Women infected with the Zika virus during the first trimester of pregnancy face a roughly 1 in 100 chance that their unborn child will develop the serious birth defect microcephaly. This is according to a new study published earlier this week in The Lancet, which is the first to … | Continue reading
Miitomo has finally arrived in Japan, after years of fevered demands for Nintendo to start releasing smartphone apps. But Nintendo being Nintendo, things were never going to be quite as simple as sticking Super Mario Bros. on the iPhone and calling it a day. What we have instead … | Continue reading
Right on the heels of the release of the DB11, the follow-up to the stalwart DB9 coupe, we have an exclusive preview into a secret project that Aston Martin has been working on for the last three months: it is aiming to build the fastest hypercar in the world.To do it, Aston has … | Continue reading
Most CEOs of video game companies are either vilified, or ignored, but that wasn't the case with Nintendo's Satoru Iwata. Eight months after his death, the much-loved Iwata was remembered tonight at the GDC Awards in San Francisco, cast the star of a four-minute animated video dr … | Continue reading
Below, a stunning-looking indie title from Toronto-based studio Capybara Games, is set to release on Xbox One and PC this summer. Capybara has said in the past the game would make its way out some time in 2016, but today announced the more narrowed release window at the Game Deve … | Continue reading
In its bid to raise its name in cloud computing services, Google nabbed a big-name customer: Apple. The iPhone-maker recently started storing portions of its iCloud and services data with Google’s cloud platform, according to sources familiar with the deal.It’s a win for Google, … | Continue reading
The Core graphics enclosure was one of Razer's more interesting announcements at CES this year, and today the company is revealing pricing and availability for the device. Available for preorder from Razer today and shipping next month, the Core will cost $499 standalone or $399 … | Continue reading
Apple ads have featured Aubrey Plaza, Jamie Foxx, and Killer Mike in recent months, but the company's latest iPhone commercial has enlisted the help of a real A-list celebrity — Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street star appears in a new ad that highlights the uses of Siri, in which … | Continue reading
Chinese search giant Baidu is planning to test its autonomous cars in the United States, with a goal of building a "commercially viable" car by 2018, reports The Wall Street Journal. The firm announced last year that it was looking to develop vehicles that could serve as public s … | Continue reading
In a Reddit Ask Me Anything Q&A, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has added more of his thoughts to the debate stirred by Apple and the FBI. As the government and Wozniak's former company continue their legal battle over an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, Wozniak … | Continue reading
At the tail end of Pete Lake's GDC panel on rapid idea visualization in a video game studio, the Producer from Criterion Games — the studio responsible for Black and the Burnout series — shared a small glimpse at the next big project, Beyond Cars. The extreme sports game was rev … | Continue reading
BMW has been going wild around its 100th anniversary celebrations this month, first with its Vision Next 100 concept car — a wild interpretation of what an Ultimate Driving Machine might look like a few decades from now. (And "wild" is an understatement, considering it has severa … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to allow developers to bring Windows 10 apps to the Xbox One this summer. While Microsoft plans to reveal more about its Xbox One app store at Build later this month, Microsoft's Jason Ronald revealed at GDC today that Windows 10 apps will be able to run on … | Continue reading
For years, ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft have claimed that one of their primary goals was to reduce the number of cars on the road. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has gone a step further, saying he wants to "make car ownership a thing of the past." This week, new research f … | Continue reading
"You mind if I smoke?"I’m sitting outside a trailer in Austin, TX, a few days into the South by Southwest film festival, talking with director Ilya Naishuller. There’s a relentless energy about the young Russian filmmaker in the Ray-Ban aviators; he leans forward intensely one mo … | Continue reading
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are teaming up once again, this time to launch a new reality show called The Runner exclusively on Verizon's Go90 video app. The show has an outlandish premise: one individual must traverse the country in less than 30 days unnoticed while countless part … | Continue reading
Nike just announced a self-lacing shoe called the HyperAdapt 1.0, bringing to life the dream that sneaker fans have shared since Back to the Future II premiered almost 30 years ago.When you step into the HyperAdapt 1.0 your heel hits a sensor that automatically tightens the laces … | Continue reading
First Lady Michelle Obama’s keynote at SXSW brought an all-star panel together for a broad discussion of music, activism, and diversity, one that also gave her a chance to encourage men in positions of power to bring other voices into the discussion. Obama was joined onstage by M … | Continue reading
BMW and Nissan are reportedly in talks to join Formula E, the global all-electric racing series that was started in 2014. "Multiple sources" have confirmed to Autosport that the manufacturers are already speaking with teams about becoming a part of the series as early as the thir … | Continue reading
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a General Exclusion Order banning a number of personal transporter products that infringe on Segway's patents. The infringing products are banned from importation into the United States until the relevant patents expire.The o … | Continue reading
Samsung has a problem. It can't stop putting stones on its devices. It keeps happening. The company needs help. And now the problem has escalated. Mere Swarovski crystals weren't enough for Samsung. No, now it's graduated to the harder stuff. The hardest stuff. Samsung has partne … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Choice Awards is the closest event the games industry has to the Oscars or the BAFTAs. Held annually at the Game Developers Conference, the ceremony celebrates the previous year's best video games and the artists, musicians, programmers, designers, and produce … | Continue reading
An executive for the United Launch Alliance compared two of the company's business partners to "two fiancées" that ULA has to plan on marrying, Space News reported. Brett Tobey, ULA's vice president for engineering, was discussing how ULA has commissioned new rocket engines from … | Continue reading
