Since the 1940s the human species have sent creatures of all shapes and sizes into space aboard some of the most highly engineered crafts ever produced by mankind. Let's take a look at the many space travelers over the years. Read more...More about Space, Animals, Astronaut, Spac … | Continue reading
Add this one to the bucket list….A startup called Cape Productions will capture you skiing with a drone. Stationed at Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe, the team provides aerial footage of you racing down the slopes, providing different angles than your GoPro. Because of its impeccable … | Continue reading
Good news, HTC One M8 owners! If you’re on Verizon, then Android 6.0 Marshmallow is getting pushed out to your device Monday, March 7. | Continue reading
Date: 04/03/2016Through innovation procurement the public sector can drive innovation from the demand side. This enables the public sector to modernize public services faster while creating opportunities for companies in Europe to bring research results to the market and gain lea … | Continue reading
Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff spoke at the RSA conference this week, where he claimed forcing Apple to decrypt a device for the FBI is equivalent to biological warfare. | Continue reading
The Sand Hill Road venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the thick of fundraising and talking with investors about a fresh $1.5 billion fund, according to several sources who note the fund could always close at a higher number. It was almost exactly two years ago that the firm c … | Continue reading
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Bitcoin was first introduced in the year 2009. Since then the digital currency’s network has been growing non-stop. Over the past few years, bitcoin network has grown over multiple times but not much changes have happened on the technical side since its inception. The bitcoin blo … | Continue reading
Developers using Google Cast were left with a lot of blind spots when it came to user behavior. Now, the company is introducing a new visualization tool in the Google Cast Developer Console. It’s fairly robust, too. Google is tracking several points of interest — how many devices … | Continue reading
Microsoft is today rolling out a new Windows 10 update to its "fast ring" testers that's largely focused on Cortana, the operating system's built-in personal assistant. First, Cortana is expanding its list of supported languages to include Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), a … | Continue reading
Amazon is making it difficult to pre-order the $90 Echo Dot. But there’s still a way and it’s really easy to nab your place in line for the new mini Echo. Better hurry, though. Amazon could close this loophole at any moment. To pre-order the Echo Dot: Open the Amazon iOS shopping … | Continue reading
Pako - Car Chase Simulator [$0.99] from Tree Men Games is marching towards its 2nd birthday this coming summer, and what a "ride" it's been thus far (pun totally intended). When it originally launched in August of 2014 Pako was a stylish but simplistic high-scoring game all about … | Continue reading
Browser extensions change the way we work. They alter facets of your job by changing the experience of the apps on which you rely so they conform to your workflow — versus having to open 17 separate browser tabs just to complete a simple task. Historically, browser extensions wer … | Continue reading
"I'm making a music video. 'Peeno Noir: An Ode to Black Penis.'" So begins one of the most purely joyful viral music hits of last year, a song written for Tituss Burgess' character on Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. At first glance, an ode to male anatomy might not seem lik … | Continue reading
This week we went hands-on with a few awesome gadgets, including the Fitbit Blaze and the Meta 2 AR headset, Slack introduced voice calling, and one of Google’s self-driving cars got into a minor accident. These are the stories to catch you up this week. Read More | Continue reading
AMD hints that it’s working on a new external graphic card solution that could be the answer to gaming on modern ultra-thin laptops. According to AMD’s Robert Hallock: Ultra-thin notebooks are awesome to carry, but nobody in their right mind would confuse one for a gaming noteboo … | Continue reading
It doesn’t look like the Oculus Rift will be coming to Macs anytime soon, judging by the serious shade thrown at Apple by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey.In an interview with Shack News, Luckey was asked if there would ever be Mac support for the Rift virtual reality headset comi … | Continue reading
Sony is doing something unheard of in the consumer electronic space: It’s going to show off prototypes. Can you imagine Apple or Samsung doing that? Not really, no. For several good reasons, electronic companies like to keep products under wraps until they’re completely finished … | Continue reading
CTAs help build your business's bottom line and guide users toward engaging with your brand. Here's how to optimize your site's CTAs. | Continue reading
Watch out, this indie game is on fire. Sony today revealed a list of the PlayStation 4’s most downloaded games in February, and Firewatch — a first-person, story-driven experience that costs $20 — topped the list, beating mass-market blockbusters like Far Cry: Primal and Street F … | Continue reading
Employees at a three companies are now able to get the Apple Watch for $25 — so long as they meet monthly activity goals. Leveraging the Apple Watch’s health tracking sensors, employees of Amgen, DaVita HealthCare Partners and Lockton must satisfy those monthly goals over a two y … | Continue reading
Chipworks has gotten their fingers bloody with a gory vivisection of the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge... And it's pretty awesome inside. | Continue reading
Tinder is encouraging users to share profiles they come across with friends. The company announced today that it's testing a button that lets users text a link to a profile, instead of grabbing a screenshot. The link expires after five clicks or 72 hours. Once the text is sent, t … | Continue reading
Google today announced a significant enhancement to the developer tools for its Google Cast software, which lets people stream media from their PCs and mobile devices to TVs and speakers. The Google Cast software development kit (SDK) Developer Console now includes dedicated page … | Continue reading
