Another veil of mystery fell away from "mixed reality" company Magic Leap on Thursday as it announced a strategic partnership with Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars franchiseAnd to kick that partnership off, Lucasfilm's ILMxLAB (a branch of the company devoted to develo … | Continue reading
A new report out of Korea states Samsung will begin mass-production of the Note 7 next month, with an estimated 5 million units created in time for the product's release in August. | Continue reading
New features were added to Facebook Messenger today, continuing a march toward a chat app that lets you communicate with apps, chatbots, businesses, and friends. The home screen now has a list of friends online, favorite contacts, birthday reminders, and messages awaiting a respo … | Continue reading
A smudge.The deepest, darkest smudge the world has ever laid eyes on is the smudge that comes when Photoshop's blur tool meets a black-and-white photograph of Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.Where did this horrifying visage come from? Let’s back up. Two days ago … | Continue reading
As part of T-Mobile’s Uncarrier 11 announcements, the company said it would dedicate the year to giving back to its customers. Part of this campaign was the T-Mobile Tuesday app, which offers giveaways for prizes of all monetary values every week, from paid vacations to 7-Eleven … | Continue reading
Marvel has been licensing a lot of games in the mobile and online space, and it has been cooking some good hits in partnership with Lego and TT Games. But Disney-owned Marvel surprised everyone with the announcement this week of a major console game based on its Spider-Man superh … | Continue reading
Remember the time I tried out that Pryme Vessel smart cup to track my water intake and hydration? Remember how the bluetooth connectivity was terrible, and I had to reset the cup several times a day before I finally gave up with the cup altogether? Well, the company behind that p … | Continue reading
Kurze Durchsage: Ab dem 8. Juli sind die beiden Tablet-Laptop-Hybriden Surface Pro 4 und Surface Book auch in Deutschland mit 1 TB SSD-Speicher verfügbar. Vorbestellen könnt ihr die beiden neuen Ausstattungsvarianten aber bereits ab dem 2... | Continue reading
Noodlecake's Super Stickman Golf 3 is set to release in early July, but the developers need a bit of help from the community in order to make the game perfect for launch. Specifically, they need beta testers to help get the game ready for the global launch. How do you sign up to … | Continue reading
Walmart is rolling out an update to its mobile app that allows users in Alabama to pay at Walmart stores with their mobile devices. | Continue reading
Collective is announcing today that it has closed a $34M growth round led by Columbia Partners with participation from Accel Partners, Greycroft and iNovia. The company has raised close to $100M in debt and equity since 2005.The money will be put to work on the company’s new prod … | Continue reading
A new OTA has been pushed to Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge in the UK bringing with it the June security patch and also some additional camera fixes. | Continue reading
I’ve never walked 20 dogs at once, or even been surrounded by 20 dogs at one time. Twenty is a lot. But if you’re of the type to be encompassed by dogs, particularly 20 dogs, then Garmin is working on a product for you.Its new Astro 430 can track all 20 of those pups. The company … | Continue reading
Sea of Thieves lets you and a group of friends sail pirate ships in a huge open ocean. You can drink grog. You can play the accordion. The best bits of the E3 demo are when these crews of grog-drinking, shanty-singing players come rattling together in a cannon-filled collision. I … | Continue reading
The Worldwide Developers Conference presented new software from Apple for the Mac, the iPhone, and everything in between — and some of the features are a big deal. What is Apple planning on doing with them in the long run? And how is a company that's still all about hardware goin … | Continue reading
Date: 16/06/2016© J. Weber“Much of the architecture of the 19th century was built using Roman cement. But by the turn of the century, shortly before the beginning of World War I, it fell out of fashion and Portland cement — the modern cement we are using today — began to take ove … | Continue reading
Date: 16/06/2016© Reading Borough Council“Passengers often say that switching modes is the hardest part of any journey, and the sector would like to make improvements,” says Caroline Hoogendoorn of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), the coordinator of the N … | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report about Tencent's pending acquisition of Supercell from SoftBank, also the parent company of GungHo. Tencent's reportedly paying $9 billion for Supercell, after SoftBank spent $2.1 billion to acquire a 51% stake in Supercell back in … | Continue reading
When it comes to choosing a container management platform, you’re spoiled for choice these days. If you want an out-of-the-box multi-tenant platform that supports both Linux and Windows, though, you don’t quite have as many options. ContainerX, which is launching out of beta toda … | Continue reading
Lessons learned in making content useful and usable through plain language from Blue Cross Blue Shield. | Continue reading
Overwatch Competitive Play should return towards the end of the month - that's the target - but when it does, don't expect it to be immaculate. It could take a few seasons of iteration before Blizzard has it where it wants it."Competitive Play is quite a big effort for us this ti … | Continue reading
Date: 16/06/2016The ways in which communities use and manage land impacts the environment, its ability to sustain biodiversity and provide for society’s needs. These needs include food, drinking water, energy, and building materialsRead more … | Continue reading
Will Microsoft’s blockbuster announcement that it is purchasing LinkedIn lead to enhanced recruiting opportunities for talent professionals, or dampen innovation at one of the world’s most popular talent solutions providers? | Continue reading
