Opera Mini's new Video Boost feature lets you have more control over your streaming data. | Continue reading
The tracking of citizens' reactions in social media during crises has attracted an increasing level of interest in the research community. In particular, sentiment analysis over social media posts can be regarded as a particularly useful tool, enabling civil protection and law en … | Continue reading
The tracking of citizens' reactions in social media during crises has attracted an increasing level of interest in the research community. In particular, sentiment analysis over social media posts can be regarded as a particularly useful tool, enabling civil protection and law en … | Continue reading
Turn-based strategy infiltration game Invisible, Inc. is coming to PS4 on 19th April, developer Klei Entertainment has announced.It will cost $19.99 (about… | Continue reading
Back in November of last year, St. Lous-based production company Forever an Astronaut announced that they would be creating a series of behind-the-scenes Dev Diary videos on developer Butterscotch Shenanigans and the creation of their latest project Crashlands [$4.99]. As you are … | Continue reading
There is a new Android king in town, and its name is Lollipop. Google released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today, and the gold and silver positions have swapped. Android Lollipop has managed to finally pass Android KitKat in terms of adoption. The … | Continue reading
The sixth season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday April 24th, and this new trailer has us fairly trembling with excitement. Set to the melancholic strains of James Vincent McMorrow's "Wicked Game," it promises a difficult future for the main characters, including the imprisonm … | Continue reading
After 31 years, the Brooklyn Heights Association will end its historic home tours due to visitors sharing photos from inside the private homes on Instagram. The tours offered visitors an opportunity to peek inside the unique residences in that particular neighborhood. It’s an int … | Continue reading
19th century plaster casts, 3D scans, and modern museums' open access policies | Continue reading
League of Legends is getting a few siblings. Developer Riot Games announced today that it has acquired developer Radiant Entertainment. The League of Legends company now owns the studio responsible for the castle-building PC game Stonehearth and fighting game Rising Thunder. Riot … | Continue reading
Want cool behind the scenes footage that we need to self destruct? Follow us on Snapchat, username:androidauth. Also be sure to ask us questions, we have a new Snapchat Q&A show where we will help answer your questions! | Continue reading
Google has just released new Android distribution numbers for March 2016, and Marshmallow is on the rise. | Continue reading
Ubisoft has snuck one of its own development studios in the midst of midtown Manhattan in its latest post-apocalyptic adventure The Division.As you can see in Ian's video below, the Ubisoft Manhattan office contains plenty of artwork and decorations from Grow Home and a poster fo … | Continue reading
Microcephaly is "now only one of several" birth abnormalities associated with the Zika virus, Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said during a press conference today. Fetal death, placental insufficiency, fetal growth retardation, and injury to a fe … | Continue reading
Happy International Women’s Day. This year, the theme is “Pledge For Parity,” meaning committing to achieving equality around status and pay. Last year, the World Economic Forum predicted that it would take until 2133 to achieve worldwide gender parity. Meanwhile, many tech compa … | Continue reading
The Olympics have always been a showcase for new television technologies, but this the event is going one step further: large swaths of it will be filmed in virtual reality. According to Advanced Television, the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) confirmed that it will capture “ … | Continue reading
IT consulting giant Infosys believes that blockchain technology will impact finance faster than incumbents have projected. | Continue reading
This means that Chromecast has finally cracked the top five players in Connected TV Devices. | Continue reading
Austin 3:16 says I just matched three gems! Mobile game publisher company Scopely announced today that it will publish WWE Champions, a match-3 puzzle game based on the wrestling company and featuring its famous stars like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. WWE Champions is av … | Continue reading
As you can probably tell by my recent reviews, I like Telltale games quite a lot, mostly for their heavy narrative focus and lack of traditional puzzles. While not all the company's games reach the same heights, I'm willing to try any game Telltale develops. Recently, Telltale co … | Continue reading
According to a new patent, Facebook is exploring new software designed to scan the social network looking for emerging slang and nicknames. Once found, the software would deposit the terms neatly into a “social glossary” for further analysis. The patent, which was granted in Febr … | Continue reading
For most of recorded history, humanity has reflected on its own mortality via works of great literature or badass paintings of skulls. Adults today have Teens React, which is far more harrowing. Forget Hamlet's soliloquies about this mortal coil of ours; forget Hieronymus Bosch's … | Continue reading
Selerity, a content recommendation solution, announced today a $4.2 million investment from Citi. The New York-based startup, which says that it offers personalized content recommendation functions for enterprise applications, also announced that finance consultant Jeff Penney of … | Continue reading
Even Bill Gates isn't quite sure what Apple should do about encryption. Gates weighed in on the Apple vs. FBI controversy during a Reddit AMA this afternoon, arguing that a balance needs to be struck between security and the ability to provide law enforcement with critical inform … | Continue reading
David OReilly's first game wasn't your typical game, it was Mountain, a barely interactive simulator that was like a surprisingly emotional pet rock. His next project is equally strange, but a lot more ambitious: it's called Everything, and it's a game where you can play as, well … | Continue reading
Content automation doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It's necessary if you want to have more time to focus on engagement and more insights into what works, who to engage with, and where to engage. If you automate the areas mentioned in this infographic-post, you will be well on you … | Continue reading
