If you’re tired of paying a monthly fee to your carrier for an iPhone, Apple has your back. You can now take advantage of the iPhone Upgrade Program online. On launch, the upgrade program asked that you purchase a phone in person at an Apple Store. It lets you pay a flat monthly … | Continue reading
Well, that didn't go as planned.Makerbot's efforts to ride the wave of global consumer 3D printer demand crashed unceremoniously on the shores of Brooklyn and, somehow, washed up in St. Petersburg, Florida.The once-hot startup announced on Monday that it would cease production of … | Continue reading
Teens who see frequent ads for e-cigarettes are more likely to have picked one up and started vaping, a new study has found. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today that middle and high school students exposed to e-cig ads — be it online, on TV, or printed in … | Continue reading
If you've been avoiding making important updates to your website, you aren't alone. Many small businesses simply avoid website updates because... | Continue reading
Gmail will soon support Microsoft Exchange on every Android device! | Continue reading
In an age when completely driverless cars (probably electric) seem to be only just around the corner, the idea of starting a brand new online community aimed at petrolheads seems like an ill-timed one. But that’s not about to stop Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, b … | Continue reading
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May — the trio of presenters from BBC's Top Gear who have a new show in the works for Amazon — have invested heavily in a new company that is aiming to create the ultimate online destination for fans of cars and the show. It's called Dr … | Continue reading
Cherrypick Games, developers of Touchdown Hero [Free] and Must Deliver [Free], are releasing Now Escape this week on to the App Store. A bit of a similar motif as their previous titles, this is an endless escape game, where you fly upward through hazards that change all of a sudd … | Continue reading
Mobile payments company Stripe is hiring, and if you’re interested — feel free to bring your whole team along for the process. A new initiative called ‘BYOT’ (bring your own team) lets crews of up to five apply to work at Stripe. The company even says it will do its best to make … | Continue reading
Google updated its Gmail app for Android today to support Microsoft Exchange email accounts on all devices. The addition remedies one of the app's biggest shortcomings for those who want to mix work and personal information in the same space. Now, when adding a new account to Gma … | Continue reading
Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside will start Game 4 against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night despite missing the last two practices with a bruised right thigh. | Continue reading
We take a look at some of the best cases available for the Sony Xperia Z5 Android phone. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Customer touch-points are multiplying, and so are engagement technologies. Join leaders in marketing as they discuss how to adopt an effective omnichannel strategy that unifies the customer experience. Register here for free. Customers have grown to expect an extremely … | Continue reading
We now know the full extent of the concern over compliance issues at Theranos’ Newark, California lab thanks to new documents TechCrunch has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began a federal investigation int … | Continue reading
The ability to blow up a planet is insignificant next to the power of an update. The mobile role-playing game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has added guilds and raids in a new batch of content. Galaxy of Heroes is the No. 80 ranked game for iOS, according to App Annie. Updates like … | Continue reading
Search engine optimization sounds intimidating, right? Doesn't have to be! Get more search engine traffic, even if you are a new blogger, using these steps. | Continue reading
The WISP project has been making battery-free electronics, which work wirelessly by harvesting power from ambient radio waves, a reality for a while now. This is great for embedded electronics, which can send off a beacon, monitor the environment, and do other cool IoT-type thing … | Continue reading
A judge today officially put an end to the fight between the Justice Department and Apple over unlocking the iPhone of a New York man convicted of selling drugs. U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie denied as moot the government’s request to force Apple to help extract data from the … | Continue reading
Android users are getting a new Twitter feature today: Periscope livestreams will now autoplay on timelines. Previously, you had to click on a link to view broadcasts. The feature first arrived on iOS back in January, so it’s nice to see Android catching up. No word on when the W … | Continue reading
Lionsgate has just added over 100 movies, including the Hunger Games films and Kill Bill (both volumes) to, of all things, Steam. That’s Valve’s digital content delivery platform, of course, used by millions of PC gamers. Why did Lionsgate add over 100 movies to a gaming platform … | Continue reading
I am absolutely fascinated with Yo-Kai Watch. I've played the localized 3DS game, I watch the television show, and I have several trinkets from the toy line, including the actual titular watch. Having visited Japan for the first time last year I had the good fortune of speaking t … | Continue reading
Market observers weigh in on the news bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has secured what could be a key licensing in Luxembourg. | Continue reading
Some artists take to canvas while others use paper or a video screen, but now some creative folks are using a wall of keyboards to tell stories. Logitech built a wall made out of 160 keyboards to help promote its brand at the Penny Arcade Expo this past weekend. The wall used the … | Continue reading
QWERTY, the most common type of keyboard, might just be one of the most influential pieces of technology of the last century. David Garcia, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Markus Strohmaier of the Leibniz Insitute for Social Sciences, analyzed millions of produc … | Continue reading
