Remember that time you ate glue in seventh grade, and wondered what it would be like if Mortal Kombat featured the characters from your science textbook instead of ninjas? I do! And now I can relive that fantasy without poisoning myself. Browser game Science Kombat stars eight sc … | Continue reading
The last $5 lunch we had in NYC involved multiple slices of dry $0.99 pizza. Good luck finding anything cheaperMealPass is trying. The meal planning startup, which will launch in New York City on Wednesday, according to Eater, allows users to pre-order lunches and pick them up in … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama discussed the problem of addiction in the U.S. and administration steps to help, at an appearance Tuesday at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Facebook may be looking to get into the digital wallet game, according to source code uncovered by The Information. Some of the commands discovered in the latest version of Facebook’s Messanger app include “pay in person”, “pay directly in Messenger when you pick up the item” and … | Continue reading
Bitcoin development startup Blockstream is among 10 firms that have joined the Hyperledger blockchain project. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Mobile commerce is exploding, with researchers at Gartner and Forrester predicting the market to reach $1 trillion in the U.S. alone within the next decade, from around $100 billion today. Seeing that opportunity, companies with mobile apps are trying to ride that wave … | Continue reading
FBI Announces They Can Hack on Their Own It has been a month since it became public knowledge that the FBI was locked out of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers. And after getting rejected by Apple in assisting with the unlock, the bureau has been flooded with off … | Continue reading
Square Enix played it very smart when it came to bringing its franchises to mobile. Instead of making a Tomb Raider endless runner or a Match 3 Hitman, it reimagined those franchises into mobile-appropriate games in the form of Lara Croft Go [$4.99] and Hitman Go [$4.99]. Well, i … | Continue reading
Comparably, the Glassdoor-like platform for self-reporting employment and compensation data, has released some data around culture at tech companies. Within a couple of weeks of launching, over 2,000 people have submitted data around what it’s like working at their respective com … | Continue reading
For Google, it's Throwback Tuesday.The company typically likes to stand on the bleeding edge of technology (think self-driving cars and multi-modal drones), but today it's looking back at the venerable landline. Google is launching Fiber Phone, a new service tied to its Fiber Int … | Continue reading
Sony has finally revealed when Ultra, its 4k streaming service, will be availableFirst announced at CES earlier this year, Ultra will make its debut on April 4 and will be available on Sony's 4K sets with Android TV, the company announced at a press event in San Francisco on Tues … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year: Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference is upon us. Running for three days starting March 30, Microsoft biggest developer event will surely be saturated with software news, and maybe even some hardware too. This year, the company is being extremely tight-lipped … | Continue reading
Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years — something now considered plausible — is capitalism still the ideal economic system to champion? No one is ce … | Continue reading
Rather than having on-screen buttons at the bottom of the screen, the HTC 10 will have capacitive ones built into the body. | Continue reading
A comparison of bitcoin investment to gold investment lead investment bank, Needham, to price the cryptocurrency at more than 50% its current value. | Continue reading
Last week, Apple released iOS 9.3 and introduced "Night Shift" — a way of modifying the computer’s display so that less blue light is present — to millions of iPhones and iPads. The feature, if enabled, will automatically take effect when the sun goes down, making the phone look … | Continue reading
I never owned a lot of music. As a kid, everyone around me would talk about their latest CD purchases, but I preferred engaging with the new tracks and classic hits when artists would combine them with other media like music videos, film, and — eventually — video games. The class … | Continue reading
Most people are terrible at shooting video. Any longer than 15-seconds and it will probably be boring. That’s why Instagram capped videos at a quarter-minute when it launched the feature in 2013. Yet today it extended the length to 60 seconds for user-shot or uploaded videos. Tha … | Continue reading
This morning, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America, charging that it “deceived customers with the advertising campaign it used to promote its supposedly ‘clean diesel’ VWs and Audis,” according to the FTC press release. As I’m sure you … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Missed it? Imagine every piece of data about a customer, or a potential customer, at your fingertips. Find out why top marketers say that investing in a marketing cloud solution can help you unlock the full promise of data-driven marketing. Access the webinar right h … | Continue reading
A couple months back, we reported that Google was testing a home phone service called ‘Fiber Phone’ — a service it could bundle with TV and internet to create that ever-so-profitable “triple play” that telecoms have been profiting from for years. Today, Google announced that it w … | Continue reading
Shake Alpha, based in Montreal, Canada, is a mobile app that allows users to tap and pay with bitcoin at contactless terminals that accept VISA cards, according to the company’s blog. It is an Android app equipped with near field communication (NFC). NFC allows a phone to emulate … | Continue reading
A customer journey map is a graphical illustration or a pictorial representation that shows the various customer touchpoints with your... | Continue reading
We've seen plenty of Overwatch on the PC - thanks to the ongoing beta - but Blizzard's class-based shooter is also set to launch on both the PS4 and Xbox One in just under two months. So how exactly do those console versions compare?I had some hands-on time with the PS4 and Xbox … | Continue reading
