Porsche just made new tire recommendations for a 57-year-old car

Porsche has released a list of updated tire recommendations for a variety of old models, stretching all the way back to the 356 B, which debuted in 1959. In all, there are 32 new tire models on the list, covering Porsche's 356, Boxster, 924, 928, 944, 968, and 911 models 964, 993 … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

10% of Americans Used Bitcoin to Ignore Identity Theft

Bitcoin is often referred to as a way to avoid taxes and conduct illegal activity online. However, a recent report by Harris Poll on behalf of the American Institute of CPA shows that 10% of respondents use Bitcoin to avoid identity theft during tax time. Also read: MIT ChainAnch … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Former U.S. Mint Director: Cryptocurrency Offers Secure Way To Diversify Personal Savings

Ed Moy, a former U.S. Mint Director, has recommended cryptocurrency like bitcoin as one of three useful ways to diversify your personal portfolio, according to Newsmax’s finance section. As long as the Internet exists, digital currencies such as bitcoin will have value, and they … | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 8 years ago

#TBT: Easy-Bake Oven food was kind of gross but we ate it anyway

For this week's #ThrowbackTech, Mashable takes you all the way back to the 1970s "mod" Easy-Bake Oven. Though the recipes were v simple, they were also v gross, but did we care? Nope. We ate all of the treats.Check back each Thursday as we explore another piece of #ThrowbackTech … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Surge2016 – What I remember after more than 1 month?

I had the opportunity to attend the Surge 2016 (way back in Feb) this year, and it was a great experience. The sheer energy, enthusiasm, people is amazing, not to mention the fantastic sessions and… | Continue reading


@nischalamurthy.wordpress.com | 8 years ago

Get set, #Europeana280 – join us as we celebrate Europe’s art history the digital way

Today, we’re excited to kickstart Europeana 280, our cross-border campaign to get Europe excited about its shared art heritage and celebrate our new site, Europeana Art History Collections. We’re launching our unfolding virtual exhibition, Faces of Europe, bringing together magni … | Continue reading


@blog.europeana.eu | 8 years ago

Watch the first trailer for the new Jason Bourne movie

Matt Damon's super spy Jason Bourne is coming back this summer, in the aptly named Jason Bourne, and he's bulked up. The first trailer for the movie shows Damon out in the desert delivering a one-hit knockout punch as part of what appears to be a bare-knuckle fight club, before w … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Sega will officially support modded Genesis games on Steam

Sega plans to allow legal distribution of modified Genesis games on PC through the Steam Workshop, Valve's repository for user-created content, in an unprecedented move for the storied Japanese gaming giant. Support will come alongside the new Sega Mega Drive Classics Hub (Mega D … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Aston Martin's V8 Vantage GT Roadster is a barbarian in a tuxedo

Before I could even finish snapping some pictures of the pulled over 2016 Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT Roadster, a Porsche 911 Carrera S roared past me on its way to the Snake on the Mulholland Highway outside Los Angeles.I paused, squinted and I watched the man driving the Porsche … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Review: Curb, energy monitoring for an entire home

My kids don’t turn off the damn lights. Ever. And now, with Curb, I have a new way to see when they leave on their lights. All I have to do is look at an app. This is the future of parenting — and, well, energy monitoring. Curb is a comprehensive household energy monitoring syste … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Principal Component Analysis - Part 2

This is the second post of the series about Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Whilst the first post provided a theoretical background, this post will discuss the actual implementation of the PCA algorithm and its results when applied to some example data.Theory Recap In the fir … | Continue reading


@cybernetist.com | 8 years ago

Though You Might Not Care Today, 'Hearthstone' Tavern Brawl is Out, and it's All Raven Idols

I know that this week's Hearthstone [Free]  Tavern Brawl is possibly the last thing on players' minds because of the expansion release date announcement and the upcoming nerfs, but it's still a fun one and still a good way to get some gold to use for expansion packs. So, this wee … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Mr. Robot's second season is coming July 13th

We've been slowly learning new details about the upcoming second season of Mr. Robot, and now we know when we can watch it. Variety reports that the show will return to the USA Network on July 13th, and given the way the first season ended, it will have plenty of questions to ans … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Dunks come to Rocket League next week with Hoops update

Car soccer is transforming into car basketball. Rocket League will get a Hoops Mode update on Tuesday that will introduce a new way to play the popular digital auto sport. It debuts simultaneously on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. This free addition enables players to take t … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

LG's 360 Cam makes it easy to take 360-degree photos and videos

Google, Facebook, Samsung, LG — basically all the tech heavyweights of today, with the notable exception of Apple — are all pushing the same message: virtual reality experiences and 360-degree content are the future. But while those 360-degree videos on Facebook and YouTube are c … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Google News starts using Accelerated Mobile Pages on Android, iOS, and the Web

