Why the NSA is staying out of Apple's fight with the FBI

From the beginning of Apple’s fight with the FBI, there’s been an inconvenient question: why can’t the NSA just break into the San Bernardino iPhone? We know from Edward Snowden that the agency has eyes nearly everywhere, amassing data in transit and developing exploits to break … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Elon Musk says he didn’t attend secret meeting to stop Trump

Real-life Tony Stark and SpaceX/Tesla/SolarCity head honcho Elon Musk did not attend a secret Republican meeting to discuss toppling Donald Trump, he says in a tweet.That the tweet is far from the most absurd thing to come out of this election cycle is a testament to how bizarre … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

9 of the Best SEO Hacks to Try Right Now (That All Websites Should be Doing)

Here are some of the best SEO hacks and fixes you can implement right now to improve your website's ranking. | Continue reading


@ignitevisibility.com | 8 years ago

Android N developers can get $150 off a Pixel C

Are you an Android developer looking for a new tablet to develop Android N apps on? Google has an exclusive deal for you on its Pixel C tablet! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Google joins the Open Compute Project after 5 years, will submit rack design

Google today announced that it’s joining the Open Compute Project (OCP), an organization through which Facebook and other companies have shared designs for their data center infrastructure in order to accelerate cross-company development and adoption of leading-edge technologies. … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Die drei Top-Themen der ITB Berlin vom Mittwoch, 9. März 2016

Berlin (ots) - ITB Berlin Daily: Partnerland Malediven investiert in die Zukunft +++ Globaler Tourismus weiter auf Wachstumskurs +++ Preisträger der zweiten World Legacy Awards... | Continue reading


@presseportal.de | 8 years ago

Save thousands of dollars and go to Coachella in VR

The two separate weekend runs of landmark American music festival Coachella have long been sold-out, thanks to a panic-inducing pre-sale before the spring even’t lineup was announced and a head-spinning general sale in January. But if you’re bummed about missing the boat or would … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Download Android N developer preview here!

Android N has arrived! You can download the factory images right here! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Twitter Moments starts featuring Google’s AMP articles on mobile

Twitter wants to make it easier for you to explore links featured in tweets displayed in any of its Moments. The company has added AMP support which allows you to go right to articles, blog posts, videos, etc. that a featured tweet is referencing. By doing so, you won’t have to w … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

The Most Dangerous Writing App lets you delete all of your work for free

The Most Dangerous Writing App, from developer Manuel Ebert, is a writer's block tool with a twist. The free web app lets you jot down words of any fashion in timed increments ranging from five minutes to an hour. If you stop typing, however, all progress is lost. It's meant to s … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Cisco bringing advanced search to Spark platform with Synata acquisition

Cisco announced it has purchased Synata, a search startup that allows users to search across on-premise or cloud repositories simultaneously. Cisco plans to integrate the Synata technology into its Spark communications platform (which should not to be confused with Apache Spark). … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Gordon Ramsay brings cursing and insults to his celebrity chef mobile game

Gordon Ramsay will be damned if his chef’s game isn’t the best mobile celebrity title on the market. He’s been working on it for the better part of two years with Glu Mobile, the company that made Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and is trying to corner the market on celebrity titles in … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Android N will use less data and let you block spammers

Google just announced that a preview of its next version of Android, known as "N" for now, is now available for developers. The preview is packed with new features, including split-screen multitasking and new notification management, but there are other, smaller features that mig … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Android N developer preview is live – brings split-screen mode, redesigned notifications and more

Don't want to wait until Google I/O to get a taste of Android N? You don't have to -- Google has just released the first Android N developer preview! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Owning a cell phone doesn’t mean consenting to police tracking: Maryland Court

The Maryland Special Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that threw out data gathered via stingray on the grounds that the evidence was impermissible. It's one of a handful of wins for privacy advocates and those concerned about the proliferation of surveillance tech … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Führender spanischer Pizza-Lieferservice sucht regionale Master-Franchise-Nehmer, um auf den britischen Markt zu expandieren

Telepizza: London (ots/PRNewswire) -- Das Unternehmen Telepizza wirbt für erstklassige Möglichkeiten für regionale Master-Franchise-Nehmer bei der britischen und internationalen Franchise-Messe in London Telepizza, der führende Pizza-Lieferservice in ... | Continue reading


