Hassan Whiteside of the Miami Heat will not accompany his team to Toronto for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series there on Wednesday night. | Continue reading
The weather’s finally starting to look like spring here in New York City, and it’s time to really put those fitness trackers to good use. For those who rely on a Pebble watch to keep track of their paces, health monitoring gets a bit better today, with version 3.12 of the smartwa … | Continue reading
The Senate Commerce Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to answer questions about Facebook’s Trending Topics feature. Trending Topics displays trending news headlines and story summaries in a sidebar next to the main news feed, and a former contractor who worked … | Continue reading
Slack is trying to outdo Google, Facebook and Twitter with its own app sign-in button. Debuting alongside its new Quip integration, ‘Sign-In with Slack’ is a dedicated log-in feature that works just like those from social media entities: you tap a button, which accesses your cred … | Continue reading
Google’s Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY today for a wide-ranging conversation with our own Anthony Ha.Given the current conversation around ad blocking and Google’s reliance on advertising as its main revenue sour … | Continue reading
Google has teamed up with artist Jeff Koons to make a series of Nexus phone cases featuring his recent sculptures. There are three cases in total — all considered to be a "limited edition" — with each featuring one piece from Koons' "Gazing Ball" series.These are all part of Goog … | Continue reading
Customer support powerhouse Zendesk is broadening its ever-expanding number of support channels today, as the company announced a brand new native channel for customer service over the text messages. SMS may be 20-year-old technology, but there’s a lot to be said for short bursts … | Continue reading
Press Release: DNotes co-founder, highly regarded visionary and early Cryptocurrency adopter Alan Yong shares his experiences and lessons from over 4 decades of entrepreneurship in his new book “The Four Pillars of Business Success”. DNotes is now launching a Kickstarter campaign … | Continue reading
The US Senate Commerce Committee today opened an inquiry into Facebook employees' alleged manipulation of the site's news story selection. The committee has legislative oversight of numerous areas of American commerce, including communications and consumer-protection issues. Its … | Continue reading
Starting Tuesday, the Royal Bank of Canada and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, two of Canada's biggest banks, will allow their customers to use Cupertino's mobile payments app, reports the Financial Post. The remaining trio that completes Canada's Big Five — TD, Bank of M … | Continue reading
Like your Instagram browsing with a side of advertisements? Well, you’re gonna get them anyway: Facebook today announced that it will begin implementing its “dynamic ads” on Instagram – bringing you ads for items you may have left in your shopping cart without purchasing. Known a … | Continue reading
An additional 1,284 objects spotted by NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler are confirmed planets, agency astronomers said today. That brings the total number of verified exoplanets from Kepler to more than 2,000 — more than doubling the amount spotted by the spacecraft. "We h … | Continue reading
Distributed marketplace OpenBazaar pubished its plan to integrate with the Tor browser, IPFS, and to build a mobile app with chatbot integration. | Continue reading
The first time I tried out drone racing at CES 2015, it was still a largely amateur affair, with events put on by racing groups or sponsored by companies directly involved in the drone industry. In the year and half since, drone racing has become far more mainstream — securing ve … | Continue reading
Christie's May 12th evening sale will put over 50 works from the past century's marquee painters, including Monet, Kahlo and Magritte. Christie's Head of Impressionist and Modern Art Brooke Lampley joins Tanya Rivero with a few keys pieces going on the auction block. Photo: Chris … | Continue reading
Samsung Brasil made a promo video showing off how it can keep pro surfer Gabriel Medina connected to his smartphone when he’s out putting in a training session on the waves. Now, some of you are going to disagree with me, but I think Samsung’s really missing the point here. It’s … | Continue reading
Education and collaboration tool FreshGrade announced today that it scored an $11.6 million funding round to grow its reach in the United States. FreshGrade works as an online portfolio that allows teachers, parents, and students to communicate about assignments and educational g … | Continue reading
Date: 10/05/2016Electric lights ensure Europe’s cities glisten and sparkle, with architectural wonders lit up for all to see . The downside to this permanent glow is the energy that the cities’ buildings consume. Construction materials, such as glass, regular concrete and steel, … | Continue reading
Norway police made their largest drug bust ever last month when they arrested 15 people selling drugs on what they claim is Silk Road v2.0 | Continue reading
A group of researchers have devised a way for people to create their own control interfaces for household appliances. They say their RetroFab system is so simple anyone can use it, although I don't exactly think that's the case, especially considering most people don't have a M … | Continue reading
Incredible footage shows SpaceX's "fastest and hottest" Falcon 9 landing from three angles.More details: http://on.mash.to/1T7JhJp Read more...More about Space, Landing, Rocket, Spacex, and Tech | Continue reading
Do visitors believe what they read on your site? Are you a credible company with a credible product? You might be sending the opposite message. | Continue reading
Date: 10/05/2016While a large volume of macro-level data exists on how the global climate is changing, there is little empirical and comparable information on the impact at a local level, and even less on how municipalities, societies and industries are reacting. By analysing res … | Continue reading
What does the future of the financial services industry look like? The founders of two startups with two very different answers to that question took the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 conference this morning to discuss how they’re planning to disrupt traditional brokera … | Continue reading
Slack is pushing to become the identity layer for all enterprise apps. The workplace chat app has already captured the eyes, minds (and wallets) of the tech world with its deceptively simple, zippy platform for people to communicate and collaborate with each other on projects. On … | Continue reading
Have you reached the maximum amount of sales possible? Never, is the right answer to this question. Branding your company is just as important as SEO. | Continue reading
Microsoft today is sharing its latest plans for expanding the Azure public cloud. Next stop: Korea. There will be not one but two regions of data centers coming online in South Korea, including one in Seoul, a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. “Businesses in Ko … | Continue reading
Stephen Curry is the first unanimous NBA MVP, earning the award for the second straight season Tuesday after leading the defending champion Warriors to a record-setting season. | Continue reading
Slack is making it easier to sync up with all the third-party applications that are tied in with the productivity messaging service. The company announced the release of a “Sign in with Slack” button that performs the same features as with Facebook Login or Twitter OAuth, but wit … | Continue reading
Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader just got more useful for those who store files across an array of cloud storage services. Adobe today is announcing that all users can now open and edit PDF files stored inside Box and Microsoft OneDrive, right from within Acrobat and Acrobat Read … | Continue reading
It took Pebble until December of last year to add real step-tracking and other fitness features to its smartwatch and mobile app. Now, the company is taking a speedier approach to development. A new update out today gives Pebble Time owners a more holistic snapshot of their steps … | Continue reading
Sue Googe is a 2016 Republican candidate who hopes to represent the 4th Congressional District of North Carolina in United States Congress. Also, her surname looks like the Google logo — especially as it's written on her campaign signs, which use a font that's identical to Googl … | Continue reading
CocoaPods has reached version 1.0, and is celebrating its milestone by officially changing how Podfiles work, and giving Pod owners more control. Though the changes to Podfiles were known (via a migration guide), they’re now official. Of the more important things to note is that … | Continue reading
The government agency in charge of New York City's JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia airports has sent a scathing letter to the Transportation Security Administration criticizing growing passenger wait times at the three airports, some of the busiest in the country. Additionally, the le … | Continue reading
As you might remember, Rodeo Games is currently on hiatus after the poor performance of their last big project Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch [$0.99], but that hasn't stopped the studio's Creative Director Ben Murch from starting up a new company with a fellow game industry friend … | Continue reading
After announcing the mid-range 5C last week, Huawei subsidiary Honor is back with a high-end device called the V8. The V8 runs Android 6.0 with EMUI 4.1, features a 5.7-inch Quad HD display, an octa-core Kirin 950 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage (there is also a 32GB v … | Continue reading
Few new game franchises have matched the ambition of BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy, and Electronic Arts might laugh a whole new generation of Mass Effect games before anyone else can really compete with that scope. The BioWare development studio is promising a flood of new featur … | Continue reading
For better or worse, Twitter is the home to a lot of harebrained ideas, a great example of which is the @TweetXstitch account. It creates framed representations of some of the dumbest, funniest and most memorable moments at Twitter, taking ephemeral tweets and immortalizing them … | Continue reading
Wireless charging has long promised a convenient hassle free alternative to tangled cables, we examine why the technology can't seem to take off. | Continue reading
InfoWeek on 2017 calls for Societal Challenge 2 - The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation | Continue reading
One of the startups incubated at startup studio Expa is today taking its next step in developing as a standalone company. Kit, a social network where people can share their favorite products — think Pinterest or Product Hunt, but here assembling your “kits” — is appointing its fi … | Continue reading
Uhoo's smart air quality sensor is the newest addition to the ever-growing world of the Internet of Things. The air monitor, the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, can track and detect temperature, dust, humidity, air pressure, ozone, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide … | Continue reading
ProofPilot, a startup that helps researchers design and manage scientific studies, launches today after a $1.85 million investment from CueBall Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, among others. The New York-based startup says it makes it easier for professionals to run randomiz … | Continue reading
Robot dogs that you can control via remote are certainly fun, but they fall short of the kind of realism we expect from modern-day automatons. What we really want is a pet that doesn't need to be walked, but will come when called.WowWee's CHiP could be that robo-dog.SEE ALSO: Thi … | Continue reading
In Helsinki soll es mehr Saunen als Einwohner geben. Hier in Mitteleuropa ist das leider nicht so, auch wenn man eigentlich nicht oft genug saunieren kann, auch im Sommer nicht. Der Sauna-Experte Klafs feuert mit seinem neuesten Modell die Wunschli... | Continue reading
Despite gripes about the usefulness of Facebook chatbots, “tens of thousands” of developers are building them, Messenger’s head of product Stan Chudnovsky revealed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. And, 2,500 Shopify merchants have Facebook chatbots too, showing e-commerce compan … | Continue reading
NATO is on the lookout for military-grade blockchain proposals in a technology innovation contest. | Continue reading
Unsatisfied with that 128GB microSD card you just bought for your smartphone? You're in luck, because Samsung has just unveiled its new 256GB microSD card. | Continue reading