A British teenager has won $250,000 after placing first in the inaugural World Drone Prix in Dubai. 15-year-old Luke Bannister piloted his drone to victory along an outdoor track, using a camera mounted on its front to steer the craft through a series of illuminated hoops from a … | Continue reading
Whether you’re self-employed and want to reach sales prospects, you want to apply for a new job, or if you’re employed and want to network with other people in the industry, making sure your LinkedIn profile is up-to-date and ticking all the right boxes is important. To help get … | Continue reading
The Star Wars movies have captured the imaginations of everyone, from baby boomers through millennials on down to tots. It seems like everyone has been talking about the latest episode in this saga. Around the water cooler, discussions begin with “Have you seen it?” Being a datab … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: On March 1, Brazilian federal police arrested Diego Dzodan for his failure to turn over decrypted WhatsApp messages for a drug investigation. Dzodan is a vice president at Facebook, the parent company of WhatsApp, which offers its customers “end-to-end” encryption of th … | Continue reading
They seem as anachronistic as helmetless hockey players, the no-dunking rule and bullpen carts. But the player-coach was once a familiar figure in pro sports. Bill Russell and Lenny Wilkens in the NBA. Curly Lambeau and George Halas in football. The first six World Series were wo … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Hyperloop’s vision for future transportation may involve traveling at the speed of sound in enclosed tubes but that doesn't mean you won’t be able to look out the windowDuring a talk at South by Southwest Sunday, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies CEO Dirk Alhb … | Continue reading
As a travel enthusiast, it was a problem Ryan Wenger had often encountered; how can a person search for a flight and hotel based on the amount of money they want to spend rather than by destination only? Setting out to solve this problem, Wenger quit his job as an attorney and fo … | Continue reading
Future Finance — a startup based out of Dublin that provides loans to students using big data algorithms to asses their credit-worthiness — is today announcing a large round of funding of its own to build its business out in Europe. The company has raised £119 million ($171 milli … | Continue reading
I'm an optimist. But I can't resist thinking about Sinclair Lewis once in a while. His 1935 novel, It Can't Happen Here , portrayed th... | Continue reading
The man behind Team GhostShell — the hacker collective behind some of the biggest cyber attacks in recent memory, including attacks on the FBI, NASA and the Pentagon as well as a leak that saw 2.5 million Russian “government, educational, academic, political and law enforcement” … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, TEXAS – A chief complaint about virtual reality is that total immersion totally cuts you off from the outside world. It’s one of the reasons augmented reality solutions that let you blend the real and virtual worlds, like Microsoft’s HoloLens, could gain a foothold. Avega … | Continue reading
"Why doesn't President Obama just get the people from Google to fix the failed website. In fact, why didn't he use them in the first place!" | Continue reading
Advertising has lost sight of a very basic concept: The pleasure principle. In the “golden days,” the 1960s and 1970s, colorful creative in a full-page spread was enough to create buzz — and that’s not just Mad Men nostalgia talking. With the advent of the Internet, new technolog … | Continue reading
As the launch dates of the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive virtual reality headsets approach, so does the release of a ton of awesome VR gaming content. To gamers with full Steam libraries however, it’s kind of a shame that once they put the headset on, most of their favorite conten … | Continue reading
The opposing views of those advocating for preserving the current implementation of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core), and those who believe that the block size needs to be increased immediately to overcome scalability challenges, has balkanized the Bitcoin developer community into mainly t … | Continue reading
GUEST: SXSW Interactive 2016 kicked off this week with thousands of marketers descending upon Austin, Texas for food, fun, and a glimpse at new and emerging technologies that will impact how brands connect with consumers. Even in its 23rd year, SXSW Interactive’s influence and ro … | Continue reading
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At the IBM Cognitive Studio at SXSW, the company demoed its beloved emotion-reading robot, Pepper. More than 7,000 robots have been deployed at Japanese stores, cruise ships and hotels, with goals of providing guest services, entertainment, and advertising promotional events. Thi … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has graduated from being a cryptocurrency to an applications platform that can be used in a range of industries to augment their operations. The use of Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology for purposes other than recording and confirming transactions is labeled unde … | Continue reading
In Berlin's Neues Museum, there sits a 3,000-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti. The priceless artifact is under glass, kept safe by alarms, and watched by security guards. Last year, it was stolen.But there was no daring heist, no Mission Impossible-esque dangling from the ceiling … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Stardock is about to revolutionize the video card market for PCs — and not only will it make high-end gaming more affordable, but it also will put virtual reality within reach of millions of consumers. In an exclusive interview with GamesBeat, CEO Brad Wardell laid out … | Continue reading
It can be hard to get a grasp on South by Southwest, the sometimes ungainly group of panels, conventions, and festivals the descend upon Austin, Texas in March. But we've got you covered here with everything from SXSW Interactive. That means the latest tech, the biggest news from … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, TEXAS — The Geminoid android is probably best known for being the uncanny doppelganger of its creator Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University, but up until now, the robot has been primarily a telepresence demonstration. On Sunday at South by Southwest Interactive, Gemino … | Continue reading
When vulnerability is injected into technology used worldwide, it becomes everyone’s liability. Read More | Continue reading