Flickr has made a change to its $5.99 monthly Pro membership plan that will affect those using the photo-sharing social network for free. Starting today, its desktop Auto-Uploadr tool will be exclusive to paying customers. But all is not lost, as the company is offering a 30 perc … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion on Monday asking the court to overrule a ruling in an iPhone unlocking case in New York.Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York denied the Department of Justice's request to compel Apple to … | Continue reading
Video game news can be weird, particularly when it comes from channels which aren't usually monitored by enthusiasts, or even the games media. That's certainly the case with this interesting nugget regarding the future of Magic which was actually revealed as part of a Hasbro inve … | Continue reading
Google today updated its cloud-based document and spreadsheet apps, Google Docs and Google Sheets, on iOS, and there’s a notable addition for these updates — they’ve now officially been given iPad Pro support. Specifically this means the keyboard in the apps now looks much more f … | Continue reading
Using your hand to grasp a pen that’s lying on your desk doesn’t exactly feel like a chore, but for robots, that’s still a really hard thing to do. So to teach robots how to better grasp random objects, Google’s research team dedicated 14 robots to the task. Read More | Continue reading
Peeple, the controversial people-rating application that lets its users rate and review anyone, is not a hoax or vaporware, as many suspected following the media backlash surrounding the unveiling of the company’s intentions last fall. The Washington Post even called the app “ter … | Continue reading
New mediums mint new rock stars, and for virtual reality it’s Chris Milk. From surreal dreamscapes to #BlackLivesMatter protests to Jordanian refugee camps, he’s created some of most mind bending and inspiring VR experiences yet. I knew he was the real deal when I got hit by a tr … | Continue reading
Veritas Genetics was one of the first companies to sequence the entire human genome for under $1,000 in 2015. It’s now taken that technology a step further by delivering the results of your entire genome in an app. To put in context just how radical this is, consider the first at … | Continue reading
The nation relies on systemically important market infrastructures. As you may have guessed, these engines of economy are designed to resist change. That’s not a bad thing. A certain amount of insulation protects us from the whims of fads and provides the cornerstones of the econ … | Continue reading
Today, we got a pretty substantive look into how Samsung pulled off the S7 Edge’s Quad-Edge curved display. | Continue reading
One of the main reasons players are excited about Hearthstone [Free] getting a Standard mode soon is that deckbuilding skills should matter more since most of the old archetypes should be going away. Blizzard has decided to help players improve their deckbuilding skills - or at l … | Continue reading
Don’t just drunkenly wander around SXSW. Meet amazing people and catch an unforgettable concert at TechCrunch’s SXSW party. Between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday March 12, join us at Deloitte Digital’s Interplay Lab at The Palm Door at 508 E. 6th St. Only 2 blocks from the … | Continue reading
Spotinst, an infrastructure as a service platform for enterprises of all sizes, closed a $2 million series A round led by PICO Venture Partners, the startup announced today. The Tel Aviv-based Spotinst says it offers a cloud optimization service that “chooses the most effective c … | Continue reading
Facebook was recently granted a patent for software capable of building a dictionary of slang terms used on the social network. The software will scan for unique words used in Facebook posts and comments, and determine if these words have a particular meaning among a small group … | Continue reading
Today Indiegogo announced a pledge to “offer extra support for women-run crowdfunding campaigns” for one year. The initiative starts now, on International Women’s Day. Materially, Indiegogo is partnering with a number of organizations to host events “focused on supporting female … | Continue reading
Day of the Tentacle Remastered is set for a 22nd March release on PS4, Vita and PC.You can pre-order it on GOG for 10 per cent off, bringing the price to £9.99 rather than the usual £10.99. Doing so grants you some snazzy wallpapers.It's also available to pre-order on the North A … | Continue reading
Back in the early EARLY days of the App Store, one of my biggest obsessions was Strange Flavour's Flick Fishing, which was published by Freeverse. Back then it was extremely novel when games took advantage of the iPhones unique capabilities, and although it might seem gimmicky no … | Continue reading
Last month, a security researcher named Anand Prakash stumbled on a major flaw in Facebook's account security. When an account is reset, Facebook sends a 6-digit PIN to the user's phone, using that PIN as a temporary password while the account is reset. But while Facebook normall … | Continue reading
CocoaPods, one of the most popular ways to integrate libraries and dependencies into apps, recently had some performance issues. As it turns out, the reason was that it was too popular. Developers who were trying to install Pods may have had it timeout a few times, or just plain … | Continue reading
Getting people to install your free-to-play game is expensive, but another new tool is hitting the market to help drive down those costs. Comprendi, a tech firm that specializes in social media marketing, is launching an open beta program for acquiring players using “hyper-target … | Continue reading
Bring your umbrellasThat’s the first thing SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest tells me when I ask, as I do every year, what to expect at the upcoming digital and tech-focused portion of the nearly two-week-long South by South West Conference, which kicks off in Austin, Texas, … | Continue reading
Bill Gates is starting another Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but as any regular AMA visitor knows, he first needs to verify his identity with a photo. Usually that means holding up a sheet of paper with your name and the date on it, but Gates went for something far more inte … | Continue reading