Google has been leading the way in its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project for delivering articles quickly on mobile devices, with the feature deployed to Google search results on mobile in February. Now, the feature is coming to Google News, on Android, iOS, and t … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Twitter’s new Fabric dashboard gives developers a streamlined way to monitor their apps

Twitter has made it easier for developers to monitor their Fabric-powered app’s performance with the launch of a new dashboard. Called Fabric mission control, it provides insights and “critical top level information” for all supported Android and iOS apps under a single interface … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Breakthrough method means CRISPR just got a lot more relevant to human health

The gene-editing tool CRISPR may one day change the way humans approach medicine — or at least that’s how it’s been portrayed so far. But for all the talk of using CRISPR to eliminate disease, the method was never very good at doing one important thing: altering single letters of … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Stealthy Finnish mobile gaming startup Armada Interactive picks up $3M backing led by Initial Capital

Helsinki-based mobile gaming startup Armada Interactive, which is still a way off from launching its first title, has closed a $3 million seed round. Investment is being led by Initial Capital, with participation from Index Ventures, PROfounders Capital, Backed VC, Reaktor Ventur … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Giphy for Android can now share GIFs to other apps

Giphy is freeing its Android app from the clutches of Facebook Messenger with an update that'll let GIFs be shared to other apps. Giphy launched on Messenger in 2014, offering a way to search for GIFs and insert them into conversations. It made the app weirdly limited — even thou … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Watch: 18 minutes of Frozen Synapse 2

If you go to the Frozen Synapse website, it proudly proclaims that it is the ultimate tactical game, which is a pretty bold claim. It's also an erroneous one; with Frozen Synapse 2 on the way, that would technically make Frozen Synapse the penultimate strategy game. Nitpicking as … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Run the Jewels say there's only one way to experience VR: really high

Oh, you've been experiencing VR sober?According to Run the Jewels, you've been doing things very, very wrong.The rap duo of El-P and Killer Mike would know. They've already dabbled in virtual reality (in their entrancing music video for "Crown") and released their own VR viewer a … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Red Hat continues cloud transformation with new OpenStack and Cloud Platform Suite products

Red Hat made it clear a few years ago that it couldn’t rely on its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) glory forever. It needed a path to transformation and it saw a way with OpenStack and the hybrid cloud.Today it continued its steady march toward fulfilling that cloudy vision with … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

PrecisionHawk raises $18 million to bring drones safely into U.S. airspace

Mandatory drone registration and a massive national database of drone owners is already under way in the U.S. But simply knowing who owns what won’t stop unmanned aerial vehicles from collisions or becoming a public nuisance. A Raleigh, North Carolina company called PrecisionHawk … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

These are the people that decide what emoji you’ll next

Who decided the emoji would be a good idea? What sage thought the  emoji should be this way up? And could someone please, once and for all, explain what happened to this guy ? Well, as it turns out, it’s a bunch of seemingly quite serious looking men and women at The Unicode Cons … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Article: Mobile Might Not Finish a Sale, but It's Vital in the Path to Purchase

Mobile advertising drives more store visits than desktop advertising, according to Jeff Campbell, co-founder and managing director of digital marketing agency Resolution Media. eMarketer spoke with Campbell about the various ways mobile can influence consumers as the move through … | Continue reading


@emarketer.com | 8 years ago

Virtual Art Sessions VR Chrome Experiment – experience artists creating virtual art

How do you showcase VR experience? We have always told you it's not something we can really show you, but Google has found the best way to do it. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Tourist's video of the SpaceX rocket on the road looks straight out of Star Wars

SpaceX recently landed the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the ocean, making history in the process. And ever since that landing, the Falcon 9 has been slowly making its way back to the launch complex that SpaceX leases at Kennedy Space Center, where the compa … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Apple's new App Store website hints at bigger changes on the way

Less than a week after a report that Apple plans to radically change how it works with developers in its App Store, the company has rolled out a new website for App Store developers.The site provides a range of resources for developers, including guidelines, best practices and in … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

We're Streaming iOS Games Live on Mobcrush [FTL: Faster Than Light]

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


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

TechCrunch launches a personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger

We’re excited to announce the launch of the first cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s “Agents for Messenger” program revealed at F8, and it will help our readers get the news they want from us in a more con … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Sometimes Always Monsters announced, due this year

