Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Adds Ether Trading Amid Increasing Demand

Digital currency exchange Bitfinex has added ether trading prior to the release of the Ethereum's next software implementation 'Homestead'. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

C4D Staffer Spotlight: Alicia Fiorletta, Content Strategist

While her actual doppelganger may be disputed, this isn’t: C4D’s Alicia Fiorletta is an unquestionably talented Content Strategist who shines at distilling important strategies and messaging into engaging content for Content4Demand and our clients. Alicia juggles an impressive nu … | Continue reading


@content4demand.com | 8 years ago

The Five Characteristics of Intelligent Content

An excerpt from the newly released book "Intelligent Content: A Primer” provides the top five characteristics of intelligent content. | Continue reading


@review.content-science.com | 8 years ago

Google loses Android antitrust appeal in Russia

Google has lost an appeal in a Russian court against an antitrust ruling pertaining to its Android mobile OS. The competition complaint was brought against Android back in February 2016 by local company Yandex. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Netflix pulls its Android Beta Program, says it was not meant for consumers to join

Netflix confirmed this morning the existence of what appeared to be a new Android beta testing program, but says it did not intend to make it available to consumers via Google Play. In addition, the company tells us that features in the beta app should not be taken as indication … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Police to release report on McClendon death

Oklahoma City police are holding a news conference to discuss the death of Chesapeake Energy founder Aubrey McClendon, whose body was found in a burning car beneath a rural turnpike two weeks ago. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 8 years ago

Google loses Russian court appeal against anti-monopoly ruling

This puts Google in something of a pickle, because they’re staring down the barrel of a serious fine if they don’t radically change their business model in Russia. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

King's Quest: Chapter 3 dated for April

King's Quest - Chapter 3: Once Upon a Climb is due 26th April on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. This time it out we follow the exploits of young King Graham rescuing his future bride from the witch Hagatha's tower.The Odd Gentlemen's reboot of Sierra's classic point-and-cli … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

GDC 2016: 'Crap! I'm Broke: Out of Pocket...' - A Game of Paying Bills (With an Excellent Demo)

Out first meeting at GDC was with Molly and Erik from Arcane Circus, they're from a city I can't pronounce in The Netherlands, and had one of the best game pitches I've seen in a long time. The game itself is a collection of mini games centralized around the idea of doing everyth … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Google lets Android developers build video recording and livestreaming into games

Game developers on Android now have an easy way to turn their fans into livestreamers. Google revealed today that it is opening up Android’s built-in gameplay recording to developers. Studios can enable players to start recording or broadcasting their gameplay with the touch of a … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Google beefs up ads, analytics, and updates for Android game developers

Game developers are about to get a handful of tools that should make their jobs easier. Google announced a number of improvements to its suite of Google Play game services that should help developers make better apps and more money. These features include a way for studios to byp … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Xbox Live now supports cross-platform multiplayer with PS4

At this point, there's very little difference between the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. But there was one key differentiating point. Xbox gamers could only play with Xbox and PC players as Microsoft was restricting access to the multiplayer component. Microsoft just announ … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

After 0 successful submissions, Google doubles top reward for hacking a Chromebook to $100,000

Over the past six years, Google has paid security researchers over $6 million (over $2 million last year alone) since launching its bug bounty program in 2010. The company today expanded its Chrome Reward Program with two changes: Increasing its top reward for Chromebooks and add … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

The First 'Clash Royale' eSports Tournament Broadcast, the Clash Invitational, is Happening Right Now in Shanghai

The topic you hear all the time around mobile games is trying to create the first big mobile gaming eSport. Vainglory [Free] is really trying at it, throwing events all the time including one this past weekend in Santa Monica. And you see things like Super Senso aiming towards co … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan release date confirmed

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, the next hack-and-slash action affair by Platinum Games (Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance), will launch on 24th May for PS4, Xbox One,, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.The release date was revealed in a new trailer exclusive to I … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Google patent filing should keep its driverless car from running into buses

A month after a Google Lexus caused a minor accident with a Mountain View, California bus, Google has set out to ensure that it never happens again with a patent called “Bus Detection for Autonomous Vehicles.” The patent, filed March 8, uses image recognition technology that allo … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Say hello to the new age of payment tech

