SXSW is known as the tech conference at which bizarre things happen, whether its people queuing for hours to have their photo taken with a cat, or companies spending huge amounts of money to build promotional landmarks, such as a life sized TIE Fighter. But quietly and away from … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Everyone’s talking about virtual reality at South by Southwest, but in the early going there isn’t much new to see and hear. The gaming & VR/AR track doesn’t even kick off until Wednesday. In the meantime, companies like Samsung – who am I kidding, only Samsung – … | Continue reading
GUEST: In October 2014, I raised nearly $150,000 on my first crowdfunding campaign. Three months later, when I was in my final year of college and 21 years old, I wished I’d never heard of Kickstarter. I’d committed the cardinal sin of crowdfunding by shipping a shit product to o … | Continue reading
Bitcoin block size and scaling issue can easily win the debate of the year award if there is anything of that sort. Now, the next best thing in the crypto industry is Ethereum. Ethereum is another crypto-platform for creating blockchain-based applications and smart contracts. Eve … | Continue reading
Writer/director Jeff Nichols' priorities, on the surface, are no mystery. The Take Shelter director is interested in the American South, the inner lives of children, a murky sense of mysticism, Michael Shannon. He's not particularly interested in spelling things out for an audien … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk a bit about Android N, in-app purchases in Google Cardboard, new live video streaming, and more! | Continue reading
What's the big idea behind Ethereum? Developer Travis Patron gives his take. | Continue reading
Ulysses is a Markdown text editor for small and big projects. It works quite well for anything between a blog post and a novel. And Ulysses is also the kind of apps we need on iOS. It's an expensive $25 app that provides nearly all the features of its desktop equivalent. In … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, Texas — The creators of HBO's Silicon Valley had some strong words to describe the tech industry's diversity problem.Producers Mike Judge and Alec Berg appeared onstage with the Silicon Valley cast Saturday at South by Southwest to discuss the differences between the real … | Continue reading
About this time last year, the first generation Spectre x360 was capturing the heart of tech journalists across the land with zippy internals, a solid build and an innovative yet simplistic swiveling design that does double duty as a laptop and tablet. The convertible-hybrid has … | Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon, Blizzard, developer of the enormously popular digital card game Hearthstone, made an announcement about its new expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods. It's like the half dozen expansions which have come before it, with a backstory tied into Warcraft lore, a the … | Continue reading
Two thousand fifteen was the year fintech – including blockchain technology – entered the “mainstream,” signified by a groundswell of venture capital (VC) investment. More than $13.8 billion in venture capital (VC) was invested in a variety of fintech companies globally, more t … | Continue reading
For some reason three of the links to today's Learning Habit went missing between the time I tested the new format and the time it sent. Maybe it got ahead of itself like the rest of our clocks for Daylight Time Savings. Here are the links: 2. / How informality is more than nice … | Continue reading
Basic coding is becoming a fundamental requirement in the digital world, but the good news is that most anyone can learn the ropes in a few hours. The Coding 101 Bundle is a great place to start, with eight courses covering the fundamentals of Web and app development available at … | Continue reading
Bitcoin evangelist and journalist Chris DeRose examines both the promise and problems related to smart contracts. | Continue reading
The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Apple to build a new version of its mobile operating system (iOS, or GovOS) so that the contents of an iPhone can be removed from an iPhone use … | Continue reading
Invites send to everyone who’s ever known you: check. Dungeons and drag queen theme: check. Glowing aurora jungle juice: check. What else is missing to throw that epic party of yours? Technology! It never hurts to throw some of the cool gadgets in there to make your event merrier … | Continue reading
Wenn man sich die Bilder, die als Promo für BigScreen gelten sollen ansieht, dann kommt man an so einer Überschrift leider nicht vorbei. Bei der Software geht es darum, dass man - u.U. gemeinsam - einen Film oder schlicht einen Bildschirm... | Continue reading
FEATURE: David Gaider is now part of the renaissance. The acclaimed writer for blockbuster Dragon Age role-playing game series left EA-owned studio BioWare in January. It didn’t take long for him to return to his roots — the Infinity Engine, a development tool that helped create … | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.Listen up: there are mites on your face. Yes, right now … | Continue reading
Tidal's had a bit of a rocky road since its star-studded relaunch last May, but it appears the streaming music service has at least earned itself enough mindshare to get its very own Saturday Night Live skit. Well, not quite, because the skit was mostly just a vehicle for host Ar … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-FoodScannerPrize-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016Latest information: A total of 15 entries were submitted in response to this call | Continue reading
Screening Room will einem endlich ermöglichen, Kinohits ab dem Startdatum schon zu Hause sehen zu können. Für einen erstaunlichen Preis. Die Settop-Box soll 150 Dollar kosten, jeder Film bei jedem einzelnen Home-Screening 50 Dollar (... | Continue reading
VIDEO: The Fast Break — March 12 NEWS OF THE MORNING Spurs clinch Southwest | Warriors win without Iguodala | Kyrie ready to “step up” | Grizz lose Conley, Andersen No. 1: Spurs clinch Southwest — At this point we shouldn’t be surprised: The Spurs just win games. Some of the tert … | Continue reading
