Fallout publisher Bethesda is well known for supporting its games for years, and that’s a crucial skill when it comes to expansion to mobile gaming. The company updated Fallout Shelter, its tycoon-style management game with a post-nuclear winter twist, to include some new feature … | Continue reading
Ride-hailing companies like Uber have long been under the microscope for questionable safety standards. Although the company has practices in place to conduct checks in all its markets, China is notorious for drivers faking accounts and rides — sometimes, multiple drivers share a … | Continue reading
The FBI's new iPhone exploit may be more expensive than anyone suspected. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, Director Comey said the method that broke into the San Bernardino iPhone cost "more than I will make" in his remaining seven years at the FBI. Reuters calculates Comey' … | Continue reading
The Norwegian chapter of writers’ rights organization PEN International is suing its own government in an attempt to make it safe for Edward Snowden to accept the prestigious Ossietzky Prize in person — without fear of extradition to the United States. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook is once again tweaking its News Feed algorithm to include a factor that it says will predict how long you spend looking at a post within the Facebook mobile browser or an Instant Article. The goal is understand which stories it should surface in your News Feed to make yo … | Continue reading
The big old US Merriam-Webster Unabridged just welcomed 1,400 new words and phrases into its ranks, as well as adding 700 additional new meanings to existing terms. Seven of them caught our eye and although they aren’t all that new, the folks at the dictionary office say they’ve … | Continue reading
Re-entry internships help employers make an informed hiring decision in their search for high-caliber job candidates who are looking to return to the job market after a prolonged career break, according to re-entry expert Carol Fishman Cohen | Continue reading
It might have only been last month (hint, it was) that Google announced the Android N Developer Preview for Nexus devices, but the company has been working with Sony to make it available to Xperia Z3 owners now too. While that leaves most of a billion users without the ability to … | Continue reading
Social networks make us lonely, and messaging feels transactional. There’s still no vibrant, real-time place to hang out with friends online. That’s why four years after Sean Parker’s chat roulette website Airtime fell flat, he’s reviving it as a mobile chat room where friends ca … | Continue reading
Competitive gaming is growing quickly, and one of the sites trying to make your dreams of going pro a reality is building up to serve the future of esports. Zengaming, a social network for gamers looking to make a name for themselves in the esports world, has raised $2.8 million … | Continue reading
India's strides in information technology over the last two decades make for one of the country's most famous success stories. A new app traces the evolution of its IT industry, from the installation of the country's first modern computer in 1950 to the present.See also: The Big … | Continue reading
2015 was one of the worst years on record for patent troll lawsuits. Most of the lawsuits that snagged headlines involved tech titans – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon – but small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) were far more frequent targets. While these cases may … | Continue reading
Acorns, an app that aims to simplify personal investing, announced today that it’s raised $30 million. PayPal, Rakuten, and Greycroft participated in the round. Acorns CEO Noah Kerner*, new to the company as of this year, called the PayPal investment “strategic,” and said the par … | Continue reading
Lyft is making it simpler for riders that use the on-demand ride service for work to expense the cost. The company today launched its version of business profiles to help distinguish whether the ride was for work-related travel or for pleasure. Lyft’s system has also been integra … | Continue reading
Most JavaScript developers make heavy use of the bash terminal, git, and Node. Chances are, you won’t get far on your JavaScript journey…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
Today, Facebook announced a group-calling feature for its Messenger app, letting you dial up to 50 friends concurrently over the internet. The feature is coming to iOS and Android over the next 24 hours, according to Messenger chief David Marcus, and it should show up as a phone … | Continue reading
Comcast will make its Xfinity app available on smart TVs and third party set-top boxes without the need to lease a cable box, the company announced today. Roku and Samsung Smart TVs will be the first devices to receive the apps later this year. The move comes as the FCC prepares … | Continue reading
Turns out Inbox isn’t the only app Google had updates for today. The company announced a few new features for Keep – its note-taking app – that should help make a bit more sense of your reminders and tasks. First up, a new Chrome extension allows you to add a link to save directl … | Continue reading
Facebook announced today that it is letting anyone make group voice calls within its Messenger app. It appears that this capability is rolling out over the next 24 hours, so if you don’t have it yet, make sure you have the latest app update. For those that do have this feature, w … | Continue reading
Keep, Google’s note-taking service, is getting an update today that introduces support for hashtag-style labels and an update Chrome extension that will make it easier to save links to sites and add notes right from the browser. None of these updates are revolutionary, but they a … | Continue reading
Sophia Takal’s second film has emerged as one of the darlings of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Its April 15th world premiere drew a lot of buzz, based around the positive reception for Takal’s directorial debut, 2011’s Green, and a promising cast, featuring Mackenzie Davis (Hal … | Continue reading
Scandy is aiming to make it easier to print full-color 3D prints of photographs, from sources such as depth aware cameras, and technology like Google’s Project Tango. Scandy today announced it raised a $1m angel/seed round from Callais Capital, in an effort to bring the technolog … | Continue reading
Most of the virtual reality developments in recent months have been focused on experiencing VR, but Google is working to make the tech an integral new part of creating artSee also: Google’s Tilt Brush artists show off the power of virtual reality artWe've seen Google's Tilt Brush … | Continue reading
The field of medicine is in the process of being profoundly transformed by new technologies; much of this transformation comes from exciting advances in genomics. Although genomics is relatively unknown to the general public, innovations in the field have started to make headline … | Continue reading
