A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York ruled Monday that the Department of Justice cannot force Apple to unlock a phone for the FBI. The decision hands Apple a potentially useful victory in its legal battle over iPhone security, though it came in a Brooklyn drug case … | Continue reading
It's a milestone moment for Czech, head-turning, no-fantasy role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. In a couple of days' time (3rd March) it sheds alpha and goes beta, transforming into a fuller, more complete game in the process. And we've got 40 minutes of the beta in vid … | Continue reading
Czech-made no-fantasy medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been turning heads for a couple of years, ever since - and even before - it was successfully funded on Kickstarter. It's powered by CryEngine and it genuinely looks lovely - and you can watch the 40 mi … | Continue reading
The 11th of December 2015, Open AI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. With $1 billion in funding from high-profile investors, such as Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel, the company put forward an ambitious research agenda to ke … | Continue reading
Foursaken Media continues to put out game after game, and not long after releasing All is Lost, the developers are planning on releasing their new game, War Tortoise, somewhere in March or early April. As for what this new game is? Well, as it's usually their style, the developer … | Continue reading
Google’s self driving car initiative is one of the most ambitious and controversial projects currently under the scrutiny of the public eye. Although the search giant has had six years of experience under their belt with only 17 minor accidents occurring across over two million m … | Continue reading
Video and mobile devices are the top influencers to people's search behavior. Here's our 3 suggestions on what marketers should do to adapt the trend. | Continue reading
One of Google's self-driving cars hit a public bus last month while it was in autonomous mode on a Mountain View, California, roadThe collision occurred on Valentine's Day and Google reported it to California's Department of Motor Vehicles in an accident report that the agency po … | Continue reading
Just one day after Mark Zuckerberg’s internal memo leaked, which asked employees to stop crossing out Black Lives Matter slogans, Facebook hosted more than 200 African-American students from the San Francisco Bay Area. The day-long field trip to Facebook this past Friday, which h … | Continue reading
In a New York case, Judge Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Read More | Continue reading
Apple just won a major victory in an iPhone warrant case — although it may not help the company in its San Bernardino trial. The victory comes from a New York district court that's been facing something legally similar to the higher-profile warrant case playing out in San Bernard … | Continue reading
If you go back to the 1990s and start reading about "virtual reality," you’ll quickly realize that the term could refer to anything from a full Lawnmower Man simulation system to a 3D model on a computer screen. Things have gotten simpler since then: outside a few special circums … | Continue reading
Did I mention we’re having a pitch-off in Brooklyn tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and tickets are still available, which you can buy here. But what is a pitch-off? Well, ten companies have been selected to show off their wares on … | Continue reading
Back in December we checked out the trailer for a clever upcoming puzzle game called Zenge. The actual puzzles were similar to Tangram puzzles, but with a couple of unique wrinkles. One is that each of the pieces of the puzzles had a track of sorts, meaning it had to be slid in i … | Continue reading
Square Cash is now a much more able virtual wallet. Today, the app has been updated to allow users to keep a balance in their accounts. Rather than automatically depositing incoming funds to your bank account, Square Cash’s new “Cash Drawer” feature lets you store money in-app fo … | Continue reading
GoPro today announced the acquisition of two startups to address one of the company’s sore spots: Video editing. Stupeflix and Vemory are the companies behind the mobile apps Replay and Splice, respectively. GoPro tells TechCrunch the company spent $105 million on the two compani … | Continue reading
In conjunction with its appearance at the RSA security conference in San Francisco tomorrow, Google announced today that it’s rolling out security enhancements for Gmail. Perhaps the most interesting one is bringing optical character recognition for attachments, such as images an … | Continue reading
So far, Google’s autonomous car has logged a pretty impressive driving record. There have been some missteps and even a few accidents, but until recently it had never caused an accident while driving itself. That changed on February 14 when an autonomously-driven Google Lexus hit … | Continue reading
Google announced a number of new security features for Gmail users in the enterprise today. Last year, the company launched its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature for Google Apps Unlimited users that helps businesses keep sensitive data out of emails. Today, it’s launching the fi … | Continue reading
While we haven't yet confirmed with Discovery News' worldwide network of apocalypse mythology scholars, we're pretty sure this is some sort of End Times omen:Fast food juggernaut McDonald's is rolling out a pilot program in Sweden that turns Happy Meal boxes into virtual reality … | Continue reading
Jacking up the price of downloadable content could turn into a new form of marketing. Fallout 4’s season pass for all of its upcoming add-ons is the top-selling product on the Steam digital-distribution platform today, and that’s likely because its price is about to jump from $30 … | Continue reading
Bruce Sewell, Apple's senior vice president and general counsel, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI.His testimony will be part of a hearing titled "The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans' Security … | Continue reading
The good news: Dark Souls 3 now has a free promotional mobile game called Slashy Souls. The bad news: It's dreadful.Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment… | Continue reading
