Uber, facing a backlash from riders and drivers over its carpooling service, is now guaranteeing arrival times for its Los Angeles customers — or $2 off their next UberPool trip. If the experiment works in LA, Uber says it expects to roll it out in additional markets.Uber says th … | Continue reading
I love coding. I love Lego. I think we should teach kids how to code, if they want to learn. I think the only thing you should ever buy for your children is food and Lego. But I don't know about granting "Lego" status to this Osmo Coding experience for children.Osmo has been arou … | Continue reading
CLEVELAND — Kevin Love‘s status for Game 3 of the NBA Finals remains undetermined, according to Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue. “[Love] flew back with the team, feeling better, but right now he’s just in the concussion protocol,” said Lue after practice today. “We’ll know m … | Continue reading
New purported details have been published about Samsung’s alleged initiative to release a mobile device or devices with bendable or rollable screens. According to insiders who spoke with Bloomberg, the company may launch as many as two of these so-called “Project Valley” handsets … | Continue reading
E3 2016 will likely be a victory lap for Sony. As of last month, the video game console maker had sold over 40 million PlayStation 4s. Analysts estimate the consoles outsells its competitor, Microsoft's Xbox One, by two-to-one. Sony has dominated with few big-name exclusives — th … | Continue reading
Twitter today announced that it has updated its Android app with a new look and feel. Now the app accords with the principles of Google’s Material design — there is a floating circular button in the bottom right corner that lets you tweet, and there is a new drawer that lets you … | Continue reading
I present an incomplete list of roles for which Meryl Streep received an Oscar nomination: a witch, a deranged mother, a beloved chef, a malicious magazine editor, an intense nun, and a Danish baroness. Meryl Streep can play any role, and do so with a level of commitment that wou … | Continue reading
Microsoft is taking on Adobe Spark Post and startups like Canva with its new app Sprightly, available today on iOS. Similar to its competitors, the app promises an easy way for smaller businesses to quickly create and design content like fliers, coupons, catalogs, price lists, e- … | Continue reading
Twitter is rolling out a completely revamped Android app – finally adopting Material Design – and it finally looks like an app that belongs in the year 2016. For reference, here’s what the old design looks like: And here’s the new one: The Google-approved aesthetic makes for a fe … | Continue reading
Der Blizzard-FPS Overwatch ist ohne Frage das Game der Stunde. Selbst Elon Musk ist großer Fan des Spiels. So verkündete er zumindest kürzlich via Twitter. Dieses Video macht den interessanten Sprachvergleich auf: Wie klingt das Game... | Continue reading
Twitter for Android is getting a much better, much easier-to-use design. The new look was announced today, though you may have caught sight of it a couple months ago, as it's been in testing among Twitter beta users.The redesign makes it much easier to move between the different … | Continue reading
Things have been heating up over the last few months in the world of Clash of Clans [Free] when it comes to Supercell's commitment to getting rid of cheaters running the various hacks and mods out there. Long story short, people running these various third party utilities were gi … | Continue reading
Hardly anyone ever expected to use the terms Federal Reserve and Bitcoin in the same sentence in a positive manner. As it turns out, the Fed has been quite open to Bitcoin and blockchain as of late, but there is still a lot of work to be done. On the first of June 2016, there … C … | Continue reading
Not sure if you should set up your new inbound blog as a subdomain or subfolder? Here are some things to keep in mind. | Continue reading
We live in a data-driven world. The big data era, right? And as such, Intel just debuted its Xeon processor E7 v4 family, which it says comes with the world's largest memory capacity per socket (3TB) and is better at handling real-time analytics. Intel also says the new processor … | Continue reading
Today, Google was granted a design patent for the door on its self-driving car, first filed in January 2015. The patent shows seven angles of the unusually shaped door, which has become one of the central design features of Google's first self-designed vehicle. … | Continue reading
NBA great Earvin "Magic" Johnson will work with South Carolina State University to raise $2.5 million for scholarships that bear his name. | Continue reading
Uber debuted a new feature today in Los Angeles called “Arrive By,” which allows riders of its lower-cost carpooling service, UberPool, to specify exactly when they have to arrive at their destination. The feature serves as a guarantee for riders — if your UberPool takes too long … | Continue reading
Get ready for more DC superheroes to battle each other. The existence of Injustice 2 has leaked out ahead of the game's release thanks to some GameStop incompetence. Polygon got a tip of the game's existence due to some preorder posters for the game getting sent to stores, and an … | Continue reading
Y Combinator announced plans for a pilot program that would provide $2,000 monthly to (up to) 100 residents of Oakland to see what life might look like after our Roomba’s and laundry-folding robots rise up and take our jobs. The accelerator hired a researcher to lead the project, … | Continue reading
AMP, which is essentially Google’s answer to Facebook’s fast-loading Instant Pages, first launched on Google’s mobile search results pages but it’s now being integrated into a wider number of products. As AMP reaches a wider audience, publishers are obviously also interested in b … | Continue reading
The HTC Vive virtual reality headset is now shipping in 24 countries, with delivery in about two or three business days. It’s also available for a demo (and purchase) in select retail locations such as Microsoft Stores, GameStop, and Micro Center locations. HTC is working with th … | Continue reading
Those who pledge £100 or more to the Fable Fortune Kickstarter can play an early version of the game from tomorrow.Developer Flying Fowl will make the alpha build available to Hero tier or above backers via Steam code.The Fable Fortune Kickstarter launched at the end of May with … | Continue reading
