quickly returned to its previous consolidation zone during Sunday trade. The verdict in the ongoing case of Bulls vs. Bears remains inconclusive. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and rec … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk about Kingdom Hearts Unchained X, the Reddit app, Capcom, and more Android apps and games news! | Continue reading
The Chicago Bulls finished 7-1 against the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. They outplayed the Cleveland Cavaliers in the fourth quarter and beat the defending conference champs in a playoffs-like atmosphere at United Center on Saturday. | Continue reading
Ab 14. April werden die Vodafone Red-Tarife und Smart-L von Kunden, die in der EU unterwegs sind, keine Roaminggebühren mehr verlangen. Die EU hatte das eigentlich erst für Mitte nächsten Jahres verlangt, um so mehr überrascht d... | Continue reading
Storj, the decentralized cloud storage platform has launched its beta version in an event at Salt Lake City | Continue reading
Entrepreneurs and investors need to build innovative products and services that benefit everyone, and not just the privileged. Unless Silicon Valley becomes more inclusive, eventually the populists will begin to bracket big tech with big banks and big oil as an enemy of ordinary … | Continue reading
GUEST: In the first quarter of 2016, 35 unicorns raised a total of $12.6 billion from 36 funding events. While this is roughly the same amount that was raised in the first quarter of 2015, there were 58 investments in the previous period. This means that this year’s fundings were … | Continue reading
Dries Buytaert and Matt Mullenweg recently posted calls to arms in defense of the “open web.” I, too, am a believer in the open web. It delivers on the promise of the Internet: a world in which everyone is connected, and you can command as much attention as your content deserves. … | Continue reading