A legislator in Japan’s ruling political party has called for bitcoin purchases to be exempt from an 8% consumption tax, a regional news source says. | Continue reading
Tidal has let go of its CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell, the company confirmed to The Verge. The news of their terminations was originally reported by the Swedish news site Breakit and Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv. Breakit reports that Hart was let go after a dispute a … | Continue reading
One of America's most respected news organizations is considering the ban of ad blockers on its website. | Continue reading
VIDEO: Highlights from Monday’s games NEWS OF THE MORNING Curry questionable vs. Hawks | Report: Some teams unhappy with Udrih buyout | James: More adversity likely for Cavs | Report: Raptors waive Bennett No. 1: Curry questionable tonight vs. Hawks — The Golden State Warriors re … | Continue reading
With the (rumored) Apple March event fast approaching, the ever-active Apple rumor mill is turning into a news-churning frenzy. The two latest reports, courtesy of 9to5Mac and Japan's Macotakara, bring to light a (possible) new form factor for the iPhone 7 and a new, improved cam … | Continue reading
Microsoft is bringing its Forza Motorsport series to the PC later this year, with a stripped back free-to-play version of last year's instalment, dubbed Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, coming to Windows 10 this spring. The news comes via a leaked report by The Seattle Times from a rece … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, it turns out that IBM isn't working on a full-on Sword Art Online MMO with Watson, SoftLayer, and virtual reality technology combining to render your own body in the game. News to that effect circulated last week, but as Road to VR points out, it was a misunderstan … | Continue reading
If you think 2016 Internet is pretty great with all its Vines, viral hashtags and memes, you haven’t seen Reddit3016. The parody site is an art project by Reddit user Blair Erickson (gonzoblair) who wanted to imagine the stuff that would end up on site’s front page 1,000 years fr … | Continue reading
While we haven't yet confirmed with Discovery News' worldwide network of apocalypse mythology scholars, we're pretty sure this is some sort of End Times omen:Fast food juggernaut McDonald's is rolling out a pilot program in Sweden that turns Happy Meal boxes into virtual reality … | Continue reading
The good news: Dark Souls 3 now has a free promotional mobile game called Slashy Souls. The bad news: It's dreadful.Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment… | Continue reading
I was starting to believe the magazine industry was being ripped off. Until the past weekend, I hadn’t seen any Trump branded magazines among the many lists of Trump failures appearing. I recalled some as I blogged about them nine years ago. Even better, my friend Dylan Stablefor … | Continue reading
Sometime in the mid-2000s, hedge fund owners got an idea. Financial markets are impacted by the news — so if you can thoroughly understand the news, and do it quickly, you can have a headstart on changes in the market. Using artificial intelligence, they devised software that cou … | Continue reading
Whether it's pushing speed and performance boundaries or redefining expectations of luxury and technological advancement, the cars of the Geneva Motor Show are invariably leaders in their class. All the big companies prioritize this one week in March as a time to show off their v … | Continue reading
Okay, Blizzard, we are all ready. Now, where's Standard Format? Everyone - including me- is patiently waiting for the new formats to hit, but at least this past week had enough Hearthstone [Free] news to keep us all busy reading (and maybe reading to forget that the meta continue … | Continue reading
Gogo has announced it will upgrade its satellite modem that’s used with its 2Ku and Ku satellite technologies to increase the throughput from satellites to Internet users on its planes in the U.S. The news comes after American Airlines dropped its litigation against Gogo over its … | Continue reading
Last night, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar after being nominated on six separate occasions. While the win was expected, it was still big news, and it became the catalyst for more than 440,000 tweets per minute. This deluge of tweets made Leo's win the most-tweeted … | Continue reading
Have you always dreamed about participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt? Great news! We are still accepting applications for the Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2016, but you’re going to have to act incredibly fast, as the deadline to submit your application is tod … | Continue reading
No more guessworkMicrosoft HoloLens, the company's highly anticipated augmented-reality headgear finally has an official ship date: March 30th.This is good news for developers who started submitting applications to buy the $3,000 headset back in October of last year. Now, once th … | Continue reading
VIDEO: The Fast Break: February 28 NEWS OF THE MORNING Cavaliers don’t look title ready | Curry’s greatness at heart of skepticism about Warriors | Carmelo brushes off Stoudemire’s barbs about Knicks | Thunder had no answer for Warriors’ death lineup No. 1: Cavaliers don’t look t … | Continue reading
News from China suggests that a number of local manufacturers are gearing up to release smartphones that feature Samsung's curved Dual Edge display. | Continue reading
In what has been one strange and cryptic piece of news after another about the troubles that Cryptsy and its founder have been surrounded by, an update of the class action lawsuit against them has been released and it expands the subjects of whom is liable for the lost assets ove … | Continue reading
The blockchain could serve as the foundation of a system for connecting energy grids, delivering more efficient and environmentally sustainable energy, according to Greentechmedia.com, a news site for the global clean energy market. One company, L03 Energy, is building an “open s … | Continue reading
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is celebrating its computer's fourth birthday with some big news: it's launching a brand new Raspberry Pi today. The Raspberry Pi 3 is perhaps the biggest update yet to the tiny and extremely inexpensive computer. This new model is still just $35, and … | Continue reading
A head for news: Seven ways to polish your traditional headlines. Tell the story, don’t tell about the story in your news head. | Continue reading
