To celebrate the first birthday of the Google Store (formerly, the hardware section of the Play Store), Google is shaving $50 off the price of the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X. Other retailers are joining in the fun, and some promos are even better than Google’s. | Continue reading
WhatsApp is reportedly the next company in the government's firing line in the great encryption debate, with a wiretapping case where encryption is blocking investigators as the backdrop. | Continue reading
HTC and Oculus are gearing up to begin shipping their high-end VR headsets this month onwards and that should certainly give gamers a reason to be excited. But if you’re worried about your existing PC game collection collecting dust, we’ve got some good news. Valve has announced … | Continue reading
Yet more proof that Minecraft is more than just a game comes our way today. Microsoft has plans to use the platform, which it bought for $2.5 billion acquisition, to help kids learn and for virtual reality, and we can add artificial intelligence development to that list, too. Rea … | Continue reading
The Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR are all scheduled for retail releases before Q3 2016, so let's take this opportunity to look at what each model has to offer, how much money it'll cost, and whether or not it's even worth bothering with just yet. | Continue reading
Machines are kicking our butts in board games. We might as well give them sports as well. Bowing to the inevitable, the government of Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, is rolling out the red carpet for our future ruling class by announcing plans for a robot Oly … | Continue reading
North Warrandyte House is a project completed by Alexandra Buchanan Architecture in Victoria, Australia. A contemporary bushland retreat ... | Continue reading
UKW-Radios in Smartphones? Gibt es so gut wie nicht mehr. Warum weiß niemand so recht, zumal die Empfänger-Module auf vielen Platinen nach wie vor verbaut sind und schlicht von der Software nicht angesprochen werden. Der analoge Rundfunk... | Continue reading
We've been waiting to drive the Acura NSX since it was first announced in 2011. Was the wait worth it? Can the 2017 Acura NSX live up to the legendary first generation car? Let's take this beautiful beast for a ride and find out. Read more...More about Cars, Acura, Tech, Gadgets, … | Continue reading
Chris Moody, Director of Content and Social Marketing at Oracle Marketing Cloud, and Randy Frisch, Co-Founder and COO of Uberflip, join the Business of Story Podcast to reveal the strategy to fully engage your customers and map your story. | Continue reading
I climbed out of the all-new 2017 Acura NSX and sat next to the Thermal Club race track outside Palm Springs, California in a huff.The reason for my snit was simple: After four laps of the track, the car hadn't performed as I hoped it would.The exhaust note wasn't deep, crackling … | Continue reading
Enterprise communications is not a sector that typically generates palpable excitement. In the enterprise, the plumbing is never as exciting as the fixtures, and people spend more time noticing what communications enables than how it’s delivered. It doesn’t help that enterprise c … | Continue reading
Hear from Kapost CEO as he explains the difference between Kapost and a CMS, and how they work together to support content velocity. | Continue reading
Implementing video for your business doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. | Continue reading
With SXSW kicking off in Texas this weekend, there was a whole lot you missed out on if you spent the weekend away from your screens and ignoring the world of tech news. Luckily for you, however, we were paying attention while you were doing other things. So all you need to do is … | Continue reading
Nintendo masterpiece Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been released on numerous platforms - N64, GameCube, and most recently on 3DS. But you've never seen it like this.Death Mountain's crater area has been remade using Unreal Engine 4. In short, there's lots of very pretty lava.The tec … | Continue reading
An assumption popular now in the blockchain space reads that consumers are not interested in blockchain technology and how it works. | Continue reading
VIDEO: Highlights from Sunday’s games NEWS OF THE MORNING Cousins, Kings at odds again | Cavs all business in L.A. | Gap between Thunder and elite grows | Raptors want Lowry handling ball more at crunch time | Iggy-less Warriors face test No. 1: Cousins, Kings at odds as season w … | Continue reading
Samsung sold some 100,000 Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones in South Korea during their first two days on sale, according industry data. | Continue reading
I find group chats on any platform horribly annoying. I can see why they are necessary in some cases but for the most part, it’s just noise. Well, messaging app Telegram must know something I don’t because its latest update is allowing users to up the number of people in their su … | Continue reading
The UK government is continuing to try to push much criticized surveillance powers legislation through parliament, with the bill in question — the Investigatory Powers bill — getting its second reading in Parliament tomorrow. Read More | Continue reading
Qualcomm is introducing its virtual reality software development kit (SDK) for Snapdragon-based smartphones and virtual reality headsets. The mobile-chip giant wants to stoke demand for the already red-hot VR business by making it easy for developers to create games and apps that … | Continue reading
Apple's refusal to create a backdoor that would help the FBI get into an iPhone that once belonged to a terrorist caused a number of reactions from businessmen, IT experts and politicians. Few, however, have the ability to summarize different aspects of a complex issue (and throw … | Continue reading
In 2009, the Obama Administration launched Apps.Gov, looking to revolutionize the way the federal government buys commercial technology and cloud-based products. The launch was a product of multiple factors: the desire for increased cloud-based products inside government, the pus … | Continue reading
Happy π day!It’s a big week for The Verge with four major events scheduled: the South by Southwest festival, the GDC gaming show, the Baselworld Swiss watch event, and the final Go match pitting man against machine. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Wie identifiziert man eine Person auf einem Video oder Bild, die ihr Gesicht versteckt und vielleicht nur ihre entblößte Hand zum Victory-V erhebt? Genau so: Ahmad Hassanat von der Mu'tah University in Jordanien hat zusammen mit ein paar... | Continue reading
Initially, the Internet was built for text, and technology has learned how to read at a pretty advanced level. However, the web has become increasingly visual, and tech has not fully kept up: the Internet can read, but it can’t see. In 2016, that will change. Image recognition an … | Continue reading
Goldgenie has announced its 24K gold-plated "Stardust" Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge - for a cool $3,000. Do you think this is a good investment or a good way to get your phone stolen? | Continue reading
Russmedia Digital GmbH: Wie hat die digitale Vernetzung die Tourismusbranche verändert? Experten präsentieren Strategien und Erfahrungsberichte, geben Tipps und Handlungsempfehlungen. Sind auch Sie dabei! Schwarzach (ots) - VOL.AT FORUM Tourismus: Digitalisierung & ... | Continue reading
After the Olympics, and many other human sports, have become mired in cheating allegations, you might be excited to hear that from 2017, we may no longer need people to compete for gold at all. Following the World Drone Prix in Dubai this weekend, which saw a 15-year-old British … | Continue reading
Minecraft has long been a testing ground for people to explore and experiment, but the sandbox game will soon host players of a very different kind: artificial intelligences.Starting in July, Minecraft will be used to test the logic of AI programs. Imagine having an AI buddy that … | Continue reading
Microsoft has quietly unveiled a new platform designed to harness the power of Minecraft to expedite artificial intelligence (AI) development. Developed by a team led by Katja Hofmann, a researcher at Microsoft’s Machine Learning and Perception Group in the company’s Cambridge-ba … | Continue reading
Cryptsy used to be one of the more prominent Bitcoin and altcoin exchanges in the realm of digital currency, even though there have always been minor issues with the platform since day one. Things took a turn for the worse when Cryptsy owner Paul Vernon announced the exchange had … | Continue reading
Tired and unmotivated all the time? Learn the signs of burnout and how event planners can avoid it. Burnout is a common occurrence in many creative fields, including event planning. As planners, we run the gauntlet of stressful situations: financial decisions and their impact, lo … | Continue reading
Microsoft has quietly stopped supporting bitcoin payments just over one year after it (quietly) added support for the crypto currency within its Windows Store. Read More | Continue reading
ISES' Accelerate conference will span three days and multiple London-based venues in 2016, as well as include the inaugural Creative Disruptors Awards. | Continue reading
Den fantastischen Soundtrack von Hotline Miami, dem ersten Teil der erstaunlichen Videospiel-Reihe, gibt es jetzt endlich auch auf Vinyl - "Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number" konnte man bereits vor drei Jahren kaufen.Eine Vorfinanzierungsaktion von L... | Continue reading
So many factors may have worked for making your app popular. It may have been a great PR campaign, or you hit the right chord with your influencer marketing strategy. The point is that all these viral factors are short-lived. Once the initial buzz dies down, most apps seem to los … | Continue reading
A report from China suggests that the upcoming Meizu Pro 6 flagship smartphone will come with 6GB of RAM and a Samsung Exynos 8890 processor. | Continue reading
An aging population and increased urbanization are set to dramatically change America's transport needs, and the government wants to do something about it. In 2015, the Department of Transportation unveiled its Smart City challenge, a competition for mid-sized cities to their ret … | Continue reading
Microsoft first started accepting Bitcoins as a payment method for Xbox games and Windows apps around a year ago. Bitcoins could be used to fund a Microsoft Account, allowing owners to purchase content from the Windows and Xbox games, music, and video stores. Microsoft has ended … | Continue reading
IMG's five-kilometre running event, The Color Run has added Renault, Capri-Sun and Alpen to its roster of partners for 2016. | Continue reading
Optimizing for mobile goes beyond just having a responsive website. Here are the 4 hacks for optimizing your site for optimal user experience. | Continue reading
While the majority of fans might rely on their knowledge of the game, popular sports analysts, water cooler talk and a gut feeling, machine learning scientists are building a predictor tool to help the masses complete the ultimate bracket and win a few bucks from the office pool. … | Continue reading
I've been in Seoul, South Korea for the past week covering the gripping Go face-off between human champion Lee Se-dol and DeepMind AI AlphaGo, and it's been endlessly fascinating. There wasn't a game today, though, so I headed on down to the arty student district of Hongdae to do … | Continue reading
Bad Füssing (ots) - Der niederbayerische Kurort Bad Füssing hat das Jahr 2015 zum zwölften Mal in Folge mit einem Plus bei den Gästeankünften abgeschlossen. Europas... | Continue reading
Samsung has posted three clever new commercials promoting the water-resistance rating and Gear VR compatibility of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge featuring Lil' Wayne and Wesley Snipes. | Continue reading
Microsoft has stopped accepting Bitcoin payments for apps and content in its Windows 10 store for desktop and mobile, reveals an updated support page spotted by Softpedia. That’s a bummer for fans of the cryptocurrency hoping for it to gain more mainstream traction. The company a … | Continue reading