Instagram introduced a brand new icon and really nice black and white app redesign today. In the case of the icon, it's one case where the word "finally" is truly justified; Instagram spent years holding onto its iconic emblem and ignoring the modernized design guidelines of Andr … | Continue reading

Earlier this year, a report in The Information claimed that Google-owned Nest was working on a rival to Amazon’s Echo — a service that would bring together a number of other connected devices and services to help people organise and manage their homes alongside Nest’s own thermos … | Continue reading

Google today is announcing the release of version 5.0 of its Google Translate service. The release brings a number of enhancements, especially on Android and iOS. On Android, there’s a new feature called Tap to Translate, which lets users copy text and then tap a new button to ge … | Continue reading

Nest announced today that it is releasing an open-source version of its Thread networking protocol. Called OpenThread, the protocol makes the technology already used by Nest's products available to other developers and device makers. The company says that this will make it easier … | Continue reading

Five years have passed since Soledad O’Brien covered race in Silicon Valley as part of her documentary series Black in America. Now she’s ready to take a second look. Today, O’Brien discussed the documentary and the broader issues it raised while on-stage as part of TechCrunch’s … | Continue reading

Starting in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1970s, countless waves of young Americans—mostly white, well-educated, and middle-class—left the cities and suburbs and moved, often sight unseen, to the country. Some joined communes, while others preferred single-family life … | Continue reading

4 years after her appearance at Disrupt SF 2012, Jessica Alba took the Disrupt NY stage to discuss The Honest Company’s latest news. Alba started by touching on the company’s early days, which was plagued with the usual technology issues faced by young startups, like website down … | Continue reading

Dear readers, today we happily announce that on May 17th 2016, about a week from today, Prof. Roberto Giorgi, AXIOM Project Coordinator, will take part to an Invited Talk regarding his latest paper entitled "Exploring Dataflow-based Thread Level Parallelism in Cyber-Physical Syst … | Continue reading

For many people, Geocities — the free web hosting service that was launched in 1994, acquired by Yahoo in 1999, and quietly put to rest a decade later — was the first time they'd created something online. For some, it may also have been the last time they had near-total control o … | Continue reading

The Heroes Rise trilogy of gamebooks are, as near as I can tell, among the most popular releases from Choice Of Games. There are probably a lot of reasons for that, including the popularity of both superheroes and reality show send-ups, the interesting, convoluted plot, and the o … | Continue reading

Today Instagram, that app Facebook bought for a billion or so dollars a while back, debuted a new look. We should have seen this coming a mile a way. The app now sports a redesigned black-and-white design and a colorful, gradient-laden icon. The new look isn’t all that bad — it’s … | Continue reading

Initially, Google's Cardboard virtual reality viewer was only available bundled with other products. In March, Google started selling its Cardboard viewer, but only to customers in the U.S. Now, the company expanded that to four more countries: Canada, the UK, France and Germany. … | Continue reading

One of the best mobile games is getting a makeover in virtual reality. Hitman Go, the board-game-like spinoff of the stealth assassination series, is launching on both the Gear VR and Oculus Rift tomorrow. The two versions will cost $7.99 and $9.99, respectively, and will offer l … | Continue reading

Instagram and its suite of apps have gotten an icon refresh. Instead of the blue square we’ve all come to know, the Instagram logo is now bright, colorful, and embraces the flat design trend. The same look applies to its Hyperlapse, Boomerang, and Layout apps as well, tying all f … | Continue reading

The robots are coming! The new Nano Prowler Mini Drone is a mean little flying machine, packing serious aerial punch with built-in gyroscopic balance and 3D flight capability to ensure smooth, easy flight. With the push of a button, your quadcopter will transform into an acrobati … | Continue reading

Charge is today announcing a new set of voice and text plans to go along with the data-only smartphone plans it launched in March. The new options offer unlimited text for $10 per month or unlimited voice and text for $20 per month, in addition to the prepaid data service.In addi … | Continue reading

The way search engine rankings are chosen is constantly changing. Discover the top 6 SEO factors to look out for in 2016. | Continue reading

Marketing Strategy - Don't get stuck thinking that ABM is only an outbound strategy of fishing with a spear. ABM is really a strategic method of both outbound and inbound marketing. | Continue reading

Humans love a good ol' competition, especially when it results in a rigorous workout. A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology recognizes this and came up with a new game that lets swimmers compete with players in other pools. Their app, which the … | Continue reading

This is a contributor post by Carrie M. King from Jobspotting. There’s an international understanding that people who work for startups don’t earn that much at the start, but when the company pulls a Google and goes global, they’ll be there with the founders making it rain. But v … | Continue reading