Real, a Houston-based startup that aims to help real estate agents to break away from traditional brokers, announced today that it took in a $6 million investment led by Magma Venture Partners. The startup also announced that its full service is now available, after one year of b … | Continue reading
An international organization composed of the world’s top securities regulators is set to delve into blockchain technology research. | Continue reading
Vimeo has teamed with Wipster to incorporate its video review and approval tools into the media platform’s creator toolset. With this partnership, Vimeo users will be able to privately share and review videos through the Wipster option. Wipster offers up an application that gives … | Continue reading
Skype Qik, Microsoft’s attempt at spinning off video messaging into a simplified mobile application, is shutting down. The app was first introduced in fall 2014 to serve a different audience than the larger, more fully-featured, Skype application. Instead of offering real-time ch … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down Skype Qik on March 24, meaning that you’ll no longer be able to send or receive messages in the video chat application. However, the company said that you should worry because many of the features from Skype Qik have been alre … | Continue reading
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Facebook today announced the launch of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), which is bringing together a coalition of internet service providers and tech companies to focus on the engineering challenges of delivering high-res video and virtual reality. The group has 30 initial member … | Continue reading
SanDisk has just unveiled their first ever USB Type C flash drive at the MWC in Barcelona. | Continue reading
Tom Clancy's The Division beta was played by 6.4m players this weekend, setting a new record for betas of new IPs on current-gen platforms.To put this in perspective, Destiny's beta was played by 4.6m players.Of course, when Destiny's beta launched in July 2014 far fewer people h … | Continue reading
Date: From 05/04/2016 to 06/04/2016Venue: Addis Ababa, EthiopiaMore informationThe Bureau of the Africa‐EU High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation (HLPD Bureau on STI) is convening a stakeholder forum in Addis Ababa in collaboration with a group of Africa … | Continue reading
If you’re bored at work (or lucky enough not to be working), maybe it’s time to head to the hack.summit developers conference. You don’t even have to leave your seat. The conference is a virtual one (not VR), meaning you can ‘attend’ online. There’s still a fee to join-in, but al … | Continue reading
Uh oh. You’re three cups of coffee into a busy work day, and you’re starting to get the ol’ caffeine rumble gut. But you don’t want to give up your prime table at the coffee shop.“Hey, can you watch my stuff?” you say to the nearest complete stranger.This box watches your stuff f … | Continue reading
CEO and co-founder of bitcoin wallet and exchange service Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has deemed the recent proposal to scaling Bitcoin as merely “words” and not action while trumpeting Bitcoin Classic as a better solution for bitcoin’s scaling debate. Brian Armstrong, co-founder … | Continue reading
Date: 08/04/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationThe European Commission is holding an Info Day on the Spreading excellence and Widening participation Calls in Horizon 2020. During the event the Teaming, Twinning and ERA Chairs Calls for 2016 will be presented.This information day … | Continue reading
Do you enjoy endless high score chasers? This is a friendly place, we can all admit that we love a no-thinking, just fast-reacting quest for longer times and higher scores even once in a while. But let's say you're a real tough person. You enjoy only real games with hex grids. An … | Continue reading
Dzień dobry, Dzisiaj zapraszam Cię do zakupów w przedsprzedaży jednego z najbardziej wyczekiwanych olejków w moim sklepie: olejku z oregano!. Jeśli towarzyszysz mi od... | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced updates to its free Windows App Studio Beta web service for building Windows apps. “One of the major themes that we’ve been focusing on lately is providing great solutions for small businesses, creatives, and content producers that want to showcase their … | Continue reading
One of the better features to emerge in iOS 9 is support for picture-in-picture mode on the iPad. But when you’re trying to surf the web while watching Netflix on your Mac, it’s not as easy to do – you often end up moving separate windows around on the screen, or switching back a … | Continue reading
When Marvel creator Stan Lee and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak put on an event together, it’s bound to have a lot of star power. That’s what the organizers of Silicon Valley Comic Con 2016 are promising for their debut convention. The inaugural event runs March 18 to March 20 at … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — Mark Zuckerberg made his second annual appearance at the mobile industry’s big event as a keynote speaker where he discussed everything from his 3-month-old baby to his love of virtual reality. Zuckerberg was interviewed on stage at the Mobile World Congress 20 … | Continue reading
Facebook had a high-profile setback when its Free Basics mobile connectivity program got blocked in India earlier this month over net neutrality issues, but its CEO Mark Zuckerberg is adamant — even upbeat — about the social network continuing to look for other ways to provide se … | Continue reading
Apple may not have the public's support in its legal fight with the FBI, according to a recently published Pew report. In a survey that reached 1000 respondents by phone over the weekend, Pew researchers found 51 percent of respondents believed Apple should comply with FBI demand … | Continue reading
The latest instalment of Star Wars has already started filming in Pinewood Studios in the UK and is due to relocate to Croatia next month, where it will be shooting on-location in a busy tourist area. In order to protect the secrets of Star Wars Episode VIII, studio bosses have r … | Continue reading
Bonsai, part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a company that has created a tool designed to guide freelancers through contract creation and invoicing. The two-person company bills itself as a system that takes care of contract creation, invoicing and payment processing for … | Continue reading
MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito looks at the current state of bitcoin and the blockchain, calling for unity amid an uncertain time for the industry. | Continue reading
The number of teenage girls with HPV infections has dropped by nearly two-thirds since the introduction of a vaccine in 2006, according to a new study. The drop occurred even though immunization is what the CDC calls "unacceptably low." Today’s results suggest the vaccine has had … | Continue reading
At MWC this year, new companies are jockeying for the 2-in-1 market space -- and that's the only part of the PC industry seeing any positive growth. Could Huawei challenge both Apple and Microsoft for market dominance? | Continue reading
Earlier this year at CES we were introduced to Remix OS — an Android variant from Jide that turns Google's mobile operating system into a desktop OS. Remix takes basic Android and adds all the elements you'd expect on a PC or Mac: there's support for mice and keyboards, a windowe … | Continue reading
Tired of the establishment blockchain calling the shots? Looking for new blood that will make the blockchain great again? Fear not! Donald Trump will make the blockchain great again. Take it from Trumpchain. It takes a U.S. election to bring out the easy answers to our serious … | Continue reading
Google today announced that its Cloud Dataproc service — a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop and Spark open-source big data software — is now generally available. The service — which supports the MapReduce engine, the Pig platform for writing programs, and the Hive data ware … | Continue reading
If you’re a Snapchat user, then you know the serendipitous feeling of travelling somewhere or attending an event and discovering new Geofilters – overlays for your snaps that can only be shared from that specific part of the world. Now Snapchat is letting anyone pay to create On- … | Continue reading
The image is delightfully and disturbingly apt: Mark Zuckerberg confidently striding alongside a crowd of seated people all wearing virtual reality headsets, his smile indicating how pleased he is to be so close to so many people experiencing VR.SEE ALSO: Mark Zuckerberg gives Sa … | Continue reading
For the last six days, Apple has been waging the legal fight of its life over a phone used by alleged San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook. The case centers on whether the government can compel Apple to rewrite the phone’s security protections to allow the FBI access to the data i … | Continue reading
Twitch shouldn’t be, well, twitching just yet, but another site wants a piece of that streaming pie. DingIt, a global streaming site specializing in esports, noted today that it has an average of 20 million monthly viewers a year after its launch. Of course, it has a ways to go i … | Continue reading
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The HTC Vive Virtual Reality kit's consumer edition has been priced at $800.That's roughly £565, but no UK pricing has been announced and these things rarely come down to a straight currency conversion. We'll update when the price in pounds is confirmed.$800 may sound like a lot … | Continue reading
Twitter has brought on Natalie Kerris, the former Apple PR exec who helped launch products from the iPod to the Apple Watch, as its new vice president of global communications. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted out the news this morning, following speculation that Kerris was in the … | Continue reading
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today announced that they are venturing up their exploration into the disruptive potential brought by the new technologies like blockchain, robo-advisors, and cyber security. IOSCO is an international body that coor … | Continue reading
It was approaching 10:00 pm on a Wednesday, but dozens of people were crowded around several long wooden tables in the center of a cluttered workshop in Chelsea. Some stared intently at lines of code, others hunched over a soldering iron or sewing machine. One evening a month, th … | Continue reading
The problem with gaming headsets is that you're often trading quality for convenience. And the expensive gaming headsets don't often mean that you're getting a better product if you care about sound quality. Many premium brands focus on style and branding and the sound quality su … | Continue reading
What better place to become the next Google Fiber partner than Rocket City, a.k.a. Huntsville, Alabama, so called because of its links to the space exploration sector and its high concentration of engineers. Google is already working with 20 different areas in the US to deliver F … | Continue reading
Google today announced Google Fiber is coming to Huntsville, making it the first city in Alabama to get the $70 per-month service. Mayor Tommy Battle shared the news this morning that Google will be playing a part in helping Huntsville Utilities build its fiber network. To be cle … | Continue reading
London, February 22, 2016. UK Bitcoin service provider SpectroCoin.com last month introduced multi-currency wallets for its clients, so now they can choose among of a number of currencies such as EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, CZK, PLN, NOK to name but a few as their base currency in Spectr … | Continue reading
Rihanna released the music video for her Drake-featuring single "Work" this afternoon, and the clip's one-two visual punch could give the song the boost it needs to climb to the top of the pop charts around the world. It was filmed across North America — Rihanna and Drake were sp … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: New tech trends have transformed the business of lending. Join our panel of pros as we reveal essential technologies and processes that can vastly improve your profitability. Register here for free. An entrepreneur who’s been in business for a couple of years can go t … | Continue reading
The Zuckerberg photo — you know the one — is so loaded with existential dread and techno-anxiety that my good friend and colleague Rich McCormick penned an entire item on why we can't look away from it. The businessmen in button-ups unknowingly being passed by a billionaire in a … | Continue reading
Snapchat is introducing yet another revenue stream today in the form of on-demand geo-filters. As it stands now, Snapchat already has two types of geofilters. Community Geofilters can not include logos or marketing and can be submitted for free. For example, where I live in Brook … | Continue reading