Earlier this month, Instagram said it would begin showing the "best" posts in your feed first, abandoning the chronological feed the app has used since its inception. "All the posts will still be there," the company said, "just in a different order." But the company's statements … | Continue reading
Though he's not a celebrity in any traditional sense, T-Mobile CEO John Legere has now joined a growing list of notables with their very own Twitter emoji. The outspoken exec was given an emoji, which appears alongside the hashtag #TweetJohn, to celebrate the launch of the Uncarr … | Continue reading
Card Thief, the followup to the fantastic Card Crawl [appprice url="asdf"] released last year by Tinytouchtales, is well into development. A new developer's blog has just been posted that runs down some of the new features that they're working on. For example, guards, one of the … | Continue reading
The Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James and the Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson today were named NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, March 21 through Sunday, March 27. | Continue reading
While Apple’s iOS 9.3 update brings some great new features like Night Shift and password protection for Notes, it also appears to render Internet browsers almost useless for many users. This follows the news that older devices were bricking after downloading the iOS update a few … | Continue reading
Bitcoin services startup Coinkite has announced that it will soon be dropping its popular and secure bitcoin web wallets, Tor access to users as well as their API in order to focus on hardware-based bitcoin products and services. The phase out from its current roster of services … | Continue reading
Overwatch isn’t just a brand new franchise for Blizzard — it’s a new way of thinking about story. The company is known for building huge franchises, from Diablo to Warcraft, and Overwatch represents its first new property in close to two decades. In the past, when Blizzard create … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Small, medium, and large companies alike are overwhelmed with data, much of it being siloed for use by different teams for varying purposes. That’s why we’ve committed a deep-dive session at next week’s VentureBeat Mobile Summit in Sausalito, California to discussing th … | Continue reading
Ringing Bells is under police investigation for their suspiciously inexpensive Freedom 251 smartphone. | Continue reading
Bitcoin's Core Developers will benefit from a $900k fund from Fred Wilson, Reid Hoffman, Circle, Nasdaq and others organized by MIT. | Continue reading
GitHub today announced that its Atom text editor last month had more than 1 million active users. Usage is three times what it was when all of Atom become available under an open-source MIT license and the software hit version 1.0, GitHub Atom community manager Lee Dohm wrote in … | Continue reading
Cruise Control is looking pretty cool, and it needs beta testers. The game has you driving down an endless highway, swerving through traffic, and dodging all sorts of hazards, such as laser pterodactyls. The game features one-touch controls a la Super Arc Light [appprice url="htt … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Video Casino is one of the coolest and oldest gambling sites you will be able to find in the whole digital currency gambling industry. It is among the only online casinos that offer players Las Vegas style casino video machines, loaded with several popular games offering … | Continue reading
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do just about anything. Commenting on blog posts is no exception. | Continue reading
There’s a telling moment tucked into the plodding second half of Mind of Mine, Zayn Malik’s first major release since leaving One Direction. He’s singing over a veiny, strobing synth — the kind he never could’ve played with as part of the world’s most popular boy band. "I’m sippi … | Continue reading
LinkedIn today announced its initial plan for integrating recruiting service Connectifier, which LinkedIn acquired earlier this year. Connectifier will get to live on as a standalone service, with some changes. “We’ve spent a lot of time in the last few weeks learning about each … | Continue reading
Having a solid content marketing strategy is one of the most effective ways startups can reach their audience with little cost. | Continue reading
According to data from app marketing service SensorTower, US iPhone users spent an average of $35 on apps in 2015. The study was based on data culled from 110 million active iPhones last year, which SensorTower calculated based on Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) es … | Continue reading
If we all start flying drones it’ll be DJI’s fault.The company’s new Phantom 4 drone is not only the best-looking drone of its class, it also puts an incredible degree of flying intelligence in regular people’s hands.I will be so sad to send this one back.This is the second DJI q … | Continue reading
Oculus VR has its own store for the Rift virtual reality headset, but you don’t have to use it. The first wave of Rifts are heading out today to people who preordered and backed the crowdfunding project on Kickstarter, and the device has launched with 30 games that you can buy th … | Continue reading
A representative of Japan’s Financial Services Agency has argued Asia should emerge as a leader in blockchain technology. | Continue reading
Early last month we learned that Ravenous Games was working on a new puzzle roguelike starring everyone's favorite bug-eyed dog breed: Pugs. Today they've announced that that game, Pug's Quest, is officially complete and heading to the App Store next week on April 7th. Similar to … | Continue reading
The new Google Analytics 360 Suite is good news for marketers. The centralized web analytics platform offers a significant improvement in marketer’s ability to track and store information about customers and their behaviors. Some observers even compare the development to an earth … | Continue reading
