Uber faced a challenge. They store a lot of trip data . A trip is represented as a 20K blob of JSO... | Continue reading
More than any other tech company, Twitter was invented by its users. That’s no slight against the engineers and designers who actually built the thing. It’s just to say that what we think of as Twitter — that 24/7 torrent of news and entertainment, millions of people taking measu … | Continue reading
While Apple and the FBI are about to fight in court over an iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shootings, this isn’t a new issue for the FBI. According to a report from Bloomberg, the FBI has been concerned about new encryption features ever since Apple released iOS 8 in Se … | Continue reading
Swinging from ropes is fun. I don’t know why, but it is. Many of my favorite games on the App Store use some kind of swinging as a mechanic, from Hanger World [Free] and Mikey Hooks [$1.99] to the long forgotten Rock Runners and Slingshot Racing [$0.99]. In preparation for this r … | Continue reading
Amazon is now reselling Comcast’s Internet and television service on its site, via a newly launched section called “Amazon Cable Store” – a branding that implies Comcast may be the first of other cable providers yet to come. The Cable Store allows customers to browse a variety of … | Continue reading
Victor Kislyi, the chief executive of World of Tanks online game publisher Wargaming, says we live in interesting times. There’s so much change happening in gaming, with the rise of esports, the launch of virtual reality and augmented reality platforms, and the growing power of Y … | Continue reading
An iPhone 6 suddenly burst into flames aboard a flight to Hawaii last week, prompting an investigation from the Federal Aviation Administration.Anna Crail, a college student on the Alaska Airlines flight, was reportedly watching a movie on her iPhone when it suddenly caught fire. … | Continue reading
To kick of the day’s second analysis, we’re going to start with a chart. The image below shows the framework we placed on the bitcoin price earlier this morning, with an overlay of action seen across the last five or six hours. As the chart shows, the bitcoin price broke through … | Continue reading
Bitcoin trading has been tracing a price path of higher lows and lower highs for the past 4 months. The narrowing price action will eventually approach an apex. This report provides a forward view. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysi … | Continue reading
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company made a splash last September when they announced Pokemon Go, which aimed to bring Pikachu and Squirtle into the real world through augmented reality. We've heard little about the game since then, but a new leaked video could be the first real glim … | Continue reading
Is there anything you'd like to change about the Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge? Cast your vote in our latest Poll of the Week! | Continue reading
Spotify has 30 million paid subscribers, CEO Daniel Ek announced today in a tweet. This is the first subscriber update Spotify has given out since it announced it had 20 million subscribers days before Apple Music hit the market last June, and shows the increased competition has … | Continue reading
If you can dream it, you can make it. The rise of 3D printing in recent years has given flight to an industry where the sky doesn’t even come close to the limit, where the technology of 3D printers like the Makerbot Replicator Mini can create toys and gadgets before our very eyes … | Continue reading
Messages sent through iMessage are not as secure as users previously thought. Researchers with John Hopkins University discovered a vulnerability in Apple's messaging system that allows an attacker to decrypt and view sent photos and videos. The Washington Post reports that the r … | Continue reading
It’s been four months since a group of young men stormed venues across Paris and killed 130 people in what is thought to be an ISIS-related terror attack. Investigators have now pulled together a 55-page document, obtained by the New York Times, detailing evidence gathered since … | Continue reading
According to newly published court documents, Lyft would owe its drivers $126 million in reimbursement expenses for the last four years if the ride-hail service classified them as employees rather than independent contractors. The court documents, which were first reported by Reu … | Continue reading
Few doubt that our future — both immediate and long term — will be heavily impacted by robots. With flashy AI technology like IBM’s Watson and Google’s driverless cars stealing headlines and outperforming their human competitors, it’s clear that our economy is bracing for a funda … | Continue reading
We have officially hit Touchstone Number 40. That's a lot of Hearthstone [Free] news, isn't it? Thank you for reading every week, and hopefully you'll continue to enjoy this column. On with the news, now. Blizzard continues to tease us with Whispers of the Old Gods spoilers, and … | Continue reading
The Audio Technica ATH-M50X headphones are widely regarded to be the best available under $200 and are currently available on eBay via multiple resellers for just $99 shipped. | Continue reading
After launching a standalone app for Ola Money in November last year, Indian transportation app Ola has made an acquisition to double down on its mobile wallet and payments business: the company has acquired Qarth, a startup that has developed a mobile payments app called X-Pay. … | Continue reading
Apple’s long-rumored iPhone SE event kicks off at 10 a.m. PDT today (1 p.m. EDT, 5 p.m. GMT and UTC) and you can stream it live right here via Safari, Microsoft’s Edge browser, or an Apple TV (2nd generation or newer). Follow along with us during the event on Twitter — @VentureBe … | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that Twitter turns 10 years old today, given that still so many people seem to misunderstand its purpose and appeal. Twitter is not Facebook – it’s not a place for socializing among friends, but rather delivers a feed of information that matches up with your … | Continue reading
We are proud to announce that a demo of OmpSs-derived programming model, shooted by AXIOM's partner BSC, was showcased this February at UDOO boot, during the Embedded World. The audience was mainly composed by industry representatives, engineers, entrepreneurs and, concerning the … | Continue reading
