My mom was wrong about violent video games; it’s the family-friendly stuff that’s treacherous.This past week I joined the millions of newly-minted devotees in Stardew Valley, a game that transports players into the dirt-caked boots of a humble farmer. I enjoy the leisurely days w … | Continue reading
Last year we reported that Truecaller — the popular, smart phonebook app and startup — was looking to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. But while there has been no development on that front, the startup has been on a consolidation kick as it aims to become cash-flow p … | Continue reading
HTC Vive games have to overcome a fundamental barrier: they've got to be good enough to justify flailing around at things no one else can see. Anyone walking around the Verge offices late last week, for example, would have caught me standing perfectly still in the middle of our V … | Continue reading
Batman v. Superman has always promised ground-shaking action, but theatergoers in New York City will have the opportunity to really feel it thanks to 4D cinema. The upcoming superhero flick will show at NYC's first ever 4DX theaters, with the technology providing environmental ef … | Continue reading
Williamson Chong Architects have designed Bala Line House in Toronto, Canada.The now de-commissioned Bala Line rail – once used for an ... | Continue reading
The champion entered the room to the machine-gun clicking of camera shutters. He locked eyes with his opponent’s entourage, one of whom was one of the most prominent billionaires on the planet and had just made lofty pronouncements about the importance of the upcoming clash. He l … | Continue reading
Which do you want? Freedom is the ability to set your schedule, to decide on the work you do, to make decisions. Responsibility is being held accountable for your actions. It might involve figuring out how to get paid for... | Continue reading
Die Flüchtlingskrise wirkt sich negativ auf den europäischen Tourismus aus. Das ist das Ergebnis einer online Umfrage unter 164 Entscheidern der Reiseindustrie durch den Travel Industry Club zum Start der Reisemesse ITB-Berlin. Trotzdem erwartet die Manager insgesamt auch für 201 … | Continue reading
Always be shipping: Hot on the heels of Zeeqo acquiring London-based delivery startup ParcelBright, another company helping online sellers ship their wares has picked up funding.Bristol, U.K.-based Zenstores, which offers cloud-based shipping software targeting the ‘long tail’ of … | Continue reading
Mexico is one of Uber’s largest and most profitable markets. Read More | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Amazon is continuing its big push into the brick-and-mortar realm today with the news that it’s opening a new staffed pickup location at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the first Amazon pickup location in the entire state of Georgia. Opening this summer, the Amazon … | Continue reading
Microsoft is dropping support for its Skype for TV application. Starting in June, Skype for TV apps will no longer be supported on televisions from Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, Philips, and more. Microsoft revealed the changes in a support article, noting that "T … | Continue reading
Technology has pushed the “gig” worker into the business model spotlight. Thousands of apps allow independent contractors to connect with each other – and with their work. But, these relationships also come with risks, as gig industry leaders Uber and Lyft know. Both companies ar … | Continue reading
This paper was published in a special issue of ACM Interactions magazine dedicated to “Communities and Technologies”. Cultural heritage is a variegated field of inquiry for human-computer interaction (HCI), including […] | Continue reading
Paper presented at TEI ’16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (Eindhoven, February 2016). This paper presents the design, creation and use of tangible smart replicas in a […] | Continue reading
When it comes to smart devices making our lives easier in the home, it’s not difficult to find countless thermostats, lights, coffee machines and even robots. So it surprised me when New York-based startup HERO announced its latest creation – a smart pill dispenser – that I could … | Continue reading
Fotograf Christopher Horner zeigt auf Twitter ein Zeitgeist-Minidrama in zwei Bildern, das sich am Wochenende bei einem Baseball-Trainingsspiel zwischen den Pittsburgh Pirates und den Atlanta Braves abspielte: Nachdem einem Spieler sein Schläg... | Continue reading
These nine examples of great content come straight from nine different Brandpoint content creators and serve as shining examples of how to do it right. | Continue reading
Paper presented at CSCW 2016, the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (San Francisco, CA, 28 February-03 March, 2016) In this paper we reflect on the […] | Continue reading
Paper published in the Proceedings of Communities & Technologies 2015. It was presented at the conference held in Limerick (Ireland), 27 June-1 July 2015. This paper presents empirical fieldwork conducted […] | Continue reading
While Spotify is acquiring startups expand its messaging and social features, Pandora is also raising its game in the artist-to-fan communications sphere for musicians to better target Pandora’s 80 million users. Today, the music streaming company is launching a service called AM … | Continue reading
As we approach the inevitable rise of VR we’re going to need some better cameras. The $109 Panoporter might be just the thing. This 1080p device features a single camera and a clever lens system that takes a 360-degree view without multiple cameras. It includes videoconferencing … | Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy S7 is one of the hottest and most anticipated phones of 2016 (despite it only being March), like the rest of the world, we were keen to get our hands on the device for a more prolonged test than its unveiling at MWC would allow. With a host of crowd-pleasing fe … | Continue reading
