The Charity Commission in the United Kingdom has issued an alert toward all charities about an extortionist group demanding between £300 – £500 in bitcoin (approx. 1.03 to 1.72 BTC) or face cyberattacks, if the ransom isn’t paid up. In an alert issued toward UK-based charities to … | Continue reading
LONDON — When you're downloading a new app for your phone, the last thing you expect to find out is something as potentially life-changing as an ex-partner's pregnancy, but that's what recently happened to one British man. Android user "Ben" told BBC Radio 4's consumer show You & … | Continue reading
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump announced an impromptu boycott of Apple products "until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal." A staunch supporter of the FBI's demands, Trump said he owns both Samsung and Apple p … | Continue reading
With AI Scry, you’ll never have to wonder how your iPhone would describe the world around you if it was capable of autonomous thinking. Available for iOS, AI Scry is a new app that generates automatic descriptions of whatever appears in front of your phone’s camera. Created by Oa … | Continue reading
Even the most sought-after gadgets have a short shelf life, often finding themselves second rate, or fodder for landfills, in a few years due to the rapid pace of technological change. A new startup, Nascent Objects, believes there’s a better way; creating an ecosystem of electro … | Continue reading
INSPEC2T solution will be implemented on a pilot basis and will be evaluated in 5 European cities. Application testing will take place in the following countries: Spain, Cyprus, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Selected local communities, municipal authorities and local police dep … | Continue reading
Video: Kayvan Ghavim, Loris Ravera, Christina WarrenAt Apple's next big product event — taking place March 21— the company is expected to announce a new 4-inch iPhoneThe new phone, with the rumored name iPhone SE will be Apple's first 4-inch device since the release of the iPhone … | Continue reading
As denizens of the internet, we leave a huge data trail across the services and sites we use everyday. As the volume of data has increased, the challenge for marketing teams has become to identify the points in that data that reveal the trends they’re seeking. How, as a marketer, … | Continue reading
Akanksha Hazari's road to becoming one of India's most promising tech entrepreneurs was an unconventional one. After graduating from Princeton University in 2005, she dreamed of climbing the diplomatic ranks and worked as a project manager for the Aspen Institute, attempting to e … | Continue reading
Say hello to Brian, full name Dolomedes briangreenei, the most recently discovered spider in Australia. (Although considering it's Australia, it's probably only the 10th most recently discovered spider now). According to a report from Mashable Australia, Brian was revealed at the … | Continue reading
Hangouts v8.0 has added support for Android N's new grouped notifications API, whereby you can not only expand or dismiss individual notifications in a group, but also reply to each one right from the notifications shade. | Continue reading
Yahoo today announced its Q1 2016 progress report, highlighting the closure of several products and regional sites. As shared in its last earnings call, the company wants to focus on just seven core consumer products: Mail, Search, Tumblr, News, Sports, Finance, and Lifestyle. Fi … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Microsoft cancels Fable Legends, we learn about the challenges of porting Final Fantasy IX to mobile, and Epic’s Tim Sweeney explains how to keep Windows an open platform. Have a great weekend, everyone! Pieces of flair and … | Continue reading
Video: kayvan ghavimSince I was a kid, I have felt that being really into cars is lame. Even as a grown man who now obsesses over cars, and makes his living writing about them, that feeling lingers to this day.For better or worse, that notion buzzes in the back of my brain every … | Continue reading
A new game recently popped up in our forums that's shaping up to be pretty awesome. I'm reluctant to make too many comparisons without playing it first, but the teaser trailer is giving me some serious Journey vibes along with generally being surprisingly beautiful. Definitely gi … | Continue reading
The story of Victor Frankenstein and his infamous monster has been told time and time again: a young doctor animates new life by piecing together bits of old, decaying materials. Though this morbid experiment seems like it should only succeed in vintage horror novels, its concept … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama will be interviewed as part of the Keynote Conversation at SXSW Interactive Friday at 2:30 p.m. CT (3:30 p.m. EST). You can watch it live on the SXSW website.See also: Here's your exclusive look at this year's futuristic SXSW Mashable HouseObama, who will b … | Continue reading
Es ist mal wieder so weit. Man könnte zwar behaupten, Flash hätte jetzt eine Weile mal gehalten, aber sonderlich lang ist es seit der letzten Sicherheits-Katastrophe nicht her.Gleich 23 Lücken müssen dieses Mal geschlossen wer... | Continue reading
Over they last few years, Microsoft has worked to transition OneNote from its initial lecture-hall focus into more of a note-taking app for your everyday needs. It’s latest move: pulling users away from competitor Evernote. To do so, Microsoft is releasing its first ever official … | Continue reading
Microsoft today launched a OneNote importer tool that lets Evernote users bring their content to Microsoft’s note-taking tool. You can download the OneNote Importer for Windows now from OneNote.com (a Mac version will follow “in the coming months”). Once your notes have been impo … | Continue reading
Agent 47 sure gets around. The main character of Hitman, the assassination game for the PC and consoles that debuts today, appears in a new ad campaign today that the creators hope will go viral. The ad, dubbed “Kill this ad,” is a clever way to publicize the game from developer … | Continue reading
