SoundCloud Go has arrived in the UK. Reuters reports this evening that SoundCloud's new subscription music service has made its first expansion, arriving in Britain for £9.99 per month and in Ireland for €9.99 per month. This follows a debut in the US, for $9.99 per month, at the … | Continue reading
If you follow The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) on Twitter and Instagram, you're already familiar with his near daily posts of inspirational messages, photos of workout routines and personal goal achievements. Now the former wrestler turned movie action hero has decided to turn his weekl … | Continue reading
Now that SoundCloud has inked licensing deals with all of the big music rightsholders, the startup is wasting no time rolling out subscription services and advertising to a wider number of markets to better monetise its 175 million users, and to compete better against the likes o … | Continue reading
One month after launching its subscription streaming service in the U.S., SoundCloud is kicking off its big international expansion today with a launch in the U.K. and Ireland. Priced at £9.99 / €9.99 per month after a 30-day trial, the new ad-free service offers 125 million trac … | Continue reading
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Last week I attended my first Open MVP day since I got the Microsoft MVP award. It was a great experience and I wanted to share what I learned and shout out to the great professionals I met there. For me, it’s an honor to be part of this | Continue reading
Next Sunday is Mother’s Day and in celebration Motorola is now offering $100 off the Moto X Pure Edition, bringing its price to just $300. | Continue reading
If you use a Nexus device or otherwise use Google Keyboard on Android, there a bunch of nifty new updates in store for you. Perhaps most notable, the keyboard now comes with a one-handed mode. That’s particularly useful for Nexus devices, which don’t come with one-handed accessib … | Continue reading
'Studio Loft Apartment' is a delicate flat in downtown Budapest, designed by studio GasparBonta. Originally a studio of a well-known hungarian | Continue reading
Professional hostess tip: always have something cool to show your guests. Pictures from a recent trip often work, but sometimes people want to touch, feel, and experience something IRL. James Newman, a man from the UK, has begun creating not only a conversation-starter but someth … | Continue reading
Distributed ledgers are often referred to as a new database technology, but could they come to replace existing payments rails? | Continue reading
I've always found the written word very alluring, which to a great degree explains my career choices and the fact that I'm writing this review right now. Books, and later adventure games and interactive fiction, were my gateways to all kinds of fantastic worlds, and I often judge … | Continue reading
To all the recruiters reading this, I’m sorry. I’m sure you’re a fantastic human being. Please don’t take this personally. It’s not aimed…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced a new perk for some education customers of its Azure public cloud: Starting this month, they won’t have to pay the usual charge of delivering data out of Azure data centers. “This makes moving to the cloud a much more predictable expense,” Brian Hillger, … | Continue reading
Silver Lake's Glenn Hutchins took the stage at Consensus 2016 today to deliver a speech on the power of the bitcoin blockchain. | Continue reading
In case you’re not totally aware, this Wednesday is May 4th, which is also known as May the Fourth, which is also known as The Day That Lots of Random Star Wars Stuff Is Announced For No Reason in Particular Other Than "May the Fourth" Sounds Like "May The Force." In what appear … | Continue reading
Identifier: CONS-GPSD-2016Pillar: Product safety (non food)Planned Opening Date: Deadline: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
The social app Beme is launching a major update today that redesigns the app and brings it to Android for the first time. Beme launched last summer with plenty of viral fanfare thanks to the support of YouTube sensation Casey Neistat, who founded the company behind it. But the ap … | Continue reading
Microsoft is playing around with Pre-Touch, a technology that gives your phone a much better sense of where your hands are. | Continue reading
Heads up, ESPN: Amazon wants to get into sports on the web.The giant retailer, which tried but failed to land a deal to stream live NFL games, wants to stream other sports via its growing web video operation.That’s why it has hired an executive to head up a new sports group: Jame … | Continue reading
Oldschool shmup Raiden V is launching 11th May exclusively on Xbox One in Europe, North America and Asia, developer Moss has announced.This will be the first new entry in the quarter century old Raiden series in nine years.Raiden V launched in Japan in March where Xbox One users … | Continue reading
Facebook's WhatsApp has been blocked in Brazil for 72 hours, following a judge's ruling.The ban, which went into effect at 2 p.m. local time, is the second time in less than six months that a Brazilian court has blocked the popular messaging app in the country.SEE ALSO: WhatsApp … | Continue reading
MutiNet's ResetPlug sounds like a serious gadget device you can buy with American dollars and plug into a wall, but it might as well be commentary on modern life. The smart plug connects to your Wi-Fi, and if it detects an outage in your internet service, it power cycles your Wi- … | Continue reading
On the first day of the Tech & Policy track of Consensus 2016, there were talks on law enforcement & blockchain and decentralizing existing markets. | Continue reading
Tesla today shared details of how effective its particulate filters are. Spoiler alert: They are so good, not only do they clean up the air inside the car, they make the world outside the car cleaner, too. It may not be obvious why this matters: The company is aiming squarely at … | Continue reading
Last week I attended my first Open MVP day since I got the Microsoft MVP award. It was a great experience and I wanted to share what I learned and shout out to the great professionals I met there. For me, it’s an honor to be part of this | Continue reading
