Sometimes, it seems like the tech world is inexorably bending towards a future full of curved devices. At MWC in Barcelona, we saw yet another prototype display, this time from English firm FlexEnable. Now, this isn't a working device of any kind — it's essentially just a screen … | Continue reading
Fitness gadget-maker Fitbit tumbled 16% in after-hours trading, with investors disappointed by the company’s guidance for the current quarter. Fitbit is forecasting $420 million to $440 million in revenue for the current quarter and adjusted earnings per share is expected to be b … | Continue reading
Doom publisher Bethesda has detailed how its territory control mode, Warpath, will work.It's essentially the genre's familiar King of the Hill mode with a twist: the capture point moves in a circular pattern around the map on a clearly marked trajectory. On the opposite side of t … | Continue reading
We go hands on with Sony's latest range of smartphone offerings, in this quick look at the Sony Xperia X, Xperia XA, and Xperia X Performance! | Continue reading
Uber is hosting a conference call regarding Uber driver Jason Dalton, who is suspected in the killing of six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday night. The call, which includes Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, and Ed Davis and Margaret Richardson of Uber’s safety a … | Continue reading
Boy, am I excited! The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is coming to the greatest place in the world: Brooklyn, New York. I live in Brooklyn, and travel all over the country to visit cities with awesome startups. Now, I’m happy to announce that you guys are finally coming to me. The … | Continue reading
Because of a bad back, Donatas Motiejunas will be back in Houston. Because the 7-foot forward could not get clearance for a back injury that required surgery nearly a year ago, the Pistons voided a three-team trade that included the Rockets and 76ers. Yahoo Sports was first to re … | Continue reading
Trade settlement giant DTCC has announced it is to host a blockchain event next month in New York City. | Continue reading
BARCELONA — We all use mapping apps to get from one location to another when we're outside, but we could soon use them for indoor navigation, too.At Mobile World Congress on Monday, I got to experience for myself how indoor navigation works with a Project Tango device. (Google's … | Continue reading
Lest you forgot about Burly Men at Sea, the developers have revealed a new trailer for the game, along with some new info on how it plays. The idea is that you don't actually interact with the characters, but you manipulate the viewport of the world, in order to explore the world … | Continue reading
Microsoft Next Lock Screen just got a massive update that brings Fingerprint Unlock, Smart Contacts, and several other features to your fingertips. | Continue reading
Kabam is laying 8 percent of its mobile game company workforce today as part of a strategic move to focus on a more narrow type of game that it knows well. It’s not clear exactly how many jobs are affected, as Kabam isn’t disclosing those details. Kevin Chou, the chief executive … | Continue reading
The first of the major 2016 flagship smartphones have been announced - the LG G5 and the Samsung Galaxy S7. Here's how they stack up against the competition. | Continue reading
Last December, a group of electric vehicle and green energy enthusiasts — including Elon Musk — sent an open letter to the head of California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, urging the agency to force Volkswagen to build more electric models instead of repair the some 600,000 … | Continue reading
Maybe warp speed isn't science fiction after all. This British supercar called the AF10 has its own "warp drive" engine system that allows it to produce 2,080 horsepower.See also: Aston Martin teams with Faraday Future to make Tesla competitorCreated by the virtually unknown and … | Continue reading
Samsung's new smartphone will use heat pipe technology to keep itself running cool -- and the company is giving a free Gear VR to anyone who pre-orders a Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge. | Continue reading
GUEST: Imagine if great content found you because it’s smart enough to know who really wants to see it. Over the next ten years, content embedded with machine-learning technology will start to be smart enough to seek out its own audience. This will solve a growing frustration for … | Continue reading
Is your PC a bad enough dude to run Virtual Reality?Our Digital Foundry guru Richard Leadbetter dug into this VR-ready query last month and now Valve has released its very own SteamVR Performance Test.The Portal-themed analysis "measures your system's rendering power using a two- … | Continue reading
Google is doing away with right-side ads. Whether you manage SEO and PPC, or just search Google on desktop, major changes are coming. Here's what to expect. | Continue reading
After Mashable reported on Saturday that Swagway advised its customers to take a break from hoverboarding, the company now says that direction was the result of a "miscommunication" and its products are safe to use. "Due to an apparent miscommunication, there have been inaccurate … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s online gaming infrastructure is having a rough February. Xbox Live is down for some gamers today, according to complaints on social media. People are complaining that they cannot boot up their digital games. This means that if you own a download-only release like Tria … | Continue reading
A vaginal ring that dispenses an HIV-preventative drug blocked about a quarter of HIV infections in a trial involving 2,600 women in Africa, according to a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine. When the numbers were broken down by age, researchers found that th … | Continue reading
Last summer I was on vacation with my family, watching an episode of Hoarders — as you do — when my dad turned to me and said "This is going to be you, but with books, isn’t it?”I agreed with him. And I was only half jokingSee also: 17 gifts for the bookworm in your lifeWhen I re … | Continue reading
It's been a while since we've heard some news about Breath of Fire 6, the MMORPG take on Capcom's seminal RPG series, surprise! The game is launching in Japan this week, if not right now. The game is currently in pre-launch on Windows and Android, though the official launch and p … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg echoed Google CEO Sundar Pichai and WhatsApp founder Jan Koum today in stating his personal support for Apple in its encryption fight with the FBI. "We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one," Zuckerberg said today at the Mobile World Congress in Barce … | Continue reading