GUEST: The great thing about ideas is that they don’t cost anything. Today there are more ways than ever to turn your app ideas into something material for close to free, but at the next steps of app entrepreneurship, you’ll need more than pocket change. This article is for app i … | Continue reading
SEOUL, South Korea — A champion Go player scored his first win over a Go-playing computer program on Sunday after losing three straight times in the ancient Chinese board game, saying he finally found weaknesses in the software.Lee Sedol's victory over AlphaGo is a reminder that … | Continue reading
Android N is out, and N stands for nut tellin’! Google dropped a bombshell this week: a very early preview of Android N that we’re still digging through to find all the goodies. Who’s excited? | Continue reading
Im kommenden Jahr werden in Großbritannien erstmals selbstfahrende Autos auf Schnellstraßen getestet. Finanzminister George Osborne werde entsprechende Pläne am Mittwoch ankündigen und Vorschläge zum Abbau von regulatoris... | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
It would appear as if Microsoft is trying to make a push for replacing Bitcoin with Ethereum across all of their offerings. One the one hand, the company, is pushing hard to promote their Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service product while they have also partially removed Bitcoin paym … | Continue reading
Laser tag is still one of the coolest things ever, but it’s kinda weird for me (a 32-year-old man) and my friends to go to the local Magic Mountain to take on a team of kids celebrating little Gary’s 10th birthday. This is where Father.io comes in. Father.io is a new generation o … | Continue reading
This weekend, the world’s greatest Go player beat Google’s AlphaGo, an AI program developed by Google’s DeepMind unit. Lee Se-dol, the 33-year-old South Korean has been pitted against a machine in a game that is arguably the most technically challenging thing to take place on a b … | Continue reading
Messe Berlin GmbH: Berlin (ots) - Globale Reiseindustrie trotzt geopolitischen Krisen und bleibt auf Wachstumskurs - Rekordzahl von rund 120.000 Fachbesuchern an fünf Tagen - ITB als internationale Erfolgsgeschichte: neben ITB Asia in Singapur findet ab 2017 die ITB ... | Continue reading
Es werden eigentümliche Dinge erfunden, um Technologie, die nicht funktioniert, durch mehr Technologie wieder zum Laufen zu bringen. Der ResetPlug ist eine Steckdose, die das WiFi scannt und sollte es nicht funktionieren, den Router neustartet... | Continue reading
Chanceline, a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is seven months pregnant. She’s been walking for almost three hours, and will continue walking for two hours more.She's traveling to a prenatal doctor’s appointment, which is 17 miles away. With no public or private trans … | Continue reading
Early in time-manipulation adventure Quantum Break, you have to escape a university science lab as protagonist Jack Joyce accompanied by Jack's brother Will, who may have just caused time to catastrophically shatter.In better news, time breaking down irreparably has given Jack sw … | Continue reading
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’" ... | Continue reading
Machines 3, humans 1… That’s the current score in a five-match series being played out between DeepMind’s AlphaGo and human Go world champion, Lee Sedol. Read More | Continue reading
Sony hat sein Future Labs Program vor einer Woche schon vorgestellt, jetzt gab es auf der SXSW Konferenz erste Prototypen zu sehen und ein Blick auf Project N war auch dabei.Letzteres ist eine Art Amazon Echo, das man wie ein Halsband trägt,... | Continue reading
Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH: Leipzig (ots) - Im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert war Leipzig für das geistige und wirtschaftliche Leben in Kursachsen von zentraler Bedeutung. Die Reformation bescherte der Stadt einen ungeahnten Aufschwung, genauso wie Leipzig für den Fortgang der … | Continue reading
This one caught our eye. Broforce is a gleefully bombastic 2D side-scrolling shooter in the Contra tradition - and available this month for free to PlayStation Plus members. However, it hasn't launched in the best of states, and its variable performance is a stumbling block to en … | Continue reading
Test your luck in this week's giveaway and you could win yourself a brand new Nexus 6P Android phone! | Continue reading
Bitcoin is considered to be the best companion of the tourists. Thanks to the universal nature of the digital currency, it can be used anywhere in the world, provided the merchant accepts it. But now we have bitcoin-powered debit cards. These cards are like normal debit cards iss … | Continue reading
Nachdem die Hoffnungen der AI-Kritiker nach drei verlorenen Spielen des neuronalen Netzwerkes von Google, AlphaGo, gegen Lee Sedol schon am Boden waren, darf man sich jetzt freuen, dass Lee Sedol die erste Partie gegen den Computer gewonnen hat.D... | Continue reading
Key Points Bitcoin price managed to recover some ground this past week, but found resistance near a major level at $420. There is a bearish trend line formed on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Bitstamp), which acted as a barrier for the price. The price also struggled to clear … | Continue reading
Following the news that Lionhead Studios is to be closed, I thought I'd return to the game that, in my mind, showed them at their very best. That game is Fable 2 and I've been playing it again this weekend to see how well it holds up, almost eight years after its initial release. … | Continue reading
Confidence is arrogance if the market doesn't believe the story. When we show up with something great, something generous, well-executed and new, some people will be suspicious. "Is this everything it's cracked up to be?" The skeptic wonders if we... | Continue reading
AlphaGo wrapped up victory for Google in the DeepMind Challenge Match by winning its third straight game against Go champion Lee Se-dol yesterday, but the 33-year-old South Korean has got at least some level of revenge — he's just defeated AlphaGo, the AI program developed by Goo … | Continue reading