For many years, Nilay has likened the venerable Toyota Prius to "a shoe." (He says it with a hint of anger, too, which is what really sells it.) I liked the Prius quite a bit before he made that comment — I liked it a lot, actually! — but ever since, I've been unable to stop myse … | Continue reading
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Episode number five is alive, folks. Are you excited? You should be. This week we bring you Mayur Gupta, who is widely known as the first official “marketing technologist” to be hired by a Fortune 500 company. He’s knowledgeable, sports a great beard, and has a brain full of mart … | Continue reading
If you’re signing for a Uber’s carpool service instead of the standard UberX taxi, chances are you’re not in the biggest hurry. Still, it’s reasonable that even if you want to save some bucks, you don’t want to take too long to arrive at your destination, so now Uber is guarantee … | Continue reading
Kevin Love was not with his Cleveland teammates when they took the floor for practice Tuesday morning in advance of Game 3 of the NBA Finals against Golden State. | Continue reading
For those of you looking to migrate or update your website we show you how to change domain name without harming SEO. | Continue reading
For Mr. Robot fans, there’s a lot to love (and to look at) at Chelsea boutique Story’s latest concept. Created in partnership with the USA hacker series, "Disrupt" is tricked out with various arcade games similar to those seen in FSociety’s Coney Island lair and features a hackab … | Continue reading
Mozilla today launched Firefox 47 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The browser has gained a sidebar for synced tabs from other devices, improvements to YouTube playback and HTML5 support, and the end of support for Android Gingerbread. Firefox 47 for the desktop is available … | Continue reading
Yesterday evening, former president and Arkansan Bill Clinton took over the Snapchat account of his wife (and presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton, before the California primary. For the most part, it's pretty standard campaign stuff: stump speeches, photo ops, and smiling bab … | Continue reading
Last week during Memorial Day in the United States, while many of us were out celebrating the unofficial start of of summer, the NBC Los Angeles crew were hot in pursuit of a car chase. Only problem? After following a suspicious Kia for a while, the helicopter began focusing on a … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco Entertainment America has teamed up with Harebrained Schemes to publish Necropolis, a dungeon-crawling game that shares something in common with Bandai Namco’s popular Dark Souls series. In both, it’s very hard to stay alive. We got a hands-on demo of the game recent … | Continue reading
Orangepixel's Heroes of Loot 2 [$3.99] was surprisingly announced to release this week, what with the busy times over the summer with various big releases and sales sure to hit. The game got approved for sale quickly enough that a June 9th relase was planned. However, Orangepixel … | Continue reading
Harebrained Schemes has teamed up with Bandai Namco Entertainment America to publish dungeon-crawler Necropolis this summer. It’s a minimalist game with a breezy tone, but it is astonishingly difficult to play because it has permadeath. If you die, you start over. We talked about … | Continue reading
When you’re a trio of superpowered kindergarteners tasked with saving the world on a weekly basis, you’ve got to use every tool in the old toybox. Thankfully for an animated world constantly in peril, this year’s rebooted Powerpuff Girls have picked up a few new tricks along the … | Continue reading
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft… and now, Yahoo.The onetime leader of all things Internet is just the latest large tech company to enter the bot and messaging fray. Today, Yahoo unveiled three bots for the Kik platform: @yahoonews; @yahooweather; and @MonkeyPets, a vir … | Continue reading
Snapchat combines the best of social networks, magazines, and television in a redesign of its omni-entertainment app. You’ll now see image and headline previews of the content inside Discover channels and Live stories on the Stories page, instead of just logos for the publishers … | Continue reading
Snapchat is redesigning the Stories page in an effort to boost views of publishers' content — and to help build the advertising business that is currently the company's primary revenue stream. The new design, which begins rolling out today, allows publishers to include an image a … | Continue reading
Edtech startup Preply, which has built an online marketplace for finding and booking private tutors for a range of subjects, has closed a $1.3 million seed round. It supports booking of both in-person lessons in a chosen location and also remote tutoring, via a video chat. Read M … | Continue reading
The partnership of AT&T and the Chernin Group, collectively known as Otter Media, is set to launch a video subscription service offering anime, gaming and sports content, according to a new reportSEE ALSO: Fullscreen announces rebrand, touts power of creator networkAs we reported … | Continue reading
For developers and publishers, organizing and embedding multiple Twitter timelines is often a calculated effort, but this morning the social network has added three new ways to make it easier. In this case, late is better than never. The first are factory functions, which allow y … | Continue reading
Tidal is the exclusive streaming home of Prince's discography, and the service is celebrating what would've been the late musical legend's 58th birthday by digging deep into his catalog and making over a dozen albums newly available. (They're not the only ones celebrating: Minnes … | Continue reading
Der Mitsubishi Outlander Plugin Hybrid ist ein zur Zeit beliebter SUV mit guten Verkaufszahlen. Die englische Firma Pen Test Partners hat sich den Wagen mal genauer angeschaut und herausgefunden, dass er mit wenigen Mitteln zu hacken ist. Problem is... | Continue reading
Jabra’s been making moves over the past several years in an attempt to shake up its image as solely an office headset manufacturer. Of course, the Copenhagen-based technology company is still very much in the business of producing devices for call centers and the like, but these … | Continue reading
In the market for a solid smartphone with tons of storage space? Look no further! The Nextbit Robin is currently on sale at Amazon for just $299. | Continue reading
Premium luxury sedans are all fabulous; who's on top when they all have great engineers? Often, it's whose car is newest. | Continue reading