The United Launch Alliance will launch Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable space hotel on its Atlas V rocket sometime in 2020, the two companies announced today at the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. ULA has reserved a launch slot for the habitat, but neither company would … | Continue reading
Turns out, Tesla engineers have a sense of humor ... or at least a healthy Nintendo 64 addiction.SEE ALSO: The world is ready for the Model 3. Is Tesla?Following the instructions in a tweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a Tesla owner posted a video to YouTube Monday afternoon showing … | Continue reading
While the rest of the industry is figuring out virtual reality, I’m going to continue enjoying an HTC Vive game that already knows how to use immersion, motion controls, and vulgar hand gestures to bring its action to life. Hover Junkers is a $35 launch game for the Vive virtual … | Continue reading
Google today announced the beta launch of Voice Access, an app that will let people use speech recognition to control Android devices. While anyone will presumably be able to use it, it’s designed with specific groups of people in mind — specifically “people who have difficulty m … | Continue reading
NASA experienced a close call this weekend with its planet-seeking Kepler space telescope. On April 7th, during a scheduled contact, mission operations engineers discovered that Kepler was in Emergency Mode (EM). It was the first time the spacecraft had been in EM in its 7-year l … | Continue reading
Google is currently testing an Android app that will let you control some primary functions with only your voice, the company announced today. The accessibility software is called Voice Access, and it's designed to let people with disabilities take better advantage of core Androi … | Continue reading
Despite the increasing ubiquity of online videos, making a professional-looking one is still a complicated process that usually involves chains of emails and uploads. 90 Seconds wants to fix that problem with its cloud-based platform, which lets users handle almost every part of … | Continue reading
Daily Steals is selling Samsung Galaxy Note 4 devices for one of the lowest prices that we've ever seen. | Continue reading
There's going to be a ton of Facebook news tomorrow, so Dropbox is getting a cool piece of news out early: it's now integrated into Messenger on both iOS and Android. Facebook Messenger users will be able to find Dropbox inside Messenger's extensions menu. From there, you'll be a … | Continue reading
Fans of the late Notorious B.I.G. are about to get another chance to see the rapper perform in person, thanks to the magic of hologramsARHT Media has secured the rights to the holographic image of the famed rapper to engage in everything from concerts and various media campaignsS … | Continue reading
Apple just put out a new series of Apple Watch ads, and while they're in the same style as last run, they go much heavier on celebrity appearances. This time around they feature Nick Jonas, Alice Cooper, Jon Batiste, and another appearance from Chloë Sevigny. Each of the 15-secon … | Continue reading
Accel is on a roll. Shortly after announcing a $500 million seed fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund for U.S.-focused investments, the venture firm has yet another fund. This time, Accel raised $500 million for Accel London V, a fund focused on Series A and B investments in Europ … | Continue reading
Venture capital firm Accel has announced a fresh $500 million as it looks target what it calls an “unprecedented opportunity” to back “the next generation of entrepreneurs” in Europe and Israel. Founded out of Palo Alto, California, in 1983, Accel has since launched offices in Ne … | Continue reading
Retro City Rampage DX [$3.99] finally hits iOS. Took it long enough, eh? Brian Provinciano's "what if Grand Theft Auto was an 8-bit game that paid homage to every classic game and notable 1980s cultural phenomenon" title had landed everywhere but mobile. It was on desktop (PC, Ma … | Continue reading
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Frame.io today launched Frame.io for Adobe Premier Pro, an extension that will enable video editors to use the video collaboration tool inside the video-editing program. When Frame.io CEO Emery Wells asked me to join the beta program for the company’s Premier extension, I jumped … | Continue reading
UPDATE: April 11, 2016, 7:25 p.m. EDT An earlier version of this article stated that Ticketmaster tickets would be available from Facebook Messenger. They will not. Presumably Facebook Messenger integration will be from another ticketing company.Soon, you’ll be able to buy those … | Continue reading
It sounds like a simple problem, but being caught in a rut can be such a harrowing experience. It's not just the question of "Am I getting anywhere?" It's the fear that everything you've done has gotten you to a place where you can't get anywhere else. It's feeling trapped. The t … | Continue reading
North Carolina has faced widespread outrage after passing a law that requires transgender people to use public restrooms based on the genders listed on their birth certificates, while also prohibiting new anti-discrimination protections for the LGBT community from being passed. S … | Continue reading
The problem with Facebook isn’t the amount of pictures of dogs, it’s the lack of pictures by dogs. Finally someone is addressing this scourge — unfortunately, it’s an ad agency. So this isn’t a sponsored post, but it may as well be. Read More | Continue reading
Those of you who hang around our forums don't need any introduction to Andy C83. For years he has been one of the most skilled mobile gamers we've ever seen when it comes to speedrunning or setting high scores. If you aren't familiar with Andy, well, just fire up Game Center at p … | Continue reading
I’m not the only one that thinks this way about riding a piece of bamboo with wheels and a motor. YouTube personality and entrepreneur Casey Neistat made it his main form of transportation around the city. If you’re a daily watcher of his vlogs, then you’re all too familiar with … | Continue reading
In January of this year, AAA conducted a phone survey of nearly 2,000 drivers over the age of 18 and found some surprising results: 75 percent of respondents “would be afraid to allow an autonomous vehicle to drive itself with them in it.” Another 20 percent were cool with the id … | Continue reading
The new $599 9.7-inch iPad Pro feels a lot more comfortable to use than the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro that came out last fall. It’s also lighter, and less expensive. The first one was impressive, but it didn’t run full OS X at a price and size that it could have and arguably sh … | Continue reading
