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Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends report is here. Over the last 21 years, Meeker’s annual reports have become a major signal for the biggest trends in tech. This year Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, tackles slowing smartphone sales; the growing mobile ad i … | Continue reading
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When it was first announced that comedy trio The Lonely Island was producing a feature-length film, trepidation, maybe even dismay, would not have been an inappropriate reaction. You might think, sure, their three-minute videos are funny enough, but can Andy Samberg and Jorma Tac … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it’s bringing the Google Cast technology — for streaming media content from a smartphone or desktop computer onto another screen — to the Fiber TV service that’s available to subscribers of Google Fiber high-speed Internet. The feature is rolling out t … | Continue reading
At Recode’s Code Conference, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Alexa could be the “fourth pillar” of his company – the other three being its retail marketplace, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Web Services. Bezos also revealed that Amazon now has more than 1,000 employees working on artificial … | Continue reading
In the aftermath of Coinbase embracing Ethereum, experts weigh in on what it means for bitcoin and the digital currency's first-mover advantage. | Continue reading
The fastest way to learn everything going on in tech is to read this report. Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker has become a legend for publishing these compilations of the most critical stats and trends about how technology is evolving. From the funding climate to smartphone ad … | Continue reading
Segway doesn’t mention hoverboards in today’s official Ninebot by Segway MiniPro availability announcement. Of course, it’s easy to see why the company would be so quick to distance itself from the incredibly popular but extremely problematic product category. For one thing there … | Continue reading
Today Yahoo disclosed its receipt of three national security letters (FBI requests for data that Yahoo is normally barred from disclosing), and published redacted copies of the letters online. Yahoo says this disclosure “marks the first time any company has publicly acknowledged … | Continue reading
You probably received an email from LinkedIn recently about its massive security breach. Hackers obtained up to 117 million user names and passwords and listed them for sale on a dark website. The breach was connected to a 2012 hacking. LinkedIn admitted in 2012 that 6.5 million … | Continue reading
Auf der Computex, der größten Tech-Show in Asien wurden schon immer auch interessante Case-Mods für PCs präsentiert und auch dieses Jahr gibt es einige interessante Ausstellungsstücke, die unsere US-Kollegen vor Ort gesehe... | Continue reading
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Volkswagen is wasting no time after last week's news that it was plowing $300 million into Uber competitor Gett, announcing a series of initiatives today aimed at putting VW in the burgeoning post-car-ownership "mobility" business.Part of the announcement — the largest, and also … | Continue reading
Beginning today, Google is turning every single one of its Google Fiber cable boxes into Chromecasts. The company just announced that it'll be rolling out an update over the coming weeks that adds Google Cast — the underlying technology behind Chromecast — to the Fiber box. Once … | Continue reading
Most "wireless" chargers handle one device at a time and take a while to fill a battery to its full capacity. Energysquare, a French company, thinks people want to charge multiple devices at once and that they'll be willing to slap a sticker on their device to do so. The company' … | Continue reading
Losing your phone sucks, so last year, Google added the ability to locate your Android device by just typing in ‘Find my phone’ into Search. Now you can do the same on iOS. It’s also making the tool much more robust. You can log into Google’s My Account section, from where you … | Continue reading
After throwing its backing behind a simple app for comparing photos and experiences that’s geared toward a younger audience, Science is now betting that a simple way to compare videos is going to be one of the next big trends that will propel its app — Wishbone — to prominence. W … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: We’re headed toward a mobile-first universe that poses a mind-boggling array of challenges for marketers, app developers, and engineering teams alike. Mobile data traffic, for example, has grown 4,000X over the past 10 years and almost 400,000,000X over the past 15 year … | Continue reading
As the world keeps pushing for ever-thinner devices, the hardware industry keeps shrinking parts down beyond the minisculeSamsung announced on Tuesday it will be launching a 512GB solid-state drive measuring 0.78 x 0.63 x 0.06 inches (20 x 16 x 1.5 millimeters). That's about the … | Continue reading
Raise your hand if you know much about how alcohol distribution works in the United States. Fine, I can’t actually see how many of you have your hands up, but for those of you who don’t know: It’s apparently a pretty antiquated system, with three tiers — the businesses that produ … | Continue reading
When it initially launched in early 2015, Alto's Adventure [$3.99] by proved to be the antithesis to the adrenaline-pumping auto runner games such as Canabalt [$2.99] that were so prominent in the early years of the App Store. With an atmospheric backdrop and soothing piano music … | Continue reading
We are at Computex 2016 taking a look at some of the hottest tech gadgets around. Among them are Motorola's new Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus. | Continue reading
This week at the Computex Conference in Taipei, Asus introduced a proof-of-concept build called the ROG Avalon. It combines a motherboard and chassis into a single unit. Usually, if you're building your own gaming PC, you're buying these two components on their own and assembling … | Continue reading
