Earlier today, Sony released firmware version 3.50 (codenamed "Musashi") for the PlayStation 4. Social features like scheduled events and log-in notifications have made their way to Sony's console, but today's biggest news is the support for Remote Play on both Macs and PCs. At l … | Continue reading
Today, GIFs have become a popular way communicate sentiment online and in mobile messaging, where written text doesn’t always do the job. More expressive than an emoji, these looping images let you share a specific thought or feeling with little effort. But today, a new app is la … | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft are locked in a high-stakes battle for market share. But new data suggests that Lyft still has an uphill climb in its quest to compete on a level playing field with its larger, richer rival.About three-fourths of Lyft users also hail rides with Uber, but only a litt … | Continue reading
Today, Reddit has implemented a tool discussed earlier this week to help users curb harassment. The tool, described by the New York Times, is a new step in automating the regulation of the website’s more unruly sectors while keeping users safe. It’s also about a decade too late. … | Continue reading
You may have innocently filled out a Google poll before accessing an article on the Web. Or you may have already downloaded Google’s polling app that gets you to answer questions in exchange for credits for the Play store. You may not have done either. Either way, Google is in th … | Continue reading
Taco Bell is riding the bot wave in a big way: the fast food chain today announced a new integration with workplace messaging company Slack to offer an artificial-intelligence-powered ordering service. Aptly named TacoBot, the software will make use of AI advancements like natura … | Continue reading
Those iOS apps you don’t use — you know, the ones you’ve tucked away in a folder on your third or fourth home screen — may soon be completely out of the way, according to some iTunes metadata. First spotted by AppAdvice, Apple seems to have added some keys for ‘isFirstParty’ and … | Continue reading
Virtual reality headsets are finally reaching consumers, and one company is working on a way to make it easier for people to start building video content for that platform. VideoStitch, the company responsible for software that instantly renders together multiple camera feeds for … | Continue reading
After years of languishing, virtual reality is suddenly all around us. High-quality consumer headsets are finally available for purchase, and there are a handful of phone-powered mobile VR options as well. Each platform comes with a way to download high-quality content like video … | Continue reading
As Microsoft works its way toward implementing the security plan that CEO Satya Nadella outlined in a talk last Fall in DC, part of that has been creating tools and part buying them. Today, it announced that Adallom, a company it bought last year was becoming generally available … | Continue reading
World of Tanks Blitz [Free] is one of those games that hits a great balance between short, fun gameplay and long-term goals, and that's why I often return to it. The way you advance in WOT Blitz is by researching higher Tier tanks up to the top Tier X beasts. And trust me when I … | Continue reading
Creating social media images with the correct sizes for every platform is tough. Make the process easier with this guide + 84 free images you can use. | Continue reading
Like it or loathe it, live videos on Facebook aren’t disappearing anytime soon. The social network has really ramped up its efforts to overtake rivals (Periscope). Today, Facebook announced a host of new features for live videos, including the ability to stream within events and … | Continue reading
As platforms like Twitch and Youtube Gaming grow to vast heights, more people are turning to livestreams as a way to share their love and passion for video games. But as it stands now, coordinating the hardware and software needed for streaming can be quite a pain. That’s a probl … | Continue reading
Canada is showing the world the way forward on marijuana legalization. In Ontario, superior and appellate courts have ruled that Canada’s cannabis laws are null and void. Challenges to change federal law towards decriminalization, on the other hand, have failed. There’s a lesson … | Continue reading
You'll have to convince your boss to invest in real-time content creation, because it's a new way of gaining attention. | Continue reading
A Blizzard game at 60fps: we wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks to a recent preview event showing PS4 and Xbox One beta versions of Overwatch, it's clear the developer's new hero FPS is a strong performer on console. All three versions (including PC) are slated for a May 24th … | Continue reading
“The way they are driving doesn't say that they are driving in England. They could be driving anywhere. They veer across lanes suddenly... they have no regard for anybody else,” says the driver of a delivery company to Alain the Botton. A situation that sounds familiar to many. O … | Continue reading
In a library at the top of the world, I found a few moments of peace. The journey up the mountain had been hard, past frosted willows and over ancient tumbledown staircases. Crows attacked - huge things in robes, capable of violent magic. Wolves sent deer scattering. And then I … | Continue reading
Way back in December, Google added a to-do function called Reminders to the Google Calendar iOS and Android apps. Now, at long last, it is available for the web. Read More | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Ah, building a house of cards is a classic way to kill time. I used to love building card houses when I was a kid hanging out at my grandparents' house, but I was one of those jerks who would bend a card in half in order to get started rather than balancing two cards against each … | Continue reading
Tweets can often spark private conversations on Twitter, though the way to do it wasn't always convenient or obvious (and sometimes involved tedious copying and pasting). Now Twitter is streamlining the process.Twitter is introducing a new button that lets you instantly share a t … | Continue reading
Lyft is very bullish about carpooling. The company's co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green got their start almost a decade ago with a carpooling company called Zimride. Last week, Lyft launched a pilot program in the Bay Area to encourage average commuters to pick passengers up … | Continue reading
Lumosity made its name with brain games that help improve your mind. It got more than 70 million members and subscribers that way. Now it is expanding with a series of five web games that help you improve your language skills such as vocabulary. The San Francisco-based company is … | Continue reading