Should you move fast and break things? High velocity testing is more complex than that. Here's how you can practice high velocity testing... responsibly. | Continue reading
Google announced this morning it’s opening a dedicated machine learning research center in Europe, which will be based in its Zurich office. The center will focus on the development of products and research in the areas of Machine Intelligence. Specifically, says Google, it will … | Continue reading
Fahrer eines Elektroautos können sich freuen: Der Kartendienst HERE liefert in Europa künftig Informationen zu Ladestationen in Echtzeit. Dazu gehören Adresse, Steckertyp und Stromstärke sowie aktuelle Belegungsdaten von Ladesta... | Continue reading
Learn how to write a services page that drives qualified search traffic and converts like crazy. It's easier than you think! Watch the video or read the transcript. | Continue reading
The Recording Academy announced a series of amendments to the Grammy Awards this morning, a set of changes highlighted by the announcement that streaming-only releases are now eligible for consideration. (Under the old rules, albums and singles needed to receive a physical or dig … | Continue reading
Compelling brand storytelling requires a sympathetic protagonist as a central element. A customer, fictional or real, often fills that role. Employees too offer a goldmine of storytelling that can humanize the brand. Employees have plenty of stories. They are probably telling the … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Duuoo, a tool that helps managers lead happy teams. Submit your startup to get featured. What is Duuoo and how did it start? Duuoo which gives managers the foundation they need to lead happy teams. It makes yo … | Continue reading
Activision Blizzard Studios announced today that its first television show, Skylanders Academy, will debut in the fall of 2016 on Netflix. The show is the latest move by Activision Blizzard to keep a solid grip on the billion-dollar-plus toys-to-life market, which the company pio … | Continue reading
According to a report from SamMobile, Samsung's Game Launcher will soon get a big update with a ton of new features. | Continue reading
Vodka brand Smirnoff is bring back its Smirnoff House concept to this year's Creamfields festival, as part of its role as official vodka partner. | Continue reading
Small businesses that sell physical goods online are struggling to delight customers and fulfill orders in an era where Amazon Prime sets an expectation for affordable, same- or next-day delivery. While the largest e-commerce players can leverage economies of scale to give their … | Continue reading
Tomy's Dingbot from the '80s is a battery operated bot that just beeps and bumps into objects like a Roomba, but it's not as cool since it doesn't actually clean your floorsThough this vintage toy is far from the high-tech bots that cook you ramen noodles, it's definitely the cut … | Continue reading
Few people will actually play any Oculus Rift games, especially ones using its Touch motion controllers, for a long time. Writing a preview for one is like describing a visit to a small art gallery: hypothetically interesting, but holding little relevance for most people’s lives. … | Continue reading
Magic Leap wants you to hang out with droids. Today, the mixed reality company announced a partnership with Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB to work on creating and researching ways of telling stories in mixed reality. The companies are building a joint research lab, the “Collab Lab,” at Lu … | Continue reading
Four years’ time. What’s the world going to look like in 2020? We’re asking people in our network just that, for our interview series 20/20. In this instalment, we talk to eToro Founder, Yoni Assia, ahead ahead of his co-founder's appearance at our fintech event, MoneyConf.The po … | Continue reading
Lego and Ford have teamed up to create an impressively detailed Lego model of Ford's latest GT supercar participating in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. This year marks the 50th anniversary the Ford GT40 winning the race, the first time an American car did so. That classic model al … | Continue reading
Two years in the making — so long before the public outing of Apple’s Swift Playgrounds — Box Island is a new iOS game that promises to teach young kids the fundamentals of coding. Read More | Continue reading
IBM today took the wraps off its first big foray into the world of self-driving cars, not as the driver of them, but as the brain behind making your self-driving journey a little more interesting: IBM Watson, the company’s AI platform, is powering services in Olli — an electric-p … | Continue reading
Here’s a quick math problem: if online advertising began in 1993 and there are over 1 billion websites today, how many online advertisements (an industry that in fifteen years hadn’t innovated past blinking banner ads) are...read more | Continue reading
Here’s a quick math problem: if online advertising began in 1993 and there are over 1 billion websites today, how many online advertisements (an industry that in fifteen years hadn’t innovated past blinking banner ads) are floating around click-less, user-less, and money-less? Th … | Continue reading
London Bridge City summer festival, which opened on 1 June and runs until the end of September, will feature an official Team GB fan zone to experience the action of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. | Continue reading
BitTorrent Inc (BitTorrent) has announced that it’s spinning out its Sync business into a stand-alone company called Resilio, as it refocuses its own efforts on the consumer media realm. The San Francisco-based company first introduced Sync in April 2013 as a means to let users s … | Continue reading
Local Motors, the Arizona-based automaker that crowdsources vehicle design, has introduced a 3D-printed, autonomous, electric shuttle bus that is partially recyclable called Olli. Local Motors says that it's the first vehicle to use IBM Watson’s car-focused cognitive learning pla … | Continue reading
A new study from Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research shows restaurants will soon start charging diners for reservations. "This... | Continue reading