The US Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is looking to establish a framework for regulating financial technologies like blockchain. | Continue reading
Microsoft’s new Windows Ink platform was probably the biggest feature coming in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, but one big piece of news was left out of the keynote presentation at Build 2016: Microsoft and Wacom are partnering to create a new ‘universal’ stylus than can work … | Continue reading
The Financial Stability Board has discussed and reviewed distributed ledger or blockchain technology in a wider meeting covering its priorities in 2016, during a discussion in Tokyo over the past two days. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a common platform that sees the comin … | Continue reading
The best action cameras are still susceptible to capturing super shaky footage. A new company called Revl has a solution to this problem — it's called the Arc, and it's the first action camera with built-in, motorized image stabilization.At first glance, the Arc doesn't look all … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Next week, eight VR startups are hoping to retrace Oculus’s path. They’ll participate at the company’s 2016 Emerging Companies Summit, in a session called the VR Showcase. Each will have an opportunity to describe their VR-based business in front of a live audience of … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger has reorganized the way its call feature is setup in an attempt to get more user engagement from the service. | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced a slew of incoming Edge extensions. Partners announced include Pinterest, Ad Block, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and Page Analyzer powered by Vorlon.js. Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build with … | Continue reading
This week on the Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, Jake, and Nicola review the reviews! The iPad Pro 9.7, the iPhone SE, and the Microsoft Build developer conference; we're covering all the top tech news this week. If you liked our video reviews this week, then tune in live to hear in ou … | Continue reading
For the first time ever, researchers have spotted a white dwarf surrounded by an atmosphere of mostly oxygen. A star of this kind, a super-dense dead star with an oxygen atmosphere, had never been seen before, though astronomers had speculated that one might exist. Such a unique … | Continue reading
The incredible image above is the 3D structure of the Zika virus, which has only just been revealed. The finding could help scientists determine how the virus is transmitted and, hopefully, how to prevent infection. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Wealthfront, the West Coast robo-advisor battling Betterment for the top spot in tech-enabled wealth management, is launching a new version (and vision) of its wealth management service. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company is integrating with tools like Venmo and Redfin, to ge … | Continue reading
Hostel and the original Cabin Fever director Eli Roth has made an animated short film promoting Dark Souls 3.Working with animation studio Six Point Harness, Roth's video, The Witches, is about two minutes long and contains all the gore and subtly macabre comedy one would expect … | Continue reading
At the Build Developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a series of new Office 365 developer tools designed to enhance how they interact with Office 365 platform. Microsoft outlined three new ways for developers to work with Office 365 including Graph APIs t … | Continue reading
We don't know what it looks like. We don't know how far it will go on a charge. We don't even know exactly how much it will cost.But for all we don't know about the new Tesla Model 3, thousands of Tesla fans know they want it anyway, and are willing to plunk down real money for a … | Continue reading
Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid passed away this morning at age 65, after a truly groundbreaking career. Hadid was the first woman architect to win the field's highest award, the Pritzker Prize in 2004, and in 2015, she became the first woman architect to be receive the Royal … | Continue reading
Earlier this week we reported a bug in iOS 9.3 that caused apps to become unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari. The bug seemed to affect any iOS device, but was most prevalent on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Today, Apple released an update to fix the problem. iOS 9.3.1 has … | Continue reading
Are you fluent in MongoDB? Well today is your lucky day. Microsoft’s NoSQL document database service DocumentDB now supports drivers for MongoDB. So if you were using existing MongoDB tools and libraries, now you can use them with DocumentDB and take advantage of Microsoft’s clou … | Continue reading
Apple hat neulich ein Patent für ein Verfahren für die Live-Zensur beliebiger Audio Streams - also sowohl Musik als auch reine Sprache - erhalten, mit dem Inhalte dann garantiert familienfreundlich beim Hörer ankommen. Dazu analysier... | Continue reading
Apple today released an update to iOS 9 to fix an issue that made some apps like Safari and Mail unresponsive, and in some cases crashed them entirely, when trying to open links. The update, version 9.3.1, arrives just two days after Apple acknowledged the bug and pledged it woul … | Continue reading
Google today announced the first Chromebase for Meetings device, from Acer. It’s a desktop computer designed exclusively for videoconferencing. It costs $799, and it’s available from Google’s partners in U.S, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. It will become available in mor … | Continue reading
Starbucks is making a strategic bet on Microsoft Office. At Microsoft's Build conference in San Francisco today, Starbucks CTO Gerri Martin-Flickinger took to the stage to announce a Starbucks add-in for Microsoft Office. While you might expect a Starbucks add-in for Office would … | Continue reading
VR is an immersive experience — but perhaps a little too immersive. With a device strapped to your face, it can be difficult to do simple things like respond to text messages, phone calls, and other trappings of real life. While you might want an escape every once in a while, you … | Continue reading
