Argentina is back in the debt market after 15 years with a record $16.5 billion bond sale, the largest in emerging-market history. Photo: Getty Images | Continue reading
After five years in the making, Bolt Riley: A Reggae Adventure Game, is debuting today on multiple platforms as an early access title. The two-dimensional point-and-click adventure about an aspiring reggae musician was created by Oded Sharon, a game developer in Tel Aviv, Israel, … | Continue reading
On-demand cabs are great, except when they’re unavailable or cost a bomb thanks to surge pricing. For years, companies like Uber have used a system that raises cab fares to meet high demands during rush hour; they say that the increased rates, calculated using an algorithm, incen … | Continue reading
Einstein predicted Gravitational Waves 100 years ago, and their existence has now been confirmed. “If scientists are still doing his homework from a 100 years ago,” says Stephen Colbert. He must have been pretty smart. Astrophysicist Brian Greene explains that gravitational waves … | Continue reading
It wasn’t long ago that the majority of the US workforce held traditional, ‘9-5’ jobs. We took a job in our early 20’s, and were expected to stay there for years – ideally until retirement. Today’s workforce is far more fragmented. While most people are still engaged in some form … | Continue reading
Google’s worldwide ad revenues growth will drop to single-digit rates this year, eMarketer estimates, after years of faster increases. After a 15.0% climb in worldwide ad dollars last year, the internet giant—whose parent company, Alphabet, will report Q1 earnings thi … | Continue reading
Well, here it is, everyone. Magikiras [Free] is easily one of the worst gamebooks I've played in my years of reviewing, and hands-down the most painful. It's absurdly long given its meager premise, poorly-written, and just plain boring. There are tons of spelling and grammar mist … | Continue reading
For several years car companies like Audi and BMW have incorporated thermal cameras powered by FLIR Systems, giving drivers the ability to enhance their night vision. Yesterday FLIR announced the next generation of its thermal imaging technology, the Boson camera core. It uses th … | Continue reading
You can think of Chris Carvalho as a game company accelerator. He started at mobile game company Kabam when it had just 25 people. When he left two years ago, the company had more than 700 people. It went from $2 million in revenue to more than $360 million. Now he’s carved out a … | Continue reading
Apple has hired Chris Porritt, Tesla's vice president of vehicle engineering, according to Electrek. This comes four months after Steve Zadesky, the head of Apple's rumored electric car project, reportedly left the company. Porritt spent a little under three years at Tesla, and w … | Continue reading
The number of people in the UK who get dementia each year may be decreasing, a trend that breaks with many researchers' predictions. In the country, the incidence rate of dementia — the number of new cases reported during a given time period — has gone down by 20 percent since th … | Continue reading
Theranos, a blood-testing startup that's been valued at $9 billion, has recently drawn criticism for using unvetted proprietary tech, misleading public officials, and using a regulatory loophole to avoid getting its tests approved by the FDA. Now, regulators are considering banni … | Continue reading
Magic Leap, a secretive startup, has been raising millions of dollars to create a head-mounted virtual display over the past couple of years. While Magic Leap has been hyping up the potential of its technology, we've seen very little of it in action. MIT got a chance to try the h … | Continue reading
Aging online adventure Runescape has been revamped with a fresh look, thanks to a new visual engine.15 years after it first launched, Runescape is now ditch… | Continue reading
Let’s face it, Snapchat is an application that has many of us scratching our heads and wondering if it’s simply something the “kids are doing these days” or if there is valuable as part of a marketing strategy. The good news is, Snapchat has faced tremendous growth since launchin … | Continue reading
If you enjoy traveling through intriguing, mysterious worlds that combine a gothic sensibility with a tinge of the supernatural, then you should definitely check out Failbetter's Fallen London [Free], out now for mobile after residing in browsers for many years. Fallen London is … | Continue reading
The original round Nixie Watch made famous by Steve Wozniak is now available in a thinner, rechargeable, square design. Like its predecessor, the Square Nixie Watch features two Nixie tubes, a vintage technology that displays orange glowing numbers on bent pieces of metal suspend … | Continue reading
The world has seen numerous major cyber attacks in the past couple of years, with targets ranging from government agencies to health insurers to entertainment companies and even Panamanian law firms. A group of scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab … | Continue reading
Elstree 1976, the documentary that tells the story of the unknown actors who played the original Star Wars' bit-part characters, now has a release date. The movie will be showing at US theaters from May 6th, two years after director Jon Spira wrapped up a successful Kickstarter t … | Continue reading
Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The most recent case in point is the startup class of 2008 – 2009: Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber and Tiny Speck (Slack) all got … | Continue reading
Mike Vernal, a Facebook VP who has spent the last eight-plus years at the company, most recently leading its search, profile, local, and developer platform product groups, is leaving the company to become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Before joining Facebook, Vernal sp … | Continue reading
Depositing random pieces of plastic in places where they do not belong is generally considered littering, except when it is considered art!German artist Jan Vormann has been traveling the world for the last six years, filling in gaps in crumbling buildings, streets, and bridges w … | Continue reading
Humans are hardwired to interpret the world visually. It makes perfect sense — primitive man had to spot the lion in the long grass quickly to keep himself safe. After millions of years of evolution, it’s no surprise that in an age when lions are the least of our worries (well, f … | Continue reading
Do any of us really know Yahoo? It’s been ever-present in our lives for more than 20 years, but like that cousin whom you only see at family reunions, no one, including Yahoo itself, I fear, really knows it.Yahoo (or, more on-brand, Yahoo!) had the benefit of being first in onlin … | Continue reading
