We've already seen robots that paint pictures and compose songs, so it only stands to reason that someone would attempt to get one to write a novelIn this case, the exercise was a team effort between humans and an artificial intelligence (A.I.) program in an attempt to win Japan' … | Continue reading
GUEST: The customer always comes first. It’s a saying companies throw around a lot, but they rarely live and breathe it the way they should. It can be easy to forget what’s most important when you’re juggling finances, logistics, investors, and beyond. But there’s a way to keep y … | Continue reading
The HTC Vive is an impressive piece of kit, but it's far from simple. A diagram reportedly included in an email to early adopters this week made that fact very clear by detailing the no fewer than twenty separate items included with the consumer edition. Much of this is the same … | Continue reading
Ethereum now has the whole world’s attention. The cryptocurrency and smart contracts platform is now being included in most of the exchanges that were only dealing with Bitcoin, the firstborn of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The South Korean Bitcoin exchange, Korbit has become th … | Continue reading
ROM developer @LlabToLoFeR is giving us a taste of what the home screen in HTC One M10 will look like by sharing the upcoming phone's wallpapers. | Continue reading
VIDEO: DeMarcus Cousins with 29 points, 11 boards vs. Suns DeMarcus Cousins sat out the final six games on the Sacramento Kings’ schedule at this time last season and could be on the verge of a shutdown again. With playoffs obviously not on the horizon for Cousins or his team, so … | Continue reading
Microsoft's HoloLens has delivered some pretty cool imagery in recent months, but many are still wondering what practical use they'd have for the device on a daily basisMicrosoft may have just answered that question by showing off its HoloLens-powered holoportation system.See als … | Continue reading
When Microsoft announced its massive Surface Hub digital whiteboards in 2015, it wanted to transform business meetings. Unfortunately, that vision has been delayed — twice — but as of yesterday, the Surface Hub is now ready for the real world. The company has announced that it is … | Continue reading
Today’s retail economy is focused on acquisition and retention costs. Getting into people’s homes and turning them into long-term brand buyers is the goal, and appliance makers control an untapped resource — the Internet of Things — that can effectively extend a brand or retailer … | Continue reading
Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey can now add “courier” to his résumé alongside “virtual reality superstar.” The first wave of Oculus Rift VR headsets are shipping now, but Ross Martin — the first person to preorder the device — didn’t have to wait for FedEx because Luckey dropped … | Continue reading
After months and years of anticipation, the first Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has been delivered into a customer’s hands. Ross Martin was the very first person to get a pre-order in for the Rift when they opened in early January. As a celebratory gesture, Palmer Luckey fl … | Continue reading
Samsung Galaxy S7 vs the competition, Gary explains root, and much more -- here are the Android-related videos you don't want to miss this week. | Continue reading
Apple is planning big changes to its iPhone lineup next year, according to a report today citing a new note from respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo expects Apple to release an iPhone with glass on the top and bottom and an AMOLED display and support for wireless charging, … | Continue reading
While Bitcoin has a number of great uses, it can still be potentially misused. The very fact that the bitcoin can be misused has led to a lot of speculations about the digital currency followed by ill-informed, unsubstantiated paranoid remarks about its use to fund terror organiz … | Continue reading
The Kindle is great for linear fiction, but my biggest frustration is trying to consume content that isn’t meant to be enjoyed from first to last page. Travel books are terrible for that, for example: You’ll forever find yourself flipping between overview and local maps, the “wha … | Continue reading
GUEST: After working for months to years on your great idea, it’s time to bring it to market. But where is that money for manufacturing and sales support going to come from? With the advent of crowdfunding, entrepreneurs have more access to capital than ever before, but there is … | Continue reading
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at askle … | Continue reading
Investigators are broadening their DNA searches beyond government databases and demanding genetic information from companies that do ancestry research for their customers.Two major companies that research family lineage for fees around $200 say that over the last two years, they … | Continue reading
Sure, it’s technologically advanced, but it lacks a general understanding of what’s socially acceptable to say, the real world and the way humans interact. In the last couple of months, Microsoft has had a couple of failed attempts with artificial intelligence. The first involved … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Die europäische Weltraumagentur ESA forscht offensichtlich munter weiter am Bau einer Mondstation: Die europäische Weltraumagentur hat vor einigen Tagen einen Clip veröffentlicht, in dem ESA-Chef Johann-Dietrich Wörner seine Vis... | Continue reading
The legitimacy of Chromebooks isn’t in question, but for an everyday laptop it’s a tough sell sometimes. Sure, the price is great, but is it good for streaming the NCAA Tournament? Is it fast enough to use in the office for that presentation? Can I comfortably give it to my kids … | Continue reading
Kyrie Irving will miss Cleveland's game against the New York Knicks to rest. | Continue reading
You can do a lot of impressive things with HoloLens, Microsoft’s augmented reality (AR) headset. But there’s a new thing Microsoft Research’s Interactive 3D Technologies (I3D) team has developed with the HoloLens, and, uh, it’s crazy. A YouTube video posted yesterday shows people … | Continue reading
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 25, 2016. The Gang floats on the border between virtual fiction and greater reality. Plus, the latest G3 w/ Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, … | Continue reading
Movie sets are often an illusion — unlike real places, they're only convincing from certain camera angles. The same can't be said for the set of Bruce Wayne's home and secret Batcave in Batman v Superman. Google Street View has partnered with Warner Bros to show off the truly imp … | Continue reading
It’s not been a great week over at JavaScript repository NPM after a trademark battle erupted between a longtime contributor and messaging app Kik, resulting in the former pulling his code and crashing thousands of websites. But, as always in the tech community, a solution is nev … | Continue reading
It’s long been the case that life sciences investors don’t get the attention that their more traditional tech counterparts do. They’re underrepresented on lists of top investors in venture capital. They’re also remarkably underfunded, according to institutional investors (or limi … | Continue reading
To help you get the most out of your new smartphone, we've rounded up our top tips and tricks for the Samsung Galaxy S7/Galaxy S7 Edge! | Continue reading
by Christopher Graves, Holmes Report (excerpt) The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it settled its first case under its newly-issued guidelines on native advertising. It accused retailer Lord & Taylor of not disclosing that its “influencers” were paid off. The FTC comp … | Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence continues to surprise and shock us. Last week, we saw that AI can be better than us at playing Go. This week, Microsoft’s chatbot TayTweets showed us that machine learning can even produce AI’s that are better at hate speech than we are. Microsoft promptly … | Continue reading
GUEST: In February, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC) was the victim of a ransomware attack that disabled access to its network, email, and patient data. The hospital was crippled. The Radiation Oncology department was shut down, CT scans and lab work were unavailable. … | Continue reading
As I sit down to do some work at my neighborhood coffee shop, I overhear an awkward introduction between two people at a table behind me. It’s a job interview. I take a sip of my americano misto and only put in one of my headphones. This is a ride that I want to come along for. I … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price remains within the narrow $7 range that has constrained trade during the past four days. Although price is currently declining, there is a strong support level nearby, in the form of the 200-period moving average. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hou … | Continue reading
Microsoft sure seems to be having a ton of fun with HoloLens while the rest of us wait for it to stop being a research project and become a real thing that we can purchase and use. But in the meanwhile, those research projects are bonkers. The latest is called "Holoportation," a … | Continue reading
Die Kritiken zu Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice sind ja eher mau, aber das Batcave auf Google Street View lassen wir uns natürlich dennoch nicht entgehen. Die Tour durch Bruce Waynes schickes Landhaus (Mies van der Rohes Farnsworth House, d... | Continue reading
Dangling precariously from a Flirtey drone is a package that represents the future. The Australian startup is celebrating what it believes is the first fully-autonomous and legal US drone delivery in an urban area made to an address in Reno, Nevada, earlier this month. Today, we& … | Continue reading
A roundtable hosted by CIGI in Toronto, called “Regulating Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian Innovation”, featured individuals from industry, government and academia. Addison Cameron-Huff, a technology lawyer, recently blogged … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: In what now looks like a halcyon afternoon back in early October, I was moderating a panel of entrepreneurs and venture investors on the topic of how to raise series A funding. Very quickly, the conversation ran away from me. Instead of talking about which metrics and m … | Continue reading
Content repurposing is easy when you know how and where. Check out this updated list of over 50 ways to repurpose your content, and get right in front of your market. | Continue reading
Google is testing their new keyboard, which could soon be available for iOS. Here's why Google is hoping for iPhone users to adopt it. | Continue reading
Playing Thimbleweed Park is like discovering a lost LucasArts adventure game that’s been hidden in a closet for 25 years. Ron Gilbert, the man who created PC classics like Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island, is now returning to the genre with this nostalgic mystery st … | Continue reading
Immense hype surrounds virtual currencies and distributed ledgers these days. Maybe this is inevitable if you combine an inscrutable, cutting-edge technology, its enigmatic origins, and a flow of $1 billion in venture funding thus far. But will these technologies create pathways … | Continue reading
The Verge's New York offices now have an official virtual reality room. The library for its HTC Vive Pre holds a bunch of experiments and demos for full games we won't see for weeks or even months. But there's too much cool stuff to ignore. So for the next few weeks, we're puttin … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Top 10 Plays from Friday night NEWS OF THE MORNING Dallas capable of 2007 payback? | Rest takes priority for Spurs | Pistons getting cozy at home | Gentry gets ‘confidence’ vote No. 1: Dallas capable of 2007 payback? — It’s not the ideal way to go about knocking off one of … | Continue reading
Meeresschildkröten sind aus mehreren Gründen vom Aussterben bedroht: weil sie trotz Artenschutz ein begehrtes Produkt bleiben, die Umweltbedingungen schlechter werden, und sie als Beifang in Fischnetzen enden. Letzteres glauben Forscher d... | Continue reading
Microsoft research manager Shahram Izadi is showing off the company’s latest innovation using HoloLens: ‘holoportation,’ enabling him to appear as if he’s there in real-time, anywhere in the world. His image is captured in 3D by cameras placed around the room. This is then stitch … | Continue reading
With Apple finally unveiling the iPhone SE and releasing its biggest iOS update in months, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: How to use Apple's new Night Shift feature in iOS 9.3Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. Th … | Continue reading