Call it a game or not, Nintendo’s newest app looks like it’s not going anywhere soon. After launching on March 31, Miitomo has hit 4 million users – with 1 million of those opening the app daily, reports Engadget. The data, which derives from a SurveyMonkey study, also says users … | Continue reading
Bots, VR, and streaming video dominated day one of Facebook's annual F8 developer conference. Here are all of the biggest moments in less than 90 seconds. Read more...More about Facebook, F8, Tech, Apps Software, and Dev Design | Continue reading
Oculus is running into shipping troubles with the Rift VR headset; current orders are pushed back to August while preorders are now running into late May / early June. | Continue reading
Facebook's Messenger app was the company's fastest-growing platform in 2015, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said earlier today at the annual F8 developers conference.At last year's F8, Facebook Messenger was said to have 700 million monthly active users. In January, that number … | Continue reading
In February 2013, Bungie invited the world's press into its Bellevue, Washington studio to show Destiny for the first time. Except the studio didn't show Destiny. Rather, it talked about Destiny.In its in-house theatre press were treated to multiple presentations, each focusing o … | Continue reading
Chatbots, Live video, and VR technology are all on the docket for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and you can watch the livestream here at 9:30am PST with Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote starting at 10am. There’ll also be more streamed sessions all day today and tomorrow.Here’s the … | Continue reading
Now that the Apple Watch bandwagon has reached its tipping point, the tech-loving masses are looking at the rest of the smartwatch field with a more objective outlook. While Apple and Google are promoting powerful wrist-computers that run cut-down versions of full smartphone apps … | Continue reading
With the halving looming and transaction capacity maxed out, some are predicting a doomsday scenario. Much, therefore, depends on the Lightning Network. A “decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments” which is capable of a … | Continue reading
May is just a few short weeks away, and Hardware Alley at Disrupt NY 2016 is almost full. Hardware Alley is, as the name suggests, our annual showcase of all things hardware, a day at Disrupt where hardware startups take over and fill the show floor with robots, 3D printers and a … | Continue reading
The day is finally here - HTC has just unveiled its latest flagship, the HTC 10. Head here to see what all the hype is about! | Continue reading
Fraport AG: Frankfurt (ots) - Positive Traffic Performance in the First Quarter Helped by the Timing of the Easter Holidays, the Non-Recurrence of Previous Year's Flight Cancellations and an Additional Leap Day - Fraport's Group Airports Continue to See Varying ... | Continue reading
The subreddit r/showerthoughts is one of the site’s most popular with more than 6 million subscribers. While you can spend all day browsing the various thought bubbles, some Redditors are now claiming men’s personal care brand Axe (yes, that Axe) has done more than browsed – it l … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Guaranteed residual revenue through subscription models is hugely attractive and highly scalable — but missteps could lead to costly attrition and churn. Join Netflix Head of Payments Luis Vargas to learn how payment models factor into success and how to turn subscrib … | Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter will launch on 27th May for PC, PS4 and Xbox One and its first gameplay footage has just now been released. The following 17-minute video - cut together from B-roll footage by AllGamesDelta - takes us through the basics of Sherlock's day-to-d … | Continue reading
Date: 18/04/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationThe European Fruit Juice Association and the PHBOTTLE consortium invites you to a half-day workshop dedicated to discussing biopolymers and their use in food and non‐food packaging applications. The EU-funded PHBOTTLE project set out … | Continue reading
Trading has been one of the major applications of bitcoin. The price volatility of cryptocurrencies has been exploited by day-traders across the world. As the amount of funds circulating through bitcoin trading increase, the practice is now being scrutinized by governments. In th … | Continue reading
We’ve given you an extension, and now it’s time for you to act. This is the last week to get tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 at the early-bird price of $1,995 per ticket before the it jumps by $1,000 after April 15.If you don’t get your tickets ordered by the end of the day on Friday, … | Continue reading
A (r)evolution is brewing, and most companies are not prepared for it. It’s no secret how, with an overabundance of new devices and platforms available every day, customers are more empowered and finding new ways to either hack or completely ignore company touchpoints. With this … | Continue reading
Often, it’s hard to decide which piece of news is the worst on any given day but, despite the fact that the pretty grim Panama Papers stuff is still unfolding, I’ve found Sunday’s winner. Or loser. While many in the tech community and others across Europe have been rallying to wo … | Continue reading
The interest around chat bots is rapidly growing, and Betaworks is looking to capitalize. The startup studio responsible for companies like Giphy and Instapaper is today announcing that applications are open for BotCamp, a 90-day pre-seed program for chat bot startups. Investors … | Continue reading
It’s one thing for an autonomous vehicle to carry passengers to their destination safely through the day, but doing so in the dark is a totally different ball game. Self-driving cars typically rely on radars, cameras and lidars (sensors that use lasers to survey spaces) to detect … | Continue reading
Listen up Gears of Wars fans because today’s the final day to qualify for early access to the Gears 4 beta. Just log on to Xbox Live and play Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on Xbox One or Windows 10 by 11pm PT tonight to be eligible for the April 18th beta, else you'll have to wa … | Continue reading
There has already been some photographic leakage of HTC’s next attempt at flagship phone. Now there is video leakage. Just one day before the company is set to unveil the HTC 10 in ceremonies across the global, a promotional video has surfaced. VentureBeat’s Evan Blass had recent … | Continue reading
