If you haven't gotten your hands on a Cardboard VR viewer via one of the many third-party companies making them or through one of Google's own time-limited promotions (or you're not interested in clogging your arteries for one from a McDonald's Happy Meal), Google will now sell y … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Stephen Curry goes down against the Oklahoma City Thunder HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Adrenaline no doubt carried Stephen Curry through the scintillating finish of the Golden State Warriors win over the Oklahoma City Thunder Saturday night, after he went down with a sprained … | Continue reading
Google has prided itself on the fact that its self-driving car fleet has never been responsible for any of its crashes — they've always been caused by another (decidedly more human) force — but that may have just changed. According to a California DMV filing first reported by wri … | Continue reading
Transport for London (TfL) has enlisted author and comedian Julian Clary to deliver a one-off story time experience on the Emirates Air Line cable car tomorrow (2 March), in celebration of World Book Day. | Continue reading
Mate1.com just proved that after the Ashley Madison hack, we’ve learned nothing. A hacker on ‘Hell,’ a dark web hacking forum, claims to have gained access to over 27 million plaintext passwords from Mate1.com, which he says he later sold. The asking price was 20 bitcoin ($8,700) … | Continue reading
After presenting the Academy Award for best picture to the team behind Spotlight, Morgan Freeman took a little time to grab some Girl Scout cookies out of Chris Rock's hand and leave immediately.Obviously there's a lot to respect about this move, despite the fact that the cookies … | Continue reading
Snapchat debuted its web player just in time for the Oscars on Sunday night, giving everyone a nice behind-the-scenes look at the red carpet and the actual show.Snapchat.com is featuring a curated Live Story — the same one you can watch in its app — from Snapchat reporters, start … | 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
There are many absurd facts about the Bugatti Chiron that was just introduced today ahead of the Geneva Motor Show. Its top speed is electronically limited — limited! — to 261 miles per hour. It can reach 125 miles per hour in 6.5 seconds, which may very well be faster than the t … | Continue reading
Some of last night's most entertaining Oscars coverage was on Snapchat, but this year you didn't have to be inside Snapchat's app to see it: you could watch it all on the web. Snapchat quietly updated its website last night with a way to view the Oscars' Live Story online. This i … | Continue reading
Virtual reality has been around for ages, but it has only recently gotten big and exciting, with every major player on the planet either working on a VR project or rumored to be doing so. It begs the question: Why? And how far it will go this time around? Read More | Continue reading
If you stayed up extra-late flipping through Twitter after last night’s Oscars telecast, your commitment to the social conversation was rewarded with one of the greatest clapbacks in recent Oscar memory. "Hey @SamSmithWorld, if you have no idea who I am, it may be time to stop te … | Continue reading
Four years’ time. What’s the world going to look like in 2020? We’re asking people in our network just that, for our new interview series 20/20.Here we talk to Redpoint's Ryan Sarver. | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. It's a little lighter than usual this week, and I can only assume it was because developers took time off to observe Eli Hodapp's birthday. Still, we' … | Continue reading
Twitter’s largest acquisition to date, of the ad tech business TellApart, has turned out to be a little less less big than originally thought. Back in April 2015, it was calculated that Twitter would pay nearly $533 million for TellApart based on the company’s share price at the … | Continue reading
The Parallels Desktop 11 & SSD2go 128GB USB Drive Bundle is a Mac user’s best friend in the making, delivering upwards of 128GB of data in an ultra-portable USB 3.0 SSD drive, as well as the world’s premier choice for running Windows or Linux on a Mac. Both offer significant effi … | Continue reading
You’ve always wanted to connect everything in your house to the internet, right? Well, it’s your lucky day! Meet the internet-connected Brita water jug. It’s one of the first devices to integrate with Amazon Dash, so it can order its own replacement filters whenever it’s time for … | Continue reading
The United States and the European Union have finally aired the details of their new post-Safe Harbor spying arrangements – which are designed to alleviate fears about the extent of America’s power over European data. Although not officially part of the deal, perhaps the most sig … | Continue reading
Oros, a new apparel label, has found a way of incorporating the material found in NASA’s spacesuits to keep astronauts warm and added it to clothing you can wear on earth. The company is about to finish raising funds via a Kickstarter campaign. At the time of writing, Oros had su … | Continue reading
Last week was a pretty good week for our intraday, bitcoin price strategy. We managed to get in and out of some decent trades, and limited our downside to just a few, negligible chop outs. With any luck, we’re in for a similar week this time around. If action over the weekend is … | Continue reading
Snapchat rolled out the red carpet for web users to catch up on snaps from tonight’s Academy Awards. Visitors to the snapchat.com site were greeted with an online player offering Snapchat Live updates on the awards show. This is the first time Snapchat has shown off content in th … | Continue reading
Getting freelance help for business projects often feels more like dating than time-saving. Businesses have to post an attractive task, pick a freelancer to do it (based on little information) and then hope it’s a good match and that the work comes back at a decent quality. If it … | Continue reading
Who better to congratulate Leonardo DiCaprio on his first Academy Award than all of the Leonardo DiCaprios who did not win Academy Awards?After all, who knows you better than all the people you pretended to be one time? They've been with you like a second set of footprints in the … | Continue reading
As sure as the sun, the moon, and most basic laws of modern physics, Leonardo DiCaprio has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in The Revenant. Presenter Julianne Moore, who won Best Actress at last year's awards, waited a respectable amount of time before announcin … | Continue reading