The rumoured PlayStation 4.5 - or PS4K as it's been codenamed - will allegedly be revealed before the PlayStation VR's launch in October, according to the Wall Street Journal (via GameSpot).We already knew the PS4K was real, but this is the first mention of just how soon it's on … | Continue reading
Make your blog posts - actually, ALL content - better by following 14 simple tips requiring only very basic HTML skills (at most). | Continue reading
The Samsung Smart Windshield puts navigation and notifications safely in your periphery while you're on the road. | Continue reading
Looking for a case for your Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, or LG G5? Two case series worth checking out are the Affinity and Revolution, both from Poetic. | Continue reading
Tumblr replies are back and better than ever.Back in October, Tumblr removed the ability for users to reply to posts on their blogs. Users were not happy but the blogging service promised a new way of replying to posts was coming.See also: Diary of a 'muggle IT' guy working at Ho … | Continue reading
Most of us aren’t buying and selling drugs on AlphaBay, but its new security practices should make companies that rely on online purchases to stand up and take notice. The darkweb site, which features “drugs, stolen data and hacking tools” now requires two-factor authentication ( … | Continue reading
Right now, you can pick up a certified refurbished 42mm Samsung Gear S2 in white for just $139.30. | Continue reading
Weinliebhaber und -liebhaberinnen, ihr müsst jetzt stark sein. Kuvée ist ein vernetztes Weinflaschensystem, das den Inhalt (Wein) vom Etikett (Infos) trennt: Das Etikett, das ist ein Touchscreen, der anzeigt, welchen Wein man gerade tri... | Continue reading
Instagram today is an endless sea of meaningless posts asking you to turn on post notifications for each account you follow. Brands and professional Instagrammers are worried that they are going to disappear from your Instagram feed once the company turns on its algorithmic feed. … | Continue reading
Live is having a moment. A key player in the shift to mobile live streaming, the Twitter-owned service Periscope this weekend celebrated its first year online. The company also revealed a few metrics indicating how quickly it had grown in the time since its March 2015, noting tha … | Continue reading
Dog owners may give no thought to kissing their pets, but what about the germs? Small animal expert and UC Davis Veterinary Medicine professor Dr. Jane Skykes joins Lee Hawkins to discuss. Photo: iStock | Continue reading
Did you torrent ‘Expendables 3’ instead of — well, spending money on a terrible movie? If you did, three of the larger sites that distributed it have been ordered to pay $450,000 for their troubles. In California, a Judge has ordered defendants from three sites — Muhammed Ashraf … | Continue reading
Spurred by Ethereum’s recent high-profile write up in the New York Times, Chris DeRose, Community Director at the Counterparty Foundation took to Twitter to vent his disbelief that Ethereum will amount to all its hype. On DeRose’s personal Twitter page, he sent a tweet to Bitcoin … | Continue reading
As the Oculus Rift begins to reach the hands of the masses today, the VR company said today in a blog post that its devs will have the opportunity to deliver their games on other platforms that support VR. Detailed in the blog post, Oculus gives a pretty flexible deal to its deve … | Continue reading
As anyone who has watched recent seasons of The Walking Dead is more than happy to tell you, Michonne is a total bad-ass. You could make a strong argument that she's the most bad-ass, but, all that's going to do is start an argument with Daryl fans. Anyway, The Walking Dead: Mich … | Continue reading
Sony’s rumored Playstation 4.5 is a step closer to being reality. According to the Wall Street Journal’s sources, the more powerful brother of the PS4 could be coming as soon as the third quarter — ahead of the planned October release of Sony’s virtual reality headset, PlayStatio … | Continue reading
An Oxford University event for computing professionals will explore applications for blockchain tech in cloud computing. | Continue reading
Facebook’s Oculus Rift began delivering Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets today to customers in more than 20 countries and regions. The first units are going out to the fans who backed the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that raised $10 million for the startup back in 2012, … | Continue reading
Prominent bitcoin platform CoinKite which has provided the Bitcoin community with secure and robust multi-sig wallets, merchant tools and developer API has announced today that the company will terminate its bitcoin web wallet service and developer API. Coinkite emphasizes that t … | Continue reading
We’ve all have the opportunity to make an important mindset shift, to give ourselves the gift of a reinvented life. You can do it too. Start today. | Continue reading
Today, the future became the present with the launch of the Oculus Rift. The reviews are in, but uncertainly hangs overhead with HTC and PlayStation’s VR headsets still on the way.Here are the tough questions that will determine what you should buy, the distribution of power betw … | Continue reading
We originally posted about Risky Lab's Warbits way back in April of 2014, and now nearly two years later to the day and Warbits is finally set to hit the App Store in a couple of weeks, on April 14th. For a refresher course, Warbits is a turn-based strategy game that's an homage … | Continue reading
For the past three years, Samsung has built an elements-resistant version of its annual Galaxy S flagship, and the first official evidence of a Galaxy S7 Active just appeared in a Google Play Store app listing. The purported handset is listed as a compatible device in the latest … | Continue reading
This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As a journalist, I often interview people about their perspectives on the game industry, and I keep my own views in the background. As a blogger, I’ve been able to blend … | Continue reading
Coinkite has announced it is winding down its web wallet in an effort to focus on enterprise hardware products. | Continue reading