Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, says that his company’s push into Windows 10 gaming isn’t coming at the detriment of the Xbox One video game console. Rather, moving titles such as Remedy’s upcoming Quantum Break to run on both Windows and Xbox is good for the gamer, Spen … | Continue reading
Rights and responsibilities between freelancers and their clients are different than those between employees and employers. Understand your rights as a CopyPress Freelancer. | Continue reading
Not all who wander are lost, but there are those mere mortals who do go missing. Now one adorably Canadian innovator built a drone to find missing hikers who have wandered off the trail. | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is returning to Earth tonight, wrapping up a 340-day-long stay aboard the International Space Station. It's the longest amount of time an American astronaut has lived in space, says NASA. The extended stay is part of the space agency's One-Year Mission, … | Continue reading
Do you love getting your hands dirty and want to be a part of the best startup show in tech? If so, you should definitely sign up to be a TechCrunch Work Exchange Volunteer at Disrupt NY 2016.TechCrunch is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications to the Work Excha … | Continue reading
When he was still a student at the University of Southern California, Sam Rosenthal started working on a game about building a house of cards. It was inspired in part by the Radiohead song "House of Cards," which Rosenthal felt sounded "like a gentle plea to knock down a structur … | Continue reading
Date: 01/03/2016#TRA2016 (Transport Research Arena 2016) - the most important transport research event in Europe - is approaching fast: it will take place in Warsaw, Poland, from 18 to 21 April and will gather key stakeholders: researchers, experts, operators, industry and policy … | Continue reading
It’s easy to see why PC makers are targeting gamers — what other consumer demographic is willing to pay high prices for premium Windows hardware? But the problem with PC gamers is that many of them don’t need PC makers to assemble components for them, since you can get better res … | Continue reading
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has hinted that the Xbox One will receive hardware upgrades.Speaking last week at a Microsoft press event, Spencer likened the Xbox One's future to that of a PC, with upgrades to boost performance.It's a bold statement - and one which appears to end Microso … | Continue reading
An lo, in Merrie Olde England, even The Duke Of York of has been bitten by the Startup Bug these past few years, and his Pitch@Palace events have not only become a fixture in the London startup scene, but have also hosted some very decent companies. In fact, his team has expanded … | Continue reading
Killer Instinct Season 3 arrives 29th March on both Xbox One and Windows 10, Microsoft has announced. In it are eight fighters although only four avail… | Continue reading
My colleague Adi Robertson, I recently learned, is a fan of oddball transportation. On our work trip to the Sundance Film Festival, she gleefully introduced me to the funicular, a small and nicely furnished box that travels up and down a cliffside on a steel track, like a rollerc … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Fraud is sabotaging UA efforts big time, putting an emphasis on defensive, proactive strategies to ensure you actually acquire the users you’re going after. Join our upcoming webinar of pros to arm yourself. Register here for free. No business wants to find themselve … | Continue reading
Some more consolidation underway in the world of enterprise cloud services, and specifically in the space of hybrid cloud. Today Cisco announced that it has acquired CliQr, a provider of application management solutions for hybrid cloud environments, for $260 million. The deal, w … | Continue reading
Big Cat Group has revealed to Event that it has increased its 50% ownership of agency House of Experience to 100%. | Continue reading
BlockApps, a provider of Ethereum blockchain software for business, has become the first certified offering on Microsoft Azure's BaaS platform. | Continue reading
Panorama, a one-of-a-kind celebration of music, art, and technology, is coming to New York City this summer, and The Verge is the official media partner of its inaugural year. Presented by the people behind Coachella and the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Panorama will feature headlining … | Continue reading
We're very pleased to announce that The Verge is partnering with the Panorama music, art, and technology festival on July 22nd to the 24th at Randall's Island Park in New York City. Headlined by artists like LCD Soundsystem, Kendrick Lamar, Alabama Shakes, and The Arcade Fire, Pa … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Xbox chief Phil Spencer has hinted that the company will offer optional hardware upgrades for the Xbox One in the future. Speaking at an Xbox spring showcase event last week, Spencer revealed that Microsoft plans to make the Xbox One more like a PC. "We can effectivel … | Continue reading
One of America's most respected news organizations is considering the ban of ad blockers on its website. | Continue reading
Fitbit Blaze is a $199 fitness tracker available for purchase starting today and it comes with quite a few fun features to help get you moving. A lot of Fitbit’s family of fitness trackers do pretty much the same thing – tracking of steps, mileage and calories burned and the Blaz … | Continue reading
If you didn't think virtual reality was going mainstream this year, think again. McDonald's in Sweden is currently giving away “Happy Goggles” with its Happy Meals. | Continue reading
Microsoft is announcing today that it will give away a full racing game, Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, to Windows 10 gamers for no charge. The free game is intended to draw more PC fans into the Forza racing franchise as the company seeks to shore up fans on both the Xbox One game co … | Continue reading
Allen Pan vom YouTube-Kanal Sufficiently Advanced wollte immer schon ein Eisschwert haben, warum weiß er zwar eingestandenermaßen nicht, aber jetzt hat er sich dann einfach eins gebastelt und auch wenn das Teil ziemlich stumpf geraten i... | Continue reading
