Remember when Activision Blizzard acquired King for the measly amount of $5.9 billion? For many, that purchase was Activision's attempt to get access to King's huge player base and to set a foot firmly intp the mobile space. If recent news is accurate, we might have peeked into A … | Continue reading
Julianna Barwick’s 2013 album Nepenthe was a lot like its title: a healing salve, a soft buffer against the constant thrashing of the outside world. Part of that buffer was created by physical space: Barwick recorded the album during the winter in Reykjavík, Iceland, an oft-cited … | Continue reading
The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon kicks off tomorrow, and we’re honored to welcome the hackathon’s stellar judges. Read More | Continue reading
Amy Ogan, an educational technologist at Carnegie Mellon University, calls herself a “CMU lifer” and for good reason. She nabbed both her undergraduate degree and Ph.D from the school. For the last couple of years, she has also worked at the university as an assistant professor, … | Continue reading
Amazon’s game streaming service Twitch is getting more social. The new “Friends” feature teased in April has now launched into beta, allowing users to search for, add, and view a list of friends, see when they’re online, and easily chat with them. The company says it has sent out … | Continue reading
Battlefield 5 will be unveiled live tonight at 9pm UK time (4pm EST) and you can watch the whole thing right here via the embed below.The stream is already live with a time-filling franchise retrospective pre-show.Unlike last week's Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare announcement, DI … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch article, we noted that the range we were focusing on in the bitcoin price was probably a little too tight to bring an intrarange strategy into the equation, but for an aggressive trader, it would probably be possible to draw a profit under so … | Continue reading
Account executive Bethan Salmen explains her route to agency Because and her aims for the future. | Continue reading
If you’ve debating building a DIY prototype of the Echo so you don’t have to pay a hefty $180 for the convenience to use Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, Lexi might just be the app you’ve been looking for. Available for iOS, Lexi lets you speak to Alexa straight through your phone … | Continue reading
A new HTC One has been discovered in Poland, and it's pretty cheap to boot. Specs include a 13-megapixel rear camera with OIS, 2GB of RAM and 16GB storage. | Continue reading
Cuyperspassage is the name of the new tunnel at Amsterdam Central Station that connects the city and the waters of the IJ-river. | Continue reading
The future of gadgets is filled with flexible and holographic technology. At least that's what sci-fi movies and the super-smart geeks in science labs developing the future keep telling us.Researchers at Queen's University's Human Media Lab have created what they call the world's … | Continue reading
DigiExam, a startup that’s setting out to digitize academic exams, has raised $3.5 million to grow internationally and establish itself as the de facto provider of digital exams and assessments. DigiExam is a cloud-based (naturally) platform that merges the offline/online world a … | Continue reading
Swedish edtech startup DigiExam, which also has offices in the U.S. and U.K., offers software-as-a-service for academic testing and grading. It enables students to take tests digitally and in turn teachers to grade the results more efficiently. Read More | Continue reading
This week may have included Star Wars Day, but Star Wars is being totally overshadowed by another juggernaut — Captain America: Civil War, which comes out today and has been getting all-around fantastic reviews. If you're looking for something to watch this weekend, that's probab … | Continue reading
"Der neue trntbl von vnyl ist da" mag ein wenig so klingen, als müsste man noch mal in die Grundschule, aber irgendwie gehen hier minimalistisches Design und Startup-Vocalverschluckung ganz gut zusammen. Das elegante Designerstück von P... | Continue reading
Public Relations - When you hired your PR agency, you were excited and hopeful. But now, you're wondering whether you made the right decision. Check out these signs that you may have chosen ... | Continue reading
Mobile - Anyone doing serious mobile app marketing knows surveys can be useful for understanding app satisfaction, getting feedback on new functionality, understanding why a feature isn't being used, or collecting general ... | Continue reading
Social Media - This week's 'Skim is all about maximizing views and visibility. Snapchat has done the impossible and overtaken Facebook in video views, and the ephemeral-messaging app also signed an unprecedented deal ... | Continue reading
Facebook fiends can now take the social network everywhere they go with Littlebook, an unofficial Facebook client for the Apple Watch that will either keep your eyes glued to the wearable or rolling back into your skull. Silly as it may be, Littlebook is actually pretty robust. Y … | Continue reading
A new mobile application called Earny has launched with the goal of getting you your money back. That is, the app connects with your email and Amazon accounts in order to track your online purchases and find your e-receipts, then price check those items to see if you got the best … | Continue reading
The best version of Minecraft will always be "that one time" when "that one thing happened." Maybe it was in the early beta days, when multiplayer Lego was so novel you couldn't help but be amazed. Maybe it's on the Xbox One, where four-player split screen Minecraft on a couch gi … | Continue reading
Apple Music has just announced a 50% discount for student subscribers. In the U.S. this means a $4.99 per month subscription fee for endless streaming music. | Continue reading
There seems to be an interesting correlation between issuing a new current to people who want to get fit. A new application on for iOS will pay people in Sweatcoin, depending on a number of steps they have taken every day. Is Sweatcoin the Bitcoin for Fitness? It is not the first … | Continue reading
