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
At 4:43 pm EST, SpaceX successfully launched their next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). In addition to a seamless launch, SpaceX landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous drone ship for the very first time. 1st stage has landed on … | Continue reading
One of the biggest rumors surrounding the iPhone 7 is that Apple is adding a second camera module (at least on the Plus model), and it makes a lot more sense than you might realize. After all, other manufacturers have already caught on. LG’s G5 comes with a ultra-wide angle lens, … | Continue reading
SpaceX has finally landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship, following four failed attempts. Before landing, the rocket had been on mission to deliver cargo for the International Space Station. It included an inflatable habitat – basically a bouncy castle, in space. Elon Musk, … | Continue reading
NexDock, the hardware concept that your laptop should be powered by the mobile device of your choice, just got one step closer to reality. The $149 laptop shell that extends your smartphone, tablet, or PC stick has passed its $300,000 funding goal on Indiegogo. Indeed, NexDock co … | Continue reading
It’s not just savvy PC gamers who have worries about virtual reality privacy. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota sent a letter to Oculus chief executive officer Brendan Iribe on Thursday expressing his concern over the privacy policy for the company’s Rift virtual reality headset, via … | Continue reading
As we’ve said, the battle between Apple and the FBI is just the beginning of a broader debate about device security and national securityExperts and participants on both sides of the issue have agreed that this is something Congress should weigh in on. And now it has.SEE ALSO: Th … | Continue reading
Developers and designers are still figuring out movement in this crazy virtual reality thing. Some early games have you walking around in a space no bigger than a small room, others have you teleporting, and some even turn you into a virtual camera while controlling a character f … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – A U.S. magistrate judge in Boston in February ordered Apple to assist law enforcement officers in examining the iPhone of an alleged gang member, according to a court filing unsealed on Friday. “Reasonable technical assistance consists of, to the extent possible, extr … | Continue reading
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Friday with a cargo ship bound for the International Space Station and the launch vehicle's reusable main-stage booster set to attempt a quick return landing on an ocean platform, NASA said. | Continue reading
Digital currency exchange service ShapeShift is offline after a security incident earlier this week. | Continue reading
SpaceX has finally landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea, after launching the vehicle into space this afternoon. It's the first time the company has been able to pull off an ocean landing, after four previous attempts ended in failure. Today's success is a crucial mil … | Continue reading
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station this afternoon, marking the first time the company has sent cargo to the station after its last resupply mission failed in June. Continue reading… | Continue reading