A set of leaked images suggest Sling TV is set to debut on the Apple TV. One lucky Mac Rumors reader saw Sling TV pop up in the tvOS App Store this morning, and quickly downloaded it. He reports he was able to use it successfully for some time, but the app disappeared a short tim … | Continue reading
Part of the big update to Google Docs back in September was the introduction of new and useful templates to help users of the service start up common types of documents quickly. The company has now taken that one step further, announcing today that it has created new templates ‘d … | Continue reading
The world is awash with productivity apps, from well-known, multi-use tools like Evernote, Slack and Trello, to niche tools like the Hemingway App and RescueTime. Yet, we all still struggle with maximizing productivity, particularly in larger organizational teams. Why? With so ma … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Defense is rapidly ramping up its cyber efforts to combat the operations of terrorist organization ISIL, or ISIS. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter yesterday described the importance of disrupting ISIL’s … | Continue reading
Uber announced today that it was expanding its carpool service to the East Bay cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda, in a bid to appeal to residents who want to use the ride-hail service to commute to work in San Francisco. UberPool, in which riders pay a cheaper fare to shar … | Continue reading
The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet, is about to start helping the military improve what it does by borrowing concepts and ideas straight from Silicon Valley. Schmidt will chair the new 12-person Defense Innovation Advisor … | Continue reading
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt will chair a new advisory board for the Department of Defense, according to a statement from the department released today. The Defense Innovation Advisory Board will comprise up to 12 people from the private sector, meant to use their exp … | Continue reading
Google Photos is one of the best ways to store all of your photos and videos online. Now, it's even better.The web version of Google Photos at photos.google.com just rolled out a way to let you edit photos using easy-to-use adjustment sliders. The new editing tools were announced … | Continue reading
Want to develop for Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality platform but don’t want to pay $3,000 for the developer kit? Until now, it looked like you were out of luck, but as Microsoft announced today, you will soon be able to use a HoloLens emulator to write your applications even i … | Continue reading
The use of electronic cigarettes on commercial airplanes is now banned under a new rule finalized by the US Department of Transportation, which applies to all domestic and foreign carriers with flights scheduled to and from the US. The ban applies to all e-cigarettes, including e … | Continue reading
At over 1 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp holds quite the dominance for colloquial messaging. Still, if you want to use it for more work-oriented communication, its lack of a document sharing can be problematic. That is now changing: WhatsApp is rolling out file-sharing be … | Continue reading
Lola, the first tampon subscription service to use 100 percent cotton tampons, is today announcing the close of a $3 million seed round of funding. The round was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures with participation from Brand Foundry, BBG Ventures, BoxGroup, VaynerRSE, 14W, Seth Berk … | Continue reading
Google’s Web Font library is an impressive collection of free fonts that anyone can use on their websites to help avoid the horror that are included system fonts. The company has a tiny analytics page hidden on the site that provides some interesting statistics about the Web font … | Continue reading
Are you using Twitter search to its fullest potential? Here's how you can use Twitter advanced search and search operators to spy on the competition. | Continue reading
Your team has valuable ideas to share with your audience, and repurposing content allows you to put those ideas to use in as many ways as possible. | Continue reading
FRANKFURT (By Georgina Prodhan and Harro ten Wolde, Reuters) – Germany’s cartel office has opened an investigation into Facebook for suspected abuse of market power through breaches of data protection law, it said on Wednesday. The watchdog said Facebook’s terms of service regard … | Continue reading
Despite Kanye West trying to encourage his fans to sign up to Tidal to download his latest album rather than use torrents it looks like he’s a pirate just like everyone else. The rapper posted a picture to Twitter today of what he was listening to on YouTube, but in the address b … | Continue reading
Having buyer personas is just the first step. Explore four ways to put them to work. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Instagram is one of the few “authentic” social networks. Why? Because it lacks a feature Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all enjoy, but one that makes those platforms open to abuse and bots. Automated posting. Because Instagram doesn’t allow you to create posts through … | Continue reading
I love but it turns out I use it less than on Twitter. Emoji Life, a fun analytics tool for Twitter, tracks which emoji you tweet and gives you tons of detail about them. Log in with your Twitter account and you’ll get an overview of your emoji usage — apparently I use emoji ju … | Continue reading
Spoiler alert: This preview has text and video that tell you what happens at the start of the game. Remedy Entertainment pioneered the use of the slow-motion, Matrix-like “bullet time” in video games in Max Payne way back in 2001. It carried slow-motion combat to new levels in Al … | Continue reading
LinkedIn advertisers are getting a new way to target their campaigns — specifically, a feature allowing them to aim Sponsored InMail and Sponsored Updates toward companies where they’re actually trying to make sales.Russell Glass, the head of products for LinkedIn Marketing Solut … | Continue reading