Twitter has evolved from a microblogging tool used by early adopting nerds to a media broadcasting tool to a microphone for celebrities and beyond. But as the social network struggles to grow, and find new ways to keep people using it and lure new users on board, it’s experimente … | Continue reading
Speaking to a crowd of investors at Deutsche Bank's Media, Internet, and Telecom conference on March 7th, T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter suggested that unlimited data could be on its way out the door at the Uncarrier. "We've had and continue to have a strategy of pivoting away from … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Q1 research from VentureBeat Insight shows that the venture capital landscape for martech shows no sign of slowing down. Join Ravi Belani, partner at Alchemist Accelerator, Adam J. Plotkin, partner at ff Venture Capital, and VB analyst Jon Cifuentes to learn about the … | Continue reading
Quantum Break is a curious game. Curious because, even this close to launch, no-one is one hundred percent sure what it actually is or how its various elements are supposed to work. What I've gathered from previews thus far is that it's part game, part TV show, but the time has f … | Continue reading
VB INSIGHT: The avalanche of apps, the recognition that app search is fatally flawed, and the recent raft of changes to the algorithms employed by Apple and Google are turning up the pressure on app developers. Companies need to move beyond ASO (App Store Optimization) basics to … | Continue reading
Unity Technologies showed off some high-end graphics demos created with its Unity 5 game engine last week at the Game Developers Conference. That shows how the little game engine that could is growing up, and it is closing in on the visual quality offered by rivals, such as Epic … | Continue reading
Single-day passes to the inaugural Panorama Festival in New York City are now on sale. General admission for just one of the three days of the festival start at $99, and VIP passes start at $230. Weekend passes for Panorama, which runs from July 22nd to the 24th at Randall's Isla … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is an in-development augmented reality smartphone app from the people behind the popular Google Ingress.The Pokémon Company is yet to officially unveil any footage of it in action, but what appears to be the first gameplay has now been posted online.A caveat - the foot … | Continue reading
Apple’s encryption practises have been getting a lot of attention lately for being secure, much to the dismay of the FBI. However, a team of researchers at John Hopkins University have unearthed a security flaw that lets you see photos, videos and files sent using iMessage. In th … | Continue reading
Ahead of Apple's announcement about new products, we've got some more news about the company. The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal on a long-running patent dispute between Apple and Samsung. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Built as an ironic and crass simulation of the modern life of crime, Grand Theft Auto 5 is replete with downtown bank robberies, cold-blooded assassinations, and expensive therapy on the shore of Laguna Beach. Like its duplicitous characters, the video game leads a double life. F … | Continue reading
RSK Labs has raised $1m in funding to support the development of a smart contracts platform that would be built on the bitcoin blockchain. | Continue reading
Athens, 22 March 2016 How to creatively reuse & participate in digital culture: an event organized by NTUA with the support of PostScriptum, to present the WITH platform technology that is at the basis of E-Space Technical Space. This one day conference brings together … Continu … | Continue reading
It may sound like a simple concept, but picking the right thought leaders can get tricky since thought leaders are born, not bred.The post America’s Next Top Thought Leader: 14 Questions to Identify A Spokesmodel appeared first on D Custom. | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Kind of a quiet week for cool updates, to be honest. Maybe because of GDC, maybe it's just the calm before the Easter storm, but there are only a few … | Continue reading
Content - We've all been there, sitting in front of a boring long presentation filled with charts and small text you can't even read. Now that it's your turn to present, don't ... | Continue reading
General Management - Today's marketers are overwhelmed, and increasing consumer demands just add to marketers' stress. Agile marketing, however, can help marketers feel less crazy and achieve more control. | Continue reading
Day of the Tentacle isn't just arguably the best adventure ever made, but the Platonic Form of the genre in all its puzzle-solving, dialogue-tree ripping, twisted brain logic joy. It might not be the most exciting, nor has it the best story - it lacks the drama that intersperses … | Continue reading
Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source. Italian studio Digital Video made a deal with Japanese media company Dwango, enabling Dwango to produce and release a free version of the tool, called OpenToonz, fo … | Continue reading
You know that scene in the classic film Bruce Almighty when Jim Carrey uses his God-like powers to mess with Steve Carrell's character while he's giving a live news broadcast? That's what this video looks like (kind of), except replace Steve Carrell for George W. Bush, Donald Tru … | Continue reading
Netflix has announced today that its Recommended TVs program will be launching globally this year, as the video-streaming giant also lifts the lid on new criteria for inclusion, and the first TV manufacturers to gain the coveted Netflix logo for 2016. First announced last January … | Continue reading
"Glass Pleasure Dome" is a renovation project completed by Barnes Vanze Architects in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. | Continue reading
Apple is holding an event today in Cupertino, and the company is planning once again to live stream the event. At 10 AM PT (1 PM ET, 5 PM GMT, 6 PM CET), you’ll be able to watch the event on all Apple devices. If you have a new Apple TV, you can download the Apple Events app in t … | Continue reading
Paranormal enthusiasts often report sighting spirits dressed in Victorian period clothing, flowing white dresses, or just jeans and t-shirts. Why? If ghosts are, as paranormal investigators would have us believe, essentially human spirit energy stuck in purgatory between earth an … | Continue reading