Lyft and Didi Kuaidi are gearing up this week to launch a public beta of its collaborative service in the U.S. for Chinese travelers visiting America. This is by way of interlinking APIs so that customers of one app can hail cars in the other’s market. In the next few weeks, Lyft … | Continue reading
Titanfall 2 is finally official. Now, we can begin dreaming. Three of us at GamesBeat played a lot of the original Titanfall, which came out in 2014 for Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC (a game which publisher Electronic Arts has been shy about sharing sales figures for). Now that we k … | Continue reading
Amateur cyclist Nicholas Brandt-Sorenson got busted for doping, then got busted again for selling dope. Peter Flax wrote a great article about him on CyclingTips. This and many similar articles got shared and discussed at great length on /r/Velo/. LA Times reporter Paresh Dave co … | Continue reading
Eventually, we'll all be paying $9.99 for Netflix. Until the price goes up again, anyway. A massive wave of Netflix's longtime customers will see their monthly subscriptions move to that price point next month, up $2 from the glory-days price of $7.99. $9.99 is what new subscribe … | Continue reading
Google Voice Access lets you gain full control of your Android device using just your voice. | Continue reading
People that are pissed about House Bill 2 (HB2) — legislation that robs North Carolina citizens of protection against discrimination — probably aren’t going to be happy with XHamster’s announcement today that it’s pulling out of the state. “As of today, access to XHamster.com is … | Continue reading
When I met with Buzz Aldrin to discuss his new book No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From A Man Who Walked On The Moon, he described himself as possibly “among the luckiest guys.” After all, his mother was born in 1903, the same year that the Wright brothers made their first fl … | Continue reading
The subreddit r/showerthoughts is one of the site’s most popular with more than 6 million subscribers. While you can spend all day browsing the various thought bubbles, some Redditors are now claiming men’s personal care brand Axe (yes, that Axe) has done more than browsed – it l … | Continue reading
Blockchain startup Chain has inked a new deal with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG). | Continue reading
How long do you think a typical person will spend looking at your website? A couple of minutes to flick through a few of those pages that you spent so long on? Sorry to disappoint you, but people spend an incredibly short amount of time on a given web page. Most studies indicate … | Continue reading
Weather nerds, rejoice.The National Weather Service announced on Monday that it will soon stop using all-caps style in its weather broadcasts, ending a long-standing but frequently mocked holdover that stems to the days of typewriters. "LISTEN UP!" NOAA spokesperson Susan Buchana … | Continue reading
Man, how about that Limbo, eh? While certainly not the first silhouette-styled game, it feels like it was the one that sparked off the trend of games using that artistic style after its release in 2010. On mobile this art style is probably most well-known from the Badland series, … | Continue reading
Two Google engineers have introduced a new API called WebUSB to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Incubator Community Group (W3C WICG) that would allow USB devices to connect to the Web safely. The API isn’t meant for USB flash drives, but other peripherals like keyboards or variou … | Continue reading
Google Voice gets better with every update, but one thing it can’t do is control your phone outside of search and some basic app commands. That why Google’s now released Voice Access, which allows you to tap and scroll your way through your phone without ever touching it, at last … | Continue reading
The new trailer features giant mech swords, we've been promised a real single-player story, and this franchise is coming to the PS4 for the first time. However, there's a good reason to remain skeptical for the time being: performance. | Continue reading
“Why do you need money from me when you have every great investor on earth?” That’s the question that caused Backplane to buckle under the weight of its own early buzz. Lady Gaga’s social network builder startup has run out of money, gone out of business, and sold its assets to a … | Continue reading
There's just nothing like the pure joy that I feel when I hear that there's a new Game of Thrones trailer circulating the internet. Any "important" work that I'm doing comes to a halt at once, so I can immediately watch the footage frame by frame to puzzle out what to expect for … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode of AmyTV we’re looking at the problem of Umbrella Terms, how they creep into your copy to make your marketing bland and, more importantly, what you can do about i… | Continue reading
Tesla Motors is voluntarily recalling 2,700 Model X SUVs over safety concerns its third-row seat could move forward during a crash. SEE ALSO: The world is ready for the Model 3. Is Tesla?According to a tweet from Electrek, which includes a screen grab of a letter sent to a Model … | Continue reading
A new appeals court ruling has reopened the fight between Google and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. Filed this morning by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the core of the ruling is procedural, vacating an earlier injunction against a subpoena filed by Hood against Goog … | Continue reading
In late 2013, Tim Draper left the decades-old firm he’d cofounded, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but he suggested he might be back some day.Specifically, he told this reporter, “I am not leaving DFJ. Ever. I am just skipping a fund to do some work building Draper University” — which i … | Continue reading
No surprise here: The PC market started 2016 off poorly. Both Gartner and IDC have noted PC shipments were down globally, again. Gartner estimates worldwide PC shipments fell 9.6 percent to 64.8 million units in Q1 2016. In fact, the firm notes that this is the first quarter to s … | Continue reading
The application of Bitcoin technology has gone a long way since its introduction to the world in 2009. Now it has reached a new milestone as it gets implemented in the energy sector. Recently, a New York-based startup, Transactive Grid introduced blockchain enabled microgrid enab … | Continue reading
Dropbox has launched a new feature that allows you to share photos, videos, and other files directly with people you’re chatting with on Facebook Messenger. The feature is available within Messenger’s iOS and Android apps and you can either share directly through the messaging ap … | Continue reading