Lady Gaga will return for American Horror Story's sixth season, The Hollywood Reporter reports. In an interview with the New York radio station Z100, Gaga confirmed she'd be heading back to Ryan Murphy's campy horror series, but she wouldn't give any details about what form that … | Continue reading
Date: 04/05/2016Venue: Rome, ItalyAre you a public procurer that is interested in training or assistance on how to use innovation procurement in the environment sector? Attend the Rome workshop organised by the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement initiative (eafip).Con … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a big focus on Cortana. The company also shared that all firmware updates for Lumia devices will now be automatically published for Windows Insiders. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Micros … | Continue reading
Let me throw some numbers at you: according to EA CFO, Blake Jorgensen, EA is making 1.3 billion dollars a year from its extra content business (season passes, map-packs, Ultimate Team, and other micro-transactions), and around half of that comes from Ultimate Team in FIFA, NFL, … | Continue reading
Date: 31/05/2016Venue: Barcelona, SpainInterested in training or assistance on how to apply innovation procurement in e-government / public administration? Don't miss the Barcelona workshop organised by the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement initiative (eafip).Contact … | Continue reading
The first invitations for the Tesla Model 3 debut have been delivered.Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk confirmed in February that the upstart EV automaker would officially unveil its mass-market Model 3 on March 31st. Four weeks ahead of the event, the first invites have been s … | Continue reading
Tinder now lets you be a mobile wingman for your friends who are also on Tinder, as it announced via blog post today it is testing out a ‘Share’ button to allow you to send links to potential matches for friends. Available in certain markets, the ‘Share’ button looks like what yo … | Continue reading
As promised, Google today announced that it is making a number of changes to how it handles links it has delisted under Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten‘ regulations. Instead of simply delisting links from the various regional versions of its search engine, it will now use geoloca … | Continue reading
Live esports isn’t going anywhere. Twitch, the leading site for livestreaming gameplay video, announced today that it has extended its partnership with the ESL esports organization. Fans of Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and League of Legends can expect to keep seeing … | Continue reading
A new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro, promises to be the cure for boredom. Rando, as the app is called, offers a crazy twist on our carefully curated online personas – instead of allowing you to choose a photo or GIF to share with frien … | Continue reading
Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global digital currency markets, and the technology's use case as an asset class. While the bitcoin network’s capacity challenges have been generating substantial visibility, the digital currency enjoyed robust tr … | Continue reading
To put it briefly and bluntly: The iPhone is already vulnerable to hackers around the world. This is also true of Android and other smart device platforms. Read More | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: You could call it an exodus now. Electronic Arts said in January that it would drop its booth on the show floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the game industry’s biggest trade show in the U.S. Then Activision Blizzard, the biggest U.S. game company, droppe … | Continue reading
The chart below is the past week’s Google trend graph for U.S. Google users searching the phrase, “how to move to canada”? The turning point is three days ago, Super Tuesday (3.2.2016), the day people who were still skeptical of the chances of Donald Trump winning the GOP preside … | Continue reading
Cavaliers forward Kevin Love won't play against Washington, part of Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue's plans to rest his starters. | Continue reading
The prospect of the tech bubble bursting is like Silicon Valley’s version of an asteroid heading to Earth: as more people begin to see it and recognize it’s there, the thoughts turn to how long we have left and how much damage will be done. Fortune spotted a published quarterly l … | Continue reading
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As you may be aware, today is officially Grammar Day—and the content writers, editors and grammar nerds at ProPRcopy couldn’t be more excited. It’s no coincidence that this day also falls on March 4th, which grammatically is the only date on the calendar in the imperative mode (t … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Missed our webinar on how leading lenders are using big data and predictive models to slash risk and boost revenue? You can still watch on demand! Access the free webinar right here. Alternative lenders are coming to the forefront of the market as governmental regulat … | Continue reading
Amazon says the only way you can buy its new Echo Dot product, which turns existing stereo systems into a web-connected one, is to tell voice-assistant Alexa to buy one for you via the Amazon Echo.But it appears there is a secret workaround to purchase without needing the Echo or … | Continue reading
The first big 2016 flagships are getting ready to duke it out. Here's how to choose between them. | Continue reading
San Bernadino Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Ramos isn’t content to await a congressional ruling in the Apple and FBI case — instead, he chose to file an amicus brief, a legal show of support, that contained language designed to arouse the suspicions of the people. “The i … | Continue reading
The husband and wife team that makes up Swedish indie developer Killmonday Games successfully crowdfunded their vision for "a very creepy point-and-click adventure" called Fran Bow back in the summer of 2013. The game officially launched on PC in August of last year to a positive … | Continue reading
Own a startup company? Do you want to be an industry leader? Find out how to build a company with marketing and stay ahead of your competitors. | Continue reading