Until we see some convincing evidence otherwise, one Tetris movie is likely to be one too many for most. Somewhat unbelievably, however, there are now going to be three. Why? "Purely because the story we conceived is so big," producer Larry Kasanoff tells Empire. "This isn't us s … | Continue reading
Ever wanted to design a city from scratch? All those years tinkering with SimCity and Legos are going to finally start paying dividends for a lucky few. YCombinator is looking for urban mavericks to address everything from the creation of affordable housing to the design of publi … | Continue reading
Myst creator Rand Miller wants to abduct you. Miller’s newest game, Obduction, raised $1,321,306 on Kickstarter, and follows in the legacy of Miller’s Myst and Raven, two now legendary PC puzzle games. Combined, the two hits have sold over 12 million copies are among the best-sel … | Continue reading
It looks like an eyeball on three legs, and it is now yours to own.On Tuesday, Samsung launched its new camera, Samsung Gear 360, in Australia. The device, which is able to capture 360-degree video and images, has a retail price of A$499.SEE ALSO: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 may unlock … | Continue reading
Increasing its dedication to early learning through technology, Google has announced Project Bloks, a tool designed to get children started on the path to programming and making cool gadgets.SEE ALSO: Google teams up with MIT to make programming easier for kidsProject Bloks consi … | Continue reading
The future is always being shaped by the past. Long before the 3D printer, origami was the original genius at creating lifelike forms out of a flat surface. Folding brings with it the ability to collapse, flex and unfurl structures at will, which has huge potential for a variety … | Continue reading
Airbnb is taking its beef with the city of San Francisco to court. The short-term rental company filed suit today over a new law that requires Airbnb to verify that its hosts have registered with the city before showing ads for their homes online. The suit aims to block the law f … | Continue reading
One of the best ways to collect quality email addresses from your target audience is to promise something of value. What email frequency is best for ... | Continue reading
New mobile games and robot butlers are all well and good, but there are also many applications for the latest technology in poverty-stricken school districts and in the service of the disabled. A Carnegie Mellon project that targets both of those things is described by its leader … | Continue reading
Adult Swim is deputing a new show — Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin Sclopio Peepio — on July 10. If you want to catch it before the premiere, you can view the entire first episode on your favorite six second 140 second streaming platform, Vine. I just watched an adult swim show on vine. … | Continue reading
Sometimes vehicles will be too big and heavy to make them ideal candidates for full electrification. That doesn't mean, though, they can't be powered solely by electricity.Proving that point, Sweden — in conjunction with truck manufacturer Scania — has created the world's first " … | 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
Google Awareness APIs will give your apps more context about your behavior, but will this come at the cost of user privacy? | Continue reading
Amazon’s ‘Dash’ button is one of the best examples of a cool theory that feels futuristic but actually sucks in practice. It doesn’t seem to matter though, the online retailer is making a big push for more brands to get on board by reportedly adding dozens of new ones to the push … | Continue reading
Buy organic groceries online, at an affordable price. That’s the mantra of Los Angeles-based Thrive Market, which has raised a significant $111 million Series B funding round, led by Invus. Thrive, which competes with similar online grocery services like Vitacost, believes there … | Continue reading
Twitter is in trouble. In a move out of a middle school flag-football game, Microsoft selected LinkedIn to join its team. The sheer size of the transaction has reignited conversations about who will be picked next to join the super special circle of public mega-cap tech companies … | Continue reading
A Ford dealership in Quincy, MA spent all day being bombarded with inquiries from video game journalists after blatantly ripping off art from indie game Firewatch. The title, developed by San Francisco-based studio Campo Santo, is set in the Wyoming wilderness and uses a heavily … | Continue reading
Is it a smartphone or a phablet? Is 6.44 inches too big for a daily driver? We answer these and more in this, our Xiaom Mi Max review! | Continue reading
A lot of people have complained about Microsoft's aggressive Windows 10 installation strategy. One person has actually gotten some resolution: according to The Seattle Times, Microsoft is paying $10,000 to Teri Goldstein, who runs a travel agency in California, over an automatic … | Continue reading
GUEST: (This is Part 2 in a series on the Conversational Economy. Read Part 1 here.) If these powerful forces and players are fueling the rapid rise of the Conversational Economy, why aren’t we there yet? 1. Fragmentation stunts developer ecosystem development The new platform la … | Continue reading
The successful Pocket Tripod is repeating its crowdfunding success from a few years ago, creating an updated, universal version of its incredibly popular credit-card sized tripod-that-fits-in-your-wallet. Now available for pre-order for Android users and people who like to stick … | Continue reading
Square Enix has just put Adventures of Mana [$13.99] on sale, and if you've been looking to play this one, the $9.99 price point is the game's first sale. If you're used to mobile game prices, that might not seem cheap, but it's still less than the regular $13.99 price. Which is … | Continue reading
There has been much talk of late about the end of easy venture capital and what will happen to startup economics when everyone is forced to spend more wisely.Spending wisely should always be an objective regardless of the economic conditions. But this is especially true for marke … | Continue reading
