One of the challenges of successfully deploying autonomous cars in major, congested cities is the sheer logistical hurdles involved in introducing driverless cars onto streets that in some cases are hundreds of years oldThat's why Singapore, a relatively young but incredibly rich … | Continue reading
The Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James and the Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook today were named the Kia NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month, respectively, for games played in March. | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Venktesh Shukla, Chairman of TiE Global, is joining Fenox Venture Capital as a General Partner to further strengthen its investment activities in Asia. Venktesh is a seasoned investor and serial entrepreneur who has been ... | Continue reading
If you are getting your HTC Vive soon, you’re gonna need some games. We’ve had a Vive (and some Vive Pre units) for a while now, and we’ve spent some time with several dozen games for HTC and Steam’s virtual reality head-mounted display. The device is all about room-scale VR, whi … | Continue reading
There is nearly as much confusion as there is excitement about augmented and virtual reality. While VR could be big and AR could be bigger (and take longer), there are more questions than answers out there. I’ll be doing a deep dive on one aspect of AR/VR every month. This month … | Continue reading
Dairy farming is one of the biggest industries in Pakistan, with an estimated 42 billion liters of milk production per year. With approximately 63 million animals producing milk and over eight million households involved in the trade, the country ranks as the fourth-highest milk … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the launch of Open Translators to Things, a new project where people will collaborate on translators that will make it easy for many developers to build applications that interact with many different kinds of Internet-connected devices. This software is … | Continue reading
Fenox Venture Capital is bringing on TiE Global Chairman and the founder of TiE Angels, Venktesh Shukla, as General Partner. For the unfamiliar, TiE is a non-profit mentoring network for entrepreneurs and promoter of entrepreneurship worldwide. Its annual conference, TiECon, is i … | Continue reading
BNP Paribas Securities, the French bank, has partnered with SmartAngels, a Paris, France-based crowdfunding platform, to pilot the use of blockchain technology for funding startups and SMEs (small and medium-size enterprises), according to La Revue Du Digital, a French business n … | Continue reading
In late February we were introduced to Legend of the Skyfish, an upcoming action-adventure-puzzler from Mgaia Studios and Crescent Moon. It featured a really gorgeous hand-painted art style and top-down adventuring that was reminiscent of old-school The Legend of Zelda. What real … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: LinkedIn’s head of consumer products Ryan Roslansky, speaking on stage at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit conference, explained how the company’s Lynda.com acquisition could allow it to redefine online education “at scale across every city and every skill.” Roslansky told R … | Continue reading
Mercedes' autonomous Actros trucks have been driving on public roads in Germany since last fall. On Monday, however, they rolled into the Netherlands.SEE ALSO: What it's like to ride in the Tesla Model 3The trio made the 375-mile trip from Stuttgart to Rotterdam to demonstrate th … | Continue reading
A new ride-hailing app that is positioning itself as the anti-Uber is expected to soft launch in New York City this month. Juno, the brainchild of Israeli-American businessman Talmon Marco, has spent the last few months recruiting highly rated Uber drivers to its platform in anti … | Continue reading
I’ve been making some changes around the old digs. | Continue reading
Ask a child how to travel through time and you'll get a simple answer: Use a time machineAsk a physicist, and suddenly you'll start hearing outlandish, seemingly made-up terms like "quark" and "quantum gravity." In that moment, you'll realize the world of modern physics waved goo … | Continue reading
The banking sector is finally making some headway with their exploration of blockchain technology. Soon after UBS and Deutsche Bank made an announcement about the success of their blockchain technology experiment, two more international banks have now come up with their own solut … | Continue reading
While AIs and robots, like SoftBank’s Pepper and Microsoft’s Tay, are trying to connect with humans emotionally, a team of researchers at Stanford are focusing on how to build robots that respond to something more physical: touch. Technically speaking, touch is also a part of wha … | Continue reading
A judge said this week that Porsche was not responsible for the crash in a Porsche Carrera GT that killed actor Paul Walker and his friend Roger Rodas, who was driving. The decision came in a lawsuit filed by Rodas' widow, Kristine Rodas.The lawsuit claimed that Rodas died in the … | Continue reading
Android Marshmallow is finally getting some love. After taking four months to hit 1 percent adoption and following Lollipop finally assuming the Android crown, the latest version of Android was the only one to gain share this past month, according to Google’s Platform Versions pa … | Continue reading
Apple News has created a Twitter account to promote stories featured on the service. Apple's team of US-based editors will curate the feed, which will consist of top stories and some of the most popular pieces on Apple News. Clicking on a link from the feed on an iPhone will auto … | Continue reading
Pinball games are old school, but challenging and fun to play. If you're in the mood to hit some flippers, here are the best pinball games for Android! | Continue reading
GUEST: It’s no secret that mobile is rapidly becoming the end-all-be-all in consumption. In fact, in 2015, nearly half of Google search traffic came from mobile devices. On average, Americans spend about five hours a day on their phones! Forrester calls this the “Mobile Mind Shif … | Continue reading
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Today, messaging app Kik announced a new bot store to urge users and developers alike to embrace the trendy new form of artificial intelligence-powered software. The company has offered bots in its chat app in the past, which you can converse with over text and use to perform bas … | Continue reading
Google is throwing their full weight into virtual reality at the moment, but their end-game is reportedly to give us all Terminator vision eventually. | Continue reading
