Imagine what kind of cultural experiences $28 can buy you. A decent show ticket. Three matinees at a suburban movie theater. A couple ritzy museum admissions. Nine movie rentals on iTunes. Three months of Spotify. Twenty-eight CDs, probably.Now instead of any of those, imagine sp … | Continue reading
The MOBA genre has had some promising moments on mobile in recent years. Mostly, we've either seen games like Fates Forever and Vainglory, which tried to port most PC MOBA mechanics to mobile but with a different UI, or games like Call of Champions, which tried to rethink MOBA me … | Continue reading
Google is testing a conversation app called Spaces that attempts to make group messaging more natural and interconnected. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced prototype versions of the car Thursday night at the company's Los Angeles design studio. Tesla Motors says buyers reserved more than 115,000 Model 3 sedans on Thursday, the first day orders were taken. With a starting price of $35,000, the Model 3 i … | Continue reading
Progress on motorcycle action game Road Redemption has been quiet for some time, leading many to ponder if the crowdfunded Steam Early Access game had been abandoned, but developer DarkSeas Games has issued a Kickstarter update assuring everyone that this is not the case. In fact … | Continue reading
Slack, the fast-growing office messaging tool has finally completed a new round of funding, including new investor Thrive Capital, it said Friday.The funding has been expected for a while and has been much reported. There are other new investors, such as Comcast Ventures and GGV, … | Continue reading
Just over a year after buying struggling streaming service Tidal, rap mogul and titan of industry Jay Z suspects the former ownership group may have misstated the number of Tidal subscribers pre-acquisition. In a letter sent to Tidal’s former owners, Jay Z’s legal team said: “Pan … | Continue reading
The Chevrolet Bolt and the Tesla Model 3 are the first affordable, long-distance — over 200 miles of range — electric vehicles. They've both been announced, and will eventually hit dealerships. The Chevy Bolt, however, has a one-year head start on the Tesla. And because Elon Musk … | Continue reading
Researchers have grown a type of complex, hairy skin tissue in the lab for the first time. The fluorescent skin was implanted in living mice, and although its use in humans is a long way off, scientists think the lab-grown tissue could one day help burn survivors and people with … | Continue reading
Less than a year after raising a hefty Series A, Managed By Q is today announcing the raise of a $25 million Series B round from GV and Kapor Ventures. Former TechCrunch writer MG Siegler is joining the board as part of the deal. Managed By Q is a service that handle all the extr … | Continue reading
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For better or worse, it’s April 1st again. Happy April Fools’ Day! The day when up becomes down, cats become people, and the Internet loses its collective mind for about 24 hours. As is tradition, we’re digging up all the best, worst, weirdest, and most ill-planned April Fools’ j … | Continue reading
One of the biggest (and largely unspoken) challenges in America has been the deep digital divide between rich and poor families. Households who cannot afford Internet not only miss out on crucial information about the world around them, but it can severely hobble their ability to … | Continue reading
Less than 24 hours after Tesla opened up pre-orders for its “affordable” Model 3 vehicle, CEO Elon Musk said the company has already received 198,000 deposits and counting – valuing at least $7.5 billion worth of potential sales. Model 3 orders at 180,000 in 24 hours. Selling pri … | Continue reading
The Slack rocketship won’t slow down. The business messaging startup has raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms to TechCrunch. The round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation by GGV, Comcast Ventures and Slack’s existing investors … | Continue reading
When Yuneec unveiled its Typhoon H drones at CES earlier this year, we called it the first major contender for DJI's crown. Now DJI, the world's most successful consumer drone maker, has filed a lawsuit in California claiming Yuneec has infringed on two of its patents. The claim … | Continue reading
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, the new official DLC to an 18-year-old RPG, has just launched on Steam for £14.99 / $19.99.The expansion was made by a lot of the original Baldur's Gate creators at their new studio Beamdog. BioWare co-founder Trent Oster and former lead progr … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: How do you break through the noise, gain zealous followers, and satisfy disgruntled users — and translate that into business results? Join VB’s director of marketing technology Stewart Rogers for make-or-break social media tactics and tools in this packed hour of soci … | Continue reading
In news that is not April 1-related, North Korea has this week begun to block access to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other websites in the country. Read More | Continue reading
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Tom Hiddleston looks like country singer Hank Williams. They're both tall, pale, lean men with narrow faces, sharp noses, and easy country smiles that don't entirely warm up their thousand-yard stares. Looking at pictures or footage of the two of them, the resemblance is clear en … | Continue reading