Medium is making some big changes today in a bid to encourage publishers to go all-in on its platform: it’s got new tools for custom design, a way to migrate existing blogs across and a way for writers to get paid. As part of the launch, some notable blogs are making the move acr … | Continue reading
Roku this morning introduced the third generation of its lower-cost streaming service, the Roku Streaming Stick, priced at $49.99, and a competitor to other sticks and dongles, like Google’s Chromecast or Amazon’s Fire TV Stick. The new device now includes a quad-core processor w … | Continue reading
Next week, astronauts on the International Space Station are getting a brand new room. Called the BEAM, short for Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, the room is launching on top of one of SpaceX's rockets on Friday; it will then be attached to the ISS sometime within the next fo … | Continue reading
Google’s Toolbar app launched more than 15 years ago as a convenient way to directly access the search engine from within Internet Explorer. Over the years it served as a Trojan Horse to convince Internet Explorer users to use Google search and other Google services, and eventual … | Continue reading
The way people visit and experience trade shows today has changed dramatically from just a year ago. It used to be all about giveaways, networking, finding out who’s speaking, and what parties are the best to attend. Trade shows have outgrown most of these areas, and event manage … | Continue reading
Integrating smart technology into our homes makes life better, especially for couplesHowever, while being able to set a mood lighting scheme or turn up the air conditioning on the way home from date night is convenient, it doesn’t really solve any problemsSEE ALSO: 5 stylish safe … | Continue reading
It's exciting times for fans of Resident Evil. Remastered versions of the last three series entries are on their way to current-gen systems, while a remake of the second game is also in development. Resident Evil 6 is the first of these titles to land, and the PS4 and Xbox One re … | Continue reading
Earlier this month head of Xbox Phil Spencer suggested that Microsoft would release upgraded versions of the Xbox One throughout its lifecycle. This was oft interpreted to mean Microsoft was brewing up an "Xbox One and a half", the way Nintendo did with New 3DS or Sony is alleged … | Continue reading
Nintendo's NES classic The Legend of Zelda is 30 years old this year, and what better way to celebrate it than to drag it kicking and screaming from its console origins, right to your browser. The Legend of Zelda 30-Year Tribute is an open-source version of the original game buil … | Continue reading
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Way back in 2002, the worlds of Disney and Square Enix collided in the original Kingdom Hearts for Playstation 2. The series has spawned tons of games since then and gone on to become one of the more beloved video game franchises around. Just about a year ago, series director Tet … | Continue reading
When a bug is squashed, another exploit tends to show up. After releasing a quick fix to keep the iPhone from bricking during Safari links in iOS 9.3, a video has surfaced showing a way to get into anyone’s photos or contacts through a trick of double-talk through Siri. First spo … | Continue reading
A couple of hardcore Zelda fans have created a browser-based remake of the original Legend of Zelda with voxels as a way of celebrating its 30th anniversary.It's not a full remake, however, as certain areas are noted as being still under construction. Right now it only consists o … | Continue reading
Successfully taking an idea to market involves many more negotiations than most entrepreneurs realize. First, they must figure out whether to share credit with any partners or advisors who helped them along the way. Then, they need to determine who owns what, and who controls wha … | Continue reading
Revolv is shutting down. The Google-owned (by way of Nest) smart home hub will no longer work as of May 15 — as in, it will actually be a useless pile of plastic. Not only is the API shutting off, the actual app and hub will both be disabled. Here’s the letter to users, from the … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year: a new Kindle is on the way from Amazon. An 8th generation Kindle is set to be announced next week, said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a tweet. The company’s current flagship model is the $199 Kindle Vovage, followed by the more budget-friendly $119 Paperwhite a … | Continue reading
Personal genomics and biotech company 23andMe is leveraging ResearchKit to provide researchers with a “turnkey” way to work genetics into their studies, and it’s available on GitHub. “This will enable research on a much broader scale,” 23andMe CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki sa … | Continue reading
Google today unveiled revamped app icons for its family of Play apps to bring each one in line with the company's more colorful flat design aesthetic. There have been separate apps for services like Play Music and Play Books for about four years now. But the way those apps are di … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission has unveiled new broadband labels, modeled after the nutrition facts label found on food products throughout the US, as a way to give consumers more details about their home and mobile internet service. The labels detail pricing, internet spe … | Continue reading
You can't ask for much better mashup fodder than Kanye West's "I Love Kanye": it's short, spare, rhythmically precise, and unmistakable no matter the context. That's a long way of saying it's "good." John Tesh's baroque, absurd "Roundball Rock" was the theme song for NBC's NBA co … | Continue reading
VIDEO: A closer look at the careers of Yao, Iverson & O’Neal HOUSTON — For so many years they were the long and short of excellence in the NBA, so it was only fitting that Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson led the way together for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 20 … | Continue reading
Game hardware maker Analogue has made a name for itself selling the Nt, an exorbitantly expensive and beautiful version of a classic NES system. And yet somehow, the company found a way to outdo itself. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda franchise, Analogu … | Continue reading
You probably know George Hotz, even if it’s unwittingly, for his work unlocking the first iPhone all the way back in 2007. Last year he showed off some impressive technology he’d built on his own to retrofit a bog-standard car to self-drive – in his own garage – using neural netw … | Continue reading