A few months after adding Reminders to Google Calendar on iPhone and Android, Google is bringing them to the web. Reminders will be rolling out to Calendar's web users this week, with the feature... | Continue reading
Crossy Road [Free] took the core gameplay mechanic of Frogger and made it voxel-ized and endless. It was an absurdly successful formula, and for the past year and a half we've seen a zillion games that have tried to take that formula and add their own unique twist to it. Meanwhil … | Continue reading
When – and if – a business should launch a global PR effort can be a momentous decision. Many experts recommend companies remain close to home, focus on their core audience and postpone global PR endeavors until they have resolved local customer issues. GreenRope, a web-based CRM … | Continue reading
Date: From 21/04/2016 to 22/04/2016This two-day conference is focused on key decision makers and representatives from the public, commercial and philanthropic sector. The event is part of the Horizon 2020 work programme Access to Risk Finance and is associated with the Netherland … | Continue reading
PayPal just became the latest company to forfeit plans to invest in North Carolina after the passage of HB2 — a bill signed by governor Pat McCrory and passed into law that denies protection for the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens of the state. “The new la … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Both AT&T and Verizon already offer versions of LG’s G Pad X (at 10 and 8.3 inches, respectively), and now T-Mobile is poised to pick up the mid-range tablet as well, according to material shown to VentureBeat. With an eight-inch screen diagonal, the G Pad X 8.0 will c … | Continue reading
IBM Watson is currently trying to merge artificial intelligence and the blockchain into a single, powerful prototype. | Continue reading
Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced that the company has created a new chip, the Tesla P100, with 15 billion transistors for deep-learning computing. It’s the biggest chip ever made, Huang said. Huang made the announcement during his keynote at the GPUTech conference … | Continue reading
Wer ein iPhone mit einem kleinen Speicher hat, kennt das Problem: Es ist immer zu wenig Platz übrig und irgendwann weiß man nicht mehr, wo und wie man noch freie GB rausholen soll. Der Reddit-User eavesdroppingyou hat einen interessante... | Continue reading
We’ve tried to write this with a minimal amount of spoilers. Quantum Break is the new time travel game from Microsoft and developer Remedy Entertainment, and it has one of the most interesting and complex stories I’ve ever seen in a video game. Quantum Break is one of the most im … | Continue reading
Influencer marketing has become a prevalent marketing strategy and an industry in its own right. Celebrities with millions of followers typically come to mind when marketers and others think of influencers. Corporations pay celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner more … | Continue reading
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG is being released this July, and a new trailer for the movie released this afternoon offers up the first look at the movie's titular big friendly giant. Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is plucked from her orphanage in the middle of the … | Continue reading
The next generation of Apple’s Magic Mouse may have Force Touch, according to a recently discovered patent. Apple’s latest trackpad for the desktop already has Force Touch, but the Magic Mouse is still lacking the feature. In the patent, we find two new pieces of hardware that ar … | Continue reading
Above you’ll see my view from Sunday's WrestleMania 32, the Super Bowl of pro wrestling that filled AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas with over 100,000 warm, screaming bodies. While the action happened in the ring at the bottom left of the photo, I spent most of my time looking up at … | Continue reading
Reminders has been a very cool feature in Google Calendar’s mobile offering: insert a task like you would an event, and you’ll get a push notification to complete that task at a specific time. Google apparently thinks it’s cool too, as the company announced today that Reminders w … | Continue reading
Last year the blacksmiths at Baltimore Knife and Sword made a working replica of Bloodborne's transforming "Saw Cleaver" weapon and now they've taken it upon themselves to manifest a real-life version of Dark Souls' Greatsword of Artorias.Most Dark Souls fans will know the Greats … | Continue reading
If you are a Disney nut (*cough* Eric Ford *cough*) then chances are that you've been spending a lot of time making bad ass theme parks in the recently-released Disney Magic Kingdoms [Free]. Even if you hate free to play city-builders, the allure of Disney's iconic characters and … | Continue reading
Bethesda held its own press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo for the first time ever last year, and the company has announced that it is returning to Los Angeles to do that once again in 2016. Bethesda will hold its E3 Showcase on Sunday, June 12 — before the start … | Continue reading
Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said that deep learning artificial intelligence has become a new computing platform, and the company is dealing with hundreds of startups in the space that plan to take advantage of the platform. Speaking at the GPUTech conference in San Jose … | Continue reading
In November, we reported Sony was launching ‘RemotePlay’ for the PC, a move that would allow PS4 owners to play their favorite games on from a laptop or desktop computer. Tomorrow is the day. Once released, the 3.50 system update — featuring RemotePlay — turns your PC into a high … | Continue reading
There are now 276,000 pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3, but if you want a 200-mile EV this year and most of 2017, you need to look at the Chevrolet. Not as swoopy, but a match for Tesla in many ways. | Continue reading
Medical marijuana startup Meadow has raised $2.1 million in seed funding, a move it says will go to accelerate development of its Meadow Platform software suite and also hiring. Investors that participated in the round include David Lee, Justin Kan, Hiten Shah, Slow Ventures, SOM … | Continue reading
Google today announced that this week it’s bringing the Reminders feature of Google Calendar — which first became available in the Google Calendar app for iOS and Android in December to the Web. Reminders were one of the key features included in Google’s Inbox by Gmail app when i … | Continue reading