Dies ist nicht der erste Spiegel mit smarten Funktionen, aber es ist selten genug, dass jemand einen Spiegel mit Touchscreen baut, der obendrein auch noch diverse Apps versteht. Neben einem Musikplayer gibt es diverse Apps wie Reddit, Fotos, Mess... | Continue reading
A quick scan of LinkedIn for former employees underscores the point. Of Uber’s roughly 6,700 employees, only a tiny fraction have left, and in most cases, those hires weren’t around long enough to be worrying about vested options. Employees of privately held companies have long w … | Continue reading
HTC is holding a Mother’s Day promotion that sees the One A9 and One M9 at just $389 and $399 respectively. | Continue reading
We here at Mashable are obsessed with Snapchat — the filters, the live stories, and of course, the Discover channels.But of course, it's not perfect. In addition to a confusing, non-intuitive interface — Snapchat makes you work just to find that black drawing tool — there's a lot … | Continue reading
Special Correspondents has a scale problem. Ricky Gervais’ third directorial project, made for Netflix on what looks like a tiny budget, is modestly hilarious when it keeps the story proportional to its funding. But Gervais expands his premise into an international farce with glo … | Continue reading
In exchange for valuable tax breaks from the city five years ago, tech companies have been flocking to San Francisco's low-income Tenderloin and Mid-Market neighborhoods. As the area improves, will long-time residents get left behind? Photo/Video: Jake Nicol/The Wall Street Journ … | Continue reading
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The American Society for Association Executives this week shuttered its decades-old "Springtime in the Park" and announced a new un-expo... | Continue reading
Snapchat just scored a big win: streaming highlights from the Olympics. According to Bloomberg, Snacphat penned a deal with NBC to show off clips from the Olympics, the first time NBC has shared content outside of its own network in the US. NBC tells Bloomberg that Snapchat “real … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Universe in one image ( Pablo Budassi ). Imagine an ancient... | Continue reading
Georgia joins Horizon 2020, the EU's Research and Innovation Programme - The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has slowly gained alttude in a non-committal rise to $450. This analyst keeps questioning why the market compulsively buys price up when the technicals are pointing down. Some say that perhaps the market is trading the expectation of a block reward rally. This analy … | Continue reading
IBM is venturing into the world of blockchain and distributed ledgers, as they target Government, financial services, and healthcare through IBM Cloud. A significant vote of confidence for blockchain technology in general and another exciting development to see where this industr … | Continue reading
Auch HP scheint jetzt auf Chromebooks mit mehr Designexklusivität und Wumms zu setzen. Das Chromebook 13 mit seinem 13,3 Zoll Bildschirm hat nicht nur eine beeindruckende Auflösung von 3.200 x 1.800, einen schlanken Aluminium-Körper... | Continue reading
Uber's stated mission is "transportation as reliable as running water." Now, that literally includes luxury vessels that operate on running water.This Saturday, Uber is offering yacht rentals to residents of Dubai for 300 AED (or $82). That price includes free Uber rides to and f … | Continue reading
I asked a flexible display industry veteran why flexible displays are taking so long to “arrive”. The short answer? Because no one is making enough of them. | Continue reading
A few months back we wrote about the upcoming Duelyst going into beta, and I talked about how I was looking forward to getting this game on my mobile. Well, that day is closer since Duelyst has launched for PC and according to the developers, from here on they'll be focusing on m … | Continue reading
CloudMagic, an email application that today has grown to 4 million users, has just added a useful feature that can aid those who receive a lot of inbound email from unknown persons: Sender Profile. Similar to services like LinkedIn’s Rapportive or newly launched Connect from Clea … | Continue reading
While nostalgically binging on old internet comedy from my childhood, I was struck by an epiphany: just as the comical repacking of 1980s nostalgia during the 2000s made cheap toys and crummy cartoons into flashy movies, so too will the web videos of the late 1990s and early 2000 … | Continue reading
It just got a lot easier for law enforcement agents to hack anonymous computers over the internet. Last night, the Supreme Court approved changes to the rules of criminal procedure, enabling warrants for searches of remote computers, regardless of their physical location. That ki … | Continue reading
Woah there! Where did May come from already? Before we launch into next month, there’s just about enough time for a quick roundup of the most notable updates and releases across April. As always, only the best iPhone and iPad apps from the last month make it into this list. Hippo … | Continue reading
Delta announced Friday it will be the first airline in the U.S. to deploy Radio Frequency Identification — or RFID — baggage tracking technology, for all 120 million bags it handles each year.Since the 1990s, airlines have tracked baggage with barcodes and hand scanning. Delta ca … | Continue reading
Razer has released a new ultrabook as it continues to stamp its name on more categories of gaming gear. Read More | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
Volkswagen’s emissions testing scandal last autumn was so severe some observers said it threatened to send the company to the junkyard. But Volkswagen now believes it has turned a corner and hopes to speed away from the crisis, leaving it behind in the smog (sorry about that). Vo … | Continue reading
