More than 100,000 visitors flocked to Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week (22-25 February) to check out the latest in mobile technology from the likes of Samsung, T-Mobile and AT&T. | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: If there’s one thing the world doesn’t need, it’s another social messaging app. From Facebook Messenger and Snapchat onto WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, and beyond, it’s safe to say that most bases are covered. Right? Well, maybe. A new startup launched out of stealth in th … | Continue reading
LifePrint has a crazy idea. What if you could not only share a photo through social media — which is so 2015 — but also as a physical print to friends and family around the world, all at once, without physically mailing anything?That’s the core concept behind LifePrint, an upstar … | Continue reading
Earlier this month Craneballs released their latest iOS game Splash Cars [Free], a wonderful little game about painting color onto a black and white world by driving around and blasting paint out of the back of your vehicle. It was fun just to drive around and paint the world, bu … | Continue reading
Robots might be better at driving than people. They might also be better at solving a Rubik's Cube. Turns out, though, there's still one place in the world where humans still outshine robots: a Mercedes-Benz assembly plant.See also: Yamaha wants its motorcycle-riding robot to be … | Continue reading
Mobile World Congress isn't as large as CES and there aren't nearly as many product announcements, but that doesn't mean we didn't see some great stuff.The two big products announced at the show were the Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5. Smartphones are now inseparable from VR and we … | Continue reading
Weeks before he got on stage in front of investors at a Y Combinator demo day, entrepreneur Brian Liou made a massive change in his company. Leada originally set its sights on helping students apply their data science knowledge to real-world examples, but in a pivot, it switched … | Continue reading
In November of last year, Pixeljam released a wonderful little game called Last Horizon [$2.99]. In it you played an astronaut who needed to flee your dying world in a hurry, so you set out on a solo journey through space attempting to harvest resources and not get killed on your … | Continue reading
After more than a decade, an unfathomable amount of money, and hundreds of thinkpieces on the subject, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub — and the Oculus, the spiky, controversial sculpture that tops it — is set to make its debut to the public. The official word is that t … | Continue reading
At a House Intelligence Committee hearing today, CIA Director John Brennan — the guy who recently had his AOL account hacked — used his time at the World Wide Threats hearing to blame media for terrorists being so good at evading law enforcement. The hearing started with testimon … | Continue reading
In 2010, tablets were supposed to be the new hot thing. Apple released the first iPad, Samsung was working on the Galaxy Tab and countless of others were about to flood the market with Android tablets. Six years later, there wasn’t any tablet at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona … | Continue reading
Another week of Vergecast and we have SO much to talk about. Mobile World Conference just wrapped up so Nilay, Dieter, and reporter Russell Brandom are here to analyze the coverage and discuss the continuing saga of Apple's fight with the FBI.Also, the Oscars are this Sunday so o … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal is an incredible idea. You take the basic structure of a Far Cry game — with its huge, unpredictable open world filled with dangerous animals, weapon-wielding enemies, and plentiful natural resources — and then you set it in prehistoric times. Those gun-toting sold … | Continue reading
Netflix is again testing how to best integrate teaser trailers into its user experience. At Mobile World Congress, the company talked about a test of autoplaying video trailers that would begin to play when users hovered over a title. But the company is also quietly testing a dif … | Continue reading
The one thing we know about privacy and data security is that we have neither. Those words are more true every day and if a federal judge gets her way, the state of privacy throughout the world is about to get a lot worse.Apple is currently wrestling with the FBI and Department o … | Continue reading
HTC's next flagship smartphone is coming.The struggling smartphone maker wisely waited until after Samsung announced its Galaxy S7 and LG unveiled its modular G5 at Mobile World Congress to send out a teaser for its next smartphone.See also: 12 awesome Instagram features you're p … | Continue reading
The Bay Area is well-acquainted with boom and bust cycles, and while it’s too soon to declare that the tech economy has turned, recruiters see early indicators that it’s happening. Indeed, a handful of job placement executives confirms what recent headlines about layoffs already … | Continue reading
Good design can change the conversation, but great design can change the world. As technology evolves and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. The UI & UX Design Bootcamp aims to demyst … | Continue reading
Blockchain technology can make a major impact on the world although the ramifications can vary greatly from country to country. Barbados is not a country most people would assume with the financial sector, but there is a growing FinTech scene in the region. Bitt is one of those c … | Continue reading
In the world of fitness, it’s estimated that 35 million people train in sports like boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts. And while there are many wearables and sensors aimed at ensuring that the right number of calories are burned or if we’re doing the exercise right, Hyks … | Continue reading
Auf dem Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wollen Samsung und die Deutsche Telekom mit einem Robo-Arm beweisen, dass 5G-Mobilfunk die Zukunft ist. Nicht, weil 5G schön breitwandig ist, sondern weil es viel schneller auf Datenanfragen reagieren... | Continue reading
Everybody’s hacked. That’s the sad, sordid truth of today’s computing world. Over the past few years after pouring billions into trying to ensure that bad actors can’t get into a network, investors have decided to give up the ghost and just concentrate on making sure that threats … | Continue reading
The Internet of Things was pervasive in almost every presentation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, and walking the floor you could tell that almost everyone wanted at least one gadget in the area. So we decided to list nine of the most terrible devices coming to a … | Continue reading