There’s an old saying in football: It isn’t the hours you put in but what you put in the hours. Apparently, Bill Campbell — a widely revered former Columbia University football coach who went on to run Intuit for four years in the ’90s and only retired as its chairman in January … | Continue reading
If you were hoping Facebook would use last week's F8 conference to release its AI assistant M to the mainstream, you're going to have to wait a lot longer.In an interview with The Verge, Facebook's Messenger chief David Marcus confirmed what many insiders have suspected for awhil … | Continue reading
Is a video game recreation of the sinking of the Titanic — which killed more than 1,500 passengers and crew a little over 100 years ago — educational or tasteless? The questions through the two and a half hours of footage (above) from Titanic: Honor and Glory, a "fully interactiv … | Continue reading
In the six years since Betterment , the robo-advisory wealth management service, made its debut as a Startup Battlefield company in New York pitching a better savings account service the company has raised over $200 million in equity and grown to manage $4 billion in assets. Now, … | Continue reading
In the U.S., the online classifieds space has been dominated for years by Craigslist, despite its failure to adapt to newer technologies, including mobile. That has left room for newcomers to angle their way into the market, including big companies like Facebook, with its local s … | Continue reading
Over the last two years Silicon Valley has fallen in love with a striking economic theory. As former Facebook executive Sam Altman wrote recently, "There’s been a dinner-time revival of the old conversation about the inevitable need for a guaranteed basic income in the United Sta … | Continue reading
Amazon has been ramping up its video streaming efforts by investing heavily into original content. A couple of years ago, Prime Video looked like an afterthought for Prime’s delivery subscription. Now, it’s a full-fledged service with a separate subscription.Starting today, non-P … | Continue reading
Secrecy scandal after secrecy scandal have rocked the financial world since the 2008 financial crisis. In early 2014, the LIBOR scandal uncovered the manipulation of Forex markets. Last week, the Panama Papers detailed the behavior of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which ha … | Continue reading
Date: 18/04/2016Even though road safety has improved in recent years, accidents remain a serious problem on European roads – on average 75 people lose their lives every day and 750 are seriously injured. Vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorbike and mo … | Continue reading
Agency Kru Live has inked an exclusive deal to staff GiveSmart's fundraising events over the next three years. | Continue reading
Team of speakers at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague welcomes Bharath Rao – the founder and director of trading platform Coinpit Inc. Topic of his presentation is titled “Application of cryptotechnology and Bitcoin”. When Bharath Rao established Coinpit Inc., he was using t … | Continue reading
SYDNEY, Australia — South Australia may have gotten a head start with trials in 2015, but New South Wales (NSW) is also committing to a driverless car future. Automated cars without drivers could be on NSW roads within five years, the state's minister for transport, Andrew Consta … | Continue reading
Big innovations come in unexpected bursts. We grow accustomed to life and work as we know it, until something apparently simple brings about bold change. For example, we used phones for 100 years, but making them mobile transformed the world. When individual creativity is enhance … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever spent any time learning about the process of photography, chances are you’ve heard the name Hasselblad. The storied company has been making cameras since 1941, and it has been involved in some very iconic photos over the years. The Beatles’ Abbey Road cover, the bl … | Continue reading
Tesla has always been wary of too much demand for its cars. But analysts and experts who follow the company have often worried that there isn’t enough demand for Tesla vehicles. For the past two years, on nearly every quarterly conference call to discuss Tesla’s financial results … | Continue reading
GUEST: What if you could invest in a startup that competed in an established $10 billion market where the existing players were unlikely to counter its innovation for several years? And that startup’s revenue was projected to exceed $1 billion within a decade, be cash flow positi … | Continue reading
It's taken me a few years, but I'm comfortable calling the Dark Souls games my favorite of all time.I imported Demon's Souls, the series' predecessor, from South Korea after I read a glowing review of a weird, difficult, but incredibly rewarding combat RPG online. I was fascinate … | Continue reading
With virtual reality now seemingly everywhere, it’s easy to think that the technology came out of nowhere. Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus Rift two years ago opened the floodgates. HTC and Samsung have headsets on the market, too, and Sony will release one later this … | Continue reading
InFocus's Kangaroo is a very small PC with an Atom processor and a battery for "portable" use — if you want to use your iPad as the touchscreen, or somehow have an HDMI display but no power plugs. The Kangaroo is kind of a sub-genre of those HDMI stick computers that started popp … | Continue reading
One of the most talked about things this week was a strange video of a man who appeared to have a real life jet-powered hoverboard. The video was published by Zapata Racing, which has made water-powered versions of these flying machines for a few years now. The difference is that … | Continue reading
Recently, I decided buy an iPhone 6S and turn on iMessage.1 iPhones are great! But in the process of setting it up, I ran into some hassles that reminded me that for all the advancements that Apple has made with iOS over the years, it still can feel like it's stuck in an old era … | Continue reading
Facebook gave us a glimpse into the future, and it's filled with bots, live video and VR.SEE ALSO: Facebook's F8 event in less than 90 secondsThis week on MashTalk, we discuss Facebook's big announcements from its annual developer conference F8, and what that means for the future … | Continue reading
Ever wanted to share video via Hangouts on Android, only to find out there’s no way to actually send it directly through the chat app? Fret no more. Google is rolling out an update to Hangouts for Android that finally lets you record and share video attachments, albeit limited to … | Continue reading
A few years ago when I spoke at the Korea Games Conference, I saw a whole ton of awesome games in development and one of those was Monster Raid by Orca. While the genre is getting a little crowded thes | Continue reading