Apple CEO Tim Cook has lately been offering more and more hints that the Apple Car might possibly be a real thing. At the very least, he's fueling speculation that the company is planning a big play in the auto industry. Speaking at today's shareholder meeting, Cook took a break … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — The 2016 Mobile World Congress has officially drawn to a close, leaving event-goers and tech-watchers alike to take stock of prior days' excitement — the new flagship devices, strange new gadgets and tantalizing speculations about the futureHowever, a keynote talk fro … | Continue reading
Superhot's developer has teased a VR release for its super hot debut title.The ingenious first-person puzzle game where time only moves when you do has been receiving rave reviews lately and the developer noted in a Kickstarter update that it has "secretive" plans to bring VR sup … | Continue reading
Federal prosecutors say details about the second arrest of Shaun Bridges, a former U.S. Secret Service agent charged with stealing in the Silk Road investigation, must remain sealed, in part, because they believe there are one or more co-conspirators, according to a filing in the … | Continue reading
Apple's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward questions for the world's mobile network operators. | Continue reading
Time and again, things we imagine as common knowledge are actually little more than myths and rumours in the tech world. Be it the industry of mobile gadgets, business strategies, BYOD or even the adoption of cloud. So, while many of you out there are experienced myth busters, t … | Continue reading
Talk to anyone in the AR space right now and the phrase “democratizing x” is bound to arise two or three dozen times. Wrnch CEO Paul Kruszewski says that concept is especially true for the computer vision space with warchest-toting companies like Magic Leap powering their own tec … | Continue reading
Date: 10/03/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationNine outstanding women entrepreneurs who have brought their breakthrough ideas to the market have reached the final stage of the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2016.The three winners will be announced and receive their awards during a … | Continue reading
If you run a business, you probably know that social media is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for growth. Use it well and you’ll see more customers and sales. The more connected on social media your business is, the more your brand could be worth. Beyond platforms, there’s … | Continue reading
In this post I'm going to be looking at using Redis as a data persistence layer for a Go application. We'll start by explaining a few of the essential concepts, and then build a working web application which highlights some techniques for using Redis in a concurrency-safe way. Th … | Continue reading
IBM's attempts to showcase Watson in TV commercials have been a bit less impressive than the computing system's Jeopardy wins. They usually involve a renowned figure awkwardly carrying on a short conversation with Watson, like this Bob Dylan spot or a brand-new one featuring Ridl … | Continue reading
The Oscars are almost here, and your annual Oscar party is near at hand. You’ve got your fresh outfit, hors d’oeuvres, and cans of champagne. You even sent out paper invites to your friends. It’s a tradition you dive into with abandon, tweeting about the dresses on the red carpet … | Continue reading
MWC 2016 is coming to a close, we're rounding up all our favorite gadgets from the trade show -- from flagship smartphones to 360-degree cameras! | Continue reading
Backup and recovery solutions technology company Acronis, the developer of popular software for consumers and businesses alike, is looking to integrate blockchain technology into its products, according to a report. Software developer Acronis, a company founded in Russia and now … | Continue reading
If you're at all into fantasy MMORPG's, Albion Online should be somewhere on your radar. I've fiddled around a bit in the closed beta and it's definitely scratching all the right itches for me. If nothing else, the idea of playing the game on your PC/Mac, needing to go somewhere, … | Continue reading
Like Hollywood itself, the Oscar statue's sparkling exterior conceals its no less meritorious, but certainly less glamorous interior: britannia metal. Or at least that was the case until this year, as the Oscars will make the switch to bronze, shunning the mighty britannia after … | Continue reading
The year is 2016, and you still have a floppy disc-compatible A drive in your computer. You wouldn’t want to just let that go to waste, would you? But how do you put a 3.5-inch floppy to use when they only hold 1.4 MB of data?You throw an SD card in it, which conveniently fits ri … | Continue reading
Since the exit of CEO Parker Conrad and reports of rowdy behavior at work, Zenefits has looked like a company in desperate need of a clean house. It appears they are doing that today, as a report from TechCrunch indicates that new CEO David Sacks will lay off around 250 employees … | Continue reading
Guest post by Jessica Ann (@itsjessicann), CEO and Creative Director of Jessica Ann Media, and author of Humanize Your Brand: How to Create Content that Connects with Your Customers. We’re living in a post-advertising age. Instead of lamenting the past, or focusing on “the good o … | Continue reading
Earlier this week we posted about the Order & Chaos [Free] "test box" situation, where players of the game somehow got access to the toolkit used by game masters to do all sorts of things in game ranging from creating items and gold to... Creating even more test boxes to give oth … | Continue reading
Talkwheel, a company that offers a unique way to visualize customer conversations, has been acquired by Clickable.I last wrote about Talkwheel in 2014. The company aggregates the online conversation around a given company or topic in a circular format — it’s supposed to help you … | Continue reading
Apple may have landed on a name for its upcoming revamp of the iPhone 5S: the iPhone SE. According to 9to5Mac, Apple has chosen to to drop "5" from the new iPhone's name and go entirely with letters. It had previously been rumored that the phone would be called the iPhone 5SE, to … | Continue reading
High Voltage Software is creating a collectible card game, Dragon Front, as an exclusive for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The game plays like Blizzard’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, except with the innovative twist that you play it inside VR. That’s a good thing b … | Continue reading
