Scientists at the University of Sussex found that hands-free car kits for mobile devices are actually ‘equally distracting’ to just picking up your device and having a quick chat. In most of the United States, it’s illegal to drive while talking on the phone, a move made to addre … | Continue reading
Apple Integrates Bitcoin Into Apple Pay The Chinese Incentive China in many ways (not least through mining), is home to bitcoin and Chinese investment has been widely recognized as the leading factor in many of the recent price rallies. And if there is one market in the world whe … | Continue reading
Date: 29/06/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationDigital transformation presents a new set of challenges that require novel approaches to integrate new technologies including internet of things, cloud computing, cybersecurity and big data.Engage and learn how senior level executive … | Continue reading
Popular design app Sketch is making a few changes, and it could ruffle some feathers. Instead of buying a flashy new ‘.0’ version when it comes out, you’ll now have to pay an annual licensing fee. Sketch is trying to frame it as a positive move for late adopters. Here’s its phras … | Continue reading
Date: 17/06/2016Venue: StockholmMore informationERA-Can+ promotes cooperation between the European Research Area and Canada in science, technology and innovation (STI) with a broad range of activities and on several levels: policy dialogue, programme cooperation and researcher mo … | Continue reading
Last year, legislators in New York state introduced an ambitious new bill called the Fair Repair Act. The bill's measures are simple, requiring electronics manufacturers to make available the necessary information and parts to repair a device. That means when your phone or smartw … | Continue reading
After being held off the service for a little more than a month, Radiohead's new album A Moon Shaped Pool is about to land on Spotify. The band's ninth LP was originally released on its website, other digital stores, and paid streaming services like Apple Music and Tidal on May 8 … | Continue reading
Twitter is under attack. To be fair, so is virtually every other online service. However, the number of hacked high-profile Twitter accounts is reaching epidemic proportions, with mischief-makers hijacking the streams of Katy Perry, Mark Zuckerberg and even the NFL in recent week … | Continue reading
The Deus Ex universe is expanding into mobile, as Square Enix is taking the wraps off of Deus Ex: Go. The announcement from the big Japanese game publisher and its Montreal studio, Square Enix Montreal, shows that the audience of a billion mobile gamers continues to be an importa … | Continue reading
If you've ever seen any of those crazy all-legendary Hearthstone [Free]decks and wished you had the dust to build one yourself, this Week's Tavern Brawl will fulfill that wish. Cloneball has you picking a class and then throws four copies of a number of random Legendaries in your … | Continue reading
Apple’s annual conference for developers, which kicks off next Monday, is normally when the company previews its newest software for iOS and Mac OS X. But this year’s WWDC isn’t just about new operating systems: starting next week and continuing throughout the fall, Apple will be … | Continue reading
You will have an opportunity to play your darkest Silicon Valley fantasies in Watch Dogs 2.Ahead of E3, video game publisher Ubisoft shared the first details and footage for the sequel to the middling open-world game. 2014's Watch Dogs allowed players to hack an alternate-reality … | Continue reading
The gaming industry is coming together in Los Angeles to get everyone worked up about the next wave of big releases, and we’re gonna start cataloging the news. Starting before E3 and continuing through the week of the show, we’ll keep track of the rumors, teasers, and official re … | Continue reading
Withings, the consumer electronics company now owned by Nokia, today has unveiled its new Body Cardio connected scale. | Continue reading
How would you like to be right at the top of the search engine results pages? You can make that happen if you rank in the Google Knowledge Graph. If you’re unfamiliar with the Google Knowledge Graph, you can see it in action. Just head over to Google and search for something like … | Continue reading
Looking to get ahead of next week's gaming extravaganza, Square Enix today held a pre-E3 live stream dedicated to Deus Ex. In addition to revealing a new mobile "Go" title (aptly, Deus Ex Go), the developer also debuted two new gameplay trailers for Mankind Divided, the full sequ … | Continue reading
Hier kommt ein ernsthaft gutes Marketing-Gag-Gadget von Langnese: Zwei NFC-Ringe, die dafür sorgen, dass Pärchen ihre Lieblingsserien nur gemeinsam schauen können. Die sogenannten Commitment Rings können dazu per Smartphone-App... | Continue reading
The Deus Ex series is all about exploring human augmentation, and now the minds behind the game have teamed up with a number of partners to create prosthetic limbs inspired by the game. Open Bionics, who have previously collaborated with Disney for Marvel and Star Wars-inspired p … | Continue reading
Are you still playing Miitomo [Free], or are you one of the many who've left their little Mii character neglected, locked up in his or her own home, wearing the same clothes for the last few months? Well, Nintendo is hoping that no matter how close you've been with your Mii recen … | Continue reading
By Emily Lewis, BlueBird Strategies Editor’s note: As part of a special arrangement, the article below has been syndicated from the blog of BlueBird Strategies, a Content4Demand partner. Data is the new currency. In today’s increasingly connected world, collecting, managing, anal … | Continue reading
Max Payne and Quantum Break developer Remedy Entertainment is working on two news games, but neither of them will be related to Alan Wake.Remedy's head of communications, Thomas Puha, confirmed this in a state of the studio blog post. "We're working on something else, but at the … | Continue reading
After all the leaks, Watch Dogs 2 is now officially out in the open. Ubisoft's open world hackathon sequel is brighter and busier than the original, and swaps the dark, rainy streets of Chicago for sunny San Francisco and its surrounding bay area. Not only does this change bring … | Continue reading
If you're having a rough Wednesday, I suggest watching Chance the Rapper's performance with Skrillex and Hundred Waters on last night's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. "Show Me Love" is an elegant and simple song about being kind to people and it is only made better by Chance … | Continue reading
