“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” It's more than fifty years old and still holds. Catch-22 is the story of Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war in Italy during World War II. Yossari … | Continue reading
Microsoft and SAP have been pals for years and years, and today at the SAP Sapphire Now customer conference in Orlando, the two company CEOs, Satya Nadella and Bill McDermott announced they were taking the relationship to another level with deeper cloud integrations between the t … | Continue reading
In its first five years, the Google Cultural Institute scanned and archived 200 works of art in super-high-resolution gigapixel images. Now in just the past few months, it has managed to scan another 1,000.The sudden expansion is thanks to a new camera developed by Google, simply … | Continue reading
I’ve used Skype for more years than I care to remember. My Skype username is an embarrassing result of me thinking I was a cool teenager, and I’ve got a big list of important friends and family as contacts. Skype has been the go-to service for me to connect with those friends and … | Continue reading
Paradox always has big plans for its grand strategy games in the months and years following their release. Take the excellent Crusader Kings 2, for example, which received its latest major expansion in February, almost two years after launch."As long as enough players keep buying … | Continue reading
For years, Twitter users have complained about the fact that link and photo URLs count against each tweet’s 140-character limit. Now that may finally change. According to a report in Bloomberg, Twitter will stop including photos and links in character counts, possibly within the … | Continue reading
It’s been years since whistleblower Edward Snowden first pulled back the curtains on the NSA’s mass surveillance program, and we still haven’t seen the entire trove of documents he discovered. Today, a new cache is being made available to the public. The Intercept has released th … | Continue reading
Twitter, we're confused about your feelings for Tweetdeck.In the five years since Twitter acquired the tweet management platform, it has never been clear whether Twitter fully embraced Tweetdeck or grudgingly put up with it just to keep the power users happy.SEE ALSO: Twitter may … | Continue reading
Well, this should either ease or make unbearable the waiting process for those 400,000 Model 3 pre-orderers.SEE ALSO: BMW promises autonomous, electric flagship for 2021 called iNextSome two years before deliveries are likely to begin, a Tesla fan has created a convincing unoffic … | Continue reading
We knew that there were going to be a ton of new Transformers movies coming in the years ahead, and now we know what the next installment is going to be called. Are you ready? Are you sitting down? Well, if you've read the headline to this story, you already know the new title, b … | Continue reading
Rio Tinto uses it. MasterCard uses it too. So does REIWA, the UN and Deloitte. It’s a technology that has been around for decades but has dramatically advanced in usability in just a few short years. We’re talking about mapping technology. And before you think it’s not needed at … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Mobile user acquisition is generally expensive, hard, and time-consuming. But what do you do when it succeeds beyond all your fondest dreams of success? You scale, scale, and re-scale your service. And you use data to understand your users and improve your service. That … | Continue reading
Twitter is planning on letting users craft longer tweets by not counting photos and links toward its 140-character limit, according to a report from Bloomberg today. The change may happen in the coming weeks, and it would remove one of the more annoying product hurdles that has p … | Continue reading
Since the original Xbox era, players have signed onto Xbox Live with a Gamertag. The virtual identity is akin to a Twitter username, and like Twitter usernames, many Gamertags are coveted. For example, who wants the username "Beemo1932049" when they can just have the username "B … | Continue reading
Having played hundreds of action adventure games over the years, the thirst is still very much intact. To many people out there there's only so many times you can adventure with Samus in space, or take an anthropomorphic rabbit on a quest to remember his past before you started t … | Continue reading
It’s been almost exactly three years since Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap was released. It was that mixtape — a 13-track collection of druggy and ecstatic hip-hop so goofy it sometimes sounded like nursery rhymes — that propelled Chancelor Bennett from underground Chicago upstart t … | Continue reading
I’ve watched Top Gun countless times. Back when the film first came out in 1986 (30 years ago today), I’d just bought myself a large Sony TV and a state-of-the-art Sony VCR and amp, which meant I could watch films in loud, stereo sound. That was a huge thing back in the day. At l … | Continue reading
No one will be talking about crowdfunding in five years. The term is inherently flawed; it focuses on the wrong side of any investment: the donor/investor. And it’s become too broad to be meaningful. The missions of the leading players are widely misunderstood, even by their own … | Continue reading
Tech lovers, rejoice! TNW Deals is hooking one lucky winner up with a Newegg $1,000 Gift Card, to be used on everything from game consoles to smartphones, cameras, computer gear and beyond. Enter now for a serious level-up in your electronics collection. Newegg became a household … | Continue reading
Flying Wild Hog's 2013 remake of 3D Realms' campy 1997 first-person shooter Shadow Warrior was so successful that the Polish developer has more than tripled in size in the last three years. This swift evolution from a niche team of around 30 to a triple-A developer roughly 100 st … | Continue reading
Umberto Eco (1932-2016) believed in the value of subjecting what we read to inquiry. “History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power —bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distri … | Continue reading
Nintendo is in talks with various partners about developing movies and other video content based on its popular IP. In an interview with the Asahi Shimbun, CEO and president Tatsumi Kimishima says the company needs to invest in video production and wants to be successful on a glo … | Continue reading
Generally, internet users want a convenient and secure mobile experience, a February 2016 survey found. Over the next three years, respondents expect the mobile experience to not only be more personalized, but also something that can adapt and react to location. | Continue reading
Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have been toiling away at augmented reality for years at their startup, CastAR. Their ambition to make a fun AR product has been cooking for a while, and they’re taking a very different approach to the next-generation gaming platform. And given Ell … | Continue reading
For several years now, there seem to be a lot of myths surrounding Bitcoin which need to be clarified and rectified. Several of these topics keep returning on a regular basis, showing an apparent lack of education as far as mainstream media is concerned. It is not all that hard t … | Continue reading
Since I was in Las Vegas this week to attend the Hyperloop's first public demonstration, I thought I'd check in on everyone's favorite secretive electric car company, Faraday Future. If you read The Verge, you know that Faraday Future is a California-based EV startup that has poa … | Continue reading
Bitcoin and blockchain technology, which were niche segments a couple of years ago has now become the hottest sectors in the technology industry. the number of startups and companies working in this sector has grown exponentially as well. While it is hard to keep track of all the … | 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
GUEST: There has been an uproar in the tech world recently about what people perceive to be the “doom of the Silicon Valley economy.” Several high-profile companies have taken extremely public hits in the stock market (think Twitter, LinkedIn, Tableau), and the venture funding th … | Continue reading
When I was a kid I forgot everything – my keys, my homework, my bicycle, my toys. Everything. And it drove my parents crazy. Over the years I heard every trick in the book to remembering things, including the one about tying a knot in your handkerchief and the knot will remind yo … | Continue reading
The iPhone has been around for almost nine years, but there are still some tricks you can do on your phone that you might not know about.SEE ALSO: How to trick your iPhone into freeing up storage spaceWe’ll be real: These aren’t the most advanced tricks of the trade — but you mig … | Continue reading
Developers, bankers, regulators, investors, businessmen, thought leaders and visionaries from around the globe descended on New York for a three-day event to discuss what has taken the world by storm, blockchain technology and its applications. Consensus 2016, the biggest event s … | Continue reading
If Naughty Dog is to be believed, Nathan Drake's adventures have come to an end after ten solid years of bullet-riddled archaeology. You and I, on the other hand, aren't fictional characters and thus our adventures must continue; but that doesn't mean we can't learn a thing or tw … | Continue reading
They say "what's in a name," but some smartphone released over the past few years have some quite appalling titles. Here's my top 10 worst-named smartphones. | Continue reading
Humans are clever creatures. We thought up outer space travel, penicillin, and the internet. We’ve come a long way in the past hundred years and consider ourselves the most intelligent beings around. And yet, we make irrational decisions to this day. We’d rather stay at a job whe … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – A co-founder of Liberty Reserve, which operated a widely-used digital currency, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday after agreeing to help authorities prosecute his ex-partner for helping cyber criminals launder hundreds of millions of dollars. Vladamir Kats … | Continue reading
Jesus Rodriguez, cofounder and former chief executive of mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) company KidoZen, has been sentenced for two years in federal prison on one count of wire fraud after admitting earlier this year that a hedge fund transferred $5 million to the company ba … | Continue reading
Ask a toddler — sharing is tough stuff. And it hasn’t always been easy for tech companies, either. Take Apple, for example. For years, the company got zinged for not sharing iOS with third-party keyboard developers. Finally, with the release of iOS 8 in September 2014, Apple open … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has spent the day above $450 (Bitstamp) but the market has not made progress either way. We take a look at the most significant boundaries for this years price action – and the levels that will confirm that a trending move has broken out. This analysis is provided b … | Continue reading
Journaling website Hi.co (dedicated to recording "moments big and small") is closing on September 1st, and archiving its users' contributions in a nickel-plate "book" designed to be readable for the next 10,000 years. The site's creator, Craig Mod and Chris Palmieri, decided they … | Continue reading
Claudio was defined as a punk alchemist of contemporary art Born in Catanzaro (1962-Italy) where he lives and works, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist free lance, active since many years in the international … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies all over the world in recent years, yet some people still use cryptocurrency as a way to commit fraud. The chairman of Digital Bitcoin Company was arrested on fraud charges and handed over to the Criminal Investigati … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Ford unveiled its newest GT — a carbon fiber and aluminum supercar with a twin-turbo V6 engine and a mob of admirers. The company has committed to making only 500 GTs over the next two years, and last month opened up an online application process to find deserv … | Continue reading
Google has placed an ad looking for “vehicle safety specialists” to be contracted for one to two years of autonomous driving field work, paying $20/hour. | Continue reading
At BMW’s shareholder meeting yesterday, CEO Harald Krueger revealed that the company is gearing up to launch its first autonomous vehicle five years from now: In 2018, we will launch a BMW i8 Roadster. This will be followed in 2021 by the BMW i NEXT, our new innovation driver, wi … | Continue reading
We’ve heard plenty of rumors about Apple building a car over the past couple of years, all of which the company has vehemently denied. But today, it’s expanded its business to include vehicles in a way that you wouldn’t quite expect. Reuters reports that Apple has invested $1 bil … | Continue reading
Apple, which recently launched a music streaming service, will continue to offer music downloads — an industry it helped legitimize — for a long time. The question now is how long is long?A report surfaced on Wednesday saying plans to terminate iTunes music downloads in two years … | Continue reading
Star Trek Online is getting PS4 and Xbox One ports this autumn, publisher Perfect World Entertainment has announced.The free-to-play MMO launched six years… | Continue reading