More bad news for BlackBerry: WhatsApp has decided to end support for BlackBerry devices by the end the year.In a blog post, WhatsApp celebrated its seventh birthday and did a little early spring cleaning at the same time. In addition to announcing that it will end support for Bl … | Continue reading
We round up the hottest news of the week, and nine Android stories you shouldn't miss. | Continue reading
VIDEO: The Fast Break: February 28 NEWS OF THE MORNING Steph Curry is a baaad man! | Durant’s lapses costly to OKC | Pelicans’ Davis sits down again | Carmelo’s dwindling NY days No. 1: Steph Curry is a baaad man! — Not all late-February, NBA regular-season games are created equa … | Continue reading
With another work week coming to a close, the weekend is a good time to catch up with the fast-paced tech scene. At Index we gather tech coverage into one platform for tech enthusiasts to keep up with the news and access that data. In this series, we fill you in every week on wha … | Continue reading
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Earlier this week, messaging service WhatsApp celebrated its seventh anniversary with its one billion active users, but the team waited until Friday night to bury some less positive news: the app will soon be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those company's op … | Continue reading
If you’re a WhatsApp user with an older device, I have some bad news for you: your OS may no longer be supported by next year. To summarize, WhatsApp will only be available on Android 2.3+, iOS and Windows phone 8.1+ “by the end of 2016.” In total, it’s ending support for: All B … | Continue reading
Planning on entering the Bitcoin space? You might want to learn some DDoS mitigation techniques before diving in… DDoS attacks against Bitcoin-related websites have resulted in numerous Bitcoin ransoms in recent weeks. At least four bitcoin exchanges and four Bitcoin news website … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Top 10 Plays from Friday night NEWS OF THE MORNING Johnson heading to Miami | They the North | Rivers wants replay challenge system | Cuban suggests deeper 3-point line No. 1: Johnson heading to Miami — The Miami Heat are in the mix to finish in the top half of the Eastern … | Continue reading
Good news for fans of giant space orbs and also pocket monsters - Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon for 3DS, with both games due out before the sun sets on 2016. Before you pick your celestial body of choice / starting Pokémon however, you might be in … | Continue reading
Happy Friday! Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items this week from Tech.eu: 1) Done deal, one of the larger exits in European tech history: Activision Blizzard closes $5.9 billion acquisition of King, makers of Candy Crush 2) Two exits in Israel, over $1.3 … | Continue reading
You might be aware that Kanye West just released a new album, and you also might be aware that West publicly changed his mind over its name multiple times, so you may want to take this news with a balanced-diet-and-gym-three-times-a-week level of healthy skepticism, but here it i … | Continue reading
Tribeca Venture Partners, a New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2011, is today announcing that it has closed its second fund with $107 million — significantly more than its $65 million debut fund. That’s good news for New York startups. In a conversation earlier th … | Continue reading
Human resources and insurance software startup Zenefits has announced that 250 employees are being made redundant, representing 17 percent of the company’s workforce. The news comes as Zenefits faces increasing scrutiny over the way it sells insurance policies to small businesses … | Continue reading
Apple has just made a big — and timely — hire, recruiting a developer behind encrypted messaging app Signal, perhaps best known for being Edward Snowden's chat app of choice. The developer, Frederic Jacobs, confirmed the news on Twitter:I'm delighted to announce that I accepted a … | Continue reading
Good news for everyone who constantly has to battle "not enough space" messages on their smartphone: Samsung has announced a 256GB flash embedded memory, aimed specifically for high-end mobile devicesBesides offering a lot of storage space — top smartphones today only go up to 12 … | Continue reading
It’s time to crack open your Pokéball and catch some fresh news about pocket monsters first thing in the morning. Nintendo is about to start its Pokémon Direct livestreaming show at 8 a.m., and you can watch it right here. We don’t know what the company has in store for us, but w … | Continue reading
Welcome to Nomineering, where we take a weekly look at the news and stories behind the most lavish, high-budget spectacle the film industry has to offer: Oscar season. No matter how you feel about them, awards are one of the key ways to gut check what Hollywood itself thinks is i … | Continue reading
Facebook has announced that it is finally expanding its live video-streaming tool to Android devices, but only in the U.S. for now. Today’s news comes one month after the social network opened Facebook Live to all iOS users in the U.S., following a short period of limited availab … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Highlights from Thursday’s games NEWS OF THE MORNING Heat exploring all medical options with Bosh | Curry, Warriors amaze again | Rockets CEO: Harden didn’t push for McHale’s firing | Report: Wolves, Martin in buyout talks No. 1: Bosh, Heat exploring all medical options — … | Continue reading
Derzeit ist ein Townhall Q&A mit Mark Zuckerberg in Berlin und es gibt tatsächlich eine News, die über die Hate-Speach-Probleme hinaus interessant sein könnte. Was auf iOS schon eine Weile für jeden möglich ist, soll ab... | Continue reading
This week's top online marketing news from @toprank: Pinterest Matters, Goodbye Sidebar Ads and Facebook Reacts | Continue reading
Grapeseed Extract Simply Supplements recently sent me some of their Grapeseed Extract to review. I’d heard good things about this supplement before, I’d even recalled hearing it’s praises on the news before so I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. Grape seed extract i … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced that it’s killed off Project Astoria, its development tool for porting Android apps to Windows. The news doesn’t come as a surprise: the company put Project Astoria on hold back in November before it was even fully ready. In a blog post, Microsoft said: We rec … | Continue reading