The wheels of government turn slowly, especially when it comes to technology. So when one branch, the executive, gets an upgrade, it’s worth noting, especially since it's unlikely to happen again during this or the next administration.According to The New York Times, the While Ho … | Continue reading
Combine love at first sight with powerfully simple design and what do you get? More than one million dates each week on Tinder, perhaps the world’s most popular dating app. Best known for it’s “Swipe Right” feature, Tinder has been on a tear in recent months introducing new featu … | Continue reading
Most content and digital marketers learn over time with experience where and how to promote content but here is a 40 point content promotion checklist | Continue reading
Way back in 2002, the worlds of Disney and Square Enix collided in the original Kingdom Hearts for Playstation 2. The series has spawned tons of games since then and gone on to become one of the more beloved video game franchises around. Just about a year ago, series director Tet … | Continue reading
NASA took the wraps off a new website on Monday dedicated to tracking global changes in the sea level. It’s packed full of free online resources that will likely be useful to teachers, the climate-change-curious, and anyone just looking to dig into publicly available data. Read M … | Continue reading
To attempt to compete with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, BBM is making some premium privacy features free to all. | Continue reading
We know that Apple's iPhone SE has the guts of an iPhone 6S with the body of an iPhone 5S, but which one holds up better against the elements?Phone warranty company SquareTrade put the SE through a series of tests to see how well it fares when dropped on the ground and dunked und … | Continue reading
When Microsoft announced its Windows 10 strategy last year, the thinking was that the unified platform would drive Windows Mobile and finally bring the Windows phone out of the doldrums where it’s been virtually forever. The idea was you could develop once for Windows 10 desktop … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda originally released on the NES in 1986, and went on to become one of the most successful and popular video game series on the planet over the next 3 decades. That makes 2016 the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, which is a big milestone for an absolutel … | Continue reading
If you have an old TV from the 70s or earlier sitting around (or see one at a garage sale), here’s a neat mod to get Chromecast running on it. A YouTuber has posted a tutorial with simple instructions on how to bring an old TV to the modern age with just a few adaptors. First, yo … | Continue reading
A committee of industry representatives appointed by the FAA turned in recommendations suggesting a four-tiered system for classifying drones and how they may (or mayn’t) interact with crowds. Read More | Continue reading
Those who subscribe to EA Access - the Xbox One service granting access to several EA games for £3.99 a month - will now be able to play Dead Space.Of course Dead Space is already available the first half of this month for Xbox 360's Games With Gold offering, and it's now backwar … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is home to hundreds of minigames like no other. It is a virtual world where bitcoin lovers can play a role play game that offers them the | Continue reading
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When a bug is squashed, another exploit tends to show up. After releasing a quick fix to keep the iPhone from bricking during Safari links in iOS 9.3, a video has surfaced showing a way to get into anyone’s photos or contacts through a trick of double-talk through Siri. First spo … | Continue reading
It seems like all the rage right now is Crossy Road [Free] games crossed with dungeon-crawling. There was The Quest Keeper [Free] last year, Looty Dungeon releasing this week, and now Boxy Kingdom. Developed by a team including the founder of 3D Realms in Scott Miller, and Gears … | Continue reading
A couple of hardcore Zelda fans have created a browser-based remake of the original Legend of Zelda with voxels as a way of celebrating its 30th anniversary.It's not a full remake, however, as certain areas are noted as being still under construction. Right now it only consists o … | Continue reading
Until April 16th: walk into a brick-and-mortar Best Buy with your old phone and a one-dollar bill, and you can walk out with a Samsung Galaxy S7. | Continue reading
CoinDesk recaps the DTCC's first Blockchain Symposium, an all-day event held in New York last week. | Continue reading
Have you considered how your marketing messaging affects the governance of your company? Until I attended the Company Director’s inaugural Governance Summit, I hadn’t thought about effective messaging beyond the marketing and sales functions. The two-day summit taught me effectiv … | Continue reading
Cork Apartment - This spacious flat in high-rise block, which was designed for a young man, passed through a total reconstruction. | Continue reading
Google today talked for the first time about Walt, a piece of software that people can use to figure out how long it takes for a device to respond to touch or voice input. Google has been using Walt to do performance tests on Android devices and Chromebooks, and now the software … | Continue reading
With an announcement today, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar is open for business, in its first full version released and available for downloads. It has been nearly two years since initial chatter arose, with word of a decentralized marketplace being developed i … | Continue reading
A big shakeup happening in the world of deep learning, as Salesforce announced that it has acquired startup darling MetaMind. According to a report from VentureBeat, it’s one of a long string of Salesforce AI acquisitions — and arguably the hottest name in the bunch. As part of t … | Continue reading
Norwegian startup Auka is setting its sight on hitting two birds with one stone: Helping banks lagging behind compliance with EU regulation, and rolling out high-tech banking to customers across Europe. The company is a white-label service aimed at retail banks, and is the first … | Continue reading
