Bitcoin may now have a fee market, but that reality doesn't mean the network has optimized for this environment, developer Jameson Lopp argues. | 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
The mainstream media has been having a field day ever since Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist proclaimed himself to be the Satoshi Nakamoto. After Craig Wright failed to convincingly prove that he and Satoshi Nakamoto are one and the same, the media has painted him … | Continue reading
When you find yourself in an emergency situation, it’s hard to know what to do. And even if you do, panic can take over. 911bot, a product built at the Disrupt Hackathon here in New York, aims to help you out in a pinch. The Facebook Messenger-based chat bot lets you report emerg … | Continue reading
AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are now available from the Windows Store for Microsoft's Edge browser, letting Windows 10 users browse the way Microsoft intended while giving them the option to control the ads they see. Microsoft opened up Edge browser extensions to testers in March, pa … | Continue reading
Sad, mad, glad, confused about the presidential race so far? Well, if you are really lost on who to vote for, IBM may have a solution depending on your mood. Watson Elections, one of the surprisingly few political applications for IBM’s supercomputer, debuted on stage this mornin … | Continue reading
GUEST: Volatility in the on-demand economy has many citing a contraction. But is it all doom and gloom or is there another factor at play here? On one hand, new startups are constantly launching in the space, capitalizing on the public’s growing need for instant gratification. On … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk about a potential YouTube cable service, Google I/O 2016, and the best Humble Mobile Bundle ever! | Continue reading
Forgotten genius Ring Lardner was a popular satirist of the 1920s, famous for the practice of "listening hard." He delighted fans by... | Continue reading
The Nexus 5X is a fantastic phone, but feels as if it never lived up to its possible potential. Let's examine just what went "wrong" and seek to "solve" the situation. | Continue reading
Amazon has pledged to expand its same-day service to underserved people in the 27 cities it currently operates, and not to launch the service anywhere else without being able to cover every zip code, Bloomberg reports. The move follows a Bloomberg investigation in April that foun … | Continue reading
OKLAHOMA CITY — Taken at face value, Kevin Durant was just complimenting veteran forward David West for his decision to value professional goals over financial ones by joining the Spurs. West turned down a $12.6-million contract option with the Pacers to sign for the veteran’s mi … | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Lillard’s helpers were invaluable | Miami’s dark side without Whiteside | Lowry comes back for Raptors | Jackson ‘owes’ Knicks job to Rambis? No. 1: Lillard’s helpers were invaluable — First things first: Without a medical degree, can you nonetheless hazard a … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is trading lower today after forming another rounded wave top. Analysis considers mining production costs and the historical relationship of market price to this fundamental metric. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis … | Continue reading
A House is a single-family home with a special architecture located in Mosha, Tehran, Iran. The house was designed by New Wave Architecture. | Continue reading
The class of 2015 graduated with an average of $35,000 in student loan debt, the most in history. And yet, executives and hiring managers continue to complain about their inability to fill skilled positions in their companies. This is the skills gap, and we’ve been talking about … | Continue reading
Bluetooth-Lautsprecher? Schon seit Jahren absolute Massenware, von klein bis groß, von preisgünstig bis amtlich teuer: Die Teile sind schlicht überall im Einsatz und ein Blick in die Abteilungen der Elektronik-Supermärkte &nda... | Continue reading
Austin, Texas voters have rejected a measure called Proposition 1 that would have shielded ride-hail drivers from stricter background checks, and now Uber and Lyft are threatening to cease operations in the city on Monday. Originally reported by KXAN Austin, Proposition 1 would h … | Continue reading
When it was unveiled in 2011, the Panono, a toss-able sphere of cameras, was seen as a harbinger of the consumer 360-degree content revolutionA successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo a few years later pushed it closer to reality and finally into people's hands this year.Bu … | Continue reading
GUEST: It’s clear from the last six months that the cyber threat landscape has gotten worse quickly. Hospitals are under siege from ransomware, breaches are increasingly moving to mobile devices and we’ve seen a successful attack against a public utility. The cyber threats we fac … | Continue reading
Interested in trading ether? Here are some basics about the Ethereum market you should know before buying in. | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we've written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.If you were paying attention to world technology news this … | Continue reading
Losing jobs to technology is nothing new. Since the industrial revolution, roles that were once exclusively performed by humans have been slowly but steadily replaced by some form of automated machinery. Even in cases where the human worker is not completely replaced by a machine … | Continue reading
This week we got our first glimpse of the Galaxy S7 Active, we discussed why Intel called it quits on the smartphone market, and analyzed the results of our big phone camera comparison. Here's the news of the week! | Continue reading
Und nicht nur das Moto G der neuen Generation kündigt sich langsam an, sondern auch das kommende Moto X. Es ist zumindest laut evleaks sicher, dass das Bild die kommende Version zeigt. Doch nun kommen die Fragen: was wird aus dem doch essentie... | Continue reading