@presseportal.de | 8 years ago

How Journalists Prepare for CEO Interviews and How PR Can Prepare CEOs

PR professionals can best prepare their CEOs and other executives for media interviews by learning how journalists prepare for the interviews. A survey by the Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) of journalists in North America reveals what information sources reporters review … | Continue reading


@alltop | 8 years ago

This year's Coachella attendees are being given custom Cardboard VR headsets

The Coachella music festival is beefing up its VR programming with a new app and a custom Google Cardboard headset, one that's being shipped out to this year's attendees in the "welcome boxes" containing their tickets. The Coachella VR app will allow Cardboard and Gear VR owners … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Google launches the Android Beta Program for Android N updates over the air

Alongside today’s news of a very early preview of the next version of Android, Google is announcing the Android Beta Program to let developers try new features – including multi-window support and improved notifications – without having to flash a freshROM and wipe their devices. … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Trippy rhythm game Thumper is coming to PlayStation VR and Steam

Trippy neon rhythm game Thumper has been revealed for PS4 and Steam later this year with PlayStation VR support.The simple game puts players in control of a metallic beetle hurtling through a cylinder towards a maniacal giant head. Using only one analog stick and one button you m … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Talk content marketing with Brafton at LeadsCon, March 16-17 in Las Vegas

Looking for advice from the leaders in lead generation and performance marketing? You'll want to join Brafton at LeadsCon. | Continue reading


@brafton.com | 8 years ago

Twitter woos game makers by integrating its Fabric development suite into Unity

Twitter is shifting toward mobile services, and now it’s teaming up with one of the most popular game-development engines to expedite that transition. The social-networking company announced today that it is integrating Fabric, its suite of development tools, into the Unity softw … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Google surprises with early preview of Android N

Google unexpectedly launched the Android N Developer Preview today. And to make things even easier for developers — and adventurous users — the preview is available as an over-the-air update. The expectation was that Google wouldn’t start talking about Android N until its I/O dev … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

You can try out Android N today, including multi-window support and better notifications

Surprise, team Android! Google’s next operating system, codenamed Android N, is being shown off much earlier than expected thanks to Developer Preview launched today, and it includes a feature stock Android fans have wanted for ages: Split-Screen view. New versions of Android are … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

The Android N developer preview with split-screen multitasking is available today

Well, this was unexpected. Starting today, Google is making a developer preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "N," available for Nexus devices. That's much, much earlier than ever before — Google usually waits until its IO developer conference.It's also going to be mu … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Google launches Android N developer preview and beta program

Google today launched the first Android N developer preview, available for download now at developer.android.com/preview. Later today, the company will also debut the Android Beta Program, which lets you get early Android builds via over-their-air updates on Nexus devices. In the … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Twitter unveils Fabric for Unity and a new website for game developers

Developers creating games using Unity can now take advantage of Twitter Fabric. In bringing Fabric to Unity, Twitter set out to solve some challenges game developers face. In addition to user metrics, Fabric can help developers generate revenue, acquire and retain users as well a … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

13 automation apps and tools to streamline your whole life

In today's age of automation, there's simply no reason you should spend precious seconds every morning brewing coffee when you could be catching an extra five minutes of ZZZs.It seems as if 'automation,' 'productivity' and 'efficiency' are developers' favorite terms these days an … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Twitter updates Moments for better mobile browsing by sending users to AMP-powered pages

Twitter Moments, the feature that’s meant to highlight the best of Twitter in a more magazine-like format, has so far failed to incite further user growth, as was initially hoped. But the company is continuing to develop and improve the experience, which offers collections of twe … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Email Marketing Is Not Dead – 5 Tips For Increasing Open Rate & Click-Throughs

There | Continue reading


@convertwithcontent.com | 8 years ago

Scam Alert: London Bitcoin Forum Draws Complaints

An event called the London Bitcoin Forum scheduled for later this month has raised concerns in the bitcoin community of being a scam, as revealed by comments posted on Reddit and elsewhere. The website for the event says it is scheduled for March 23 and 24 at QEII Centre, London, … | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 8 years ago

Forget drones, Amazon’s getting into the proper aviation business

Sure, drones might eventually be part of Amazon’s last-mile delivery services but the company has to get pretty serious about fast, long-haul logistics if it wants to continue to offer rapid delivery to growing numbers across the world. Amazon already owns a stake in French freig … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