About a month ago I was quite intrigued with an upcoming game called No Thing from developer Evil Indie Games. It appeared to be a first-person runner type of game but with crazy retro-inspired visuals, an oddly unsettling computer voice narrating the storyline, and just lots of … | Continue reading
Back in 2014 retro hardware boutique manufacturer, Analogue Interactive announced a $499 1080p variant of the NES called the Analogue Nt. Before that it manufactured a £400 / $649 wooden SNK Neo Geo CMVS. Now it's releasing its priciest, most ostentatious offering yet with the $4 … | Continue reading
YouTuber Uncle Rob ist ein echter Hinterhof-Tunichtgut, dessen Scherzvideos aber bislang eher mäßig spektakulär vonstatten gingen (Mentos ins Dr.-Pepper-Fass werfen, etc), jedenfalls bis er neulich auf die Idee kam, sich im Action P... | Continue reading
MetaMind, a Palo Alto-based AI startup founded in July 2014, is being acquired by Salesforce. According to a new post published at the company’s website by CEO Richard Socher — a Stanford PhD who studied machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vi … | Continue reading
Salesforce has acquired MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Salesforce cofounder and chief executive Marc Benioff. The startup’s services will stop working on May 4. MetaMind announced the news in a blog post. “Salesforce plans to integrate MetaMind’s technology into Sale … | Continue reading
While everyone’s eyes are on Tesla’s affordable electric car, the Model 3, it’s easy to forget that Tesla makes some pretty speedy vehicles. In a bit of a friendly competition, the company pitted its Model S against a Qantas Boeing 737-800 preparing for take-off. The race is cert … | Continue reading
Tesla blamed its own "hubris" for stuffing its Model X crossover with too much technology, making it difficult to produce in volume, according to a Tesla statement.The company was able to ship just 2,400 Model X cars in the first quarter. In a surprisingly frank statement that re … | Continue reading
Maybe this will make the wait for Kingdom Hearts III a little more tolerable. Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, a mobile game based on the popular series that combines Disney worlds and characters with role-playing mechanics and recognizable faces from Square Enix’s Final Fantasy franc … | Continue reading
Microsoft and R3CEV have struck a deal to use the former's Azure cloud platform for implementing the blockchain infrastructure | Continue reading
Management and boards at late stage, or pre-IPO, companies are on notice that the SEC is paying attention to the late stage financing arena, and should look internally to ensure that corporate governance and financial controls are befitting their scale, and should also ensure the … | Continue reading
Contentools recently redesigned their website and I was invited to tear it up!! If you haven’t heard of Contentools, it is a platform for managing content marketing. It’s pretty nice, you can collaborate, track ideas, write, publish and share- just about everything you’d need to … | Continue reading
Building the "cameras of the future" doesn't necessarily mean that those cameras will actually have a future. In a very frank and straightforward assessment of Lytro's business posted on Backchannel, CEO Jason Rosenthal has tried to explain why his company chose to walk away from … | Continue reading
To the surprise of many, LG released the G5 without the option to use an app drawer. Now a new version of the launcher is available for download that brings the app drawer back. | Continue reading
While we're getting a revamped Micro Machines on mobile someday (it's still in soft launch), people who might want something closer to the original 2D top-down racers will want to pay attention to Pixel Machines. It takes quite obvious inspiration from the classic Micro Machines … | Continue reading
Tech nonprofit Medic Mobile has attained $1 million in unrestricted grant funding from the Peery Foundation for apps that help health workers deliver care to people who lack reasonable access to doctors and hospitals. According to Medic Mobile founder Josh Nesbit, about 10,000 he … | Continue reading
If you’re on T-Mobile and are sporting one of Samsung’s 2016 flagship devices, then your Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge just got a serious software boost. | Continue reading
EA has lashed out at Donald Trump for using copyrighted audio from Mass Effect 2's trailer for a campaign ad."We do not support our assets being used in political campaigns," the video game publisher told GameInformer after Trump retweeted the video in question.By all accounts th … | Continue reading
Successfully taking an idea to market involves many more negotiations than most entrepreneurs realize. First, they must figure out whether to share credit with any partners or advisors who helped them along the way. Then, they need to determine who owns what, and who controls wha … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley might be losing its sex appeal.Workers in the tech industry are increasingly craving stability and — gasp! — work-life balance over the get-rich-or-die-trying startup cultureThat's according to new statistics from recruiting platform Woo, which surveyed 5,000 tech … | Continue reading
DJI, 3DR, Parrot and GoPro are launching their own drone advocacy group to lobby for “policies that promote innovation and safety, and create a practical and responsible regulatory framework.” The Small UAV Coalition, which launched with participation from DJI, 3DR, Amazon Prime … | Continue reading
Last week, a gaming classic received an impressive new expansion, but its progressive take on certain characters is making some fans angry. Last week, developer Beamdog released the Siege of Dragonspear expansion for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, and some gamers are angry that … | Continue reading
A federal judge has approved BP’s $20 billion settlement over its 2010 oil spill, the Associated Press reports. First reached in October, the final settlement amount accounts for civil claims against the company set forth by the Department of Justice and five Gulf states. US Atto … | Continue reading
Nest is coming under fire following an announcement that Revolv, a smart home startup it acquired two years ago, would be permanently shutting off its product starting May 15th. The decision, announced in a quiet note on Revolv's website at some point in the last month, has gone … | Continue reading