As expected, Volkswagen has reached a deal this week with US regulators to compensate owners of vehicles affected by its massive diesel emissions cheating scandal — a systematic global deception of customers and regulators that resulted in millions of vehicles being sold globally … | Continue reading
We're seeing the LG Nexus 5X going for $240 on Ebay, which undercuts the previous all-time-low price by sixty bucks. Pretty stellar deal! | Continue reading
Atlanta Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer has been found not guilty of DUI charges. | Continue reading
Google is mining photos from a satellite launched in 2013 to create a better, cloud-free image of Earth from above.The newest mosaic is an updated version of one produced in 2013. The new version was pieced together mostly using data from the Landsat 8 satellite, launched by NASA … | Continue reading
Do you know how hard it is to land a SpaceX rocket in the ocean on a barge? No, you don’t. Nobody does except SpaceX — but you could recreate their efforts with a drone and a swimming pool, if you wanted to. One enterprising soul did just that, strapping what looks like a used(?) … | Continue reading
Tapinator has published a couple of really cool games from Boarding Party Games in Combo Quest [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/combo-quest/id945118056?mt=8"] and Dice Mage [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dice-mage/id970327258?mt=8"], each showing som … | Continue reading
When "dieselgate" first broke late last year, Volkswagen set aside roughly $7.3 billion to pay for the scandal worldwide. Turns out, it might cost the automaker more than double that figure to settle — and that is just in the U.S.SEE ALSO: Tesla signs $9 billion agreement to buil … | Continue reading
It’s been a long time since Marty Hellman and his collaborator Whitfield Diffie ushered in a new era of private communication with their invention of public key cryptography — but better late than never when it comes to winning the Turing Award, referred to by some as the Pulitze … | Continue reading
New drone regulations in the U.S. ostensibly make it easier for companies to put flying robots to work whether that’s in media, construction or agriculture. But drones are still limited to flying within the “line of sight,” or the range where a human operator can see them. So we … | Continue reading
I’ve already expressed my interest in owning a smart flip phone, and Samsung’s been the one company keeping my dreams alive. Last year it introduced the Galaxy Folder smart flip phone, and now it's updating that device. Although Samsung is supposedly releasing an upgraded version … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is taking a risk with one of its newest blockbuster console properties, and it can do that because it spent so many years making Assassin’s Creed games over and over. Steep is the publisher’s open-world winter-sports sim that it announced at the Electronic Entertainment E … | Continue reading
Following a successful launch on Android, developer Toka Loka Games brought their gooey platformer Goo Saga [$0.99] to iOS in late April, and it absolutely floored me. You played as a ball of goo with a huge personality (as far as balls of goo go) making your way through tricky p … | Continue reading
Identifier: JUST-2016-AG-DRUGPillar: DrugsOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with his British counterpart Phillip Hammond and said that the Brexit vote will help sharpen debates across Europe over countries' relationship with the EU. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Uber and Pandora are teaming up to put a little music in your ride.The streaming radio app announced Monday that it will now be integrated directly into the Uber app, with no ads and no subscription necessary. Only drivers will be allowed to control it at first, but Pandora says … | Continue reading
If you're looking for the next big thing from Huawei, be sure to tune in on September 1st. Could a Mate 9 be in the works? | Continue reading
For far too long, fans of stylish-yet-cute games have had to trade their love of easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master games with the fact that they aren't real games. You see, many of these games don't have hex grids, so they're not real games. So disappointing. But every so often, … | Continue reading
My name is Ian and I have a confession to make: It wasn’t that long ago that I viewed the whole content marketing space with a fair degree of scepticism*. (*Full disclosure: I honestly thought it was marketing claptrap.) This tale starts not long after I joined Lush back in 2012. … | Continue reading
Rats care about their rat buddies — unless they’re on antidepressants, it would seem.A 2011 study found that when a free rat came in contact with a rat trapped in a container, the free rat was empathically motivated to release the distressed rat from its cell. But a new study, pu … | Continue reading
A Ford dealership in Quincy, Massachusetts has used copyrighted art assets from Firewatch in an email campaign.Firewatch publisher Panic, Inc. posted the ad on Twitter with the caption "Ahh, remember when Henry and Delilah were excited about the Ford Freedom Sales Event? #ripoffe … | Continue reading
ItBit is evaluating whether to add support for ether, according to its CEO. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE — Starting Tuesday local time, most Android users in Singapore will be able to link their credit cards to their phones and tap to pay at retail outlets on the island.This makes Singapore the third country globally to get the Google mobile payment service after the U.S., … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: There’s a lot of rich data being gathered within most companies these days, but taking that data, thoroughly analyzing it, and turning it into actionable insights…well, that’s where some real business gets done. Take a listen to how some analytics experts are mining ever … | Continue reading
Employers across the globe plan to increase hiring over the next three months overall, though at a slightly slower pace than in recent quarters, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey. | Continue reading
Cozmo is a robot designed to have a distinct personality that adapts and changes to its environment thanks to a powerful AI engine. | Continue reading