It is difficult to explain virtual reality to someone who has never tried it before, but one of the most exciting developers working in the space might have solved the problem. Studio Owlchemy Labs, which is making the VR game Job Simulator, has a new trailer in the works that mi … | Continue reading
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, BMW has unveiled a stunning concept car called the Vision Vehicle that looks as futuristic as its name suggests.Unlike some concept vehicles of the past, the Vision Vehicle doesn't look that unrealistic compared to cars on the road today. … | Continue reading
Your bedroom should be a place of sanctuary and relaxation, a place you feel relaxed and comfortable. But between dogs in the bed or someone "finishing this one last email" before sleep, it can be difficult to completely wind down.While experts usually recommend keeping technolog … | Continue reading
We know it can be a bit hard to find a battery pack that has both plenty of power and an accessible price point. Today we bring you a pretty neat deal on an AUKEY 10,000 mAh battery pack. | Continue reading
Today is International Women’s Day — day that began in the early 20th century as an opportunity to acknowledge, celebrate and respect women while recognizing how far society must come before gender parity truly exists. It’s also a day where plenty of online trashcans claim there … | Continue reading
The New York Times, repatriation activists, and the public were deceived by an anonymous data leaker's cover story, aided by a museum's secrecy. | Continue reading
Tonight YouTube will be live-streaming the first of a five-game match of the ancient Chinese board game Go between the AlphaGo artificial intelligence system from Google’s DeepMind AI research lab and Go superstar Lee Sedol. YouTube will be live-streaming the four subsequent matc … | 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
The fact that print media is on the decline is not an exclusive news story. Neither is the fact those working in media organizations are being stretched thin. The result? It has never been harder to get your press release seen and turned into media coverage. At the same time as m … | Continue reading
Amazon Japan now ships games overseas. As spotted by Twitter user Hadler, then tested by many NeoGAF members, this opens up all sorts of che… | Continue reading
Speaking at Common Cause’s ‘Blueprint for Democracy’ conference today, Edward Snowden used his time to speak out about surveillance, personal liberties and of course, the San Bernadino iPhone. “The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’ to unlock the phone,” Snowden s … | Continue reading
The New Orleans Pelicans announced today that guard Eric Gordon underwent successful surgery this afternoon to repair his fractured right ring finger. He will miss the remainder of the 2015-16 season. | Continue reading
Free-to-play fighting game Rising Thunder, the in-development title by former Capcom "special combat advisor" and the face of Street Fight Seth Killian, is being shuttered on 18th March as developer Radiant Entertainment has been acquired by League of Legends studio Riot Games.Ki … | Continue reading
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates may be retired from running the largest software company in the world, but he's still engaged in everything from technology to politics. Along those lines, Gates decided to show up for his fourth Ask Me Anything session on Reddit on Tuesday and, a … | Continue reading
Fake reviews have been an occasional and frustrating by-product on sites like Google, Yelp and Amazon for years. But a recent case in the Netherlands highlights how one company affected by them fought back. A nursery in Amsterdam has won a case against Google in a civil court in … | Continue reading
Travelzoo: London (ots/PRNewswire) - Erste globale Studie zur Akzeptanz von Robotern in der Reisebranche Roboter werden laut einer Umfrage unter mehr als 6.000 Reisenden in Asien, Europa, Nordamerika und Südamerika bis spätestens 2020 eine große Rolle im Leben ... | Continue reading
BorderLeap, makers of the Harmony [$0.99] series of games, are launching a new puzzler soon on the App Store, called Drop Flip. If you've played Trick Shot [$1.99], the concept of getting a ball into the bucket should be familiar. But the execution is different here, as instead o … | Continue reading
Tovala is a new startup out of Y Combinator that came up with what they hope to be a less expensive alternative to professional combination ovens. The Tovala is a smart oven that can bake, boil and steam meals at up to 550 degrees Fahrenheit in 10 to 30 minutes. The meals come pr … | Continue reading
That’s one Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge for each of your front pockets, but there are a few caveats we should talk about. | Continue reading
In August of last year our own resident hardcore Disney fanboy Eric Ford went to the D23 event where Disney Interactive showcased their upcoming video game projects. Among major players like Kingdom Hearts 3 and Star Wars: Battlefront was a little mobile game called Disney Magic … | Continue reading
As we move into a new era it's important to start thinking of energy that will push us forward, as opposed to just moving us around and powering the present world. | Continue reading
Google intends to address some recurring issues with the Nexus 5X in a software update this month. On Reddit, a Google community manager writes that a coming update will attempt to fix issues leading to "slow [and] sluggish performance," as well as problems with Wi-Fi and Bluetoo … | Continue reading
For the better part of last year, Salesforce audited its pay structure to identify and correct wage gaps found between male and female workers. And a blog post released today shows that the company has had to correct salaries to the tune of $3 million. “We have made equality a co … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Two years ago, TurboTax had fewer than 200,000 customers filling out their taxes on their mobile phone. It was a tiny percentage of its 31 million users — and completely unsatisfactory for Nat Rajesh Natarajan, senior VP for product and engineering at Intuit, the parent … | Continue reading