Microsoft's OneNote app has been cross-platform for some time now, but one of the big barriers of moving from a service like Evernote has been the lack of full support for importing existing notes. Microsoft is releasing a OneNote importer tool today that's specifically designed … | Continue reading
This week, Facebook made a selfie filter app acquisition, Google surprised us with the Android N preview, and we ate bugs. Yeah, seriously. Silicon Valley is eating bugs now. These are the tech headlines you don’t want to miss this week. Read More | Continue reading
The circle of life. Traffic flow through microservices at Netflix ( Rob Young ) If you like... | Continue reading
VIDEO: Hornets handle Pelicans despite Lin’s rough game By Ben Leibowitz, Special to NBA.com Juxtaposed against the NBA’s hottest shooters of the week — like Kemba Walker, who went for 33, 34 and 35 points, respectively, in his three games — were players who couldn’t buy a bucket … | Continue reading
Italian bank UniCredit has published a white paper that explores how banks could offer blockchain-based services. | Continue reading
Intu revealed its multi-sensory Style Garden concept at centres in Lakeside and Chapelfield last Friday (11 March). | Continue reading
Google has been pretty explicit about its schedule for Android N updates. So what does this tell us about when you can expect to see Android 7.0 on your device? | Continue reading
NASA announced that it will send its next lander to Mars, known as the InSight Mars lander, in May of 2018. The mission was originally on schedule to launch later this month, but a technical issue found late last year put the InSight launch on hold. The new launch date comes as g … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Andrew Wiggins runs wild in a win over Brooklyn By Will Laws, Special to NBA.com The dog days of the NBA season are upon us. With just over a month remaining in the regular season, the mileage on players’ legs is piling up, and coaches are trying to give their starters a b … | Continue reading
Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa, embedded in devices like the Echo speaker and Fire TV, is today taking on a new role: she’s now a banking assistant, too. Capital One announced this morning the rollout of a new “skill” (like an app for Alexa-powered devices), which will allow co … | Continue reading
Industrial content marketing is not just a popular marketing strategy but it plays an active role in driving industrial sales. | Continue reading
Von Janus Friis mitentwickelt, ist Wire eine der diversen Messaging-Alternativen die einen starken Fokus auf Verschlüsselung setzen. Mit der 2.0 Version gibt es jetzt Videochats (selbstverständlich auch verschlüsselt). Damit wär... | Continue reading
Google publishes hundreds of research papers every year covering everything from algorithms to education and an upcoming project set to be presented later this month seeks to be the best AI assistant you ever had. You may have already run into difficulty when trying to use someth … | Continue reading
Ford is spinning off some of its most interesting work into a wholly owned subsidiary that the company says "will be designed to compete like a startup." The subsidiary, called Ford Smart Mobility LLC, will be led by current Ford board member Jim Hackett, who is stepping down fro … | Continue reading
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With so much competing advice out there, it can be difficult to know what entices a conversion, and what sends one screaming for the hills, but let's go over five of the most insidious conversion killers that you might be using. | Continue reading
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Identifier: H2020-S2RJU-2016-01Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016Latest information: An update of the Questions & Answers document has been published in the Additional Documents Sec … | Continue reading
The 30th annual Game Developers Conference takes place next week, Monday through Friday, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. For people in the game industry, the show is a kind of religious pilgrimage to get inspired about the craft of making video games. And the event is exp … | Continue reading
Boston’s tech scene should shake off its inferiority complex: The “Boston Tech Party” revolution is starting to unfold. After many years of under-the-radar growth and profitable companies, the arrival of General Electric to the Seaport District brings Boston the high-profile “anc … | Continue reading
The Amazon Echo, our favorite gadget of 2015, has quickly become the smart home hub that everyone is gushing over. With voice commands, the ability to play music from the cloud, fast weather and sports scores, and control of your smart home devices — all done in a fast, intuitive … | Continue reading
Reddit is difficult to ignore. One of the oldest and perhaps one of the most controversial social media services, Reddit claims 230 million unique monthly visitors, based on Alexa ratings. Its discussion forums, or subreddits, cover almost every topic imaginable. It even has subr … | Continue reading
We've been hearing about a sequel to classic horror-comedy Beetlejuice for years, but director Tim Burton has now gone on the record and confirmed everything. It's. Really. Happening. Speaking to ShowbizSpy, Burton said: "The film is a go and has been approved by the Warner Bros. … | Continue reading
U.S. Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., called on attendees at the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington to educate lawmakers about blockchain tech's benefits. | Continue reading
It's apparently impossible to go an entire week without a strange but powerful new integration being added to Amazon's Alexa. This week: Capital One. Its customers can now check their bank account and credit card balances just by asking Alexa. They'll also be able to have Alexa r … | Continue reading
We've done our own pretty comprehensive summary of all the new Android N features in the first developer preview, but Google has done one too, specifically for developers. | Continue reading