Life-falling-apart sim Always Sometimes Monsters is getting a sequel with the confusingly titled Sometimes Always Monsters.Announced today by developer Vegabond Dog and publisher Devolver Digital, this follow-up is due later this year on Steam.The perplexing title is that way for … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Pico keeps its VR headset light by putting the processor in a gamepad

This early in VR, everyone is still trying to figure out the best way to design the headset —€” up to and including the basics like where to put the processing. With premium devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, that's being handled by a separate gaming PC. Less-powerful dev … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

This bike disguised as a car is a brilliant geek dream come true

Biking to work may be the choice mode of transportation for some, but if it's cold out, it's a lot less attractive. Here's a creative way to stay warm on a bike in colder climates: Turn your ride into a car!Sweden-based entrepreneur Mikael Kjellman has designed a pretty rad four- … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Banks and fintech in 2025: An unlikely alliance

Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digitally instead of physically, which opened finances to tech disruption, and a tech wave that has … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

iHome put a Bluetooth speaker in a vanity mirror because why not?

Put me precisely in the middle of the following Venn diagram of people: 1) those who want to listen to the radio in the bathroom, 2) those who can't figure out a good way to do that without putting a ugly speaker in the bathroom, and 3) those who are willing to have a magnified v … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Capital One open sources Cloud Custodian AWS resource management tool

Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also happens to be an Amazon Web Services customer and it needed a tool to set rules and policies in an efficient way around AWS usage. Last July it started develop … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Visa wants to speed up card processing for a less rage-inducing checkout experience

Since the October 1 deadline guideline last year, EMV — or “chipped” — cards have driven all of us a little nuts. The processing was often slow-going, many retailers were unprepared and the entire ordeal was just a giant exercise in new technology really getting in the way of a s … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

'Bastion' and 'Transistor' Developer Supergiant Games Announce Third Game 'Pyre'

Supergiant Games doesn't release games often, but when they do the world stops and takes notice. Their breakout hit was 2011's Bastion [$4.99], which first launched on Xbox Live Arcade but made its way to iOS about a year later. Then there was 2014's Transistor [$9.99], which rec … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Magic Leap augmented reality video includes Snapchat and a new way to shop

The secretive Florida-based startup called Magic Leap, which has been promising something that sounds like the next level in augmented reality, has released new footage of its system in action.See also: Google and Others Sink $542 Million Into Mystery Virtual Reality VentureRelea … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

The Rhythm Guitar is a really complicated way to not learn guitar

Even in 2016, there isn't a better way to learn guitar than sinking hundreds of hours and a few calloused fingers into it. So musician and sometimes-startup founder Brian Fan thought he'd make an instrument that’s easier to pick up.The result is Magic Instruments' Rhythm Guitar. … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

‘We’ll probably get Obama.’ VentureBeat’s new VB Engage podcast sets its sights high

VB INSIGHT: Let’s be honest: marketing technology, and marketing and sales, and mobile engagement, and mobile user acquisitions — they’re all deadly dull subjects that have been known to kill a podcast, and its listeners, dead — and not in the sexy French la petit mort kind of wa … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Device claims to 'turn off' cramps: Hoax or hope?

If you get menstrual cramps, you know how absolutely debilitating they can be. And most of us want to minimize our intake of pain medication.Livia seeks to change the way we treat cramps. The new device, which launched in early April, is currently seeking funding on Indiegogo. It … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Clever’s new badges help K-2 students access apps on its education platform

Education technology company Clever has created a simpler way for students in K-2 classrooms to log into their computers, a process that it says will cut down on the time teachers spend before actually diving into the day’s lesson plan. Called Clever Badges, students take physica … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Tesla autopilot saves driver from collision, Elon Musk approves

Tesla's Autopilot feature is often mentioned in the context of the vehicle driving itself, but it's actually much more of an assistance for the driver — and in certain situations, it can save you from an imminent crash.That's what happened to Model S driver Joshua Brown, whose ca … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Viber adds end-to-end encryption and hidden chats as the messaging app privacy wave grows

Following WhatsApp’s move to add end-to-end encryption to its platform, another big messaging company is joining the wave of apps turning on expanded privacy features. Viber — a messaging app with 711 million+ users — today is introducing end-to-end encryption for all messages an … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Build Your Ideal Prosthodontics Practice with a Newsletter

You can go a long way toward building your ideal prosthodontics practice―just by implementing a dental direct mail newsletter marketing program. | Continue reading


@wpicommunications.com | 8 years ago

Quantum Break’s film composer on writing music for a show that changes

The way people consume television is changing. Shows are now streaming online, and developer Remedy even embedded one inside of its new Xbox One adventure, Quantum Break (read our review). But all of that change only works because the end product looks — and sounds — so familiar. … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago