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
Whether you're looking for parenting tips or the best new restaurants in your neighborhood, Facebook Groups is useful for finding virtual communities around various topics.Now Facebook is testing a dedicated "Discover" feature within the Groups section, making it easier to join c … | Continue reading
For the fashion business without a giant team, without a giant budget, and starting on the DIY marketing track: here are three simple but essential AdWords strategies to keep you competitive and improve overall ROI from PPC. | Continue reading
German railway giant Deutsche Bahn is working on adding autonomous cars to its transport network as a way of getting riders to and from the train station — the last mile, so to speak. It's even looking at competing with companies like Uber in getting travelers around urban areas … | Continue reading
Twenty horses with nonsensical names will be racing in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. We asked WSJ staffers if they could tell the names of the horses apart from the names of some hipster bands. Photo/Video: Carly Marsh/The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Today’s mapping applications are focused on helping you navigate to one spot to the next, or discovering the businesses around you. But they tend to be utilitarian in nature, and not what anyone would describe as “fun” to use. A new mapping application called Relay changes that. … | Continue reading
It looks and feels like science fiction, but flexible, holographic displays are now a reality being showcased by the HoloFlex. | Continue reading
There are a few ways you can look at INKS. [$1.99], the latest release from Lumino City [$4.99] developer State Of Play. On the one hand, it's a beautiful piece of interactive art, allowing each player to uniquely paint a design based on how they play. On the other hand, it's pro … | Continue reading
In an emotional 1,100-word Facebook post published Friday, Sheryl Sandberg reflected on her first year as a widow and single mother. The Facebook COO, who lost her husband Dave Goldberg in May 2015, describes a "new and unfamiliar world" of trying to succeed at work without a par … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Earlier this week, Twitter’s stock hit an all-time low, briefly plummeting to $13.90 — almost half its IPO price in 2013, and one-fifth of its peak $69 price in December 2013. The rock-bottom moment served as a stark reminder that Twitter isn’t meeting Wall Street’s exp … | Continue reading
There is one credible argument about why it is important to know Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity. His public wallets will account for about 5.5 % of the total number of bitcoins which will be in circulation after the 21 millionth – the last- bitcoin has been mined in approximately th … | Continue reading
Uber Offices are a space for teams to detach from the mother ship and work independently on special projects. | Continue reading
Ashok Goel, a computer science professor at Georgie Institute of Technology, recently pulled a huge prank on his students: he gave them a robot for a teaching assistant. "Jill Watson" did regular TA work, like remind students of due dates and answer questions, all over email. Acc … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has had a quiet week, experiencing low trading volume and rather modest price changes despite the Craig Wright controversy. | Continue reading
Electronic Arts has unveiled the trailer for its new Battlefield 1 first-person shooter, set in the trenches of World War I. It’s release is set for October 21. Battlefield has been slugging it out with Call of Duty for years to be the No. 1 franchise on the shooter market. Rival … | Continue reading
Electronic Arts unveiled Battlefield 1, set in World War I (which the series has never done before). But that doesn’t mean you’ll spend all of your time shooting rifles at the enemy from the protection of a trench. The weapons, vehicles, and settings will have enormous variety, b … | Continue reading
Electronic Arts is getting ready to rumble with the futuristic rival Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare by going back in time. Today, EA announced its new Battlefield 1 game, set in the trenches of World War I. It’s release is set for October 21, the middle of gaming’s blockbuster se … | Continue reading
The newest game in the Battlefield franchise is also the first, chronologically speaking. Battlefield 1, which publisher Electronic Arts unveiled today on a global Twitch stream, is set during World War I. Occurring before EA's Battlefield 1942, which came out in 2002, this new e … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Motorola took to its Twitter account to tease what is largely expected to be the next generation of the Moto G, a "budget" smartphone that has consistently beat expectations. Today we might have gotten a little more insight into what exactly the fourth-generation Moto … | Continue reading
EA has officially announced the next Battlefield game as the World War 1-based Battlefield 1. It will be released worldwide on 21st October, though folks wh… | Continue reading
If you happen to be in the New York City area between this weekend and June 12, be sure to look up in the sky around the Brooklyn areas during sunsets. New York artist Duke Riley is unveiling a spectacle this weekend which employs 2,000 pigeons equipped with three-lumen LED light … | Continue reading
In an era where kids can fire up a game like Real Racing 3 [Free] for free on a mobile device, I can't imagine slot car racing sets are as ubiquitous as they were when I was a kid. Just about everyone seemed to own one back then, whether they were interested in cars or | Continue reading
Today, Electronic Arts took the wraps off Battlefield 1, the confusingly named fifth main entry in the wartime first-person shooter series. The game will be released for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on October 21st, and the title's first trailer debuted live this afternoon on … | Continue reading
Maj to miesiąc rodzinnych spotkań. Jak co roku o tej porze, dostaję od Was sporo wiadomości z zapytaniem jaki tort/ciasto mogę polecić na imieniny, Dzień Matki, przyjęcia komunijne a następnie Dzień Dziecka. To bardzo miłe :-) więc spieszę szybko z odpowiedzą. U nas w domu równie … | Continue reading
Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT/4pmET.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’s Facebook page HEREG3’s archive on ustreamG3’s Facebook page HERE Read More | Continue reading
Lenovo Tech World is teased to have big reveals for both Project Tango and the Moto line. | Continue reading
Many people scoffed in January 2014 when Cisco CEO John Chambers pegged the “Internet of Everything” as a potential $17 trillion market, five to 10 times more impactful on society than the Internet itself. Two years later, it seems that Chambers’ prediction for the phenomenon mor … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission has officially approved Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable, according to a statement issued by the FCC. Together, the companies will constitute the second-largest cable company in America, second only to Comcast. The acquisition will … | Continue reading
Chinese tech giant Lenovo is investing $500 million in startups after it announced a new fund. Read More | Continue reading
There's something wrong with smartwatches. We all feel it, deep down. "This is not as cool as I thought it would be!" we constantly yell to anyone who will listen. Well, good news: science is on it. Thanks to the power of magnets and duct tape, Doppio offers up a humble solution: … | Continue reading
When Trion Worlds set out to make its next game, the company thought it was building something for the free-to-play business model. But to the publisher’s surprise, it turns out it was actually making something quite different. Atlas Reactor is getting a $30 price tag because, ac … | Continue reading
In the list of things that we want science to solve I suspect the creation of a wireless 5.1 speaker system that is easy to use and set up ranks up there in between a cure for shingles and the colonization of Mars. Thankfully, there are people on the job.Enclave Audio has been wo … | Continue reading
Here’s a little Friday fodder: if you’ve ever wondered how a kaleidoscope is made, take five minutes and watch the above video. Posted by Discovery Channel’s “How It’s Made” YouTube Page, the clip above details the craftsmanship of what goes into creating a kaleidoscope. In short … | Continue reading
The first thing you do upon developing a flexible holographic smartphone display? Fire up a game of Angry Birds, naturally. All the rest of that smartphone functionality can wait until you’ve finished a few rounds of slingshotting avian missiles. Maybe not the first thing – but i … | Continue reading
Mother’s Day is coming up in the US, so brands are busy shifting their marketing to family love. Apple’s tactic: a website to let users create Mother’s Day videos, and then share them on Facebook. The gesture follows Apple’s ‘Mother’s Day’ ad released last week, and in fact the v … | Continue reading
Musical.ly, the app that makes it easy to create music videos, is in the process of raising about $100 million in funding, at around a $500 million post-money valuation, TechCrunch has learned. The details are still being finalized, but the plan is for GGV Capital and Qiming Vent … | Continue reading
A showdown between North Carolina and the federal government has intensified over a new anti-transgender bathroom law known as "HB2." Here's how this controversial state law became a national debate. Photo: Getty. | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Google and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) agreed to work together and build self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans with Google's autonomous technology. But the details of the partnership — and what happens after the Pacificas roll off the line — is anyone's guess.Though … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama called for Congress to help close loopholes in order to combat money laundering, corruption and tax evasion. Photo: AP | Continue reading
For the last three years, YouTube has put on a series of increasingly extravagant parties meant to convince advertisers that the video platform is the best place to spend their marketing dollars. The fourth annual Brandcast took place last night at the Javits Center, and compared … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama said the presidential race is not "entertainment" or a "reality show," in a clear reference to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, and said candidates' plans and records need to be closely scrutinized. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Larry Wilmore thought he was telling jokes. Just about everyone else at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it seems, thought differently.On Saturday night, “The Nightly Show” host made fun of Brian Williams, Ted Cruz and Barack Obama, among many others. His audience, for the … | Continue reading
CoinDesk speaks with a senior researcher from Imperial College London's cryptocurrency R&D efforts. | Continue reading
TechCrunch is gearing up for the Disrupt NY Hackathon and conference. This week, the battle between Brazilian authorities and WhatsApp continued, Tesla shared details about how effective its bioweapon mode is, and Uber got hit with another lawsuit. Here are the stories you don’t … | Continue reading
The '80s was the best decade to be alive, and all you Millennials with your Snapchats and your Drake memes can just get off my lawn! Ok, so maybe the actual '80s weren't all that great, but all the stuff we use to remember the '80s is the best. Big hair. Neon everything. Leg warm … | Continue reading
This week: Google reads romance novels, related subjects are now added to rich snippets, and wait until you read about how many webmasters received manual action notices last year. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Reads Romance Novels According to a report by BuzzF … | Continue reading
Some lessons become clear over time. At our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, that was evident in our opening fireside chat with Robbie Bach, former chief Xbox officer at Microsoft and author of the recent Xbox Revisited, a memoir of his time at Microsoft as well as his strategy for f … | Continue reading