Tower above your army of monsters, lean across the battlefield and make your opponent’s face explode. That’s Dragon Front, a virtual reality card game coming to Oculus Rift. While many VR games see you flailing your arms or head about, or swinging swords and shooting bows and arr … | Continue reading
Virtual reality has traditionally been about transporting you to new worlds and making you believe you’re really there. It’s the immersion element, known as "presence" in industry lingo, that makes VR feel like magic. So it was refreshing to see Dragon Front, a new VR game in dev … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be available globally on March 11In the U.S., the phones can be pre-ordered on AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and U.S. Cellular. You've got lots of options from contracts to installment plants to leasing plans.See also: 12 awesome Instagram f … | Continue reading
While personalized recommendations for books, music, movies, restaurants, nights out and pretty much anything else you could want are now defacto for any self-respecting content platform, it’s only just today that Kickstarter will start pointing you in the right direction of proj … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Mike Gallagher came out swinging in defense of the game industry in a recent talk. He has to be feisty, as he’s the industry’s chief lobbyist as the CEO of the Entertainment Software Association. Gallagher is gaming’s biggest cheerleader, and he showed that at the recent … | Continue reading
Today, cult favorite email app Mailbox says it’s final goodbyes before heading to that giant glue factory in the cloud. It’s a move that many are in agony over and one that was pretty costly for Dropbox, but if I’m being honest, I’m over it. I was a Mailbox user. I had dutifully … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Luol Deng delivers in Heat’s win over Wizards By Ben Leibowitz, Special to NBA.com Luol Deng is trying to get his groove back. The two-time All-Star floundered throughout the first half of the season for the Miami Heat, averaging just 10.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 assi … | Continue reading
Samorost 3, the upcoming adventure by Machinarium and Botanicula developer Amanita Design, is coming to PC and Mac on 24th March.The developer confirmed to Eurogamer that Samorost 3 will also arrive on iOS and Android platforms later this year.Amanita Design cut its teeth making … | Continue reading
In Play is a column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases. It's a bit like our old series Game of the Week, if you remember that. There are weeks when you look at the new releases and think that video game developers and publishers are doing a pretty good job. This … | Continue reading
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The snooze option has become one of the best features of email apps on our smartphones. It basically amounts to "I don't want to deal with this right now, so show it to me again sometime later." That simple concept has proven massively helpful when trying to keep your inbox under … | Continue reading
Google today announced some tweaks to its Inbox by Gmail email client. There are two new time options available if you’d like to snooze an email and see it pop up in the inbox at a better time: “Later this week” and “This weekend.” “These new options should hopefully save you som … | Continue reading
We all get the urge to snooze sometimes. It’s been a big feature for Inbox for Gmail – offering the ability to push emails away until you’re ready to tackle them. Detailed in a blog post today, the Snooze feature will be getting a new look and new features over the next week. The … | Continue reading
IT giant Intel is running an internal blockchain trial centered on a fantasy sports market. | Continue reading
Google.org has awarded a total of $3 million in grants to San Francisco Unified School District’s My Brother and Sister’s Keeper program (MBSK), Oakland’s Roses in Concrete Community School, Beyond 12 and Equal Justice Initiative, all of which are local organizations working to e … | Continue reading
Pusher, the real-time messaging service for apps, has retooled its interface. The aim is to allow developers to focus on their apps rather than the back-end, so Pusher’s new interface allows for information to be digested at a glance. The dashboard offers up basic info on how use … | Continue reading
AT&T is suing Louisville, Kentucky over a new law that would make it easier for companies like Google Fiber to install gigabit internet networks throughout the city. The law, which was passed last week, would allow companies installing equipment on utility poles to move around th … | Continue reading
Brand journalism helps marketers keep up with both the speed at which technology moves and the way in which consumers want to be communicated with. | Continue reading
Last year's Galaxy S6 Edge proved to be quite a big seller at the expense of the standard S6. Will history repeat this year, too? It's all up to you! | Continue reading
Wonderful diagram of @adrianco Microservices talk at #OOP2016 by @remarker_eu If you li... | Continue reading
It’s not always easy as a tech company to make yourself relevant to every single big public event. But Google has had a pretty nice go at shoehorning itself into the Oscars this year by letting you travel through a winning movie’s story using Maps. Can you guess which films they’ … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Fire Emblem: Fates is a hit, we learn more about the Iron Maiden mobile game, and Nintendo cuts its 2016 earnings guidance. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Nine memorable moments fr … | Continue reading
Zenefits is laying off around 17% of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales divisions, according to an email sent by CEO David Sacks to the company. Most of the layoffs are happening in the sales division, according to the email … | Continue reading
The long and bumpy road to the 88th annual Academy Awards is almost at an end, and Sunday's telecast of the ceremony is look to be just as interesting for what goes down on stage than on the actual awards outcome — maybe more so. With many prominent filmmakers and actors opting o … | Continue reading
FEATURE: We are now two decades removed from the start of the Pokémon fad, and I’m starting to think it is more than just a phase. Back in the late 1990s, it was difficult to understand why Pokémon caught on with so many people around the world. But with the benefit of 20 years o … | Continue reading