Perlstein Lab, or PLab as it is also known, continues to hone its automated drug discovery platform and presents its latest iteration Wednesday March 23rd at Y Combinator Demo Day. The platform they created helps the bio startup focus on finding cures for rare diseases rather tha … | Continue reading
Its that time again, the end of the week, and time to put forward the framework with which we are going to approach the weekend in the bitcoin price. Things have been relatively inactive to day so far, but we did get in a short trade on a break of support a little earlier on … Co … | Continue reading
The American dream is no longer for sale — but it is for rent. We are slowly going through a subtle shift in how the economy is owned and operated, with massive implications. On an average day, you may wake up, shower, dress, drive to work and return home. But the way you do it i … | Continue reading
A speaker list filled with real practitioners of digital commerce … An integrated agenda that covers the deep process underlying digital product and service creation, marketing, and distribution … An exclusive performance by one of the most beloved bands to come out of the altern … | Continue reading
Once again, poor Australians have been forced to suffer massive Internet outages Thursday thanks to Telstra.The outage resulted in many customers without data for hours, spreading to services reliant on the Internet such as ATMs, EFTPOS machines and Uber apps. You couldn't get a … | Continue reading
After years of hearing the private sector in the U.S. complain about the inefficiencies of government, investors are beginning to marshall their resources to help solve the problem. And no organization exemplifies that notion of harnessing private industry tools for public good m … | Continue reading
Forex trading is an international, financial market for trading currencies where you will find the most heavily global traded market, with over $4 trillion in daily volume. Forex, is in fact, the perfect market for Day trading. With a high volume market an intense trading activit … | Continue reading
Some of the best mobile games are ones that utilize a simple to understand concept and expand it into a game that will challenge you but can still fit into the tiny bits of free time throughout your day. The old cliché "simple to play but hard to master." That describes upcoming … | Continue reading
Looks like someone in the Facebook team has caught the March Madness fever; in a small update to the Messenger app, typing in the basketball emoji can enable a secret mini-game between you and a friend. To start, just locate the basketball emoji (copy and paste , if you can’t fin … | Continue reading
If you were a Sonic the Hedgehog fan back when the old Sega was the best console around, then today might be your lucky day because you can now play it on Apple TV. Sonic the Hedgehog has had quite the journey, from being on TV over 20-years ago, to launching on mobile in 2013 an … | Continue reading
Those of us who are of legal drinking age can likely relate to this. You go out with some mates, toss a few too many back, and the next day you wake up in a strange place and spend the entire next day trying to piece together exactly what sort of shenanigans you got into | Continue reading
Kickstarter just announced its first ever acquisition — the crowdfunding company is snapping up music-subscription service and fan community Drip for an undisclosed amount. Drip was founded in 2012 as a service that connects music fans with indie labels, including Domino Records, … | Continue reading
During an afternoon call with me, Airmada CEO Dan Danay, outlined his autonomous drone product offering that he and co-founder Boris Lipchin are preparing for Y Combinator Demo Day next week. They duo plan to disrupt the commercial drone market with everything from automated mari … | Continue reading
Late last week rumours began to spread that GoButler, the messaging-based virtual assistant that let you request anything on-demand, was heading to the deadpool, with March 11th the alleged date. Well, that day came and went and the startup is very much alive. Read More | Continue reading
Amazon and Fitbit are teaming up to make it even easier to see your daily fitness progress. Or rather, hear about it. Fitbit users who own an Amazon Echo can now ask Alexa about their progress throughout the day via an integration with the Alexa API. All the user has to do is say … | Continue reading
For National Pancake Day 2016, IHOP upped its social media ante by inviting 7.3 million of their closest Twitter friends—by name. | Continue reading
Luxury vodka brand Absolut Elyx has teamed up with chef Anna Barnett for a supper club event next Tuesday (22 March) to mark World Water Day. | Continue reading
NeuCoin, known as the “2nd Generation Peercoin Fork,” says it has reached over 275,000 users three months after launching its consumer apps and is acquiring more than 8,000 users a day, on track to acquire 2 million users by year-end 2016. The company also announced it will elimi … | Continue reading
Marmite, Jordans and Belvita are joining Brand Belief's Deskfast Day activation at the commuter hotspot from 22-23 March, to promote the importance of breakfast. | Continue reading
For many of the women who lead Australia's technology industry, lacking a degree in computer science has not been a barrier to success. And, they say, it should not be one for other women either.Speaking at the Females in IT and Telecommunications International Women’s Day lunche … | Continue reading
Miitomo has finally arrived in Japan, after years of fevered demands for Nintendo to start releasing smartphone apps. But Nintendo being Nintendo, things were never going to be quite as simple as sticking Super Mario Bros. on the iPhone and calling it a day. What we have instead … | Continue reading
It isn’t every day that an Indian startup takes on mighty smartphone brands, but the team at CREO believes it has something truly unique to offer Android fans across the country. CREO says its Mark 1 runs a fork of Android built in-house with an aim to deliver a new feature with … | Continue reading
If I had to choose a sound to identify the second year of my daughter’s life it would probably be one of the collaborations between Sesame Street superstar Cookie Monster and one of the hot pop stars of the day. Though “Me want it (but me wait)” will never win any lyricist awards … | Continue reading
Apologies for posting this so late in the day, but we're fully observing Kick Butts Day by kicking butt at GDC. As you've probably noticed, we've had a bucket load of game previews flooding the site all week... Which sort of has put a bit of a wrinkle in our normal site features- … | Continue reading