No more tears: Science boosts web browser speed by 34%

Scientists think they pwned your browser experience.We live online and literally spend hours a day in web browsers, and a good chunk of that precious time is spent waiting for pages to finish loading. Since the dawn of the consumer Internet in the mid 1990s every new browser has … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Watch a video of Google’s self-driving car hit a bus

Today, the Associated Press has obtained (and released) surveillance video from inside the Mountain View public transit bus that was side-swiped by a Google self-driving car last month — its first at-fault accident. Fortunately the accident occurred at low speeds, and resulted in … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Facebook buys face-swapping app MSQRD and its many selfie filters

Expect to see new faces on your Facebook in the future. The social network has purchased popular face-swapping app MSQRD, built by Belarusian startup Masquerade, with the app offering a range of features including live video effects for selfies and the creepy-sounding "celebrity … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Chief Xbox ambassador addresses compensation for recent Xbox Live troubles

Xbox Live has had a lot of problems in the first few months of 2016, and fans are starting to get fed up. This finally prompted one of Microsoft’s most consumer-facing personalities to address those concerns. Earlier this week, fans on the Xbox One forum on the community site Red … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Intel Compute Stick review: Windows 10 for your TV

Why wouldn’t you want an entire Windows computer on tiny little stick? As someone who uses a MacBook day in and day out, the idea of $159 Intel’s Compute Stick, a Windows 10 PC shrunken down to the size of a tiny plastic rectangle, really pulls me in. Take it anywhere, plug it in … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

MIT develops a new technique to load webpages faster

Webpage bloat is a growing problem. So no surprise techniques to speed page load times have often focused on data compression to try to shrink the number of milliseconds it takes for a website to heave into view. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Mucker Capital closes on $45 million for an early-stage LA-based fund

Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital has raised $45 million for its third fund, Mucker III. The Silicon Beach firm said that it will continue to invest in software and services startups and continue to focus on the greater Los Angeles area. In addition it will invest in seed and pre … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

How Agile Methodologies can Help Large Enterprises to Stay on Top?

Agile methodologies started as a way of developing software but are today widely used in diverse departments from marketing to internal communication. | Continue reading


@orchestrate.com | 8 years ago

J.J. Abrams explains why he kept 10 Cloverfield Lane a secret

10 Cloverfield Lane opens this Friday, and the "blood relative" to Drew Goddard's 2008 found footage film Cloverfield has taken the Bad Robot mystery box to the next level. Two months ago the first trailer for the John Goodman-starring thriller dropped pretty much out of nowhere, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Play EVE Online... for science

EVE Online has added a new mini-game that crowdsources players to assist in real world science.Entitled Project Discovery, the new feature is based around identifying patterns of protein distribution in human cells. The Sisters of EVE project lead, Professor Lundberg, will guide … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

'Badlands 2' is on Sale for the First Time, And You Should Go Buy It

The original Badlands is a game I often show people to demonstrate how gorgeous mobile games can be. The lighting effects and the great animation of both your little creatures and the environment makes for a beautiful game. And yet, surprisingly, Badlands 2 [$2.99] managed to sur … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Zika infections in first trimester linked to birth defect

Women who gave birth to babies with birth defects in Brazil last year were often in their first trimester during the Zika outbreak, according to a report released yesterday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The finding provides evidence that getting infected w … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Lightspeed Venture Partners Raises $1.2 Billion

Lightspeed Venture Partners, the 16-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based early-stage venture firm, has raised two new funds totaling $1.2 billion, according to two new SEC filings. One filing, for the firm’s 11th fund, shows a close of $715 million. Lightspeed has also raised $500 mil … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Biometric logins will replace passwords, but you just never know who to trust

With the increasing prevalence of fingerprint scanners on smartphones and other devices, and a growing number of services calling for authentication of some kind, using your biometric info to secure access will only become more commonplace. In theory, that should make your life a … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Android N developer preview reportedly includes split-screen mode, redesigned notifications

The first preview build of Android N will be released to the public today with new features including a native split-screen mode, according to a report from 9to5Google. Citing an article from Ars Technica that was pulled after publication, 9to5Google says that the preview version … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

On-demand massage startup Soothe raises $35 million

Soothe, the on-demand massage service, just closed a $35 million Series B round from its pre-existing investors. This brings its total funding to $47.7 million. This puts Soothe even further ahead of its main competitor, Zeel, which has raised $3.2 million to date. In September, … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago