AlphaGo wrapped up victory for Google in the DeepMind Challenge Match by winning its third straight game against Go champion Lee Se-dol yesterday, but the 33-year-old South Korean has got at least some level of revenge — he's just defeated AlphaGo, the AI program developed by Goo … | Continue reading

"I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line, can you tell us how you did that?"Those are the words of a Thames TV host back in 1984 explaining the first steps needed to send an email before most people even knew what email was. Even for long-time Internet users, th … | Continue reading

When Benjamin Franklin proposed Daylight Saving Time — he invented it — it was a joke. These days, it's more like a practical joke we play on ourselves every single year. It's time to end this dumb prank once and for all. Continue reading… | Continue reading

Sales - Most companies say their sales teams lack the right content at the right time. Here's a quick look at those sales-enablement problems and ideas for solving them. | Continue reading

After his nearly year-long mission on the International Space Station (ISS) and 20 years of service with NASA, Astronaut Scott Kelly will retire from the agency, effective April 1st. “This year-in-space mission was a profound challenge for all involved, and it gave me a unique pe … | Continue reading

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Google's self-driving cars aren't immune to crashes, but for the first time, it was responsible for colliding with a bus last month after it misjudged the situation on the road.Speaking at 2016 South by Southwest Interactive, Chris Urmson, director of the Google s … | Continue reading

President Barack Obama today kicked off SXSW with an opening keynote urging attendees to utilize technology and innovation as a way to encourage civic engagement. It is the first time a sitting president has made an appearance at the Austin festival. “We are at a moment in histor … | Continue reading

If you want to send out the same email to multiple people, but want to personalize it for everybody, setting up a mail merge will save you a lot of time. Some email clients like Outlook have a built-in mail merge function, but if you want to use it with Gmail, you’ll have to down … | Continue reading

During my time with the Galaxy S7 Edge I've come to realize that, despite my perceived notions, Touchwiz isn't the monster I thought it was. At least not anymore. | Continue reading

SXSW is often more of a marketing free-for-all than an actual conference or festival, so if you're a company that's trying to promote the upcoming Blu-ray release of one of the biggest movies of all time, what do you do? You bring a life-sized TIE Fighter to Austin, Texas, of cou … | Continue reading

You’d have a tough time denying that New York is one of the world’s most important cities when it comes contemporary design. From Keith Haring, subway graffiti and street culture to Sagmeister & Walsh, Etsy and Behance, New York has been holding it down for decades. It’s the same … | Continue reading

Three weeks ago, Donald Trump announced an impromptu boycott of Apple products "until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal." A staunch supporter of the FBI's demands, Trump said he owns both Samsung and Apple p … | Continue reading

Video: kayvan ghavimSince I was a kid, I have felt that being really into cars is lame. Even as a grown man who now obsesses over cars, and makes his living writing about them, that feeling lingers to this day.For better or worse, that notion buzzes in the back of my brain every … | Continue reading

Microsoft's OneNote app has been cross-platform for some time now, but one of the big barriers of moving from a service like Evernote has been the lack of full support for importing existing notes. Microsoft is releasing a OneNote importer tool today that's specifically designed … | Continue reading

Diablo II — the dark action RPG first released in 2000, which saw a sequel in 2012 — has just received an official patch from developer Blizzard. "It's been a long time coming," the company says. The game received its last official patch nearly five years ago, and the latest — ve … | Continue reading

About a quarter of a million people are injured in US bathrooms every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but as I'm drowning a man in an ornate Parisian toilet I'm thinking I might have a tough time playing this off as an accident. Even trickier to … | Continue reading

Remember how Apple laughed off the giant 5-inch phone trend of 2010? “No one’s going to buy that,” said Steve Jobs at the time, “you can’t get your hand around it.” Well, a year later and Samsung would release the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note and forever cement “phablet” into our gadget … | Continue reading

Since the dreadful mass shooting by an Uber driver in Kalamazoo last month, it came to light that the cab service has been piloting an emergency hotline in 22 US cities since October 2015. The number (800-353-8237) patches callers through to an Uber call center, which escalates c … | Continue reading

The thing about South by Southwest is that it’s huge. Like, mind-bogglingly huge. And, despite all of the best research and top-notch planning, it’s just impossible to be in the thick of the action all the time. As the festival goes into full swing Friday,  SXSW’s Director of Tec … | Continue reading

Learning how to code takes diligent effort and tons of time digging into Xcode or another developer environment, but there’s another component that you may be overlooking. Regardless of what type of development you’re learning — or even which language you’re interested in — you c … | Continue reading

VB EVENT: The Mobile Data Strategy roadshow is coming to San Francisco! How can you excel at data-driven marketing in a mobile-first world? Register for the event now.  Marketing wants a product that does everything. Engineering wants to deliver it on time and on budget. Marketin … | Continue reading