The price of monero's cryptocurrency could be poised for movement as traders are building support at a key retracement level. | Continue reading
Stripe unveiled a new set of developer tools today that are aimed at helping companies build ecommerce experiences for their customers. Called Stripe Elements, the new components provide businesses with login forms, shopping carts, and other key functionality. The payment process … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Mixed Reality platform will support SteamVR games over time. That’s a big deal because Steam is, after all, the largest store for buying PC games and Microsoft needs a large catalog of VR games to jumpstart its ecosystem. Until now, though, we did … | Continue reading
Microsoft is getting ready to launch the next major update to Windows 10, the Fall Creators Update, on October 17. Part of this update includes full support for Windows Mixed Reality, the company’s name for the continuum between augmented reality and full virtual reality. After … | Continue reading
At a special event today in San Francisco, Microsoft announced that it has acquired social VR app AltspaceVR. The virtual reality social networking app allows users across headset and web platforms to join 3D chat rooms to play games, watch videos and attend events. In July, the … | Continue reading
AltspaceVR, the virtual reality social network that hosts events like stand-up comedy or presidential debate-watching parties, is now part of Microsoft. After a sudden shutdown due to a drop in funding in July, the free VR community was in “deep discussions” with unknown parties … | Continue reading
Microsoft is bringing Halo to its Windows Mixed Reality headsets later this month. Halo: Recruit will be available as a free download on October 17th, and it’s designed to be a VR environment of characters in the popular game. 343 industries has created the experience, and it loo … | Continue reading
Samsung is officially unveiling its Windows Mixed Reality headset today, and on paper it looks like the best one yet. While we’ve seen plenty of headsets from Acer, Asus HP, Dell, and Lenovo, Samsung’s Odyssey headset differs from its rivals thanks to dual-OLED displays. Samsung … | Continue reading
Microsoft beat Apple in the world of desktop operating systems because it allowed many manufacturers to make Windows PCs. Now the company thinks the same business model will help it dominate "mixed reality" — its name for the HoloLens headset tech, which can handle both augmented … | Continue reading
The iPhone 8 Plus’s reign as “the best smartphone camera” was a mighty short one. DxOMark, the testing outfit many look to for fair evaluations of cameras from DSLRs to phones, gave Samsung’s Galaxy S8 a 94, tying the iPhone and in some ways exceeding it. Read More | Continue reading
Honda has a new bipedal robot, which isn’t perhaps as charismatic as Asimo, but which could be a lot more useful. The robot is a disaster relief model, dubbed E2-DR (very Star Wars) which has flexible, articulating joints, a waterproof design and a 2km/h walking rate. The robot … | Continue reading
It's time to get excited gadget nerds. Google is about to announce a bunch of new hardware, and it's going to blow all of your minds.The search giant is expected to release a brand new Pixel phone, Pixelbook laptop, and next-generation Google Home smart speaker at its upcoming sp … | Continue reading
If you just bought an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, you may have encountered a rather annoying issue. Some new iPhone users could hear crackling sound during calls. Apple just released iOS 11.0.2, which includes a handful of bug fixes, including a fix for this bug. Many users have … | Continue reading
Thousands of people filled the streets of Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia Tuesday to protest the violent police crackdown on the autonomous region’s contested independence referendum, which left more than 800 people injured. Called by pro-independence groups and Catalan … | Continue reading
Zenkit today released its first iOS app. The app is a welcome addition, and could put Zenkit firmly ahead of Trello in a battle of competing services, at least for iOS users. Sorry Android fans, your app isn’t yet available; but the Zenkit team assures me it’s close. I’m told the … | Continue reading
President Trump’s tweets Sunday, declaring it a waste of time to try to negotiate with North Korea, appeared to contradict the sentiments of his own chief diplomat, who is at least formally taking the lead on the administration’s North Korea policy. It wasn’t the first time the t … | Continue reading
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The Irish High Court released its judgement in a case against Facebook. The court agreed with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s (DPC) concerns and found that channels that Facebook and other companies use for data transfer from the EU to the US might be illegal. The reason … | Continue reading
Papyrus, the best font for inviting someone to your grandma’s birthday party, wasn’t simply born out of the ether. It was forged by the hands of man — specifically, one man, named Chris Costello — and he is very sorry for what he’s done. After the viral success of a Saturday Nigh … | Continue reading
Last week, thousands of marketers, buyers, and media figures gathered in New York City for Advertising Week, a yearly industry gathering. Most of the attention was on television and print — where most of the money in the industry still goes — but Facebook was hovering ominously i … | Continue reading
Spotify is trouncing its music streaming competitors, and Microsoft has bowed to this reality. On Monday, Microsoft announced it will shutter its own music streaming service, Groove Music Pass, and encourage its subscribers to migrate to the streaming giant Spotify.In a press rel … | Continue reading
This morning, physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish received the Nobel Prize for Physics, for their discovery of gravitational waves—distortions in the fabric of space and time. The trio, who led the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) proje … | Continue reading
Apple has just released a small update to iOS 11 that has one key change in it: a fix for a bug that caused a crackling sound to occur during phone calls for some iPhone 8 and 8 Plus users.It’s still not clear exactly what was causing the issue, but it did seem to be a software p … | Continue reading
In 1927, the author Dhan Gopal Mukerji published a slim novel, Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, which follows the adventures of the titular Calcutta carrier bird, and the bird’s young owner, Ghond. Gay Neck (referring to the bird’s Bengali name, Chitra-Griva) sympathetically port … | Continue reading
