Collaborative prototyping and design tool InVision has raised a $55M Series D round led by Iconiq Capital, the venture firm known for investing funds for Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, among others. Existing investors Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital also participated in th … | Continue reading
Um zu beweisen, wie effizient sich Microsofts neuer Browser, Edge, auf Laptops schlägt, hat man die App in einem Video gegen die direkte Konkurrenz unter Windows 10 antreten lassen: Chrome, Firefox und Opera. Das Ergebnis ist wenig überraschend:... | Continue reading
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) continues to deliver key innovations and solutions for businesses and developers alike. The company claims it has been working side-by-side with businesses and partners to build and deliver blockchain technology to enterprises, governments, and the general … | Continue reading
DEVCON, the first Ethereum’s developer conference, received a new sponsor. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), the multinational IT company, announced its direct involvement in the event. DEVCON2 is the next ethereum developer and community gathering to take place, the event will be held at … | Continue reading
OS X is dead. Long live macOS.At its annual Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Apple announced macOS Sierra, the next version of its computer operating system for Macs shipping this fall as a free update. It'll be available as a developer preview in July.SEE ALSO: At WWDC, … | Continue reading
Digix has released a new “company update“, a series of blog posts to keep its customers and the general community informed of any new developments regarding DigixGlobal and DigixDAO. The main announcement is the release of a new front-end design for the company’s website. The goa … | Continue reading
Decentral released yesterday an initial concept design to integrate Jaxx with Coinbase’s “Buy Widget“, a small piece of software that is easily embeddable into existing websites and programs. This feature will use Coinbase’s platform to allow users to instantly purchase and recei … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, a company called Silk Labs, co-founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, unveiled its plans to address the smart home market with a hub called “Sense,” which interoperates with a home’s connected devices, while also automatically adapting to its owners’ patter … | Continue reading
In September last year, Microsoft launched Planner, a project management/team collaboration app, as a part of its Office 365 suite of applications. Originally available only to select customers, Planner is now available to all Office 365 users for free. If you're familiar with Tr … | Continue reading
The DAO is a great experiment that has raised more than $150 million in funding, representing more than 14% of all ether in circulation, the stakes are high so having a great set of tools to empower the new DAO ecosystem is only going to increase its odds for success. Although a … | Continue reading
Eighteen months is apparently not long enough for Samsung to develop Windows 10 drivers. | Continue reading
If you've heard about the Amazon Echo and have been wondering what it's like to use it before committing to buying one, there's now an online tool that lets you test it out as much as you want, right in your browser.It's called Echosim, and all you need to use it is an Amazon acc … | Continue reading
Following complaints that the iOS 9.3.2 update has bricked newer iPads, Apple pulled the latest update for the 9.7-inch iPad Pro."We're working on a fix for an issue impacting a small number of iPad units that are receiving an error when trying to update the software," Apple said … | Continue reading
Being a freelance animator is a pretty crappy existence, living out of a suitcase, jetting from country to country as the major studios are chasing tax incentives around the world. Launched this week, Artella are attempting to changing that by creating a full suite of software to … | Continue reading
An issue involving Apple's iTunes app deleting music stored on a user's computer has officially been acknowledged by the company after weeks of isolated reports from usersSEE ALSO: 7 ways to fix the mess that is Apple MusicApple isn't sure what the cause of the iTunes bug is, as … | Continue reading
I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in about the fifth or sixth grade. I didn’t get good at it for a while, but once I did, I didn’t play much longer (insert reference to “The Best Days of My Life” here). Dungeons and Dragons taught me a few lessons that I didn’t realize would … | Continue reading
If you follow The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) on Twitter and Instagram, you're already familiar with his near daily posts of inspirational messages, photos of workout routines and personal goal achievements. Now the former wrestler turned movie action hero has decided to turn his weekl … | Continue reading
The multinational tech corporation Intel, the largest semiconductor chip manufacturer, is currently keen on blockchain technology. The Santa Clara, California-based company, announced its latest initiative called “Sawtooth Lake” this April alongside a Hyperledger technical discus … | Continue reading
Anonymity and privacy are hard to come by in today’s version of the Internet. The governments and its cloak and dagger machinery have been keeping a constant watch on the usage of internet, even going through the communication between people. In such times, any form of communicat … | Continue reading
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage on Tuesday at the company's F8 developers conference to kick off the event with a major look into the future and a very cool surprise for attendees. See also: Facebook's Surround camera captures 360-degree video in 8KBut … | Continue reading
We've already seen robots that paint pictures and compose songs, so it only stands to reason that someone would attempt to get one to write a novelIn this case, the exercise was a team effort between humans and an artificial intelligence (A.I.) program in an attempt to win Japan' … | Continue reading
It was December 31, 2014. In Shanghai, thousands flocked to the historic and picturesque Bund, where there had been reports a light show would take place to ring in the new year. Unfortunately, too many people had the same idea. A dangerously dense crowd formed, and at a viewing … | Continue reading
You know how they say, "Show me pictures or video, or it didn't happen"? Well, the days when you could trust what you see on video in real time are officially coming to an end thanks to a new kind of face tracking.See also: You can now use Donald Trump's voice to say just about a … | Continue reading
Next to full body sensor suits, one of the main components missing from virtual reality experiences is the ability to share experiences with othersNow a new app called vTime hopes to bridge that gap by giving users full VR character avatars that can interact with each other in vi … | Continue reading
"I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line, can you tell us how you did that?"Those are the words of a Thames TV host back in 1984 explaining the first steps needed to send an email before most people even knew what email was. Even for long-time Internet users, th … | Continue reading
Battery life is central to enjoying the luxury and innovation in a Tesla automobile and, if one Tesla owner is right, that particular aspect of the car is about to get a boostLast week, North Carolina-based Jason Hughes posted the results of his fiddling around with the Tesla sys … | Continue reading
Google's social networking endeavors may have stumbled in recent years, but the company has no intention of giving up, with the latest attempt coming in the form of a new feature called Google PostsThe feature is currently only available to presidential candidates and will allow … | Continue reading
Opinions on Yelp updates are like stubby fingers, at first glance harmless, upon further examination, hilariousThat was our first thought when Yelp — the app that facilitates opinions on a wide range of businesses — found a way to weigh in the would-be bloviator-in-chief, Donald … | Continue reading
Just a day after we reported that Amazon had quietly removed device encryption from Fire OS version 5, the company has reversed course and decided to bring encryption back to Fire OSSee also: Google, Facebook and other tech giants file in court to support Apple's fight against th … | Continue reading
Introduction This column is intended for a business audience, and lacks technical details – it is the author’s intent to communicate sound security strategies to C-level personnel tasked with making ...The post The Sony Pictures Hack and Learning Information Security Lessons the … | Continue reading
As a software developer at some point in your career you will have come across active live and released projects which contain large sections of commented out source code. Why is that code still th… | Continue reading
A Berlin-based startup has launched a new platform which it says will revolutionise how developers test their software – claiming it will make finding bugs a good thing. Previously specialising ...The post When Finding Software Bugs is a Good Thing: testCloud Launches New Platfor … | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Błażej Hadzik of netguru. Peer code review is not about criticising individual mistakes. It’s about making progress on a project as a team and keeping ...The post Top Tips: A Guide to Peer Code Review and Why You Should Do It appeared first on Silicon Alle … | Continue reading