There are plans for a new zoo to be built in western Sydney, but first, students and technology buffs will get to hack it.Sydney Zoo, which is set to sit on a 16.5-hectare (40.8-acre) site in Bungarribee, is collaborating with Western Sydney University to make the animal park a h … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The White House is declining to offer public support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple Inc to help law enforcement crack encrypted data, sources familiar with the discussions said. The decision all but assure … | Continue reading
The first full trailer for Rogue One, the first Star Wars spin-off movie, is airing tomorrow, but thanks to a preview clip posted today, we've already got our first glimpse at the film. Now some might say a teaser trailer for a teaser trailer is overkill, especially when 90 perce … | Continue reading
What happens when you put a technology company together with a drug company and try to come up with unique new ways to understand Parkinson’s disease? You end up with a project that uses sensors on the body and in the home to provide continuous measurement of a patient’s symptoms … | Continue reading
Nearly a quarter of US smartphone users said they viewed TV shows or movies on their devices daily. But more than a third said they never did, according to research. | Continue reading
More mergers and acquisitions (M&As) will be initiated this year in the US than a year ago. According to survey data, over a third of US executives said they will set in motion four to six of these deals in 2016. | Continue reading
eMarketer anticipates double-digit growth in total media ad spending in India for the foreseeable future, as advertisers direct more money toward digital and, in particular, mobile. | Continue reading
Most internet users know that ads allow publishers to provide free content. Yet a majority of those online would rather block ads than pay for an ad-free experience. | Continue reading
Digital grocery shopping in the US appears here to stay—21% of US households purchased groceries digitally in 2015, compared to just 11% in 2013. | Continue reading
Nearly 63% of ad spending ran on broadcast TV in 2015, an uptick from 2014. The next-closest medium—pay TV—lagged far behind. | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price started to recover after trading as low as $10.02, but facing sellers near the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a bearish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD as well, which is near the 100 SMA to increase … | Continue reading
It's already been a week since the last batch of new games hit the App Store, and chances are you've still got some stuff from last week that you haven't even launched yet. I know I do! Such is life as an iOS gamer. Anyway, this week has shaped up to be surprisingly good with | Continue reading
T-Mobile has just announced a new network upgrade they claim is the first of its kind in the USA. It's called EVS and offers 3 main improvements. | Continue reading
Fintech is in the midst of a golden age of investment and innovation. According to KPMG and CB Insights, investments in fintech startups doubled between 2014 and 2015, to $14 billion. However, comparatively little of this money has been focused on the $138 billion market opportun … | Continue reading
We've seen how social media presence has emerged in the previous years. With constant innovation, online communication has improved. Let's review some predictions about the future of social media. | Continue reading
A year after it first introduced public transport directions to its iOS Maps app, Apple is continuing to expand the feature to cities across the world. The latest of these is Montreal, AppleInsider reports, with people in Canada's second-biggest city now able to use the iOS 9 ver … | Continue reading
China wants to lead the way on self-driving cars. And Volvo is here to help.SEE ALSO: Three autonomous Mercedes-Benz trucks just platooned across EuropeVolvo Cars announced in Beijing, China Thursday morning local time that it plans to test 100 autonomous cars on public roads in … | Continue reading
Our Huawei P9 hands-on offers a few first impressions of Huawei's new flagship with a new dual-camera setup in collaboration with Leica. | Continue reading
Australians want data. Lots of it.The country consumed about 50 percent more data in the last three months of 2015 than in the same period in 2014, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) twice-yearly Internet activity report, which was released Wednesday.That's 1 … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been moving inside a rising channel and has found resistance at the top, as predicted in the previous post. Price could be headed back towards the support from here, although it seems to be finding support at the nearby 100 SMA dynam … | Continue reading
Uber has launched a new driver-focused program that provides cash advances when needed. The on-demand private car service has teamed with financial service provider Clearbanc on what’s being called Advance Pay. With it, drivers can opt to receive up to $1,000 with no interest, bu … | Continue reading
In a society where an affair is just a right-swipe away, snooping through your partner's phone can be tempting.While most people would argue that creating a dialogue around trust is preferable, a controversial new website makes snooping easier than memorizing their phone's passco … | Continue reading
Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie has quit after turning the organization into one of the worst teams in NBA history. | Continue reading
He took over a franchise that needed a facelift and proceeded to make every plastic surgeon in Beverley Hills jealous. Sam Hinkie spared nothing, especially victories, as he gutted the Sixers, cleared the salary cap and stockpiled draft picks in an extreme search to land a star a … | Continue reading
Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan has Parkinson's disease | Continue reading
How to get more list post traffic. This is a step-by-step guide to choosing the right topic, number, and words, to make your list post sing | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics expects a third straight quarter of year-on-year profit growth following a two-year stretch in the doldrums. The company's earnings guidance for the first three months of 2016 estimates an operating profit of about 6.6 trillion won off 49 trillion won in reven … | Continue reading
Nearly a dozen trucks just completed a week of mostly-autonomous driving across Europe today. The trucks departed from one of three bases in European countries and completed their respective journeys in Rotterdam. One of the trucks, made by Volkswagen, traveled more than 2,000 ki … | Continue reading
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tech industry. Yet the way IoT is evolving raises serious concerns: There are too many complexities, moving parts, diversities and competing trends and technologies that must be managed when developing IoT … | Continue reading
Amazon has expanded its free same-day delivery service to 11 more metropolitan areas, bringing the total number of US regions served by the Prime feature to 27. Prime customers in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Nashville, Tucson, among others, will now be able to get free same-day delive … | Continue reading
Reddit users now have better blocking tools for dealing with harassment.The new “block user” feature was announced Wednesday and its the latest measure Reddit has implemented to change its reputation as a cesspool for harassment.Although Reddit has had a “block user” feature for … | Continue reading
To attempt to create a program that successfully imitates the style of one of the greatest painters of all time is hubristic and doomed to fail, but those characteristics are just like catnip to the men and women at the bleeding edge of tech — and the result of their labors is re … | Continue reading
Looking to take your Android gaming to the next level? We've rounded up the best Bluetooth gaming controllers on the market today! | Continue reading
Smartling, the translation tech company, has acquired TechStars alumni Jargon on Crunchbase which makes tools for mobile developers who want to “localize” their apps for different international markets, and the devices and app stores that are relevant in each one.New York-based S … | Continue reading
There's a new Overwatch closed beta update and it adds an all new ranked mode.Dubbed Competitive Play, this new mode is "Designed for those seeking a more serious challenge," Blizzard wrote in its forum. The new mode lets players "rank up though a series divisions and tiers in mo … | Continue reading
You know what’s cooler than printing robot parts on a 3D printer? Printing the whole freaking robot.Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory figured out how to hack a Stratasys 3D printer so that it not only pri … | Continue reading
If you get a booboo in virtual reality, you get a booboo in real life. During my 7.5-hour virtual reality livestream yesterday, I sustained my first injury while wearing a head-mounted display. I booted up the game Unseen Diplomacy, which is an excellent room-scale experiment tha … | Continue reading
Is Yik Yak a thing anymore? Not so much, according to download stats, traffic charts, surveys, and a source that says the college app’s monthly user count has been declining. That source with intimate knowledge of the company also tipped me off that Yik Yak‘s original CTO Tom Che … | Continue reading
Land Rover discontinued the production of its iconic Defender model in late January. However, you can now buy one of its factory-restored predecessors, the Series I, from the British company.SEE ALSO: You can now rent an Aston Martin DB9 from EnterpriseAt the same time Land Rover … | Continue reading
As it turns out, making a new 4-inch smartphone was actually a brilliant move on Apple’s part. It’s new iPhone SE is sold out in many stores across the US, and shipping estimates have slipped into the end of April. As first pointed out by Apple Insider, the SE is widely unavailab … | Continue reading
While it’s true that the Productivity Pack might not be for everyone, if your business has been needing an extra kick of order and organization, the perfect solution might have just fallen into your lap. | Continue reading
Swedish automaker Volvo will send up to 100 self-driving cars to China for testing on public roads in a variety of conditions, the company's CEO announced at a seminar in Beijing today. The company will hold discussions with Chinese officials to see which cities can accommodate i … | Continue reading
Yesterday Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear suffered a lot of backlash at launch over the game's numerous bugs and some concerns that its inclusion of a t… | Continue reading
Google is building support for OS X's Notification Center into Chrome, meaning that the browser's own pop-ups could be going away on the Mac. Chrome has supported notifications for a few years, but they've always been done entirely through the browser, with a big ugly box popping … | Continue reading
Yesterday The Force Awakens landed on Blu-ray and DVD, so it's time to start up the hype machine for this year's Star Wars movie: Rogue One. According to this brief clip posted today, the first teaser for the film will be featured tomorrow, Thursday, April 7th, on Good Morning Am … | Continue reading
If you follow the various Magic Duels [Free] communities on the internet, it's plainly obvious that the game has been rife with issues, effectively since it launched almost a year ago now. Wizards has been trying to fix the game, but previous updates have reminded me of those old … | Continue reading
Right now, you can get in on Minecraft: Story Mode for just $0.49. That’s the equivalent of about two Google Opinion Rewards questions. | Continue reading