Drake will perform and host Saturday Night Live on May 14th, NBC announced today. The rapper will pull double duty for the second time, following up his first appearance on the show in 2014. It's been a good few days for Drake — after releasing his fourth studio album Views last … | Continue reading
Copying and pasting code from the internet is one of the biggest open secrets in computer programming. And trust me, we all do it. That's because there’s question-and-answer sites like StackOverflow.com where any developer can post a programming-related question and get a respons … | Continue reading
Someone finally went and decided to try living in virtual reality for a full day, and in the process set an official Guinness World Record for the most time spent in VR while playing a game.SEE ALSO: This is how calls and texts look in virtual reality, via the HTC ViveFilmmaker D … | Continue reading
Kaytranada’s career bloomed on SoundCloud, a platform that blurs the line between original artistry and curation more readily than other music services. Scroll through the Montreal producer’s feed (his real name is Louis Kevin Celestin) and you’ll see a mix of scrappy solo beats, … | Continue reading
For Tesla, as one door opens, another closes. And, this time, they're not falcon-wing doors.SEE ALSO: The world is ready for the Model 3. Is Tesla?News broke on Monday that Tesla has leased two warehouses totaling one million square feet (the size of 17 football fields) in Liverm … | Continue reading
Today, GoPro released some truly amazing footage of a suborbital rocket launch that saw a SpaceLoft-10 rocket carry two cameras to 396,405 feet at speeds of up to Mach 5.5. The 20-foot tall rocket from UP Aerospace launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico last November. The … | Continue reading
Bitcoin markets experienced little change on 2nd May in response to Craig Wright’s claim that he is the digital currency’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Tesla Motors said on Wednesday it was on track to deliver 80,000 to 90,000 electric vehicles this year and that it would produce 500,000 in 2018, two years faster than expected. Tesla’s Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market product, has generated massive interest since … | Continue reading
Tesla's earnings are out for the first quarter of 2016, which saw a loss of $282 million on $1.15 billion in revenue; that represents slightly less revenue than the previous quarter but a slightly lower loss as well, which Tesla credit in part to "a careful eye on spending." Nota … | Continue reading
The relationship between Bitcoin and Australia has been a roller coaster ride so far. There have been ups and downs, but now the country’s premier research institution, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) intends to conduct an in-depth study of th … | Continue reading
Tesla says it is expecting to hit its goal of producing 500,000 cars annually — including the Model S, Model X and Model 3 — two years earlier than expected, meeting that expectation by 2018. All this is coming ahead of a critical next year for Tesla with the expansion of its lin … | Continue reading
After dedicating tons of energy (and loads of bandwidth) to live streaming sporting events in stereoscopic VR, NextVR is moving to its next major market: live virtual reality concerts. NextVR has announced a major partnership with Live Nation to live stream “hundreds” of concerts … | Continue reading
It appears that YouTube is planning on bringing live cable TV to their streaming platform with subscriptions starting at around $35 per month. | Continue reading
Hypetex is the first company to make colored carbon fiber — also called Hypetex — which had been limited to a dark shade of grey for years, unless you decided to paint it (which can add weight, an issue for the F1 teams from which Hypetex's engineering team comes from). But seei … | Continue reading
Zynga’s mobile strategy is beginning to work. The social game maker revealed its financial results for Q1 2016 today, with bookings at $182 million. That is above the consensus estimate of $162 million from analysts. It was also higher than Zynga’s own expectations of $150 millio … | Continue reading
When Robyn Kanner was 19 and living in Portland, Maine, she decided to transition from male, her sex at birth, to female.But she was unable to find a therapist who would prescribe her the hormones she wanted to help change her body. Kanner decided to begin her transition without … | Continue reading
One of my seed portfolio founders called for advice recently. He’d raised a Series A from a Tier 1 VC and was ahead of plan, but his investor suddenly wanted him to cut spending: on SEM, on PR, on whatever he could. He wanted to know why, and how to think about it. Read More | Continue reading
Stephen King's advice to writers who crave an audience: Leave out the boring parts . "If you can't write your idea on the back of my ca... | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Instagram confirmed that it was developing business profiles — a la Facebook Brand Pages. Recently, we managed to snag a peek at just what these new offerings look on iOS thanks to Later.com reporter Taylor Loren. The new profiles remain largely the same short … | Continue reading
If you go to chevyjoltev.com, you're graced with a long, detailed ad for the Chevy Jolt, a little all-electric coupe that promises 230 miles of range between charges and a price as low as $30,000 after federal tax credits when it launches in late 2018. It's pretty cute! You'll ev … | Continue reading
Instagram's latest experiment to make its photo-sharing network more business- and ad-friendly is dedicated brand pages for companies. The new profiles adopt some of the functions of Facebook pages by categorizing companies by type and letting users reach out using a contact butt … | Continue reading
BlackBerry updated BBM this week to allow for video calls. It's currently available in beta on Android and iOS for North American users. The rest of world will get the update in July.The company says on its blog that BBM users are "on-trend" in wanting video calling. Sounds about … | Continue reading
Farfetch is growing like crazy as the company just secured $110 million. The London-based startup has become a dominant e-commerce player in the fashion space. Farfetch runs a marketplace that connects high end fashion retailers with customers. But the company doesn’t plan to sto … | Continue reading
In what seems to be the app idea that refuses to die, there is — yet another — app for rating and reviewing people. This one, however, is limited to people who use dating apps and websites.A new app called Stroovy aims to help users vet the people they meet on dating sites by rea … | Continue reading
