Überraschend früh hat Apple den öffentlichen Beta-Test für iOS 10 und macOS Sierra gestartet. Zwar war der für den Juli angekündigt, die zweite Beta-Version (nur für registrierte Entwickler verfügbar) ist jedoch... | Continue reading
Nextbit hopped on Periscope and Facebook Live a few minutes ago to announce the beta of its web interface for photo backups. That's a cool new feature, but perhaps the most interesting part of the broadcasts was hidden in the background: Continue reading… | Continue reading
The end has come for Vyclone, an app that combines videos shot by different participants at the same event. With a message on its website – and a rather melodramatic introduction – the company announced today “with a heavy heart” that the Vyclone app will be switched off on July … | Continue reading
[appicon]If you're an Android user who's been looking for a meaty Action-RPG to spend hours on, look no further as Titan Quest has just released on Android after spending a couple of months on the iOS side of the gaming world. Titan Quest is the port of the classic PC game from b … | Continue reading
Y Combinator announced today that it has made a change in how investors can meet with startups participating in its program. In an email sent out to investors, chief operating officer Qasar Younis shared that there will be an “Investor Day” that gives venture capitalists more fac … | Continue reading
Not even the most hipster millennial can bring back the cassette player. This pre-iPod technology made music portable and played both tapes and radio. In this week's episode of Throwback Tech, we take you back to a retro classic, the original mixtape.Check back each Thursday as w … | Continue reading
Star Trek and American Horror Story actor Zachary Quinto is planning to executive produce and star in a TV series about biohackers. Deadline reports that the hour-long drama Biopunk will be based on a 2011 book of the same name by journalist Marcus Wohlsen, chronicling the work o … | Continue reading
The Tiny1 is a camera from TinyMOS billing itself as the "world’s smallest astronomy camera". It uses a proprietary noise-reduction algorithm the company says will allow for improved image quality in low-light environments, and an augmented reality star map that can be overlaid o … | Continue reading
PR measurement experts call AMEC’s new Integrated Evaluation Framework the hottest thing in measurement — a new tool that may raise PR to a new level of respect. They also point out its limitations. The framework, an interactive version of the original framework, uses digital te … | Continue reading
Maybe it’s just FOMO, but it every internet company wants to be in the car business these days, and Japan’s DeNA is no exception. The app maker’s automotive wing had a special event in Tokyo today (via Reuters) to reveal its first self-driving vehicle, a 12-person bus which will … | Continue reading
Facebook is being investigated by US tax authorities over whether the company has possibly undervalued its asset transfers to its Irish subsidiary by billions of dollars. Law.com first reported the news of the investigation.The investigation is part of an examination of Facebook' … | Continue reading
Fans of Warhammer and strategy games, rejoice. Battlefleet Gothic: Leviathan [$5.99], the turn-based strategy game based on the Battlefleet Gothic tabletop miniatures game, is out now. I've been looking for a good strategy game to play, and I think this one fits the bill just fin … | Continue reading
The killing of Alton Sterling at the hands of police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has sparked national outrage after a video showing the incident was posted online Tuesday night. That video was the result of an organized effort by local activists, who use smartphones to monitor and … | Continue reading
I'm a thirty-something father of two, so even though I signed up for Snapchat a few years back, I didn't spend much time using the app. I struggled to understand it, didn't see many friends engaging with what I posted there, and more or less resigned myself to the fact that I was … | Continue reading
Researchers just figured out how to squeeze 200 MB of data onto some strands of DNA.That's right, the same stuff that's inside all of us, the blueprints for our eye color, ear shape, height and more — all that makes you, you — also happens to be a pretty decent medium for storing … | Continue reading
A few years ago, Microsoft launched Bing Predicts, a project that aims to correctly predict sporting events and elections by combining lots of data with machine learning algorithms. Until now, though, there wasn’t really a product that made Bing Predicts available to users. Toda … | Continue reading
More than 340 light years away, a giant planet is trapped in a dance with three stars. It’s a unique world, where suns rise and set three times a day, and where one year lasts more than half a millennium. It’s so bizarre that the existence of such a place was thought to be imposs … | Continue reading
A team of scientists have developed a robot that mimics the motion of a stingray by using the cardiac muscles from a rat mounted on a stingray-shaped skeleton. The robot, detailed in a study published in the journal Science, is a wonderfully weird hybrid of biological and mechani … | Continue reading
New projectsAdvances in nanomaterials hold the promise of new, better, more competitive products. The EU-funded 2DInterFOX project is seeking new insights into their behaviour - the results could help manufacturers develop new electronic and energy-related products, potentially b … | Continue reading
AchievementsA chance conversation with a marine archaeologist friend led to Charalambos Poullis joining a dive in Cyprus. The experience revealed the difficulties faced by underwater archaeologists, and set in motion a thought process that would lead him to apply for EU research … | Continue reading
AchievementsThe AircraftFire project is helping aircraft manufacturers and regulators better plan for and prevent fires with new aircraft designs that use composite materials. The data and integrated tool for predicting the consequences of an on-board fire are already available t … | Continue reading
Barclays launched three contactless payment options for its bPay mobile payments system last year, including a NFC sticker, a wristband, and a key fob. It later eventually caved and started supporting Apple Pay nine months after it launched in the UK. It’s not done with its bPay, … | Continue reading
Arbitrage has never been simple. At first glance, it seems like a simple task—buy on one exchange, sell on another—but fees prevent the gap from completely closing, and delays in the deposit/withdrawal process can lead to losses in changing market conditions. Traditionally, trade … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. This is one of the last builds ahead of the free Windows 10 Anniversary Update, currently scheduled for release on August 2. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still build … | Continue reading