If you perform a very specific query in the search field of online code repository Github, where many Slack bot projects are stored, you can get info that potentially lets you access a trove of corporate data, including companies' internal chats and files. This is because a lot o … | Continue reading
It's a weird week when Edward Snowden is the biggest action hero in new movie trailers, but here we are and I guess it's kind of great? See below for 13 new trailers worth checking out. Continue reading… | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: TRACT Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing personalized regulatory T-cell (Treg) therapy, announced today that it received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate... | Continue reading
Blockchain data startup Tierion has raised $1m in seed funding from several of the industry’s leading venture capital firms. | Continue reading
SpaceX's bold plan to put a Dragon spacecraft on Mars in 2018 will rely on a type of landing technique known as propulsive landing — a way of using rocket engines to go down instead of up. As the Dragon descends toward the Martian surface, eight SuperDraco engines embedded in the … | Continue reading
The Red Bull Racing Formula One team officially debuted its partially closed cockpit solution during practice this morning in Russia. They are the second team to test a solution on track, after Scuderia Ferrari ran a lap in Barcelona with its own partially closed cockpit back in … | Continue reading
This week, earnings reports continued, Elon Musk announced plans for SpaceX’s first Mars mission, we spoke with the Reverend Jesse Jackson about diversity in the tech industry and more. These are the stories everyone in tech is talking about. Read More | Continue reading
Nobody questions the viability of Microsoft’s Xbox business anymore. The company generates billions of dollars a year and healthy profits in the video game business. But back in the early years, the picture was bleak. Microsoft lost around $5 billion to $7 billion in the first fo … | Continue reading
Lange Zeit war TiVo das Sinnbild für den Neid auf die Zukunft des Fernsehens. Der erste moderne Hardware-Recorder für den zaghaften Schritt in das Zeitalter des zeitversetzten Fernsehens. Dass dies immer noch etwas Wert ist, zeigt nicht n... | Continue reading
Amazon shares opened at $665.55 this morning, up 10.6 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price of $602. In other words, Amazon’s market capitalization just grew by nearly $30 billion. Yesterday, Amazon announced some blockbuster earnings. This was the company’s most impressi … | Continue reading
There’s an existential question that the staff of The Verge has struggled with since we launched the site: what is the best version of Blade Runner? This May it’s going to get a little more difficult to make an evaluation, because the theatrical cut of the film is disappearing fr … | Continue reading
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — Last season, the Atlanta Hawks won 60 games and had home-court advantage in the conference finals … and got swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers. This season, the Hawks won just 48 games. Expectations are lower and they’ll be in Cleveland to start the conferenc … | Continue reading
The best content you produce is content which is polarizing, in that only the people who will end up your customers will read it. Here are a few ideas that I have used repeatedly to achieve this. 1) Industry Newsletter, your This Week in We do 'This Week in Native Ads'. That hone … | Continue reading
Today Verizon kicks off preorders for the new HTC 10, with plans to ship by May 5th. Meanwhile Sprint has confirmed it will stock the phone starting May 13th. | Continue reading
Just a few days ago John Romero, the iconic game designer best known for his work on Doom and Quake, launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new, classic-style first-person shooter called Blackroom. Today, that campaign has been cancelled.In a backer-only message, Romero reveal … | Continue reading
You have a great idea for a business and are rightly excited to get going. There is so much to do that you can hardly sleep at night. You are thinking of all the plans and steps that you must complete, like securing financing, setting up a website, hiring your first employees… th … | Continue reading
I've mentioned quite a few times in the past that where the mobile platform excels at is at offering a huge community for multiplayer games, and upcoming 2D multiplayer shooter Armajet aims to capture precisely that community. Armajet developers describe the game as a competitive … | Continue reading
Belgium plans to distribute iodine pills across the country as a safety measure against a nuclear disaster, according to a report from the BBC. Continue reading… | Continue reading
News that Google would soon begin testing a new mobile travel application leaked out last week, and now we have more details, including screenshots, of what that app will look like. The app, called Trips, is being trialed with a small group of testers, and will allow users to kee … | Continue reading
For years, flying RC helicopters has been a hobby for many enthusiasts. But few people have done it as well as Tareq Alsaadi, who has seemingly mastered the art(?) of doing insane tricks that could never be replicated in an actual helicopter. In what can only be described as five … | Continue reading
John Romero and Adrian Carmack have cancelled their Kickstarter for first-person shooter Blackroom in order to make a gameplay demo.The pair plan to resume the Kickstarter once the gameplay demo is complete.The gameplay demo will take more time than the Kickstarter has left, Nigh … | Continue reading
The government of the Isle of Man is looking to plug a gap in its gambling regulatory structure as it relates to bitcoin and digital currencies. | Continue reading