Golden State power forward Draymond Green has apologized to his teammates, coaches and the organization for an emotional outburst during halftime of the Warriors' 121-118 overtime victory Saturday at Oklahoma City. | Continue reading
When we experience creative flow our mind fills with original associations -- one idea leads to the next almost effortlessly. Our behaviors change, too. We know we are in that mode because we remember where we put our keys, that package we wanted to drop off, and Monday morning's … | Continue reading
It's shaping up to be a major year for Nintendo if the rumor mill is even partially accurate. | Continue reading
Dustin Curtis has made a bold promise that his blogging platform and content will remain available on the web “forever.” Svbtle’s chief executive hoped that this guarantee would demonstrate its commitment to the online presence of users, while also helping to gain new ones. “One … | Continue reading
The Google Store is now selling VR headsets, with three models to choose from. You can pick up Cardboard from Google, the View-Master from Mattel or a travel-ready model from Goggle. All three sit under a new heading in the Google Store dedicated to VR, so it’s likely the segment … | Continue reading
Remember way back in 2013, when Netflix put out its first true original show, House of Cards? Remember how shocked you were at how good it was? Remember a year later, when the second season came out — and was equally compelling? Remember last year, when the third season came arou … | Continue reading
The Voxel Agents' long-planned resurrection of their Train Conductor franchise finally comes to frutition this week, as Train Conductor World releases on March 3rd. The game's been given a fresh coat of paint with three-dimensional visuals, but The Voxel Agents says they've also … | Continue reading
Perhaps it’s not surprising that Silicon Valley is apparently praying for the “good billionaire”, Michael Bloomberg, to run for President. According to the Consumer Technology Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro, nobody in the current election is looking after the interest … | Continue reading
In the spirit of individualism linking hand in hand with community, Android has been running a marketing campaign under the slogan, “Be together, not the same.” | Continue reading
Google recently announced it is eliminating text ad impressions on the right-hand side of its results pages. Previously, upwards of 10 or 11 total ads were eligible to show on the first results page with a majority showing up on the right-hand side. Going forward, there will now … | Continue reading
For a limited time, PR 20/20 is offering exclusive resources to help marketers advance their talent and tech, evolve strategy and accelerate performance. | Continue reading
Personalized marketing and advertising programs deliver improved results in digital media, studies show. As a result, highly personalized targeting is gaining a larger share of marketing budgets. To better implement personalization, marketers are also shifting how they measure th … | Continue reading
The Crosley C200 is a great turntable, and I highly recommend checking it out it if you are in the market for a new record player. The design is great, the price is fair, it’s easy to set up, and it sounds wonderful. Read More | Continue reading
Google is finally updating its Maps iOS app with one of the services most useful features.Google Maps on iOS will now allow you to add extra stops along your route without leaving the directions to your final destination. The feature first launched on Google Maps' Android app in … | Continue reading
Remember the Phaeton? In many markets, Volkswagen's big, ultra-luxe flagship sedan is still sold — but sales in the US ended years ago. Now, there's a Phaeton successor, sort of. Except you can't have it, unless you happen to be in China.Meet the Phideon, which will be built in C … | Continue reading
Not having enough time to exercise is a common excuse — and the same goes for doing laundry. But a quirky new concept imagines a stationary bike that doubles as a washing machine, giving users the power to work out and clean their clothes at the same timeBWM, which stands for bik … | Continue reading
If you own a lot of tech (plus an iPhone or iPad), you've probably got at least two cables you take everywhere: an Apple Lightning cable and a Micro USB cable. That's not really a major nuisance; Apple's cable works with Apple things, and the Micro USB plugs into most everything … | Continue reading
Frank Ocean's follow-up to 2012's Channel Orange is something of a modern musical mystery. It didn't get a release date until 2015, and then that July date came and went without so much as a new single. By the time 2015 ended, no one seemed entirely convinced there even was an al … | Continue reading
If you haven't gotten your hands on a Cardboard VR viewer via one of the many third-party companies making them or through one of Google's own time-limited promotions (or you're not interested in clogging your arteries for one from a McDonald's Happy Meal), Google will now sell y … | Continue reading
A new report suggests that bitcoin wallet providers are not providing features that promote consumer privacy and financial independence. | Continue reading
Mediocre Games is the name of a company that makes really good games. It can get confusing, but it also makes sense. Most of the companies that flood the App Store with crappy shovelware are named "Best Top Games Flappy WhatsApp Kim Kardashian Company Limited" so I guess there's … | Continue reading
Darwin. Hawking. Einstein. Tesla. Newton. Curie. Pythagoras of Samos. Each one has expanded our understanding of the physical world. And yet, somehow, we've never honored these luminaries with a 16-bit fighting game, until now.For an upcoming "newsgame" by Superinteressante magaz … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence seems to have become ubiquitous in the technology industry. AIs, we’re told, are replying to our emails on Gmail, learning how to drive our cars, and sorting our holiday photos. Mark Zuckerberg is even building one to help out around the house. The proble … | Continue reading
Here’s an excuse to play Half-Life 2 again. Gaming hardware and peripheral maker Razer announced today that several SteamVR games, including popular hits like Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, are now available to play in virtual reality via OSVR, an open VR software and hardware … | Continue reading