A new European Parliament draft report on digital currencies calls for the creation of a task force specifically devoted to the technology. | Continue reading
Barbados-based fintech firm Bitt Inc. has launched the Barbadian Digital Dollar, the Caribbean’s first blockchain-based digital money this week as a means to bring solutions to the unbanked in the region. In a marked effort to provide financial and banking solutions to its home c … | Continue reading
In a way, cooperative board games like Matt Leacock's Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert [$6.99 (HD)] are peculiar animals because for most players, playing a competitive game means competing against other players rather than alongside them. And yet, there are fantastic moment … | Continue reading
Google will reportedly add a new hamburger menu into different sections found in Android N's settings, making it easier to jump between them. | Continue reading
The latest game by Australia-based Prettygreat, is, well, pretty great. Slide the Shakes [Free] is another free iPhone game which takes an incredible simple concept and executes on it flawlessly. Using a slingshot mechanic of sorts, all you do is slide shakes across a variety of … | Continue reading
Finland-based bitcoin broker Prasos has acquired a local bitcoin exchange to add to its range of services. | Continue reading
Pay-to-win is a flawed concept, overused by critics of free-to-play games. It's true that to reach the top levels of many free-to-play games, you'll have to spend money. But these games are hardly a direct correlation between money spent and top players. And where do you draw the … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has lost direction. Ordinarily, this kind of price action can be described as merely corrective, but the chart shows several months of lower lows and, now again, a lower high. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. … | Continue reading
21 Inc has announced that its Bitcoin Computer device is now shipping to European countries including the UK, France, Germany and Italy. | Continue reading
Blockchain technology can make a major impact on the world although the ramifications can vary greatly from country to country. Barbados is not a country most people would assume with the financial sector, but there is a growing FinTech scene in the region. Bitt is one of those c … | Continue reading
Gemini has adjusted its flat fee schedule to a dynamic, real-time, “maker-taker” schedule after collecting enough data to know how to encourage a stable, efficient and active marketplace, according to a blog on the Gemini website by Cameron Winklevoss, president and co-founder. T … | Continue reading
A new advertisement video from Samsung focuses on virtual reality and other special features found on the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. | Continue reading
Visitors and patrons of Switzerland’s largest strip club have received blackmail letters from self-anointed ‘moralists’, demanding $2,000 in bitcoin (approx 4.72 BTC) or face ‘exposure’ with pictures of them visiting the strip club sent to their families. Bitcoin ransoms aren’t … | Continue reading
Xiaomi unveiled their latest flagship offering, and here is our first look at the Xiaomi Mi 5! | Continue reading
Ringing Bells will be importing components into India in order to meet demand for some 2.5 million units of its $4 Freedom 251 smartphone. | Continue reading
We sit down with David Ko from Jide Technologies to talk about the Remix OS, and the future of tablet computing, in this interview at MWC 2016! | Continue reading
Paul Chou, CEO of LedgerX and the bitcoin advisor to the U.S. Commodities and Future Trading Commission (CFTC), says companies trying to use the blockchain without bitcoin are seriously misguided, and so far the concept is unproven, according to New York Business Journal. Chou sa … | Continue reading
Struggling Japanese electronics firm Sharp had almost secured a takeover deal with manufacturer Foxconn today, but the plans have been put on hold at the last minute. | Continue reading
Huawei is teaming up with legendary camera maker Leica. The two companies announced their “strategic partnership” today at the CP+ photo show in Yokohama, Japan. | Continue reading
Alongside Android Studio what are the best Android development tools? Here is a quick look at Unity3D, Corona SDK and GameMaker: Studio. | Continue reading
Motorola's Chief Marketing Officer reveals it was Google that wanted the Nexus 6 to have such a sizable screen. | Continue reading
Ever since Silk Road 2.0 was shut down by law enforcement, there has been one particular shred of evidence which has been a point of debate. Some people were fairly certain the FBI would not have been able to arrest Brian “DoctorClu” Farrell if law enforcement did not breach the … | Continue reading
Royal Bank of Canada has revealed it is working on a new proof of concept for distributed ledger-based remittances. | Continue reading
One of the earliest blockchain projects, Bitnation, wants to aggregate all of the values of government into a distributed software platform, from identity and contracts to resolution services. Bitnation seeks to promote the idea that government can be a service, “geographically u … | Continue reading