Every year, mosquito bites cause up to 400 million dengue virus infections — but an experimental vaccine developed by the NIH could change that. Though the study of the vaccine was small, its results were promising. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Google is changing how its massive webcrawler, Googlebot, is identified when accessing websites. Googlebot's job is to scan the internet and add any new websites or updated webpages to Google's index, a catalogue that underlies its search engine. When doing this, Googlebot will p … | Continue reading
When you think of Maserati, you probably think of expensive Italian steel — you know, the kinds of machines that are built for traveling triple-digit speeds with ease. And that's more or less an accurate assessment. But hopefully, they're only breaking the speed limit at your com … | Continue reading
Zelda and Mario fill my childhood notebooks, and sure, I miss those halcyon days of Sonic the Hedgehog. But truthfully, I reserve my purest nostalgia for the smaller, forgotten, barely playable games of the 1990s that will never be given their proper spot in books or museums. I c … | Continue reading
In the world of Gamergate, empathy isn’t allowed, the harassment women face online is exaggerated, and online abuse doesn't cause real-world harm. And that’s exactly what was heard at the SXSW "SavePoint" panel yesterday. In one of the same rooms that housed SXSW’s day-long anti- … | Continue reading
Netflix's first talk show is almost here. Chelsea Handler announced this morning that her show will premiere on May 11th; it'll run three days a week — Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday — with half-hour, commercial-free episodes. They'll all remain up on Netflix permanently. C … | Continue reading
At a presentation at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a new set of tools that will make it possible for game developers to run competitive tournaments through Xbox Live. Called the "Xbox Live Tournaments Program," the new initiative is de … | Continue reading
Tidal users who signed up for the service to hear Kanye West's latest album The Life of Pablo are getting their free trials extended by 30 days. Users who signed up to listen to the exclusive album when it was released on February 14th were about to lose their free trials, ironic … | Continue reading
The entertainment industry’s lack of representation, diversity, and opportunity has come under increasing criticism over the past few years, and at Gale Anne Hurd’s Tuesday SXSW keynote, the producer behind characters like Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor took the issue head-on. In … | Continue reading
Ford’s new 2017 Super Duty (the big F-250 and F-350 pickups) includes something called Trailer Reverse Guidance, an interesting new software and hardware setup that uses a whole bunch of cameras and some clever software to make backing a trailer a lot easier.Ninety percent of Sup … | Continue reading
The number of commercial drone operators in the US has soared over the last year. Since we published data on the first 500 operators last June, the number of for-profit drone pilots has grown to over 3000. And no category of use has grown faster than emergency services. Accordin … | Continue reading
Of the hundreds of panels at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival, one stood out for sheer ambition. On Monday morning, a Canadian company named Synbiota would teach us how to make custom micro-organisms using its proprietary DNA prototyping tool. The process would … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission is close to approving Charter's nearly year-old purchase of Time Warner Cable, allowing the two to merge into the United States' second largest cable provider, according to The Wall Street Journal. The approval is reported to come with condit … | Continue reading
Twitter for Windows 10 Mobile and desktop has finally been updated with some much-needed features. Twitter is overhauling its Windows 10 app today, and that means that users with Windows 10 phones will be receiving an update that brings all the latest Twitter features. Moments, G … | Continue reading
Much hype has been made around Rez Infinite, a PlayStation VR-inspired return of the beloved fan favorite rave rhythm game from the SEGA Dreamcast era. I really enjoyed my time with the rejuvenated classic, but after demoing a handful of PlayStation VR games at Sony’s Game Develo … | Continue reading
Porsche just announced that 15,600 of its employees will receive a record annual bonus of €8,911 ("911" as in "Porsche 911," get it?) for the past year. That works out to about $9,885 — €311 more than employees received last year, which company chairman Oliver Blume says is thank … | Continue reading
My first feeling, upon arriving at Oculus’ all-day virtual reality showcase in San Francisco, was apprehension. Two full floors of a downtown event space were lined with cubicles, each holding an Oculus Rift headset, a selection of vintage virtual reality hardcover books, and a h … | Continue reading
As Apple filed its defense against the government on Monday, FBI Director James Comey was in Beijing, meeting with the head of China's surveillance state. According to state media reports, Comey and Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun discussed ways to "deepen law enforcement a … | Continue reading
Two weeks before Oculus launches its Rift virtual reality headset, we're learning what games people will be able to play on it, and how much they can expect to pay for the experience. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company released the names and prices of … | Continue reading
It looks like there's going to be plenty of incredible posters to get people excited about a new Indiana Jones movie: Mondo has announced that it is teaming up with ACME Archives to create a new series of posters based on both the Indiana Jones and Star Wars franchises. The partn … | Continue reading
Since it was first announced in December of last year, a virtual reality Rock Band game has been one of the most tantalizing prospects for the Oculus Rift. Developer Harmonix has built multiple game franchises on making players feel like superstars: you could master wailing Queen … | Continue reading
“By the end, I was a borderline digital detective.” I’m sitting in a bustling Williamsburg coffee shop with James Hinton, the electronic musician known as The Range. He’s telling me just how difficult it was to find the vocalists that appear on his new album Potential, not becaus … | Continue reading
NASA's commercial partner Orbital ATK will launch its Cygnus cargo spacecraft, filled with supplies and science experiments, into lower Earth orbit on Tuesday. There, the spacecraft will dock with the ISS and replenish the crew with food, water, and other important inventory. But … | Continue reading
The Kardia Band is an Apple Watch accessory designed to look after your heart, containing a nickel-sized sensor that alerts users to abnormal heart rhythms. It's the latest product from AliveCor, a startup that's built a similar (FDA-approved) sensor for smartphones, and that's r … | Continue reading
Republican senators have said they won't approve or even consider President Barack Obama's soon-to-be-announced Supreme Court nominee, but that isn't stopping the administration from bringing its suggestion to the public. The White House plans to announce the nominee at 11AM ET t … | Continue reading