Man arrested following several attacks on Google offices

A car was burned and shots were fired at a Google building in Mountain View, allegedly by a man who felt "Google was watching him and that made him upset," according to a police affidavit discovered by the Mercury News.The attacks are believed to be part of a series of incidents … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Uber Argentina Enlists Bitcoin Partner in Fight to Continue Service

The Argentinian subsidiary of ridesharing giant Uber is turning to a bitcoin payment option amid a crackdown by local authorities. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

Cyber security startup Darktrace intercepts $64M in fresh funding at a valuation of over $400M

Darktrace, the U.K. cyber security startup whose backers include Autonomy founder Mike Lynch’s Invoke Capital, has closed $64 million in fresh funding.The new round was led by global investment firm KKR, with participation from existing investor Summit Partners, and new investors … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

DJI will now help drone pilots avoid forest fires, popes, and nuclear power plants

There are lots of places where drone pilots are not supposed to fly: over sports stadiums, near airports, or anywhere in Washington, DC. DJI, the world's largest consumer drone company, has had a technology in place for a few years now that is meant to prevent pilots from flying … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

H-1B Woes? Consider the TN Visa, Experts Say

The TN visa category is a useful tool for recruiting skilled professionals—especially when the H-1B option dries up—provided they are citizens of Canada or Mexico. | Continue reading


@shrm | 8 years ago

Talent Pros Review LinkedIn’s Recruiter Upgrade

LinkedIn’s newly enhanced sourcing tool and advanced search engine is mostly a hit with recruiters, while others continue to have reservations over its cost and necessity. | Continue reading


@shrm | 8 years ago

Watch the real Stephen Colbert tell a beautiful love story

Much has been made of Stephen Colbert’s still infant run on The Late Show. In the past couple months, the show has lost longtime producer Meredith Bennet, added showrunner Chris Licht from news program CBS This Morning, faced critical questions about the popularity of The Late La … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

The iPhone 7 may start at 32GB storage, but it’ll (still) cost you

The next iPhone (we’re just calling it the iPhone 7 because who knows what it’s really named) may come with a 32GB base storage option, according to the latest rumor. It may not sound like much, but it’s actually a pretty big deal. Bye bye 16GB The Wall Street Journal — citing so … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

That's not the Batmobile. It's Ferrari's new, already-sold-out convertible.

Well, I'd wager today just became the unofficial day of the hypercars. First Aston Martin revealed its new hypercar, now Ferrari has pulled the covers — and the roof — off its newest hypercar.SEE ALSO: Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing's hypercar looks extraterrestrialNow, if the … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Kingdom Warriors is a 3D cross-platform mobile MMORPG with RTS elements

If you like MMORPGs, we've got some good news. If you also enjoy real-time strategy, then we've got some even better news: Kingdom Warriors is kind of both. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

FBI recommends no charges for Hillary Clinton over use of personal email servers

While noting that Hillary Clinton and her staff were “extremely careless” in using a series of personal e-mail servers during her time as Secretary of State, the FBI recommended the Department of Justice bring no formal charges against the presumptive Democratic nominee, FBI Dire … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Sophisticated Home in Sao Paulo by Grade

GRADE completed a sophisticated home in Sao Paulo for a distinguished global jet-setter seeking a cosmopolitan refuge that differed... | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Host Restaurant – Rustic Scandinavian Interior by Norm Architects

Höst Restaurant is located at the corner of the streets Nørre Farimagsgade and Ahlefeldtsgade. By Norm Architects and Danish designers Menu | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

El Mirador House by CC Arquitectos / Mexico

Designed by CC Arquitectos, the 459-square-metre residence named El Mirador House is located on the 95-h El Eterno estate in Valle de Bravo | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Skyline Loft by Sergey Makhno Architects / Kiev

In Skyline Loft, we made a stylized version of the loft – one-bedroom apartment for a bachelor (or a single woman?). No matter. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

New transmission

What’s the first car you remember wanting? Was it a reasonably priced mid-sized sedan with ample leg room for passengers in the back? Was it a small, well-equipped compact SUV with room for all the kids’ bags and all-wheel drive for better control in adverse conditions? Was it ev … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Twitter adds former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor to its board

Twitter announced today that Bret Taylor is joining its board of directors. Taylor is best-known as one of the founders of social networking startup FriendFeed — and then as the chief technology officer of Facebook, which acquired FriendFeed in 2009. After departing Facebook thre … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