Samsung has just announced that it is mass producing the industry’s first 256GB Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 memory chips for mobile. | Continue reading
Well, the long, strange trip of the latest Assassin's Creed mobile game finally comes to an end as Assassin's Creed Identity [$4.99] has just launched worldwide. The saga began when Identity soft-launched in select countries way back in September of 2014. The game was built aroun … | Continue reading
2016 has decided that it's just not going to slow down and it continues to blast me with dozens of awesome new games week in and week out, ensuring that my head just continues to spin. Thanks a lot 2016, ya jerk! Actually despite how frantic these weekly posts can be, I wouldn't … | Continue reading
In the new Android Support Library, Google is including Day and Night Mode APIs in addition to a handful of other pretty cool tools. | Continue reading
A new update for the Google+ app on Android is rolling out, and there's a lot to love about it. Autocomplete search is back! | Continue reading
Historically, I've had a begrudging respect for Samsung flagships. But all that has changed with the Galaxy S7 Edge because the S7 Edge is as close to the perfect smartphone as Samsung has ever come. | Continue reading
Mika Mobile are legends in the world of mobile gaming. After storming the top of the in the earlier days of the App Store with virtual button-fueled action games like Zombieville USA [$0.99 / Free] and OMG Pirates! [$1.99], they created Battleheart [$2.99], a beloved and genre-de … | Continue reading
Google is in cahoots with Vizio to effectively build Chromecast tech into TVs before they ship. And word on the street is that they might ship as early as this spring. | Continue reading
State of Play, who are most well-known for their visually stunning adventure games Lume [$1.99] and Lumino City [$4.99] which were created with intricate real-world models and painstaking stop-motion animation, have just announced their next mobile project called Ink. According t … | Continue reading
Although LG and Google's work with the Nexus line was well-received, LG is taking a break to work on its branding. | Continue reading
Join us as we take a quick look at the Samsung Galaxy S7 vs the Samsung Galaxy Note 5! | Continue reading
Does the latest Samsung flagship prove to be a worthy upgrade? We find out, in this quick look at the Samsung Galaxy S7 vs Galaxy S6! | Continue reading
Bitt has launched a blockchain-based version of the Barbadian dollar it hopes will appeal to the country's underbanked. | Continue reading
The US government now believes a corrupt Secret Service agent may have stolen additional bitcoins during the Silk Road investigation. | Continue reading
These GDC announcements almost feel like a formality at this point, but, once again, we will be at GDC in San Francisco. This year it falls on the week of March 14th, and if you're a reader, strap in for what's typically an avalanche of game previews as all sorts of developers pi … | Continue reading
To get us thinking about the company's next flagship smartphone, HTC has started teasing the One M10 on Twitter. | Continue reading
Google is attempting to free up your hands completely by adding vocal editing and formatting controls to Docs. | Continue reading
In an interview with CNET, OnePlus co-founder and CEO Carl Pei announced that the OnePlus 3 is slated to arrive at the end of the second quarter. | Continue reading
Riot's PC and Mac free to play MOBA League of Legends is one of the most, if not the most popular games in the world. Riot doesn't release statistics often, but when they do it's consistently mind-blowing just how many millions of people, from every corner of the world, are playi … | Continue reading
In the continuing struggle between advocates for Bitcoin core and the hard fork of Bitcoin Classic, some Bitcoin ATM’s have drawn a line in the sand on where they hope the future of the cryptocurrency to go in favor of Bitcoin Classic. In a recent Reddit thread posted on behalf o … | Continue reading
It would be an understatement to say that we really like Rayark's Implosion - Never Lose Hope [$9.99]; we gave it 5 stars in our review and haven't stopped looking for more content to play through. A couple of months ago, we wrote that the game was getting a new character somewhe … | Continue reading
The founder and former president of an insurance consultancy that is focused on the bitcoin industry has been accused of securities fraud. | Continue reading
I think it's safe to say that Radiangames, aka solo developer Luke Schneider, is one of the preeminent developers on mobile. For many years now Luke has been putting out some of the very best dual-stick shooters on the platform, and whenever he's not releasing a new shooter he's … | Continue reading
Another Wednesday, another Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl, and this one is a new one. Clash of Minions has you building your own deck, and then you lead your minions to battle against the opponent. Every minion you play from your hand gets Charge and Taunt, which is an interesti … | Continue reading