Chris Rock is hosting the Oscars for the second time tonight, and he used most of his opening monologue to lambast the awards show for its lack of diversity. (This is the second year in the row there is not a single actor of color nominated for an award). He began by giving the A … | Continue reading
Copy and pasting one link at a time is so 2001. If you’re like me, you copy and paste at least a few dozen links a day and could use something to better organize them. There are dozens of ways to do this, but none that I’ve found so far that are as visual or well-organized as Pas … | Continue reading
I cringe every time I watch someone pinch-to-zoom on their smartphone’s screen right before snapping a photo. The seemingly simple act of zooming in on an object, despite what the screen on the phone displays at the time, almost guarantees the end result will be a pixelated, garb … | 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
Once upon a time, New York’s Pennsylvania Station was not a hell hole. In fact, it was one of the grandest places in America. Built in 1910 on the West Side of Manhattan, the original structure was majestic, a reflection of principal architect Charles McKim’s vision to celebrate … | Continue reading
Along with his Apple colleague Jony Ive, Marc Newson is one of the most famous and influential industrial designers in the world. The Australian has put his name to everything from furniture to aircraft cabins, and his design signature is all over the Apple Watch. But although Ne … | Continue reading
The Great Wall of China is one of the seven wonders of the world. The ancient wall (portions of it) dates back to 7th century BC. The wall was completed by the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang in 206 BC. Portions of the wall have been rebuilt from time to time by various … C … | Continue reading
Ten years ago, Gary Vaynerchuk took a Flip cam and created the first episode of what would eventually become a popular online show called Wine Library TV. In the time since, he has built not one but two multi-million dollar companies. That, along with his trademark “hustle” and c … | 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
Bitcoin has often been referred to as a favorite tool for internet and offline criminals, particularly when drug dealing and trafficking is concerned. There are a lot of people under the illusion of how Bitcoin will protect them from being caught while it is only a matter of time … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Curry’s game-winning three. By Gregory Lee, NBA.com Steph Curry lit up social media on the last Saturday night in February. Consider what Curry did to break many hearts at Oklahoma City in a 121-118 over time Warriors victory. Oh and the Warriors clinched a playoff berth … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Hall of Famer Bernard King was an unstoppable force on the basketball court HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The wake-up call for Bernard King came the morning after the 2015 Naismith Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The night before he’d spent a good hour talking with fellow Hall … | Continue reading
On this, the 20th anniversary for Pokémon, I am forced to admit that despite some serious time put into Pokémon Snap on the N64, I cannot name a single Pokémon nor its powers (beyond, of course, Pikachu). This is a moral failing on my part, I admit it fully, but it is also an opp … | Continue reading
General Motors is the second-largest car maker in the world, and it’s been in business for 107 years. For much of that time, the company has been reliant on new technology, but it hasn’t always seemed like a technology leader, as it’s been slow to adapt to hybrid electric vehicle … | Continue reading
This week, Android Engineer Kenneth Mojica discusses features in the Beta release of Android Studio 2.0To get started, Instant Run is a huge time-saver and makes easy work of changes to your app. Mojica assures us that the new emulator is much faster and adds multi-touch support … | Continue reading
We sometimes lament the end of days when tinkerers like Leonardo da Vinci crafted amazing gadgets using a mix of art and mechanics, rather than today's computer code. That old-school approach is what makes the beautifully designed automaton clock called Plock, created by 22-year- … | Continue reading
The Pokemon franchise turns 20 years old today, and in that time there have been a lot of pocket monsters. What started out as 150 fictional critters has ballooned to 721 across six generations of games — that doesn't even include what new additions are coming in Pokemon Sun and … | Continue reading
Earlier this week a NeoGAF poster going by Trevelyan9999 claimed to have insider knowledge that the next Zelda game would launch later this year as an NX title - or at least come to NX very shortly after a Wii U release. Rumours are a dime a dozen in this industry, so we didn't p … | Continue reading
We all know the myth: Once upon a time, there was a little mermaid, and her mer-family sent her to land to kill the property developer who's destroying their home. Naturally the mermaid and the property developer fall in love. Stephen Chow's The Mermaid is the biggest movie in Ch … | Continue reading
What is a native ad platform? A platform is a group of technologies from which applications, processes, and technologies are developed. An online marketing platform is an integrated web-based platform where advertisers and publishers buy and sell advertising space. Behind these p … | Continue reading
HANG TIME BIG CITY — Joe Johnson is taking his talents to South Beach, according to one report. Just hours after agreeing to a buyout and being waived by the Brooklyn Nets, Johnson has agreed to sign with the Miami Heat, writes Shams Charania of Yahoo … Johnson, 34, had narrowed … | Continue reading
Luxe is in talks with a strategic investor that will infuse the company with “tens of millions” in new financing from Hertz, our sources tell us. Our understanding is that the round is still in negotiations — and, of course, could change at any time. The Information also reported … | Continue reading
Perhaps Nintendo's notoriously bad 1989 peripheral the Power Glove was actually nearly three decades ahead of its time as Sony has recently filed three patents on its own glove controller.As spotted by NeoGAF user Rösti, the patents in question would be comprised of a flex sensor … | Continue reading
Superhot's developer has teased a VR release for its super hot debut title.The ingenious first-person puzzle game where time only moves when you do has been receiving rave reviews lately and the developer noted in a Kickstarter update that it has "secretive" plans to bring VR sup … | Continue reading