Though the listing was quickly pulled, the Google Home Mini's key availability details have now been outed. | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Calling all horror fanatics: Do you miss telling ghost stories at childhood sleepovers or summer camp? Because same.Though you can stream scary movies or shows, nothing quite com … | Continue reading
You can always depends on Splatoon 2's Splatfests to ask the difficult questions. First we were forced to decide between ketchup and mayonnaise as the supreme condiment (the correct answer here, of course, is mayonnaise), then came the thorny issue of flight or invisibility as th … | Continue reading
This summer, a breach at the credit bureau Equifax compromised social-security numbers and other sensitive data on more than 145 million people — and ever since, experts have been puzzling at how the company allowed it to happen. The attackers seem to have broken into the system … | Continue reading
Three major Asian banks and a regulator in Singapore have teamed up for a new blockchain trial focused on customer identification. | Continue reading
GM is sharing more info about its testing process for autonomous cars through Cruise, the startup it acquired last year. For the first time, Cruise has shared some numbers related to the advantages it says its program has by placing emphasis on city testing, vs. testing only in … | Continue reading
There was no more extravagant site for Third Reich political theater than the spectacular parade grounds, two large stadiums, and congress hall in Nuremberg, a project masterminded by Albert Speer. From 1933 to 1938, he choreographed massive rallies associated with the annual con … | Continue reading
Last week, Amazon went on the offensive. It was a sort an Operation Shock and Awe of Echos, bringing the total line up to six devices — seven, if you count the Tap (which Amazon kind of, sort of does). The Seattle event was an aggressive show of dominance from a company that has … | Continue reading
Paradox Interactive announced a new expansion for its PC strategy game Europa Universalis IV. Cradle of Civilization will focus on Muslim powers from the game’s time setting (about 1444 to 1821 AD). It will be available in late 2017 for $20. Europa Universalis IV came out in 2013 … | Continue reading
Paul Otellini, who served as Intel’s chief executive from 2005 until his mid-2013 retirement, has died at the age of 66. He passed away in his sleep on Monday, the company said today. In all, Otellini spent over 40 years as an Intel employee. Otellini was Intel’s fifth CEO — succ … | Continue reading
Sony announced an updated version of the PlayStation VR headset earlier this week, and now it is updating the companion PS Move controllers with a new version that also features some minor changes, as spotted by Road To VR. The biggest change: finally getting rid of Mini USB in f … | Continue reading
So that is the day done in our bitcoin price trading efforts and it has been a bit of an odd one. We established early on in the day that we would try and avoid bringing our intrarange strategy to the table and that a breakout approach would be more suitable given the type of … C … | Continue reading
Even before the victims are counted and the blood dried after mass shootings, the public, press, and politicians all begin searching to understand what drove the perpetrators. This is important as a matter of law enforcement—Did they work alone? Is there a remaining threat?—and t … | Continue reading
Sleep tech startup Eight has always aimed to connect its products (first a mattress cover, then an actual smart mattress) to the broader smart home ecosystem. Most recently, it launched a new Alexa skill that allows Eight owners to use the Echo and other Amazon devices to intera … | Continue reading
Batman: The Enemy Within from Telltale Games is finally available on iOS and Android. Having originally been announced for late September, Batman: The Enemy Within was delayed until today. T | Continue reading
Honda has unveiled a new prototype disaster relief robot named E2-DR at IROS 2017 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in Vancouver, reports IEEE Spectrum. The company had previously announced the experimental disaster relief robot in a paper presented two … | Continue reading
Instagram is becoming friendlier to retailers and shoppers by partnering up with ecommerce sites such as Shopify and Bigcommerce. With the new tools it’s introducing, you can buy products advertised on a company’s Instagram page within seconds of seeing them. Businesses which wan … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4‘s 5.00 system update is now available. It makes it easier to create special accounts for children and make special lists of friends, and it adds improvements to broadcasting, notifications, and messaging. These system updates regularly add new features, which is imp … | Continue reading
Earlier today, Publisher’s Lunch announced that Annihilation and Borne author Jeff VanderMeer signed a “major deal” with publisher FSG for his next novel, Hummingbird Salamander, and an untitled short story collection. The deal is for over half a million dollars, and VanderMeer t … | Continue reading
Chasyr has gained a reputation for being the new and improved rideshare option everyone has been anxiously waiting for. Like a vindicating cowboy hero, they have come to fight for justice and stand for freedom, as they set the bar where others will have to rise to meet it. They h … | Continue reading
KICKICO, an undeniable success story in the evolving world of blockchain investing, who raised more than 84 000 ETH during its 2-weeks ICO and now listed in top-3 Russian ICOs, moves forward with seven league steps – already in October three huge ICO campaigns are ready to take o … | Continue reading
Mobile and web developers have a new database available to them that’s designed to offer high performance plus offline access. It’s called Google Cloud Firestore, and offers a fully managed system so that developers don’t have to worry about managing the system underlying their a … | Continue reading
One of the projects seeking to prove that they have a viable route for building one of Hyperloop One’s very first actual hyperloop routes has formed a formal public-private partnership to help keep the project moving forward. Missouri’s Department of Transportation, teamed with … | Continue reading
Figuring out who can access services across a platform as varied as Google Cloud can be a challenge for IT administrators. Google has done a lot of the work for you with a set of fairly granular pre-defined roles, but recognizing that canned roles won’t suit everyone’s needs, th … | Continue reading