Connected objects are proliferating throughout our homes, even extending into the kitchen, all with the aim of making our lives easier. A new entrant into this space is Tovala, which seeks to use technology to make our food not only better, but healthier. Today the it launched a … | Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy S7 is, without a doubt, the most able iPhone competitor I have ever seen.The Samsung Galaxy S7 is a modest masterpiece of restraint. While the 5.1-inch flagship smartphone is not a great leap-frog over the technological past, Samsung has pushed nearly every des … | Continue reading
If you’ve been waiting for Samsung’s newest smartphones to arrive, the wait is almost over. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be available on March 11 through all the major carriers in the U.S. and in retail stores. While the S7s share many features with their S6 predecessor … | Continue reading
The first generation of Google Glass may have fizzled out, but the idea of a headset that connects you to the online world is still kind of sexy (and maybe a little unsettling), as shown by this new clip from the upcoming film Creative Control. Directed by Benjamin Dickinson, Cre … | Continue reading
Spot instances on AWS can help you save quite a bit of money over paying for a regular virtual machine on EC2. In return, though, these machines may shut down at any time when demand for regular machines increases. Spotinst helps business manage both the cost and management of th … | Continue reading
Hewlett-Packard is launching 15 new printers for graphics professionals, office workers, and high-end consumers today. The new products show that HP, the world’s largest printer maker, is still trying to be the innovation leader in a mature market, and it is leading the charge wi … | Continue reading
When the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge were announced last month, I’d only had a short amount of time to get my hands-on the device, but having now spent three days using it as my daily driver, it’s time to take a look at the best and worst of the handset. There’s a more detailed … | Continue reading
The Internet is awash with gloom-and-doom predictions about the death of many unicorns, a down market for investing in startups, falling public company multiples and a massive disconnect between private and public valuations. Read More | Continue reading
Their feature sets don’t necessarily speak to a grandiose vision from Samsung regarding the company’s future. They don’t offer solutions to problems users weren’t aware they had. They don’t shed grams and millimeters in exchange for compromised battery life. In many ways, the S7 … | Continue reading
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.For this week’s column, I’ve been testing two new smartphones from a big handset mak … | Continue reading
Samsung Galaxy S7 reviewOn the edge of perfectionBy Dan SeifertHere’s the thing about smartphones: they are a lot better when they have big screens. Virtually everything we do with smartphones is enhanced by a larger display: messaging, playing games, watching video, reading arti … | Continue reading
This one's been a long time coming. Last year, we reviewed Intel's Skylake-based Core i7 6700K and lauded its brutally fast gaming performance, where its combination of architectural improvements plus higher levels of memory bandwidth translated into tangibly faster, smoother gam … | Continue reading
Join us October 13-14, 2016 for a value-packed experience that will define the digital commerce industry. Get Super Early Bird pricing before March 18! | Continue reading
Drum roll please: Pinterest is now a part of the CoSchedule editorial calendar! Learn how this feature can help you schedule Pinterest pins now. | Continue reading
Smarketing is the harmonious alignment of sales and marketing teams. A 5 step process for doing it right and reaping revenue rewards | Continue reading
It’s not that I don’t know how to cook or that I don’t want to cook – I just don’t have the counterspace to do so in my tiny New York apartment. At least, that’s what I tell my mom about my constant take-out habits. Y-Combinator backed Tovala aims to fix this issue for many young … | Continue reading
We created an artistic installation: 12.000 wooden sticks that are hanging from the ceiling. This installation attracts everyone’s looks! | Continue reading
In an announcement today, Japan-based Mizuho Bank Ltd., and technology firm Fujitsu Labs Ltd., have revealed the successful operation trial of blockchain | Continue reading
A page from Xiaomi’s Polish website states that the Mi 5 and Mi 4s will soon go on sale in Europe. | Continue reading
Do you make a good first impression? Your brand identity is the key to targeting the right customers online with a more effective internet marketing strategy. | Continue reading
Amazon is debuting its first live TV show tonight – a 30-minute daily fashion and beauty segment featuring a former Miss America, an ex-Big Brother star and an MTV presenter as its hosts. From the ‘Style Code Live‘ trailer it looks insufferably cheerful, with Rachel Smith, Franki … | Continue reading
Eltern, Regierungen und Schulen wissen: Programmieren lernen ist heute für Kinder genauso wichtig, wie eine Sprache wie Englisch zu lernen. Um dies zu erreichen, braucht es allerdings pädagogische Plattformen und nun hat Sony ihr Konzept... | Continue reading
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost, our early-stage growth program at The Next Web Conference. With the eleventh edition of our flagship Amsterdam conference coming up in M … | Continue reading
HRS - Hotel Reservation Service: Köln (ots) - Pünktlich zur ITB hat das Hotelportal HRS die Technologie des Start-ups conichi unter der Bezeichnung "HRS Smarthotel" in seine eigene App integriert. Kunden, die die HRS-App auf ihrem Smartphone installiert haben, können nun mobil im … | Continue reading