Wladimir van der Laan, one of the Bitcoin Core developers, has shared his thoughts with the world on recent Satoshi Nakamoto debacle. He strongly feels there is something”truly fishy” is going on, and Bitcoin has attracted opportunists of all kinds in the past. Wladimir van der L … | Continue reading
A lot of work work goes into a simple torrent download. What looks like a single stream of data is actually hundreds of streams at once, assembled through a complex ballet of code. Cryptographic hashes prevent anyone from slipping bad data into that stream, and makes good data do … | Continue reading
Es ist zwar noch nicht bestätigt, aber das Bild vom Galaxy S7 Active sieht relativ echt aus und würde auch bisherigen Active Serien entsprechen. Zu sehen bekommt man auf dem Leak ein AT&T Galaxy Active S7 in Tarnfarben, Plastikumh&uum... | Continue reading
Just how much graphics power do you need to get a great virtual reality experience? Oculus released a series of recommended specs which - by and large - wor… | Continue reading
The people behind Duolingo have been trying to discover what the most popular languages are according to what people choose on its app. With a user base of more than 120 million, this dataset can provide significant insights into what language people are most eager to acquire. In … | Continue reading
Longtime Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik acknowledges Bitcoins’ branding problem. “The bitcoin name, in terms of marketing, is something that larger institutions are somewhat reluctant to deal with, related to the history with Mt Gox and Silk Road, most notably.” Garzik bemoan … | Continue reading
Samsung India has sent out press invites to an event to be held...tomorrow! The reason? To launch the new Galaxy J5 (2016) and Galaxy J7 (2016)! | Continue reading
NVIDIA hat nicht nur beeindruckende neue Graphikkarten vorgestellt, sondern auch ein paar Features, die Gamern das Leben leichter machen sollen. Ansel bietet einen völlig umgekrempelten Ersatz für bisherige Screenshots. Man kann die Pos... | Continue reading
AIDA Cruises: Rostock (ots) - 1,6 Millionen Besucher des 827. HAFENGEBURTSTAG HAMBURG erlebten eine der spektakulärsten Taufinszenierungen der Kreuzfahrtgeschichte. Mehrere Millionen Menschen verfolgten live vor Ort, im Fernsehen, im Internet und via Facebook die ... | Continue reading
The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto will remain a topic of substantial discussion for several years to come. Some people feel the CIA might have been involved in the creation of Bitcoin, although there is no evidence to back up these claims. However, Gavin Andresen once gave a talk o … | Continue reading
A British vote to leave the European Union next month could make the country more vulnerable to militant attacks and cause instability across the continent, two former senior British intelligence officials said. | Continue reading
To commemorate David Attenborough’s 90th birthday, the BBC is releasing a free app this autumn that will feature more than 1,000 clips of his work studying the natural world. The Story of Life app, which will be available to access worldwide, will include clips from his earliest … | Continue reading
Have you ever said to yourself, “I’m too busy”? “I’m too busy to meet this person…” “I’m too busy to take care of my health…” “I’m too busy to learn a language…” We take in a big sigh, and even lead ourselves to believe that being “too busy” is something worth celebrating. I’ve c … | Continue reading
Since Bitcoin started gaining attention across the world, Japan was the first country to face the burnt, all thanks to the Mt. Gox fiasco. But as always, they recovered from the initial shock soon after, to become one of the leading markets for the digital currency. the adoption … | Continue reading
NVIDIA hat jetzt endlich auf seine neue Pacal-Architektur und 16nm umgestellt und die Ergebnisse in Austin, Texas vorgestellt. Allen voran der neue Spitzenreiter mit dem lieblosen Namen GTX 1080. Die größte Unternehmung in der Geschich... | Continue reading
Parents in France are being warned that their love of posting intimate photos of their young children on Facebook could land them with a fine and jail time. Thanks to the country’s strict privacy laws, reports the Guardian, French authorities have forecast a legal patricide and s … | Continue reading
Just last month, Nathan Latka took a risk: A public, five million dollar, business-defining risk. At 26, Nathan is already a bonafide startup icon. Host of the number-one rated business podcast The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life, Nathan’s entrepreneurial … | Continue reading
For Women’s Day this year (Mar 2016), I was invited to attend the event Shakti which was presented by National Commission of Women in collaboration with YourStory. Its been a while, but I cam… | Continue reading
Doing things with rigor takes effort, but not everything you put effort into is done with rigor. Rigor is a focus on process. Paying attention to not just how you do things, but why. Rigor requires us to never use... | Continue reading
Nahezu eingeschlichen hat sich eine neue Möglichkeit, sich, sollte man beim Telefonieren im Auto erwischt werden, herauszureden. Die StVO wurde im Jahr 2013 umgeschrieben, um aus "Fahrzeugführern" ein geschlechtsneutrales "Wer ein Fahrzeu... | Continue reading
The next generation of PC graphics technology is finally starting to gear up. There's innovation incoming from all angles, with the arrival of DirectX 12, plus mass production of new graphics cards using cutting-edge architectures paired with state-of-the-art production processes … | Continue reading
YouTuber Spanish Spoiler is spending his free time uploading videos that explain the next episode of Game of Thrones before they come out. In each video, according to Business Insider, the mysterious spoiler merchant has managed to predict what each episode contained with alarmin … | Continue reading