Allen Pan vom YouTube-Kanal Sufficiently Advanced wollte immer schon ein Eisschwert haben, warum weiß er zwar eingestandenermaßen nicht, aber jetzt hat er sich dann einfach eins gebastelt und auch wenn das Teil ziemlich stumpf geraten i... | Continue reading
In the French cult film “Amélie” the young heroine imagines how a record is created: like making a crepe, you pour a liquid substance onto a hot, circular surface and smooth out the “batter” of the record with a wooden ... | Continue reading
The project consists of a full refurbishment of an apartment in the Eixample district in Barcelona, in a traditional building block from the early ... | Continue reading
Parse – a cloud mobile solution owned by Facebook – recently announced the shutting down of their services as of January 2017. This means three things. Firstly, even the best services might not make it as a business. Parse (i.e. Facebook) has probably lost the war with Amazon and … | Continue reading
We talk with ARM’s Ian Fergusson and James Bruce about ARM, mobile industry trends, and the latest processors built on ARM technology. | Continue reading
PREVIEW: We had a good look at the first full act of Microsoft’s exclusive Windows 10 and Xbox One title, Quantum Break. The new story-based shooter from Remedy Entertainment, the maker of Alan Wake and Max Payne, features Jack Joyce (played by actor Shawn Ashmore) as a man who c … | Continue reading
Spoiler alert: This preview has text and video that tell you what happens at the start of the game. Remedy Entertainment pioneered the use of the slow-motion, Matrix-like “bullet time” in video games in Max Payne way back in 2001. It carried slow-motion combat to new levels in Al … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to launch a free Forza game on Windows 10 this spring. Forza Motorsport 6: Apex will debut in the Windows Store as a slimmed down free-to-play version of the racing game available on the Xbox One. It's part of a broader effort by Microsoft to invest heavily … | Continue reading
Nonprofit group Games for Change and American Express have teamed up to create Save the Park, a mobile game that encourages people to volunteer in national parks. The free title debuts on iOS in March, and it’s one more example of how do-gooders are turning to games to get people … | Continue reading
PREVIEW: Microsoft showed off a hands-on demo of Minecraft in virtual reality on the Oculus Rift VR headset. The preview experience was cool, but it also made me sick from too much motion. In an interview with GamesBeat, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey said Minecraft in VR was an … | Continue reading
Are your sales and marketing teams aligned? Learn why they need to be aligned to drive leads. | Continue reading
LinkedIn has launched a new way for marketers to target people at specific companies on the professional social network using their sales data. With LinkedIn Account Targeting, you can tailor Sponsored Updates or Sponsored InMail campaigns to a specific list of accounts, allowing … | Continue reading
It’s safe to say I’ve spent a fair amount of time playing Minecraft. At this point — knowing that it’s one of the most popular game titles in all of Earth’s history — I don’t feel like I’m in the minority here. But at the Xbox Spring Showcase in San Francisco, I finally got the c … | Continue reading
Egnyte announced a new product today that lets customers control their encryption keys with either a customer-managed offering or a cloud service that requires less heavy lifting and management. While Egnyte (and all reputable cloud vendors) offer end-to-end encryption, some cust … | Continue reading
LinkedIn advertisers are getting a new way to target their campaigns — specifically, a feature allowing them to aim Sponsored InMail and Sponsored Updates toward companies where they’re actually trying to make sales.Russell Glass, the head of products for LinkedIn Marketing Solut … | Continue reading
If there is one thing I know to expect from the Dark Souls series, it’s that nothing is ever as easy as it seems. And that’s as true as ever in the first half hour of Dark Souls 3. I’ve just pulled a sword from the chest of Iudex Gundyr, a faceless knight twice my size, and the w … | Continue reading
This is a big moment for the Xbox One. Microsoft has spent the better part of the last three years rebuilding its brand as a gamer-centric, consumer-friendly company willing to do whatever it takes to win back its lost loyalty. Now the console’s future is tied to a bold vision th … | Continue reading
In a church in Hamburg, the pews have been rearranged and dozens of consoles have been lined up wall-to-wall. A makeshift stage has all but engulfed the altar, drinks are being served at the sidelines and when we first arrive, bleary-eyed from an early plane journey, organ music … | Continue reading
Discover the seven email marketing sins we should avoid and seven desirable virtues we should cultivate when creating an email marketing strategy. | Continue reading
Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Local, joins the Social Pros Podcast to discuss his new book "The Art of People" and how proper listening can make you a better person, partner, and social pro. | Continue reading
It feels like we just got over Heartbleed and there’s another branded exploit out there. DROWN, a new vulnerability in OpenSSL that affects servers using SSLv2, was revealed today as an attack that could decrypt your secure HTTPS communications, such as passwords or credit card n … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced a new tool today called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection designed to help IT detect threats to Windows 10 machines after a threat has penetrated the network. While most security strategy to this point has focused on keeping bad actors out of the net … | Continue reading
Nicosia (Cyprus) 18-20 March 2016 The British Council and the British High Commission in Nicosia, in collaboration with Snook, a Glasgow-based digital innovation agency, and in partnership with Google, are hosting a Culture Shift Hackathon programme on 18th – 20th March, at the C … | Continue reading
The Melrose Police Department in Massachusetts fell prey to ransomware that spread was triggered from a malicious email opened by a member of the department. To regain access and control of the files encrypted by the cryptographically-coded ransomware, the Police Department paid … | Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF is now available. The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. veraPDF is building the definitive, file-format validator for all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 (PDF/A). This version contai … | Continue reading
Pick up any fitness magazine – or just Google ‘health hacks’ – and you’ll be inundated with millions of bits of research telling you how to live a better life. Drink more green tea, drink more coffee, drink more red wine. Ok, so drinking stuff isn’t the secret to a long life, but … | Continue reading
Brownies made of black beans and cookies made of chickpeas are amongst the unusual recipes found on Hungryroot. Launched last year, the New York-based meal kit startup focuses on vegetable-based natural foods that can be prepared in under seven minutes. After demonstrating “rapid … | Continue reading
Das musste wohl früher oder später passieren: Ein selbstfahrendes Google-Testauto hat ganz ohne menschliche Hilfe einen Unfall gebaut. Womit die bislang fast zu makellose Unfallbilanz der autonomen Testvehikel einen kleinen Kratzer bekomm... | Continue reading
A small, but important detail buried in Apple’s developer documentation for its upcoming iOS 9.3 release details a new feature that lets employers lock apps to your homescreen so they can’t ever be moved. The feature means that an employer-issued iPhone could require Slack and yo … | Continue reading
SoundHound, the company known for its song recognition app, is branching out beyond music in a big way.Following months of private beta, the company has launched Hound, its new voice-enabled assistant app to rival Siri and Google Now.See also: Ask Siri to beatbox for you right no … | Continue reading
They say the dog is a man's best friend. Does that go for robot dogs as well? Or will they turn on their human masters, ushering in a new age of darkness for humanity? None of those questions are answered in the video below, but we do get to see how one real, flesh-and-bone dog g … | Continue reading
Marketing technology continues to grow at a pace. It is more fragmented than ever, and the number of available solutions has seen year-on-year triple-digit growth for half a decade. And that’s a problem for everyone involved. Keeping track of the tools, processes, and systems tha … | Continue reading
The claim is audacious: A cable that works as a Lightning and microUSB cable. Ludicrous, right? Well, if this Kickstarter project is to be believed, that’s exactly what the LMcable can do. The cable sports a special end that works in both ports. One side of the male connector has … | Continue reading
The Anonymous online vigilante group says it has helped take out pedophiles, scientologists and even Russian government officials, so now it has created a ‘greatest hits’ campaign video to show off its efforts. The online group declared “total war” on the Islamic State last year … | Continue reading
When it comes to getting things done efficiently, apps like TaskRabbit and Elance have become go-tos for lots of individuals and businesses alike. And today, TaskRabbit has turned its focus to getting those tasks done super-fast, with its new real-time offerings. The updated Task … | Continue reading
The wonders of modern tech advancement still carry a few pitfalls – namely, frustrating physical-space limitations on our phones and tablets. Sure, the cloud helps, but there’s often no substitute for physical media. Now you can expand the capacity of your iOS gadgets and easily … | Continue reading
Customer service is being disrupted in the same ways and for the same reasons that marketing has been disrupted. Hug Your Haters is the first book that provides research-backed advice on this critical shift. | Continue reading
You may have thought that SoundHound had long ago ridden into the sunset, but you’d be wrong. Although its signature app has been focused on music search for the past decade, that’s all about to change with the emergence of Hound out of beta. Hound is a natural language virtual a … | Continue reading
This year’s Disrupt NY will take place across the river from Manhattan in Red Hook, at the Brooklyn Cruise Ship terminal. TechCrunch Disrupt, with approximately 5,000 in-person attendees, will spend four days (including our hackathon) discussing the most exciting and innovative t … | Continue reading
No matter who the next James Bond will be, he'll have one of the most unbelievably beautiful cars in the world in his garage.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Sure, the new Bugatti Chiron might be the new fastest car in the world. But … | Continue reading
Keyvan Mohajer is hoping the past 9 years of research and work building a digital assistant at SoundHound will be worth the wait. Today, SoundHound CEO Mohajer said the company is publicly releasing its Hound app, a tool that lets users search for answers to questions and complet … | Continue reading
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There’s more to dating than just looks. Indeed, personality matters. So say the experts at The Catch, the newest social dating app for women. The Catch lets women pick men based on their personalities, as revealed by their answers to questions posed by the woman themselves. Unlik … | Continue reading
Elucify, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class wants to solve an annoying and persistent problem for sales people — making sure they have the most recent customer contact data. To solve this problem, the company created a plug-in for Salesforce.com CRM based on machine l … | Continue reading
Neato's robotic vacuum can now be controlled with a smartwatch, thanks to an app update announced today. The automatic update allows smartwatch users to start, stop, and receive notifications from Neato's Botvac Connected vacuum, a Wi-Fi-connected Roomba competitor that uses lase … | Continue reading
Nearly every one of the world's largest technology companies is trying to figure out how to let computers understand human speech, but a Santa Clara-based startup may have just cut its way to the top of the field. Hound, as its app is called, is a voice-powered digital assistant. … | Continue reading
There are few car badges in the world with deeper history than Aston Martin's DB line, made most famous by James Bond's beautiful, tricked-out DB5 in 1964's Goldfinger. Now, there's an all-new DB ready for its debut: the DB11, complete with a 5.2-liter twin-turbocharged V-12 that … | Continue reading