Goldman Sachs has traditionally functioned like a run-of-the-mill investment bank. Minimums to open an account were in the range of $10M, and returns were not guaranteed. While that will still remain true for the firm’s wealth management arm, Goldman is opening its doors to the m … | Continue reading
Indiana Pacers starting center Ian Mahinmi was limited to non-contact drills at practice Monday because of a lingering lower back injury. | Continue reading
It’s tempting to look at Beyoncé’s new "visual album" Lemonade as a show of celebrity force that’s without parallel in pop music. No one’s ever used an hour on premium cable to unveil an album-length airing of marital grievances so potent fans thought it might be coupled with a d … | Continue reading
Late last week a Nintendo patent application for a strange U-shaped controller surfaced in the gaming forum NeoGAF. The patent application, which was reportedly filed in October of 2014 and has been roughly translated into English, suggests that Nintendo had plans for a motion-ba … | Continue reading
This lavish loft apartments project offers modern living spaces adapted to the Big Apple’s new upbeat generation while allowing the McKenna .. | Continue reading
If you can't drive from door to door, why not park and scoot the rest of the way?SEE ALSO: Volvo wants to sell 1 million electrified vehicles by 2025At the Beijing Motor Show Monday morning, Audi debuted its new connected mobility concept, which uses smartphone integration as wel … | Continue reading
Humans are evil. If you want proof, try playing through some of the gamer-created levels in Super Mario Maker. But humans also persevere over evil — again, we can find evidence of this in Nintendo’s awesome Wii U release and GamesBeat’s Game of the Year for 2015. Someone has fina … | Continue reading
What are the core values of your business? Part of effective communication through content marketing is knowing what your brand is and what it’s not. The purpose of your organisation should be the driving force behind any messages you transmit, so it’s absolutely imperative this … | Continue reading
Google tweaked their algorithm causing published content to decline in SEO results, but you can refresh your old content marketing to stay in the game. | Continue reading
Beautiful but fatally flawed, Fisker Automotive's Karma hybrid sedan was an early example of a next-gen car startup biting off more substantially than it could chew. After it ran out of money, Fisker parted ways with its namesake founder — well-known designer Henrik Fisker — and … | Continue reading
Facebook may be working on yet another Snapchat clone.The social network is developing a standalone camera app meant to "encourage its 1.6 billion users to create, and share, more photos and videos," according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. SEE ALSO: Facebook is test … | Continue reading
A little over a week ago, Google announced two new customizable cases for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Nexus 6 smartphones. The new cases, which sell through Google's online store for $35, let you put a custom image, photo, or map on the back of the case, and talk to the phone via … | Continue reading
GE is not typically a name you’d associate with food, but with its big data brisket party back at SXSW 2015 and now a new scientifically-developed hot sauce, the company might soon be more than just an appliance supplier for your household. The company today launched 10^32 Kelvin … | Continue reading
Following Fenix's removable from the Play Store, we'd like to know - what Twitter app are you using on Android? | Continue reading
Honda announced it’s going to expand its Clarity line to include an all-electric version and a plug-in hybrid next year. The latest version of the Honda Clarity will be available later this year any way you want it, as along as you want a fuel-cell vehicle. The other two variants … | Continue reading
Designers and developers don’t always have a smooth handoff when building apps, but Sympli thinks it can help via its plugin for major IDEs and design environments. What Sympli offers is a plugin for Adobe XD and Sketch, along with complimentary plugins for Android Studio or Xcod … | Continue reading
Disappointing news for anyone who was expecting the sequel to Evoland [$0.99] to hit mobile – the developers have confirmed on Twitter that Evoland 2 won't be hitting mobile after all. While the existence of the mobile version was up in the air to begin with – and the original Ev … | Continue reading
The iXpand is an odd thing to behold, a strange Frankensteinian amalgam of adapters fused together and folded over for good measure. It’s another interesting concept out of SanDisk as the company attempts to stay nimble in a world of rapidly dropping storage costs and increasing … | Continue reading
Josh, Joe, Andrew and Jonathan hang out to talk phones we don't like, Live Cases, Moto G 4th gen and more. Enjoy AA Podcast 060. | Continue reading
First Response, a pregnancy test company owned by household product manufacturer Church & Dwight, released its Pregnancy Pro test app in March, which it markets as the "first pregnancy test that syncs with your smartphone." The Bluetooth-enabled test comes with a free partner ap … | Continue reading
Pope Francis is easily the most tech-savvy of any Pope to date, but yesterday he expressed — to a crowd of 100,000 in St. Peter’s Square — that technology wasn’t the key to happiness for today’s youth. While often seen on Twitter, Instagram, or posing for selfies with followers, … | Continue reading
Valve just announced a major new initiative to stream Lionsgate movies to Steam users across all three operating systems -- but actually building a video-on-demand service into Steam's client would require more than a little retooling. | Continue reading
Forex is a very attractive way of investing and having some returns. Nowadays, the Forex Markets have been attracting many Bitcoin traders. Since the Forex Market has an enormous liquidity and it is practically non-stop, it enables traders to maintain their activity 24 hours per … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Making it to the top of the app charts isn’t just luck; it’s a perfect blend of art and science. Join David Lane — named the Best Indie Game Developer at the 2015 Apps World conference — and others in our next half-hour ASO master class where they’ll share proven tact … | Continue reading