Think of EchoPixel’s tech like InnerSpace but instead of actually minimizing scientists and shooting them into your body to find disease, the medical imaging startup lets doctors pinpoint problem areas from CT scans using 3D glasses and a special display. Most doctors view CT sca … | Continue reading
From April 20th to July 10th, NOAA is executing a three-part deepwater exploration in the Mariana Trench and surrounding areas. Featuring the deepest portion of any ocean, this unimaginably dark and mysterious place has been something of an obsession for scientists and successful … | Continue reading
No Code's Super Arc Light [$0.99] has just gotten a big update that provides some major tweaks to the game. The big obvious one is the new easy mode. It's more of a 'practice' mode than anything, as it gives you three lives but no high scores on the leaderboard. What it does give … | Continue reading
May the Fourth is the category, and the three featured stations are Cantina Band Swing, Epic Film Scores, and Star Wars’ Finest. | Continue reading
Making money from mobile gaming is expensive thanks to rising costs of acquiring users, but one company wants to subvert this by treating the products it makes as a form of art, not as just a consumer product. Nexon chief executive officer Owen Mahoney thinks that it’s rare to fi … | Continue reading
Uber announced today that it has assembled an advisory board from around the globe to help guide the company on public policy as it continues to expand into new markets. The board includes members from every continent except Africa and Antarctica. Read More | Continue reading
Imagine you’re a filmmaker. Cinema is your craft, an art honed by more than a hundred years of brilliant ideas and happy mistakes. With it, you can do something that probably once felt like magic: capture any moment, idea, or feeling so anyone can relive it. Now picture something … | Continue reading
Fisherman Cy Williams captured the moment a humpback whale breached the water to feed just a few feet away from docked boats at Knudson Cove Marina, Alaska. Video/Photo: Caters News | Continue reading
New York-based Teachable has raised $2 million in a seed round of venture funding to help instructors of anything set up their own, branded storefronts for selling courses and connecting with learners online. The company’s technology lets instructors teach courses online in any s … | Continue reading
Sometimes you see an application of technology that’s so innovative and helpful that you can’t believe it exists in this age of narcissistic and short-sighted startups. Spirocall, a service that lets anyone in the world call a toll-free number and have their lung health evaluated … | Continue reading
An important piece of Office news was buried in all the OneDrive and SharePoint announcements last night. Microsoft today launched Office Online Server (OOS), which essentially lets businesses host their own Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote apps. Office Online, previously kno … | Continue reading
Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley is now set to star in a new take on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Variety reports that she's in final negotiations to play the title role in Ophelia, which shifts the focus from the Prince of Denmark to the noblewoman who loved him. Con … | Continue reading
Lawyer, Brian Klein, has spoken at Consensus 2016 about his belief that one money transmitting regulation needs to be changed. | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Celtra, the data-driven ad platform for two-thirds of the Fortune 500, processes over 2 billion analytics events daily. Join Celtra Director of Engineering and Analytics Grega Kešpre as he shares hard-won insights about harnessing the cloud to deliver a world-class data … | Continue reading
Today, GoPro released some pretty incredible footage of a suborbital rocket launch that climbed to 396,405 feet at speeds as high as Mach 5.5. Check out the very real footage below.The launch in the video took place from Spaceport America in New Mexico on November 6th, 2015 with … | Continue reading
The term “Growth Hacking” is not a particularly new term, but the use of it has become far more prevalent. It is something that everyone should understand, especially marketers. It helps startups succeed with a low budget and a grass roots approach. What is “growth | Continue reading
Financial services firms can use Big Data tools to create new customer-centric products to grab decisive opportunities in market-leadership. | Continue reading
When the right technology is used, solar energy can do far more than make your dashboard toy nod its head. It can power homes, businesses and, as these 3 record-setting examples illustrate, help us make our way around the globe.Click on the solar-powered innovations below to find … | Continue reading
Instagram had confirmed earlier this year that it was developing business profiles – basically, the Instagram equivalent to a Facebook Brand Page. Now, we’re able to see what these profiles look like as they’ve been spotted in the wild. The profiles, which are currently being tes … | Continue reading
Huawei unveiled its G9 Lite smartphone and MediaPad M2 7.0 tablet today, which it plans to sell in China. Unlike its P9 counterpart, the G9 phone has only one camera, but it's also significantly cheaper with a price of 1,699 yuan, or $261.Some specs:Three colors: black, white, an … | Continue reading
Maybe you’ve noticed that a lot of indie games end up on PlayStation 4 before Xbox One, and one of the studios that has partnered with Sony time and time again has shared one of the reasons for this. Vlambeer business boss Rami Ismail says that he loves working with the people at … | Continue reading
If you like your battles massive and steeped in fantasy, Rising Warriors, which you can check out in our forums, might be your thing. This upcoming fantasy strategy games, which has really nice visuals, features 80 vs 80 battles and looks fun. In Rising Warriors, you can build an … | Continue reading
How is it possible that the Bentley Bentayga SUV keeps getting cooler?SEE ALSO: McLaren is selling one of the rarest and fastest supercars ever builtBritish ultra-luxury carmaker Bentley announced Wednesday morning that it has developed an Apple Watch app for its all-new SUV, the … | Continue reading
Tesla's VP of production, Greg Reichow, and its VP of manufacturing, Josh Ensign, are both leaving the company following a troubled rollout of the company's Model X SUV, Bloomberg reports. Tesla only delivered 208 of the cars in its first quarter of availability.It’s not clear wh … | Continue reading