MutiNet's ResetPlug sounds like a serious gadget device you can buy with American dollars and plug into a wall, but it might as well be commentary on modern life. The smart plug connects to your Wi-Fi, and if it detects an outage in your internet service, it power cycles your Wi- … | Continue reading
On the first day of the Tech & Policy track of Consensus 2016, there were talks on law enforcement & blockchain and decentralizing existing markets. | Continue reading
Tesla today shared details of how effective its particulate filters are. Spoiler alert: They are so good, not only do they clean up the air inside the car, they make the world outside the car cleaner, too. It may not be obvious why this matters: The company is aiming squarely at … | Continue reading
Last week I attended my first Open MVP day since I got the Microsoft MVP award. It was a great experience and I wanted to share what I learned and shout out to the great professionals I met there. For me, it’s an honor to be part of this | Continue reading
Inside of two minutes, a Tesla in Bioweapon Defense Mode reduces air 10x dirtier than in Beijing to a healthy level. At the same time, a Model S or Model X scrubs the outside air clean, too. | Continue reading
The University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine unveiled its CT scanner for horses, the Equimagine, this past week. The system is comprised of two massive robot-controlled arms that look like they belong in a car factory more than a veterinary school. But I guess m … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever forged a connection with someone because you had the same favorite movie or TV show or book, a new startup called Tastemates has built a social network around that experience. Or as CEO Jon Vlassopulos put it, “We’re trying to codify serendipity” — those surprising … | Continue reading
Mobile gaming and free-to-play are inextricably linked at this point, and it's often used as a big talking point for console and PC gamers who complain about mobile gaming. But the reality is that free-to-play makes a lot of sense for a lot of companies. And Epic Games is the nex … | Continue reading
Doc Rivers said Monday that he would not break up the Los Angeles Clippers' big three of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and D'Andre Jordan during the offseason - regardless of any trade offers that may arise. | Continue reading
The giant has finally woken up; China has entered the blockchain race. Apart from the banking consortium and the Hyperledger project that have respectively brought the banking sector and tech companies together, we now have one more blockchain alliance, originating from China. Ch … | Continue reading
Michael Dell revealed the new names, and yes we are talking multiple names, for the artist formerly known as the Dell-EMC deal today. EMC will be deprecated for the main branding Dell Technologies, but will live on for the enterprise brand Dell EMC while the client services busin … | Continue reading
Brazilian artist L7M (previously) depicts owls, ducks, sparrows, and other birds materializing from a chaotic swirl of dripped paint and flourishes of spray. The graffiti birds not only contrast urban and natural elements, but also depict a distinct clash of both abstract and fig … | Continue reading
With all these smart eyewear patents and research studies popping up over the last couple years, it's looking more and more like we're all going to be seeing the world from behind high-tech lenses.Sony filed a patent for smart contact lenses, joining the likes of Google and Samsu … | Continue reading
Bitcoin payments firm BitPay unveiled a new bitcoin debit card during a demo session at Consensus 2016 today. | Continue reading
Stephen Curry was expected back on the court for more light shooting Monday to test his sprained right knee, still with the hope he could be ready to return for Golden State's Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals Saturday at Portland. | Continue reading
It's been a long time since we've seen an update this big for Google Keyboard. Better gesture suggestions and more auto-correct options are part of the package. | Continue reading
Oprah's next star turn will be in the upcoming HBO Films effort, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Deadline reports that the mogul, who is producing the film with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alan Ball, will star as Deborah Lacks, the daughter of the woman whose cancero … | Continue reading
Shyp has finished rolling out a new packaging pricing model to all its customers that includes variable shipment pricing based on the packaging that the company provides. Shyp is still playing around with its business model and, to be sure, over time these tweaks will add up. The … | Continue reading
After 13 years of record-breaking revenue growth, Apple finally fell back to Earth this year. iPhone sales slumped, and the company's revenue fell 13 percent compared with the same period last year. As the warning signs emerged about this slowdown, the stock fell about 30 percent … | Continue reading
Warning: this post includes graphic content.I went over to a friend's house the other day to have some quality time in his Oculus Rift. He has a nice apartment, and instead of hiding the Oculus away in a bedroom, he's devised a setup where you can sit at the kitchen table in his … | Continue reading
It's crazy to think that there was a time where few things were hotter than anything to do with Bejeweled. Back in the 2000's when PopCap was still a tiny company few people had heard of, it seemed like everyone knew Bewjeled. I've owned a variety of the game on practically every … | Continue reading
Should you be using Tumblr for your business? Perhaps. It’s not a platform many businesses are familiar with. They struggle to understand it. At first glance, it’s all a bit overwhelming. Some even dip a toe in the water, only to give up far too early. Many others, still believin … | Continue reading
The online textbook service Chegg today announced that it has acquired Imagine Easy Solutions for $42 million. Imagine Easy is the company behind online bibliography and research tools like EasyBib (which was also its first product) and similar tools like Citation Machine, BibMe … | Continue reading
If you own a $300,000 coupe, Rolls-Royce is guessing that you don't want to be seen with Samsonite luggage in the boot. It may be right; I'll never be rich enough to know. But maybe you will be, in which case you'll want to know about these bags that Rolls has designed to complem … | Continue reading