Inside of two minutes, a Tesla in Bioweapon Defense Mode reduces air 10x dirtier than in Beijing to a healthy level. At the same time, a Model S or Model X scrubs the outside air clean, too. | Continue reading
The University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine unveiled its CT scanner for horses, the Equimagine, this past week. The system is comprised of two massive robot-controlled arms that look like they belong in a car factory more than a veterinary school. But I guess m … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever forged a connection with someone because you had the same favorite movie or TV show or book, a new startup called Tastemates has built a social network around that experience. Or as CEO Jon Vlassopulos put it, “We’re trying to codify serendipity” — those surprising … | Continue reading
Mobile gaming and free-to-play are inextricably linked at this point, and it's often used as a big talking point for console and PC gamers who complain about mobile gaming. But the reality is that free-to-play makes a lot of sense for a lot of companies. And Epic Games is the nex … | Continue reading
Doc Rivers said Monday that he would not break up the Los Angeles Clippers' big three of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and D'Andre Jordan during the offseason - regardless of any trade offers that may arise. | Continue reading
The giant has finally woken up; China has entered the blockchain race. Apart from the banking consortium and the Hyperledger project that have respectively brought the banking sector and tech companies together, we now have one more blockchain alliance, originating from China. Ch … | Continue reading
Michael Dell revealed the new names, and yes we are talking multiple names, for the artist formerly known as the Dell-EMC deal today. EMC will be deprecated for the main branding Dell Technologies, but will live on for the enterprise brand Dell EMC while the client services busin … | Continue reading
Brazilian artist L7M (previously) depicts owls, ducks, sparrows, and other birds materializing from a chaotic swirl of dripped paint and flourishes of spray. The graffiti birds not only contrast urban and natural elements, but also depict a distinct clash of both abstract and fig … | Continue reading
With all these smart eyewear patents and research studies popping up over the last couple years, it's looking more and more like we're all going to be seeing the world from behind high-tech lenses.Sony filed a patent for smart contact lenses, joining the likes of Google and Samsu … | Continue reading
Bitcoin payments firm BitPay unveiled a new bitcoin debit card during a demo session at Consensus 2016 today. | Continue reading
Stephen Curry was expected back on the court for more light shooting Monday to test his sprained right knee, still with the hope he could be ready to return for Golden State's Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals Saturday at Portland. | Continue reading
It's been a long time since we've seen an update this big for Google Keyboard. Better gesture suggestions and more auto-correct options are part of the package. | Continue reading
Oprah's next star turn will be in the upcoming HBO Films effort, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Deadline reports that the mogul, who is producing the film with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alan Ball, will star as Deborah Lacks, the daughter of the woman whose cancero … | Continue reading
Shyp has finished rolling out a new packaging pricing model to all its customers that includes variable shipment pricing based on the packaging that the company provides. Shyp is still playing around with its business model and, to be sure, over time these tweaks will add up. The … | Continue reading
After 13 years of record-breaking revenue growth, Apple finally fell back to Earth this year. iPhone sales slumped, and the company's revenue fell 13 percent compared with the same period last year. As the warning signs emerged about this slowdown, the stock fell about 30 percent … | Continue reading
Warning: this post includes graphic content.I went over to a friend's house the other day to have some quality time in his Oculus Rift. He has a nice apartment, and instead of hiding the Oculus away in a bedroom, he's devised a setup where you can sit at the kitchen table in his … | Continue reading
It's crazy to think that there was a time where few things were hotter than anything to do with Bejeweled. Back in the 2000's when PopCap was still a tiny company few people had heard of, it seemed like everyone knew Bewjeled. I've owned a variety of the game on practically every … | Continue reading
Should you be using Tumblr for your business? Perhaps. It’s not a platform many businesses are familiar with. They struggle to understand it. At first glance, it’s all a bit overwhelming. Some even dip a toe in the water, only to give up far too early. Many others, still believin … | Continue reading
The online textbook service Chegg today announced that it has acquired Imagine Easy Solutions for $42 million. Imagine Easy is the company behind online bibliography and research tools like EasyBib (which was also its first product) and similar tools like Citation Machine, BibMe … | Continue reading
If you own a $300,000 coupe, Rolls-Royce is guessing that you don't want to be seen with Samsonite luggage in the boot. It may be right; I'll never be rich enough to know. But maybe you will be, in which case you'll want to know about these bags that Rolls has designed to complem … | Continue reading
While many factors are driving the tipping point in the online distribution of insurance, the thread that ties it all together is simple: changing demographics. Insurance companies cannot expect to sell the same way to a cohort with fundamentally different purchasing habits and e … | Continue reading
In your mind's eye, picture a sedan in the Tron universe. What are you imagining? Something akin to a scaled-up light cycle, I'm guessing?Yeah, this isn't that.Introduced at the Beijing auto show last week, Chevrolet's Tron: Legacy Cruze show car is, for lack of a better descript … | Continue reading