European Union Adopts Tighter Bitcoin Controls Amid Terrorism Crackdown

The executive branch of the European Union today adopted new AML rules that will impact digital currency businesses. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

Hyperloop One says it can connect Helsinki to Stockholm in under 30 minutes

Many questions swirl around the Hyperloop: how much will it cost? Where will it be built? How fast will it travel? Really, that fast? Who will be the first to ride it? Will their bodies turn into paste or goo? What’s the difference?Now, Hyperloop One, one of the LA-based startups … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

The 16GB iPhone may finally be going away soon

The days of 16GB iPhones are nearly over. Our friend Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple's next flagship iPhone — the iPhone 7 or whatever it's eventually called — will start out at 32GB of storage; there won't be any 16GB option offered. If true, the … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Death by dumb selfies is a new epidemic

Last week, a German tourist fell to his death after posing for a jumping photo at a restricted area of Machu Picchu ruins in Peru. Just a day prior, another tourist also died from attempting a self-portrait atop the Gocta waterfall in same country. Selfies may not be an official … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Metal-tastic RPG 'Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast' Launches Worldwide

Back in January Roadhouse Games announced a new mobile RPG based on the legendary band Iron Maiden. While that sounded like an odd combination, the game actually made a lot of sense as it let you play as a team of various types of Eddies, the bands longtime undead mascot, and pla … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Bose’s QuietComfort headphones go wireless without missing a beat

Bose took its damn time. It’s not always the wisest policy in this fast-moving world of consumer electronics, but as countless competitors pushed past to bring wireless noise cancelling headphones to market, the audio company whose name has long been synonymous with active noise … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

LzLabs launches product to move mainframe COBOL code to Linux cloud

Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.This is a programming language, mind you, that was developed in the late 1950s, a … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Suiteness wants you to stay in suites instead of regular hotel rooms

Suites are a weird thing within the hotel industry. While there are hundreds of thousands of suites around the world, most are only occupied about 20 percent of the time and sit empty the rest of the year. Plus, the nicest ones aren’t listed or even available to book on hotel’s w … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Instead of Rating Performance with Numbers, How About Adjectives?

As big-name companies reconsider the traditional employee evaluation, at least two Wall Street investment giants are scrapping numeric rankings in favor of adjectives. | Continue reading


@shrm | 8 years ago

The worth of your professional profile, network and personal data

Tim Berners-Lee created the web in 1989. Twenty-seven years later, he’s asking for a reinvention. The web has made life easier, but it has also introduced challenges and ethical questions pertaining to personal data, access to information and privacy. Berners-Lee laments that the … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

China invests in the hunt for aliens with world’s largest radio telescope

The last of 4,450 triangular panels was installed to complete the world’s largest single-aperture radio telescope, located in China’s Guizhou Province. A monument of China’s dedication to the field of astronomy, the telescope will be used to study pulsars and search for alien lif … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Netflix signs deal to exclusively stream CW shows eight days after season finale

Netflix today reached an exclusive multi-year agreement with the CW to stream all past seasons of the network's shows online in the US. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company has the streaming rights to hit series like The Flash and The Vampire Diaries, and starting wit … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Spotify > YouTube as audio streaming surpasses music videos

Audio didn’t quite kill the video star, but it’s making a comeback. For the first time, Americans are now on-demand streaming more songs as audio than they’re consuming through music videos. The shift highlights the importance of music in the battle for mobile profits, plus it co … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

First Time Dealing with Immigration? Seek Legal Help

HR practitioners new to immigration matters must first understand the two main types of visas—employment and business-based—and the processes involved in securing both. | Continue reading


@shrm | 8 years ago

Samsung’s S Health fitness app update aims to make fitness fun and competitive

S Health was already a fairly robust fitness tracker, but the latest update adds competitive step tracking, better organization, and more. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

This graphics card is powerful, and cute

Even as computers and devices have trended toward miniaturization over the years, desktop graphics cards have only seemed to get increasingly monstrous. And that's why this new GTX 1070 from Gigabyte is so refreshing — it's one of the best new graphics cards on the market, and al … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Interstate Hotels & Resorts erweitert globales Portfolio um drei neue Hotels