In the French cult film “Amélie” the young heroine imagines how a record is created: like making a crepe, you pour a liquid substance onto a hot, circular surface and smooth out the “batter” of the record with a wooden ... | Continue reading
The project consists of a full refurbishment of an apartment in the Eixample district in Barcelona, in a traditional building block from the early ... | Continue reading
Parse – a cloud mobile solution owned by Facebook – recently announced the shutting down of their services as of January 2017. This means three things. Firstly, even the best services might not make it as a business. Parse (i.e. Facebook) has probably lost the war with Amazon and … | Continue reading
We talk with ARM’s Ian Fergusson and James Bruce about ARM, mobile industry trends, and the latest processors built on ARM technology. | Continue reading
PREVIEW: We had a good look at the first full act of Microsoft’s exclusive Windows 10 and Xbox One title, Quantum Break. The new story-based shooter from Remedy Entertainment, the maker of Alan Wake and Max Payne, features Jack Joyce (played by actor Shawn Ashmore) as a man who c … | Continue reading
Spoiler alert: This preview has text and video that tell you what happens at the start of the game. Remedy Entertainment pioneered the use of the slow-motion, Matrix-like “bullet time” in video games in Max Payne way back in 2001. It carried slow-motion combat to new levels in Al … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to launch a free Forza game on Windows 10 this spring. Forza Motorsport 6: Apex will debut in the Windows Store as a slimmed down free-to-play version of the racing game available on the Xbox One. It's part of a broader effort by Microsoft to invest heavily … | Continue reading
Nonprofit group Games for Change and American Express have teamed up to create Save the Park, a mobile game that encourages people to volunteer in national parks. The free title debuts on iOS in March, and it’s one more example of how do-gooders are turning to games to get people … | Continue reading
PREVIEW: Microsoft showed off a hands-on demo of Minecraft in virtual reality on the Oculus Rift VR headset. The preview experience was cool, but it also made me sick from too much motion. In an interview with GamesBeat, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey said Minecraft in VR was an … | Continue reading
Are your sales and marketing teams aligned? Learn why they need to be aligned to drive leads. | Continue reading
LinkedIn has launched a new way for marketers to target people at specific companies on the professional social network using their sales data. With LinkedIn Account Targeting, you can tailor Sponsored Updates or Sponsored InMail campaigns to a specific list of accounts, allowing … | Continue reading
It’s safe to say I’ve spent a fair amount of time playing Minecraft. At this point — knowing that it’s one of the most popular game titles in all of Earth’s history — I don’t feel like I’m in the minority here. But at the Xbox Spring Showcase in San Francisco, I finally got the c … | Continue reading
Egnyte announced a new product today that lets customers control their encryption keys with either a customer-managed offering or a cloud service that requires less heavy lifting and management. While Egnyte (and all reputable cloud vendors) offer end-to-end encryption, some cust … | Continue reading
LinkedIn advertisers are getting a new way to target their campaigns — specifically, a feature allowing them to aim Sponsored InMail and Sponsored Updates toward companies where they’re actually trying to make sales.Russell Glass, the head of products for LinkedIn Marketing Solut … | Continue reading
This is a big moment for the Xbox One. Microsoft has spent the better part of the last three years rebuilding its brand as a gamer-centric, consumer-friendly company willing to do whatever it takes to win back its lost loyalty. Now the console’s future is tied to a bold vision th … | Continue reading
If there is one thing I know to expect from the Dark Souls series, it’s that nothing is ever as easy as it seems. And that’s as true as ever in the first half hour of Dark Souls 3. I’ve just pulled a sword from the chest of Iudex Gundyr, a faceless knight twice my size, and the w … | Continue reading
Discover the seven email marketing sins we should avoid and seven desirable virtues we should cultivate when creating an email marketing strategy. | Continue reading
In a church in Hamburg, the pews have been rearranged and dozens of consoles have been lined up wall-to-wall. A makeshift stage has all but engulfed the altar, drinks are being served at the sidelines and when we first arrive, bleary-eyed from an early plane journey, organ music … | Continue reading
Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Local, joins the Social Pros Podcast to discuss his new book "The Art of People" and how proper listening can make you a better person, partner, and social pro. | Continue reading
It feels like we just got over Heartbleed and there’s another branded exploit out there. DROWN, a new vulnerability in OpenSSL that affects servers using SSLv2, was revealed today as an attack that could decrypt your secure HTTPS communications, such as passwords or credit card n … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced a new tool today called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection designed to help IT detect threats to Windows 10 machines after a threat has penetrated the network. While most security strategy to this point has focused on keeping bad actors out of the net … | Continue reading
Nicosia (Cyprus) 18-20 March 2016 The British Council and the British High Commission in Nicosia, in collaboration with Snook, a Glasgow-based digital innovation agency, and in partnership with Google, are hosting a Culture Shift Hackathon programme on 18th – 20th March, at the C … | Continue reading
The Melrose Police Department in Massachusetts fell prey to ransomware that spread was triggered from a malicious email opened by a member of the department. To regain access and control of the files encrypted by the cryptographically-coded ransomware, the Police Department paid … | Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF is now available. The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. veraPDF is building the definitive, file-format validator for all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 (PDF/A). This version contai … | Continue reading