First impressions matter. This is doubly true for email subject lines. Learn how to get readers to open your emails and make sure your messages stick. | Continue reading
LeEco — the Chinese holding company known as LeTV until just a few months ago — just introduced its first electric car ahead of the Beijing auto show. Called LeSEE, the concept sedan is designed to be fully autonomous with a fold-away steering wheel. LeEco has sometimes been bill … | Continue reading
After graduating from MIT with a degree in computer science, Grant Jordan spent four years at the United States Air Force acquiring a particular set of skills, skills that make him very dangerous to drones like this. "I worked on counter drone systems, and got a taste for everyth … | Continue reading
If you go to the Frozen Synapse website, it proudly proclaims that it is the ultimate tactical game, which is a pretty bold claim. It's also an erroneous one; with Frozen Synapse 2 on the way, that would technically make Frozen Synapse the penultimate strategy game. Nitpicking as … | Continue reading
India’s pharmaceutical market is filled with generic options—but they don’t always save consumers money. In fact, some drugs are even more expensive than their branded counterparts. Created to give patients more power over their health costs, startup 1mg announced today that it h … | Continue reading
What you measure usually gets paid attention to, and what you pay attention to, usually gets better. Numbers supercharge measurement, because numbers are easy to compare. Numbers make it difficult to hide. And hence the problem. Income is easy to... | Continue reading
I write. I work with writers. I studied English — many of my friends became journalists. The future of being able to charge for quality material online is really important to me. However, to make progress in this area, I think the industry needs to stop pinning its hopes on the s … | Continue reading
GUEST: With 8.5 million daily downloads attributed to the top 200 free U.S. App Store apps, and Google Play seeing twice that many downloads, it’s no wonder that every game developer’s dream is to make it to the top of that list. Unfortunately, the competition is pretty fierce. I … | Continue reading
(By Greg Roumeliotis and Liana B. Baker for Reuters) — Verizon Communications Inc was set on Tuesday to advance to the second stage of bidding for Yahoo Inc’s core assets, as the U.S. internet company went through offers to put together a short list, people familiar with the matt … | Continue reading
Everybody's pretty much had their fill of zombie games, myself included, but I'm making an exception for Zombie Hunter: Death to the Undead, which is releasing this Thursday from Yodo1 Games. Why make an exception? Because Zombie Hunter is an action-platformer-shooter that channe … | Continue reading
Well, here it is, everyone. Magikiras [Free] is easily one of the worst gamebooks I've played in my years of reviewing, and hands-down the most painful. It's absurdly long given its meager premise, poorly-written, and just plain boring. There are tons of spelling and grammar mist … | Continue reading
Internal communications at Volkswagen used "dozens" of codewords to obfuscate the use of cheat software to make its diesel engines look cleaner than they actually were, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the ongoing investigation. One such codeword was "acoustic soft … | Continue reading
Shazam made its name for its music recognition technology, and since then has tried to get users to scan anything from TV commercials, radio spots, and print ads. While it’s clear that Shazam has grown into more than just a song discovery tool, tomorrow the company will launch Sh … | Continue reading
Snapchat just upgraded the emoji in its iOS app in a big way.The company updated its iOS app Tuesday with its new 3D stickers feature, which allows you to pin emoji to a specific part of a video. The update follows a similar update to Snapchat's Android app last week.SEE ALSO: 10 … | Continue reading
Put me precisely in the middle of the following Venn diagram of people: 1) those who want to listen to the radio in the bathroom, 2) those who can't figure out a good way to do that without putting a ugly speaker in the bathroom, and 3) those who are willing to have a magnified v … | Continue reading
Facebook is exploring new ways for individual users to profit from their posts on the network, The Verge has learned. A user survey distributed this week hints at a broad range of ways that users could make money or promote a cause, including a tip jar, branded content, and takin … | Continue reading
Airbnb is looking to help guests really enjoy their stay in whatever city they’re visiting. The company announced today that it has begun rolling out several new features for its app to not only make your host experience better, but give you the resources you need to travel aroun … | Continue reading
You don’t need to make a blood pact with a demon or sacrifice a virgin lamb to get Hearthstone: Whispers of the Old Gods to come out sooner. Its release is imminent. Blizzard revealed today that the latest expansion for its digital card game comes out on April 26 in the Americas … | Continue reading
Even in 2016, there isn't a better way to learn guitar than sinking hundreds of hours and a few calloused fingers into it. So musician and sometimes-startup founder Brian Fan thought he'd make an instrument that’s easier to pick up.The result is Magic Instruments' Rhythm Guitar. … | Continue reading
Virtual reality is expected to grow into a $30 billion market by 2020 and the porn industry is hellbent on getting a piece of the action. Last month PornHub launched its own VR porn category and there’s an increasing number of companies looking to make the shift from producing re … | Continue reading
Alicia Johnson has been driving for Uber for almost a year, first in California and now in her new home of Washington, DC, but because she was deaf it was never an easy task. Johnson, 25, would often miss ride notifications that came through her phone via text because she couldn' … | Continue reading
GitLab.com users have always had free access to the Gitlab programmer’s toolset including GitLab Runner. Today it announced a new feature called Gitlab Runner Autoscale that allows continuous code testing at scale, and to make that even more palatable, the company teamed up with … | Continue reading
Uber has defined the market for transportation-on-demand globally with an app that lets you call up a ride (or courier, or food delivery) and charge it with the click of a button — a business that has now received billions in funding from investors. But Uber’s expansion has come … | Continue reading
It’s probably because of my character — paranoid and performatively self-denying — that I’ve yet to buy a game console. It would almost certainly be a PS4 if I did decide to make the leap, and the only games I’d be interested in would be Bloodbourne and the Dark Souls series. The … | Continue reading