Promoted by PayPalSome older stuff is cool. Everyone loves a vintage leather jacket, and classic movies are favorites across generations. But in some cases, old can mean outdated, and when something's outdated, it's simply time to upgrade. Just because something's always been don … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Blockai uses the blockchain to help artists protect their intellectual property

While most of the discussions around blockchain have focused on its potential use in finance, startup Blockai is looking at something different — helping artists, photographers and other creators register their work so that they can protect it from potential copyright infringemen … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

The Surprising Truth about What Motivates us

“We are not as endlessly manipulable and predictable as you would think,” says Dan Pink in Drive. The results of an MIT study demonstrated that while there is a correspondence between effort expended and inventive expected for mechanical skills. However, when the task involved ev … | Continue reading


@conversationagent.com | 8 years ago

Google launches new services for Android game developers

Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference. These range from new tools for managing virtual goods and currencies, to the launch of a video recording API so developers can make it easier for pla … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Google’s new tools for game developers could actually make them rich and famous

Today at the Game developers Conference (GDC), Google announced new features that will allow developers to make more money, learn more about users and stand out in the crowded Play Store marketplace. Independent developers have the spotlight A new Play Store section named ‘Indie … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Netflix is adding a data saver option on Android

Netflix uses a lot of data. That’s fine and dandy when you’re on your laptop using Wi-Fi, but with most mobile plans limited to specific alotment of gigabytes, it can be a problem. Thankfully, the company is working on a solution. Netflix now offers a beta channel on the Play Sto … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

#CSForAll: Ensuring tech access for all students

On the heels of the White House Computer Science For All initiative (#CSForAll) announcement and the celebration of National Engineers Week, we are excited about the work being done to make STEM opportunities accessible for all kids. The #CSForAll initiative is a plan to ensure … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Google Play gets ‘Indie Corner’ to promote games from smaller studios

SAN FRANCISCO — Remember when your teacher made you sit in the corner after you did something bad and you would spend all that time thinking up crazy ideas for video games? Well, Google is bringing that feature to its Android app market … sorta. Indie Corner is a new feature in t … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Google Play will soon let you try out games directly from search

Google is announcing a slew of new features for Play Games today, and the coolest might actually be a new type of ad. It might not sound particularly exciting — Google has given the new ad format the drab title "search trial run ads" — but the feature now makes it possible to try … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Shooting Hoops With Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers

Golden State Warriors General Manager Bob Myers shows off his workout routine: playing one-on-one basketball with other coaches from the NBA championship team. Photo: Lisa Wiseman for The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 8 years ago

A month after its car hit a bus, Google filed a patent for robot cars to detect buses

On Feb. 14, one of the company’s several dozen test vehicles struck a bus, the first accident where the autonomous system was at fault. On March 8, a pair of Google researchers filed a patent entitled “Bus Detection for an Autonomous Vehicle.” The patent details specific image re … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Fired employee says Volkswagen deleted data about emissions scandal

A former Volkswagen employee says the company destroyed documents that were required to be preserved because of an EPA lawsuit, reports the Courthouse News Service.The allegation comes in a wrongful termination lawsuit against Volkswagen filed earlier this month by Daniel Donovan … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Microsoft will let Xbox and PC gamers play against users on rival consoles and platforms

While it’s been possible for cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 gamers for a while now, there’s never been a way for you to play against, say, a buddy playing the same game on a PS4. That’s set to change in the future, however, with the introduction of cross-plat … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Microsoft will allow Xbox gamers to play against PS4 and PC players

Microsoft is announcing a big new feature for Xbox owners today: cross-network play. It's something the software giant has hinted at for years, and now it seems the reality of PS4, Xbox One, and PC players playing the same game together might finally happen. Developers building g … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

How does a mobile network actually work?

Ever wonder how that magic miracle machine in your pocket stays so in-contact with the world around you? Wonder no more! Here we unveil the secret of mobile networks. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Sony’s PlayStation Vue Internet TV service arrives in the U.S. for $30 a month

All of you cord-cutters have a new way to get some of your favorite channels back. Sony announced today that its PlayStation Vue Internet-based TV service is expanding nationwide today. It starts at $30 a month for 55-plus channels and goes up to $45 for more than 100. It also en … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

This simple new app can help you create a logo for your startup in minutes

If you don’t already have a startup or #brand, chances are you’re thinking about creating one. A new app named Logo Foundry for iOS and Android can help by — you guessed it — creating a snappy logo for you. You’ll still have to do some work to get there, though. Logo Foundry is b … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Lightsaber duels may be finally coming to VR

Ever since motion controls became popular in video games with Nintendo’s Wii, people have been hoping for a game that puts you in control of a lightsaber-wielding Sith or Jedi. Nothing has really left its mark as a decent, motion-controlled Jedi simulator, but that could easily c … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

FinLeap’s solarisBank to offer Banking-as-a-Platform so startups can ride fintech gravy train

This time the Berlin-based company builder (to use the preferred terminology) is investing and betting on the underlying regulatory and financial technology infrastructure — the picks ‘n’ shovels, if you will — in the form of solarisBank, a fully-licensed digital bank designed to … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

'Whispers of the Old Gods' Special - Check Out all the News and Videos about 'Hearthstone' Upcoming Expansion in Touchstone #39

So, today we're going to talk about some great tournaments and some...I'm kidding; today is all about the announcement for the upcoming Hearthstone [Free] expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods that has finally arrived. On Saturday night, Ben Brode and Young Woo gave us the announce … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Watch the first official trailer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s second season

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s second season comes to Netflix on April 15th, and it looks like things are about the same for the freed captive. She’s still in New York City, living bunker-free, and figuring out how the "real world" works. This season will apparently involve Kimmy wo … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Gerücht: Meizu Pro 6 soll mit 6 GB RAM kommen

Noch im Laufe des Jahres soll der Nachfolger des aktuellen Flaggschiffs Pro 5 von Meizu erscheinen. Das Meizu Pro 6 soll mit einem Exynos 8890-CPU kommen, das auch im Samsung Galaxy S7 gefunden werden kann, 128 GB internem Speicher, aber vor allem... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 8 years ago

Xbox One touts cross-network play with PC for indie games like Rocket League — and could add PS4

Xbox One and PlayStation 4 owners might get to play with or against each other in the future. Microsoft revealed today that it is enabling independent developers to open up cross-network game with its games. This not only means that users can play Xbox One and PC games together, … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Microsoft Drops Bitcoin? Payments Still Live As Reports Cast Doubt

Microsoft is still accepting and crediting bitcoin payments amid reports that the tech giant is moving away from the digital currency. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

Marketing and engineering roles dominate the tech industry, but that’s all they have in common

VB EVENT: Engineering and marketing roles are among the best jobs in America, according to trend data from Glassdoor, which scores careers based on the number of current job openings, average salary, and a career opportunities rating that’s calculated using anonymous reviews. The … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Amazon has SanDisk’s 200GB microSD card for just $59, plus other memory deals

Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day sees deep discounts on various SanDisk storage products. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Gone Home developer's Tacoma delayed to spring 2017

Tacoma, the next project from Gone Home developer Fullbright, will now launch in spring 2017.The story-based sci-fi game had previously been slated for a mid-to-late 2016 arrival on PC and Xbox One - a date which Fullbright has now decided was simply too soon for the amount of wo … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Snuggling Up to Papers We Love - What's Your Favorite Paper?

From a talk by @aysylu22 at QCon London on modern computer science applied to distributed syst... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Comic-Con will launch a streaming service on May 7th

The company behind San Diego Comic-Con is trying to expand its control of geekdom beyond a single weekend in July. It's teaming up with Lionsgate to launch a streaming service with classic sci-fi and fantasy titles, live streams of select SDCC panels, and original programming, in … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Outlook for iOS can now protect your emails with your fingerprint

Protecting your phone from prying eyes with your fingerprint is great. Now you can keep your emails locked up and secure, too.A new update to Microsoft's Outlook app, arguably the best email app for iOS, now lets users protect their emails with their fingerprints using iOS device … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

WhatsApp to get encrypted voice calls ‘within weeks’ as US starts clampdown on messaging

Facebook-owned WhatsApp already encrypts your messages sent via the service, but that additional security doesn’t apply to voice calls at present. However, according to The Guardian, that will change “within weeks,” thereby preventing the authorities from accessing any of the con … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Watch a team of 17-gram microrobots pull a full-sized car

It's all about timing, say the researchers from Stanford University responsible for creating the incredibly strong microrobots above. If you want to move large weights with tiny bots, they say, it's better to concentrate on precise movements executed in perfect harmony, than powe … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago