The U.S. labor market demonstrated its improvement in the first quarter of 2016 with discernible acceleration in wage growth, as employers react to a tightening labor market by boosting wages. | Continue reading
Independent Pilots Association: Louisville, Kentucky (ots/PRNewswire) - Etwa achtzig Mitglieder der Independent Pilots Association (UPS Piloten), die in Köln, Deutschland, arbeiten, werden die Streikpostenkette von ver.di am Köln Bonn Airport respektieren. Der für heute um ... | Continue reading
Teen horror adventure Oxenfree is coming to PS4 on 31st May as a Director's Cut with all new content like alternate endings, as well as a New Game Plus mode with additional dialogue and locations.This New Game Plus Mode will continue the story of Alex and her friends as they expl … | Continue reading
Samsung revealed that its wearable health devices now reach 150 million users across 130 countries. Ricky Choi, head of medical devices for Samsung Health, told the audience of 4,000 at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco that the company is creating continuing to p … | Continue reading
Google Calendar has installed a button that automatically picks out the best time to have a meeting for all the participants involved. | Continue reading
Nintendo hit one out of the park with its first foray into the smartphone gaming market with its “not a game” Miitomo. To follow that up, Nintendo dropped a release this morning detailing the March 2017 release of its new console — Nintendo NX — and a par of new smartphone titles … | Continue reading
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Well this is one of the surprises I was talking about in our new games roundup earlier this morning. Foursaken Media's War Tortoise [Free] hit the App Store moments ago. We got a hefty hands on back at GDC, and I really dig how they're combining the idea of a clicker and a shoote … | Continue reading
PR experts typically recommend against going on the offensive when faced with a PR crisis. Counter-attacking accusers only makes matters worse, they say. Instead, assume a defensive position, quickly apologize, correct the situation and make amends. Sometimes, however, the best d … | Continue reading
Nearly two years after the smart TV platform Android TV was introduced, Google has finally taken an important step towards shoring up the ecosystem by giving iOS users the ability to control the devices with their phones and tablets. Requiring iOS 8.0 or later, the new Android TV … | Continue reading
Menlo Ventures, the 40-year-old, Sand Hill Road venture firm, has raised a new, $250 million “special opportunities fund,” says a spokeswoman. (The SEC filing is here.) The idea: to address a comparative dearth of capital for startups that are looking for Series B and C funding, … | Continue reading
Samsung’s best pitch to mobile software developers today has to do with numbers. Those who develop for Samsung will have access to 7.7 billion phones, 3.4 billion smartphones, and 5 billion connected devices. That means the South Korean company, which is pitching developers in Sa … | Continue reading
To be honest, I was expecting a Whispers of the Old Gods-centered Tavern Brawl, and instead we got a repeat of Encounter at the Crossroads, the Brawl that has you pick a class, gives you a completely-random deck, and throws you into the match. I've played this Hearthstone [Free] … | Continue reading
After months of anticipating what the hell Nic Cage was going to be doing in the new Snowden movie, we finally get to see him in the first official trailer! Sadly, Cage’s role is only that of a rando NSA guy urging Snowden to “find the terrorist in the internet haystack.” This is … | Continue reading
A new study has shown that a single injection of antibodies that target HIV can protect monkeys from contracting the virus for nearly six months. The study, published today in Nature, is an important step in the development of a new treatment that could prevent HIV infections in … | Continue reading
Google today announced a new feature for its Google Calendar application on Android that should make it a lot easier to schedule meetings. The new “find a time” button comes up with suggestions for meeting times that will fit in to the calendars of everyone you want to invite. Th … | Continue reading
Few commuters today would describe the experience of traveling underneath the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York as exceptional. But that’s exactly how newspaper writers of the day described a then-miraculous train trip in 1909. This system of iron-clad tunnels connecting N … | Continue reading
Nextbit has just announced a huge software update for the cloud-focused Robin handset, as well as a new partnership with audio company AIAIAI. | Continue reading
A person was reportedly found dead in a conference room at Apple's Cupertino campus, local media say, and an investigation is currently underway.Officials are expected to release more information later.Mashable reached out to Apple and the Santa Clara County Sheriff's office for … | Continue reading
And then there’s this: an Indiegogo campaign for the world’s first firefighting drone. As a lover of both drones and crowdfunding campaigns, I nearly wet myself with excitement. But alas. The campaign, it turned out, is a great exercise in how a little bit of basic due diligence … | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission has quietly stepped up its investigation into Android, over fears that Google is exploiting its position in the smartphone market.According to the Journal, the FTC has been meeting with companies to hear concerns a … | Continue reading
Back in 2014, the TiVo released the Roamio OTA, a DVR box designed specifically for cord-cutters that pulled in HD content over-the-air and supported every major streaming service at the time. It was a novel idea, but the execution wasn't great. But since cord-cutting isn't going … | Continue reading
Tinder announced this morning it’s testing a new friend-finding feature called “Tinder Social” in its popular dating app. The idea is to offer a way for you and your group of friends to find and connect with other groups out in the real world. Similar to how Tinder works for find … | Continue reading
Those using Google Calendar alongside Google Apps for Work or Edu can now take advantage of a feature that finds a time for your next meeting. The aptly name ‘find a time’ option scans your calendar for available times to meet up with a contact or coworker, and saves you the trou … | Continue reading
