Representative Katherine Clark (D-MA) has announced a new federal bill to ramp up cybercrime enforcement training for police departments and create a national resource center that hosts a cybercrime-specific library. Clark announced the bill at a SXSW panel about how law enforcem … | Continue reading
Online lending platform EZBob Ltd has raised £20m (about $28.3 million) in Series C funding in a round led by Leumi Partners and Oaktree Capital Management. According to statement, the company will use the new funds to increase its lending capacity and continue to develop its tec … | Continue reading
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has proposed a new set of rules that would set strict limits on what data ISPs can gather and sell about their customers. | Continue reading
To bring attention to the issues of censorship and Internet surveillance, Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei are teaming up with AdBlock and Amnesty International to launch an online protest campaign. The campaign is starting Friday at 4 p.m., exclusively visible to AdBlock … | Continue reading
EVE Online developer CCP Games is porting its Gear VR shooter Gunjack to PC on 28th March with Oculus Rift support.It will also be compatible with HTC Vive later this year.Priced at $9.99 (about £7), Gunjack places players on a gun turret for a deep space mining vessel that's bei … | Continue reading
EverQuest Next, the ambitious MMO by Daybreak Games (formerly Sony Online Entertainment), has been cancelled.The colossal MMO had been in development for years, and indeed our John Bedford played a build of it back in 2013. He came away from his EverQuest Next preview equal parts … | Continue reading
We’re happy to announce that Owen Mahoney, CEO of Asian gaming giant Nexon, will be one of our speakers for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4 at the scenic Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, California. Mahoney’s Tokyo-based company i … | Continue reading
Back in 2013, Amazon acquired (and continued to operate) online math instruction company TenMarks to gain a foothold in the online education space. Now it looks like Amazon is taking those learnings to the next level. The e-commerce giant plans to launch a free platform for schoo … | Continue reading
To you and I the term IDEK means “I don’t even know,” but it turns out that to Venmo, it means something a lot more sinister. As reported by The Verge, a number of Venmo users reported that their payments were being suspended pending checks after using the acronym as the subject … | Continue reading
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Just as DDoS attacks are getting more frequent, bigger and more dangerous, with a new report from Verisign warning that the last quarter of 2015 saw record site attacks, a Californian anti-DDoS company has been taken out by hackers. Staminus Communications was out for around 20 h … | Continue reading
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An open source project hopes to draw on crowdsourced contributions to make Wikipedia more accessible by adding text to speech synthesis that will enable users of the online encyclopedia to have portions of the text read out to them. Read More | Continue reading
Millions of people around the world rely on Wikipedia for information on just about every topic under the sun, offered in nearly 300 languages and at no charge. But it’s less accessible to those with vision impairments and learning disabilities. To address this, the online encycl … | Continue reading
This is slightly ironic. Adblock plans to show advertising to its 50 million users tomorrow for 24 hours protesting online censorship in support of an Amnesty International campaign. On March 12, Adblock users will see messages from Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei protes … | Continue reading
Ai Weiwei, Edward Snowden, and Pussy Riot have partnered with AdBlock and Amnesty International on an online campaign to protest censorship. The campaign will launch at 4PM ET today and will only be visible to AdBlock users, with messages from the activists displayed where advert … | Continue reading
Wikipedia this week announced that it is developing a crowdsourced speech engine in an effort to make its website more accessible to the visually impaired. The online encyclopedia has partnered with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden to develop the "speech synthesis … | Continue reading
Asking for blockchain without bitcoin struck Marc Andreessen as wanting “online” without the Internet. Siddharth Kalla, the chief technology officer of Acupay, a technology provider in New York specializing in cross-border finance, believes Andreessen was astute when he tweeted t … | Continue reading
This week's top online marketing news from @toprank: Personalized mobile notifications, Facebook buys MSQRD, online reviews offline. | Continue reading
What tools and techniques can you use to promote your events and business online more effectively? Get more bang for your buck and start creating your best campaigns yet by replicating these 10 traits of an event marketing pro. The web offers the opportunity to reach the highest … | Continue reading
Expect to see more and more online multiplayer games on mobile this year. It's always been a thing that companies have wanted to crack, since there is an interest. But up until Clash Royale [Free], it didn't feel like anyone got the live PVP multiplayer thing quite figured out. W … | Continue reading
Finally released into the wild after two beta tests, The Division fully opens its incredibly detailed recreation of New York City to the masses. Besides a few issues, the game seems to be holding up well. Online connections have been consistently stable for us, while in terms of … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission hopes to strengthen rules around online privacy. The commission is circulating a proposal today that would require internet service providers — like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T — to get your permission before sharing information about you with … | Continue reading
Whether anyone cares about what you share is debatable. Perhaps worse, it’s going out of fashion. That’s according to Nico Sell, the evangelist for keeping yourself to yourself online and co-founder of secure messaging service Wickr. | Continue reading
Ein spektakulärer, potentiell 1 Milliarde Dollar schwerer Online-Raub ist nach einem Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters an einem ganz banalen Tippfehler gescheitert: Demnach hatten sich kriminelle Hacker Zugang zu den Servern der Zentralba... | Continue reading
“This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell Volley. The education startup’s free app lets students point their phone’s camera at a textbook page or piece of homework, and instantly see resources about key facts and tricky parts, prerequisites, and links to snippets of … | Continue reading
Hackers attempted to steal up to $1 billion from Bangladesh's central bank last month — but their plans were partially stopped after they made a typo in an online transfer request, Reuters reported. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Everyone has to start somewhere. David Bowie may have turned in impressive performances in Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell To Earth, but his first ever movie role was starring in The Image, a 13-minute short film that's most charitably described as enjoyably bad. The short has bee … | Continue reading
South African online marketplace Bidorbuy has enabled bitcoin purchases. | Continue reading
When you’re shopping online, finding the right piece of clothing can be difficult because it’s hard to be sure about the sizing. Avametric is a fashion software company that has developed technology it hopes will prevent this problem from ever happening again. Today it has raised … | Continue reading
WeTransfer, the quirky Amsterdam-based startup that competes with the likes of Dropbox and Box in the business of sharing large files between users online, has made its first acquisition. Today the company announced that it has acquired Present Plus, a design agency based in Lond … | Continue reading
While Pokemon Go from Niantic is set to hit sometime this year, it looks like another Pokemon game is set to hit mobile in Japan: Pokemon Comasters. With the help of our own Shaun Musgrave, what we've sussed out about this is that it's a game being developed by HEROZ, where you'l … | Continue reading
mBit Casino is one of the leading online casino specifically dedicated to bitcoin players. The site offers the best prizes in the gambling industry and has a cool and nice design that enables an easy to use interface. mBit aims to be the preferred bitcoin online casino for playe … | Continue reading
Scientists think they pwned your browser experience.We live online and literally spend hours a day in web browsers, and a good chunk of that precious time is spent waiting for pages to finish loading. Since the dawn of the consumer Internet in the mid 1990s every new browser has … | Continue reading
EVE Online has added a new mini-game that crowdsources players to assist in real world science.Entitled Project Discovery, the new feature is based around identifying patterns of protein distribution in human cells. The Sisters of EVE project lead, Professor Lundberg, will guide … | Continue reading
Use of the recently-banned drug meldonium among top athletes is "alarmingly high," according to new research published online by the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Tennis player Maria Sharapova admitted earlier this week to taking meldonium, leading to a provisional ban, but … | Continue reading
Listen, Chrome extensions are a fun way to reinterpret the internet through a lens of in-jokes, be it one that auto-converts cloud to butts or another that "blocks" unproductive sites with aggressive motivational phrases. But they can also be a curse to those who publish words on … | Continue reading
Indochino, a Vancouver-based online made-to-measure menswear company, has raised “up to” $30 million in strategic financing from Dayang Group, a China-based clothing manufacturer. Founded in 2007, Indochino serves to make buying stylish clothing for men easier, covering suits, sh … | Continue reading
Amazon is about to lease 20 Boeing 767 aircraft, according to Reuters, confirming months of speculation that the online retail giant is building up an air-delivery service. The planes are being leased by a company called Air Transport Services Group Inc. Rumors of Amazon's involv … | Continue reading
(By Sai Sachin Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc will lease 20 Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, lessor Air Transport Services Group Inc said on Wednesday, as the online retailer moves closer to setting up its own air delivery network. The deal comes at a time when Amazon, which offers fast … | Continue reading
Bitcoin users want more exchange opportunities. JM Bullion announced that it’s now possible to buy gold and silver with bitcoin on the BitPay platform. The firm now offers its customers the option to pay with the cryptocurrency. According to the firm, accepting bitcoin provides f … | Continue reading
An artist who painted a picture of Donald Trump with a micropenis has been repeatedly banned from Facebook for posting the image online. As Motherboard reports, Los Angeles-based artist Illma Gore posted the image to a feminist Facebook group on February 10th, and it quickly circ … | Continue reading
Finanztip Verbraucherinformation gemeinnützige GmbH: Berlin (ots) - Billigflieger sind nicht immer billig. Im Test des gemeinnützigen Online-Verbrauchermagazins Finanztip gab es große Preisunterschiede. Auch beim Streckennetz, den Gebühren für Gepäck, beim Service und bei der Kun … | Continue reading
Hamburg (ots) - Luxair sichert sich die Spitzenposition unter den besten Airlines der Welt. So lautet das Ergebnis einer internationalen repräsentativen Passagierumfrage* des... | Continue reading
Since Pinterest launched buyable pins for iOS and Android devices in June 2015, major retailers like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Macy’s as well as emerging online merchants have used them to entice mobile users to make purchases. eMarketer spoke with Michael Yamartino, hea … | Continue reading
Today is International Women’s Day — day that began in the early 20th century as an opportunity to acknowledge, celebrate and respect women while recognizing how far society must come before gender parity truly exists. It’s also a day where plenty of online trashcans claim there … | Continue reading
Video game news can be weird, particularly when it comes from channels which aren't usually monitored by enthusiasts, or even the games media. That's certainly the case with this interesting nugget regarding the future of Magic which was actually revealed as part of a Hasbro inve … | Continue reading
Emoji have taken the marketing world by storm. Or to use another analogy, a tsunami of emoji has hit digital marketing. Emoji offer several important marketing advantages. They can pass through ad-blocking software. Ad-adverse millennials love them. Because they are visual, they … | Continue reading