Hi, I'm Dami, and I'm a webcomic artist. You may recognize me from some of my viral content hits, like 'Hotline Bling Girl' and 'Dogs are good.' What's that? You've never seen these comics before in your life? What's that? I should stop using The Verge as a platform for shameless … | Continue reading
The chair of the SEC last night spoke out publicly on the Federal regulatory agency's current and future plans for potential blockchain controls. | Continue reading
Remedy Entertainment’s Quantum Break video game for the PC and Xbox debuts next week, and we’ve already played it all the way through. You can find a lot of Remedy lore sprinkled as Easter eggs throughout the game. (See our full review here, and tips here). You’ll find a bizarre … | Continue reading
Marketing on Facebook has become harder. Agorapulse's Amanda Webb shares some tips and hacks that will make your Facebook marketing easier. | Continue reading
Mashable Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff traveled to San Francisco, California, to try out the new Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition. But don't get excited quite yet, because for now, it is only for developers and businesses — consumers are gonna have to wait. It's importa … | Continue reading
Anticipation for Tesla’s new “affordable” electric car reached fever pitch in the build up to the big unveil yesterday, with 115,000 people having paid $1,000 to get on the list to buy a Model 3 shortly after it was unveiled yesterday. After a full day taking orders, Elon Musk ha … | Continue reading
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Last night, Tesla introduced the Model 3, its affordable electric car for the masses. The masses have responded, with more than 180,000 preorders placed in the first 24 hours.Even before the first Model 3 rolled into public view at Tesla's facility in Hawthorne, California, Tesla … | Continue reading
Amazon and Microsoft are two of the biggest technology companies in the world who have yet to make overt steps toward the world of autonomous vehicles, but that may soon change. Sources are telling Reuters that both companies are interested in providing cloud computing capabiliti … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we reviewed Microsoft exclusive Quantum Break, the Oculus Rift starts shipping, and we discussed how Muslims are portrayed in gaming. Happy reading, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion Watch us play Quantum … | Continue reading
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs developer The Chinese Room has revealed that its next game will be an isometric RPG called Total Dark. That's a far cry from its previous work that's all more or less fallen under the dreadful "walking s … | Continue reading
The U.S. added 215,000 jobs in March, a sign of resilience despite overseas turmoil. Bankrate.com senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick joins Lee Hawkins with analysis of the March jobs report. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
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Tech giants Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon have submitted a joint brief to the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court in support of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The CPP aims to empower the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate emissions from power plants … | Continue reading
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If you want to see a great magic show today, take an hour to watch Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone in 2007. Ignore that it already looks insanely dated, and focus on how it's essentially just a 50-minute trick: a person on a stage exploits your optimism with theater, then surpris … | Continue reading
What I find most interesting about the art and science of content marketing is that there are so many different ways to be successful. Although there are some core best practices that all marketers should follow, tactics and approaches can vary based on a number of factors, inclu … | Continue reading
A temporary solution to the ongoing text size debate has been reached, CoinDesk has learned. | Continue reading
So much for Kanye West’s plans to make his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” a Tidal exclusive. The artist, who has changed his mind numerous times with regard to this latest release, has now put the album out on Tidal’s competitors, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play … | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
Jason Snell worked at Mac magazines for 20 years and was lead editor at Macworld for a decade. Now he writes about Apple at sixcolors.com and podcasts at relay.fm and theincomparable.com.It's hard to believe it now, but in the early days of Steve Jobs' return to Apple, nobody was … | Continue reading
Slack today announced that it has raised $200 million in funding at a post-money valuation of $3.8 billion. The company has now taken on $540 million in funding, a spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. Thrive Capital led the round. Comcast Ventures, Accel Partners, GGV, Inde … | Continue reading
Als LG das neuste Flaggschiff LG G5 vergangenen Monat in Barcelona vorgestellt hat, wurde es als "metal-built" Smartphone präsentiert. Auf dem ersten Blick macht das G5 auch einen wertigen Eindruck. Der YouTuber JerryRigEverything hat das Pho... | Continue reading
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betaworks doesn’t often launch games, but when they do, it tends to stick. Just take Dots, for example, which ended up spinning out of betaworks as its own game studio. Today, the startup studio is launching its second game in the form of CHKN. Imagine that Minecraft had a baby w … | Continue reading