Remember that photo you took at a restaurant a few years ago? The one of the fancy dessert you want to show to a friend in the bar? In the past, you’ll have had to scroll through a thousand photos; a real conversation stopper. With the new Photos app in iOS 10, Apple is firing up … | Continue reading
Who would have expected, three years ago, that the biggest news from Microsoft’s 2016 E3 event would be not just a new console, but two new consoles. The Xbox One S and Project Scorpio were the standouts of an E3 event that underscored Microsoft’s new direction — a purposeful shi … | Continue reading
Apple today finally did what it should have done years ago: release an application programming interface (API) that will enable third party developers to tightly integrate their applications with Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. Siri will work in the context of messaging (Slack, W … | Continue reading
Advanced Micro Devices is providing a sneak peek at three new graphics cards based on its Polaris designs that will be able to run virtual reality games. The Polaris architecture is the company’s first new graphics foundation in a few years, and it is set to take advantage of 14- … | Continue reading
Apple announced that the App Store now has more than 2 million apps available to download.The stats were highlighted at the company's WWDC on Monday.Since the App Store launched 8 years ago, people have tallied up more than 130 billion individual app downloads. That's a lot of ap … | Continue reading
Limbo developer Playdead originally announced its follow-up game, Inside, at Microsoft's E3 conference in 2014. The game was expected to release on Xbox One the following year, but it never materialised, and the studio has remained tight-lipped on its development ever since. Two … | Continue reading
After years wining and dining clients as a high-end real-estate wheeler dealer Tablelist founder Julian Jung was well aware of the trials and tribulations involved in giving prospects the good life and conspicuous consumption they wanted.So the entrepreneurially minded Jung start … | Continue reading
The report looks back on the activities and achievements undertaken by the Foundation over the past two years. The 2014-2016 Annual Report has been published by Open Preservation Foundation. The Open Preservation Foundation sustains technology and knowledge for the long-term mana … | Continue reading
Fintech is a booming industry all over the world, and those signs are becoming apparent in India as well. With most of the startups in the region focusing on payments, and over US$1.3bn invested over the past three years, things are looking good. A recent study by Zinnov, a leadi … | Continue reading
Dishonored 2's first gameplay footage has been revealed at Bethesda's E3 press conference tonight.Creative director Harvey Smith showed us several minutes of gameplay. This sequel is set 15 years after the original game and lets players choose between two playable leads: series s … | Continue reading
Bethesda has become one of the most important players at the annual E3 video game conference, despite only having hosted a major press event for two years. Last year, the company aired trailers for Doom, Dishonored 2, and Fallout 4. This year, Bethesda sought to outdo itself, rev … | Continue reading
Nearly five years after it first came out, Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim continues to have a very impressive fan base that keeps the game pretty through HD mods. Now it's Bethesda's turn: tonight at its E3 press conference, the company has announced a remastered version … | Continue reading
After years of holding its press event on Mondays between Sony and Microsoft, Electronic Arts decided to kick off E3 by holding the first event of the week. So What did we get? Among others, EA released new footage and details for Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1, and Mass Effect: Andr … | Continue reading
Electronic Arts is bringing the galaxy far, far away a little closer. Star Wars will have a number of new games over the next few years, and EA doesn’t want you to forget it. The publisher released a new video as part of its independent event in Los Angeles and London as part of … | Continue reading
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at askle … | Continue reading
In my Weekend Update Newsletter I share great content I found this past week. | Continue reading
Chinese-backed carmaker Faraday Future is still likely a few years away from releasing its first electric car, but the company is quickly expanding its operations and footprint. Faraday broke ground on a factory in North Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this year, and is reportedly loo … | Continue reading
The Moto Z Droid Edition will allow owners to upload original quality photos to Google Photos free for 2 years instead of the customary Google Drive space. | Continue reading
About two years ago, Pinterest launched a different flavor of search engine called Guided Search. Instead of relying on deep data on the user, it would create a network of related topics that users can dive deep into. The idea being that a search like “iPhone” would net additiona … | Continue reading
In March, we told you that Andreessen Horowitz was targeting $1.5 billion for its fifth and newest fund. This morning, the seven-year-old, Sand Hill Road firm is confirming that it has closed on that amount, having secured the capital commitments from its previous investors. The … | Continue reading
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed just a few more concrete details about his plan to start colonizing Mars within the next decade. Speaking with The Washington Post, Musk gave a slightly more thorough timeline of all the Mars missions his company plans to conduct over the next fe … | Continue reading
Starting as soon as 2018, Elon Musk wants to begin flying unmanned spacecraft to Mars. Flights would take place every two years — coinciding with the period in which the red planet is closest to Earth — and if all goes according to plan, we should see the first human mission in 2 … | Continue reading
In the race to build the ultimate personal voice assistant, Apple had a running start. But instead of running hard for the past five years, Apple slowed into a steady trot, seemingly unconcerned about the competitors hot on its heels.Now Apple and Siri are at risk of being lapped … | Continue reading
Once a lone-ranger in the online European food delivery realm, Just Eat has a number of well-funded competitors across the continent these days. But buoyed by its $2.45 billion IPO two years ago, Europe’s answer to GrubHub is alive and kicking in 15 markets across Europe, the Ame … | Continue reading