Marketing technology continues to grow at a pace. It is more fragmented than ever, and the number of available solutions has seen year-on-year triple-digit growth for half a decade. And that’s a problem for everyone involved. Keeping track of the tools, processes, and systems tha … | Continue reading
European Commission, 25 Avenue de Beaulieu Brussels, 7 March 2016 This workshop offers an opportunity to learn of progress in the standardization of Cloud contracts and SLAs by ISO-liaison body SLALOM and cloud procurement by PICSE, two EC-backed initiatives. Delegates can contri … | Continue reading
Europeana hopes to promote the adoption of the IIIF technology by demonstrating its value. As part of the Europeana Cloud project, a document proposing data modelling solutions for representing digital objects (such as images) and full-text with a particular focus on Newspapers r … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has gained the notoriety of being the criminal’s currency. The use of bitcoin on the deep web marketplaces like Silk Road since its early days has garnered the public’s interest in the digital currency. In its initial days, bitcoin was considered to be completely anonymou … | Continue reading
Less than 20% of US internet users have used a meal delivery service—like Blue Apron or Plated—even a single time, according to February 2016 research. | Continue reading
Emojis may just be the new “internet slang.” According to research, more brands worldwide are using them in posts on Facebook and Twitter than did a year before. | Continue reading
Google is getting a wee more enterprisey. Today the company announced that it’s beginning to offer 24-by-7 phone and email customer support for Chrome for businesses that aren’t even paying to use Google Apps like Gmail and Docs. The new program, Chrome for Work Assist, is a cont … | Continue reading
Square Cash is now a much more able virtual wallet. Today, the app has been updated to allow users to keep a balance in their accounts. Rather than automatically depositing incoming funds to your bank account, Square Cash’s new “Cash Drawer” feature lets you store money in-app fo … | Continue reading
Not since the Concorde have commercial airline passengers been able to break the speed of sound. However, several designers and manufacturers are working to change that, including NASA. The agency announced Monday an award to Lockheed Martin to develop the first 'X-plane' design … | Continue reading
Fairpixels is giving startups a helping hand, and open sourcing rejected logos for anyone to use. The company, which is a pay-what-you-can-afford design firm, says it has “unused logo design proposals piling up on our hard drives,” so it’s just giving them away, and will be freei … | Continue reading
Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who remain trapped unless their employers eventually go public or else sell to an acquirer in a cash deal. The problem centers on the option plan structure that startups use. Owing to a decades-old tax provision, … | Continue reading
Data intelligence startup Terbium Labs announced today that it staged a $6.4 million series A investment led by .406 Ventures. The Baltimore-based startup said it’ll use the investment to fuel enterprise sales of its intelligence system Matchlight, a dark web data intelligence pl … | Continue reading
You know Kung Fu. Researchers at HRL Laboratories have discovered that when you use transcranial direct current stimulation to send the brain activity of commercial and military pilots into the heads of novice pilots, subjects can essentially learn to fly in a realistic flight si … | Continue reading
Microsoft is letting developers pre-order the HoloLens development edition today, but it's also detailing exactly what's inside the headset. HoloLens is fully untethered and self-contained, which means you do not need a PC or phone to use it. Microsoft has built an entire Windows … | Continue reading
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are sent on Twitter, which translates to over 500 million tweets per day! Did you know you could search every single one of them? (Plus the multi-million profiles attached to them!) Twitter has an amazing, yet somewhat little-known Ad … | Continue reading
Nick Westergaard, Chief Brand Strategist at Brand Driven Digital, joins the Business of Story Podcast to reveal how brands can produce content that empowers their customers through dynamic positioning online. | Continue reading
A software developer in Denmark has created a way to track the sleep patterns of his Facebook friends using only the activity data available on the social network. The tool, developed by Søren Louv-Jansen, is based on the activity timestamps that Facebook stores on users of its s … | Continue reading
Ereaders continue to hold their own in the UK, with a quarter of the population expected to use one in 2016, according to eMarketer’s latest user forecast. | Continue reading
The use of data management platforms (DMPs) among industry professionals continues to grow. Yet, those same marketers are skeptical of DMPs' ability to deliver on expectations and business goals, according to research. | 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
“Take rest,” Ovid said. “A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” But of course, the ancient Roman poet from the B.C. era hadn’t forked over several pieces of gold to watch the farmer tend to his crops, so what did he care if the guy worked that day or not. Things are a [ … | Continue reading
The United States has set out limits to its use of data collected in bulk about European citizens after a new information-sharing pact was agreed this month, according to documents seen by Reuters. | Continue reading
TNW Deals is the marketplace for digital tastemakers. Get distinctive apps, gadgets, and digital resources at up to 90% offPython development is on the rise thanks to its open source nature and ability to power some of the most well-known sites and applications such as Google and … | Continue reading
At the PS4's launch, the Dual Shock 4 felt like a robustly constructed unit - a well crafted pad with a number of key improvements over its predecessor. But after just a few weeks of use, it was surprising to find the rubber material of its analogue sticks starting to flake away, … | 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