Despite the fact that numerous companies have tried to solve this problem, scheduling meetings is still a hassle. If you use Google for Work or Edu on the desktop, you are probably familiar with how Google lets you find meeting times across your organization already (though the f … | Continue reading
Über-Regisseur Oliver Stone hat ja bekanntlich das Leben des Über-Whistleblowers Edward Snowden verfilmt und damit die NSA-Affäre mehr oder weniger amtlich zu einer zentralen Erzählung der US-Geschichtsschreibung erklärt. J... | Continue reading
Netflix didn’t have a rocket-launcher last quarter, particularly as people expected it to have a whole heap of new customers in the 130 countries it went live with in January, but that could be about to change as it starts to offer in-app billing on Android. Just like when Netfli … | Continue reading
For the past couple of years, Samsung has been releasing headphone and speakers under the Level brand as a clear play against Apple's Beats brand of fashion headphones and Bluetooth speakers. The Level headphones largely match Beats' offerings: there are over-ear, on-ear, and in- … | Continue reading
Bringing distributed ledger technology to the traditional financial sector will be quite a challenge throughout the next few years. Infosys subsidiary EdgeVerve has launched a new blockchain-based software platform to make this transition a lot smoother. Infosys Ventures Into Ban … | Continue reading
Leading Japanese bitcoin exchange bitFlyer has revealed the successful completion of a ¥3 billion ($27 million) funding round, the largest funding round ever by a bitcoin and Fintech company in Japan. In a funding round led by Japanese investor SBI Investment and Tokyo-based vent … | Continue reading
The UK government is looking at the use of blockchains to track student loans and public grants. | Continue reading
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The Charlotte Hornets have been beating the Miami Heat at their own game in their first round series, which is tied at two games apiece with Game 5 on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET, TNT). After the Heat, a team that owned the paint after the All-Star break, destroye … | Continue reading
According to Astro Teller, the Google self-driving car is "close to graduating from X." Parsing out the meaning of that string of words is a little complicated, but basically it means that Alphabet isn't thinking of self-driving cars so much as a crazy "moonshot," but as a thing … | Continue reading
Supercell has constantly been trying to balance the monster that is Clash Royale [Free], and it doesn't plan on stopping any time soon judging by the constant tinkering with all kinds of aspects of the game. In a just-released blog post, Supercell stated that it found some clear … | Continue reading
Protecting your trademark from rivals is an essential part of any successful business. If you have a hit, someone will always want to trade on your name. However, I’m not sure I can agree that Littergram, a UK-only app that lets people report local trash hotspots in the hope of b … | Continue reading
Ubuntu is starting to show up in lot more places lately: tablets, phones, and this neat little computer-on-a-stick created by MeLE, the PGC02U. It's $70, with anIntel BayTrail processor, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. It also comes in Ubuntu orange and has a wee little antenna … | Continue reading
Super Mario Maker just got a lot more metal. Today Nintendo announced that the latest character to be added to the build-your-own Mario game will be none other than Japanese metal idol group Babymetal.Like other characters in the game — which include everything from original Poke … | Continue reading
An unspecified number of Uncharted 4 discs were thieved while shipping to retailers in the United Kingdom, according to a message from Sony's president of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida. A follow-up report at Eurogamer draws a line between the stolen Uncharted 4 discs, a poten … | Continue reading
SpaceX is planning to send a Dragon spacecraft — to Mars. It’s possibly the first step in Elon Musk’s wild vision of a colonized Mars. The SpaceX CEO has previously stated he wants to have humans on the red planet by 2025. This news is based on a single tweet, so details are spar … | Continue reading
Dark Souls and Bloodborne developer From Software is already beginning work on a new IP, according to a translated interview with Chinese outlet GGN Gamer.Translated by NeoGAF users, From president and Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki said of the series' future "rather than … | Continue reading
Image taken from page 8 of ‘1684-1732. Les Voyages à Rome des Ursulines de Flandre’ | Continue reading
Eden, the on-demand tech support company turned office support service, has today announced the launch of the platform in Oakland. That means that Eden’s service now covers all of the Bay Area, from Oakland to San Francisco to the Peninsula, including Palo Alto and Mountain View. … | Continue reading
Call it “Twitch for virtual reality,” except it’s not being done by Twitch. Seattle startup Vreal is announcing it has created a livestreaming platform for VR games. The company wants to make VR — which is often criticized as an isolating technology — into a more social experienc … | Continue reading
Where’s the magic? [Amazon] The databasing and streaming... | Continue reading
SpaceX plans to send its Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018, the company announced today — marking a major first step toward CEO Elon Musk’s goal of sending humans to the Red Planet. The company didn’t say how many spacecraft it will send, but hinted it would conduct a se … | Continue reading
An experienced video game networking coder and long-time programmer has issued a damning appraisal of The Division's problems with exploits and glitches.Glenn Fiedler has an 18-year career in the game industry at developers such as BioShock and Tribes studio Irrational Games, LA … | Continue reading
Android TV is getting a virtual remote on iOS. As with Android version of the same app, it works via Wi-Fi to connect to your Android TV and provides a virtual controller setup, or a virtual touchpad for scrolling around. It’ll come in handy if you tend to lose your remote every … | Continue reading
In a new attempt to move beyond one-on-one dates, Tinder is testing a feature that lets users engage in group chats and arrange meet-ups involving multiple people. Tinder Social is what the company calls this new functionality, and to use it, you'll need to form a group with some … | Continue reading