Today, most users surf the web unaware that sites pinpoint their locations – and if they are aware, why are they concerned? It seems harmless, convenient even; perhaps users are shopping and wish to view items in their country’s currency or they’re browsing for content and prefer … | Continue reading
Titanfall developer Respawn is making a third-person Star Wars game.Respawn is working with EA and Lucasfilm on the project, according to a note from designer Stig Asmussen."The entire company erupted in cheers when it was announced that this would be our next endeavour," he said … | Continue reading
When Microsoft revealed the specs for the HoloLens back in February, it didn't give out any details on the processor powering the headset, so Windows Central decided to run AIDA64 Mobile and find out for itself.1.04Ghz Intel Atom x5-Z8100 64-bit CPUIntel Airmont (14nm)16,500mWh b … | Continue reading
The Force is strong with Respawn. Today EA announced that it is working with Respawn Entertainment on a new game set in the Star Wars universe. No details about the game were revealed, aside from the fact that it will be a "third-person action adventure game." Respawn is a relati … | Continue reading
As Election 2016 hacks go, this one isn’t exactly original, but the Arizona real-estate guy – called Ted Cruz – who owns TedCruz.com is supporting Clinton so he’s using his website to promote his team. Right now civilian Ted Cruz is capitalizing on the Google searches made as the … | Continue reading
Automakers are scrambling to turn their cars into "connected" cars right now — and for many, that means adding support for smartwatches. (Usually, they're just extensions of the phone apps that many of these cars already integrate with.) But more often than not, these smartwatch … | Continue reading
A big developer is getting involved with that far, far away galaxy we all love. Respawn Entertainment, known for the multiplayer shooter Titanfall (and its recently announced sequel), is working on a third-person action-adventure game set in the Star Wars universe, game director … | Continue reading
The number of Bitcoin ATMs in the ‘City of Angels’ has gone up. Coinsource, the Bitcoin ATM network has announced that it has added seven new Bitcoin ATMs to its network in Los Angeles recently. At the same time, Las Vegas received 2 more of these machines. Even though the number … | Continue reading
Twitter today launched its Vine app for Windows 10. The company has released the new app with support for desktops and tablets, but not phones. You can download the new app now from the Windows Store. Twitter says the app includes many of the features available in Vine’s mobile a … | Continue reading
Vine is releasing a brand new app for Windows 10 today. While the Windows Phone Vine version launched more than two years ago, today's release is specifically for Windows 10 PCs and tablets. If you're a fan of Vine then you'll find many of the features you'd expect, and even the … | Continue reading
Sci-fi virtual world EVE Online is getting a big new addition — really big. As part of its new "Citadel" expansion, which launched last week, the massively multiplayer game has added a new class of structure called citadels. They look like space stations, but they're so big that … | Continue reading
Apple Music is headed for a refresh. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is overhauling the app’s interface, and will introduce the changes at WWDC in June. The change is reportedly prompted by lukewarm reactions to the initial app, which has some hurdles on both the … | Continue reading
At the AUVSI expo in New Orleans this morning, Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, announced that the agency was going to move aggressively to cut back on restrictive regulations around who can fly commercial drones. And to add some flavor to the news, th … | Continue reading
Okay, let's be clear here: this is a total hack. PieMessage is a new project published yesterday on GitHub by Eric Chee, who goes by bboyairwreck. It involves:An AppleScript to capture iMessages whenever they pop up on your MacA Java app to scoop up those messages from the script … | Continue reading
Hundreds of millions of people’s user details for popular email services are floating around the Dark Web, and are being offered for sale from as little as $1, according to a cybersecurity expert. Alex Holden, founder of Hold Security, says that in total his company was given mor … | Continue reading
The world is never going to want for Star Wars-related merchandise, but as I discovered earlier this year there’s only one place to go if you want the most accurate, high-end lightsaber replicas possible: the fans. The engineers, artists, and talented craftspeople that make up th … | Continue reading
Concerns have been raised about the scope of a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) after it was revealed the agreement covers access to all patient data from the three London hospitals involved, rather than a more target … | Continue reading
I recently went on a long vacation to Belize. It was one of those rare trips where everything went smoothly, and it was a legitimate break from my everyday life. But I was incredibly anxious before I left — not because I was afraid I'd forget my passport, or that my allergy to be … | Continue reading
Official Police Business is a weekly column and newsletter by reporter Matt Stroud about new developments in police technology, and the ways technology is changing law enforcement — think body cameras, cell-site simulators, surveillance systems, and electroshock weapons. Sign up … | Continue reading
Mobile isn’t just about having a mobile-friendly website, but it also means utilizing mobile apps that would make your customers' lives easier. | Continue reading
Photograph of drivers running to their cars, Ards Tourist Trophy Race, 1929 | Continue reading
Bitcoin payments processor BitPay has unveiled a new bitcoin debit card that will enable users to make payments at any Visa point-of-sale (POS) terminals and withdraw cash at Visa ATMs, anywhere across the United States. BitPay has launched its new BitPay Visa card, a debit card … | Continue reading
Which blockchain implementations are right for your enterprise? Investor William Mougayar breaks down the ecosystem and its providers. | Continue reading