Sony's Future Lab is a R&D group responsible for taking crazy ideas into the prototype phase, and one impressive vision shown here at SXSW in Austin this week is a projector that turns any flat surface into a screen for light to play on. The "Interactive Tabletop" concept uses de … | Continue reading
We’ve had several decades of platforms and apps collecting data about us – and in a heavyweight panel on Sunday at SXSW, the debate turned to how that data is being used to both make assumptions about us and alter the products and services we’re offered. In the introduction, Ashk … | Continue reading
We do not possess the ability to read the future, and yet we can predict with a high level of certainty that we will see more major cybersecurity incidents in 2016 and 2017. The world’s cybersecurity capability is not able to advance in line with the growing vulnerabilities. Incr … | Continue reading
Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013, oversaw what may have been the most turbulent period for the nation’s biggest city in decades. She built over 400 miles of bike lanes and transformed some of the most congested pockets of the city in … | Continue reading
The origin story of SXSW's Online Harassment Summit is not a pretty one, and it informed the tone of the event months ahead of time. SXSW canceled a panel called "Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Gaming" in October after it received "numerous threats of on-site violence." An ou … | Continue reading
In a chat with Guy Kawasaki at South by Southwest, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales spoke out about self-interested parties editing their own page on the Internet’s collaborated encyclopedia. “Companies think it’s a powerful marketing tool but I think they’re deranged and should … | Continue reading
HANG TIME BIG CITY — The Boston Celtics’ efforts to hang on to the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference playoff race may have just encountered a bump in the road. Speaking to the media Sunday, Celtics coach Brad Stevens said starting forward Jae Crowder will likely miss time due … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price reversed to the downside after a failed attempt on the resistance ceiling. As it turns out there are negative elements among the Core developers – further biasing price to the downside.. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full anal … | Continue reading
GUEST: Activity in the USA and Europe firmly dominates the venture capital (VC) industry. Where ‘the Valley’ led the way, start-up ecosystems have sprouted across the whole of Europe. Be it financial technology in London, ecommerce in Berlin or advertising technology in Paris, ov … | Continue reading
Sony's newly formed R&D outfit, Future Lab, is here at SXSW to show off its first concept prototype: a pair of headphones worn around the neck that direct audio upwards so only you can hear it. Codenamed Project N, the Bluetooth device takes the design of those wacky-looking neck … | Continue reading
NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency’s next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 500 seconds. The SLS, which will use 4 RS-25 engines in its core stage, is designed to take humans to deep space destinations like asteroids or … | Continue reading
Blowing a meter-long kudu antelope horn has been a rite of passage for companies listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 2002. AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito blew the horn in January. Photo: Denise Barnard/JSE | Continue reading
Over the past few weeks, the FBI has been trying to force Apple into helping it open the iPhone 5c that belonged to San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple has refused – and a slew of other tech companies have joined the tech giant in claiming that what the FBI wants pose … | Continue reading
Two robotic spacecraft are set to launch to space on a Russian Proton rocket tomorrow, the beginning of a seven-month journey to Mars. This is the first phase of the ExoMars mission, a partnership between the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal Space Agency, or Roscosmo … | Continue reading
SEOUL (by Se Young Lee, Reuters) – South Korean Lee Sedol won his first match against a computer program developed by a Google subsidiary on Sunday in the ancient board game Go, denying a clean sweep for the artificial intelligence in a five-match series. Lee, one of the world’s … | Continue reading
The ‘connected home’ is a concept we’ve heard a lot about over the past few years, but how about the connected yard? At SXSW, Scotts – the company behind gardening brands like Miracle-Gro and Weedol – has been showing off its Gro ‘Connected Yard’ offering that is set to launch in … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 5,436 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all five thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the six most interesting patents. Apple’s multi-function device US 20160070399 Apple fi … | Continue reading
Video news startup NowThis is partnering with FWD.us, the immigration lobbying group backed by Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives, to tackle one of the biggest issues in this year’s election cycle. Last night at South by Southwest, the two organizations announced a partner … | Continue reading
DCH: Kiew, Ukraine (ots/PRNewswire) - Am 2. März fand auf dem Internationalen Flughafen Kharkiv eine Präsentation der neuen regelmäßigen Direktflüge von Charkow nach Warschau statt. Es ist das vierte Projekt der großen polnischen Fluggesellschaft in der ... | Continue reading
digitalundivided, an organization geared toward advancing equity in tech, is opening an innovation center for black and Latina female founders in tech this summer. Located in downtown Atlanta, GA, the BIG Innovation Center will be home to a four-month long accelerator program as … | Continue reading
Over the past several months I’ve noticed a bizarre trend among the digital health and fitness products I’ve tested: many are faulty, incomplete, or inaccurate products, and the companies making them are hawking them anyway. And when people — myself included — complain about them … | Continue reading
As we’ve reported several times over the past few weeks, Apple’s ongoing spat with the FBI and phone hacking is a big deal. Just to recap: the Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that it requires Apple’s assistance to bypass the “auto-erase” feature on San Bernadino shooter Sy … | Continue reading
Do you use YouTube with Adblock Plus? Some users have been getting the following message instead of ads: “An error occurred. Please try again later.” The error message is only shown for the duration of the ad, meaning Adblock Plus is still technically getting the job done. But ad … | Continue reading