An ad here and there may not seem like a big deal when you can get an awesome application for $0, but a new study shows that this model is affecting our mobile experiences much more than we think. | Continue reading
What will your next iPhone behold? Though the release date is still TBD, there are already a lot of rumors about the possible features Apple might nix or improve in the iPhone 7Mashable Creative Producer Sam Sheffer, Senior Tech Correspondent Christian Warren and Chief Correspond … | Continue reading
Automotive brand Nissan has teamed up with Loughborough University to create an index that measures the excitement of football fans. | Continue reading
Unity Technologies showed off some game porn today at its press event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This means that it showed some really cool demos with eye-popping visual effects. The company says the demos show that the game engine that “democratized game … | Continue reading
Fans von Mangas und Comics kennen die Bilder, in denen ein Protagonist so schnell läuft, dass im Windzug die Röcke von japanischen Schulmädchen hoch fliegen. Und wie so oft stellt sich die Frage: Geht das in echt? Eine japanische TV... | Continue reading
Google reportedly is working on building its own Uber competitor, and while some believe that this will come in the form of a fleet of autonomous cars, there is a more immediate option for how Google can position itself more prominently in Uber’s world: by searching and aggregati … | Continue reading
References to NYC - New York Cheesecake - have surfaced in the AOSP repository. Of course that's just the internal codename. As for the final sweet treat? A new Opinion Rewards survey suggests Google may actually be polling users for their feedback. | Continue reading
Apple Music has partnered with Dubset Media Holdings to stream remixes, mash-ups, and DJ mixes that were previously unavailable due to copyright issues, according to a report from Billboard.For years, mixes and mash-ups have been kept off streaming services due to the complexitie … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants to show you that it can do cover shooting without Epic. Gears of War 4’s beta is coming April 18 for players who qualify for “early access,” according to Microsoft. This is a test of the first new release in the series for the Xbox One and Windows 10, and this ear … | Continue reading
User onboarding flows are key to retention, yet aren't given continuous attention. Here are 6 user onboarding flows and what you can learn from each. | Continue reading
Unity Technologies is announcing two new versions of its game development software at the Game Developers Conference today. The San Francisco company also said that it has a 30 percent share of the top 1,000 revenue generators among mobile games. Unity is trying to democratize ga … | Continue reading
Today, Google added a new section to its transparency report, giving users a running tally of how many Google requests use HTTPS encryption. Groups like EFF have long pushed for wider usage of HTTPS, but implementation can be demanding, particularly for services as complex as Goo … | Continue reading
Twitch has announced plans to support developers creating games designed to be played while live-streaming.The initiative will see these titles - dubbed Stream First games - receive promotion and technical help from Twitch itself.Three titles are already in development under the … | Continue reading
Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) custom recovery is now available for the Exynos 8890-powered Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. | Continue reading
There are varying degrees of virtual reality immersion. At the entry-level, you've got Gear VR powered by smartphones. And then you've got the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, which sit at the high-end of the VR spectrum and require powerful PCs to run them.A new headset called the Sulo … | Continue reading
"My programming skills suck," says Adrian Lazar as I play his video game, a retro sci-fi romp with an appropriately matinee-friendly title, Planet Alpha 31. Lazar, a professional game artist with experience at a AAA studio, began work on the indie side-project in 2013 using the U … | Continue reading
The Vampire Counts are the last playable race for Total War: Warhammer, which still isn't called Total Warhammer.The in-engine trailer, below, shows off the… | Continue reading
French startup Prêt d’Union is one of the biggest fintech startups in its home country, but it has yet to expand its crowd-lending services outside of France. Prêt d’Union is about to go all in on European expansion, a source told me. The company could expand to Italy as soon as … | Continue reading
Pop quiz: If a college student creates the next Angry Birds as a class project, who owns that intellectual property? The student? The entire class? The university? IP ownership for the college projects may sound inconsequential, but in an environment where indie games can become … | Continue reading
Driver-owned ridesharing startup Arcade City, the developer of an open marketplace where riders connect directly with drivers by leveraging blockchain technology has now launched its mobile application for Apple iOS and Google Android devices. Ridesharing startup Arcade City has … | Continue reading
Google today updated the Google Maps mobile app with support for fare estimates and pick up times for five new ride hailing services: 99Taxis in Brazil, Ola Cabs in India, Hailo in the U.K. and Spain, mytaxi in Germany and Spain, and Gett in the U.K. The new functionality is roll … | Continue reading
Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for Gmail users, includes a number of features that aim to make handling your incoming messages easier. One of the best of these has long been Smart Reply, which uses Google’s machine learning intelligence to look at your email and s … | Continue reading
F.lux, the popular color-adjusting application for computers and mobile devices that reduces blue light emissions for better nighttime usage, has now arrived on Android. Unfortunately, the application for now requires users to have a rooted phone in order to take advantage of its … | Continue reading
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Just in time for the Game Developers Conference, ad tech firm Supersonic is rolling out a new combined product that will make ad monetization simpler for game and app developers. The San Francisco company (which goes by the name Supersonic by IronSource) is launching a new softwa … | Continue reading
Open worlds are proliferating in gaming, but it isn’t easy to do them right. Chip design company ARM is helping developers out with Enlighten, a middleware tool that makes it easier to create open worlds with outstanding 3D graphics and lighting effects. Enlighten is part of a mo … | Continue reading
One of the biggest tools for Inbox by Gmail, ‘Smart Reply,’ makes life simpler by using machine learning to compile one-tap phrases to respond to email. But only those using mobile could get in on the action. That changes today. The company announced via the Gmail blog that the f … | Continue reading
The Hotaru compact shower holds five gallons of water and, according to the co-founders, a family of three can each take a five-minute, daily shower using the same five gallons of water for up to two weeks. Read More | Continue reading
Mit seiner kommenden AR-Brille HoloLens will Microsoft ja irgendwie dem Durchschnittsnutzer Augmented Reality schmackhaft machen, weshalb man derzeit nicht nur an der Hardware feilt, sondern auch passende Software entwickelt, zum Beispiel Actiongra... | Continue reading
A couple months ago, I visited Las Vegas for CES. Few people enjoy playing in CES, but no one enjoys going to the city of sin for work. The loud noises coming from the slot machines, the men flicking cards at you with pictures of naked women, and the general sense that everyone i … | Continue reading
Richard Branson is taking to the skies for the inaugural flight of a new route, from SFO to Denver, in the hopes of linking a nascent tech community in the Mile High City with an established one in Silicon Valley. Read More | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? The zanox Group are looking for a Senior Architect . We're looking for someon... | Continue reading
For Android Authority's first Poll of the Week, we thought we'd ask our readers an easy question - what is your favorite feature in the first Android N developer preview? | Continue reading
Tech giant Microsoft has added five new services to its blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution. | Continue reading
In 2013, billionaire eccentric inventor Elon Musk announced an idea called the Hyperloop: a super-fast, low-friction transportation system that looked like the prom photo for a subway tunnel and a bullet-train. Musk made the Hyperloop an open-sourced project, inviting thinkers, s … | Continue reading
… AKA, how a flock of pigeons is connecting my past, present and future technology interests. If I look back at the past 10 years or so of my career, I believe there’s a continuum of interest – from my passion for / community building around application messaging systems (MQ, MQ … | Continue reading
Google is known for paying big bucks to hackers that can crack its security, but this time its doubling its $50,000 bug bounty. Anyone who can create a recurring hack for a Chromebook or Chromebox that’s working on guest mode – meaning it comes back even after the machine’s been … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch piece, our focus was on two things. The first, an ongoing trade that we entered during the Asian session – one that had tested our stop but not hit it, and at the time of writing, was testing broken resistance as support. We took this testing … | Continue reading
Destination NSW: Sydney (ots/PRNewswire) -Was: Destination NSW veröffentlicht das Programm für Vivid Sydney 2016 URL: www.vividsydney.com/media-centreWann: Donnerstag, 17. März 2016Uhrzeit: 10:45 Uhr (AEST) Das offizielle Programm für Vivid Sydney 2016 wird auf ... | Continue reading
Reporting from South Korea on AlphaGo’s matches against Go genius Lee Se-dol over the past week and a half has been intense and fascinating. I’ve written about the results of each game, how Google subsidiary DeepMind achieved them, what they might mean for the future, and more. I … | Continue reading
A new nine-part Web series about the Google Lunar XPRIZE had its world premiere yesterday at SXSW. Titled ‘Moon Shot’ and directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel and executive producer J.J. Abrams, follows the journey of the different teams who are com … | Continue reading
The Economist and Jaguar have both unveiled activations at the Wearable Technology Show today (15 March), which is taking place at Excel London. | Continue reading
CyanogenMod 13 nightlies are now available for the ASUS Zenfone 2 and Laser, NVIDIA's SHIELD Portable, and a selection of carrier branded Samsung Galaxy S3 models. | Continue reading
Airbnb will soon make it a lot easier for neighbors to provide feedback – AKA, complain – about how guests behave while staying at a host’s home. Bloomberg reports that Airbnb made the announcement in Japan, where the company has seen huge growth recently. That surge means a lot … | Continue reading
There are many benefits to being featured in local media. Blogging is one of many ways to build relationships with local media professionals. | Continue reading
Ten pigeons with tiny backpacks are flying over London for the next two days monitoring the city’s pollution levels. Pigeon Patrol, as they’re called by the companies behind the project, are live tweeting the pollution data at their account @PigeonAir. Meet the squad.Good day Lon … | Continue reading
Niko Pueringer und Sam Gorski von der Firma Corridor Digital haben ein absurden Kurzfilm produziert, in dem der Halo-Charakter Master Chief mächtig aus der Egoshooter-Rolle fällt und sich nach einem tödlichen Treffer (Plasma-Granate... | Continue reading
Do video game geeks want to watch classic cooking shows? A new experiment on the Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch is looking to answer that question, as the company today announced the debut of a full-time Food Channel which will include all 201 episodes of Julia … | Continue reading