While I hope everyone is being extra safe today while observing Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day, I actually typed up this whole post while standing on the top rung of an extra-tall ladder and pushing branches into a wood chipper with my foot. Anyway, as I've menti … | Continue reading
"Pugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub." Gibberish? No. These are the names of the firemen, called out by the narrator as the stop-motion characters slid down the pole in the children’s TV show Trumpton. I didn’t have to look these names up; I still remember them fro … | Continue reading
I've owned plenty of home Wi-Fi routers over the years, and I'm continually dumbfounded why manufacturers make it so hard to perform a simple reset. Whenever I have a connectivity problem, 98% of the time turning the thing off and on again does the trick, but many routers either … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Mother’s Day is this weekend, and if you were worried about finding the right gift, well, there’s an app for that. Wait – scratch that, apps are suddenly so last year. Instead, for 2016: There’s a bot for that. Shopping assistant Mezi launched in December 2015, and the … | Continue reading
There were plenty of questions surrounding the actual real world functionality of EHang’s impressive human-sized drone when it made its debut on the CES floor back in January.Was the Chinese manufacturer actually planning to bring the thing to market, or was the giant quadcopter … | Continue reading
Apple Music has been much maligned for its confusing interface which reviewers have referred to as cluttered and difficult to navigate, “a confusing mess,” and “so crammed with items, lists and menus that it’s hard to find things initially,” among other things. But according to a … | Continue reading
However Uncharted 4 ends up playing, there's no denying how good the game already looks. But if you did want to tweak the visuals for Nathan Drake's final adventure, Naughty Dog has provided all manner of graphical filters so you can do just that.These visual options are availabl … | Continue reading
His grandma gave him $1,000 when he was 13 years old, and he invested it in bitcoin. A year and a half later, he cashed out, netting $100,000. At 15, he turned that into Botangle, an online tutoring service.Now that he's 17, Erik Finman is jumping into the world of virtual realit … | Continue reading
Das Start-up GetHuman hat in den USA einen Dienst gestartet, der Kunden die oft nervenzehrende Kommunikation mit Firmen via Hotline abnimmt. Je nach Thema verspricht GetHuman die Lösung aller denkbaren Probleme und Anliegen, die man als Kunde... | Continue reading
The intelligence community has ramped up searches of US citizens' data, according to a 2015 transparency report released earlier this week. The report details 4,672 surveillance queries concerning known US citizens, a number that has doubled since the 2013 report, as pointed out … | Continue reading
VB INSIGHT: LiveNinja is announcing a new suite of products today that fly right in the face of conventional customer service. Instead of engaging an agent in a chat window or phone call in real time, it lets you, the consumer, manage the relationship on your terms. In doing so i … | Continue reading
Mother’s Day is coming up (in the US anyway) and Facebook wants to help you spread the love. This week, it’s baking in a feature to let you decorate your messages with flowers. When you use Messenger on Android or iOS, you’ll see a new little flower icon on the lower right of the … | Continue reading
Public speaking is among the most dreaded activities for most people. Up to 75% business professionals suffer from glossophobia, the fear of public speaking. PR and marketing pros are no exception. Most get the heebie-jeebies before presentations to clients, superiors, community … | Continue reading
Hold Security has uncovered a hacker selling usernames and password of 272.3 million email accounts, including those of 24 million Gmail users. | Continue reading
Summer 2016 is upon us, and with it comes some of the year’s biggest movies. As always, the hottest months of the year bring some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters and friendliest family fare any moviegoer is ready to spend their hard-earned cash on. That also means a heavy d … | Continue reading
With the rise and rise of messaging (I have at least six messaging apps on my phone and counting), tech companies are piling into the space. Many are trying to shoe-horn ‘chat bots’ into behaving like they are capable of customer service. Facebook Messenger, Kik, Twitter, Skype, … | Continue reading
You don’t have to break your R2-D2 bank to celebrate Star Wars Day with some great games. Star Wars is a multimedia giant that has spanned over four decades, with gaming making up a large part of its cultural impact. Thanks to sale prices at the digital store GOG, many of the gre … | Continue reading
Running PPC campaigns on a budget is no easy task. Check out of top 5 tips to give you a leg up on the competition. | Continue reading
For as long as I can remember, technology has been seen as a panacea that will finally make education scalable beyond the one to few model employed in the classroom. As a result there seems to be an endless conveyer belt of edtech startups finding new (and sometimes very old) way … | Continue reading
Rebagg, an online resell market for designer handbags, has raised $8 million in Series A funding to continue the pace of rapid growth.There are a lot of designer clothing and handbag resellers out there, including Tradesy, TheRealReal, and even secondary markets out of RenttheRun … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Who made your All-NBA teams? | Which remaining playoff team has the best b … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Who made your All-NBA teams? | Which remaining playoff team has the best b … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Who made your All-NBA teams? | Which remaining playoff team has the best b … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Braintree. Nine years ago, mobile payments didn’t exist. By the end of 2015, mobile commerce was a $50 billion industry, already 7 percent of the total ecommerce market and growing quickly. By 2018, mobile commerce wi … | Continue reading