Artificial augmentation of humans is the core flashpoint between the different factions in the sci-fi game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, coming on August 23. But mechanically augmented humans aren’t science fiction anymore. Open Bionics, a robotics startup, has created an artificial … | Continue reading
BAFT's newly launched Innovation Council makes serving its members blockchain needs a top priority, and that won't likely change anytime soon. | Continue reading
Pebble has just announced firmware version 3.13 for its Pebble Time series of devices that brings a new weather app and improvements to its Pebble Health software. | Continue reading
BMW announced today that it has won a contract with the Los Angeles Police Department to supply 100 of its compact i3 electric cars. The initiative is a part of LA's "Sustainable City pLAn," which includes a commitment to make half of its light-duty vehicle purchases fully electr … | Continue reading
Today, Canadian artificial intelligence company Maluuba released state-of-the-art results for a type of machine learning focused on teaching computers to read like humans do. Companies like Google, Facebook, and IBM have actively been working on this area of research — known as m … | Continue reading
The cyberpunk style of Deus Ex is coming back with the upcoming August 23 release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The title coming from Square Enix is the sequel to Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which came out in 2011. It continues the story of Adam Jensen, a cybernetic human, about a … | Continue reading
Eidos Montreal's follow-up to 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution is to introduce an all-new challenge mode, featuring self-contained levels, leaderboards and booster packs which can be bought via microtransactions. Dubbed Breach, it's being developed by a team within Eidos Montreal … | Continue reading
Square Enix Montreal is extending its Go series to the Deus Ex universe, with Deus Ex Go due to hit mobile platforms later this year. It follows successful mobile outings for Square's established properties, with Lara Croft Go and Hitman Go both releasing to critical acclaim. Deu … | Continue reading
This week on And Then It Went Viral, we speak to COO and President of Pushfire Marketing, Sean Dolan. We discuss a project he launched early in his online marketing … | Continue reading
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio – Channing Frye was one of just two Cleveland Cavaliers who spoke to the media Wednesday morning after shootaround, so reporters weren’t going to let him get away quickly. That didn’t go over so well with the other guy who spoke, LeBron James, who interrupted o … | Continue reading
Square Enix Montreal is continuing to expand their series of fun and clever GO games based on Square Enix properties. Next up on the list is Deus Ex GO, which promises to be pretty much what it says on the tin: turn-based puzzle-action set in the Deus Ex universe, specifically fe … | Continue reading
Podcasts offer an enormous marketing potential. One in three podcast listeners expect to increase their podcast consumption over the next six months. Nearly one in five Americans ages 18-49 listen to podcasts at least once a month, while nearly one in three men 18-34 listen to th … | Continue reading
After the success of Hitman Go and Lara Croft Go, Square Enix has revealed its third mobile adaptation: Deus Ex Go. The game is coming this summer for phones and tablets, and it looks to follow a very similar structure as its predecessor, with cyborg protagonist Adam Jensen movin … | Continue reading
Wenn es so weitergeht, ist mit dem Schleppen von schwerem Zeug bald vorbei: Nach dem Roboter-Koffer, dem Liefer-Rover und dem Elektro-Bollerwagen kommt hier nun auch noch ein Koffer, den man mittels zweier flacher Kettenbänder mühelos Tre... | Continue reading
I like playing card games and also enjoy The Witcher universe (both the books and the first two games). So, I was intrigued to see everyone who played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt loving Gwent, Geralt's favorite card minigame. I've been hoping we would see the game spun off as a stan … | Continue reading
Microsoft is no longer planning to add a TV DVR feature to its Xbox One console. The software giant originally unveiled plans to add TV DVR to the Xbox One back in August, noting that the feature would arrive some time in 2016. "After careful consideration, we've decided to put d … | Continue reading
The internet is a great place for crowdsourcing data, and according to a new research by Microsoft, online search terms could lead to identifying cancer patients before they’re diagnosed. The research, published this week on The Journal of Oncology, claims that by analyzing searc … | Continue reading
Monster.com announced this morning it has acquired the San Francisco-based startup Jobr, which had been developing a job-finding app the company described as a Tinder for jobs, thanks to its use of swipe-based gestures. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Jobr had raised $2 millio … | Continue reading
Déjà vu all over again: another Tesla crash, and another claim that something mysterious happened in a car with self-driving features. | Continue reading
So it’s time for the second of our twice daily bitcoin price analyses, and things aren’t going to be all that different from this morning. Action throughout the day has been relatively flat, although we did get a bit of a breakout, and managed to get into a long entry earlier in … | Continue reading
Google just released a really cool new app... for iOS. | Continue reading
The University of Calgary in Canada has paid just over $15,000 (CAD $20,000) to restore access to its computer systems following a ransomware attack. Ransomware typically, as its name would suggest, prevents a victim from acessing their files and other services until demands had … | Continue reading
Paradox Interactive is mostly known for its complex strategy games covering wars and situations both real and imagined. Its most famous series in that vein is probably Europa Universalis, but Paradox shepherds several successful strategy brands, including both internally develope … | Continue reading
Disrupt SF 2016 is only a few short months away, and soon thousands of innovators, investors, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts will make their way to the lovely Pier 48 for the best startup show in the Bay Area. Read More | Continue reading
You've probably seen the leaks. Watch Dogs 2 is set in San Francisco and features a new main character. It's also coming this year, on 11th November.Now you're up to speed, Ubisoft will show off the rest of its Watch Dogs reveal live today at 5pm UK time. Tune in for gameplay, in … | Continue reading