Remember April Fools’ Day? It feels like it was just yesterday, doesn’t it? Well, it wasn’t, April is racing by and tech news stops for no one. It’s understandable then, if you feel the need to take a break at weekends, to step back from the headlines and spend a little time with … | Continue reading
The app stores are big jungles, making it hard for someone to find the app that is just right. By attacking that discovery problem, app monetization and distribution platform Appnext grew its revenues by 345 percent in 2015. The London-based company now drives hundreds of thousan … | Continue reading
Facebook’s F8 developer conference takes place this Tuesday and Wednesday from the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. While the company hasn’t publicly disclosed what it’ll be revealing during its two-day event, here are a few educated guesses about what could be announced. Bots … | Continue reading
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April 14 marks the first-ever Global Meetings Industry Day . The event-industry advocacy group Meetings Mean Business joins forces wit... | Continue reading
Consider your average internet meme. In a world of crying Jordans and Mr. Krabs blur memes, is there any place left on the internet that doesn't thrive off of laughing at someone else's misery?The answer is yes. 770,000+ Facebook fans are already in the know, blessed with a delig … | Continue reading
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at askle … | Continue reading
In yet another attack on an online cryptocurrency exchange, Shapeshift.io went down for a couple days while they dealt with some malicious intrusion into their server, assessing the damage and keeping their customer base aware of the status the entire time. Within a day of knowin … | Continue reading
Hello from hip East London! It's the third day of EGX Rezzed and the second day of developer sessions - but if you can't make it to the show, you can watch all the sessions live on YouTube in the embeds below.We've got sessions on some of our favourite recent and future PC games … | Continue reading
Happy final EGX Rezzed day! It's been a good time so far, the warrens of the Tobacco Dock playing host to so many fascinating games. We've come up with a quickfire list of our own highlights, games we've discovered or become reacquainted with old favourites (hello Gang Beasts, on … | Continue reading
It's day three of Rezzed in East London - our parent company Gamer Network's friendly and indie-focused game show, little sister to September's big, bad (in a good way) EGX. Just like EGX, we host and stream developer sessions live at the show, this time with a little help from o … | Continue reading
Just how many smartphones are there and how much time do we spend on our phones? 1st aerials used data gathered by Deloitte, Statista, Ofcom and Ericsson to visually represent the data and create an infographic. | Continue reading
NASA engineers have declared a mission emergency for the agency's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has somehow switched into emergency mode. NASA just found out about the anomaly a day and a half ago, right before the agency tried to maneuver the spacecraft to point at the … | Continue reading
You’ve waited long enough — the time to act is now. Like, right now.Today is the last day to get tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 at the discounted early-bird price of $1,995 per ticket, $1,000 less than the full retail price of $2,995 that takes effect tomorrow. Read More | Continue reading
At your day job as a professional code Googler – I mean developer – you probably search for quick snippets multiple times a day to find the best way to perform a particular task. Almost always as developers we end up on Stack Overflow or Mozilla Developer Network, but now Microso … | Continue reading
Gerald Kelley's Abzorb [$2.99] has just gotten an update on iOS that adds in a new Daily Challenge mode that should encourage you to come back again and again to this one. Each day, you get 5 levels to play back to back – get through all 5 without failing and get your scores on | Continue reading
As small drones have become increasingly commonplace, so have reports of close calls by airliners. A recent FAA report tallied the average at four sightings a day, a five-fold increase from the year before. To help address the issue, the American Association of Airport Executives … | Continue reading
A day after people started noticing Facebook was now suggesting business to chat with while in Messenger, the social network officially announced a suite of tools and updates designed to help Facebook users better connect with the businesses using its platform. As part of these c … | Continue reading
Brands showed us their lighthearted side once again this April Fools' Day. Here are seven companies that almost tricked us—in a good way. | Continue reading
The DPC is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its ‘Getting Started with Digital Preservation’ roadshow in Dublin on 18th May, hosted by the National Archives of Ireland.About ‘Getting Started….’This day long introduction assumes no prior knowledge except a will … | Continue reading
One hot summer's day as a young teen, I casually sauntered into our local computer shop. Sat in the corner was a PC, running a copy of Wolfenstein 3D. Although I'd seen primitive 3D games before, I'd never seen anything like this, and I got stuck in. I killed Nazis. I opened door … | Continue reading
Amazon has expanded its free same-day delivery service to 11 more metropolitan areas, bringing the total number of US regions served by the Prime feature to 27. Prime customers in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Nashville, Tucson, among others, will now be able to get free same-day delive … | Continue reading
Forget a license to kill. Thanks to Enterprise, you can drive like James Bond for a day with just a license to drive.SEE ALSO: 7 people who are perfectly happy to wait 2 years for their Tesla Model 3Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced Monday morning that it has added not one but two … | Continue reading
Bringing us one step closer to the day when computers compete directly with humans in the arts, a new painting has been created using software to mimic the style of a masterThe painting, titled "The Next Rembrandt" (below), is the result of a team of developers who, with the tech … | Continue reading
Sorry this post is a little later in the morning than we typically post it, but today is National Twinkie Day and let's just say the festival at my house is in full swing. Anyway, this week is a little light on game releases so far, which either means the runway is being cleared … | Continue reading