The building where the Department of Homeland Security tracks every cyber attack against the US is surprisingly bland. With its neutral exterior and circular drive, I wasn’t even sure we were at the right place until I saw our press liaison standing in the lobby. There are no sig … | Continue reading
Adrian Ballinger, a Calif.-based mountain guide, has summited Mount Everest six times, and this week, he aims to be a part of the 194th expedition to reach the peak without the help of bottled oxygen. But he, alongside photographer Cory Richards, have a very specific goal in mind … | Continue reading
Proper mastery of WordPress is a powerful skill in the digital age. But contrary to popular belief, becoming a top WP developer requires more than installation and following a few tutorials. With the immersive, top-quality training provided by the Adobe Systems Premium WordPress … | Continue reading
Daniel Cawrey looks at how Ethereum's potential in blockchain experimentation will help bring about a new digital asset-based economic paradigm. | Continue reading
Either we get to bend the arrow of time a little bit, or this is going to result in the zombie apocalypse. Let's roll the dice and find out. | Continue reading
The company announced that money from services like Spotify and Apple Music was the single biggest source of recorded music revenue in the first quarter of the year, surpassing both physical sales and sales of digital downloads. That’s the first time any of the big music labels h … | Continue reading
Samourai Wallet developers don’t believe you should trust their wallet platform. “Users should look at our reputation thus far and make a judgement as to if we are honest and trustworthy, but at the end of the day code doesn’t lie, we have produced the code, anyone can go take a … | Continue reading
On Star Wars Day, Mark Hamill confirmed that Star Wars: The Force Awakens nearly had a different — and arguably not so hot — opening sequence. The intro, detailed by Hamill in an interview with The Sun, would have featured Luke Skywalker's severed hand floating through space, his … | Continue reading
Grace Caffyn recently joined the some of the team from the International Live Events Association, (ILEA) -formerly known as ISES - as it tours universities in the UK, helping students who want to enter the industry. | Continue reading
Peter Pane: Lübeck (ots) - Die Paniceus Gastro Systemzentrale GmbH nimmt zur Entscheidung des Landgerichts München I vom 4. Mai wie folgt Stellung: Das Gericht hat über ein Aussehen unserer Restaurants entschieden, das zum Zeitpunkt der gerichtlichen ... | Continue reading
Ab Juni wird es aller Voraussicht nach eine umfangreiche Kollektion der Sneakermarke Vans geben, die mit unterschiedlichsten Designs aus dem Nintendo-Kosmos ausgestattet sind. Spieleklassiker wie Zelda, Super Mario, Duck Hunt oder auch der legend&a... | Continue reading
Summoning or parking your car with a tap on your phone is no longer cool. You know what's cool? Ordering a gadget to order your car to do your bidding. That's the result of a "weekend project" by Tesla Model S owner Jason Goecke, who managed to get Amazon Echo to summon his car o … | Continue reading
The action roguelike has quickly become among my favourite video game genres. It started with Mossmouth's delectable action platformer Spelunky and has quickly expanded into other polished procedurally-generated adventures like The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, Downwell, Ente … | Continue reading
Content - Nearly three-quarters (72%) of donors say poor content affects whether they decide donate to a nonprofit organization, according to a recent report from Abila. | Continue reading
Nearly half of us don’t shop for Mother's Day until the eleventh hour. Here's how marketers can catch the attention of last-minute shoppers. | Continue reading
Sonia Simone shares a framework that helps you avoid the pitfalls that bring down most content marketing. | Continue reading
Are you using the right kinds of marketing CTAs for your business? Here are 6 different types and how they affect your overall conversion rate. | Continue reading
Google’s head of business development for Chrome and Android partnerships Mike Hayes says that new Android One devices will be coming to market from a range of manufacturers this year. Confirmation came in an interview with The Economic Times of India, in which Hayes explained th … | Continue reading
CG342 House is an open and flexible house recently completed by BAM! arquitectura in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The CG342 House ... | Continue reading
The Libratone Zipp is a $299 100-watt speaker with a 10-hour rechargeable battery that can be paired with up to six other Libratone speakers. I’ve been using both a Zipp and Zipp mini on a regular basis for the past few weeks in my home, at the beach, and wherever I wanted to add … | Continue reading
Alibaba has broken the seal on its startup fund for Hong Kong after it backed its first three companies in undisclosed deals. The companies are unsurprisingly in the e-commerce space: Yeechoo is online fashion store focused on renting not buying, Shopline helps online sellers use … | Continue reading
Today, many companies also see brands as an asset. All brands have some measure of brand equity. Here are 8 strategies to maximize brand equity. | Continue reading
Denkt man an Golf, kommen einem eigentlich nur gute Manieren, teurer Stil, elegante Bewegungen und nicht mehr ganz so junge Menschen in den Sinn. Das Anfang Juni erscheinende Game "Dangerous Golf" nimmt all jene Klischees nicht mehr ernst und setzt... | Continue reading
“We aren’t making a cyberpunk game,” says Magdalena Tomkowicz, story designer on the upcoming Ruiner. “But we’re making a game that’s influenced by cyberpunk works of fiction and reality.” Despite these semantics, the word cyberpunk is likely the first thing that comes to mind wh … | Continue reading