AchievementsLong journey? Electric car? Will you reach your destination before you run out of juice? Or will you have to recharge somewhere along the way? Range anxiety is one of the main bottlenecks slowing the advance of electromobility, but solutions are being found. On-road c … | Continue reading
Google is working on safeguarding Chrome against the potential threat of quantum computers, the company announced today. It's doing so by implementing post-quantum cryptography in an experimental version of the browser, the company announced today. While there exist hardware defe … | Continue reading
Destiny's seasonal gauntlet Moments of Triumph has entered its second season, offering player goodies for completing various challenges between now and 20th September.The new challenges are currently available from the Postmaster and for every two new tasks you complete, a new re … | Continue reading
AchievementsFrom UN peacekeeping operations to managing crowds at the World Cup, the G-NEXT project has demonstrated how the EU's Earth observation programme can assist in emergency and crisis situations around the world.Date: 07/07/2016 - 19:36The Earth observation programme, kn … | Continue reading
Coinbase has reportedly raised more than $10m from Japan's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. | Continue reading
The mobile phone has transformed quite a bit in the last ten years, but the heart of it — the address book — hasn’t changed much. Drupe, with brand new funding, is looking to accelerate the evolution of the Phone Book. The company today announced $3 million in new funding from Ca … | Continue reading
It’s 9:15 a.m., and as I was sitting down to write this post, my iPhone buzzed. I looked, and a Pidgey sat on my keyboard. I just had to catch it — making me even later for work than I already was. After dropping my kid off at summer camp, I usually dive into my workday around [… … | Continue reading
In late February, Alike Studio and Pat.io released their charming point-and-click adventure Love You To Bits [$3.99] in the App Store. In it you play as Kosmo, a rookie space explorer who must scour the galaxy looking for all the parts of his robot girlfriend Nova, who was, unfor … | Continue reading
Asus has released a new all-metal convertible ultrabook called the ZenBook Flip UX360. The 13.9 mm thick laptop weighs in at 2.9lbs and employs a fanless design, which likely contributes to its stated 12 hours of battery life. Here are some more specs:13.3-inch Full HD touchscree … | Continue reading
It’s here. The first public beta of iOS 10 is now available to download. You can download it, even your neighbor can download it. And the good news is that you won’t have to pay $99 a year for a developer account. But remember, this is a beta.If you can’t wait to see iOS 10 in ac … | Continue reading
Bitfury just announced a white paper, in collaboration with Olaoluwa Osuntokun and others from the Lightning Network team, proposing a new algorithmic solution to Lightning Network’s routing problem. A hybrid routing algorithm is proposed which, according to a press release, ensu … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it has begun to deploy a new type of cryptography in its Chrome Canary browser that’s designed to prevent decryption attacks by quantum computers. Unlike classical computers that deal in bits, quantum computers work with quantum bits, or qubits, each o … | Continue reading
AchievementsOne spacecraft, five years or more, and over a billion stars - ESA's Gaia mission set out in 2013 to produce a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. It will discover many new celestial objects in the process and provide astronomers with clues as to how our galaxy fo … | Continue reading
There’s nothing worse than having something you love turn his back on you. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens with all toys at some point. When the batteries on them run low, they become something completely different. I’m not going to bother you with the technicalities b … | Continue reading
Does your Facebook stream seem to mostly be reflecting your own opinions back to you from your friends? If so, you’ve seen the Echo Chamber in action. If you’re using Zolt as your news app, with an easy click its newest feature enables you to block Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, … | Continue reading
What’s a poor beleaguered brand like Yahoo to do? Use its smart engineers to jump on the hottest trend, of course. Today the company is launching a bot that simulates a pet monkey for Facebook Messenger. Oh, and a few slightly more useful bots, too, like ones that will tell you a … | Continue reading
London-based blockchain and fintech startup GovCoin Systems Ltd., has been chosen by the UK Department for Work and Pensions to trial a new blockchain-based trial for welfare payments. | Continue reading
Software development firm Infoteria has revealed it is working with Myanmar microfinance firm BC Finance to streamline its financial transactions using blockchain technology. The Japan-based company conducted the tests on BC’s computer system to see if a low-cost alternative to t … | Continue reading
AchievementsCoal-based power stations and industrial facilities are largely powered by harmful fossil fuels. If we replaced fossil fuels with solid biofuels, Europe would dramatically reduce its CO2 emissions. The EU-funded SECTOR project has optimised the production of new solid … | Continue reading
We've been following Bomboras Forever ever since it got posted to our forums. So far, it seems like if you took the classic Atari game Defender and added some incredibly stylish graphics along with other modern conventions. Take a look at the latest video, which shows a bunch mor … | Continue reading
Lyft is launching a luxury ride service called Lyft Premier to compete with Uber Black.Though Uber is the 800-pound gorilla in the ride-sharing world, Lyft is no slouch either. And Uber’s most luxurious offering is the original Uber Black car service. For years, Lyft hasn’t had a … | Continue reading
AchievementsNew technologies are progressively changing the face of airport and border security. To contribute to this development, the EU-funded SNIFFER project took a page out of nature's book, using biomimicry to make detecting and analysing odours of persons, illegal substanc … | Continue reading
I grew up with only one fear: the fear of getting a haircut. For many years I was a shy child that didn't like to talk to people, including my barber. I just let her do what she did last time, too timid to chime in about what I didn't like. I'm talking about the bowl cut! All the … | Continue reading
I love my Amazon Echo. And alongside checking the weather, I mostly use the voice-powered smart speaker to play music. That said, I’m not much of an Amazon Prime music user. I don’t know anyone who really is. And still, the device has defaulted to Amazon Prime Music with every si … | Continue reading