Facebook is practically king at reminding you when your friends are celebrating their birthdays, pushing you to say hi and wish them well. Today, the company will now encourage you to leave a video — with the ‘Birthday Video Cam.’ When you access your Facebook via mobile (iOS onl … | Continue reading
A US district judge has ruled that bitcoins are a kind of intangible property in an ongoing civil case in California. | Continue reading
If you ever wanted to re-enact Speed but without that pesky bomb or fast driving, you're in luck as Bus Simulator 16 will bring the excitement of transporting commuters to Steam on 2nd March.Despite the title, this latest job simulator is not developed by Euro Truck Simulator's S … | Continue reading
Verizon has teamed up with Samsung to begin field testing their 5G equipment on Galaxy devices in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading
Ever felt like cranking up your 3D printer and making fossil recreations suitable for living room décor?Now you can, thanks to a free website under the auspices of Duke University that allows registered users to peruse a library of some 9,000 digital scans of fossils uploaded to … | Continue reading
Google is trying to give the text message an overhaul. It's partnering with major phone carriers including Sprint, T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and Vodafone to succeed SMS and MMS — the standards used to send text and picture messages — with a newer communications sta … | Continue reading
Rund 50 Teilnehmer erlebten mit events und Abu Dhabi Tourism Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) vier sonnige Tage mit Wüste, Wasser, Adrenalin und Lifestyle in der Hauptstadt der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate. Das kreativste Bild der Teams von der Citytour in Abu Dhabi möchte eve … | Continue reading
This year is already shaping up to be the year virtual reality (VR) goes mainstream. In January, Oculus Rift stole the spotlight at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by (finally) announcing a $599 price and late Q1 ship date. HTC and Sony have also confirmed launc … | Continue reading
Facebook is rolling out a way to make wishing "happy birthday" to your friends a little more personal.The company announced a feature on Monday that allows users to record 15-second videos that can be shared to a friend's timeline. You'll also be able to select from various birth … | Continue reading
Birthdays on Facebook have become a dystopian chore. Typing “HBD” or just “Happy Birthday!” on a friend’s profile is basically the least human way to interact with them. So Facebook is pushing people to record more intimate greetings with its new Birthday Cam feature launching to … | Continue reading
Facebook's plan to turn the News Feed into a personalized video channel faces a roadblock in the form of "happy birthday" messages, which until today have almost entirely taken the ancient form of text. Lol! That begins to change today with the launch of birthday video cam, a fea … | Continue reading
Skype is announcing that on March 24, its Qik video messaging service will be shuttered. But dry your tears, the company was also quick to point out that most of the app’s features were already integrated into the core functionality of Skype. You may remember Qik as a standalone … | Continue reading
Amazon’s X-Ray for Movies and TV Shows – the feature that brings additional content, like actor bios and other background information – is now available on Amazon Video and Prime Video on the web. HTML5 was actually one of the few major platforms Amazon had yet to address with th … | Continue reading
When a Yelp employee uncovers a difficult working situation, she gets fired for her complaint. Was that the right way to handle it or should Yelp have hugged its haters? | Continue reading
The Microsoft Garage division just launched two business apps on Android to get your products noticed and your team productive. | Continue reading
After 2 Teardowns of SaaS homepages (Close.io and Contactually) and their marketing, I wanted to share a checklist for SaaS homepages. What’s the purpose of your SaaS homepage? Front App says that “SaaS products have in common the fact that they must convince potential customers … | Continue reading
The nonprofit Pew Research Center today released the results of a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults regarding the Apple-FBI encryption debate, and the results may be surprising to the technology industry, which has largely sided with Apple. The results show that 38 percent of … | Continue reading
The daily fantasy sports market rose dramatically in the past few years with the rise of DraftKings and FanDuel. But in 2015, regulators closed in, with some declaring the betting on sports outcomes amounted to illegal gambling, rather than legal skill-based wagering as the compa … | Continue reading
Google is rolling out its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that will supposedly enable lightning fast mobile Web browsing. Without naming sources, Ad Age said Google will introduce the pages on Feb. 24. With the new pages, Google continues to emphasize the importance of speed in ac … | Continue reading
Nothing like starting off the week with a surprise, and I'd have to say that Dungeon Raid [$0.99 / Free] developer Fireflame Games releasing a brand new puzzle RPG is about as big of a surprise that there is. For a little backstory, Dungeon Raid was released more than 5 years ago … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Mark Zuckerberg is on Apple's side, but we're still not sure what he'd do if the FBI asked him to help break into a customer's encrypted phone. The Facebook CEO and founder gave his thoughts on a variety of topics in a keynote conversation on Monday, closing up the fi … | Continue reading
Halo’s greatest players are fighting for more than just bragging rights. Microsoft announced today that 16 teams from across the globe have earned a spot in the Halo World Championship, which features players competing in Halo 5: Guardians. The event has a prize pool of $2.5 mill … | Continue reading
Today’s mobile landscape is dominated by a handful of companies –Samsung, Apple, and Huawei — making it exceedingly difficult for a new company to generate the capital and the buzz necessary to compete. That’s why Nextbit, a small company formed by veterans of some of the industr … | Continue reading