By Andrew Bergmann | Twitter: @dubly The 2016 playoffs have seen an unprecedented number of blowout wins by 25 points or more. Here’s a comparison of the playoff years that featured the most 25 point blowouts. Andrew Bergmann’s data driven design work can be found on CNN, NBA, Sp … | Continue reading
After breaking up over four years ago, I recently began Snapchatting my ex-boyfriend, Matt.Despite living mere subway stops apart for the past year, I hadn’t seen him in almost three years; that last time, we slept together.SEE ALSO: 10 Snapchat features we wish existedBut with s … | Continue reading
Sony’s smartphone business is in dire need of a reboot — something to jumpstart the company’s mobile ambitions after years of being ignored by US carriers. Competitors like Samsung and Huawei are producing the very best devices they’ve ever made while Sony has been dealing with h … | Continue reading
The seeds of Pokémon Go were first planted with an April Fools’ joke. It was 2014, and Google’s Niantic Inc., the studio behind augmented reality Android game Ingress, got a glimpse at what a Pokémon game may look like if AR technology was many years more advanced than it is toda … | Continue reading
We knew it was coming, but Samsung’s latest fitness wearable, the Gear Fit2, is available to buy in stores today. The $179 Gear Fit 2, which comes more than two years after Samsung announced its first fitness band, comes in two sizes and sports a broader curved surface than its G … | Continue reading
Torment: Tides of Numenera's release date has been pushed back to Q1 2017, developer InXile has announced. Also, an as yet unannounced publisher is on board.The new Torment release date is nearly three years after the record-breaking Kickstarter campaign optimistically planned. T … | Continue reading
The legal battle that started in 2011 between Samsung and Apple over smartphone patents could continue for years more, as the US Department of Justice recommended this week that the Supreme Court return the case for further examination. The DoJ — acting in an advisory role only — … | Continue reading
Two years after the first reports of an IPO emerged, Japan’s Line Corporation — the company behind the popular messaging app Line, and one of the last big messaging apps to be independently owned — today announced that it has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange in t … | Continue reading
It's finally here.More than two years after Google first showed us a concept of what a 3D-sensing smartphone could look like, Lenovo has revealed the first consumer smartphone that takes full advantage of Project Tango: the Phab2 Pro.SEE ALSO: Google and Lenovo launch the first P … | Continue reading
Phab 2 pro is the first project tango phone to hit the market, Moto Z is a modular phone that can be everything form a loudspeaker to a projector, You can now leave video Comments on facebook, If you’re under 18 years old you’re no longer allowed on Tinder, and Microsoft offers a … | Continue reading
From my desk at Bear Stearns, where I’d traded mortgage-backed securities for years, I watched as the financial and housing markets crashed in 2008. A few months later, there was no Bear, and my new desk was at J.P. Morgan. It’s easy to think the crisis was a result of “Wall Stre … | Continue reading
Thomas Perkins, who co-founded venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has died of natural causes. He was 84 years old. Before becoming an investor, Perkins founded a company called University Labs and was the first general manager of Hewlett Packard’s computer div … | Continue reading
Minority Report keeps resonating in pop culture not because it was a great movie (it was okay) but because of the crazy user interface paradigms that started showing up in real consumer electronics years later. For car nuts like myself, it also resonates because it featured one o … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton just won the election — or at least the hearts and minds of voters. Delete your account. https://t.co/Oa92sncRQY — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2016 Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama—but nobody else does! — Donald … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton: you are having the best week ever.Days after becoming the Democratic presumptive nominee for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton rocked the internet by deploying an old, but hardly stale meme. In response to Donald Trump's tweet, "Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillar … | Continue reading
The first smartphone equipped with Google's novel 3D-scanning technology is finally here.Lenovo unveiled the Phab2 Pro, the first flagship Project Tango smartphone, on Thursday at the company's Tech World event in San Francisco. The unveiling comes more than two years after Googl … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: The big companies are moving into esports, which wandered for many years in the wilderness. Esports is expected grow to $892 million by the end of this year, market researcher SuperData forecasts, and that 1 billion people will know about competitive gaming. Investors, … | Continue reading
Recently a number of relatively unknown fictional characters have began to appear more often in blockbuster movies as a result of Hollywood’s renewed interest in comic book adaptations. One such example is Marvel’s Nick Fury. While over the years a number of actors – including Da … | Continue reading
In 2004, in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, scientists discovered a new hominin species they affectionately called the hobbit — a tiny, primitive human who was just 3 feet tall and lived between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. But some researchers have argued that the re … | Continue reading
Between two-legged robots, tech for cities of the future and self-driving cars, Google’s parent company Alphabet certainly has its fingers in many gee-whiz pies. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that its leaders’ ambitions don’t stop there. The publication’s new piece reveals that, … | Continue reading
After six years in off-and-on development, Mozilla's Electrolysis project is finally coming to users with Firefox 48. | Continue reading
If we want to create artificial intelligence that can teach itself how the world works, it needs to be curious. This has been a recurring theme in the world of AI in recent years, and newly... | Continue reading
It’s not uncommon for YouTube fans in India to switch to lower resolution playback so they can save on mobile data charges; carriers’ fees have been high for years and aren’t much cheaper even in 2016. Google hopes to help with that by introducing a new feature in YouTube’s Andro … | Continue reading
Ten years ago today, Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah co-founded HubSpot. | Continue reading