Interstate Hotels & Resorts: Arlington, Virginia (ots/PRNewswire) - Interstate geht strategische Allianz mit Odyssey Hotel Group ein und dehnt globale Präsenz auf die Niederlande und Deutschland aus Interstate Hotels & Resorts (http://www.interstatehotels.com/), das führende ... | Continue reading


@presseportal.de | 8 years ago

The drop-top LaFerrari is magnificent, stupid fast, and sold out

The convertible version of Ferrari’s incredible LaFerrari supercar is finally here. Well, three pictures of it, anyway. There’s a lot we don’t know about the car including the price, the name, the technical characteristics, how many will be sold, or when it will be available.We d … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

First international Botathon picks up steam: Apply by Friday, July 8!

VB EVENT: We’re delighted to announce that the international Botathon VentureBeat has organized with a group of regional partners is off to an excellent start. We’ve already received well over 100 solid applications from participants after our first post, and we expect to generat … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Man spends £40k making gigantic "Megaprocessor", plays Tetris on it

Electronics engineer James Newman spent £40k building a gigantic computer capable of such advanced technology as playing Tetris.The half-tonne (roughly 500kg) beast is 33ft (10m) wide and 6ft (2m) high and it's equipped with 40k transistors and 10k LED lights. It also burns 500 w … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Finally, hamsters can follow their artistic dreams with this drawing machine

Great art has the capacity to transport viewers across the emotional spectrum. It can be revitalizing, devastating, beautiful, and terrifying. It can also be made by a hamster. The Hamster Powered Hamster Drawing Machine by Neil Mendoza is one such artistic rarity. Mendoza, whose … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Video Marketing Strategies for the Olympics: Thinking Beyond Sports [Video]

The 2016 Olympics are just around the corner, and that means billions of people around the world will be watching it. To stand out from the competition, it’s vital to take advantage of digital media. In the As of April 2016, sports content on YouTube was... | Continue reading


@alltop | 8 years ago

2016 explained in one map

According to St. Louis news outlet KMOV, city fire crews were called last night for 23 fires in dumpsters across the city. While the area is no stranger to flaming piles of garbage, it's apparently unclear whether these fires were set intentionally or not. But whatever the cause, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

A turtle-specific herpes outbreak in the Great Barrier Reef might be linked to pollution

A growing number of sea turtles in Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been infected with a specific strain of herpes virus, and pollution might be the cause, New Scientist reports. Researchers at James Cook University in Australia have found the outbreak is most common in a smal … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Red Dead Redemption will be backwards compatible on Xbox One beginning Friday

Red Dead Redemption, the open-world western from the publisher of Grand Theft Auto, will become backwards compatible on Xbox One on Friday, July 8th. The game was originally published on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2010.Backwards compatible is game industry jargon for allowing … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

At W3C Event, Industry Seeks to Weave Blockchains into New Web

A recent W3C event saw the wider blockchain community coming together to discuss standards in an increasingly fragmented market. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

A security developer wrote such a scathing Amazon review that the product disappeared

Matthew Garrett is a security developer at CoreOS who also buys Internet of Things devices on Amazon and writes security reviews about them. Among his purchased and reviewed gadgets are seven smart bulbs and the AuYou Wi-Fi Switch, which lets users remotely turn their home socket … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Rockstar’s beloved Red Dead Redemption gets Xbox One backward compatibility

Saddle up, Xbox One owners. Rockstar Games revealed today that Red Dead Redemption, the open world cowboy game that originally came out for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010, will become available via the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility service on July 8. Red Read Redemption … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

New Zika study will use Olympic athletes as test subjects

The National Institutes of Health is funding a new study of the Zika virus that will observe exposure among Olympic athletes, coaches, and other Olympic Committee staff in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The study "aims to improve understanding … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Huawei P9 promotional image lands company in hot water

In trying to promote its new P9 smartphone, Huawei made it seem like a promotional image (above) was shot with the device. It wasn’t. A main draw with the P9 is a dual-camera system, which is where Huawei got itself into a pickle. In posting an image to Google+, Huawei’s caption … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

'Monster Hunter Freedom Unite' Review - Good-bye Free Time, Hello Wildlife Slaughter

Editor's Note: This game was recently updated to be playable again after being broken for ages. It's an incredible port from an amazing game franchise, so we're bumping the review up to the top of TA in case anyone missed it the first time around! Anyway, here's Shaun's original … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago