Back in 2014, the TiVo released the Roamio OTA, a DVR box designed specifically for cord-cutters that pulled in HD content over-the-air and supported every major streaming service at the time. It was a novel idea, but the execution wasn't great. But since cord-cutting isn't going … | Continue reading
Tinder announced this morning it’s testing a new friend-finding feature called “Tinder Social” in its popular dating app. The idea is to offer a way for you and your group of friends to find and connect with other groups out in the real world. Similar to how Tinder works for find … | Continue reading
Those using Google Calendar alongside Google Apps for Work or Edu can now take advantage of a feature that finds a time for your next meeting. The aptly name ‘find a time’ option scans your calendar for available times to meet up with a contact or coworker, and saves you the trou … | Continue reading
Despite the fact that numerous companies have tried to solve this problem, scheduling meetings is still a hassle. If you use Google for Work or Edu on the desktop, you are probably familiar with how Google lets you find meeting times across your organization already (though the f … | Continue reading
Über-Regisseur Oliver Stone hat ja bekanntlich das Leben des Über-Whistleblowers Edward Snowden verfilmt und damit die NSA-Affäre mehr oder weniger amtlich zu einer zentralen Erzählung der US-Geschichtsschreibung erklärt. J... | Continue reading
Netflix didn’t have a rocket-launcher last quarter, particularly as people expected it to have a whole heap of new customers in the 130 countries it went live with in January, but that could be about to change as it starts to offer in-app billing on Android. Just like when Netfli … | Continue reading
For the past couple of years, Samsung has been releasing headphone and speakers under the Level brand as a clear play against Apple's Beats brand of fashion headphones and Bluetooth speakers. The Level headphones largely match Beats' offerings: there are over-ear, on-ear, and in- … | Continue reading
Bringing distributed ledger technology to the traditional financial sector will be quite a challenge throughout the next few years. Infosys subsidiary EdgeVerve has launched a new blockchain-based software platform to make this transition a lot smoother. Infosys Ventures Into Ban … | Continue reading
Leading Japanese bitcoin exchange bitFlyer has revealed the successful completion of a ¥3 billion ($27 million) funding round, the largest funding round ever by a bitcoin and Fintech company in Japan. In a funding round led by Japanese investor SBI Investment and Tokyo-based vent … | Continue reading
The UK government is looking at the use of blockchains to track student loans and public grants. | Continue reading
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The Charlotte Hornets have been beating the Miami Heat at their own game in their first round series, which is tied at two games apiece with Game 5 on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET, TNT). After the Heat, a team that owned the paint after the All-Star break, destroye … | Continue reading
According to Astro Teller, the Google self-driving car is "close to graduating from X." Parsing out the meaning of that string of words is a little complicated, but basically it means that Alphabet isn't thinking of self-driving cars so much as a crazy "moonshot," but as a thing … | Continue reading
Supercell has constantly been trying to balance the monster that is Clash Royale [Free], and it doesn't plan on stopping any time soon judging by the constant tinkering with all kinds of aspects of the game. In a just-released blog post, Supercell stated that it found some clear … | Continue reading
Protecting your trademark from rivals is an essential part of any successful business. If you have a hit, someone will always want to trade on your name. However, I’m not sure I can agree that Littergram, a UK-only app that lets people report local trash hotspots in the hope of b … | Continue reading
Ubuntu is starting to show up in lot more places lately: tablets, phones, and this neat little computer-on-a-stick created by MeLE, the PGC02U. It's $70, with anIntel BayTrail processor, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. It also comes in Ubuntu orange and has a wee little antenna … | Continue reading
Super Mario Maker just got a lot more metal. Today Nintendo announced that the latest character to be added to the build-your-own Mario game will be none other than Japanese metal idol group Babymetal.Like other characters in the game — which include everything from original Poke … | Continue reading
An unspecified number of Uncharted 4 discs were thieved while shipping to retailers in the United Kingdom, according to a message from Sony's president of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida. A follow-up report at Eurogamer draws a line between the stolen Uncharted 4 discs, a poten … | Continue reading
SpaceX is planning to send a Dragon spacecraft — to Mars. It’s possibly the first step in Elon Musk’s wild vision of a colonized Mars. The SpaceX CEO has previously stated he wants to have humans on the red planet by 2025. This news is based on a single tweet, so details are spar … | Continue reading
Dark Souls and Bloodborne developer From Software is already beginning work on a new IP, according to a translated interview with Chinese outlet GGN Gamer.Translated by NeoGAF users, From president and Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki said of the series' future "rather than … | Continue reading
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Eden, the on-demand tech support company turned office support service, has today announced the launch of the platform in Oakland. That means that Eden’s service now covers all of the Bay Area, from Oakland to San Francisco to the Peninsula, including Palo Alto and Mountain View. … | Continue reading
Call it “Twitch for virtual reality,” except it’s not being done by Twitch. Seattle startup Vreal is announcing it has created a livestreaming platform for VR games. The company wants to make VR — which is often criticized as an isolating technology — into a more social experienc … | Continue reading