While many factors are driving the tipping point in the online distribution of insurance, the thread that ties it all together is simple: changing demographics. Insurance companies cannot expect to sell the same way to a cohort with fundamentally different purchasing habits and e … | Continue reading
In your mind's eye, picture a sedan in the Tron universe. What are you imagining? Something akin to a scaled-up light cycle, I'm guessing?Yeah, this isn't that.Introduced at the Beijing auto show last week, Chevrolet's Tron: Legacy Cruze show car is, for lack of a better descript … | Continue reading
Google Search is now translating words for you, which is handy unless you just don’t care to see the translated text. The search feature only happens if you query a word not in your native tongue. For instance, searching for ‘gracias’ returned a translation to English for me (‘th … | Continue reading
Sergio Marchionne, one of the most interesting and pragmatic automotive executives in the world, became the new CEO of Ferrari today. What does it mean for the storied brand? Change is coming.The CEOs of big corporations are usually well-polished PR machines who never deviate fro … | Continue reading
Do you think your industry is too "boring" for content marketing? The copywriters at ProPRcopy explain why that probably isn't true. | Continue reading
Towards the end of February, Don't Run With a Plasma Sword [Free] developer XperimentalZ Games announced their next mobile gaming project, a mashup of pinball and brick breaker appropriately called Pinball Breaker Forever. At that time they only had a few early screens of the gam … | Continue reading
When I first saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I was a little confused by that last scene. Why was Luke Skywalker just hanging out by himself on that rock looking out at the sea? How long had he been standing there? And for the love of all that's holy, why didn't he say something … | Continue reading
Lost bags may be a thing of the past for passengers flying on Delta later this year. The airline announced plans to introduce RFID luggage tags at 344 airports by the end of August that could essentially bring an end to misplaced and lost luggage for Delta passengers. Contin … | Continue reading
Efficient growth has always been rewarded by the market, but as cash becomes more constricted, particularly at the late stage, this efficiency will become more and more important. Read More | Continue reading
Google has just released factory images containing the May Android security patch. | Continue reading
Smartphone users shoot a lot of video, but turning those videos into something special still takes a lot of work. A newly launched app called Videorama aims to solve that problem by offering a powerful video editor that’s also super simple to use. In other words, you don’t need t … | Continue reading
I didn’t expect to like the HTC 10. It had been a while since HTC built a truly great device, and my colleague Ben Woods, who reviewed the phone, thought it did a poor job of standing out in a field where competitors seem to offer much more. On paper, I agreed. LG tried to revolu … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets has revealed footage from his unfinished project 1666 Amsterdam after recently acquiring the rights to the game from Ubisoft.YouTuber Brandon Sheffield captured this offscreen footage from Désilets' presentation at the Reboot Develop C … | Continue reading
When pop historians look back at Drake’s career, they’ll see 2015 as the year in which he transformed from a garden-variety pop star into an all-around cultural force. His surprise mixtape (If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late) became one of the year’s most popular albums, and hi … | Continue reading
Smartphones are excellent for recording quality video, but they are still lacking when it comes to sound. Shure, the microphone company, has a few solutions to make the audio recording better on the iPhone, and we've been testing out the MV88 stereo condenser microphone to see ju … | Continue reading
Less than a month after Uber settled two class-action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts, another one has popped up. This time, the suit pertains to all current and former Uber drivers in the United States, except for those in California and Massachusetts.The suit, filed ye … | Continue reading
Connected cars can talk to each other (vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V), and they’re starting to be able to talk to the city they’re driving around (vehicle-to-infrastructure, or V2I). That also means baddies can potentially talk to our cars, as we’ve seen in the experimental hack of … | Continue reading
Google Keyboard for Android has received a significant update today, including a one-handed mode, some design tweaks, and the ability to resize the keyboard's height to your own preference. First off, there's now an option to display borders around the keys so can be more certain … | Continue reading
Switzerland-based photographer Fabian Oefner has built his reputation around unique, high-concept imagery that has earned him a TED Talk in the past, and for good reason: his 2013 series of disintegrating model cars with engine parts flying in every direction were surreal, beauti … | Continue reading
Most fitness trackers are all about numbers. How many steps did you take? How many flights of stairs did you climb? How many projected calories did you burn? But there is one number (an important one, if you’re a health nut) that is left out of almost every fitness tracker on the … | Continue reading
Fan interest in World of Warcraft classic servers is spiking, and Blizzard is apparently willing to talk. The company will sit down with the original designer of the game and the Nostalrius server authors in coming weeks. | Continue reading
After unveiling three new cards earlier today, Supercell just revealed Clash Royale's [Free] next 3 Legendaries - Sparky, Lava Hound, and Miner - and they look fun (though I'll probably never get to play them). Let's start with the Miner, the silliest of the bunch. This goofy-fac … | Continue reading
Google has acquired Synergyse for use as a training tool for Google Apps. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Synergyse is a simple online training platform most widely used in the enterprise space, which is built using the Google Cloud Platform. According to Google, companies … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End will launch next week on 10th May and developer Naughty Dog has just outlined how its multiplayer will work.First off, all additional maps and modes will be free, Naughty Dog noted on the PlayStation Blog. Furthermore, all DLC items will be unlockable … | Continue reading