Jeff Bezos can "assure you" that Earth is the best planet in the Solar System. It's a statement the Amazon founder repeated fervently during a sit down chat with Walt Mossberg at Recode's annual Code Conference on Tuesday. The discussion delved into what Bezos sees for the future … | Continue reading
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, said today on stage at Vox Media’s Code Conference that Peter Thiel would remain on the company’s board of directors despite the controversy surround his involvement in a lawsuit against Gawker. It was revealed that Thiel was … | Continue reading
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California — Billionaire investor Peter Thiel never consulted or talked to Facebook about funding former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan's court battle against Gawker — and there are no plans to remove him from Facebook's board of directors.Thiel revealed last month … | Continue reading
Well, it's mid-week and there are a ton of new games hitting the App Store as usual, but as far as I can tell there's only one sausage-themed fighting game releasing this week: Sausage Legend [Free]. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the only sausage-themed fighting game to ever be r … | Continue reading
Hopefully, Red Bull is not a performance-enhancing drug, because Street Fighter pros are probably gonna get to drink a lot of it at an upcoming event. Capcom is partnering with Red Bull Media House to host the Capcom Pro Tour Finals at the Red Bull Battle Grounds esports gatherin … | Continue reading
Mechanical keyboards are cool and all, but how about a mechanical keyboard that's also analog? The Wooting One not only has mechanical keys but also registers how far down a key is being pushed so that it can be used more like a gaming controller. The mechanical keys are the Flar … | Continue reading
An animated video can explain even the most complex ideas. Our talented animation team did just that in these five marketing videos. | Continue reading
One of the benefits of being a current Tesla owner is free access to the company’s network of Superchargers. Turns out, though, the Model 3 won’t be granted such access — at least, not for free anyway.SEE ALSO: 'Top Gear' season opener fails to fire on all cylindersAt the Tesla a … | Continue reading
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California — Echoing the theme of this year's Code Conference, Google CEO Sundar Pichai pointed to the company's work in machine learning and AI as a possible solution to people's ongoing concerns about Google and the privacy of their personal dataPichai sou … | Continue reading
Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined Walt Mossberg on stage at the Code Conference today to be interviewed about everything from privacy and AI to Nexus phones and Game of Thrones analogies. Code's interviews are usually limited to the conference's attendees, but this year it's doing … | Continue reading
Join us at 12PM PT, 3PM ET for live coverage of Facebook's execs at the Code Conference. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Russian social media users are up in arms over the removal of an account parodying President Vladimir Putin, as well as many others, such as: @SovietSergey, an account that mocks Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The former has more than 50,000 subscribers and it’s honestly rather … | Continue reading
A Senate report released today on the ongoing Takata airbag debacle reveals that four automakers are still selling (or, inexplicably, plan to sell) vehicles equipped with airbags that are certainly defective. What's more, the report found that some vehicles that have already been … | Continue reading
After years of life with the MacBook Air, I didn’t think I would like the rose gold 12-inch MacBook Apple sent me a few weeks ago, with its shallow keyboard, the Intel Core M chip, the single USB-C port, and, oh, that color. But I was wrong. I’ve come to really like this laptop. … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants to let you skip passwords or PINs by giving Windows 10 the ability to recognize you based on your wearables. | Continue reading
We’re not sure that many people actually use Now on Tap – Google had to make a commercial to explain it – but that isn’t stopping the company from making it more powerful. Starting today, you can use Now on Tap as a a sort of AI-powered reverse image search, as well as a system-w … | Continue reading
UPDATE 02/06/2016 1.15am: Analyst Christine Arrington of IHS Technology told Eurogamer that she thinks a Vivendi takeover would be good for Ubisoft, despite… | Continue reading
Online harassment is no good. Unfortunately, 40 percent of all people on the Internet report experiencing some form of harassment online and 70 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 24 have been targeted, according to Pew Research Center. “A young person who was being bull … | Continue reading
The esports business is getting to be a lot like pro physical sports. The latest example of that is that a professional esports team, the Immortals, is acquiring another team today, Tempo Storm‘s Counter-Strike group, as part of an attempt to establish a powerhouse franchise in a … | Continue reading
Google's Now on Tap feature is finally getting the upgrade it always needed. Now on Tap debuted at last year's I/O conference as part of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and was designed to give the user Google Search data within whatever app they happened to be using. It promised to be … | Continue reading
Kylie Jenner may be best known for hawking overpriced lipsticks, dating a very lame rapper, tweeting chemtrail truther memes, and getting kind of a lot of plastic surgery at the ripe old age of 17, but what is she least known for? Perhaps being a pop star? Perhaps hatching an ela … | Continue reading
Fresh off debuting its virtual reality app, 3D-model platform Sketchfab has launched another tool that lets you harness the power of VR, this time by integrating InstagramSEE ALSO: Creating graffiti in VR looks so real, you can almost smell the fumesInstamuseum takes the photos i … | Continue reading
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has come out and said that racism and discrimination is not allowed on the platform. This comes after an Airbnb host in North Carolina canceled on a black person and sent her a slew of racist insults. Chesky also said Airbnb has permanently banned the host … | Continue reading