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SpaceX plans to send its Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018, the company announced today — marking a major first step toward CEO Elon Musk’s goal of sending humans to the Red Planet. The company didn’t say how many spacecraft it will send, but hinted it would conduct a se … | Continue reading
An experienced video game networking coder and long-time programmer has issued a damning appraisal of The Division's problems with exploits and glitches.Glenn Fiedler has an 18-year career in the game industry at developers such as BioShock and Tribes studio Irrational Games, LA … | Continue reading
Android TV is getting a virtual remote on iOS. As with Android version of the same app, it works via Wi-Fi to connect to your Android TV and provides a virtual controller setup, or a virtual touchpad for scrolling around. It’ll come in handy if you tend to lose your remote every … | Continue reading
In a new attempt to move beyond one-on-one dates, Tinder is testing a feature that lets users engage in group chats and arrange meet-ups involving multiple people. Tinder Social is what the company calls this new functionality, and to use it, you'll need to form a group with some … | Continue reading
Sony's announced May's PlayStation Plus lineup of games.PlayStation 4 Plus subscribers get dictator sim Tropico 5 and combat racer Table Top Racing. Table Top Racing, remember, is from the studio run by Nick Burcombe, the co-creator of Wipeout.PS3 owners get Bionic Commando Rearm … | Continue reading
Mobile Payments are undoubtedly the future, but which is the best? Here's everything you need to know about Android Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. | Continue reading
Well, it is a little funny that this happened to a game with the subtitle A Thief’s End. Sony president of worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida noted on the PlayStation Blog today that someone has stolen copies of Uncharted 4 in the U.K. while they were in transit (presumably to stor … | Continue reading
Google Fiber is opening up in its ninth market: Nashville, Tennessee. Google first announced Nashville as a candidate city back in January of 2015. It’s a small roll-out to start: just four apartment and condominium buildings. Google says hopes to eventually expand its service to … | Continue reading
Ein Lego-Zug mit einer Kamera auf der Lock fährt durch Haus und Garten, rund 50 Meter lang. Der TrainGuy bei YouTube muss noch lernen ein bisschen anzugeben. Denn die Fahrt ist wirklich großartig - und er hat ja viele solcher Aufnahmen,... | Continue reading
How do you feel about infecting the world with hilarious diseases till there's no living soul left? Fighting against the CDC in your efforts to bring forth the apocalypse? You love it too? Great! You'll really like Plague Inc. [$0.99] latest update then, which has just gone live. … | Continue reading
While DVR maker TiVo has been focused on the future with the recent unveiling of its 4K-ready DVR designed for the streaming era, the company is continuing to improve its other popular device for cord cutters as well, the TiVo Roamio. This morning, TiVo announced an updated versi … | Continue reading
AIDA Cruises: Rostock (ots) - Am Morgen des 27. April 2016 machte AIDAprima, das neue Flaggschiff von AIDA Cruises, im Rahmen einer viertägigen Kurzreise erstmals im britischen Southampton fest. Ab dem 3. Mai 2016 wird AIDAprima immer montags in Southampton zu ... | Continue reading
Today the Netherlands celebrates King's Day. To honor this tradition, the Dutch embassy in San Francisco invited me to give a "TED talk" to ... | Continue reading
How do you use your blog analytics? There are many easy-to-use blogging analytics tools out there, but the really successful bloggers know their results and tailor their blogs accordingly. This is the fifth element in the CAST system for effective blog content: Content (compellin … | Continue reading
Google has released an Android TV remote app on iOS that lets users control both smart TVs and set-top boxes running Android TV. The app is pretty simple — and identical to the Android version — with a D-pad, gesture support, and voice and text search. Multiple remotes can be con … | Continue reading
A ruling by a federal judge has laid the blame of erroneous in-app purchases made by children with Amazon, which could lead to an order for a full refund for all affected parties. The case, brought by the Federal Trade Commission against Amazon, essentially hinges on whether oste … | Continue reading
While you're sitting in absolute silence in observation of International Noise Awareness Day, we're trying to drink from the fire hose of iOS game releases. We typically curate these lists from our forums and AppShopper, but in a very typical SNAFU, AppShopper has been acting a l … | Continue reading
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The famous horse-racing center Churchill Downs Racetrack is using VenueNext‘s technology platform and app to automate ticket purchasing, parking passes, and food orders at the Churchill Downs Spring Week and Kentucky Derby. The mobile app lets fans get food and drinks delivered t … | Continue reading
Online lending company Affirm has announced it is acquiring Sweep, an app-based personal finance tool. The move comes just two weeks after Affirm raised a $100M Series D round, which was partially raised to help the company expand into new product categories outside of lending. S … | Continue reading
Affirm isn’t wasting any time in moving forward with its “direct-to-consumer” products. A couple of weeks after raising $100 million in equity funding, the financial technology company announced today that it has acquired Sweep and its personal finance management app service. Alt … | Continue reading
You're never too tiny to blog, says blogger Lindsay Kolowich . "Some of the most dramatic successes we've seen with blogging come from b... | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Can Warriors or Clippers better absorb loss of star guard? | Thoughts on S … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Can Warriors or Clippers better absorb loss of star guard? | Thoughts on S … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Can Warriors or Clippers better absorb loss of star guard? | Thoughts on S … | Continue reading