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Zappar has built augmented reality and virtual reality tools that make it easy for people to create mobile AR and VR content. The ZapWorks tools are on display at the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. Zappar wants to lower the bar when it comes to the ability to create … | Continue reading
LifeBeam is launching a Kickstarter campaign for a personal trainer that is driven by artificial intelligence. Dubbed Vi, the assistant features AI embedded in your earphones and tells you what to do during your workout. If you are running behind your usual pace on a familiar run … | Continue reading
Microsoft today is starting to release its Office 365 Advanced Security Management tools to companies that subscribe to the Office 365 Enterprise E5 service tier. Companies paying for other Office 365 enterprise subscriptions can access the new tools for an addition $3 per user p … | Continue reading
Let’s face it. When it comes to creating email drip campaigns, marketing automation flows, and mapping out the customer journey, what starts as a simple flowchart can quickly turn into something more akin to Russell Crowe’s formula-emblazoned windows in “A Beautiful Mind.” Today, … | Continue reading
Social entertainment app Wishbone has added vertical video support as part of its efforts to appeal to teens. This update allows users to post up to 10-second side-by-side clips, which the company hopes will result in some “cool content” being created. In addition, Wishbone has m … | Continue reading
Imperson is launching the lead character from Disney’s Zootopia movie, Officer Judy Hopps, as a chatbot on Facebook Messenger. Starting today, fans can chat one-on-one with Judy in a crime-solving experience on Facebook’s messaging platform. Imperson is an alumnus of Disney’s own … | Continue reading
Mnectar created “playable ads,” and people are playing them. The company says it is constantly picking up new advertising customers, and players are clicking on more and more ads. The San Francisco company creates ads for mobile games that consumers can actually play if they tap … | Continue reading
Wearable technology company LifeBEAM has powered products for the Israeli air force and brands like Under Armour and Samsung. It’s now making its own product – wireless, artificially intelligent headphones. What does that mean, exactly? Co-founder Omri Yoffe says the new “hearabl … | Continue reading
See that image up there? It’s the photograph used for last week’s Dinner is Shipped feature. We heard from a number of Verge readers asking how it was created. Well, this is the story.I was assigned to follow Kaitlyn Tiffany home to photograph (and eat) her cooking from five diff … | Continue reading
Wie Intels Apollo-Lake-Prozessoren wird AMD seine Hochleistungs-CPU Zen (Codename Summit Ridge) Ende 2016 auf den Markt bringen. Zen hat 8 Kerne mit 16 Threats und soll 40 Prozent mehr Instructions per Cycle (IPC) bringen. Sein Zielmarkt sind Midra... | Continue reading
For years, tech companies have received demands from federal law enforcement for users’ data — and they’ve had to keep those demands a secret. Today, Yahoo is finally able to share three of the National Security Letters it has received from the FBI. The release of the three lette … | Continue reading
Google already lets Android users track their misplaced or stolen smartphones both through search and by using the standalone Android Device Manager app. Today, the company is adding yet another path to checking exactly where your precious device is on a map — and it even works w … | Continue reading
Drones are the new hotness in the gadget world and no one makes better drones than DJI. But while DJI's Phantom 4 is both super smart and easy to control, it's nowhere near as easy to carry around as the Dobby selfie drone.Created by Chinese drone maker ZeroTech, the Dobby is a s … | Continue reading
Hamberger Großmarkt GmbH: Berlin (ots) - Berlin hat sich zum Gastro-Hotspot Deutschlands gemausert und die experimentierfreudige Szene sorgt nicht nur für neue Genussexplosionen, sondern weiß sich mit sympathischen Aktionen ins rechte Licht zu rücken. Eine solche ist die ... | Continue reading
Vivendi’s hostile bid for the French mobile games maker Gameloft has won majority shareholder backing, which means the deal looks like being as good as done. Gameloft makes smash hit games like Order & Chaos and Dungeon Hunter. In February Gameloft rejected a takeover offer from … | Continue reading
No one knows Apple to its core better than Mark Gurman, a reporter who began producing scoops on the tech titan at the tender age of 15. The rest of the industry has gotten used to following Gurman's coverage of Apple, and taking his endless stories on the minutia of what is happ … | Continue reading
Jeff Bezos hinted that Amazon was willing to continue to sell the Chromecast and Apple TV, provided that Google and Apple agreed to bundle Amazon’s Prime Video service with it. | Continue reading
Finland’s Freska has acquired Norway’s Wipe, signalling its intent to lead the on-demand home cleaning space in the Nordics. Read More | Continue reading
The US Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines today for the food industry to reduce the amount of salt used in processed foods. The goal is to reduce Americans' high intake of sodium, which has been linked to several health problems like high blood pressure.Americans … | Continue reading
As Go community slowly moving towards established and well understood patterns and practices of dependency management, there are still some confusing moments. One of them is automating repeatable build process using containers along with using dependencies in private repositories … | Continue reading
Bei Panasonic und Atari gibt es überraschende, kleine Neuigkeiten:Panasonic zieht sich aus der Herstellung von LCD-Panels für Fernseher zurück. Als Grund gab das Unternehmen einen zu scharfen Preiskampf im Marktsegment an. Kün... | Continue reading
7Commerce, the investment arm of media company ProSiebenSat.1, is upping its stake in Munich-based fashion aggregator and discovery startup Stylight, intending to acquire 100 per cent of the company by July — pending regulatory approvals. Read More | Continue reading
Rumored for some time to make its debut on Japan's KDDI au network, the elusive red color HTC 10 has finally been announced. | Continue reading