Twitter is working to make it easier for people with visual impairments to access and understand images uploaded to the site. Although screen readers and braille technology work efficiently with text posts, images have been out of reach — until now. Starting today, people using t … | Continue reading
Kanye West's new album The Life of Pablo racked up 250 million streams in its first 10 days of availability on Tidal, according to a press release the service made available today. The album-specific reveal was tucked within the larger announcement that Tidal has cracked three mi … | Continue reading
For his most recent cover of Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman, Jeff Buckley’s creative team has pulled out all the stops. Dropping today is an interactive music video with a gabazillion possible iterations for the viewer to explore, creating a unique listening experience every time. … | Continue reading
Atypical Games busted onto the scene with their exhilarating Sky Gamblers series of aerial dogfighting games, and then took the fight to the land and sea as well in the excellent Battle Supremacy series. Today they've unveiled their latest game which focuses on land battling… in … | Continue reading
After an 11th hour reprieve by an unknown source claiming it could access the San Bernadino iPhone, and yesterday’s announcement that the FBI did indeed gain access to the device, we’re left with vocal proclamations all over the Web that the fight is over. It’s not. The Apple and … | Continue reading
Dating app Tinder has officially acquired contact management startup Humin today for an undisclosed amount. The technology behind Humin is the most attractive part of the deal, as well as some of its staff who will be offered new roles. Co-founders Ankur Jain and David Wyler will … | Continue reading
Recording artist Wyclef Jean joins Lee Hawkins to preview his new single, "My Girl," off his upcoming album, and discuss how he's approaching changing trends in the music industry. | Continue reading
Capturing your life in video on Instagram just got a lot more interesting. The company just announced that it's increasing the video time limit to a full 60 secondsSee also: New Instagram search bar takes stalking to the next levelCompared to the 15-second videos available on the … | Continue reading
Google Fiber may be the holy grail of Internet service for many, but many people still rely on landlines for everyday communication purposes or emergency use. In order to allow its subscribers to sever connections with the old local ISPs and telecoms completely, Google will soon … | Continue reading
Waze now lets you know if you're speeding, so you can stay within the law on poorly marked or unfamiliar roads. | Continue reading
When you’re new to coding, it can be hard to know where to start, and it’s easy to get sucked down paths that could waste a whole lot of…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
Digital marketers and search engine optimization specialists would love to see Google’s search engine algorithm. The formula that ranks websites is secret, even though SEO experts contend they understand how it works. Google has published what might be the next best thing: Search … | Continue reading
Google has just announced Fiber Phone, confirming rumors that the company would be adding a home telephone service to its existing Fiber high-speed internet and cable TV offerings. "While mobile phones have pushed us toward the future, home phone service is still important to man … | Continue reading
Instagram is rolling out the ability for the average Joe to record and share a video of up to one minute, increasing it from the current 15-second limit. While advertisers have been able to share these longer clips for a couple of months, it’s still going to take a little while f … | Continue reading
Google today announced Fiber Phone, a home phone service powered by “much of the same technology as Google Voice.: Fiber Phone is an optional $10-per-month add-on for Basic, Gig, and Gig TV customers. Home phone service — is this an early April Fools’ joke? “Haha, definitely not” … | Continue reading
Während die Raumsonde New Horizons schon lange weiter zum Kuipergürtel-Objekt 2014 MU69 reist, präsentiert die NASA immer noch neue Fotos des Pluto-Vorbeiflugs. Dieses hier zeigt wahrscheinlich einen gefrorenen früheren See aus... | Continue reading
The Xbox One's backwards compatible list has just been bolstered by Left 4 Dead 2.Yesterday the service received a few other titles such as Soul Caliber HD, Halo Wars and The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match.Fans have been clamouring for a Left 4 Dead 3 since Valve's sequel la … | Continue reading
DTCC CEO Mike Bodson spoke today at the firm's one-day Blockchain Symposium, held in New York. | Continue reading
In a press release celebrating its one year anniversary, Tidal says it has amassed 3 million subscribers, up from 900,000 last June. Of those 3 million subscribers, 1.35 million are paying for Tidal's $19.99 Hi-Fi offering, according to Billboard. The growth of the streaming serv … | Continue reading
Instagram has begun rolling out a update that lets you record longer videos on the media-sharing application. Starting today, you’ll be able to post videos as long as 60 seconds, an increase from the 15 seconds you had before. It’ll be available on both iOS and Android, but only … | Continue reading
Pinterest has launched a new pin type that will display step-by-step instructions for creating the image that is displayed. Called a How-To Pin, it’s a tool that not only helps brands promote their products, but also gives users the push they may need to start a new project. The … | Continue reading
Back in 2007 co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green envisioned a new kind of mass transportation carpooling system connecting riders and drivers across the nation. They called it Zimride. But it turned out a lot more people wanted to get around the city than wanted to go the dis … | Continue reading
As Pinterest continues to ramp up the parts of its business that generate revenues (namely advertising), it’s also expanding the free features that might entice users and brands to linger around for longer and engage more on it’s image-based social network for sharing ideas. Toda … | Continue reading