It seems like all the rage right now is Crossy Road [Free] games crossed with dungeon-crawling. There was The Quest Keeper [Free] last year, Looty Dungeon releasing this week, and now Boxy Kingdom. Developed by a team including the founder of 3D Realms in Scott Miller, and Gears … | Continue reading
A couple of hardcore Zelda fans have created a browser-based remake of the original Legend of Zelda with voxels as a way of celebrating its 30th anniversary.It's not a full remake, however, as certain areas are noted as being still under construction. Right now it only consists o … | Continue reading
Until April 16th: walk into a brick-and-mortar Best Buy with your old phone and a one-dollar bill, and you can walk out with a Samsung Galaxy S7. | Continue reading
CoinDesk recaps the DTCC's first Blockchain Symposium, an all-day event held in New York last week. | Continue reading
Have you considered how your marketing messaging affects the governance of your company? Until I attended the Company Director’s inaugural Governance Summit, I hadn’t thought about effective messaging beyond the marketing and sales functions. The two-day summit taught me effectiv … | Continue reading
Cork Apartment - This spacious flat in high-rise block, which was designed for a young man, passed through a total reconstruction. | Continue reading
Google today talked for the first time about Walt, a piece of software that people can use to figure out how long it takes for a device to respond to touch or voice input. Google has been using Walt to do performance tests on Android devices and Chromebooks, and now the software … | Continue reading
With an announcement today, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar is open for business, in its first full version released and available for downloads. It has been nearly two years since initial chatter arose, with word of a decentralized marketplace being developed i … | Continue reading
A big shakeup happening in the world of deep learning, as Salesforce announced that it has acquired startup darling MetaMind. According to a report from VentureBeat, it’s one of a long string of Salesforce AI acquisitions — and arguably the hottest name in the bunch. As part of t … | Continue reading
Norwegian startup Auka is setting its sight on hitting two birds with one stone: Helping banks lagging behind compliance with EU regulation, and rolling out high-tech banking to customers across Europe. The company is a white-label service aimed at retail banks, and is the first … | Continue reading
About a month ago I was quite intrigued with an upcoming game called No Thing from developer Evil Indie Games. It appeared to be a first-person runner type of game but with crazy retro-inspired visuals, an oddly unsettling computer voice narrating the storyline, and just lots of … | Continue reading
Back in 2014 retro hardware boutique manufacturer, Analogue Interactive announced a $499 1080p variant of the NES called the Analogue Nt. Before that it manufactured a £400 / $649 wooden SNK Neo Geo CMVS. Now it's releasing its priciest, most ostentatious offering yet with the $4 … | Continue reading
YouTuber Uncle Rob ist ein echter Hinterhof-Tunichtgut, dessen Scherzvideos aber bislang eher mäßig spektakulär vonstatten gingen (Mentos ins Dr.-Pepper-Fass werfen, etc), jedenfalls bis er neulich auf die Idee kam, sich im Action P... | Continue reading
MetaMind, a Palo Alto-based AI startup founded in July 2014, is being acquired by Salesforce. According to a new post published at the company’s website by CEO Richard Socher — a Stanford PhD who studied machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vi … | Continue reading
Salesforce has acquired MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Salesforce cofounder and chief executive Marc Benioff. The startup’s services will stop working on May 4. MetaMind announced the news in a blog post. “Salesforce plans to integrate MetaMind’s technology into Sale … | Continue reading
While everyone’s eyes are on Tesla’s affordable electric car, the Model 3, it’s easy to forget that Tesla makes some pretty speedy vehicles. In a bit of a friendly competition, the company pitted its Model S against a Qantas Boeing 737-800 preparing for take-off. The race is cert … | Continue reading
Tesla blamed its own "hubris" for stuffing its Model X crossover with too much technology, making it difficult to produce in volume, according to a Tesla statement.The company was able to ship just 2,400 Model X cars in the first quarter. In a surprisingly frank statement that re … | Continue reading
Maybe this will make the wait for Kingdom Hearts III a little more tolerable. Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, a mobile game based on the popular series that combines Disney worlds and characters with role-playing mechanics and recognizable faces from Square Enix’s Final Fantasy franc … | Continue reading
Microsoft and R3CEV have struck a deal to use the former's Azure cloud platform for implementing the blockchain infrastructure | Continue reading
Management and boards at late stage, or pre-IPO, companies are on notice that the SEC is paying attention to the late stage financing arena, and should look internally to ensure that corporate governance and financial controls are befitting their scale, and should also ensure the … | Continue reading
Contentools recently redesigned their website and I was invited to tear it up!! If you haven’t heard of Contentools, it is a platform for managing content marketing. It’s pretty nice, you can collaborate, track ideas, write, publish and share- just about everything you’d need to … | Continue reading
Building the "cameras of the future" doesn't necessarily mean that those cameras will actually have a future. In a very frank and straightforward assessment of Lytro's business posted on Backchannel, CEO Jason Rosenthal has tried to explain why his company chose to walk away from … | Continue reading
To the surprise of many, LG released the G5 without the option to use an app drawer. Now a new version of the launcher is available for download that brings the app drawer back. | Continue reading
While we're getting a revamped Micro Machines on mobile someday (it's still in soft launch), people who might want something closer to the original 2D top-down racers will want to pay attention to Pixel Machines. It takes quite obvious inspiration from the classic Micro Machines … | Continue reading
Tech nonprofit Medic Mobile has attained $1 million in unrestricted grant funding from the Peery Foundation for apps that help health workers deliver care to people who lack reasonable access to doctors and hospitals. According to Medic Mobile founder Josh Nesbit, about 10,000 he … | Continue reading
If you’re on T-Mobile and are sporting one of Samsung’s 2016 flagship devices, then your Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge just got a serious software boost. | Continue reading
EA has lashed out at Donald Trump for using copyrighted audio from Mass Effect 2's trailer for a campaign ad."We do not support our assets being used in political campaigns," the video game publisher told GameInformer after Trump retweeted the video in question.By all accounts th … | Continue reading
Successfully taking an idea to market involves many more negotiations than most entrepreneurs realize. First, they must figure out whether to share credit with any partners or advisors who helped them along the way. Then, they need to determine who owns what, and who controls wha … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley might be losing its sex appeal.Workers in the tech industry are increasingly craving stability and — gasp! — work-life balance over the get-rich-or-die-trying startup cultureThat's according to new statistics from recruiting platform Woo, which surveyed 5,000 tech … | Continue reading
DJI, 3DR, Parrot and GoPro are launching their own drone advocacy group to lobby for “policies that promote innovation and safety, and create a practical and responsible regulatory framework.” The Small UAV Coalition, which launched with participation from DJI, 3DR, Amazon Prime … | Continue reading
Last week, a gaming classic received an impressive new expansion, but its progressive take on certain characters is making some fans angry. Last week, developer Beamdog released the Siege of Dragonspear expansion for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, and some gamers are angry that … | Continue reading
A federal judge has approved BP’s $20 billion settlement over its 2010 oil spill, the Associated Press reports. First reached in October, the final settlement amount accounts for civil claims against the company set forth by the Department of Justice and five Gulf states. US Atto … | Continue reading
Nest is coming under fire following an announcement that Revolv, a smart home startup it acquired two years ago, would be permanently shutting off its product starting May 15th. The decision, announced in a quiet note on Revolv's website at some point in the last month, has gone … | Continue reading
Revolv is shutting down. The Google-owned (by way of Nest) smart home hub will no longer work as of May 15 — as in, it will actually be a useless pile of plastic. Not only is the API shutting off, the actual app and hub will both be disabled. Here’s the letter to users, from the … | Continue reading
The developers of OpenBazaar, the decentralized marketplace protocol, have released the first live version of the software. | Continue reading
It’s that time of year: a new Kindle is on the way from Amazon. An 8th generation Kindle is set to be announced next week, said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a tweet. The company’s current flagship model is the $199 Kindle Vovage, followed by the more budget-friendly $119 Paperwhite a … | Continue reading
Naquatic, developers of shockingly-deep clicker games such as CivCrafter [Free], are about to drop a new sports clicker after last year's Football Clicker [Free]. Welcome Soccer Clicker, set to hit the App Store this week. The developers got a lot of feedback that people wanted t … | Continue reading
Investing in the stock market made easy…That’s the goal of these apps, which make investing more convenient and help you keep tabs on the market updates. And you don’t have to be a finance whiz to work them! Robinhood Trade stocks without fees on Robinhood. After a quick registr … | Continue reading
Dzień dobry! Niedawno przypomniałam Ci, że już najwyższa pora na zbieranie pysznej pokrzywy. Jako, że sezon w pełni, ciągle szukam najlepszego pomysłu na pokrzywę.... | Continue reading
Remember the Revolv home automation hub? Probably not. The device was released in late 2013, and while fantastic, it largely flew under the radar before Google’s Nest division bought the company for $300 million, and promptly stopped selling the device. But the device was still a … | Continue reading
New Dark Souls 3 speedruns have emerged shattering the previous record.When it comes to making a beeline to the end credits, there's Japanese YouTuber muzi_… | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: The battle for high-quality mobile users has never been more fierce. Find out how companies who are killing it in UA are achieving phenomenal success — without paying through the nose. Register here for free. Most apps fail. That’s the simple, brutal, but honest truth … | Continue reading
Personal genomics and biotech company 23andMe is leveraging ResearchKit to provide researchers with a “turnkey” way to work genetics into their studies, and it’s available on GitHub. “This will enable research on a much broader scale,” 23andMe CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki sa … | Continue reading
A Florida court has frozen the assets of the digital currency exchange Cryptsy and placed it under the control of a receiver. | Continue reading
European bitcoin exchange and wallet service provider Coinmotion has introduced a new short term zero percent commission bitcoin trading campaign. | Continue reading
The United States government paid thousands of dollars to IBM to create software so simple, it could have been created by nearly any beginning-level app developer.Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by developer Kevin Burke show the Transportation Security A … | Continue reading
Samir Arora, the longtime CEO of Mode Media, is stepping down, replaced by interim CEO Jack Rotolo. Rotolo has spent more than a decade serving in a number of roles at the company, most recently president of global sales and business operations. “Mode Media is poised to redefine … | Continue reading
Nick Sampson, head of the startup electric vehicle company Faraday Future, spent a busy day as the title sponsor of the Faraday Future Long Beach ePrix April 2. I interviewed him standing up in the shade of a tree on a warm California afternoon before we both had to hurry off to … | Continue reading