One of the reasons I was excited to attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year was to try out HTC’s Vive VR headset in person. After spending an hour with it, I’m happy to report that the Vive lives up to the hype and then some. Equipment The $799 Vive kit includes a hea … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — In the search for new ways to grow, the mobile industry is placing a large stack of chips on virtual reality even if the wisdom of these bets are far from clear. Virtually reality has dominated nearly every corner of the gargantuan Mobile World Congress 2016 th … | Continue reading
There's no arguing, Black Desert Online has one of the finest character creation screens of any genre. It's powerful enough to have been made its own download, a world away from just putting Head One onto Body One, or Boobs Two in the case of half the characters in most MMOs. Twe … | Continue reading
Am letzten Tag des Mobile World Congress hat uns HTC diesen Teaser gemailt und damit die Existenz des HTC One M10 so gut wie bestätigt. Mehr aber auch nicht, denn außer dem Motto "Power of 10" auf dem Bild und einem kurzen "Stay tuned fo... | Continue reading
"This case is not about one phone. This case is about the future," Tim Cook said to David Muir on ABC World News Tonight Wednesday"What is at stake here is: Can the government compel Apple to write software that we believe would make hundreds of millions of customers vulnerable a … | Continue reading
Tonight, ABC World News aired an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, with the conversation focused on the ongoing encryption battle between the iPhone manufacturer and federal authorities. But it turns out what viewers saw on TV was only a small portion; the full-length interview … | Continue reading
Mika Mobile are legends in the world of mobile gaming. After storming the top of the in the earlier days of the App Store with virtual button-fueled action games like Zombieville USA [$0.99 / Free] and OMG Pirates! [$1.99], they created Battleheart [$2.99], a beloved and genre-de … | Continue reading
AMSTERDAM — If you spend millions of dollars on something, you would hope that you know exactly what that something is. But that was not the case for one of the biggest publishers in Eastern Europe. Wargaming, the publisher responsible for the online multiplayer shooters World of … | Continue reading
State of Play, who are most well-known for their visually stunning adventure games Lume [$1.99] and Lumino City [$4.99] which were created with intricate real-world models and painstaking stop-motion animation, have just announced their next mobile project called Ink. According t … | Continue reading
Did you know side ads were gone from Google search? Learn how this may affect your Google AdWords campaigns. | Continue reading
GUEST: This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showed the world a ton of nominally “smart” new tech. And now, with spring approaching, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has folks from around the globe marveling at how interconnected we are with all our smart stuff and … | Continue reading
Tonight on ABC News, Tim Cook is talking about the ongoing war of words between Apple and the FBI.The interview, which will air during World News Tonight with David Muir at 6:30 p.m. EST, is Cook's first public interview on the topic since the news broke last week.See also: The F … | Continue reading
In a world that’s soon to be dominated by smart cars capable of making complex decisions, or even driving themselves, security vulnerabilities that allow hackers access to these systems are sort of a worst-case scenario. Today, security researcher Troy Hunt released his findings … | Continue reading
As the music world continues to look for innovative new ways to drive profits, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are the latest artists looking to bridge the gap — or kill it completely — between traditional and digital media distribution. The hip-hop duo will debut their newest album, ‘ … | Continue reading
Riot's PC and Mac free to play MOBA League of Legends is one of the most, if not the most popular games in the world. Riot doesn't release statistics often, but when they do it's consistently mind-blowing just how many millions of people, from every corner of the world, are playi … | Continue reading
Only Yesterday couldn't be more appropriately named. The intimate, spare drama from Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli first premiered in Japan in 1991, and in the 25 years since has somehow never seen an American release until now. But its familiar tale of finding your place in a fa … | Continue reading
The sky has fascinated humans for generations — we’re pretty sure it was a major pastime of people long ago to stare up at the stars and think about life. Naturally, present-day humans honor the sky with time-lapse videos. Filmmaker Chris Pritchard recorded 4K footage in thousand … | Continue reading
Following years of rumors, Microsoft has acquired Xamarin, a company that aids cross-platform development of mobile applications. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “With today’s acquisition announcement we will be taking this work much further to make our world class developer … | Continue reading
Amazon is partnering with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to live stream an intimate hometown show the hip-hop duo is playing in Seattle this Friday night. Macklemore and Lewis are playing the show to celebrate the release of their new LP This Unruly Mess I've Made, and Amazon is takin … | Continue reading
Outsourcing finance and accounting services has caught top management’s fancy at some of the most progressive brands in the world for the sheer amount... | Continue reading
Samsung's two new smartphones and LG's one phone with a clique of Friends accessories have stirred up most of the hype and excitement around Mobile World Congress this year. It's actually been a terrific show for improved industrial design from all manufacturers, and we've seen m … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Big data is becoming part of the real world and every company's DNA -- not just the domain of data scientists and the enterprise. Learn how the world's leading companies, big and small, are using it to evolve their businesses for the 21st century at Structure Data, Mar … | Continue reading
This post was brought to you by Telefónica.The likes of Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have inspired a generation of young entrepreneurs. Many belonging to the millennial generation have a desire to become the next big thing, especially within the ever-powerful world … | Continue reading
When it comes down to it, matching with a serial killer on a dating app like Tinder isn’t something you can knowingly avoid. That is, unless the serial killer in question is someone as infamous as Charles Manson or Aileen Wuornos. You would think that two of the most well-known c … | Continue reading
Half a century after its heyday, the Alden StaRRcar clearly wasn’t made for its world. It looks like a white flatiron with wheels or a sleek, plastic bullet, dwarfed by the regal sedans of 1960s Detroit. It belongs in one of Buckminster Fuller’s domed cities, a vehicle for travel … | Continue reading