It is always positive to see increased interest in the concept of Bitcoin and digital currency. Reaching a global audience is not an easy task, but the Internet is certainly an invaluable tool to do so. Now that the first Arab Bitcoin community has been formed, like-minded people … | Continue reading
Mac users will soon be able to do a lot more with Microsoft Office.Add-ins, extensions that allow third-party apps to run inside Office, will soon roll out to Mac versions of the Office suite. Support for the plugins will be available on Mac in the coming weeks, Microsoft says.Se … | Continue reading
The full version of Final Fantasy XV doesn't launch until late September, but luckily there's a new minigame coming to mobile devices that will tide you over until then. | Continue reading
You don’t have to go pro to chase your competitive Rocket League dreams. The exciting car-soccer game is getting official competitions for players at the amateur, collegiate, and semi-pro levels in partnership with esports organizer ESL, American Video Game League, and Rocket Lea … | Continue reading
500 Startups is moving north of the border for its next micro-fund. The fund, called 500CAN, is targeting a $30 million size that will be focused on checking out what investments in Canada are all aboot. 500 is specifically looking to build presences in Toronto and Waterloo where … | Continue reading
The founder of Organic Avenue, a now-bankrupt restaurant chain that sold stale wraps and overpriced juices, is launching a $699 Wi-Fi connected juicer that can't actually juice produce you've brought home from the store. Instead, the company, called Juicero, wants you to buy its … | Continue reading
Dead Space and Saints Row 4 are now backwards compatible on Xbox One.That's convenient as Dead Space is also a free Games with Gold offering for April, so you can enjoy Visceral's sci-fi horror adventure on Microsoft's latest console.Earlier this week Xbox One's backwards compati … | Continue reading
More users are happy when they actually interact with people since it puts a human angle to the whole interaction. | Continue reading
Apple released iOS 9.3.1 on Thursday with a fix for a bug that was causing iPhones to freeze when users clicked on links within apps.Users started reporting their iPhones were locking up when clicking on links within Safari, Chrome and Twitter almost immediately after Apple relea … | Continue reading
At its Build 2016 developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced three improvements that help developers leverage Microsoft Office. Qi Lu, executive vice president at Microsoft, took the stage to show off what’s new with Microsoft Graph, Office for Mac 2016, Sky … | Continue reading
Apple today rolled out an update to iOS 9.3 that fixes a nasty bug that many iOS device users discovered in the past few days. Essentially, people tried to click links in Safari — like Google search results — only to find that they didn’t work. Long pressing would sometimes make … | Continue reading
Postmates has finally come full circle with its ‘Plus’ category by offering a new ‘Plus Unlimited’ monthly subscription for its most loyal and frequent fans. Available today as a recurring subscription for iOS, the new tier offers more perks and rewards for those who use the deli … | Continue reading
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Hart and Lionsgate want you to LOL.The Santa Monica-based studio announced Thursday that it has partnered up with the comedian and his company, Hartbeat Digital, to launch a new video-on-demand service, Laugh Out Loud, as well as a social adventure mobile tabl … | Continue reading
We round up some of the common problems that plague Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge owners, and offer potential solutions on how to fix them. | Continue reading
Well that was quick. A couple of days after a bug affecting iOS started making the news, Apple has released a fix. iOS 9.3.1, now available on the iPhone and iPad, fixes this bug. The changelog is quite sort as there’s only one item. “Fixes an issue that caused apps to be unrespo … | Continue reading
When Apple launched ResearchKit more than a year ago, the promise was to allow people from all over the world to participate in studies for medical research via iPhones and other Apple devices. At the time, the company made clear it was not in the business of collecting medical a … | Continue reading
April is the cruelest month. Call of Duty fans will be able to express themselves fully and get out their frustrations with the Eclipse downloadable content (DLC) for Call of Duty: Black Ops III on the PlayStation 4 starting April 19. The new DLC features diverse multiplayer maps … | Continue reading
Postmates, which is now completing 1 million deliveries a month, is digging in deeper to the e-commerce space with the launch of Postmates Plus Unlimited, a $9.99 per month subscription service that gets you free deliveries on all “Plus” orders over $30, minus the service fee. Pl … | Continue reading
With a name like Mediocre, it’s almost like the studio is baiting reviewers. “Go ahead,” they're saying, “just try to make some lame joke about our games being mediocre.” Of course we can’t say those things, because Smash Hit [Free] and Does Not Commute [Free] (and earlier titles … | Continue reading
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Big box retailers like Best Buy and Target have all kinds of financing card programs for their customers. But smaller and medium-sized merchants have no way to give their customers the same kind of financing plans. Until now. Blispay is a new startup founded by Greg Lisiewski, fo … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced a free public preview of Power BI Embedded, a version of the Power BI business intelligence (BI) service that can be tucked inside of other applications. “You can do this without requiring your users to buy or even be aware of what Power BI is,” said Sco … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 15 is launching on 30th September for PS4 and Xbox One, but there's still been no word on a PC version. Now game director Hajime Tabata has addressed the issue stating that if it comes at all, it's going to be after the console release.Tabata told Endgadget that the … | Continue reading
The "upgrade fee" has always been one of the shadiest aspects of the wireless industry. Providers like Verizon and AT&T charge $40 and $15 respectively for customers buying new smartphones under contract or through upgrade plans like Next — in addition to the phone's cost and you … | Continue reading