Amazon has been using the stories of fired warehouse employees who committed theft in video clips as it attempts to dissuade current employees from stealing from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. The company plays video clips on a flatscreen TV in its warehouses … | Continue reading
Virtual reality is not going to have quite as big of a 2016 as one research firm was originally predicting. SuperData is trimming its prediction for virtual reality sales in 2016 by 30 percent. In January, the analysts at SuperData forecast that VR would make $5.1 billion in reve … | Continue reading
Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public. The company emerged from “startup studio” Expa. It’s also announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Expa, SV Angel, Ram Shriram, Tim Ferriss, Fenwi … | Continue reading
No two software engineers are alike, but the Applications Developer Alliance is creating a program to encourage more standardization in how engineers are considered. The new Developer Workforce Initiative is “a global effort to increase the size, expertise and understanding” rega … | Continue reading
Dallas-based precious metals dealer JM Bullion is now accepting bitcoin through bitcoin processor BitPay. | Continue reading
Imagine a much better world — the people-centered economy — where three billion workers have jobs tailored to fit their unique sets of skills, talents, passions, where they work with people they are inspired by and productive together with, where they engage in the most meaningfu … | Continue reading
If Alto from Alto's Adventure [$2.99] decided he's had enough of all the snow and went to the California for surfing, what you would get is the upcoming Go Surf, an endless surfer. According to the game's description, the developer Diverso Games is trying to create an involving e … | Continue reading
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said the central bank won't be making any recommendation on whether the U.K. should stay in the European Union. | Continue reading
It’s dumbfounding how an industry as huge as live music still relies on a patchwork of backwards, outdated technologies. Word document offer letters, PDF riders, endless back-and-forth emails, spreadsheets, physical checks. Fax! It makes the whole process a headache that takes fo … | Continue reading
Along with the March security update that Google just announced yesterday, the Nexus 5X is getting some much-needed bug fixes and performance improvements. | Continue reading
There have been discussions about the United Kingdom exiting from the European Union for a while now. Most of us know that the European Union is not doing that great when it comes to the economy. Many EU countries have been suffering from economic slowdown for years. Greece has b … | Continue reading
April 8th is the date to circle on your calendar, but Canadians will also get an extra freebie with their pre-ordered LG G5’s. | Continue reading
As drones become more prevalent and automated, we measly humans have started to think up better ways to take them down. For instance, the SkyWall drone defense system, which can drop a drone without breaking it. Flying your jet ski into one of them, however, may be a little bit e … | Continue reading
Maersk announced today it has made the first official drone delivery to an undocked ship, as reported by G-Captain. The test took place near the Kalundborg port in Denmark, and saw a small drone dropping a parcel more than 15 feet to the deck of an unmoored tanker. The initial pl … | Continue reading
Now this is a way to cement a Silicon Valley legend. Madame Tussauds San Francisco said today it will make a wax figure of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. The legendary maker of wax figures and wax museums will reveal the 3D image of Woz on stage at the first-ever Silicon Valley C … | Continue reading
By all accounts, the London startup scene was abuzz with Entrepreneur First‘s latest Demo Day today, as 25 startups — up from 9! — took to the stage to pitch their wares. The so-called ‘talent first’ investor targets the best technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them t … | Continue reading
The tracking of citizens' reactions in social media during crises has attracted an increasing level of interest in the research community. In particular, sentiment analysis over social media posts can be regarded as a particularly useful tool, enabling civil protection and law en … | Continue reading
When Simogo released Year Walk [$3.99] (and its companion app), I really enjoyed delving into Northern European mythology and learning about all its intriguing creatures and stories. There's something about the moody, icy weather and landscape of countries like Sweden and Norway … | Continue reading
With the hiring of Chris Poole, Google got everyone talking about Plus again, but not in the way it may have wanted. According to one engineer, Plus won’t be the new 4Chan, so we can rest easy. Yonatan Zunger is the man behind the social tech at Google, and took to Plus to commen … | Continue reading
In 2014 game developer and special effects wizard David OReilly created a mountain simulator and for his next trick he's letting you inject consciousness into all sorts of inanimate objects with the upcoming PS4 game Everything."In Everything - every single thing is a playable ch … | Continue reading
European Union leaders have announced the framework for a deal that would return to Turkey refugees from Syria who are now in Greece. What does Turkey want in return? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
If you’re using a third-party Snapchat app, it’s time to delete it. Change the password to your Snapchat account while you’re at it. Will Strafach of Sudo Security Group, a company that researches security vulnerabilities in apps, came across numerous third-party Snapchat apps ig … | Continue reading
If you opened Snapchat on Tuesday and noticed that things look a little different, you're not losing your mindSnapchat updated its font on the iOS app, which now appears throughout the app — though not in photo captions or on Snapchat DiscoverSee also: 10 hidden tricks to make Sn … | Continue reading
Hearthstone really wants new players to feel welcome. Blizzard announced a new feature — Dark Recipes — for the digital card game today. Dark Recipes are preselected decks that players can create with the in-game deck-builder. If players do not have the cards needed to make the D … | Continue reading