IMVU, the social network with 3D animated avatars, said that it has provided the technology behind a new version of the popular Kimoji paid app created by Kim Kardashian West. Redwood City, Calif.-based IMVU operates a social network where users can create their own animated spac … | Continue reading
Yogurt maker Chobani is giving its full-time workers equity awards that could be worth up to 10 percent of the privately held company's future value -- an ownership incentive move more often taken by startups and tech firms than by traditional companies. | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
I like playing Hitman: Sniper [$1.99] quite a bit; there's something serene about trying to trick people into standing right where you want them for a nice, clean, headshot. Hitman: Sniper really managed to blend clever tricks with sniping and went beyond the usual sniper gamepla … | Continue reading
Google intends to take more control over the Nexus line going forward. During an interview at the Code Conference today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that his company would "be more opinionated about the design of the phones," particularly where Google sees a need to "push the d … | Continue reading
WhatsApp and Telegram have both billed themselves as secure alternatives to phone, text or email correspondence. For the most part, that’s true, the two are end-to-end (e2e) encrypted by default and because of this, your conversations are much harder to monitor by outsiders. But, … | Continue reading
Wiso is a Bluetooth-connected smart whistle that people can use to sound for help if they're being physically assaulted. Through the corresponding app it also automatically texts, calls, or emails designated contacts with the victim's GPS coordinates.Wiso is very clearly marketed … | Continue reading
Samsung has now trademarked the names Galaxy Iris and Galaxy Eyeprint in the U.S. and Korea as well (it has already trademarked the name in the EU). | Continue reading
There’s been a lot of speculation as to whether Google will end up building its own phone. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had sort of an answer on stage at Vox Media’s Code Conference: “Our plan is still to work with OEMs to make phones.” That’s not entirely a yes or a no, but for the … | Continue reading
Google has brought aboard Emma Coats of Pixar story-building fame to work with Google Doodle's Ryan Germick to make Google Home more human. | Continue reading
Yahoo has just published three national security letters, controversial government demands for information usually accompanied by a gag order and rarely made public. Continue reading… | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Today we’re opening the application process for the Innovation Showcase, one of the highlights of the MobileBeat event on July 12-13 in SF. We’re searching for the six most promising new artificial intelligence and bot companies that solve real problems. The idea is to … | Continue reading
Facebook is seriously upping its emoji game.The company updated Messenger on Wednesday with more than 100 new emoji characters "to better reflect gender and skin tones," Facebook also updated its existing emoji so that all its emoji will appear exactly the same across Messenger, … | Continue reading
Today, Google's newest machine learning project released its first piece of generated art, a 90-second piano melody created through a trained neural network, provided with just four notes up front. The drums and orchestration weren't generated by the algorithm, but added for emph … | Continue reading
Google today announced nice additions to its Google Now on Tap feature that shipped with Android Marshmallow last year. Now you’ll be able to use your camera app to look at something with the camera on your Android device and then bring up Google Now cards about it, by holding do … | Continue reading
Apple has sent out press invites to its WWDC keynote taking place June 13Mashable will be there live.SEE ALSO: Apple will open Siri to developers and launch Amazon Echo-like smart speaker, report saysThe keynote, which kicks off Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, will … | Continue reading
Apologies for posting our morning new games roundup in the afternoon, but, so far we have had two problems today: Not a whole lot of games had popped up on the App Store yet when we usually post this, and TouchArcade forum member sstrngmnm told me that today was National Milk Day … | Continue reading
Designed by Norwegian studio Gartnerfuglen and Spanish architect Mariana de Delás, the wooden tower ( Grooming Retreat ) was a ... | Continue reading
Epiphytes is a collection of suspended vases in white ceramic, offering an alternative to the potted cultivation of epiphytic house-plants | Continue reading
Microsoft today is announcing the general availability (GA) of its SQL Server database software. For more than a year now Microsoft has been rolling out public previews and release candidates of the software, and now the final version is out. A month ago Microsoft said SQL Server … | Continue reading
Facebook has made a notable change within its Messenger app with the redesign of its emojis. Starting today, not only has the look of the 1,500-plus emojis been modernized, but 100 new ones have been added. And they’re now all supported across all platforms. This means that wheth … | Continue reading
Designed, conceived and built mostly by hand by Danish architect Soren Sarup (founder of Puras arkitekter), the Aavego Cottage interacts with | Continue reading
Garden Among the Courtyards is the project realized on the flat roof of the building that houses Piuarch, in Milan, Italy. | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger is overhauling its emoji today with new designs and a focus on diversity. Many of the new emoji include support for skin tone selection, just as iOS added last year and Android will add later this year. Facebook also says that Messenger's new emoji do a better … | Continue reading
Facebook has started rolling out a more diverse set of emojis to its Messenger service on the web, iOS and Android. With the update, you’ll have access to over 1,500 new emojis — 100 of which were designed “to better reflect gender and skin tones” with gender-agnostic options and … | Continue reading