It’s finally here. After teaming up with Michael J. Fox to tease us with self-lacing Nike Mags on Back To The Future day in October, Nike has finally announced a mass production shoe that will feature real-life power laces. Meet the HyperAdapt 1.0. Announced today at the Nike Inn … | Continue reading
In the world of Gamergate, empathy isn’t allowed, the harassment women face online is exaggerated, and online abuse doesn't cause real-world harm. And that’s exactly what was heard at the SXSW "SavePoint" panel yesterday. In one of the same rooms that housed SXSW’s day-long anti- … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: After months of anticipation and a mix of official and internally-communicated delays, Microsoft’s long-awaited Windows 10 Mobile upgrade is on the eve of being deployed. Playing its cards incredibly close to the chest, the company will announce its same-day availabili … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: State of Karl-Cousins relationship? | Knicks’ free-agency plan is ___? | A … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: State of Karl-Cousins relationship? | Knicks’ free-agency plan is ___? | A … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: State of Karl-Cousins relationship? | Knicks’ free-agency plan is ___? | A … | Continue reading
I spent a good part of my day yesterday attending the On-demand Economy conference at MIT. It was an interesting if somewhat academic look at the changes facing us as individuals, organizations and as a society as we shift to an on-demand world. What struck me beyond how this new … | Continue reading
My first feeling, upon arriving at Oculus’ all-day virtual reality showcase in San Francisco, was apprehension. Two full floors of a downtown event space were lined with cubicles, each holding an Oculus Rift headset, a selection of vintage virtual reality hardcover books, and a h … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — We’ve gone a few years now without the major launch of a new gaming platform, but we’re getting one later this month. And no launch is complete without a list of games that you can buy on day one. Oculus VR, the company responsible for the Rift virtual reality hea … | Continue reading
In this day and age of financial and technological innovation, there is a lot of focus on rethinking business models and future partnerships. Euronext, one of the world’s leading pan-European exchange platform sin the world, is carefully weighing in options for the future. There … | Continue reading
Experiment e.V.: Bonn (ots) - Anlässlich des St. Patrick's Day vergibt die gemeinnützige Austauschorganisation Experiment e.V. zusätzliche Stipendien für einen Schüleraustausch in Irland. Wer noch diesen Sommer seine Auslandserfahrung auf der grünen Insel starten ... | Continue reading
Amazon has launched a new service designed to make it easier for companies to move their databases to Amazon Web Services (AWS), promising that firms can “set up their migrations in less than 10 minutes.” The launch comes five months after Amazon first debuted the AWS Database Mi … | Continue reading
Washington DC's Metro, the city's subway system that is used by more than 700,000 people every day, will close for 29 hours beginning at midnight tonight — all day on Wednesday, in other words. The closure will allow the inspection of electric cables in the system following an el … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has another hit franchise in its stable. The publisher revealed today that its online shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division has had best first week ever for a new games franchise. Previously, its opening day sales were the best in the company’s history. According to Ubisoft, … | Continue reading
The expression “timing is everything” could not be more true when it comes to posting on social media. It’s one thing to create fresh and exciting content, but what’s the point of posting something if your audience is not seeing it? Posting content at the right time, on the right … | Continue reading
Ten pigeons with tiny backpacks are flying over London for the next two days monitoring the city’s pollution levels. Pigeon Patrol, as they’re called by the companies behind the project, are live tweeting the pollution data at their account @PigeonAir. Meet the squad.Good day Lon … | Continue reading
Organic beauty brand 7th Heaven closed the doors to its ethical bunny spa in London's Covent Garden yesterday (14 March), following a three-day tenure. | Continue reading
After conquering the world of live-streamed video games, Twitch is obviously in need of a snack. The company is branching out with a new channel dedicated to cooking, launching today at 3PM ET. To celebrate, the channel will be streaming a four-day marathon of Julia Child's The F … | Continue reading
Smart home lighting is getting a bit more practicalAccording to The Verge, Philips announced a new Philips Hue white ambiance lightbulb that can shift between an absurd number of different shades of white throughout the day, which Philips says can improve the quality of your slee … | Continue reading
Night Dive Studios has revealed the first snippet of gameplay from its upcoming System Shock remake.Developed in Unity, this remake seeks to "keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved, while updating the user interface and graphics to use … | Continue reading
In a day when the major bitcoin headline was that of Microsoft seemingly cutting ties with Bitcoin, the company has now been forced to apologize for what it deemed as “inaccurate information”. Bitcoin will continue to be supported. Technology giant Microsoft had suggested in a re … | Continue reading
I was beginning to have the itch, a low-level anxiety that occurs on the third or fourth day of a film festival when you haven't seen anything you feel terribly strongly about one way or another. SXSW, in addition to being a premiere showcase for brands, bands and media outlets, … | Continue reading
It's Monday of GDC, which means you're going to hear a lot about games that are in the works in the future. But interestingly enough, this Monday is actually a notable release day for a few interesting indie games that have rolled out. Could be that they're trying to draw attenti … | Continue reading
Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference. These range from new tools for managing virtual goods and currencies, to the launch of a video recording API so developers can make it easier for pla … | Continue reading